Event Speakers

 

Keynote Speakers

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Session Speakers

Agnes Molnar, SharePoint MVP

Agnes Molnar has been working with Microsoft technologies and SharePoint since 2001. After releasing MOSS 2007, she founded L&M Solutions, her own SharePoint consultant company in Hungary, Central Europe. She’s been working as senior consultant and solutions architect, has leaded numerous Central European companies’ SharePoint implementation. Agnes’s main focus is on Architecture, Governance and Office Business Applications (OBAs).
Blog: http://aghy.dotneteers.net
MVP Profile and more details: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Agnes.Molnar

 

Alex Pearce

Alex has been working on educational projects for the last 6 years using Microsoft products to increase learner’s knowledge. Following 5 years of working in public state schools he moved back in the corporate world developing SharePoint solutions for Local Education Authorities. As Learning Platform Solutions Architect at Redstone, Alex gets to build the most advanced learning portals for students, staff, parents and the local community.
Alex was awarded SharePoint MVP in 2008 and runs the Learning Gateway User Group. He is also the co-founder of the Learning Gateway Conference run annually in the summer.

 

Amanda Perran

Amanda Perran is a Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. She is a Senior Solutions Architect and VP of Operations for Infotech (www.infotechsolutions.com), a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner located in Atlantic Canada. Amanda has been an active member within the SharePoint community since 2003 as an author, speaker and user group leader. She is co-author of Beginning SharePoint 2007: Building Team Solutions with MOSS 2007 and maintains a SharePoint focused weblog located at blog.funknstyle.com. She is currently working on a 2010 release of her Beginning SharePoint book which will be available later this year. Her key areas of focus relate to user adoption, governance, solution design and planning. Follow Amanda on Twitter at http://twitter.com/amandaperran.

 

Andrew Connell

Andrew Connell is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training (www.CriticalPathTraining.com), a SharePoint education focused company. Andrew is a five-time recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) & Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. He has contributed to numerous MCMS and SharePoint books over the years. In June 2008 he published the only book on the subject of developing Publishing / Web Content Management (WCM) sites using Office SharePoint Server 2007: Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development by WROX. Andrew has spoken on the subject of SharePoint development and WCM at various events and national conferences such as TechEd North America & EMEA, SharePoint Connections, VSLive, Office Developer Conference and Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Sydney, Australia & Seattle, Washington. You can always find Andrew at his SharePoint development and WCM focused blog at www.andrewconnell.com/blog.

 

Andrew Woodward

Andrew Woodward has been a SharePoint Consultant since Tahoe. Now Principal Consultant at 21apps, a small consultancy with an emphasis on providing community support and expert consultancy around the expanding MOSS 2007 platform. Andrews day job is usually as Technical Architect for large SharePoint deployments and migrations; having architected some of the largest deployments in the UK, if not globally. Andrew is currently working in the Education arena and has a specific interest in the community initiatives Microsoft Learning Gateway, SharePoint Learning Kit and the Community Kit for SharePoint. 
Andrew has a development background and is passionate about agile approaches to development;  he has taken on the challenge of providing developer courses for Combined Knowledge to help other people get the most from their SharePoint development and to help people through the challenges this can bring.

 

Ari Bakker

Ari is a SharePoint Technical Lead for Microsoft Gold Partner cScape and has been involved in SharePoint projects since the early beta releases of SharePoint 2007. Ari has spoken at SharePoint user groups in New Zealand, Australia and presented at the APAC SharePoint conference in 2007. He is a big supporter of the SharePoint community and as well as running a SharePoint focused blog he has contributed to the CKS:EBE (Community Kit for SharePoint: extended blog edition) and has written articles that have appeared in several places including on the SharePoint Team Blog.

Ari blogs at www.sharepointconfig.com

 

Ben Curry

Ben Curry (CISSP, MCP, CNE, CCNA) is highly respected as an enterprise network architect specializing in knowledge management and collaboration technologies. As a senior instructor for Mindsharp, Ben shares his knowledge in training courses that cover the next generation of Microsoft products. In his capacity as a Mindsharp consultant, Ben draws on his years of experience to develop powerful customized solutions based on the SharePoint platform for our clients.
In recognition of his expertise with SharePoint Server Products and Technologies, Microsoft awarded Ben the prestigious title of Most Valuable Professional (MVP).
Ben is the author or co-author of two books SharePoint products and technologies. He contributes articles to key Web sites such as TechNet and enjoys speaking at user groups and private engagements.
Ben has over fifteen years of experience designing, managing, implementing and securing datacenter IT solutions. He has worked primarily with the federal government including U.S. Army, Veteran's Administration, and most recently, NASA.
Ben lives in Huntsville, Alabama with his wife and two children.

 

Ben Robb, SharePoint MVP

Ben has been using Microsoft web technologies for over 10 years, and has been a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server for the past 2 years. He is currently lead technical consultant for Microsoft Gold Partner cScape, where he has implemented many SharePoint 2007 builds, including the first public facing website using MOSS in the world - HedKandi.com. In the last year he has spoken at Tech-Ed Europe, MIX 08 and the Microsoft SharePoint Conference.

 

Bert Jan van der Steeg

Bert Jan van der Steeg is co-owner of IT-Support BV and founder of SharePointTraining.nl. He started working with SharePoint Portal Server 2003 about 5 years ago, at which time he also engaged in a significant amount of Exchange projects. He switched his focus primarily on SharePoint, just before Microsoft released Office SharePoint Server 2007.
His work as a SharePoint consultant consists of assisting organizations in designing and planning their implementations, working with the design teams and bridging the gap between the IT-department and the business side of the company.
Bert Jan is a Mindsharp Associated Trainer and delivers Mindsharp’s courseware in The Netherlands through SharePointTraining.nl.

