SharePoint administrators, end users, architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft SharePoint Technologies will meet for the 5th SharePoint Saturday Boston event on Saturday, April 28th, 2012 at the Microsoft Office located at 201 Jones Road in Waltham, MA, 02451.  SharePoint Saturday is an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals and MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics.  SharePoint Saturday is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint! Follow us on twitter @SPSBoston or keep an eye on this site in to learn more about our upcoming event.

Andy Roberts

Andy Roberts is a Data Platform Technology Specialist for Microsoft and works with Enterprise customers and partners in the northeast to support pre-sales efforts around SQL Server and Azure. For 12 years prior to his role in the sales organization, Andy worked as a consultant for Microsoft Consulting Services. As a consultant Andy assisted customers in developing mission critical enterprise applications with a variety of Microsoft technologies.
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Bob Daniels

Bob is a Business Productivity Technology Solution Professional. He works in the Office365 business unit supporting Microsoft’s New England District customers using Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) and Office365. Having been with Microsoft for over 11 years Bob worked with MCS delivering application development and infrastructures projects for SharePoint 2001, SharePoint 2003, and SharePoint 2007. He also worked as the Industry Technology Strategist supporting Professional Services Industry Unit for Microsoft’s largest customers in Accounting, Building Services, Consulting, and Law firms. Bob came to Microsoft from a diverse background in technology ranging from operating system development, medical imaging and 3D computing, and messaging. Bob holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Wentworth Institute of Technology
 
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Chris Bortlik

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Chris Bortlik works at Microsoft as a SharePoint technology specialist. He works with Enterprise customers and partners in the Northeast in a pre-sales technical role. Chris speaks frequently at Microsoft events (including the SharePoint Conference) and SharePoint Saturday and user group meetings. Chris is a contributing author of the "Essential SharePoint 2010" book. He also publishes a blog on TechNet. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2008, Chris was a customer for 14 years working in technical IT architect, development and management roles – primarily leading .NET and SharePoint related projects. Chris holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Wentworth Institute of Technology and an MBA with MIS concentration from the Bentley University McCallum Graduate School of Business. Outside of blogging, Chris is also active on social networking sites including LinkedIn and Twitter.   
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Dan Usher & Scott Hoag

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Scott Hoag, MCITP, MCPD, MCP, MCTS is a Senior Consultant with Planet Technologies.  With over 8 years of experience, Scott has been utilizing Microsoft based content management solutions from MCMS 2002 to SharePoint 2010 today.
Twitter: @ciphertxt
Blog:
http://www.mylifeinaminute.com

Dan Usher, MCT, MCITP, MCP, MCTS, is a Lead Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he is a lead SharePoint Solutions Manager and Architect. He has extensive experience with the Microsoft Windows Networking Infrastructure and has been implementing, customizing, architecting and deploying Enterprise collaboration solutions utilizing the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies for the past 7 years.
Twitter: @usher
Blog:
http://www.sharepointdan.com
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Danny Jessee

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Danny Jessee is a senior SharePoint engineer for The Corbin Company. He has specialized in development of custom SharePoint solutions since 2004 for federal government, military, and corporate customers. He holds an MCPD certification in SharePoint 2010 Application Development and an MCTS in SharePoint 2010 Configuration. In his spare time, he enjoys running, meteorology, and cheering for his local sports teams.
Twitter: @dannyjessee
Blog: http://dannyjessee.com/blog/
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/dannyjessee
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Deanne Damato

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Deanne Damato is a Project Manager and SharePoint Architect for Sentri and has been working with Microsoft server technologies for 12 years.  Deanne brings over 17 years technical expertise working in roles such as Systems Analyst and Director of IT at organizations including Cramer, Student Advantage, and NaviSite. Her technical skills include a broad range of Microsoft technologies, including SharePoint, Project, Microsoft Dynamics SL, and SQL Server, SharePoint Designer and InfoPath.  She has worked with SharePoint since 2006 and today she specializes in designing intranet solutions with an emphasis on automating business processes.
Twitter:
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LinkedIn:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/deannedamato
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Eric Nash

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Eric Nash has worked as a consultant, trainer, project manager and business systems analyst for over 15 years, specializing in SharePoint since encountering WSS 2.0 and SharePoint Portal Server in 2007. He has worked with SharePoint for companies in healthcare, insurance, engineering, pharmaceuticals and education and currently manages SharePoint implementations for the approximately 1,500 employees of EBSCO Publishing.
 
