Rockford Lhotka is CTO at 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 and regularly presents at major conferences around the world. Rocky is also a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP.

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.