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| Owen Allen |
| Blog @owenallen |
| Owen Allen has 18 years in the Content Management and software arena, as a Developer, Product Manager, Sales Engineer, and Consultant. Owen has worked with SharePoint for six years, as a Microsoft Technology Specialist, and as a Sr. Product Manager on the SharePoint product marketing team. In September of 2010, Owen founded SharePoint Directions LLC, which provides consulting to companies building for the SharePoint ecosystem. |
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| Edmond Avanesian |
| Lead Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton |
With over 12 years of experience, Mr. Avanesian has been involved in a diverse range of technology projects across multiple industries in both the private and public sectors. His extensive background covers areas from network infrastructure, systems architecture, development, full life-cycle implementation to systems integration solutions with industry leading technologies. He has worked with Microsoft technologies, including its SharePoint platform for over a decade and implemented solutions from small scale to worldwide enterprise collaboration.
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| Kurt Baumann |
| Chairman at AIS Network |
| Kurt Baumann has founded and run Internet and technology companies since the 1980s. He founded the first commercial ISP in Japan and also launched InterCon Systems, the leading producer of Internet software on the Macintosh, which sold to PSINet in 1995. Recently, Kurt helped launch Kadoo, a consumer cloud computing company. Previously, Kurt served as the chairman and owner of Inter.net and has also held senior management and chief executive positions at Quintum Technologies, Inter.net Global, PSINet, InterCon Systems, and Learning Tree Software. He attended the University of Illinois. |
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| Robert Beard |
| Chief Thinking Offier at MindSights SharePoint Solutions Blog |
Robert J. Beard is President of Mindsights™ SharePoint Solutions. Robert is a SharePoint Business Analyst supporting various Federal Government Agencies and a Professional Facilitator. Robert received a Masters in Systems Management degree from the University of Southern California, an MBA degree from Emory University, and a BS degree in Business from Washington and Lee University.
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| Chris Beckett |
| SharePoint Solutions Specialist at SharePoint Bits / 365 Compliance Blog MCM |
Chris Beckett is a Business Solutions Architect, Mentor and Trainer with 20 years of experience leading the development of enterprise business solutions using rapid application development processes, tools and best practices. He is a Microsoft Certified SharePoint Master and Certified Trainer, and has been a dedicated SharePoint technology specialist since 2003, with expertise in business process automation, enterprise content management, and deployment strategy and governance. He is an active blogger and author, and a frequent speaker at user groups and professional conferences.
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| Art Bellis |
| Associate Vice President at GimmalSoft |
| Art Bellis is Associate Vice President of GimmalSoft, the product division of Gimmal. He brings 20 years of experience developing and marketing records management solutions. Art is recognized as an industry expert and has been regularly called upon by ARMA and AIIM to speak on issues related to technology and information management. Various academic programs including the University of British Columbia, University of Washington and Vancouver Community College call on Art to lecture on records management issues and trends. Art possesses an extensive working knowledge of records management processes and is regularly engaged by clients to consult on best practices in records management. |
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| David Berry |
| SharePoint Architect at Booz Allen Hamilton Blog |
David has ten years’ experience with SharePoint and currently leads the architecture, design and planning of SharePoint 2010 engagements. Having almost 20 years’ experience in consulting and technology, David focused on the Microsoft development platform which also included working on Content Management Server 2002, the forerunner to SharePoint’s WCM capabilities. David also co-manages the CapArea.NET SharePoint group in Northern Virginia.
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| Kathryn Birstein |
| Senior SharePoint Architect at SharePoint Salvation Blog |
Kathryn Birstein, Senior SharePoint Architect, has been an IT consultant in the NYC metropolitan area for the last 25 years. For the last for 5 years she has worked exclusively with SharePoint. Recent clients include the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, McKinsey & Company, the NY Power Authority, the United Bank of Switzerland (UBS) and Microsoft. She is very involved in the SharePoint community and is Founder and President of the NYC SharePoint Developers User Group and the Meeting Manager for the NYC SharePoint User Group.
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| Gary Blatt |
| Senior Microsoft Consultant at CDW |
Gary has been in the IT industry for over 28 years, working with a variety of platforms and technologies. For the last 14 years he has focused exclusively on the Microsoft suite of tools, executing both small and large scale projects equally. He currently is employed by CDW as a Senior Microsoft Consultant. His extensive experience with SharePoint includes architecting, developing and implementing deployments for up to 60,000 users worldwide in one client scenario. He is an MCTS in SharePoint as well as an MCT. He is so focused on the SharePoint product, his FL license plate reads SHRPNT
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| Joe Boggio |
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| Joe Boggio is one of Microsoft’s authorities on the topic of innovation. He works closely with Microsoft’s largest client organizations, helping innovation leaders within those companies apply best practices enabled through technology. His work with a wide range of global clients, partners, and thought leaders has focused primary on the need to understand and address the fundamental challenges of innovation. Boggio helped lead the design and delivery of Microsoft’s Innovation Process Management Solution offering Microsoft clients an opportunity to manage the innovation process with greater transparency and discipline. These solutions include Ideation and Knowledge Capture, Knowledge and Process Management, and Project and Portfolio Management. Boggio is co-founder of Microsoft’s Innovation Outreach Program which brings together the world’s most innovative companies, universities and government leaders. The program is intended to drive increased level of collaboration across companies, expanding diversity and impact. Follow Joe Boggio on Twitter: @boggiojo |
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| Sean Bordner |
| Senior Consultant at i3solutions |
| Sean has worked extensively with associations and nonprofits through the past decade. Sean is an inspiring and accomplished SharePoint Author and Speaker who has presented SPTechCon (Boston), SharePoint Saturday (VA Beach, Boston & Washington, DC), SharePoint User Groups (Chicago & DC), ASAE Technology Conference (DC), and others. Sean has a technical background with past positions ranging from Sr. Programmer and Technical Manager to Sr. Solution Architect and Engineer. Sean's specific areas of expertise include SharePoint and FAST Search, Search Engine Optimization, Information Architecture (including taxonomy), SharePoint Governance and best practices related to planning, architecting and deploying SharePoint solutions. Sean holds many SharePoint Certifications, and serves as the Community Manager for the largest SharePoint Group on LinkedIn. Sean is the author of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Search Engine Optimization site (MOSSSEO.com) and co-author of the book SharePoint for Nonprofits. Sean is a Contributing Author for NothingButSharePoint.com, the world’s largest online SharePoint community. Visit his SharePoint Blog to learn more. |
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| Shannon Bray |
| Technical Architect at Planet Technologies Blog |
Shannon Bray is a SharePoint evangelist and Microsoft Certified Trainer. He is currently employed with Planet Technologies as a Technical Architect and works exclusivly with Microsoft SharePoint. Shannon specializes in architecture design and solution development using Microsoft technologies. He is the President of the Colorado SharePoint User’s Group and has presented SharePoint topics at Microsoft’s TechReady and TechED. In addition, he co-authored ‘Automating SharePoint 2010 with Windows PowerShell 2.0′ with Gary Lapointe.
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| David Broussard |
| Managing Consultant at Catapault Systems Blog |
Working with companies of all sizes, David helps enterprises plan and implement SharePoint in Intranets, Extranets, and DotCom sites. He has been working with SharePoint for six years now and been with Catapult Systems since 2007.
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| Johnny Brunson |
| Senior Consultant at InfoReliance Blog |
Johnny has over twenty years of experience in information technology industry and is a SharePoint 2010 MCPD. He is responsible for large-scale deployment of enterprise collaboration technologies primarily working with SharePoint. His recent work has been for the Army Warrior Transition Command in Alexandria, VA, the Air Combat Command (ACC) at Langley AFB and one of the largest SharePoint implementations in the world with the Air Force Central Command at Shaw AFB.
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| Christian Buckley |
| Director, Product Evangelism at Axceler Blog |
Christian Buckley is Director of Product Evangelism for Axceler, driving product awareness, SharePoint best practices, and both partner and community development. He previously worked at Microsoft as part of the enterprise hosted SharePoint platform team (now part of BPOS), and led an engineering team in advertising operations. Prior to Microsoft, Christian was managing director of a regional consulting firm in the San Francisco East Bay, started and sold two technology startups, and worked with IBM, HP, Cisco, Matsushita, Solectron, Seagate and other large hi-tech and manufacturing firms to deploy collaboration and supply chain solutions. He is co-author of three books on IBM Rational Software configuration management and defect tracking solutions, and can be found online at www.buckleyplanet.com and www.twitter.com/buckleyplanet
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| Benjamin Butler |
| Visio SSP at Microsoft |
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| Tony Byrne |
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| Tony Byrne oversees all of The Real Story Group's technology streams. In 2001, Tony founded CMS Watch as a vendor-independent analyst firm that evaluates content technologies and publishes research comparing different solutions head-to-head. Over time, CMS Watch evolved into a multi-channel research and advisory organization, spinning off similar product evaluation research in various areas of Enterprise Content Management. As a result of this natural evolution, in 2010, CMS Watch became The Real Story Group. Tony is the original author of The Real Story Group's Web Content Management research, a former journalist, and a 20-year technology industry veteran. He now focuses his own research on Enterprise Community and Collaboration software, SharePoint, and Web Content Management. During the last decade, Tony has advised clients such as the US Dept. of the Treasury, the American Association of Retired Persons, MBC Television of Dubai, The Canadian Cancer Society, and The Seattle Children's Hospital. Follow Tony on Twitter: @TonyByrne |
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| Ted Calhoon |
| Sr. Systems Engineer at Planet Technologies Blog |
Ted Calhoon is a SharePoint consultant at Planet Technologies. He has been working with Microsoft Office for eleven years, .NET for seven years, and SharePoint for four years. He is an MCITP for SharePoint 2010 and an MCTS for SharePoint 2007.
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| Joe Capka |
| Consultant at Xcomplica Blog |
Joe Capka is a SharePoint consultant and founder of XComplica, living in the Netherlands. He has been working with SharePoint from day one of his professional career and has been involved with projects of all shapes and sizes including a number of well known public facing web sites. Joe is a member of the Dutch Information Worker User Group (DIWUG) where he is a speaker and author.
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| Thomas Carpe |
| Principal SharePoint Architect at Liquid Mercury Solutions Blog |
At the tender age of ten, Thomas Carpe (known as "Doc" to his friends) was abducted and lovingly raised by a pack of feral Commodore 64's. Eight years later, he returned to the civilized world where he attended the University of Hard Knocks. Since then, he's been wasting his life away on blogs and Twitter. He's been a developer and consultant for Microsoft-based products for over 15 years and working for clients such as the IMF / World Bank, NIH, DHS, Ernst & Young, and Johns Hopkins. Tom is a founding partner of Colossus Consulting, an MS Gold Certified Partner established in 2005; he leads their SharePoint practice, Liquid Mercury Solutions, which specializes tackling the toughest challenges presented by that product. Tom's hobbies include rough trail mountain biking, dumpster diving, exploring the underbelly of the city, refactoring, computer history, affairs of state, and study of modern visual culture. Someday, he aspires to become a character in a Cory Doctorow novel, an evil overlord, the President of the United States, a SharePoint Master, and a ghost in the machine.
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| Virgil Carroll |
| Principal Architect at High Monkey Consulting |
Virgil has run High Monkey Consulting over the past 14 years and is instrumental in HMC’s three practice areas: Collaboration, User Experience and Interface Design / Development. Virgil has countless years of experience working with Microsoft technologies and assisting clients in building systems that both work and are 'easy-to-use' (I know, crazy isn't it). Virgil loves to talk, which allows him to speak to audiences all around the world on collaborative topics and user experience.
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| Cindy Cassil |
| Director, Systems and Integration Office, Department of State (DoS) |
Ms. Cassil comes to the Department of State (DoS) from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), where she served as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the FAA's Regions and Center Operations (ARC). In that position, she managed the Information Technology (IT) and communications support for nine FAA regions, located throughout the U.S., as well as a major FAA Support Center in Oklahoma City, OK.
Ms. Cassil began her IT career as an Administrative Data Processing (ADP) Intern within the Department of the Army, where she served for over 20 years in successive positions of increasing responsibility and leadership as an IT Manager. Her key Department of Defense (DoD) assignments included positions such as, Chief of Army Civilian Personnel Management Systems and Director of Information Technology for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civilian Personnel. Prior to joining the FAA in 2005, she served as the CIO and Deputy Chief of Staff for Information Management for the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC). As the ATEC CIO, she managed the technology and communications support for 10,000 employees, located in 26 installations across the continental U.S.
During her career, Ms. Cassil has received numerous commendations and awards for her effective leadership and management of complex technical projects for DoD. These include the Department of Army Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service, awarded by the Secretary of the Army, and the Army Superior Civilian Service Award. She is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute’s Executive Leadership Program, holds a bachelors degree in Management Information Systems and a graduate degree from the American University in Public Administration.
