SharePoint Saturday Atlanta Speakers

Aaron Cutlip

Aaron has spent his career focused on designing, implementing and developing solutions around ECM (Enterprise Content Management) systems. He has exposure and experience with both large and small solutions involving all aspects of electronic records including document management, content management, records management, imaging, business process management, and enterprise search. He has worked with many different pure play ECM/BPM (workflow) vendors including EMC Documentum, Hummingbird/OpenText, IBM/FileNet, PlumTree, Kofax, HandySoft BizFlow, Ultimus, and BlueSpring. Since the release of SharePoint 2003 Aaron has been leveraging his ECM experience by exclusively developing solutions for the very successful Microsoft SharePoint platform. Aaron resides in Atlanta Georgia and is a Solution Architect at Corridor Consulting where he focuses on building mission critical contract and records management solutions on top of the SharePoint platform.
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Adam Macaulay

Adam Macaulay is responsible for research and development of the technology platform driving the success of CorasWorks products. He has over 14 years of experience, 12 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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Becky Isserman

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 an Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD). She has been a web designer/developer since she was fifteen hand coding HTML 3.0 websites in NotePad. She enjoys working with SharePoint 2007, because she can perform the roles of administrator, developer, designer, and architect. She has presented at seven code camps, two conferences, and three user groups in the past two years. She currently lives in Olathe, Kansas working remotely for B&R Solutions. She lives with her two cats, Gambit and Rogue, plus her boyfriend, Johnny. If you would like to contact her you can e-mail her at rebecca.isserman@gmail.com or fill out the contact form at her blog http://www.mosslover.com.
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Ben Nadler

Ben Nadler is a Senior SharePoint Consultant with Abel Solutions, providing consulting services to Fortune 1000, not-for-profit, and government organizations. He was Abel Solutions' initial SharePoint consultant, having worked primarily with the SharePoint platform for 7 years now, dating back to the 2001 version of the product. He is an experienced developer, business analyst, and project manager. Ben is also a contributing author of the upcoming book, SharePoint 2010 Unleashed, writing chapters on Business Connectivity Services and Performance Point.
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Brendon Schwartz

Brendon Schwartz is a Collaboration Architect in Atlanta specializing in SharePoint, Collaboration and Social Computing applications.  Brendon is a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP, author of multiple SharePoint books, and cofounder of the Atlanta .NET Regular Guys hosted at DevCow (www.devcow.com).
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Brian Culver

Brian Culver is an independent consultant and 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 expertise ranges from SharePoint, ASP.Net, SQL Server and Project Server among many other platforms.  He has been involved in many large custom SharePoint implementations including Internet and Intranet sites, Partner Portals, Enterprise Content Management and Governance.
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Chuck Magee

Chuck Magee is a Senior Project Manager with Technology Project Mentoring Group (www.tpmgus.com) having extensive experience in project / program management and services delivery focused on software implementations and technology consulting. His strengths are in Enterprise Project Management (EPM), multi-industry management consulting, and partner based solution sales/delivery.  His previous business experiences include: Project Manager for Microsoft Business Solutions; Director of Services at Teradyne; Manager and Executive Consultant for IBM Global Services; and Manager at KPMG Consulting.  
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Dan Keeling

Dan is a SharePoint developer and architect working for Slalom Consulting in Atlanta.  He is focused on delivering Enterprise ready solutions involving SharePoint and the Microsoft Stack.
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David Frette

For nearly thirteen years David has been delivering technical solutions that make sense. He runs a small consulting business helping companies leverage and support SharePoint technologies. David is currently writing the book Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook.
When he is not working, he spends time with his beautiful wife and two adorable children. David may be reached at david.frette@gmail.com and @davidfrette on Twitter.
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Dondre Anderson