 
Twitter: @SharePointEric  LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharepointeric
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Eugene Rosenfeld

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Eugene Rosenfeld is the CTO of Black Blade Associates, a products and services company focused on making SharePoint useful to DoD, life sciences, and financial services organizations. 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 has been recognized for his community involvement by Microsoft through their prestigious MVP program. Eugene speaks regularly at various SharePoint events and user groups, and also maintains his blog, "Things that Should be Easy". Check it out for tips that may make your current project a little easier.
 
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Geoff Varosky

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Geoff Varosky is the Director of Development and Evangelism for Jornata (www.jornata.com), a Microsoft Gold Partner focusing on SharePoint solutions based out of Boston, MA. He has been architecting and developing web based applications for over 14 years, and has been working with SharePoint for the past 8 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.
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Jason Gallicchio

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Jason Gallicchio is currently a Microsoft SharePoint PFE. He is a MCP,MCSE, MCTS in WSS 3.0/MOSS/SharePoint 2010 as well as a MCITP in SharePoint 2010. He has been in the tech field for over 10 years providing end user support and solutions. The last 5 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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Jason Himmelstein

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Jason Himmelstein, MCTS, MCITP, is the SharePoint Practice Director for Sentri, Inc. and has been working with Microsoft Server technologies since 1998 when he was supporting Motorola in Austin, TX.​ He went to work for the University of Texas for 5 years where he developed expertise in Active Directory and Exchange. He left UT to go on the road doing work for Dell in a partnership with Microsoft doing architecture, design and implementation of Active Directory and Exchange. He started working with SharePoint in 2007 as an Enterprise Architect for Raytheon Company. Today he leads a team of dynamic SharePoint Consultants for Sentri, a four-time Microsoft Partner of the Year.
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Kanwal Khipple

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Kanwal Khipple is a SharePoint MVP and Principal SharePoint Architect for BrightStarr. He is a true evangelist and visionary when it comes to SharePoint and provides the business and technical leadership required for delivering successful global SharePoint projects. Kanwal believes that the key to driving business productivity through technology is governance and adoption. As an evangelist and supporter for the SharePoint community where he shares what he learns through his blog and tweets. Connect with him on LinkedIn to learn how you can get the highest ROI for your SharePoint projects.
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Kim Frehe

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Kim Frehe is a no-code Solutions Specialist who has been solving complex business problems with SharePoint since 2001.  She has recently joined the consulting world with Rightpoint Consulting after spending 13 years at Accenture, supporting their Global Business Travel and Facilities & Services teams by creating innovative SharePoint solutions to support various business processes.  She is very passionate about SharePoint and prides herself on building solutions with the end users’ perspective in mind.   Her specialties include workflows, content types, out-of-the-box web parts and making SharePoint as user-friendly as possible to help users be more productive, efficient and get the most of SharePoint.
 
Twitter:  chomp1313 
Linked In:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kimfrehe
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Marc D Anderson

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Marc is the Co-Founder and President of Sympraxis Consulting LLC, located in the Boston suburb of Newton, MA, USA. Sympraxis focuses on enabling collaboration throughout the enterprise using the SharePoint application platform. Marc is a two-time recipient of the Microsoft MVP award for SharePoint Server (2011 and 2012). Marc has almost 30 years of experience in technology professional services and software development. Over a wide-ranging career in consulting as well as line manager positions, Marc has proven himself as a problem solver and leader who can solve difficult technology problems for organizations across a wide variety of industries and organization sizes.
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Marcel Meth

