Location: Dresden, GERMANY

Company: Schulte Software Development, IdentityMine

Short bio:
René Schulte is an internationally recognized, independent expert and was honored for his community work with the Microsoft MVP Award and as Nokia Developer Champion. He blogs about many topics of Windows Phone, .NET and Windows development in general and writes articles. Sometimes he can also be found at various events as a speaker including the Microsoft and Nokia Windows Phone launch events and he takes part as a judge for Mobile Development Contests (Microsoft Imagine Cup, Core77). René Schulte is a Windows Phone developer since day one and develops highly acclaimed apps such as Pictures Lab, Funny Faces, Face Lens, Helium Voice, Cloud Recorder and more. He combines the advanced algorithms of computer graphics, image processing and computer vision with a great user experience. René Schulte also created and maintains several popular open source libraries for WPF, Silverlight, Windows Phone and WinRT, such as WriteableBitmapEx or the Augmented Reality library SLARToolKit. René Schulte also works for IdentityMine, an outstanding interactive design, software development, and user experience (UX) company.

Expert in:
Graphics, Usability, Windows Phone

Applications
Pictures Lab: http://bit.ly/PicLab Face Lens: http://bit.ly/FaceLens Funny Faces: http://bit.ly/FunnyFacesWp7 Helium Voice: http://windowsphone.com/s?appid=da4c75d6-df50-e011-854c-00237de2db9e Cloud Recorder: http://bit.ly/CloudRecorderWp7 More: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/publishers/Schulte%20Software%20Development

Books and other publications
Open Source libraries: WriteableBitmapEx: http://writeablebitmapex.codeplex.com SLARToolkit: http://slartoolkit.codeplex.com Coding4Fun articles and more: http://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/rschu

Honors and Awards
• Microsoft Windows Phone Development MVP, 2012,http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Rene.Schulte • Nokia Developer Champion, 2012,https://www.developer.nokia.com/Profile/?u=teichgraf • Microsoft Silverlight MVP, 2011,http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Rene.Schulte • Judge für Windows Phone bei den Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals in NYC, 2011,http://www.imaginecup.com/worldwide-finals/2011-judges#windows_phone_7 • Judge Core77 Windows Phone App Design Challenge, 2011,http://fasttrackapp.core77.com/judging/ • Microsoft Silverlight MVP, 2010,http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Rene.Schulte • DZone Most Valuable Blogger (MVB), 2009,http://dotnet.dzone.com/users/teichgraf • Jelly Pong 3D als Teil der Ausstellung pong.mythos (Computerspielemuseum Berlin), 2006, http://pong-mythos.net