I am going to be working more directly with INETA now and am very much looking forward to helping and making a difference.

For Immediate Release

INETA North America Membership Division Announces: New Membership Mentor – Colorado, Montana, Utah, Wyoming Julie Yack, Colorado Springs, CO USA From INETA User Group: SouthColorado.NET

Bellevue, WA – November 12, 2007 – INETA North America Vice President in charge of the Membership Division, Chris Wallace, announced today the new Membership Mentor for the territory Colorado, Montana, Utah, Wyoming – Julie Yack.

“INETA is proud to announce that Julie Yack is now our Membership Mentor for Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming” Wallace said. “Julie comes highly recommended by those who know and recognize her for her tremendous work with our developer community. We are proud to call Julie one of our Membership Mentors.”

Yack is now taking over the important INETA volunteer position of Membership Mentor and those duties working closely under the expanded volunteer responsibility of Chris Wallace. “We always say thanks for the volunteer service to INETA for each of our Membership Mentors” Wallace continued. “I will continue to be deeply involved in my local user groups and community activities in Denver and Colorado. In addition, I also will continue in the position of INETA Vice President in charge of all Membership” Wallace added. “Adding Julie to our Membership Mentors will increase our volunteers to the INETA user groups in the Rocky Mountains, allow us to serve our membership more closely, and is a critical key to our community’s continued success.”

“Please welcome Julie to this new position and extend every courtesy in working to succeed in our challenges ahead as we work together to build a stronger developer community. Good luck, Julie!” Wallace said.

About Julie Yack – Julie Yack is a founding partner of Colorado Technology Consultants (CTC), Colorado Springs, and currently serves as its Chief Operations Officer. CTC offers high-end custom software solutions, primarily on the .NET platform. Julie is a Microsoft CRM 3.0 Certified Professional and earned her Bachelors' degree in Business Management from The University of Phoenix. Julie has a strong commitment to community involvement and regularly volunteers her time to local and national groups. She founded and led the SouthColorado.NET user group which focuses on the growth of .NET professionals. Julie helps local schools with their technology vision and plans by serving on the Education Technology and Information Literacy committees for both Challenger Middle School and Pine Creek High School in Colorado Springs. She has enjoyed both judging and sponsoring local and regional science fairs. Julie and her husband David, along with their children, enjoy living and playing in Colorado.

About INETA – INETA is a not-for-profit volunteer led organization whose mission is to provide services, resources, and networking opportunities to user groups and individual member’s interest in .NET technologies. The INETA focus is on face-to-face interaction through local user group meetings as well as larger regional, national, and worldwide events.

The INETA worldwide team is a collection of five regions working together to foster the global goals of INETA through independently operated locally focused culturally personalized organizations under the INETA name. Currently, INETA supports more than 250 user groups that represent more than 150,000 developers in the United States and Canada, plus about four times that many in total worldwide.

The INETA NorAm Membership Division is the exclusive internal organization that provides complete membership services to the INETA NorAm association members plus internal and external entities to the association. Membership Mentors act as advisor, counselor, guide, tutor, teacher, and guru of Membership to INETA member user group leadership and user groups.

Supported by Microsoft Corporation and other sponsors, INETA is an independent volunteer organization run by user group leaders and developers, http://www.ineta.org. ###