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Marcel Meth is the principal of MATHFT, LLC, a boutique custom solution provider.  He has spent the past 5 years leveraging SharePoint and InfoPath to quickly create robust business process improvements.  He is currently focused on solving problems for business partners with no backend deployments required.  Marcel has 25+ years of experience applying software solutions to real world problems in Financial Services, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, and Retail.  Prior to founding MATHFT, Marcel worked at AT&T Bell Labs, Bank of America, and Manulife Insurance.  Marcel graduated from Brown University with a degree in Mathematics, and holds graduate degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from Indiana University.
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Mark Candelora

Mark Candelora is the Manager of Custom Development at Jornata LLC, in Boston.  He has over 8 years of experience in the industry working with a range of Microsoft technologies, and 2 years working with SharePoint, Silverlight and related technologies.  Mark has a Master's Degree in Information Systems and a Bachelor's in Business Administration from Northeastern University.
 
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Matt Jackson

Matt is a Consulting Director at BlueMetal Architect's Boston office, where he oversees customer projects including SharePoint .  He has over a decade of software design and technology consulting experience and has been working with SharePoint since the 2001 release.  His primary roles have been those of technical director and solution architect.  He has architected and lead teams working on solutions ranging from enterprise level portals to large scale custom applications.
 
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Michael Mukalian

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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 helps run 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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Nicholas Bisciotti

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Nicholas is a Sr. SharePoint Architect at Quantech Services, a professional services firm focused on end-to-end systems engineering, program management, project management, and financial management that guides government and commercial clients through the acquisition and deployment life-cycle of complex systems.  At Quantech, Nicholas works in a blended capacity as an Architect, Project Manager, Business Analyst, and Consultant on internal initiatives and is responsible for the strategy, design, development, and implementation of Quantech's business-optimizing, information management architecture using methodologies and best practices he has evolved for delivering and integrating Web portals, enterprise search, ECM, business process, business intelligence, collaboration, and CRM solutions.  In addition to operations work, Nicholas also leads client consulting engagements.  He has business process and operations expertise in several industries, including professional services, defense, high tech, investment management, and financial services.  Nicholas is MCITP certified for SharePoint 2010 and has several other MCTS certifications for Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft SQL Server.
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Richard Harbridge

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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 successfully 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.
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Rob Windsor

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Rob Windsor is a Lead SharePoint Consultant with Allin Consulting - a Microsoft Gold Partner 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 4 for Wrox. Rob is the founder and past-president of the North Toronto .NET User Group and has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his involvement in the developer community.
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Robert German

Follow Robert German on Twitter @Bob1German

Bob German is SharePoint Practice Director at BlueMetal Architects, where he leads the development and deployment of SharePoint solutions for enterprise customers. Bob has been developing on the SharePoint platform since it was called “Site Server”, and is a co-author of SharePoint 2010 Development with Silverlight for Addison-Wesley.

Prior to joining BlueMetal, Bob was an architect at the Microsoft Technology Center in Boston, MA; he also worked for Microsoft Consulting Services building and performance tuning web sites and other networking solutions.
 
Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/BobGerman
Twitter: @Bob1German
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Russ Edelman

Follow Russ Edelman on Twitter @russecm

Russ is the Founder and CEO of Corridor Consulting, a Software Development and Consulting Company, focused specifically on Microsoft SharePoint and the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) industry for a global clientele.  Russ was recognized in the top SharePoint 50 influencers and an AIIM fellow and is an active industry analyst helping to define key industry trends by contributing to media outlets including HBR, CNBC, Huffington-Post, InformationWeek, CIO Magazine, AIIM Communities and KMWorld.
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Rutherford Wilson

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Rutherford is the CTO for Vizit, Inc. He is focused on defining the vision and engineering for Vizit, integrating Social and Workflow into the product. He has been working with and delivering SharePoint implementations for 7 years at fortune 500 organizations. Rutherford is an excellent presenter who is able to translate technology concepts into language that is relevant to his audience in a fun and engaging way.
 
