Dan Caron is a Systems Consultant with MassMutual Financial Group, a Fortune 100 financial services organization. With MassMutual, Dan leads the technical direction for Microsoft .NET application development for the enterprise.  For over 13 years, he has been designing and developing applications with various programming technologies including Microsoft VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, XML/XSL, SQL and AJAX.  Dan is the leader of the Western Mass .NET Users Group.

Dan is a published author of two technical books on DotNetNuke development.  He has been a major contributor to the DotNetNuke open-source portal project since the core team was founded in 2003. Some of his noteworthy contributions include the exception handling framework, event logging provider, module security redesign, web-farm support and the scheduler. Dan retired from the DotNetNuke Core Team and Board of Directors in 2006. Based on his significant community contributions he was recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional(MVP) in 2005 and 2006.