 

Bill English

Bill English (MCSE, MCSA, MVP, MCT) is an industry leader, author, and educator specializing in the exciting SharePoint Products and Technologies product set from Microsoft. In this role as Mindsharp’s CEO, Bill focuses on emerging technical changes in SharePoint to ensure Mindsharp continues to provide cutting-edge training and business solutions. Bill draws on his expertise in knowledge management and collaboration technologies to teach and consult worldwide about powerful customized solutions based on the SharePoint platform.
Microsoft has acknowledged Bill’s professional contributions to the SharePoint Portal Server platform by awarding him the prestigious title of Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for six consecutive years.
Since 2000, Bill has authored 12 books on Exchange and SharePoint products and is currently working on another book with Microsoft Press. Bill has presented at key conferences including Comdex, Microsoft Exchange Conference, TechMentor, TechEd, Advisor Live, TechEd Europe, and Networld Interop. You can find Bill’s blog at his AdminCompanion book site.
Bill lives in Maple Grove, Minnesota with his wife and two children.

 

Bob Fox

Bob Fox has been working as an IT Professional since the mid 90’s. During that time he has spent a great deal of time working as a Systems Administrator with a focus on various Microsoft Technologies. For the past 7 years Bob's primary focus has been Microsoft SharePoint Services. He specializes in Architecture, Deployment, Portal and Site Customization, Administration and Collaboration Solutions. Bob has worked for such companies as Merrill Lynch, BISYS Retirement Services and Educational Testing Services, Time Warner Cable, The National Football League, MetLife, Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson to name a few. Bob is a member of CDW and is a founding member of the ISPA (International SharePoint Professionals Association)

 

Bradley T. Smith, CEO, Black Blade Associates, Inc.

Bradley Thomas Smith is a business owner and entrepreneur living and working in Northern Virginia. He became involved in software development and consulting using Microsoft technologies after serving a tour in the United States Marine Corps. In 2005, Bradley founded Black Blade Associates, Inc. to provide high quality solutions to customers in the public and private sectors. Since that time, Black Blade has established partnerships with several key systems integrators, consultant firms, and vendors in the Washington DC/Metro area and the Microsoft market segments. Personally, Bradley’s work with MS Office server product teams led him to be provided a seat on the Office Developer Advisory Council in 2004, allowing him to contribute towards upcoming Office Server products and subsequently, the Office 12 Technology Adoption Program. Bradley was awarded the Microsoft "Most Valued Professional" award four years in a row for his continuing contributions in the general community for the next versions of SharePoint Products and Technologies and continuing dedication to work with and grow the defense and commercial markets for Microsoft business software.

 

Brett Lonsdale

Brett Lonsdale (MCSD, MCAD, MCT) is a Microsoft SharePoint Developer & Instructor. Brett has been providing Technical Training on Microsoft Products since 1997 and has a wealth of experience in a wide range of Microsoft Products including SharePoint, Visual Studio, SQL, and Windows. In 2003 Brett formed Combined Knowledge in the UK to provide SharePoint Technical Training with two partners Steve Smith (MVP) and Craig Carpenter. We formed a strong relationship in 2004 with Mindsharp and worked closely with Bill English and Todd Bleeker to provide excellent training materials so that we could provide second to none SharePoint classroom training. Brett also helped Bill English with the SharePoint 2007 Administrators Companion which was launched early 2007, and Todd Bleekers ‘Developers Guide to Windows SharePoint Services’.
In May 2007, Brett made the decision to spend more time on SharePoint development and has formed a company called Lightning Tools Ltd with Nick Swan (MVP). Lightning tools is the official provider of the tool ‘BDC Metaman’ and Brett & Nick are also spending every spare hour writing new tools to help the SharePoint community. Brett will be spending the majority of his time developing from home in the Sarasota area of Florida as of November 2007, although will still continue to provide classroom training for Combined Knowledge in the UK and for Mindsharp in the US.
Prior to living in Florida, Brett’s home town is Welford, Northamptonshire, UK with his Wife ‘Vicki’, daughter ‘Rio’, and dog ‘Dude’.

 

Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson is a senior consultant in the collaboration team in Microsoft Consulting Services UK with over 10 years IT experience. Brian has a background in software development for the .net platform, and in architecting intranet and extranet solutions using the SharePoint platform. He is involved in a variety of leading-edge SharePoint projects for clients in the UK across all industries and all areas of SharePoint. Most recently, he completed a project on a publishing, collaboration and search portal for a global insurance company. It uses all the ECM features (variations, multi time zone, extreme personalization, multi language implementation) of SharePoint 2007 and is hosted by Microsoft SharePoint Online. Before joining Microsoft he worked in both the large enterprise and in the Microsoft gold partner space where he was involved in all stages of the technical implementation’s life cycle, including technical pre-sales, architecture, system design, consulting and development to deliver innovative solutions on time and within budget.
Brian lives in the quiet corner of the busy city of London in between Richmond Park and the Thames River. He enjoys skiing, scuba diving, cycling, travelling and is an avid rugby union fan. He shares his life with his wife and new born child. To see him online, go to the new UK SharePoint Team Blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint , his personal blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/brianwilson or alternatively, feel free to contact him direct on brian.wilson@microsoft.com or follow him on twitter “brianwilson1”.

 

Cathy Dew

Cathy Dew (MCTS) is a SharePoint Consultant and Graphic Designer for CTS, Inc. in Birmingham, Alabama. CTS is a privately held Information Technology Professional Services organization that exists to help clients leverage technology to solve business problems. Today, CTS is one of the South’s leading regional IT services firms with offices in Mobile and Birmingham, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia.
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.
Blog: www.sharepointcat.com

 

Chandima Kulathilake

Chandima aka “Chan” is an Enterprise Solutions Consultant based in New Zealand. He is a Microsoft Certified SharePoint expert who has been working with SharePoint technologies since 2001. He provides solution architecture consulting for SharePoint deployments covering planning information architecture and governance. He is the co-owner of Knowledge Cue Ltd ( http://www.knowledgecue.com ) a company based in New Zealand specialising in SharePoint. He has presented at International and local conferences on deployment and governance best practices for SharePoint. He has been awarded with Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award since 2007 for his contributions to the worldwide SharePoint community. He also coordinates the New Zealand Community SharePoint User Group events.

