| AZGiveCamp depends on our volunteers to support all activities since we have no paid staff. Volunteers do all of the pre-event work as well as managing the events themselves and coordinating the day-of-event volunteers to do the actual development work that GiveCamp is famous for. As you can imagine, these coordination efforts take a significant amount of time and resources, and would not be possible without the contributions and sacrifice of these key contributors. |
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GiveCamp Founder |
Chris Koenig |
 | Known as "The Godfather of GiveCamp", Chris Koenig is a Senior Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, based in Dallas, TX. Prior to joining Microsoft in March of 2007, Chris worked as a Senior Architect for The Capital Group in San Antonio, and as an Architect for the global solution provider Avanade. As an Architect and consultant, Chris worked with a variety of clients from many vertical markets, ISVs and other solution providers on enterprise-class Windows and web-based applications. Today, Chris focuses on building, growing, and enhancing the developer communities in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana while specializing in Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight development. |
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AZGiveCamp Founders |
Barry Stahl |
 | Barry is a .NET software engineer, Election Integrity Activist, baseball and hockey fan, husband of one genius and father of another, and is a 25+ year Phoenix resident. Barry spends his days building integrated systems for Crew Operations at US Airways and his nights thinking about the next AZGiveCamp. You can follow Barry on Twitter @bsstahl or read his blog at http://www.cognitiveinheritance.com. |
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Gary Hoffman |
 | Gary claims he got suckered into being a development manager, which he has been actively trying to get out of ever since, but we all know better. Nobody really knows what Gary does right now, but we know he does it for US Airways, and he does it very well. He has a really cool, jealousy inducing title, of Senior Executive Systems Architect, or something similar, and since no-one really knows what that means, it allows Gary to spend much of his day thinking about GiveCamp. The entire AZGiveCamp team was very appreciative of Gary for demonstrating to us the proper technique for power-napping at a GiveCamp event and we remain in his debt to this day. |
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AZGiveCamp Founders Award Winners |
| The AZGiveCamp Founders Award was created by, and is given by the AZGiveCamp founders for outstanding service to AZGiveCamp. Each AZGiveCamp event has at least one person (usually more) without whom the event simply would not have been successful. The AZGiveCamp Founders Award was created to honor these individuals and to allow us to remember their contributions in perpetuity. |
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Joe Guadagno |
 | Joseph Guadagno has been developing software for 15 years and has been extremely active in the Phoenix development community, helping to bring several successful events to the Valley. You can follow Joe on Twitter @jguadagno or read his blog at http://www.josephguadagno.net. Joe earned the innaugural Founders Award at our first AZGiveCamp in May of 2010. Joe worked with the City of Chandler arranging the venue, the food, the speakers, and virtually everything else related to the setup of the event facilities. Joe's tireless work on the 1st ever AZGiveCamp will never be forgotten. |
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Steven Pittman |
 | Steven Pittman has been a member of the Greater Phoenix IT community for nearly 20 years working with some of the valley’s largest technology companies. He got his start working desktop support and soon had a taste for bigger and better things. His career advanced through the infrastructure ranks and wound up doing Project Management for software development. Steven holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from the University of Phoenix and is pursuing his Master of Science in Engineering degree from Arizona State University (Go Sun Devils!). Steve was awarded the AZGiveCamp Founders award in January of 2011 for his work on AZGiveCamp II. An imperfectly engineered consolidation of team responsibilities left Steve's Logistics team in charge of Venue, Budget, Food, and everything else not directly related to the projects teams. Steve and his team pulled-off the event with no logistical incidents whatsoever, a feat that may never be repeated in the history of technology events. In addition, the food was awesome and Steve even personally delivered all of the leftovers to the Phoenix Rescue Mission. |
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Renée Sanz |
 | Renée graduated from the University of Colorado at Denver and moved to Arizona in 2006 to continue her education in Global Management and Marketing. Renée credits both the move to Arizona and her continuing education with opening the door to many opportunities to work with spectacular people. Serving as the Non-Profit Coordinator for AZGiveCamp allows her a further opportunity to give back to the community. Renée professes that "My passion for professional development motivates me to network within my community and internationally." Renée earned the AZGiveCamp Founders award in October of 2011 for her work on AZGiveCamp III. Renée singlehandedly managed all non-profit organizations that we worked with at our third event, a monumental task. Without Renée's tireless efforts, it is very unlikely that we would have been able to hold a successful event. |
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Robert Miller |
| | Bio coming soon... Robert earned the AZGiveCamp Founders award in October of 2011 for his work on AZGiveCamp III. It was Robert that, through his contacts at CoreLink Data Centers, found our Park Central Mall location for AZGiveCamp III and worked tirelessly to coordinate and secure the space. AZGiveCamp owes a great debt to Robert for his efforts. |