Chris G. Williams is a Senior Developer for Fluor Government Group, a nine-year multiple Microsoft MVP awardee (VB, XNA/DirectX, Windows Phone) and the author of Professional Windows Phone Game Development.

He’s authored numerous articles on a variety of technologies, led a 14-city speaking tour, and has a series of mobile development webinars produced through DevExpress.com.

Chris is a regular presenter at conferences, code camps, and user groups around the country. He blogs at GeeksWithBlogs (.net) and also manages the MonoGame Indie Devs technical community on Facebook.

Articles Authored

• Building an Alexa Skill with AWS Lambda
• Building CodeTweet for Windows Phone
• Community Roles
• Dances with Workflows (One Newbie’s Journey)
• Eight Evil Things Microsoft Never Showed You in the ClickOnce Demos (and What You Can Do About Some of Them)
• Embracing Community
• Embracing Community: Becoming a Speaker
• Embracing Community: GiveCamps
• Embracing Community: More Advice on Running Your Own Code Camp Event
• MVP Corner: Challenging IT Promotion
• MVP Corner: Looking Back on the Great VB/C# War
• MVP Corner: We Are the Masters of the Twitterverse
• New Features in XNA 4.0 and Windows Phone 7
• Programming Alexa Skills for the Amazon Echo
• Software Archaeology
• Starting Your Own User Group
• Taking the Mystery Out of Cryptocurrencies
• Use Your Words: Getting Familiar with Speech Synthesis Markup Language
• What’s New in C# 7.0
• XNA is Dead; Long Live the New XNA, MonoGame

Contact Information:

• Phone: 8649088471
• Blog: www.geekswithblogs.net/cwilliams