Chan Blogs at: www.chandima.net/Blog/

 

Chris O’Brien

Chris O’Brien (MCSD.Net, MCTS, MVP) is an independent SharePoint consultant with over 9 years experience working with complex projects on Microsoft technologies. Chris is still very much a hands-on developer, and has led several large-scale web initiatives including e-commerce, WCM, intranet, back-end integration and workflow projects. Past clients include BP, Microsoft, London's Metropolitan Police Service, the Ministry of Defence (UK), Northern Ireland government and Standard Chartered Bank. With a background in ASP.Net/Content Management Server/Commerce Server, Chris’s current main area of focus is building public websites on MOSS and he continues to learn with every project.
In addition to his day job, Chris runs a highly-regarded blog focused on the development aspects of SharePoint at www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com, and has created several popular community tools such as the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard. Chris is also a regular speaker at the UK SharePoint user group, and is based in London, England.

 

Chris Whitehead

Chris Whitehead is a Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft in the UK. In his role he works with Premier support customers in both a proactive and reactive capacity to ensure the health of their SharePoint environments. Chris has previously spoken at TechEd EMEA and the SharePoint Best Practices Conference on all things relating to backup, recovery and availability of SharePoint. More recently Chris has taken responsibility for managing and delivering the internal SharePoint 2010 training to the rest of his team in EMEA, and is now working on Microsoft’s Risk Assessment Program for SharePoint 2010. His team blog can be found at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/fromthefield.
Before his time at Microsoft, Chris worked with schools and universities supporting their IT systems including SharePoint and bespoke ASP.NET applications. During his free time Chris enjoys spending time with his family and friends, and when he gets a chance he likes to get out and about on his mountain bike or snowboard.

 

Claudio Brotto

Claudio is a SharePoint developer based in Bologna (Italy). His main areas of expertise range from low-level platform development (C/C++/COM) to application analysis and design, using the Microsoft .NET Framework since the early days of beta 1. During the last years, his focus has moved from raw application development to higher level solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies.
Nowadays he's involved in consulting and training services on SharePoint projects that his company, Green Team, is delivering to local and worldwide customers. He's a regular speaker in SharePoint events and conferences. In 2009 Microsoft recognized him the MVP award for SharePoint Services

 

Daniel McPherson

Daniel “Point2Share” McPherson has been involved in SharePoint since attending the first public announcement of project “Tahoe” at the Microsoft Technical Briefing in January 1999. It has had a profound impact on his career, taking him to the doorstep of hundreds of companies, of all shapes and sizes, in a range of industries and in over 25 different countries. He’s worked on projects that create solutions, evaluate possibilities, deploy to tens of thousands of users and fix problems when the sirens are sounding. After 10 years at Microsoft, spent mostly in Microsoft Consulting Services, he co-founded zevenseas (www.zevenseas.com), a boutique consultancy focused solely on the SharePoint platform, and is having more fun than ever before.

 

Daniel Wessel

Daniel Wessels is co-founder and managing director of MicroVation GmbH, a German-based company specialising in planning, building and customising SharePoint environments. As a senior consultant and developer for SharePoint technologies he is responsible for the consulting services group within MicroVation. He started to work with SharePoint Technologies beginning with version 2001 Beta 2. Since then Microsoft have awarded him the MVP designation for his contributions to newsgroups, forums and within the Microsoft Student Program. Daniel is co-organiser of the SharePoint User Group in Munich.

 

Dave Paylor

Dave has over 20 years experience of roles working in or with the public sector, most recently as an expert in Performance Management.
Following 8 years in the Royal Air Force flying on maritime Nimrods I moved into the world of IM&T, initially in the civil service and then in the private sector. I have held a variety technical and more commercial roles and I have spent the past 9 years working with informatics and Performance Management with NHS and other public sector organisations.
My breadth of experience makes SharePoint an ideal solution for me to work with as it touches so many parts of an organisation in so many ways. My enthusiasm rubs off on users who are too often wary of yet another new piece of software and I can quickly help them think of ways to enhance and develop their SharePoint implementation with the presentation of information, processes and workflows. In my opinion it is impossible to deliver a successful SharePoint solution – because if it is truly successful then it will constantly evolve.

 

Darvish Shadravan, Microsoft

Darvish ("D") Shadravan is a Senior Technology Specialist employed by Microsoft where he focuses on SharePoint, InfoPath, and related technologies. He has been with Microsoft for 12 years in various technical roles working directly with enterprise customers. Darvish holds MCTS-SharePoint, MCSE, and CISSP certifications.

 

Dux Raymond Sy, PMP

Managing Partner
Innovative-e, Inc.

With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management, Dux (you're right, it's pronounced as "ducks") 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, business technology consulting and services company that serves startups to Global 50 clients.
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.
A sought after speaker, Dux has presented in various SharePoint and Project Management Institute (PMI) events. Additionally, he facilitates a “Delivering SharePoint Success” mentoring workshop where he shares proven best practices in managing SharePoint projects.
He regularly blogs on topics related to project management, SharePoint and globalization at MeetDux.com.
dux.sy@innovative-e.com
www.linkedin.com/in/meetdux

 

Eric Shupps

Eric Shupps is the founder and President of BinaryWave, a SharePoint consultancy and ISV headquartered in Irving, Texas, and Director of BinaryWave Limited, based in Bristol, England. Eric has worked with SharePoint Products and Technologies since 2001 as a consultant, administrator, architect, developer and trainer. He is an advisory committee member of the Dallas/Ft. Worth SharePoint Community group, participating member of the UK SharePoint User Group and Regional Evangelist for the International SharePoint Professionals Association (South Central United States). Eric has authored numerous articles on SharePoint, speaks at user group meeting and conferences around the world.
Blog: http://www.sharepointcowboy.com