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Sadalit P. Van Buren

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Sadie Van Buren has spent the past ten years designing SharePoint solutions and leading deployments, while stealthily managing the human and cultural issues common to technology projects.  She is a SharePoint Content Architect at BlueMetal Architects, with a strong focus on content experience, business strategy and alignment, 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 Information Technology Professional (MCITP).  She is the creator of the SharePoint Maturity Model, and blogs about SharePoint and technology at http://amatterofdegree.typepad.com/.
Twitter:@sadalit
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Stephanie Donahue & Stacy Deere

Stephanie Donahue (MCITP) is a SharePoint Solution Architect out of Cincinnati, OH. Previously, Stephanie consulted with a Microsoft Gold Partner PCMS for 6 years and was actively engaged in SharePoint 2010 upgrades, deployments, and working with clients to build secure and productive collaboration environments.  Stephanie is actively sharing her real world expertise through co-authoring in the blog http://www.notjustsharepoint.com, speaking at various SharePoint Saturday and User Group events, and co-hosting SPTV (http://mysp.tv).
 
 
Stacy Deere an MCITP and owner of Focal Point Solutions LLC, a Cincinnati, OH based company that provides SharePoint Solutions for the Enterprise in the mid-to-large market.  Previously, Stacy lead a rapidly growing SharePoint practice where she engaged in a wide range of consulting projects across various industries.  Prior to consulting, Stacy was a SharePoint Architect where she led a team in the implementation of SharePoint 2007, 2010 and SharePoint’s integration into everyday work tasks to streamline and automate processes. Stacy has mainly focused on Collaboration Solutions such as IBM’s Lotus Notes\Domino and Microsoft’s Messaging and Collaboration Solutions including deployments and SharePoint 2010 upgrades. Stacy is actively sharing her real world expertise in the blog http://www.notjustsharepoint.com, as an Event Speaker, a book writer and co-hosts on SPTV (http://mysp.tv).
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Supriyo "SB" Chatterjee

Follow Supriyo "SB" Chatterjee on Twitter @sbc111

An Architect/Tech-lead consultant based in Hartford CT. He has over 20 years IT experience and has worked at   companies like Aetna, IBM, Microsoft, UNICEF, United Technologies and State of Connecticut. He holds graduate   degrees in Computer Science, Business Administration and Economics. He has been awarded the Microsoft  MVP Award for SharePoint Workspace  five times since 2008. He moderates several public SharePoint   Workspaces (Groove). Acting Director - Connecticut .NET Developers Group (CTDOTNET)  and Connecticut SharePoint Developers Group (CTSPDG)  
twitter: @sbc111 
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Symon Garfield

Follow Symon Garfield on Twitter @symon_garfield

Symon is a leader, technologist and management consultant. He is also Brightstarr’s Director of Consulting. He’s a regular speaker at SharePoint and Microsoft conferences and events, a monthly columnist for industry website CMSWire, a co-leader of the London SharePoint User Group, and co-author of the SharePoint 2010 Handbook.   In October 2012 he will be beginning the Doctor of Business Administration programme at Henley Business School, conducting doctoral research focusing on the intersection of people, information and technology.  Symon’s focus areas include knowledge management, social computing, collaboration, information worker productivity, and Microsoft enterprise technologies with a particular focus on SharePoint and cloud services.  Over the past six years Symon has worked with UK and global clients across all industry sectors, including some of the world’s leading organisations.
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Talbott Crowell

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Talbott Crowell, a Microsoft MVP, is a partner and founder of Third Millennium, Inc (ThirdM), a custom solution provider and a Certified Microsoft Partner. Talbott has worked with many companies large and small to help leverage technology to solve their business problems.  Talbott is a frequent speaker on Microsoft technologies including SharePoint, PowerShell, F#, and C# development and is the co-founder of two Boston user groups: The New England F# User Group (FSUG) and the Boston Area SharePoint User Group (BASPUG).Talbott and ThirdM hosted the first SharePoint Saturday Boston (SPS Boston) a few years ago and he has been heavily involved with the SharePoint Saturday Boston events ever since.
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Thomas Daly

Follow Thomas Daly on Twitter @_tomdaly_

Thomas Daly - is the Lead SharePoint Branding/UI developer at B&R Business Solutions. He specializes in implementing custom SharePoint branding as well as delivering custom UI solutions.  He is an expert in web technologies and highly proficient in many languages including C#, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, XSLT. His educational background is composed of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and a Master’s degree in Software Engineering.
 
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