Dondre is a results-driven IT Executive with extensive experience leading people and project teams, implementing and overseeing technology programs, and administrating comprehensive IT strategies in support of business goals and objectives. He has twelve years of demonstrated success driving growth in targeted areas such as; planning, directive activities, and innovative information technology applications. He has extensive expertise in architecting the creation of IT tools that utilize the SharePoint platform both directly and as a delivery mechanism. Through his SharePoint solutions, he has provided intuitive insight that has driven business direction and improved internal processes. He has vast experience in SharePoint infrastructure design and SharePoint application development utilizing both best practices and leveraging the CMMI model. He currently resides in the Atlanta area with his wife and four lovely children.
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Doug Ware

Doug Ware has been developing with, and helping others understand, Microsoft tools since picking up Visual Basic 3.0 in 1994. He is the leader of the Atlanta .NET User Group, one of the largest user groups in the Southeast, and is a frequent speaker at code camps and other events. In addition to teaching and writing about SharePoint, Doug stays active as a consultant and has helped numerous organizations implement and customize SharePoint as owner and founder of eLumenotion. Doug is the creator of four of the most popular sets of SharePoint Self Based Training books and DVDs available from AppDev.com
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Gary Lapointe

Based in Colorado Springs, Gary Lapointe is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and Senior SharePoint Architect at ShareSquared, Inc. Gary has designed and implemented many SharePoint solutions with significant emphasis on content migration and findability issues including taxonomy, search, and implementation and development best practices. Gary is most known for his open source tools and scripts which help administrators and developers automate their SharePoint deployments.
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Irvin MacQuarrie

Irvin MacQuarrie is a SharePoint consultant with Intellinet, a business technology consulting firm in Atlanta.  He develops solutions in the SharePoint enterprise space through such means as custom web parts and features, Workflow, Search, Forms Services, AJAX, jQuery, XSL, and Excel Services.
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Jay Simcox

Jay Simcox is a SharePoint Architect/Administrator currently disguised as a “Programmer III” for his current employer. Jay has been supporting and managing Microsoft technologies for 10 years with the focus of the last 7 years being SharePoint. With his background in end user training, support and network administration Jay focuses on finding those “no-code” solutions that all “Non-Developers” working with the SharePoint platform crave, developing and providing training for his end user community and sharing his knowledge with as many as he can.
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John Ramminger

John Ramminger is a SharePoint Architect with Abel Solutions in Alpharetta, Georgia. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the IT business. As a Technical Lead in the Developer Support division of Microsoft, he began working with SharePoint in its initial release.  As a SharePoint “Fan Boy”, he loves to find new ways to push the envelope with Microsoft tools and technologies.
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Josh Carlisle

Joshua Carlisle is a principal consultant with B&R Business Solutions. He specializes in collaboration solutions based on SharePoint, ASP.NET, and the .Net Framework. He has been developing with Microsoft tools for over 13 years and with SharePoint since 2003. In his current role he works with clients to design and implement enterprise and commercial solutions based on the SharePoint platform. He is the co-founder of the new Raleigh SharePoint User Group, active in many community projects, and can be found speaking at many user groups, regional conferences, and code camps across the east coast.
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Lee Reed

Lee (@SharePointLee) is a SharePoint Consultant and collaboration evangelist based in Atlanta, GA and has held technology leadership positions in the healthcare, commercial real estate, multifamily, consulting and legal industries. He is laser focused on assisting companies to leverage their technology investments with a driving passion around demystifying technology to drive collaboration success.
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Lori Gowin

>Lori Gowin has been deploying and administering Microsoft technologies since 1999. Since earning her MCSE in 2006, she has focused on SharePoint and the Microsoft Office Suite. Lori has deployed and maintained SharePoint environments and no-code solutions in different industries. She is a frequent speaker at SharePoint Saturday events around the southeast and helps to manage her local SharePoint User Group. Lori lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband and two children.
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Matt Ranlett

Matt Ranlett, a SharePoint Server MVP, has been a fixture of the Atlanta .NET developer community for many years.  A founding member of the Atlanta Dot Net Regular Guys (www.devcow.com) and the SharePoint Guys (www.sharepointguys.com), Matt has formed and leads several area user groups.  Despite spending dozens of hours after work on local and national community activities such as the Free Training 1, 2, 3! series (www.freetraining123.com), organizing four Atlanta Code Camps, having served two years on the INETA Board of Directors as the Vice President of Technology, appearing in several Pod Casts, and co-authoring two books and 6 magazine articles, Matt recently found the time to get married to a wonderful woman named Kim whom he helps to raise 3 dogs and their first child, born in early May 2008.
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Michael Lotter