 

Eugene Rosenfeld

Eugene Rosenfeld is the CTO of Black Blade Associates, and Microsoft MVP awardee. He started his IT career as a database programmer and soon moved into enterprise application integration (EAI) and portal systems. Eugene holds a strong belief that all systems should have the innate ability to intelligently communicate with one another. Most recently he has been heavily involved with distributed systems architecture, Services Oriented Architected (SOA), peer-to-peer systems, and cloud computing.
Eugene spends his time developing innovative SharePoint products and utilities, like the docBlock Ascend, which brings virtual documents to the SharePoint platform and incorporates Eugene’s interests in distributed systems, SOA, peer-to-peer systems. Eugene also maintains his blog, "Things that Should be Easy" (http://thingsthatshouldbeeasy.blogspot.com). Check it out for tips that may make your current project a little easier.

 

 

Ian Woodgate

Ian’s background is in financial services and IT consultancy, and he has worked with SharePoint since its first release in 2001 as a developer and subsequently as a solution architect. Ian set up his own consultancy company in 2004 and now employs a team of people at Microsoft Gold Partner PointBeyond Limited (www.pointbeyond.com). As well as helping a broad range of organisations to implement or customise SharePoint, the company produces several add-on SharePoint products including Straightforward Timesheets and Straightforward Expenses. Ian organises meetings of the SharePoint UK User group in the South of England “in his spare time”, and when he isn’t sailing or windsurfing. He blogs regularly at blog.pointbeyond.com.

 

Jan Tielens

Jan is .NET Architect and Trainer at U2U (http://www.u2u.be). He focuses on Information Worker technologies including SharePoint and Office. Jan is Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Office SharePoint Server and he is well known in the SharePoint community as the author of the SmartPart and the SmartTools for SharePoint. You can read his weblog at http://weblogs.asp.net/jan and follow him via twitter at http://twitter.com/jantielens.

 

Joel Oleson

In the year 2000, Joel Oleson, a Sr. Web Engineer was brought in to Microsoft IT design the first Microsoft global deployment of SharePoint. Later he would design the extranet, and hosted SharePoint deployments at Microsoft. Not less than a year later he was sharing these experiences at internal MGB, TechReady, and later to customers at Microsoft Tech Ed and IT Forum conferences globally. On the SharePoint team as Sr. Technical Product Manager for IT Professionals, leading up to and at the release of SharePoint Server 2007, he helped various customers to get the critical governance information, upgrade, achieve scale, and get the essential best practices that they needed. After managing the critical SP1 and Windows Server 2008 launches, Joel started an external SharePoint blog where he would share his decks, best practices, lessons, and joined the field to share his experiences. As trainer, blogger, evangelist, sr. consultant and architect, he continues to gain valuable experience and share it with the SharePoint community on his blog, at major technical conferences, and local SharePoint user groups around the globe. Check out his blog at: http://www.sharepointjoel.com/default.aspx

 

John Holliday

John Holliday is an independent consultant and Microsoft MVP for Office SharePoint Server and has over 25 years of professional software development and consulting experience. John has been involved in a broad spectrum of commercial software development projects ranging from retail products to enterprise information systems for the Fortune 100.
After receiving his bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Harvard College and a J.D. from the University of Michigan, John developed a specialized computing language for constructing legal expert systems. His expertise includes all aspects of distributed systems development, with a special emphasis on document automation, collaboration and enterprise content management.
In addition to his professional career, John is actively engaged in humanitarian activities through Works of Wonder International, a non-profit he co-founded with his wife Alice, and the Art of Living Foundation, an international service organization devoted to uplifting human values throughout the world.

 

Laura Rogers

Laura is a Senior SharePoint Consultant at SharePoint911. She has more than five years’ experience in SharePoint architecture, administration, training and customization. Her background is in messaging server administration, and she has been a MCSE since 1999. Laura focuses on maximizing SharePoint’s out-of-box capabilities, and can be found doing screencasts on endusersharepoint.com, for her data view web part series. She is an enthusiastic blogger and tweeter, and an active member of the SharePoint community.

 

Mark Macrae

Mark Macrae (MCTS, MCAD) has been working with SharePoint Technologies since 2003 and is now Director and Senior Consultant at Intelligent Decisioning Ltd (www.id-live.com) a SharePoint focussed solutions provider based in Nottingham, UK. Mark has worked on numerous SharePoint projects with a wide range of industries, in both the private and public sectors, covering both development and deployment. Recently, he has been heavily involved in delivering Business Intelligence solutions for the SharePoint platform using the Microsoft BI Stack, including SQL Reporting Services and PerformancePoint. Mark has also been an active member in the SharePoint Community in the UK since early 2009, attending and speaking at SharePoint User Group UK (SUGUK) events and organising SUGUK events in the Midlands region.
Outside work Mark is also a football coach, avid West Ham Utd fan, and keen practitioner of self defence systems including Krav Maga and FAST Defence. He lives in Nottingham with his wife and two young children.

 

Mark Miller

Mark Miller is Founder and Editor of EndUserSharePoint.com. He is a dedicated evangelist for the Information Workers, Site Managers and Site Collection Administrators of SharePoint. Mark is a frequent speaker at SharePoint Saturday events, national conferences and online webcasts. During SharePoint Conference 2009, he coordinated 30 live bloggers, sending out real time feed streams of audio, video and twitter from the exhibit floor and the conference sessions to over 3000 online followers.
EndUserSharePoint.com is a community of SharePoint authors dedicated to providing support and encouragement for the SharePoint End User. The site receives 650,000 unique page views a month, has a Weekly Newsletter subscription base of 9100 readers and handles hundreds of questions weekly through the Stump the Panel: SharePoint Q&A Forum. EUSP provides twice weekly Live Online Workshops for all three levels of SharePoint End User.

