Want to learn what's going on at Sitecore? Well look no further! We have secured Sitecore's CTO John West for our next user group meeting.

Join us at ISITE Design for an evening of great information and networking. Food and drinks will be provided courtesy of ISITE.

Some information about John (direct from his book - Professional Sitecore Development )

John West works as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Sitecore in North America. Between the year 2000 and the time he joined Sitecore in 2004, John consulted on approximately twenty significant web content management system (CMS) implementations including Network Associates (now McAfee), U.S. Bank, John Deere, Stanford Hospitals and Clinics and Intel. During that time, he taught courses on CMS products in the United States, Europe and Asia.

While researching the CMS market to replace a legacy CMS, John identified Sitecore as the leading CMS platform architecture available, and joined the company immediately after attending developer training. Initially the only technical employee in North America, John certified hundreds of Sitecore developers while building the foundations of the local technical team including IT platform services, presales technical engineering, solution prototypes, documentation, and support, all while working to promote a vibrant Sitecore developer community.

John wrote early drafts for a majority of the current technical documentation about the Sitecore CMS. Including his input on more than six thousand posts on the Sitecore Developer Network (http://sdn.sitecore.net), John has interacted with thousands of web developers working on untold CMS projects around the globe. John has a strong interest in programmer productivity and is passionate about helping Sitecore developers learn the product to overcome challenges.

John considers his primary responsibility to be that of Chief Customer Advocate. You can access his blog at (http://sitecorejohn.com) and follow him on Twitter @sitecorejohn.