Whil Hentzen
www.hentzenwerke.com
whil -at- hentzenwerke.com
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Whil Hentzen fills the 役割 of 'player-coach' at Hentzenwerke Publishing, a 9 year old Milwaukee-based publisher that 専攻するs in 肩書を与えるs covering high-end ソフトウェア 開発 and, more recently, the 移住 of Windows developers and 使用者s to Linux.
Whil started out life as a custom ソフトウェア developer using dBASE II (he still has the 初めの 8 1/2 x 11 grey binder of documentation, much to the chagrin of his kids, who will have to clean out the attic...), and switched to FoxPro in 1990. As an 独立した・無所属 Fox developer, he 法案d over 15,000 hours in the 90's, 含むing the requisite '1,000 hours in 3 months' Y2K 緊急 gig while 回復するing from 脚 外科.
During that time, he 現在のd more than 70 papers at 会議／協議会s throughout North America and Europe, edited FoxTalk, Pinnacle Publishing's high end technical 定期刊行物 for 7 years, and hosted the 広大な／多数の／重要な Lakes 広大な／多数の／重要な Database Workshop since 1994. In 1999, Microsoft 契約d with Whil to co-author (along with Ted Roche) the Certification Exam for Visual FoxPro 6.0 分配するd 使用／適用s, which has since been taken by thousands of developers to help them 達成する Microsoft Certified 解答 Developer 信任状. He was a Microsoft Most 価値のある Professional from 1995 through 2003 for his 出資／貢献s to the FoxPro 開発 community, and received the first Microsoft Lifetime 業績／成就 Award for Visual FoxPro in 2001.
He started 令状ing ーするために develop 信任状 to 支える his ソフトウェア 開発 career. His first 調書をとる／予約する, 早い 使用／適用 開発 with FoxPro, showed up in 1993, and seven more have appeared since. He started Hentzenwerke Publishing in 1996 to self-publish a 専攻するd 容積／容量 on ソフトウェア 開発, and then began producing Visual FoxPro 調書をとる／予約するs when the major publishers abandoned the market in 1998. Sensing the 差し迫った 受託 of Linux on the desktop and 心配するing a coming 需要・要求する for custom 商売／仕事 使用／適用s on those Linux desktops, he turned his attentions to Linux in 2002, and now has eight 辛うじて 的d Linux and open source 調書をとる／予約するs 利用できる. にもかかわらず 存在 HQ'd in Whil's house, HWP's backlist now numbers の近くに to 40, with some 70 authors and editors 世界的な on the payroll.
He 現在／一般に 分裂（する）s his time between freelance custom 開発 with Visual FoxPro and a host of open source 道具s such as MySQL, PHP, and Python, and running the publishing 味方する of the biz.
Whil has a B.S. in Mechanical 工学 from Rose-Hulman 学校／設ける of 科学（工学）技術, 指名するd as the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs' 最高の，を越す 独立した・無所属 工学 school every year since 1999 by U.S. News & World 報告（する）／憶測. He served on RHIT's （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 on the 未来 from 1993 to 1998.
He 現在／一般に spends his copious 量s of spare time with his five kids and volunteering for the 地元の school 地区. An 熱心な distance 走者, he has logged over 55,000 miles lifetime, 含むing a dozen マラソンs and a 5K P.R. under 15 minutes. 予定 to two 脚 surgerious since 1999, he's had to 追加する biking and swimming to the repertoire, which has had his triathlete friends wiggling their eyebrows, 説, "You know..."
You can reach Whil at whil@hentzenwerke.com or at 414.332.9876.
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