The Silverlight Tour and AgiliTrain would like to welcome our newest instructor: Russell Fustino. Russ brings a great pedagree as a former Microsoft Evangelist and co-host of the Russ’s Toolshed Channel 9 Show.  We’re excited to have him teaching for the Silverlight Tour!

From his bio:

Russ Fustino wisely shelved dreams of rock and roll stardom in order to share his vast knowledge with developers nationwide. Given that he can’t sing or play an instrument, other than in Guitar Hero, we’re all very grateful. Russ has more than 30 years of software development. He’s the creator of the Russ’ Tool Shed developer seminar series and has donned his trademark suspenders, hardhat and tool belt in presentations for over 120,000 developers at over 2000 live events and over 400,000 views of his online videos. Russ also has expertise in developing .NET and Web-based solutions using Microsoft tools as well as Internet Audio and Video producing. Russ is now independent and President and founder of Russ’ ToolShed Network, Inc and Mentor at Solid Quality Mentors. Previously, Russ worked for Microsoft for 12 years as a Developer Evangelist. Also, previous to that, Russ worked as a VB instructor, headed up a development department, and created several client/server applications and system software products. His specialties include development with VB.NET, C# , ASP.NET, Expression Studio and Silverlight, Development Tools and debugging. Russ’ Tool Shed Videos can be seen at: http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/toolshed.  You have to know the code to get in the shed. KNOW THE CODE! Site: www.russtoolshed.net

Russ will be teaching ourSilverlight Tour curriculumas well as our Windows Phone 7 Courses.