 

Matthew Hughes

Matthew Hughes has been working in schools and colleges for the last 7 years and now works for a new Academy in Leicester. He has been working with Sharepoint for just 18 months 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. No educational establishment chases technology as hard as his and he has been part of a team who have deployed Windows 7, Exchange 2010 and as soon as it hits RTM he will deploy SharePoint 2010.
Blog: http://www.weknownothing.co.uk

 

Matt Groves

Matt Groves is a Strategic Consultant with a Microsoft Gold Partner in the UK, specialising in helping clients maximise benefit from effective use of technology, thought leadership and solution architecture. Matt has worked in IT for over 10 years and has been involved in SharePoint since the Tahoe days.
Matt is passionate about ‘Web 2.0’ and using social media in the enterprise. The Microsoft stack is of primary interest and Matt is focussed on the IW platforms (SharePoint, OCS, Office, Exchange etc).
Matt’s experience is a unique blend of infrastructure and applications, but he has always had a focus on web enabled technology dating right back to his time at Freeserve in the late 90’s. Matt remains keen on evaluating the latest technologies and was involved in the Windows 7 beta programme, and is currently evaluating SharePoint/Office 2010 (in beta).
In his personal life Matt enjoys spending time with his family (he has 2 young children) and has a wide range of hobbies that he no longer has much time for including Fishing, Golf and Photography.
Matt blogs about SharePoint, technology and his other interests and passions at http://www.mattgrovesblog.com

 

Maurice Prather

Maurice Prather is an enterprise architect who helps companies build and implement innovative solutions built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Maurice serves as the Lead Architect for ShareSquared, Inc. Maurice is a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Services. He has been working with SharePoint for eight years and he has worked on the SharePoint product team for nearly 5 years. Maurice is an active participant in the blogosphere, conferences, SharePoint gatherings, and user groups. You can find more information at his company site or his blog located at http://www.bluedoglimited.com/SharePointThoughts

 

Michael Noel

Michael Noel is an internationally recognized technology expert, bestselling author, and well known public speaker on a broad range of IT topics. He has authored over 15 major industry books that have been translated into over a dozen languages worldwide. Significant titles include SharePoint 2010 Unleashed, Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed, Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed, ISA Server 2006 Unleashed, and many more. Currently a partner at Convergent Computing (www.cco.com) in the San Francisco Bay Area, Michael's writings and extensive public speaking experience across six continents leverage his real-world expertise helping organizations realize business value from Information Technology infrastructure.

 

Mike Fitzmaurice

Mike Fitzmaurice is the Vice President of Product Technology for Nintex, a global company committed to delivering out-of-box productivity solutions built for and with SharePoint Technology, and is responsible for product direction, evangelism, technical marketing, and technical business strategy. Until May 2008, he had spent more than 10 years at Microsoft, the majority of that time working on Windows® SharePoint® Services and Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server in roles including developer evangelism, competitive strategy, enterprise consulting, user education, product marketing, and technical event planning. Before joining Microsoft, Fitzmaurice served as Director of Research and Development at Advanced Paradigms Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based Microsoft Solution Provider Partner, as well as a five-year tenure as IT Director of the National Association of Broadcasters.

 

Mike Watson

Mike Watson (MOF, MCSE, MCSA, A+, i-Net+, Net+, CIW) is an enterprise SharePoint architect, entrepreneur, and instructor with a respected career within the IT industry and beyond. Mike is first and foremost a problem solver with experience in accounting, combat arms, farming, fast food, finance, and information technology and draws on this wide experience to bring much needed perspective to SharePoint. Mike believes strongly in empowering people and their organizations to achieve their goals and is constantly searching for innovative solutions to common problems.
Mike’s #1 challenge at the moment is helping people keep SharePoint healthy and strong and is working with Quest Software as Senior Product Manager on a unique new solution. Mike is also tackling this problem through training, through guidance on his blog, and is currently co-authoring a SharePoint 2010 book with O’Reilly Media. He also speaks at user groups, regional SharePoint events, and conferences trying to instill SharePoint confidence in as many people as possible.
When Mike isn’t working you can find him at the gym, fishing hole, trail, slopes, and more often than not, at the pub. Aspirations include riding around the world on his motorbike, fronting a mildly successful rock band, selling a software company for $$$, and leaping tall buildings in a single bound.

 

Mirjam van Olst

Mirjam van Olst is a SharePoint Architect in the Information Worker Solutions department of Macaw in the Netherlands. In this role she has been helping companies to implement SharePoint solutions since 2004. Mirjam is a Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2007. A strong community advocate, Mirjam is a co organizer of the Dutch Information Worker User Group (DIWUG) and a track owner of the Information Worker track of the Software Development Network (SDN).
In 2010 Mirjam will be presenting on several SharePoint 2010 subjects at the SharePoint Connections Conference in Amsterdam and at the SharePoint Evolutions Conference in London.
Mirjam can be found blogging at www.sharepointchick.com.

 

Muhanad Omar

Muhanad Omar is a consultant, trainer, speaker and community advocate who helps organizations in the Middle East successfully develop, deploy and derive value from solutions built on SharePoint Products and Technologies. Muhanad works for Devosis Incorporated and specializes in architecture, deployment, administration and business adaption of SharePoint.

Muhanad is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for SharePoint Server, the Founder and Leader of the Jordan SharePoint User Group, and Regional Evangelist of the International SharePoint Professionals Association (ISPA).