Ms. Cassil is a native of Alexandria, Virginia where she resides with her husband, Dan, and son, Ryan. |
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| Stephen Cawood |
| Director of Product Marketing, Metalogix Software at Metalogix Software MVP |
| Stephen Cawood is a former Microsoft Program Manager on the MCMS and SharePoint product teams. Stephen has been with Metalogix for a number of years, and as Chief SharePoint Evangelist, he has played a major role in community activities. He maintains the popular blog Geek Literature, and is a published author of several works, including How to Do Everything: SharePoint 2010, which has been dubbed a “must-have” for SharePoint users. Stephen is a Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP and the Director of Product Marketing at Metalogix; he lives in Halifax, Canada with his wife and daughter. |
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| Timothy Cermak |
| Managing Partner, PPM at Innovative-e |
| Program Management executive with 17 years’ experience delivering complex project and portfolio program implementation and development, focusing on Program/Portfolio Management (PPM) Return on Investment (ROI). Tim is rrecognized as an expert in business/product development, trend analysis and market research. |
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| Atul Chhoda |
| SharePoint Consultant at MODIS Blog |
| Atul Chhoda (MCTS, MCP,MCAD,MCDBA ) is a SharePoint Consultant with over 8 yrs of industry experience. He is a Microsoft Techie focused on SharePoint and .Net development. He has worked at federal, non- profit and member organizations for providing SharePoint based solutions for Intranet, Internet and Extranet scenarios and has performed the roles of administrator, developer, designer, and architect. He blogs at http://atulchhoda.wordpress.com mixed articles on SharePoint Administration and Development. You can view his full profile at http://atulchhoda.wordpress.com/about/ |
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| Moustapha Cisse |
| EPC Group |
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| Liam Cleary |
| Solution Architect & SharePoint MVP at SusQTech Blog MVP |
Liam Cleary is a passionate individual who is excited about technology. Over 12 years ago he started his IT Career as an IT Trainer, became a Software Developer, looked after Servers, Firewall, Security and Network Design and Architecture. He then became a Consultant for SharePoint, a Principal Consultant for .NET Development and Collaboration within BT Lynx in the UK and now works as a Solution Architect for SusQtech in Virginia working primarily with Non-Profits and Associations. His core focus as a Solution Architect is to ensure that SharePoint can either natively or with minimal customization meet the business requirement. Liam is also a four time SharePoint MVP focused on Architecture but also crosses the boundary into Development. He is passionate about all aspects of the SharePoint platform and loves to share the good word. He can often be found at user groups or conferences speaking, offering advice or just spending time in the community.
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| Dave Coleman |
| SharePoint Consultant at Twynham Blog MVP |
20 years working in the IT industry with 12 of those working in the education sector i have worked with many versions of Windows server, Exchange, SQL Server. Over the last few years i have been specializing in SharePoint starting with SharePoint team services through SharePoint portal server 2003 with Class Server and on to SharePoint 2007 and now onto SharePoint 2010 after introducing SharePoint into Twynham and making it a key component of their IT strategy. This year also saw Dave being awarded the much coveted SharePoint Server MVP award. Dave blogs at http://www.sharepointedutech.com/
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| Brian Culver |
| SharePoint Solutions Architect at ExpertPoint Solutions Blog @SPBrianCulver MCM |
Brian Culver is a SharePoint Solutions Architect for Expert Point Solutions in Houston, Texas. Brian is a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) in SharePoint 2007 and a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD). He has worked in the Information Technology industry for since 1998 and he has been working with SharePoint since 2005. His deep expertise includes SharePoint, ASP.Net, SQL Server and Project Server. He has been involved in many large SharePoint implementations including Internet and Intranet sites, Partner Portals, Enterprise Content Management and Governance, and much custom application integration and development.
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| Patrick Curran |
| SharePoint Architect at Planet Technologies |
| Patrick Curran, MCTS, MCTIP, MCT, SharePoint Architect for Planet Technologies. I have been working with SharePoint since 2003 doing everything from Administration, Branding, and Development to Upgrading, and Troubleshooting. |
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| Brandon Dart |
| Senior Consultant at MorganFranklin Corporation Blog |
| Brandon Dart serves as a SharePoint business expert in the National Security Services at MorganFranklin Corporation. He possesses more than 9 years of communications experience and 5 years of federal contracting experience. He has demonstrated success working on projects ranging from marketing, stakeholder outreach, communications, and program management. He now serves as the in-house SharePoint steward and front-end developer for a Federal PMO. Mr. Dart excels in working with project managers to utilize SharePoint and other technologies to provide solutions that improve processes, centralize and store information with controlled access, facilitate communication and feedback, foster inclusion and collaboration, monitor and report project activities, control project changes, analyze and forecast project performance, and develop and disseminate reports to relevant stakeholders. Mr. Dart is adept at working with business managers to help them understand the possibilities of SharePoint, challenging them to leverage SharePoint functionality. |
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| Cathy Dew |
| Senior Consultant at Summit 7 Systems Blog |
Cathy Dew (MCTS) is a Senior Consultant and Graphic Designer for Summit 7 Systems in Huntsville, Alabama. Summit 7 Systems is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner which specializes in the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure, including Office SharePoint Server, Office Communications Server and Exchange Server. Cathy comes from an Advertising Agency and Graphic Design background, so her focus is on User Interface Design and User Experience with sites. She has worked primarily with SharePoint 2007 with a focus on branding and user experience. She has worked on many SharePoint installations to brand SharePoint and make it look “Not like SharePoint”. Cathy worked to start the Birmingham SharePoint User’s Group last year and has been working on growing the community in the area ever since. She has presented at both user groups and conferences.
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| Bob Dickerson |
| Vice President at DocPoint Solutions |
Bob Dickerson, Vice President, has more than 27 years’ experience in the electronic distribution marketplace, having spent the last 18 years in electronic image management.
In his new role, Dickerson brings his extensive sales and business development experience in the document management industry to DocPoint Solutions. With a successful track record of nearly 20 years in regional and national sales positions with leading suppliers of imaging products and solutions, including value-added resellers (VARs), it comes as no surprise that Dickerson is well-known and highly regarded in the field of document management.
Prior to joining Quality Associates, Dickerson was the National Sales Manager for Fujitsu Computer Products of America. At Fujitsu, Dickerson oversaw the entire eastern sales force and led the group to impressive and consistent year-over-year growth. Dickerson also played a pivotal role in establishing new channel reseller programs to further grow Fujitsu’s footprint as a leading supplier of imaging products. In total, Dickerson spent over 10 years at Fujitsu.
Before Fujitsu, Dickerson was in charge of federal sales at NewWave Technologies, where he started a new program designed to reach federal clientele. Dickerson also helped enact policies to grow the company’s partner network and market share among commercial entities. Earlier, Dickerson served in senior level sales management positions at Cranel, Inc., a distributor in Columbus, Ohio and Value Added Distribution in Gaithersburg, Md. |
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| Kevin Dostalek |
| Founder and Chief Architect at Kick Studios Blog |
Kevin Dostalek has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry and over 10 years managing large IT projects and IT personnel. He has led projects for companies of all sizes and has participated in various roles including Developer, Architect, Business Analyst, Technical Lead, Development Manager, Project Manager, Program Manager, and Mentor/Coach. In addition to these roles, Kevin also managed a Solution Delivery department as a Vice President for a mid-sized MS Gold Partner from 2005 through 2008 and later also served as a Vice President of Innovation and Education. In early 2010 Kevin formed Kick Studios as a company providing consulting, development, and training services in the specialized areas of SharePoint and Social Computing.
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| Chad Dove |
| Software Engineer at Idera |
Chad Dove is a Software Engineer and SharePoint Solution Architect here at Idera.
He has performed many SharePoint implementation and migration projects over the past 7 years across a diverse clientele. Chad has over 12 years of IT experience as SharePoint Solution Architect, Network Administrator & Delivery Manager.
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| Michael Doyle |
| Senior Architect at Waggener Edstrom Blog |
Michael Doyle is currently the SharePoint Architect for a worldwide public PR firm. He is also an expert blogger for AIIM, a frequent international speaker, and author of soon to be released MS Press Book “Customizing SharePoint 2010 My Sites”. Michael has worked with SharePoint for almost 10 years now and been in the IT field for over 20.
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| Stacy Draper |
| i3solutions |
| Stacy Draper is an independent consultant based in South Florida. Being involved with web development since 1993 has led his life in a very interesting direction. He started out in the UNIX world and since 1997 has had a strong concentration in Microsoft technologies. Stacy has spoken at conferences large and small and has worked at some well-known and some not well-known companies. Co-author of three books, recipient of two Microsoft most valuable professional awards. In his consulting practice, Wild Wires, LLC, Stacy helps organizations understand how to get value out of their portals and then helps them achieve it. |
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| Randy Drisgill |
| Branding and Design Lead at SharePoint 911 Blog MVP |
Randy has more than ten years of experience developing, designing, and implementing Internet based software for clients ranging from small business to Fortune 500 companies. Randy has been working with SharePoint since the beta of SharePoint 2007 and has worked on many large-scale internal and public facing SharePoint branding projects. In 2009, Randy was recognized by Microsoft as an authority on SharePoint branding and design by being awarded MVP status for SharePoint Server. Randy has worked on several SharePoint articles, books, and white papers as well as having co-authored Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding & User Interface Design for Wrox Press (http://bit.ly/sp2010-brandingbook). You can find Randy on Twitter as @Drisgill and at his blog
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| Zlatan Dzinic |
| Senior Manager at Hitachi Consulting MVP |
Zlatan currently works for Hitachi Consulting as a Senior Manager based in California with work experience ranging across four different continents, he also comes from an extensive Enterprise Content Management and Business Intelligence product and solution background. Most of his career he spent as a Technical Lead/System Architect as well as Project Manager or a Best Practices Consultant on large Enterprise Content Management projects and Enterprise Strategy Initiatives, involved from conceptualizing and creating initiatives to getting down and dirty. His main focus is Developing and Architecting Enterprise Content Management, Document and Records Management, Communities of Practice (Social Networking for Business) including Business Process Management, Business Intelligence and Performance Management Solutions focusing on full blown end to end enterprise industry solutions. As an internationally recognized SharePoint and ECM technology expert he's a regular speaker at major Microsoft and SharePoint Conferences worldwide and he also presents at Local Community events on the topics of Enterprise Content Management, SharePoint Server and Technologies, Business Intelligence and Office Business Applications.
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| Joy Earles |
| SharePoint Applications Administrator at Oklahoma Administrative Office of the Courts |
Joy has been harnessing technology to improve business practices and revamp legacy systems for over a decade. Her SharePoint roles include business user training, analysis, and server & application administration. When not buried in a tech manual, she enjoys cooking, fishing, and telling terribly corny jokes.
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| Mark Eichenberger |
| Office 365 Specialist at Microsoft |
Mark Eichenberger acquired over 25 years software development and project management experience working in a number of industries. During those years, he implemented various portal and ECM solutions with his most recent focus on SharePoint. Mark currently is employed by Microsoft as an Office 365 Specialist assisting Fortune 1000 customers in the Mid-Atlantic region with their SharePoint and productivity needs.
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| Mostafa Elzoghbi |
| Senior Software Engineer at MetroStar Systems MVP |
Mostafa Elzoghbi is a Microsoft C# MVP since 2006, A technology advocate likes to share his knowledge and experience with Microsoft communities through online and offline events. Working with SharePoint for the last 5 years and heavily involved in designing and developing SharePoint solutions. Working for MetroStar Systems as a Sr. Software Engineer. Mostafa Holds MCAD,MCSD,MCTS,MCT professional certifications. You can connect with him in twitter: @MostafaElzoghbi
Blog: http://moustafa-arafa.blogspot.com |
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| Udayakumar Ethirajulu |
| VP & Chief Architect at RSC Solutions Blog MVP |
Uday is a Chief Architect at RSC Solutions and SharePoint Server MVP, responsible for implementing the business critical SharePoint Solutions. He regularly contributes articles, Tips & Tricks in his blog, and couple of tools in CodePlex. He holds various certifications in Microsoft MCSD, MCPD, MCTS (MOSS 2007, SharePoint 2010). Uday is a co-author for Workflow for Business Solutions in SharePoint 2010.
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| Kirk Evans |
| Principal Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft Blog |
Kirk Evans is a Principal Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft where he supports the largest SharePoint deployments. Visit Kirk’s blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans.
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| Mark Fidelman |
| General Manager at harmon.ie Blog |
Mark’s experience includes more than two decades of technology sales and marketing with organizations including A.T. Kearney, EDS, CT Space and Autodesk, most recently serving as Executive Vice President of Sales and Customer Success with enterprise social knowledge base provider MindTouch, Inc. He is also a contributing writer to multiple publications, including Business Insider, Technorati, CIO.com, CloudAve, SeekingAlpha, Internet Evolution and SeekOmega; he has spoken at dozens of conferences, including Enterprise 2.0, Intelligent Content 2011, and Lavacon 2010; and he holds a patent on a system for tracking mobile electronic loyalty cards.
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| Patrick Fisher |
| Federal Account Manager at HiSoftware Inc |
| Patrick Fisher is an Account Manager to the Federal Sector at HiSoftware, an industry leader in Web content and social computing compliance solutions. Fisher has over 30 years’ experience providing solutions to the Federal Government. He has presented at numerous AFCEA, DISA and Federal symposiums and seminars. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland. |
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| Mary Jo Foley |
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| Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 25 years for a variety of publications, including ZDNet, eWeek and Baseline. She has kept close tabs on Microsoft strategy, products and technologies for the past 10 years. In the late 1990s, she penned the award-winning "At The Evil Empire" column for ZDNet, and more recently the Microsoft Watch blog for Ziff Davis. Follow Mary Jo on Twitter: @maryjofoley |
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| Steven Fowler |
| Managing Partner at Ataric.com |
Steven has focused in delivering SharePoint based technology solutions since 2005 and played a key role while delivering one of world’s largest SharePoint deployments for the United States Air Force. He currently is finishing the development of a million-dollar based SharePoint 2010 portfolio management solution to the cloud. These combined with Microsoft certifications, speaking experience, and writing credentials has made him an authority in the SharePoint Community.
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| Steve Fox |
| Director, Developer and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft |
| Steve Fox is the Director of Developer & Platform Evangelism (DPE) for SharePoint and Windows Azure. He regularly speaks to developers about SharePoint, Office and Cloud development at both domestic and international conferences. Steve has authored many articles and books, including Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development (Wrox) and Developing Microsoft SharePoint Applications using Windows Azure (MSPress). He has worked at Microsoft for twelve years and currently lives in Seattle, Washington. |
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| Ira Fuchs |
| SharePoint Technical Specialist at Microsoft Blog |
Ira Fuchs is a SharePoint Technical Specialist at Microsoft working in the New York Metro District. In this role he has assisted some of Microsoft’s largest customers deploy and exploit the full set of capabilities of the SharePoint platform. He is the author of the book “Enterprise Application Development in SharePoint 2010 – Creating an End-to-End Application without Code”. In addition he has written numerous white papers for Microsoft on BizTalk Server, Customer Care Framework and InfoPath.
