About the Authors

Scott Olson has spent the past 18 years building software and advising clients on the potential of software and mobility. He is a contributing writer for iPhone Life magazine and technical editor of iPad in the Enterprise: Developing and Deploying Business Applications. He leads the development team at ITR Mobility. Throughout his career, Scott has worked with many of the Fortune 500 companies including Best Buy, Target Corporation, Medtronic, and Prudential Financial. He believes that what is happening in the mobile software industry today will change the way people write and use software. He lives in Hudson, WI, with his wife Michelle and his three children: Samantha, Trevor, and Soren.

John Hunter has spent the past 23 years building software and advising clients on software architecture and capabilities. He is a lead consulting architect for the development team at ITR Mobility, and throughout his career has worked with many of the Fortune 500 companies including 3M, Allianz, CHS, Medtronic, and Best Buy. He believes that to plan for the future people must keep their heads in the clouds and their feet firmly on the ground, and with mobility, people can do both. He lives in Bloomington, MN, way too close to the Mall of America….

Ben Horgen is the lead technical analyst for Mobile Applications at Ameriprise Financial. He has a decade of experience architecting software for a wide range of mobile platforms. A majority of his career has been spent writing firmware and SDK interfaces for emerging mobile devices. Ben has a passion for embedded hardware and the challenges that accompany software development for mobile computing platforms. You can contact him at [email protected].

Kenny Goers has been working with mobile platforms since 1998; previous to that he worked on Cray supercomputer and mainframe operating system kernels. He has worked with Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone, iPhones, iPads, and Android phones and tablets in both their native development languages and Mono extensively. He is a contributor to a few open source Mono projects. He is a mentor for Simley High School's robotics team and is also a marginal ice hockey player. Currently he is a mobile architect with ITR Mobility. He lives in West Saint Paul, MN, with his girlfriend Tricia Curry and five children: Kat, Joshua, Maggie, Sam, and Sarah.