Michael Lotter, MCTS, is a SharePoint Solutions Architect for B&R Business Solutions, and travels throughout the United States implementing SharePoint and InfoPath-based solutions. He is an active speaker at East Coast Code Camps and user group meetings, and is a co-author on O’Reilly’s SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide. You can also follow Michael’s work through his blog, located at http://blog.michaellotter.com.
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Pablo Gazmuri

A Principal Architect with RDA Corporation, Pablo Gazmuri has lead SharePoint efforts for a number of fortune 500 companies.  Pablo has recently built custom SharePoint applications for Project Management, SharePoint site provisioning and governance enforcement, and Open XML based document generation.
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Parth Patel

Parth Patel is Founder and Chief Solutions Architect at SharePoint Engine, a NJ based Microsoft Gold Partner focused on Enterprise Content Management, Business Process Management and Business Intelligence solutions based on SharePoint Platform.

Parth Patel has over 8 years of experience in content management industry. He concentrates his efforts on architecting cutting edge solutions that ensure clients receive the most robust and cost effective solutions.
Parth Patel has led  number of Projects based on SharePoint platform for clients such as KPMG, Lilly (ImClone), City Of Philadelphia, South Jersey Health Care each having unique requirements.
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Ron Jones

Ron Jones is a SharePoint Consultant with CTS’s (Computer Technology Solutions) Atlanta, GA office. He got his start as a web designer/asp 3.0 developer. Things were going just fine until one dark and gloomy day, “Management” forced him into the not so glorious world of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 and SharePoint 2003. Luckily, with some patience, a little willpower, and quite a few lessons learned, Ron has been fighting the forces of evil to deliver rich and scalable SharePoint solutions tailored to business problems. Today he contributes to a wide range of projects from Portal Planning and Governance to Custom SharePoint Development.
 
When he’s not working full-time as a CTS consultant or volunteering, Ron Jones devotes hours to college football and the enjoyment of brewed beverages. He’s an active member of SharePoint-related community groups and has spoken at several SharePoint conferences around the United States. A Junior Patron at High Museum in Atlanta, Jones also enjoys Thai boxing and playing Scrabble, although not at the same time.
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Scott Abelmann

Scott Abelmann is a technology services consultant at Slalom Consulting. His primary duties include architecting and developing customer solutions based on SharePoint and .NET technologies. He has worked in professional services for the past ten years and focused heavily on SharePoint for the last five. Scott lives in Atlanta with his wife and two kids.
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Todd Bleeker

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 joined Mindsharp in 2004 as co-owner and CTO to help establish the strategic technical plan for Mindsharp's educational and consulting assets. In addition to writing and teaching cutting-edge SharePoint training courses for Mindsharp, Todd also architects innovative assets that help Mindsharp's clients improve their content management capabilities. 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 authored or co-authored several books on Microsoft's integrated suite of products and he is a regular contributor to Web sites such as Microsoft TechNet. Todd is a frequent speaker at key conferences such as Microsoft TechEd, where he recently presented on Web Services and MCMS. Todd has nearly 15 years of architecting revolutionary solutions for small and large corporations.
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Todd Klindt

Todd has been a professional computer nerd for 15 years, specializing in SharePoint for the last five years. His love affair with SharePoint began one slow day at the office when he discovered SharePoint Team Services 1.0 on the Office XP CD and decided to install it. The rest is history. In 2006 he was honored to be awarded the MVP award from Microsoft for Windows SharePoint Services. He has had the pleasure of working with SharePoint farms both large small. He has written several books and magazine articles on SharePoint. Todd has presented sessions on SharePoint at many major conferences both in the United States as well as Europe and Asia and does the user group circuit as well. He chronicles his SharePoint adventures on his blog.
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