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| Jason Gallicchio |
| SharePoint Consultant at Sapphire Technology Blog |
Jason Gallicchio is currently a SharePoint Consultant with Sapphire Technology. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) in SharePoint 2007/2010. He has been in the tech field for over 10 years providing end user support and solutions. The last 4 years have been working exclusively with SharePoint Technologies. He is the founder of the Princeton SharePoint User Group in Princeton, NJ as well as a speaker and organizer for many SharePoint related community events.
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| Paul Galvin |
| Principal Architect at BrightStarr MVP |
Paul Galvin has worked in the IT industry for over 15 years in a number of roles including software development, consulting and most recently SharePoint solutions design. Paul works with clients to create top-notch business solutions using the SharePoint platform. He contributes to the SharePoint community through MSDN forums, blogging and online newsletters and magazines, including SharePointBriefing.com. Microsoft awarded Paul with MVP for SharePoint in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
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| Xenox Garavito |
| Senior SharePoint Developer at ActioNet |
Xenox returned to the computing world after 10 years as a musician. He was briefly a game developer in Seattle, WA and was drawn back into .NET development for the University of Washington where he created a custom master calendar and room reservation solution in SharePoint 2007 using custom controls, event receivers, web parts, web services, workflows and list item security. He is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MOSS 2007 Development), a Microsoft Community Contributor 2011 and Senior SharePoint Developer for ActioNet.
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| Kevin Goff |
| Consultant / Trainer / Author / Speaker Blog MVP |
Microsoft .NET/C# MVP 2005 - 2009 , SQL Server MVP 2010-2011 , SQL Server / Business Intelligence Senior Instructor and Curriculum Lead for SetFocus LLC, Author of Baker's Dozen Productivity Series in CoDe Magazine, Regular speaker at SQL Saturday, CodeCamp, and User Group Events. Have authored one book, and contributed MDX chapters to an MS Press SQL Server 2008 BI Book. Have worked in the industry as a developer/consultant since 1987.
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| Ruven Gotz |
| Senior Consultant at Navantis Blog MVP |
Ruven Gotz is a Senior Consultant & SharePoint MVP with Navantis, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Toronto, Canada. With over 20 years of IT industry experience, Ruven has spent the past seven years delivering award-winning SharePoint solutions for a wide range of clients. Working as a Business Analyst and Information Architect, Ruven is able to apply his eclectic education and varied experience in Psychology, Computer Science, Economics, Software Development and Training to get to the heart of complex problems. Ruven is a great communicator who is able to discuss technology concepts in language that is relevant to his audience, whether they are from IT or business. He has become a leader in the use of visual tools to help his clients and team members achieve shared understanding of problems and goals and shared commitment towards implementing a successful solution.Ruven’s blog is at http://spinsiders.com/ruveng and you can follow him on Twitter at @RuvenG.
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| David Griffiths |
| Solution Manager at DSM.net |
David Griffiths is a Solutions Manager and MCP for DSM.net. He has over 20+ years IT with 16 at the C-level. He is a Founding member of the Tampa SharePoint User Group and the Florida SharePoint User Group portal, www.flspug.com. David also co-coordinated SharePoint Saturday in South Florida. David is a recognized International speaker, author of several magazine articles, and a lecturer for Fortune 500 companies, professional bodies and universities.
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| Zvi Guterman |
| Chief Strategy Officer at CloudShare |
| Zvi co-founded CloudShare in 2007. He previously co-founded and served as CTO at Safend, a leading endpoint security company, and performed as a chief architect in the IP infrastructure group of ECTEL, a leading provider of monitoring solutions for IP, telephony and cellular networks. Zvi is a recognized security expert, lecturing at conferences worldwide, and holds a PhD in Computer Science from Hebrew University. |
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| Janis Hall |
| Instructor at i3solutions |
| Janis Hall combines over a decade of industry experience and business acumen to help organizations through process analysis and the implementation of collaborative components that work in support of critical business objectives. As an Instructor at I3Solutions, Janis incorporates her passion for SharePoint and its countless benefits into viable, innovative classes that provide students with both technical know-how and concepts of functional benefits. |
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| Dean Halstead |
| Visualization Architect at Microsoft @DeanHalstead |
Dean Halstead is the Visualization Architect for US Federal Microsoft. Dean is recognized internally and externally as one of Microsoft Federal’s premier subject matter experts on Innovative Solutions in Commercial and Government, Open Government, and Government Transparency.
He was Microsoft’s advisor for Recovery.gov http://recovery.gov and Treasury.gov http://treasury.gov , two of the most innovative sites for the Federal government. In this new age of agility, openness and transparency, Dean is helping customers to discover new ways to transform their businesses and overcome challenges to innovation. Dean is also a small business owner helping drive innovation and technology into Virginia’s agricultural community.
Dean Halstead has nearly 12 years of experience at Microsoft. He spent over 7 years on the SharePoint Product Design Team. He conceptualized the SharePoint Alternate Access Mappings (AAM) Feature for which he holds a patent http://spgur.us/pq4D6L . Today he is a “go to” resource for questions on collaboration, visualization and progressive process design within and outside Microsoft.
As a military veteran, Dean has over 17 years of experience in the US Army Reserves with one deployment to Kuwait in support of OIF/OEF I/II where he worked at the Port of Shuaiba as the Port Operations Officer.
Twitter @deanhalstead
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| Susan Hanley |
| President & CEO at Susan Hanley LLC Blog |
Susan Hanley, President of Susan Hanley LLC, is a recognized expert in the design, development and implementation of successful portal solutions, with a specialization in Microsoft SharePoint. Sue is a co-author of Essential SharePoint 2010: Overview, Governance, and Planning and was named one of the Top 50 SharePoint Influencers. In 2005, she established Susan Hanley LLC (www.susanhanley.com), a consulting practice dedicated to helping clients achieve high impact business outcomes with portals and collaboration solutions. Her clients include some of the largest global deployments of SharePoint. Immediately prior to launching her own firm, Sue led the Portals and Content Management practice for Dell Professional Services. In this role, she was responsible for a team that developed more than 100 solutions based on the Microsoft SharePoint platform and participated as a member of Microsoft’s Partner Advisory Council for Portals and Collaboration. Sue is a frequent writer and speaker on the topic of implementing successful intranet portal solutions, portal strategy and governance, user adoption, and measuring the value of knowledge management investments. Sue writes a blog on SharePoint for Network World Magazine.
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| Richard Harbridge |
| Senior SharePoint Evangelist at Allin Consulting |
Richard Harbridge is an internationally recognized expert in Microsoft SharePoint and is a technology and business evangelist with deep expertise in information architecture, enterprise content management, and technology strategy. He has defined, architected, developed and implemented well over a hundred SharePoint solutions from small implementations on a single server to over 80,000+ user implementations in international organizations. As a sought-after speaker he often shares his insights, experiences, and advice around collaboration, knowledge management, social computing, ROI, governance, user adoption and training at many industry events.Richard hopes to see you/speak with you at the SharePoint Saturday Conference as it’s an amazing event where thousands of people exchange and share experience, knowledge, and relationships to help us all become even better at our jobs and the things we are passionate about.
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| Eric Harlan |
| SharePoint PFE at Microsoft Blog |
In between searching the planet high and low for the best skiing conditions, deepest powder and crazy ‘steeps’, Eric Harlan spends most of his time in the technology field. Eric has been in the I.T. industry for ten years, and heavily involved with SharePoint for six years. Starting from a developer role, Eric has moved on to a more architectural role with a focus on configuration and server implementation. Never forgetting his developer roots, he still jumps in when needed to pick up the slack on custom dev needs. As a SharePoint Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft Eric is the first on the ground to troubleshoot SharePoint issues as well as kick off proactive engagements. Eric is involved with many volunteer organizations from SharePoint Saturdays, Global SharePoint users group, and educational code camps to President and Co-Founder of the Baltimore SharePoint Users group. Eric also does many speaking events revolving around SharePoint. Topics range from SharePoint Development, InfoPath development tricks and gotcha’s to basic SharePoint sessions for the end user.
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| Stephen Heister |
| Enterprise SharePoint Administrator at Xgility Blog |
Stephen Heister is a SharePoint Subject Matter Expert with Xgility, an agile solutions provider focused on achieving transformational results for their customers. Stephen has over 10 years of experience in the information technology field with expertise in administration, operations and architecture. He provides guidance, training and platform support for Xgility's government and commercial collaboration projects through on-premise and hosted SharePoint Online deployments.
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| Mike Herrity |
| SharePoint Consultant at Twynham Blog |
Mike Herrity is an Assistant Headteacher at Twynham School in Christchurch, Dorset, UK. Twynham School has 1600 students, 200 staff and 1200 parents as part of its 3000 strong community. Twynham has an excellent reputation as a centre for learning having been graded the highest possible award of ‘Outstanding’ three consecutive times by the UK government over 15 years during inspections.Mike is responsible for the development of the Twynham School Learning Gateways using SharePoint 2007. He has been using SharePoint since 2006 and together with Dave Coleman has been responsible for creating one of the most highly developed SharePoint systems in education. Mike Blogs at http://sharepointineducation.com/
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| Ed Hild |
| Technology Architect at Microsoft Blog |
Ed Hild is the Technology Architect at the Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, VA specializing in Portal and Collaboration solutions. At the MTC, he meets daily with both commercial- and public-sector customer to discuss business requirements and map them to the Microsoft platform. He helps customers understand product features, best practices, and necessary customizations for them to realize SharePoint’s full potential. Ed is a dynamic speaker and has previously presented at Microsoft Dev Days, Tech Ed, and Microsoft SharePoint Conference events as well as many local area user groups. He has published SharePoint developer books including Pro SharePoint 2010 Solution Development. Ed’s previous experiences include a high school teacher, government contractor, and lead developer at a Microsoft partner.
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| Al Himler |
| VP of Delivery Services / Acting COO at Easy Dynamics Corp |
Al has been involved in SharePoint Projects for over eight years through requirements collection, design, Project Management, and Operations support. His clients have ranged from small demanding clients trying to squeeze as much as they can out of their SharePoint investment to large commercial and Government clients using SharePoint as a collaborative environment with both workflow and social networking components.
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| Michael Hinckley |
| Program Manager at DSM.net Blog |
My current role is as Product Manager at DSM.net. I am formally an AVP at Citibank, where I participated in many successful SharePoint roll outs of all flavors to the many diverse lines of business globally. When I am not tinkering under my clients’ SharePoint project you’ll find me working on helping shape SharePoint Saturday strategy as a National Committee member and coordinators of the Tampa and South Florida events. Any leftover time is dedicated to my wonderful wife and three children or at my boxing gym trying to improve my “sweet science” despite the science of gravity and advancing years.
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| Scott Hoag |
| Senior Consultant at CapTech Consulting |
Scott Hoag is a Senior Consultant with Richmond based CapTech Consulting where he is a member of the Portal and Collaboration practice with a focus on SharePoint. With over 8 years of experience, Scott has been utilizing Microsoft based content management solutions from MCMS 2002 to SharePoint 2010 today.Twitter: @ciphertxt
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| Jim Bob Howard |
| Senior Solutions Engineer at Juniper Strategy, LLC |
Jim Bob is first a husband and a father. For fun, he gets to go to work and play with SharePoint. Jim Bob has invested over 17 years in software development and website management for companies of all sizes. After serving two years as a webmaster/designer (read: THE SharePoint Guy) in the healthcare arena, Jim Bob is now a Senior Solutions Engineer for a dynamic consulting firm in the DC area. Meanwhile, he helps others work with SharePoint by writing technical "how-to" articles at EndUserSharePoint.com and offering guidance as a panel member on EUSP's Stump the Panel.
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| Matthew Hughes |
| SharePoint Trainer at Combined Knowledge @mattmoo2 |
Matthew Hughes (@mattmoo2) has been working in schools and colleges in Leicester, England for the last 8 years and now works for Combined Knowledge as a SharePoint Trainer and WCM. He has been working with SharePoint for 3 years and during this time he has created a learning gateway, public website and intranet paying attention to branding and administration without ever starting Visual Studio.
Matt can be found blogging on http://sp365.co.uk and his personal blog http://engageinsharepoint.co.uk |
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| Greg Hurlman |
| Solution Architect at LiquidHub, Inc. Blog |
Greg Hurlman is a SharePoint Architect at LiquidHub, gamer, and father (not necessarily in that order). He has been a SharePoint developer since 2006, .Net developer since 2001, and programmer since 1984. He helps run the Princeton SharePoint User Group, and is a co-organizer for SharePoint Saturday NYC 2011.
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| Rebecca Isserman |
| Field Manager at Planet Technologies Blog MVP |
Becky Isserman has been a SharePoint Developer, since 2005 when she attended the Portal University with Levi, Ray, and Shoup in Springfield, IL. She is a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer in SharePoint Server 2010 (MCPD), a SharePoint Server MVP in 2011, and a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). She has been a web designer/developer since she was 15 years old notepad coding HTML 3.0 websites. She enjoys working with SharePoint, because she can perform the roles of administrator, developer, designer, and architect. She has presented at several conferences, code camps, user groups, and SharePoint Saturdays in the past three years. She currently works for Planet Technologies. She lives with her cat, Gambit, and her boyfriend, Johnny. If you would like to contact her you can e-mail her at [email protected] or fill out the contact form at her blog http://www.mosslover.com.