 

Neil Hodgkinson

Neil Hodgkinson (PhD, MCM : Office SharePoint Server 2007) is a Senior Premier Field Engineer and EMEA Office Servers Technical Lead for Microsoft. Starting his IT career as a SQL and ASP developer Neil transitioned to SharePoint Technologies back in 2000 when it was still known as Tahoe Server and since then has seen his fair share of real good, bad and ugly SharePoint deployments around the EMEA region. Primarily his role as a Field Engineer involves improving support ‘best’ practices and enabling support teams to manage and maintain their SharePoint environments in the most efficient and supported manner but he most enjoys the more cutting edge side of his job troubleshooting failed and broken deployments. Recently Neil became involved in the SharePoint 2010 Ignite program and is an instructor for Operational Health, and Enterprise Search on the Ignite World Tour. He has spoken as an ITPRO at several internal, external and partner conferences for Microsoft and also presented at Office Developer Conference on Search customisations. He is also a founder contributor to the Microsoft Field Engineering blog at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/fromthefield.
Neil hails from Manchester and outside of work is a fan of 70s rock music and UK metal bands but most of all enjoys spending time at home with his wife watching their three young children having fun and living life.

 

Nick Swan

Nick, a MVP for Office SharePoint Server, has been developing on top of the Microsoft technology stack since 2000. After creating one to many ASP.NET web sites and Winform applications Nick decide to look into another area and since 2005 has been concentrating on SharePoint.
Nick spends the majority of his time developing SharePoint tools under the umbrella of Lightning Tools. They specialize in BDC development tools and web parts. Having a background of consulting and commerical product development certainly allows real world experience to be bought into the classroom when Nick is delivering the SharePoint Development track. Nick also co-organises the SharePoint User Group (www.suguk.org) which has 2,600 active members with monthly meetings organised with presentations, and has been known to write the odd blog post at www.sharepointnick.com/blog.Nick lives in Reading with his fiance Sophie and cats Fluffy and Carragher.

 

Paul Culmsee

Paul Culmsee is an IT professional with 20 years experience across a wide variety of IT disciplines. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MOSS 2007), and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He has also held the Cisco Certified Network Professional certification and is one of only three Cognexus Certified Dialogue Mappers in the world.
Paul has works a sensemaker, business adviser and trainer via his company Seven Sigma Business Solutions. He has also worked as an infrastructure manager, QA/product and project manager on a wide variety of IT projects, as well as designing and developing the EZ-Rent property investment tax and cash flow analyser (www.ez-rent.com). He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science Degree from Edith Cowan University. His popular SharePoint blog CleverWorkarounds attracts more than 1.3 million hits per month and specializes in planning, governance, ROI and project management.

 

Paul Schaeflein

Paul Schaeflein (MVP, MCTS) is an application developer with experience in all versions of the SharePoint platform. Paul has managed and worked on development teams building applications on SharePoint. As an instructor, Paul brings this real-world experience to the classroom.
Paul is an active writer, providing contributions to books, online periodicals, numerous CodePlex projects and his weblog. Paul has presented at many user groups and code camps, as well as the SharePoint Best Practices conference. Currently, Paul is on the advisory committee for Microsoft’s patterns & practices group, working on SharePoint Guidance.
Paul has more than two decades experience in architecting, designing and developing software solutions. This experience covers a vast range of technologies, languages and industries. Having developed many line-of-business applications, Paul has a firm grasp on the challenges that corporate developers face when integrating them into a corporate portal.
Paul lives outside of Chicago, IL with his wife and three children. Paul spends his summers over the charcoal grill and his winters at Blackhawks games.

 

Paul Stork

 

Paul Turner

Paul has over 15 years’ experience in the consultancy world with the last 10 being SharePoint focused. He was involved in the Tahoe JDP, working through all versions of SharePoint and has worked on the early implementations of the new technologies including installing the first production Exchange 2000 (1999) and MOSS 2007 (Aug 2006) servers in Europe. Paul is also the Worldwide Services Competency leader for SharePoint in HP Software and this role includes knowledge transfer to consultants in HP and customers as well as working with a major customer on their 2010 migration and governance plans. He is currently the working on the SharePoint 2010 TAP for developing HP Trim software as well as the internal implementation of SharePoint and Records management for 300,000 users.

His main expertise is as a Solution Architect in Information Management (IM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and compliance solutions based on the Microsoft SharePoint Technologies. He also specialises in the Web Content Management area with external facing portals such as http://www.business.govt.nz/default.aspx and partner based portals for well-known companies. His latest project is with a European Car manufacturer, who are transferring their Notes applications into SharePoint. The SharePoint delivery will be cloud based and Paul is the lead architect for this work. Other recent projects have included the role of solution architect for to Dutch, Canadian, Irish, Finnish and UK Government departments for their eCollaboration requirements including compliance regulations.

When not travelling the world (testing economy class seats) Pauls main distractions are sailing and power boating as well as watching Rugby Union after retiring from the game from the last set of injuries (4 broken ribs)

 

Penny Coventry, SharePoint MVP

Penelope Coventry is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and an independent consultant based in the U.K., with more than 25 years of industry experience. She focuses on the design, implementation, and development of SharePoint Technology–based solutions. She has worked with SharePoint since 2001 and, in recent years, has lead a team for the ATLAS Consortium on the Defence Information Infrastructure project, provided consultancy services to U.K. Microsoft Gold partners, and trained consultants, administrators, and end-users on Microsoft and Hewlett Packard projects. She has produced SharePoint related courseware for Mindsharp since 2002 and teamed up with Steve Smith of Combined Knowledge to produce several SharePoint related whitepapers. Penny has co-authored a number of books, including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion, Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit, the two editions of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Step by Step and the Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step book. Penny has spoken at a number of conferences, at the UK’s SharePoint User Group meetings and is frequently seen at TechEd and IT Forum, either as a Technical Learning guide or at the Ask-the-Experts stands.

