Rockford Lhotka is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic, a company that specializes in planning, designing, building and maintaining your enterprise's most mission critical systems.

Rockford is the creator of CSLA .NET, one of the most widely used development frameworks for Microsoft .NET.

He is the author of numerous books, including Expert 2008 Business Objects. He is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP. He regularly presents at major conferences around the world - including Microsoft PDC, Tech Ed, Visual Studio Live! and VS Connections.

Rockford has worked on many projects in various roles, including software architecture, design and development, network administration and project management. Over his career he has designed and helped to create systems for bio-medical manufacturing, agriculture, point of sale, credit card fraud tracking, general retail, construction and healthcare.