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| Scott Jamison |
| CEO at Jornata Blog @sjam MCM |
| Scott is Chief Architect and CEO of Jornata, a global leader in the SharePoint consulting space. Scott is a recognized thought leader and published author with several books, including Essential SharePoint 2010. Scott does regular speaking engagements at events around the globe and is a Microsoft Certified Master. |
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| Pirooz Javan |
| President at Easy Dynamics Corp Blog |
Pirooz Javan has been involved in managing IT projects and providing senior leadership for small businesses since 1999. As a COO and CIO of two successful businesses and now President of Easy Dynamics, Pirooz has taken his passion for technology and automating processes into every organization he has been a part of. Since 2002, Pirooz has been involved with SharePoint and has since focused on helping companies solve challenging problems with SharePoint. Pirooz brings a broad perspective to SharePoint being involved in many implementations ranging from all sizes in complexity and capacity.
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| TJ Jiang |
| Co-CEO and Co-founder at AvePoint Blog @TJ_AvePoint |
| Prior to establishing AvePoint, Dr. Jiang had spent 6 years working as senior technology consultant for major investment banks in New York City and Chicago, where his projects ranged from fix-income trading systems, to global equity program trading systems, to credit risk modeling. Dr. Jiang is also an active member of the data mining research communities where he regularly publishes consumer profiling and segmentation papers in IEEE international data mining conferences and journals. Dr. Jiang received both B.S. and Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University, and a Master of Philosophy and PhD (data mining) in Management Information Systems from Stern School of Business, New York University. |
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| Bert Johnson |
| Solution Architect at PointBridge Blog |
Bert Johnson is a Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint Server 2010 and a SharePoint Architect with PointBridge Solutions. He has extensive experience building knowledge management and enterprise search solutions using Microsoft technologies. Bert has worked with Fortune 500 leaders and mid-market firms across myriad industries.
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| Ben Jones |
| Senior Sales Engineer at SoftArtisans Blog |
Ben Jones is a Senior Sales Engineer at SoftArtisans. An expert in SharePoint, BI and mobile development, he has helped develop, expand and reformulate SoftArtisans’ enterprise software products. His work experience includes Enterprise Architecture, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, BlackBerry/iPhone/Android development, SQL Server Reporting Services and Agile Project Management. In addition to his work at SoftArtisans, Ben can be found sailing cruise ships for Mass Bay Lines. He holds BS in Pre-Med and Computer Science from Union College. You can follow him on Twitter at @BCJonesey or connect with him on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonesbenc.
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| Rob Joy |
| Federal Architect at K2 |
| Rob Joy graduated from Bucknell University with a Bachelor's in Computer Science Engineering in 1991. He has spent his 18 year career in various roles associated with workflow and process management. In the early 90's he was a part owner of a Total Quality Managment software company. The company created software to manage TQM efforts. Rob spent 13 years consulting companies with their Document Imaging, Workflow, ECM (Electronic Content Management), Records Management and BPM (Business Process Management) efforts. Rob spent the last 4 years at K2 and currently works as the Federal Architect for K2 Microsoft's leading BPM software Partner. |
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| Kanwal Khipple |
| Principal SharePoint Architect at BrightStarr @kkhipple @sharepointbuzz MVP |
| Kanwal Khipple, is a SharePoint Server MVP & Principal SharePoint Architect with BrightStarr, a Microsoft Gold Partner who has developed some of the best user experiences on SharePoint. Kanwal focuses on cloud technologies, ECM, WCM and designing solutions using SharePoint. Kanwal is an author, SharePoint evangelist, speaker, and you can find him blogging on his personal blog and SharePoint Buzz. Kanwal is the co-founder of Toronto SharePoint Business User Group and calls Toronto, Canada home. Connect with him - @kkhipple @sharepointbuzz and LinkedIn, Facebook |
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| Jennifer Kim |
| Microsoft |
| Jennifer Kim brings over 15 years of experience working in the technology field. She currently is the Group Product Manager for Project and Visio in the US. Prior to that she worked as a Senior Product Manager in the US Marketing Organization and was responsible for a wide array of products and solutions across the Information Worker platform. Before moving to Washington State, she worked as a Technology Specialist and Solution Specialist in the Microsoft New York Sales Office serving the Enterprise, Public Sector, and Small and Mid-Market segments. Before joining Microsoft in 2000, Jennifer worked at a Microsoft Certified Technical Education Center as the Training Manager and Technical Trainer. |
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| Sam Kim |
| Solutions Director at InfoReliance Blog |
Sam is the technical director of InfoReliance's Microsoft Solutions Practice. He serves as the technical project manager for enterprise-wide projects around Microsoft technologies with over 15 years of IT experience. He has also served as the technical lead for multiple large-scale SharePoint deployments starting with the "Tahoe" version (2001). Sam is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University (BA) and the University of Virginia (MS) and holds certifications with the DoD DAWIA Acquisition Certified Professional - Systems Planning, Research & Engineering, Microsoft Certified Professional, and PMI's Project Management Professional(PMP).
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| Troy Lanphier |
| SharePoint Solutions Professional at GUIO Blog |
Troy is an independent consultant with over 7 years of experience in the SharePoint family of products. He has been involved with the Windows Server Platform since Windows 3.51 and involved with the Windows Phone platform since the Palm-Sized PC era. His consulting background is in large-scale enterprise server, networking and storage infrastructure, and he applies this experience to the design, scaling and planning of SharePoint farms for his clients.
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| Matthew Lathrop |
| SharePoint Evangelist at Rackspace Hosting |
Matthew Lathrop joined Rackspace in October of 2007 after 5+ years facilitating internal operations, procurement and vendor management in the Austin area. Matthew’s skills sets are centric on operational efficiencies, project and process management, procurement and enterprise negotiations. His current role at Rackspace as SharePoint Evangelist dedicates him as a resource to the SharePoint Support Team in all Customer engagements to help onboard new Customer while ensuring Best Practices with Farm scalability; physical, virtual or Cloud based infrastructure.
As SharePoint Evangelist, his role is two-fold; Project Managing SharePoint deployments hosted at Rackspace while helping to build the Rackspace/SharePoint brand name by working with 3rd Party vendors/consultants to offer additional SharePoint services which reside outside the scope of services for Rackspace.
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| Scott Lavoie |
| Training Consultant at Independent |
Scott Lavoie has been implementing software training rollouts for 13 years. He has worked in healthcare, energy, corporate governance, finance and telecommunications in the private and public sectors. He spent 6 years in the Enterprise Content/Document Management industry, where he built 2 training departments from the ground up. He has traveled extensively to the U.S. to deliver content/document training solutions for clients. He is an independent Software Training Consultant, who is based in Toronto, Ontario.
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| Matt Lawson |
| Technical Lead at i3solutions |
| Matt Lawson began his career developing enterprise web applications for DoD clients. In 2007 he took on a side project at a startup – Mingle 360 - which provides social networking solutions for tradeshows and events. At Mingle 360 he was the lead software developer for the Mingle Stick and Mingle Station, which are the basis of their unique social networking solution. Last year he joined i3solutions as a senior consultant and was introduced to SharePoint and quickly found his way to technical lead at i3solutions. |
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| Jay Leask |
| Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton Blog |
Jay Leask supports Booz Allen’s efforts to provide clients access to Enterprise 2.0 technologies by providing IT strategy with a focus on change management practices for successful long-term engagements. Jay specializes in defining functional requirements, ensuring delivery of a strong business case, and analyzing vendor platforms for platform selection.
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| Fernando Leitzelar |
| Senior SharePoint Architect and Consultant at mindSHIFT Technologies Blog |
Fernando Leitzelar is a senior SharePoint architect and consultant with mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc., where he regularly interfaces with clients and development teams to design SharePoint-based solutions. Fernando also delivers SharePoint developer, administrator and end-user training. He has been working with SharePoint 2010 since its release, having worked extensively on designing and architecting sophisticated MOSS 2007 and 2003 applications. He maintains expertise in MOSS 2007/2010, JPoint, SharePoint Designer, ASP.NET, C#.NET, and SQL 2005/2008 reporting and business intelligence tools.
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| Vishwas Lele |
| CTO & Microsoft Regional Director at Applied Information Sciences |
A noted industry speaker and author, Vishwas is the Microsoft Regional Director for the Washington, D.C. area and a member of the Connected Systems Division Advisors group. Additionally, Vishwas has received an MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for Solution Architecture award for both 2006 and 2007.
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| Susan Lennon |
| Senior Consultant at Microsoft |
| Susan Lennon works for Microsoft as a senior consultant on the US Navy and Marine Corps team. Before joining Microsoft she was an independent consultant / Microsoft Certified Trainer for eight years, working on US Navy projects architecting SharePoint solutions. Susan has certifications as an IT PRO SharePoint 2010 Admin and Database Admin, and MCPD SharePoint 2010. Susan is deeply committed to the SharePoint community and helps run several user groups in VA and is a frequent speaker at SharePoint Saturdays and Code Camps. |
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| Johnathan Lightfoot |
| President/CEO at TechForce, Inc. Blog |
Johnathan Lightfoot is the co-author of the books Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Plain and Simple along with SharePoint® Foundation Server 2010 Inside / Out. When he is not writing books he is the President/CEO of TechForce, Inc which provides IT consulting services to small to large businesses as well as to city, state and federal government agencies. His personal work experience includes over 20 years in IT; working in various roles including End User Support, Windows and AS-400 Server Administration and Development. Companies he is fortunate to have worked for include Electronic Data Systems, Hawaiian Telcom and Norwegian Cruise Line (yes he actually worked on the ships). However, some of the best experiences he says he has had were his nine years serving in the United States Navy. Johnathan is a Microsoft Certified Trainer along with holding various other Microsoft certifications focused primarily on the SharePoint platform.
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| Enrique Lima |
| Technical Lead for Consulting Services at Apparatus, Inc. Blog |
I have been around IT for about 21 years. During that time I have accumulated experience in training, application development, database development and management, IT solutions architecture and project management. My current role is as a Technical Lead for Consulting Services at Apparatus, an Indianapolis, Indiana based company. My focus is to provide quality, informative, and engaging solutions and service to clients. As a speaker and presenter I bring in the lessons learned from the field to provide guidance in how to best leverage the tools clients will be using and exploring as they move forward with their Microsoft SharePoint Technologies and supporting tools, or with their Application Lifecycle Management solutions. I have been involved in architecting and developing solutions that leverage the integration of SharePoint Technologies, BizTalk, Commerce Server and Content Management Server with other Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms. For the last couple of years I have been working quite actively with Team Foundation Server, providing administration and guidance to developers and teams on how to best implement an ALM solution and how TFS can help them achieve them.
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| Kenneth Lo |
| Director of Consulting at KLOPMP Consulting Blog |
Kenneth Lo (PMP, MCSD, MCTS) is a SharePoint Evangelist and entrepreneur with over 15 years of management consulting experience in all facets of systems development. His expertise includes SharePoint, Mobility, Business Process Management (BPM), and social media. Being a risk-averse person at heart, Kenneth spends his leisure time mountain biking, rock climbing, and scuba diving.
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| Brett Lonsdale |
| Director at Lightning Tools |
Brett Lonsdale is a co-founder of Lightning Tools – provider of SharePoint tools and Web Parts. Brett has also authored the book “Developers guide to the SharePoint Business Data Catalog”
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| Pete Luvara |
| mindSHIFT Technologies |
| Pete Iuvara is a strategic, business-centric specialist focusing on helping companies mature their operations, increase productivity and top line growth, and maximizing bottom lines. Pete currently holds a position at mindSHIFT Technologies. His role there is focused on strategic business and technical consulting, sales, and product and business development. |
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| Adam Macaulay |
| Chief Technology Officer at CorasWorks Corporation Blog |
Adam Macaulay is responsible for research and development of the technology platform driving the success of CorasWorks products. He has over 15 years of experience, 13 in Microsoft and 8 in SharePoint, developing Internet Applications that have taken internal, cost ineffective solutions and turned them into profitable internet applications that continue to exist today.
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| Chaitanya Madala |
| SharePoint Architect at Ironworks Consulting Blog |
Chaitu works as a SharePoint Architect at Ironworks Consulting and is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist with over 8 years of experience designing and implementing IT solutions on a variety of platforms, including SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Server 2007 and SPS 2003. He has successfully completed various SharePoint implementations during his career that vary from Publishing sites to Intranet and Extranet sites. He is usually involved in all stages of SharePoint implementations starting from requirement gathering to maintenance through designing, developing, configuring server farms and SharePoint configuration. He regularly shares his experiences in his blogs http://goodbadtechnology.blogspot.com/ and http://underthehood.ironworks.com/. His profile can be found at http://www.linkedin.com/in/cmadala
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| Bramley Maetsa |
| SharePoint Lead Consultant at SharePointkonsult |
Bramley Maetsa, is a trained Electrical engineer and a Lead SharePoint Consultant by practice. He has been developing Microsoft based solutions for 8 years.Bramley has been involved in the Microsoft SharePoint consulting and development industry since the release SharePoint 2003, working for both Microsoft Gold Partners and enterprise corporates. Over the year Bramley specialized in various technologies including FlowCentric and K2.NET for Workflow, Portals, Knowledge Management and custom solutions on SharePoint for various industries. Some of the industries Bramley consulted for include Mining, Financial sector, Pharmaceuticals, Agricultural, and government departments. Bramley’s focus is on delivering high quality Portal Solutions, Knowledge Management, Workflow solutions and Governance.Bramley is an active member of Johannesburg and Atlanta SharePoint communities and shares his knowledge of SharePoint with the new comers and experts. He has recently presented topic on governance at SharePoint Saturday Atlanta.
