Keith Elder is a Team Leader / Sr. Software Engineer for Quicken Loans, the nation's largest online mortgage lender based in Livonia, MI.  At Quicken Loans he is the team leader, lead developer and architect for a custom built in-house Smart Client CRM (client relationship management) application.  He is an experienced technologist, systems administrator,  software engineer, all around geek and in a past life a Unix command line junkie. 

He is also an educator who has logged thousands of hours in front of the classroom teaching students of varying ages from the 6th grade to the college level. He has also trained countless developers from various business sectors ranging from top auto manufactures, fortune 500 companies and Universities.  Keith's technical expertise combined with his outgoing common sense friendly southern attitude allows him to explain technical information so even your grandmother can understand it.  He is also the leader of the internal Quicken Loans .Net User Group where upwards of 100 team members get together monthly. 

He speaks throughout the South and Midwestern parts of the United States at various code camps, .Net user groups, technical conferences and schools. He now resides in Hattiesburg, Ms with his wife and three dogs where he continues to thaw out after residing on the frozen tundra of Ann Arbor Michigan for eight years.  You can read more about Keith's interests, hobbies, rants and raves on his blog at http://keithelder.net/blog/.