Pete Brown is a Microsoft MVP for Silverlight and a Silverlight Insider who works as an RIA Architect/Project Manager for Applied Information Sciences in the Washington, DC area. He's an International .NET Association (INETA) speaker and has worked with Silverlight since the 1.1 alpha, developing projects as varied as a Commodore 64 emulator and an analog synthesizer. In his spare time Pete enjoys programming, blogging at www.irritatedvowel.com/blog, woodworking, and raising his two children with his wife in the suburbs of Maryland.