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| Danish Majeed |
| Visio Product Manager at Microsoft |
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| Sahil Malik |
| CEO at WinSmarts Blog MVP |
Sahil Malik, the founder and principal of Winsmarts.com, has been a Microsoft MVP and INETA Speaker for the past 9 years, author and reviewer of 6 books and numerous articles in both the .NET and SharePoint space, consultant and trainer who delivers training and talks at conferences internationally. Sahil has trained for the best names in the Microsoft technology space, and has architected and delivered SharePoint based solutions for extremely high profile clients. Sahil has authored two SharePoint 2010 books, reviewed many SharePoint 2007 books, 4 books on SQL Server/Database related technologies, and a DVD Video on SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007.
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| John Mancini |
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John F. Mancini joined AIIM in May 1996. AIIM helps organizations find, control, and optimize their information. Prior to joining AIIM, Mancini spent 11 years in various positions at the American Electronics Association in Washington, D.C., most recently as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He has also served as Executive Director of the Foundation for Public Affairs. Mancini is a frequent speaker at meetings and conferences throughout the world on various topics including the content management marketplace and E20 technologies. Mancini holds a bachelor's degree from the College of William and Mary and a master's degree from Princeton University. Mancini blogs under the title Digital Landfill (http://www.digitallandfill.org) and can be found as jmancini77 on LinkedIn and Facebook. Mancini is the creator of the "8 things" series. He is the author of a children's book, Will's Christmas List, which has sold literally tens of copies. Follow him on Twitter: @jmancini77
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| Rob Manfredi |
| Bamboo Solutions |
| Rob brings over 20 years of enterprise software sales and marketing experience to Bamboo. He has managed both direct and partner channel sales teams delivering software solutions to the Fortune 1000 market. Rob was Senior VP of Sales with Formatta Corporation (acquired by Access Systems) where he led the development of its national partner channel. Past experience includes early stage software companies in Document Management, Education, Logistics and Healthcare Analytics. |
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| Steve Marks |
| FileTrail |
| Steve Marks has over 14 years of industry experience. Previously Steve was responsible for physical and electronic document/records management at Amgen, a global pharmaceutical company. Steve's experience spans numerous industries where he has held various IT positions implementing business process improvements with SharePoint and other Microsoft technologies. Steve holds a BS in Computer Science with a minor in User Interface Design from Carnegie Mellon University. |
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| Jennifer Mason |
| Senior SharePoint Consultant at SharePoint 911 Blog |
Jennifer Mason has dedicated the last seven years to working with SharePoint. She started out as an intern focused on SharePoint and eventually began working as a full-time SharePoint consultant. She is currently working as a Senior SharePoint Consultant with the team at SharePoint 911. Her focus has been on strategy, project planning, project management, governance, and best practices for implementing business solutions using SharePoint Technologies. She has worked with a range of companies at different points in the lifecycles of their SharePoint implementation. She is passionate about SharePoint, and loves using the out of the box features to bring immediate ROI to the organization. Jennifer is involved in the SharePoint community and is one of the founding members of the Columbus Ohio SharePoint Users Group. You can learn more about Jennifer by viewing her blog: http://blogs.sharepoint911.com/blogs/jennifer
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| Josh Mazgelis |
| Neverfail |
| Josh Mazgelis has been working in the storage and disaster recovery fields for close to two decades and brings a wide array of knowledge and insight to any technology conversation. Currently working as a product marketing manager for Neverfail Group, Josh has a history that includes the likes of Computer Associates, XOsoft, Netflix, and Quantum Corporation. Join us for this discussion on how Neverfail’s Continuous Availability Suite helps to provide maximum uptime for critical SharePoint & related servers in both physical and virtualized environments. |
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| David McDonald |
| Technology Architect at Microsoft |
David McDonald is a Technology Architects at the Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, VA specializing in Portal and Collaboration solutions. At the MTC, he meets daily with both commercial- and public-sector customer to discuss business requirements and map them to the Microsoft platform. They help customers understand product features, best practices, and necessary customizations for them to realize SharePoint’s full potential.
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| Sean McDonough |
| Product Manager, SharePoint Products at Idera Blog |
Sean is a Product Manager for SharePoint Products at Idera, a Microsoft gold certified partner and creator of tools for SharePoint, SQL Server, and PowerShell. As a consultant, Sean has worked with a number of Fortune 500 companies to architect, implement, troubleshoot, tune, and customize their SharePoint environments. Sean is an MCPD, an MCTS, and the co-author of both the “SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide” (http://tinyurl.com/SPDRGuide2007) and the “SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide” (http://tinyurl.com/SPDRGuide2010). He can be reached through his blog (http://SharePointInterface.com) or Twitter (@spmcdonough).
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| Chris McNulty |
| Practice Manager at KMA Blog |
Chris McNulty has over twenty years’ experience in financial services technology at State Street, Santander, GMO and John Hancock/Manulife. He is SharePoint practice lead at KMA, a New England Microsoft Gold Partner. Chris also holds an MBA from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College in Investment Management and Corporate Finance. Chris is a member of the Microsoft MSA, MVTSP, MCSE, and MCTS programs. A frequent speaker at events around the US, Chris is the author of the “SharePoint 2010 Consultant’s Handbook – Managed Metadata Service” and also writes the popular Microknowledge blog (http://blogs.kma-llc.net/microknowledge). He lives with his wife Hayley, and his children, Devin, Nathaniel and Rachel, in Milton, Massachusetts.
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| Mark Miller |
| Chief Community Officer and SharePoint Evangelist at EndUserSharePoint and Global 360 |
Mark Miller is a founding member of NothingButSharePoint.com, Founder and Editor of www.endusersharepoint.com and the Chief Community Officer and SharePoint Evangelist for Global360. He is a dedicated evangelist for the Information Workers, Site Managers and Site Collection Administrators of SharePoint. Mark has presented at conferences around the world, talking about business solutions built on SharePoint, the creation of online communities and what the future of productivity will look like. He shares a life with his wife, two children, one dog (Pollie), one gerbil (Tuxie), one turtle (Crawly) and nine goldfish (Goldie and her brood). When he has spare time, you can find him wandering the street of New York City in search of new food experiences.
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| Mike Miller |
| Array Information Technology |
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| Corey Milliman |
| Senior Product Manager at Metalogix Software |
| Corey J. Milliman is a Senior Product Manager at Metalogix, with extensive experience in implementing and deploying complex SharePoint solutions for public and private organizations in the Mid-Atlantic region. With ten years of experience in SharePoint and SharePoint deployment, Milliman is well-versed in implementing and maintaining SharePoint portals and sites as well as developing custom applications. His expertise and contributions to the SharePoint community have earned him speaking opportunities at technical conferences, symposiums, and user groups throughout North America. |
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| Dave Milner |
| Senior SharePoint Architect & Products Lead at ShareSquared Blog |
Based in Colorado, Dave Milner is a Senior SharePoint Architect at ShareSquared. Dave is the former Chief Architect of a SharePoint and .NET solution provider company and is the author of APress book “ Pro SharePoint 2010 Solutions: Techniques for Building SharePoint Functionality into ASP.NET Applications”. Dave is a technology professional with deep understanding of Microsoft technologies including 19 years of IT experience and 8+years of C#/.NET experience.
Dave has an MBA with a technology management focus, and is a Microsoft Certified Trainer as well as having obtained other advanced Microsoft certifications. He also is a Certified Scrum Master, having success implementing Scrum methodologies with several application development and solution teams.
In the technology community, Dave is a frequent speaker and trainer at local and national SharePoint events including SPTechCon and SharePoint Saturdays. He runs the Colorado Springs arm of the Colorado SharePoint User Group community as well as serves on the leadership team of SouthColorado.NET – an INETA group dedicated to the latest Microsoft technologies. Dave also helps out Microsoft Learning working on certification exams for the latest SharePoint and .NET technologies. |
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| Dean Misenhimer |
| Senior Director, Product Marketing at Kofax |
Dean Misenhimer is the Senior Director of Product Marketing for Kofax. Dean is responsible for supporting the product development process including market development strategy, go-to-market planning, product launch, and content generation for a variety of Kofax products. His specific areas of focus include next generation product strategy, Microsoft SharePoint, and front office integration.
Dean brings over 20 years of experience to Kofax in global software marketing and technical sales. Prior to joining Kofax, he was the Director of Marketing at MontaVista Software, an embedded Linux company, where he was responsible for all outbound marketing activity. Prior to MontaVista Dean spent a dozen years with Documentum/EMC with global roles in Product Marketing, Competitive Intelligence, and Technical Sales. |
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| Agnes Molnar |
| Senior Solutions Consultant at BA Insight Blog MVP |
Agnes Molnar is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and serves as a Senior Solutions Consultant for BA Insight. With a strong focus on Enterprise Search and Knowledge Management, she has been working with SharePoint technologies since 2001, and has architected dozens of SharePoint and FAST implementations for commercial and government organizations throughout Europe and the Americas. In her role at BA Insight, Agnes helps guide the company’s product development team, and oversees enterprise-level deployments of the company’s technologies in Europe, Americas and Asia. A co-author and contributor to several SharePoint books, including Real World SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Unleashed, Agnes is a regular speaker at technical conferences and symposiums around the world. On her blog (www.Aghy.hu), Agnes regularly writes on the topics of enterprise search best practices, and SharePoint & FAST technologies.
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| Jose Antonio Morales |
| CIO at NYCP Blog |
Born peruvian, currently in NY, previously in Slovenia. Father of 2 and husband of 1. The relationship between technology and human development fascinates me. I’m a born entrepreneur and started early with IT. My first encounter was with an Atari 800XL and my latest gadget is an iPad2. Organized and participated in many events, the latest being the SharePoint Conference in Peru.
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| Jessica Moss |
| Architect at CapTech Consulting Blog MVP |
Jessica M. Moss is an architect at CapTech Consulting, speaker, author, and Microsoft MVP of SQL Server business intelligence. Jessica has created numerous data warehousing solutions for companies in the retail, internet, health services, finance, and energy industries and has authored technical content for multiple magazines, websites, and the book "Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services Problem-Design-Solution". Jessica enjoys working with the central Virginia community and speaks regularly at user groups, code camps, and conferences. You can read more on her website, http://www.jessicammoss.com.
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| Mark Mueller |
| Syntergy |
| Join Mark Mueller from Syntergy Federal Systems as he describes how SharePoint replication can deliver your SharePoint solution within a distributed global framework to the further reaches of the organization – even in extremely low bandwidth and challenging environments. |
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| Michael Mukalian |
| Director at LiquidHub, Inc. Blog |
Michael Mukalian is a Director and Architect for LiquidHub, Inc. (www.liquidhub.com) an information technology consultancy based in the Philadelphia area serving clients worldwide. He assists in the running of the Tri-State SharePoint User Group (www.tristatesharepoint.org), was a contributing author on the SharePoint 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Consultant, speaks at a number of SharePoint Saturdays around the country and was awarded Microsoft's MVP award in 2010 for SharePoint Services. With over 20 years of IT experience and certifications in VB.NET and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and SharePoint 2010, Michael has architected and developed solutions for companies of all sizes. Check out Michael's blog at http://www.mukalian.com/blog or follow him on Twitter @mmukalian.
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| Martin Muldoon |
| Director of Product Marketing at BA Insight |
Martin Muldoon is the Director of Product Marketing at BA Insight, where he leads company’s product marketing strategy worldwide. As a co-founder of BA Insight, Martin has extensive experience in the Enterprise Search space with a particular focus on Microsoft Search technologies. Prior to that, while working at Suez, a global power utility company, Martin was awarded the Suez Innovation Award for the search based application he developed for company’s Environmental division.
Martin is a frequent speaker in the community and shares his extensive expertise in enterprise search technologies at various key conferences including TechEd, KM World, AIIM and others. Martin also spent a few years as an independent consultant leading deployment of various ERP systems. The firsthand experience of seeing users struggle accessing information from ERP, CRM, and messaging systems was the inspiration behind BA-Insight’s unique approach to integrated search on top of FAST and SharePoint Search. |
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| Silvana Nani |
| Senior Associate at Satory Global LLC |
A management and IT consultant focusing in collaboration and business process automation solutions based on SP platform. Manage client relationships and lead project teams working for the office of CIO at Department of Justice (DOJ). Current project focuses in developing a divisional portal and automating back office systems and grant’s lifecycle management processes.
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| Larry Nisenoff |
| Principal at LNA, LLC |
| Larry Nisenoff has over 25 years experience in Information Technology and Program Management, encompassing roles from technical through senior management. During this time he has gained experience in both the commercial, not-for-profit and federal sectors. Functionally, Larry has experience with healthcare, emergency management & response and software development and implementation. Recently, Larry initiated, developed and implemented project plans for the Recovering Warrior Task Force sync'ing plans between SharePoint 2010, Project 2010 and Outlook. Additionally, he has used SharePoint at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and internally at several federal contractors. Larry has given project management and technology presentations to the Federal SharePoint Users’ Group (FEDSPUG), and at the SharePoint Saturday conference. He has a Bachelor of Science in Management from Boston University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Tennessee. |
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| Josh Noble |
| Sales Manager at SurfRay Inc |
| Josh has made a career on the front lines diagnosing business pains and alleviating them with technology. As the Sales Manager for SurfRay Inc., Josh has worked with global clients such as the American Bar Association, Best Buy, Intel, the U.S Coast Guard, and Conoco Phillips to build solutions to business problems through expertly designed search solutions forSharePoint, based on SurfRay’s powerful Ontolica® software |
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| Errin O'Connor |
| EPC Group |
Errin O’Connor is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer for EPC Group. Errin focuses his efforts on implementing Microsoft Technologies in organizations throughout the country. Errin manages EPC Group’s corporate strategy as well as architects the proven methodologies around collaboration, enterprise content management \ records management, and custom application development that have set EPC Group apart from its competitors.