 

Pete Mellish

Pete Mellish has been an IT working for 10 years and has been working with SharePoint for 5 years. Pete works as a consultant for Microsoft Consultancy Services UK where he works with some of the world’s leading companies helping them deliver their SharePoint solutions. Prior to working with Microsoft Pete worked with RM Plc. where he worked on some of their large service orientated SharePoint deployments. Pete works as both a SharePoint developer and an infrastructure consultant working with nearly all elements of the product; but has been focused on the delivery of records solutions for 12 months. When he’s not working with SharePoint he’ll either be enjoying time with his new family, and when they have had enough of him Wakeboarding or Snowboarding.

 

Raphael Iloh

Raphael Iloh is the director of Professional Services at Bronyx Consulting, a UK-based IT and business consulting firm. With a core background in programming using object-oriented languages like C++ and Java, Raphael has been working with .NET technologies since its inception and has been working with SharePoint since 2001. A previous employee of Microsoft, Raphael has worked with companies Accenture, Avanade, Shell, Barclays Plc and Barclays Capital.
Raphael’s primary focus is helping businesses and organisations achieve measurable business objectives from the use of technology.
Raphael maintains a technical blog at www.dotnetprodigy.com

 

Richard Willis

Richard Willis has been working with Microsoft Learning Gateway since SharePoint 2003 and Class Server. He is now Managing Director at SalamanderSoft a small software house specialising in integrating school MIS systems (Sims, Facility CMIS etc) with Microsoft Learning Gateway. He is responsible for developing all SalamanderSoft's products which include a provisioning tool for SharePoint Learning Kit, a web part to expose your home directory and a set of on-line reporting web parts for Sims.net and Facility CMIS.
In his spare time he is also the project co-ordinator for the open source projects SharePoint Learning Kit and the CodePlex Microsoft Learning Gateway.
Richard's Blog (http://blog.salamandersoft.co.uk)

 

Rick Taylor

Rick is a SharePoint architect and has assisted numerous, large companies in their implementations including the US Air Force, Charles Schwab, and Nestle. He is a published author, co-author, and contributing author including the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion by MS Press. His influence within the MCT and SharePoint communities facilitated his being selected to present at the first MCT Community Summit held in Zurich, Switzerland and prompted Microsoft Learning to make changes to the Beta courseware that it might be ready for prime time.
Rick currently resides in the Phoenix, AZ area where he is an avid triathlete (Clydesdale class), and active in the Boy Scouts of America.

 

Rob Foster

Rob Foster is an enterprise architect and MOSS MVP in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a BBA in Computer Information Systems and holds several certifications, including MCSD, MCSE, MCDBA, and MCT. In 2000 with the PDC bits in hand, Rob founded the Nashville .NET Users Group (www.nashdotnet.org), which is a charter member of INETA. Rob is a user group leader for the Nashville SharePoint Users Group (www.nashsug.org) and is the regional ISPA evangelist for the US Heartland District. He has been writing and designing .NET applications since version 1.0, as well as implementing SharePoint solutions since SharePoint 2001. In his spare time, Rob enjoys writing books and articles related to .NET and SharePoint. His latest books are "ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Unleashed" and "SharePoint 2007 Development Unleashed", which is a best-selling SharePoint development book. Rob lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA with his wife Leigh and two sons, Andrew and Will.

 

Russ Houberg

Russ Houberg is a SharePoint Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and has been a Senior Architect at KnowledgeLake for over 5 years. Russ is responsible for designing the taxonomy and topology architecture for KnowledgeLake’s document imaging customers that require enterprise class scalability. Russ has spent the last several years focused on pushing the boundaries of SharePoint scalability and is the author of the SharePoint Storage Architecture Whitepaper and the co-author of the Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to implement a large-scale content storage scenario with rapid search availability TechNet whitepaper.

 

Rolly Perreaux, ,PMP, MCSE, MCT

Rolly Perreaux is a Senior EPM Consultant/Trainer for PMO Logistics Inc., a company that specializes in Enterprise Project Management consulting services and training.
Rolly has over 24 years business experience in Network Information Systems, Finance & Administration at the Executive and Managerial level. He has a Business Administration diploma and holds various designations from the Project Management Institute (PMI), Microsoft, Compaq, IBM, CheckPoint and CompTIA.
Rolly has worked on many projects throughout his career. However, its Rolly’s hands-on technical knowledge combined with his extensive business experience that encourages companies to actively seek his services. Rolly is renowned for providing innovative solutions to challenging problems and delivering tangible results on his consulting/training engagements.
His detailed dossier can be viewed at: http://www.pmologistics.com/bio/rollyperreaux.htm and frequently blogs at http://rperreaux.spaces.live.com

 

Shaun O’Callaghan

Shaun O’Callaghan (MCTS) is a Senior SharePoint Consultant specialising in the commercial real estate, private equity and legal sectors. He has been working with SharePoint for 5 years, the last 3 of which with MOSS 2007 where he has been technical lead on a number of projects for major international organisations. Shaun enjoys leading a mix of customer engagements which involve architecting new SharePoint deployments for customers as well as in-depth development engagements with heavy customisation. Shaun has a wealth of experience in the enterprise search space where he has contributed to popular community projects which extend the MOSS enterprise search offering significantly. When Shaun isn’t working late at night on SharePoint projects, he enjoys all manners of equestrian sports and spending time with his wife.

 

Spencer Harbar, SharePoint MVP

Spencer Harbar is an enterprise architect who helps organizations implement and drive value from solutions based upon Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. With over fifteen years of commercial experience in the architecture, design, development, deployment and operational service management of Web based applications and hosting platforms, his broad base of skills enables Europe’s largest organizations to succeed with SharePoint. Product expertise includes SharePoint Technologies, MCMS, IIS, SQL Server, Commerce Server and BizTalk Server, Windows Security, Active Directory, Identity Integration Server and High Availability. Spencer is also a strong community advocate, as a board member of the International SharePoint Professionals Association, supporting and speaking at the UK SharePoint User Group and helping others through his blog, forums and public events such as the SharePoint Conference. He has been awarded the prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for the last six years. In 2006, Spencer co-authored Enhancing Microsoft Content Management Server with ASP.NET 2.0. Spencer represents Microsoft at events worldwide and was a speaker most recently at Microsoft Tech Ed Developers EMEA, 2007 and the SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2008. Spencer is also an instructor for Combined Knowledge, EMEA’s premier SharePoint training provider. In his spare time (not much of it) he listens to the Jazz giants of yesteryear and some young blood, and spends time with family and friends in the beautiful capital city of Edinburgh, Scotland and his home town of Manchester, England.