Errin is the author of SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out by Microsoft Press \ O’Reilly Media and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Inside Out by Microsoft Press. He has completed more than 140 highly successful individual SharePoint implementations and has worked with some of the largest organizations in the United States. Errin’s Amazon.com Author Portal can be accessed by clicking here.
Errin is also the founder of WebPartGallery.com an online solutions provider of SharePoint web parts and custom solutions and is a frequent speaker at Microsoft SharePoint events throughout the United States and Canada. Errin has spoken at over 100 SharePoint related events in the past 18 months. Errin also has a passion for working with Department of Defense (DoD) related clients to ensure technology can continue to improve the mission of our nation’s warfighters. |
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| Mike Oryszak |
| Practice Manager at Intellinet Blog MVP |
Mike Oryszak is a SharePoint Server MVP and Principal Consultant with Intellinet in the Portals and Collaboration practice specializing in SharePoint Architecture and Development. Mike has been living in the Raleigh-Durham, NC area since 1998 and has held a number of development and consulting positions servicing clients from a range of industries including major financial institutions, telecommunications and manufacturing. Mike's favorite SharePoint topic is social computing and how it can be used to increase team and cross-functional collaboration in the enterprise.
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| Adwait Parikh |
| Array Information Technology |
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| Tom Pemberton |
| VP Product Strategy at FileTrail Blog |
Tom leads FileTrail’s product strategy and marketing efforts. With 20 years designing and delivering tracking and records management solutions, Tom’s experience spans numerous industries and geographies. Prior to joining FileTrail, Tom held marketing and product management positions at various records management software producers. Tom holds an MBA from the University of California Berkeley (Haas School of Business), with a BS in Business Administration and Computer Science.
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| Steve Pietrek |
| Microsoft Practice Manager / SharePoint / SilverLight Developer at Cardinal Solutions Group Blog |
Steve Pietrek is the Raleigh/Durham Microsoft Practice Manager at Cardinal Solutions Group, a Microsoft Managed Partner, with offices in Cincinnati, Columbus, Charlotte, and Raleigh. Steve is a SharePoint Application Architect and Silverlight Developer at Cardinal Solutions and is active in the SharePoint community through his blog, public speaking at user groups and conferences, MSDN, and Twitter. He has been working with the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies since SharePoint 2007 Beta. Prior to joining Cardinal, he was the lead User Interface developer for 13 years at Exact Business Analytics, a business intelligence software provider. Steve’s SharePoint and Silverlight blog can be found at: http://stevepietrek.com. You can also follow him on Twitter: @spietrek
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| Michal Pisarek |
| SharePoint Analyst at Habanero Consulting Group Blog MVP |
Michal is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP with over 5 years’ experience within the platform from development, infrastructure, requirements analysis, training and implementation.Michal is an author and contributor to several well regarding SharePoint related publication including CMSWire and EndUserSharePoint promoting the platform from a business value perspective to ensure that clients receive the maximum business value from their implementations.
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| Tom Polivka |
| Bamboo Solutions |
| Tom Polivka, a native of the Washington, DC area has worked in the Content Management industry for over 20 years. After receiving a degree in Computer Science from George Mason University, he managed the development of large-scale text retrieval systems over x.25 networks many years prior to the advent of the world wide web. Since then, he has helped direct the emerging Content Management (CM) market in management positions with major industry players such as Informix, Excalibur, and AMS. Today he manages the Federal practice for EMC’s Enterprise Software Group (formerly Documentum). His team has participated in major CM programs across DoD and civilian agencies. |
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| Alistair Pugin |
| Senior Technology Consultant at Intervate Solutions Blog |
Alistair has worked in various capacities in multiple verticals from retail – manufacturing to government, spanning 50 to 4500 users utilizing all aspects of pure Enterprise Information Management. His current position is that of a Senior Technology Consultant at Intervate Cape Town, South Africa assisting companies with architecting their SharePoint environment using “best of breed”, proven methodologies to foster innovation and growth through an ECM framework while incorporating a Knowledge Management strategy
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| Mark Rackley |
| Solution Architect at Juniper Strategy, LLC Blog |
Mark has been developing software applications for over 15 years filling the roles of Project Manager, Business Analyst, Lead Developer, and Software Architect. He has been involved in projects for such companies as Dell, Motorola, Intel and Agilent Technologies. He has worked in large corporate environments, small software start-ups, and as a consultant. Mark currently works for Juniper Strategy, LLC (http://www.juniper-strategy.com) as a Solutions Architect and SharePoint Practice Lead making key SharePoint architecture and development decisions as well as bringing the appropriate SharePoint Best Practices to his clients and customers.Mark’s goal as a speaker, blogger, and author is to help every new architect and developer avoid the frustrations and brick walls he ran into while learning SharePoint.
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| Girish Raja |
| Technical Evangelist at Microsoft |
| Girish Raja is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft's Redmond campus. In this role, Girish helps the community to learn the development features of Information Worker (IW) platforms like SharePoint and Dynamics CRM. He specifically helps developers and ISVs in building line of business applications using the IW platform. He also works on demonstrating how SharePoint and CRM integrate well with other Microsoft technologies such as Windows Azure through his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/girishr and various videos at http://channel9.msdn.com. |
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| Chris Riley |
| Product Manager and Evangelist at CloudShare |
| Product manager and Evangelist at CloudShare, Chris Riley is a pure technologist and recognized industry expert in document capture, ECM, SharePoint, Analytics, and Cloud Computing spaces. Chris is committed to market education and has been helping companies buy, use, and optimize advanced technologies given their business process and use case. Chris’s focus on market education has helped expose underlying problems in the acquisition and use of advanced technology and has helped both end-users and vendors mitigate the challenges to achieving ultimate success. Riley has 12 years experience in this arena, owned three software companies, and obtained several technology and business awards. He has degrees in Business Administration, Computer Science, and Mathematics, and holds certifications from the enterprise content management (ECM) trade organization AIIM as “Enterprise Content Management Practitioner (ECMp)” “Information, Organization, and Access Practitioner (IOAp)” and “Capture”. Mr. Riley is a sought after speaker, and educator throughout the high tech world. |
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| Eric Riz |
| EVP, Systems Integration at Concatenate, Inc |
| Eric is the EVP, Systems Integration at Concatenate, Inc. a software firm focused on maximizing SharePoint through product innovation and systems integration based in Toronto, Canada. He has worked with many Fortune 500 companies on their business productivity architecture and deployment plans to ensure they maximize the benefits of Microsoft technologies and successfully deploy their SharePoint-based solutions. Aside from his day job, Eric is a popular conference speaker and frequent contributor to the SPTech Report as well as CMSWire; you can reach him by email at [email protected]. |
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| L. Carlos Rodriguez |
| Consultant at DCU, LLC |
Carlos has been working with SharePoint since 2007 first with MOSS/2007 and now with 2010
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| John Ross |
| Senior Consultant at SharePoint 911 Blog MVP |
John Ross is a Senior Consultant and SharePoint Server MVP with SharePoint911 from Orlando, FL. He has over eight years of experience implementing solutions for clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies as well as government organizations. John is co-author of the books, “Professional SharePoint 2010 Branding and User Interface Design” and “Real World SharePoint 2010” from Wrox. You can find him on twitter at http://twitter.com/johnrossjr or visit his blog at http://www.sharepoint911.com/blogs/john
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| Rex Sabio |
| Ricoh |
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| Juan Santiago |
| Senior Consultant at i3solutions |
| Juan Santiago is a Senior Consultant who has facilitated the implementation and user adoption of SharePoint solutions from SharePoint 2003 through SharePoint 2010. Mr. Santiago’s SharePoint knowledge and experience consulting for both government and private sector clients has been critical in the successful implementation of our solutions and helping organization's guide adoption of the system. He has conducted end user and content manager training for multiple clients on basic SharePoint and customized solutions as well as providing direct content migration and management support. |
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| Eric Sauve |
| VP, Corporate Development at Newsgator |
| Eric is a leading expert on Enterprise collaboration, e-learning and social technologies. Eric has worked with private and public sector organizations to help them make next generation Internet approaches a reality in their organization and drive meaningful business results. Eric is the former CEO and Co-founder of Tomoye, acquired by NewsGator in January of 2010. Under Eric’s leadership, Tomoye products have established themselves as market leaders, receiving multiple awards and recognition from industry analysts. He is a four time entrepreneur, and prior to founding Tomoye, he founded La Siembra, the largest Fair Trade organic chocolate company in North America. Eric holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Alberta and a Masters of Arts from Carleton University. |
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| Richard "Gary" Saylor |
| Knowledge Management Officer at U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security at US Department of State |
| Gary Saylor has 26 years of experience at the Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS); the law enforcement arm of the U. S. Department of State. Mr. Saylor started at State as a Research Analyst in the office of Terrorism Intelligence and shortly thereafter became a Special Agent with DS. Mr. Saylor’s job responsibilities included criminal investigations, protection of foreign dignitaries and security of U.S. Embassies overseas. Mr. Saylor has served tours in Bogota, Colombia, New Delhi, India and the Dominican Republic. For the past 3 ½ years, Mr. Saylor has worked as the Knowledge Management Officer for DS where he uses SharePoint to implement Knowledge Management solutions. |
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| Arne Schoellhorn |
| Colygon |
| Arne has been into collaboration since more than 10 years and has been involved in SharePoint Projects for over five years through requirements collection, design, project management, and operations support. He has worked with fortune 500 companies and mid-market firms across all kind of industries. As a partner manager and evangelist he is now part of Colygon, the provider of the world-class application framework for SharePoint. |
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| Brian Seitz |
| Business Architect at Satory Global LLC |
Brian is a Management Consultant and Enterprise Architect with over 30 years of experience reengineering functions and processes for many of the Global 100 corporations such as IBM, Microsoft, and Samsung Electronics Corporation. Currently he is Satory Global’ s Business Architecture Lead and Thought Leader providing process and performance guidance both internally and to Satory's key accounts. Brian is the former Chief Enterprise Architect for Microsoft and key contributor to MSF, MOF and co-creator of REJ.
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| Peter Senescu |
| President and Co-Founder at MetaVis Technologies |
Peter Senescu is President and Co-founder of MetaVis Technologies Microsoft Gold certified ISV that develops software to help organize SharePoint 2010, 2007, 2003, BPOS, and Office 365 environments for improved search and e-discovery. MetaVis builds an Information Architecture platform to support IA Design, Migration, classification, and Change Management. Prior to founding MetVis was an executive at RippleTech (now part of Nitro Security) which is a leader Enterprise and Data Security.
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| Amee Shah |
| Director at MorganFranklin Corporation Blog |
| Amee Shah is a Director with National Security Services at MorganFranklin Corporation leading the Program Management Services offering. In this role, she consults for government clients in the areas of program and project management, organizational change, and organizational assessments, and manages client and business partner relationships. Ms. Shah is a certified PMP with more than 15 years of experience in the areas of program design and management, organizational transformation, and process evaluation and redesign. She has successfully lead projects in the United States and abroad, and worked with senior executives in civilian and homeland security agencies and the private sector. She has deep experience and significant skill in managing cross-functional consultant and client teams comprised of staff as well as senior executives. Ms. Shah is an expert at decomposing business issues to create viable strategies and solutions. |
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| Scott Shearer |
| SharePoint Evangelist and Developer at FlexPoint Technology |
| Scott Shearer has over 15 years experience in the IT industry as has focused on Microsoft products and technologies. Scott has held positions ranging from systems administrator to developer to trainer. He is a consultant with FlexPoint Technology in Reston, VA concentrating on SharePoint for customers in the Federal government. |
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| Shawn Shell |
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| Shawn is the founder of Consejo, Inc., a consultancy that specializes in web-based applications, employee and partner portals, as well as enterprise content management. Author of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002: A Complete Guide, Shawn covers SharePoint for The Real Story Group. Follow Shawn on Twitter: @shawnshell |
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| Lewis Shepherd |
| Director at Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments |
| Lewis Shepherd has been in senior executive management for two decades in Washington DC and Silicon Valley in both the private and public sectors.Shepherd was the national winner of the 2007 “Government IT Leadership Award” for exceptional accomplishments, in creating the U.S. Government’s most dynamic IT organization, supporting a global intelligence-community enterprise. Shepherd's expertise lies in strategic planning, operations management, investment decisions, and leading complex change. Follow Lewis on Twitter: @lewisshephard |
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| Jesse Shiah |
| CEO and Co-founder at AgilePoint, Inc |
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| Dave Shimko |
| SharePoint Engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton |
Dave Shimko began working with SharePoint as a developer for the WSS 3.0/MOSS 2007 version of the product. When he graduated college he was looking for a job as a .NET web developer and had never heard of SharePoint before. Four years later he now has experience working with SharePoint in a variety ways as a developer, a business analyst, an administrator, and an architect. He is currently supporting a client with a migration to SharePoint 2010.
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| Gail Shlansky |
| Axceler |
| Gail Shlansky leads the company's global product management and overall strategy for Axceler. Gail brings extensive product experience to the company, having started her career in software development. Gail's experience in product management and product marketing includes working at such leading firms as Bell Labs, Digital Equipment Corporation, Wang, Lotus and IBM. While at Lotus, Gail led the product management efforts of Notes and Domino Messaging, Security, and Administration and Management. At IBM, as Product Manager, Gail led the direction of the product in both the wireless and enterprise search areas. Gail holds a BS in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts and an MS in Computer Science from Northeastern University. |
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| Jeff Shuey |
| Director of Business Development - Microsoft Engagement at Kodak Blog |
Jeff Shuey is a veteran in the Enterprise Content Management industry. Over the past 20 years he has worked with customers and partners to design, develop and deploy solutions around the world. Jeff is currently the Director of Business Development for the Kodak Document Imaging division. He has worked for Microsoft, FileNet, K2, Captaris, Open Text, and Kofax. He speaks and blogs about ECM, SaaS, and Cloud Computing and how companies are putting these tools to work in their businesses.
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| Mack Sigman |
| Senior SharePoint Solutions at ActioNet |
Mr. Sigman has 28 years experience in the information technology arena, including considerable expertise in Portal design, information architecture and knowledge management. He is experienced in systems and applications full system life cycle management. Mr. Sigman’s expertise includes application development, systems integration, team building, gap analysis, knowledge management, portal and web development, project management; business requirements analysis; vendor selection; strategic and tactical planning. Mr. Sigma is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer specializing in SharePoint and Information Worker collaborative solutions based on the .NET Framework. He has expertise in Microsoft portal design, portal implementation, systems architecture, systems integration and application life-cycle management. Retired Naval Officer (retired at the rank of Commander). He is currently the Senior SharePoint Architect at ActioNet, previous positions have included Solutions Architect at Microlink, Principal Consultant for Portals at InfoReliance, and Director of Technology at Amyx
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| Terry Simpson |
| SusQtech |
| Terry is an experienced project manager who excels at guiding clients through all of the project phases to meet objectives and deliverables. Clients such as ACT-IAC, ASNE, APTA, AABB, NACo and AIHA have all enjoyed Terry as a project manager on their SharePoint implementations. Terry is a graduate from Marshall University with a degree in Finance and also a graduate from Frostburg State University with a Masters in Business Administration. |
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| Scott Singleton |
| Consultant and Principal SharePoint Architect at i3solutions |
| Scott Singleton is a Consultant and Principal SharePoint Architect at i3solutions and has been working as a software architect and programmer for over 18 years. For the last three years he's been focused on leveraging his design and development skills to solve customer's business challenges in SharePoint as well as managing large implementations with user counts in excess of 100,000. |
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| Srini Sistla |
| Sr. SharePoint Consultant / SME at Experis Blog |
Srini Sistla is a Senior SharePoint Consultant / SME, MCTS, INETA Speaker and co-author of the book Pro-SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence Solutions (http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430232854) and hails from Washington DC Metro area. Srini has over 11 years of strong industry experience on Architecture, Design, Developing Web and Desktop based application using Microsoft Technologies, including WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007 and SharePoint Server 2010. For the SharePoint community – he is a SharePoint speaker and have done fair amount of speaking for SharePoint Saturday's, GSPUG, CAPAREA SP Users Group, SUGDC etc. (his speaking engagements http://www.srinisistla.com/blog/Lists/Categories/Category.aspx?CategoryId=4&Name=Speaking ). He is also an active blogger ( http://www.srinisistla.com/blog/default.aspx ) and SharePoint trainer in this area and here is his bio on linked in http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=16342921&trk=tab_pro. He has contributed towards some of the tools and templates which you can find at http://www.srinisistla.com/blog/Lists/Categories/Category.aspx?CategoryId=3&Name=Tools. Twitter @srinisistla
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| Christopher E. Smith |
| Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Active Data Exchange |
Chris is an entrepreneurial executive that embodies innovative thinking, hands-on experience with an enduring passion for results.
As Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Active Data Exchange, Chris is responsible for developing and executing the company’s go to market strategy and plan, as well as executive leadership and day-to-day management.
Prior to joining Active Data Exchange in 2011, Chris started and grew IGCN into a nationally respected web technology company, focusing on the hospital market that was later sold in 2009.
He graduated from Penn State University, participated in post graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania, an Eagle Scout, advocate for The Arc, avid downhill skier and mountain bike rider, Formula 1 enthusiast and traveler.
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| Walton Smith |
| Principal at Booz Allen Hamilton |
| Walton Smith leads the Booz Allen’s Collaboration practice, as well as the internal corporate investment strategy to bolster the Knowledge Management and Information Sharing Program, including the Hello.bah.com platform. He steered the successful Enterprise/Gov 2.0 engagement across multiple teams improving the flow of information to and from consulting staff, and increasing the value of collaborative outcomes for non-profit and governmental agencies. He ensured adoption and usage of the new enterprise program by integrating change management strategy with the implementation of IT technologies including social networking and enterprise search. For this, Hello.bah.com was awarded the “Open Enterprise 2009 Innovation Award” at TechWeb's Enterprise 2.0 Conference. |
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| Harold Smith III |
| Sr. Manager, Mobile Development at Twin-Soft Corporation |
Harold Smith III is a tenured software Architect, Designer, and Developer - specializing in SharePoint, .NET, and Mobile Development. Harold has been developing systems in the classified space for over seven years, specializing in developing secure enterprise systems. Over the last year, Harold has been leading efforts for mobile development, looking to help clients leverage their existing IT investments in the mobile space.
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| Tiffany Songvilay |
| Director at Volition Services LLC |
A popular speaker at SPS events, Tiffany’s engaging style hypnotizes people into changing the way they do things. A former stand-up comedian, Tiffany does not believe that SharePoint is the answer for every business issue – that’s what makes her so hysterical. In fact, she insists on developing use cases, a governance plan, and training and communications to ensure that a rollout to SharePoint is going to be adopted by the users. Her passion for productivity and process comes across in a motivational way and she promises to give you solutions to some of the most common roadblocks hindering your implementation.
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| Paul Stork |
| Chief SharePoint Architect at ShareSquared, Inc. Blog MVP |
Based in Ohio, Paul is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and Chief Architect at ShareSquared. He has an MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management and holds myriad of Microsoft certifications including being a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Systems Engineer, Solutions Architect, Developer, Database Admin, IT Professional and Professional Developer. Paul is currently working to complete his Microsoft Certified Masters certification. He is an author and/or contributor on several SharePoint books including:• MCTS Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Configuration Study Guide• Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices• Developer's Guide to the Windows SharePoint Services v3 Platform• Windows 2000: Essential ReferencePaul has worked with SharePoint in many roles from Chief Architect to Solution Developer to Trainer and is a well-known contributor to the SharePoint community.
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| Marie-Michelle Strah |
| SharePoint Solutions Architect and Practice Lead at BroadPoint Technologies Blog |
Michelle has over 15 years experience in IT, project management, healthcare IT and R&D specializing in Health 2.0 and Government 2.0 solutions as well as enterprise architecture solutions for the commercial and not for profit space. Currently, she is the Practice Lead and SharePoint Architect for BroadPoint Technologies in the Washington, DC area. She is a recognized Healthcare SharePoint SME and has spoken at numerous user groups, SharePoint Saturdays and national conferences on enterprise architecture, Agile project management, and systems integration including SharePoint Best Practices 2011, Microsoft Convergence 2011 and SharePoint Saturday NYC. She is also a founding member of Women in SharePoint and a leader of Women in SharePoint DC user group. Her recent work focuses on SharePoint architecture, migration, and upgrades for complex intranet, business intelligence and supply chain redesign for military and civilian agencies and private sector clients leveraging MS SharePoint, Project Server and Dynamics GP and CRM as well as legacy and domain specific LOB applications. You can find her at her blog and on Twitter.
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| Bonnie Surma |
| Vice President at Richmond SharePoint User Group |
Bonnie Surma serves as vice president of the Richmond SharePoint User Group, after serving two years as president. She combines her creative talents, love of technology and passion for end users/power users in developing out-of-the-box solutions in SharePoint. She enjoys networking with other SharePoint enthusiasts, connecting folks with “the experts” who have answers, and providing resources to the Richmond SharePoint community! She has coordinated two SharePoint Saturdays in Richmond, Virginia, and volunteers to help with as many SharePoint Saturdays and other SharePoint conferences on the east coast that her budget will allow! She currently works as a consultant for TCSC and as the sponsor manager for Nothing But SharePoint (the online resource for SharePoint IT pros, developers, and end users). She’s the wife of a true technology geek and mom to twins! Twitter: @SharePointMom.
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| Paul Swider |
| SharePoint Consultant and Trainer at OCS, LLC |
Paul J. Swider is an international speaker, writer, trainer and freelance consultant. In addition he is president of the Charleston SharePoint Users Group and a contributing author of the new Professional SharePoint 2010 Development book published by Wrox Press. He is an accomplished entrepreneur straight from a barrier Island near Charleston; SC. Where Paul chases the tides and winds as an avid boater and sailor.
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| Dux Raymond Sy |
| Managing Partner at Innovative-e Blog @meetdux MVP |
With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management, Dux has earned a reputation as among the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), he is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, Inc., a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner focused on leading, inspiring and being the catalyst of organizational transformation that enables clients to achieve tangible business result.
As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, he is the author of "SharePoint for Project Management" published by O'Reilly Media. He is focused on empowering organizations on how to leverage the benefits of SharePoint technologies with quantifiable goals such as: Increasing productivity and efficiency, decreasing collaboration redundancies and streamlining electronic communications. He has successfully managed the implementation of various SharePoint-based solutions for commercial, educational and government institutions. |
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| David Tangren |
| BI Service Director at Northridge Systems Blog |
Dave Tangren is the Business Intelligence Service Director at Northridge. In this role Dave works closely with customers and Northridge's team of consultants to deliver business intelligence and collaboration solutions based on the Microsoft platform, and continually expands the breadth of Northridge's Business Intelligence service offerings to find new ways to drive real value for clients. Mr. Tangren has extensive experience in building business intelligence solutions for companies of varying sizes around the United States. Dave's business intelligence background includes work for companies such as Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Refreshments, MBNA, the Army/Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES), and the US Navy, to name a few. Prior to the emergence of the Microsoft Business Intelligence suite, Dave designed and built BI solutions for the Oracle’s Express BI product suite. Dave also spent a stint as an web/application developer in MS .NET and SQL Server for an Atlanta firm, Transport4.
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| Brad Teed |
| CTO and Vice President at GimmalSoft |
| Brad Teed is CTO and Vice President of GimmalSoft, the product division of Gimmal. He is a MCITP SharePoint 2010 architect and a subject matter expert in the area of Enterprise Content and Records Management (ECRM). He has over 20 years of experience in the information technology field. He has designed and implemented over 25 production ECRM systems and participated in the implementation of over 500 pilots/prototypes for strategic technology system implementations. His work includes experience with the architecture and implementation of multiple industry leading electronic document and records management systems including Microsoft SharePoint. Brad has served as strategic consultant, project manager, and senior solution architect, on multiple projects including: leading key project teams worldwide along with coordination, planning, and implementation of Client/Server and N-tiered applications, network operating systems, electronic document management systems, imaging systems, and database management systems. |
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| Jeremy Thake |
| Enterprise Architect at AvePoint MVP |
Jeremy Thake utilizes more than 10 years of software development industry experience and expertise in Microsoft technologies to assist global enterprises in building solutions that will set the standard for the next generation of collaboration platforms. As a SharePoint MVP, Jeremy’s proven expertise has earned him multiple speaking engagements at technical conferences, symposiums, and user groups worldwide. Jeremy is a co-founder of NothingButSharePoint.com, a SharePoint community portal, focusing on the Developer Channel and built the platform on top of SharePoint 2010.
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| Sanjay Thakur |
| Technical Consultant at Project Performance Corporation (PPC – Part of AEA Group) Blog |
Mr. Thakur is an Architect with over 13 years of industry experience in software architecture, design and development. Mr. Thakur has extensive experience architecting, customizing and developing large scale Enterprise SharePoint Portals for numerous prominent customers Government and commercial customers across the globe. Besides designing and implementing numerous enterprise solutions, Mr. Thakur takes pride in having led important SOA based implementations for Commercial as well as Government clients. Mr. Thakur has previously spoken on SOA methodologies at “Brainstorm NewYork”
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| Erica Toelle |
| FPweb.net |
As a volunteer-run event with zero IT staff members, Decibel Festival had outgrown Google Docs and needed to invest in a more robust information management solution. The answer? Hosted SharePoint. This session outlines the setup and information architecture of the Decibal Festival site and illustrates how hosted SharePoint enables organizations to manage complex projects and events.
Speaker: Erica Toelle has been working with SharePoint since 2004, creating business solutions around Enterprise Content Management, Collaboration, and Communities. She has written several Enterprise Content Management whitepapers for Microsoft explaining SharePoint’s features and how to leverage them in a business context, and provided input into the 2010 Content features. Erica understands how to communicate about SharePoint to both a business and technical audience to foster shared understanding among everyone involved with a project.
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| James Tramel |
| Solutions Architect at Planet Technologies |
| SharePoint is a product that I deploy, configure and customize regularly for a variety of clients in different sectors. I know a little bit about a lot of different technologies, which I’ve found useful in this endeavor. I’ve also been diving headfirst into Forefront Universal Access Gateway and Identity Manager lately where it’s relative to SharePoint and Microsoft Cloud Products. I currently hold the MCTS and MCITP certifications in SharePoint 2010 from Microsoft. |
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| Craig Trulove |
| Senior SharePoint Infrastructure Consultant at Northridge Systems Blog |
Craig Trulove is a Senior SharePoint Infrastructure Consultant at Northridge. His role focuses largely on designing and implementing solutions on Microsoft technologies including SharePoint, Office Communications Server, Exchange, and Hyper-V virtualization. He works closely with all members of the Northridge team to ensure that the solutions produced are successfully implemented and adopted. He has been working with SharePoint since 2007 and is a Microsoft Certified Professional who holds certifications as a Technical Specialist and IT Professional in technologies such as SharePoint and virtualization.
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| Sadalit Van Buren |
| Senior Software Engineer at BlueMetal Architects Blog |
Sadie Van Buren is a Senior Software Engineer at BlueMetal Architects, based in Watertown, MA. She designs SharePoint solutions and leads deployments, with a strong focus on strategy, usability, information architecture, and business process improvement. Sadie has a Bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and a Certification in Project Management from Boston University, and is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist. She is a member of the Boston Area SharePoint User Group, the Boston Knowledge Management Forum and the Boston chapter of SIKM (System Integrator Knowledge Managers). She is the creator of the SharePoint Maturity Model, and blogs about SharePoint and technology at http://amatterofdegree.typepad.com/.
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| Geoff Varosky |
| Director, Development and Evangelism at GraceHunt Blog |
Geoff Varosky (MCP, MCTS) is the Director of Development and Evangelism for the SharePoint Solutions Group at GraceHunt, (www.gracehunt.com), a Microsoft Gold Partner focusing on SharePoint and Dynamics Solutions based out of Hudson, MA. He has been architecting and developing web based applications for over 13 years, and has been working with SharePoint for over 6 years. Geoff is an active member of the SharePoint community, Co-Founder and Co-Organizer of the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group (www.bostonsharepointug.org), co-organizer for SharePoint Saturday Boston (www.sharepointsaturday.org/boston) and speaks regularly at SharePoint events and user groups. He also maintains a blog on SharePoint at www.sharepointyankee.com
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| Karthik Venkataraman |
| Senior Consultant at Rishi Solutions Blog |
Karthik Venkataraman is a Senior Consultant with Rishi Solutions, a Microsoft focused Solutions Provider specializing in the development of portals and web applications. With over 9 years of experience building & architecting a variety of enterprise applications, Karthik is proficient in Microsoft technologies and has a passion for developing innovative SharePoint solutions
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| Dean Virag |
| Technical Trainer at ASCD |
Dean Virag is a technical trainer with over 15 years experience. His current role is as technical trainer and Sharepoint evangelist for ASCD, a professional association for educators.
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| Daniel Walker |
| Senior Web Developer at CACI Enterprise Technology Solutions |
Daniel Walker
Senior Web Developer with CACI Enterprise Technology Solutions
10+ years of web development experience including expertise in
SharePoint, html, vbscript, javascript/jquery, and .Net(C#) applications. Currently supporting various government and private sector SharePoint design and development projects as a Senior Web Developer with CACI Enterprise Technology Solutions. www.caci.com |
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| R "Ray" Wang |
| CEO at Constellation Research Blog @rwang0 |
R “Ray” Wang currently is a Principal Analyst and CEO at Constellation Research Group and the author of the popular enterprise software blog “A Software Insider’s Point of View“.
He previously was a founding partner and research analyst for enterprise strategy at Altimeter Group With viewership in the millions of page views a year, his blog provides insight into how disruptive technologies and new business models impact the enterprise.
A background in emerging business and technology trends, enterprise apps strategy, technology selection, and contract negotiations enables Ray to provide clients and readers with the bridge between business leadership and technology adoption. |
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| Joel Ward |
| SharePoint Engineer at Hewlett Packard Blog |
Joel Ward spends most of his time these days doing SharePoint this and SharePoint that. Once destined to be an architect of buildings, he switched tracks and graduated with a degree in Integrative Arts halfway through his college career. His 13 years of professional experience has taken him on a journey through web development, design, programming, usability/accessibility, and most recently architecture and infrastructure.
Joel began working with the original Microsoft Content Management Server back in 2001 which eventually led him to SharePoint. You can find Joel online at http://joelsef.blogspot.com/ |
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| Doug Ware |
| Practice Lead at Elumenotion Blog |
Doug Ware is a SharePoint expert and the author a popular series of SharePoint 2007 and 2010 training videos and courseware for AppDev and LearnDevNow. Doug is the founder of Elumenotion, a SharePoint training and consulting firm located in Atlanta, Georgia and has completed numerous SharePoint implementations cover a wide variety of businesses. Doug is the leader of the Atlanta .NET User Group and is a frequent speaker at SharePoint Saturday, code camps and other events.
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| Daniel Webster |
| SharePoint Enterprise Architect at Summit 7 Systems |
Daniel Webster is a SharePoint Enterprise Architect and has worked with all versions of SharePoint technology. His clients include industries such as international energy, interstate health providers, international law, global professional organizations, international financial institutions, federal agencies and all branches of the US military. As an author, speaker and educator, Daniel has specialized on SharePoint technologies since 2003.Daniel began as a technical trainer teaching Windows 3.1 in 1994 and has been certified as a MCT since 1995. Daniel held his first MCSE in NT 3.51 and continued through Windows 2003 with specialties in Security and Internet. Daniel has presented at conferences such as SharePoint TechCon, SharePoint Connections, SharePoint Best Practices, Enterprise Search, NetWorld InterOp, Comdex, HDI, Support Services, FrontLines, MCTCon, It Infrastructure Management, andCeBIT America.
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| George Weihs |
| CTO and Founder at RatchetSoft, LLC |
| Mr. Weihs is a founder and CTO of RatchetSoft. He oversees corporate technical operations and defines product strategy for all RatchetSoft software products. Prior to RatchetSoft, Mr. Weihs was CTO of Primoridal, where he oversaw the development of the industry’s first web services management platform, WSBANG. Before Primordial, he was a Technology Partner at USWeb where he managed all development operations in the northeastern United States. Mr. Weihs came to USWeb by way of an acquisition of Synergetix Systems Integration, the custom software development firm he co-founded in 1989. |
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| Kat Weixel |
| Intranet Manager at ASHA |
| Kat Weixel is the Intranet Manager at ASHA in Rockville, MD, where she uses SharePoint all day, every day to host the company intranet. She focuses on out-of-the-box solutions, planning, training site owners, and she dabbles in SharePoint Designer when time allows. Kat is also currently leading a community project on NothingButSharePoint.com to help develop a site manager training and assessment program for in-house certification. |
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| Edward Wells |
| Chief Technology Officer at Quasars, Inc. |
Ed Wells has been involved in all phases of SharePoint installations from SharePoint Portal Services through SharePoint 2010. He has designed SharePoint portals for branches of NIH, DoD, DoJ, TSA, and Hughes Systems. Ed has implemented SharePoint for both client use and internal use. He is currently overseeing the development of a SharePoint based intranet for Quasars, Inc.
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| Tricia Wilcox Almas |
| Director at MicroLink |
| Tricia Wilcox Almas is a published Author of Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Analytics & Data Visualization from McGraw-Hill and a Director for MicroLink, LLC. Ms. Almas has thirty years of Information Management experience which gives her unique insights into how our lives are changing because of technology. On a daily basis, Tricia is responsible for implementing software systems that support information collection, analysis and reporting for major military organizations. Her mission is to help people understand how information can improve their planning, decision-making and business execution. She has been actively involved in Knowledge Management and Collaboration solutions using SharePoint since 2000. |
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| Ricardo Wilkins |
| SharePoint Solutions Architect at Information Control Corporation (ICC) Blog |
| Ricardo Wilkins is a SharePoint Solutions Architect for Information Control Corporation (ICC). Ricardo has worked on SharePoint solutions in the public, non-profit, and private sector. He has also been heavily involved in the local SharePoint community, participating as a liaison for Ohio state agency SharePoint users, and giving talks and technical demonstrations at local user groups, non-profit agencies and nationally-broadcast online webinars. He's been a speaker at the Columbus SharePoint Saturday on the topic of document management in SharePoint 2007, and will be speaking at the 2011 National Black Data Processors Association Conference in Chicago on SharePoint as a business game-changer. You can find him online via Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/ricardo303) or via his blog, http://www.sharepointcowbell.com. |
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| Fabian Williams |
| Chief Architect at Adotob, LLC Blog |
FABIAN WILLIAMS is a Technical Lead at CDW Advanced Technology Services Information Worker Practice, where he leads a SharePoint Delivery Team. His work with the SharePoint product line dates back to the 2003 release. Fabian holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Information System “Magna-Cum-Laude” from Strayer University, Washington D.C. and his Masters in Computer Information Technology studies at the Johns Hopkins University Carey School for Business in Columbia, Maryland. He holds the following Microsoft Certifications MCSE, MCSD and MCDBA. You may find him on twitter at the @fabianwilliams handle and his blog is http://www.SharePointFabian.com/blog
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| Linc Williams |
| Director of Strategic Services at i3solutions |
| Linc Williams is the Director of Strategic Services for i3solutions with over a decade of experience in the areas of Business Process Engineering, Infrastructure Design, Business Intelligence and Project Management. Mr. Williams has been responsible for the successful completion of several major solution implementations for clients such as the Alcatel-Lucent, Noblis, U.S. Army, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Education Association (NEA). Mr. Williams is a consummate professional, combining a background of technical development expertise with a keen understanding of project, business and management requirements to ensure clients continually see measurable returns on their investment. Linc is presenting at several conferences this year including the Association of Proposal Management Professional National Conference, Microsoft Government Contractors Summit, SharePoint Saturday: Baltimore, NYC, Virginia Beach, Richmond, Boston and the Northern VA SharePoint Users conference. |
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| Jeff Willinger |
| Director of Social Computing at Rightpoint |
Jeff Willinger is the Director of Social Computing at Rightpoint. Jeff specializes in advising clients on social computing strategies, social intranets and portals and increasing employee engagement. With experience spanning more than two decades, Jeff possesses specific expertise in social computing inside an organization’s four walls and social media outside their four walls. Jeff has the ability to link IT solutions to business value by creating transformational value propositions using social media best practices. He has worked across a variety of industries, including retail, consumer products, manufacturing, and professional services. Jeff works with his team to apply emerging and innovation solutions to enhance internal and external communications. Jeff has helped develop Web sites, intranets and other online communities for some of the world’s most prestigious and respected companies, including Whirlpool, Abbott, Humana, General Mills and New Balance Athletic Shoe. He is a frequent speaker throughout the world specializing in exploiting new business models, highlighting the opportunities of Web2.0 and social media and advising on new technology. A character with character, as he is known, is the President and Founder of the Social Media Club of Chicago.
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| Rob Windsor |
| Developer Evangelist at Allin Consulting Blog MVP |
| Rob Windsor is Senior Developer Evangelist with Allin Consulting based in Boston. He has over seventeen years experience developing rich-client and web applications with Delphi, VB, C# and VB.NET and is currently spending a majority of his time working with SharePoint. Rob is a regular speaker at conferences, code camps, and user groups across North America and Europe. He regularly contributes articles and videos to MSDN, TechNet, and the Pluralsight On-Demand library and is the co-author of Professional Visual Basic 2010 and .NET for Wrox. Rob is the founder and part-president of the Toronto Visual Basic User Group and has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his involvement in the developer community. |
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| Jeff Woltz |
| Principal at Easy Dynamics Corp |
Jeff has been a web developer for many years and has been knee deep in SharePoint since the days when SPS 2003 was an obscure product that only a handful of organizations used. As time went on and SharePoint continued to evolve, Jeff has also grown in understanding and customization of the platform. Recently Jeff has taken the plunge into the architecture realm. In his current role, Jeff is involved with the combination effort of moving from a local SharePoint 2007 farm to a hosted 2010 implementation. As hurdles are overcome and challenges met Jeff is looking to share these lessons learned with those about to take on similar tasks.
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| Stan Wood |
| Senior Solution Manager at OpenText Corporation |
| Stan Wood is a Senior Solution Manager for OpenText Corporation the leading software provider of enterprise content management technology and solutions and has over 15 years of experience working with public and private sector customers to build solutions which utilize both ECM and ERP systems to provide CRM, Field Service, Logistics and Supply Chain, Contract, and Knowledge Management solutions that combine structured with unstructured content. He is currently pursuing an AIIM master certification in Information Organization and Access and is very interested in evolving semantic language and search technologies and how they will impact knowledge retention and access in the future. |
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| Adam Woodruff |
| Principal SharePoint Architect at Quest Software Blog |
| Adam is the Principal SharePoint Architect at Quest Software. His experience includes SharePoint, Directory Services, Messaging and Enterprise Architecture. With more than 15 years of experience creating solutions utilizing Microsoft systems and infrastructure, Adam is an expert resource in Windows, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, and SharePoint platform/integration strategies, architecture and integration projects. A recognized subject matter expert in SharePoint Deployments, Governance, Taxonomy, Architecture and Migrations. Adam has spoken at a multitude of SharePoint Events, written white papers, maintains his own SharePoint blog and is a contributing author to .NET Developer’s Journal. |
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| Paul Yantus |
| Chief Executive Officer at Vizit |
| Paul Yantus is an Enterprise Content Management veteran with over 20 years of industry experience. Prior to founding Vizit Paul was EVP at Captaris. Paul has prior startup experience founding Espire Marketing, a SaaS startup in 2003. Paul also previously held positions of CEO Scan-Optics, SVP MSX International, and began his career at the Eastman Kodak company. Paul holds degrees in Marketing and Computer Science. |
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| Susan Yee |
| CEO at Active Data Exchange |
Susan Yee is the Chief Executive Officer of Active Data Exchange, a technology company that focuses on unified enterprise calendar solutions for SharePoint and digital platforms for education, healthcare, government and enterprises of all sizes throughout North America. With her belief that ‘everything revolves around a date and time’, she has uncovered a market segment of customers that need to extrapolate, aggregate and distribute DATE information from disparate sources to create unified and searchable views of date related events, content and activities.
In 1995, as Chief Operating Officer of Twin County Cable Television, she led a $100 million merger with RCN, a publicly held cable television company. A graduate of Lehigh University, Sue serves as on multiple Boards of Directors, including the Lehigh Valley Health Network Board of Trustees and the International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners, is a past board member of C-SPAN and has been recognized as a one of Pennsylvania’s Top 50 Women in Business.
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| Lyudmila Zharova |
| SharePoint developer at MF Global |
Lyudmila is a Microsoft technology specialist and Microsoft Certified developer with over ten years IT experience,working as a SharePoint Developer for MF Global.She is one of the founders of the NYC SharePoint Developers User Group (http://meetup.com/nycsdug)Lyudmila has been a speaker at SharePoint Saturday and Code Camp in NY, LA, DC Federal, and Philly.
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