 

Stacy Draper

 

Stephen Cummins

Stephen Cummins, founder of SPSFAQ. Is a Microsoft Technologies Consultant and a SharePoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional) for the past 5 years. He lives in Kildare, Ireland with my wife, daughter, two dogs and goldfish. He really loves talking about himself in the third person.
He a globally known expert and experienced in delivering Microsoft enterprise technology based solutions into complex environments. His core technologies are SharePoint Server, Windows SharePoint Services, Search Server Express, Search Server, IIS, SQL Server, Windows Server, Office, InfoPath and Microsoft Project Server.
He has managed in excess of thirty SharePoint implementations for clients including: The European Patent Office, Microsoft Inc., The Disney Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Deloitte & Touche, Kraft Foods International, McAfee, The International Criminal Court, Scottish Widows and Intel.
For larger implementations, he has been both technical and business lead and for smaller solo engagements provided the end-to-end solution.
Specific functions within an engagement include managing discovery and planning workshops, developing project management processes, full architectural design and build of SharePoint Server farms, full configuration and integration of SharePoint solutions, training of end users and system administrators and project management of the implementation.

 

Steve Smith, SharePoint MVP

Steve Smith ( MVP-SharePoint Server ) is the owner of Combined Knowledge in the UK and Combined Knowledge Asia Pacific providing Microsoft SharePoint Technical Training courses and Consultancy.
Steve is well travelled spending most of last 20 years travelling in the US and South Asia for the companies he owned and worked with including achieving his first qualification with Microsoft technologies on NT 4 and IIS 3 in New Delhi India in 1998 whilst based there for 3 years. Although tinkering with computers since early Teenage years Steve has specialized with Microsoft's systems since 1996 and been involved in many Microsoft Beta programs including Windows 2000, Exchange 2000 and SharePoint. The last 6 years however has seen a majority of his time with SharePoint and running the Mindsharp and Combined Knowledge SharePoint courses in the UK, Europe and Asia Pacific, also helping many UK based companies with their SharePoint Implementations including the US Air Force, The Ministry of Defence and Several Blue chip companies. Steve is a Co Organiser of the UK SharePoint User Group www.suguk.org and Co Author of the SharePoint 2007 Administrators Companion from MS Press
Steve lives in South Leicestershire, England with his wife and 3 children and can be contacted on steve@combined-knowledge.com

 

Symon Garfield

Chief Technology Officer with Microsoft Gold Partner ICS Solutions. A SharePoint evangelist with a special focus on the most complicated part of any SharePoint solution. People. With five years experience advising, guiding and supporting leading UK and international public and private sector clients in Social Media; Collaboration; Governance; User Adoption; Knowledge Management; Value Realisation with SharePoint Products and Technologies.

 

Ted Pattison

Ted Pattison is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training (www.CriticalPathTraining.com), a company dedicated to education on SharePoint technologies. Ted has worked with Microsoft's Developer Platform Evangelism group since August of 2008 testing and researching SharePoint 2010 to author developer-focused training material. Ted published the best-selling Microsoft Press book titled Inside Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 which is considered as the industry standard reference for .NET developers moving to SharePoint 2007. He is currently revising this book for SharePoint 2010.

 

Todd Bleeker, SharePoint MVP

Todd Bleeker - (Ph.D. and MVP) - is an industry leader in Microsoft-centric software development, specializing in SharePoint products and technologies. Todd is an innovative, resourceful, and competitive technologist with an intense desire to excel. Todd has authored or co-authored several books on Microsoft's integrated suite of products, including Developer's Guide to Windows SharePoint Services v3 Platform and Step by Step series Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by Microsoft Press. Todd has been awarded the title of Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Microsoft for his contributions to the SharePoint Server Platform and community. He has and he is a regular contributor to Web sites such as Microsoft TechNet.

 

Virgil Carroll, Owner - High Monkey Consulting

Virgil CarrollVirgil Carroll has owned and operated High Monkey Consulting over the past 10 year and is instrumental in HMC's three practice areas: Collaboration, User Experience / Interface Design, and Education. He has 8+ years working with Microsoft technologies and is both an MCTS-SharePoint and MCT. Knowing that usability plays a role in all software applications, he is currently pursuing his 2nd Master's Degree in Human Computer Interactions. Virgil has implemented SharePoint projects of all shapes and sizes, and has built a reputation around truly aligning collaboration with business needs. He is a great storyteller and will keep you entertained with his sense of humor and great Dilbert cartoons.

 

Zlatan Dzinic

Zlatan’s primary roles are SharePoint Consultant Lead and Manager, Chief Architect/Lead Developer and Enterprise Content Management/Enterprise Architecture Principal Consultant, working for SMC Enterprise. Zlatan also comes from an extensive ECM product background (including Business Intelligence) providing solutions and managing projects for both the Public (Local, Provincial and National Government) and also Corporate Sector (Mining, Retail, Telecommunications, Oil, Manufacturing, Banking and Tourism Industries). With a strong Business and Technical background, he also serves as a Best Practices consultant on large ECM projects and Enterprise Strategy initiatives.
Zlatan is a regular speaker at both national and international Microsoft conferences as well as local community events on the topics of KM, ECM, SharePoint Server and Technologies, Business Intelligence and Office Business Applications. Zlatan’s SharePoint work has been recognized by Microsoft in his position as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional.