Al Himler, as part of Microsoft Gold Certified i3solutions, manages a Business Unit of Consultants that specialize in SharePoint and other Microsoft technology implementations.  Al Himler previously worked 15 years in the federal government in laboratory, application management, and enterprise system management roles.  At i3solutions, Mr. Himler is working to lead his team in the development of SharePoint 2007 and 2010 systems for a variety of financial, legal, health, and government-based clients.

Eamonn McGuiness is CEO of BrightWork, a leader in the development of SharePoint-based Project Management solutions.  With a variety of Project Management templates, reporting, and Project integration capabilities, Brightwork emphasizes cost-effective solutions to meet today’s Project Management needs.

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.

 

With over 10 years of experience in the technology industry, Bill is responsible for all enterprise sales in North America for Colligo. Prior to joining Colligo, Bill was involved in a VoIP start-up division at Spectrum Signal Processing as the Regional Sales Manager for the western US and handling distribution into Asia. Bill started his career as a software engineer prior to moving into sales. He holds an Electrical Engineer degree (Computer Option) from Simon Fraser University.

As a Solutions Architect for Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated, Bill specializes in software development using Visual Studio 2008, .NET Framework, VB.Net, ASP.NET, C#, Windows Mobile, SQL CE and SQL Server 2008.  He is well versed in all phases of software development – process, work flow, class abstraction, data structures, reporting and user interfaces.  In his spare time, Bill founded and continues to lead the Enterprise Developers Guild, the .Net User Group in Charlotte NC with more than 2,500 members.  He is also the INETA Membership Mentor for the two Carolinas.  Bill has recently finished the deployment phase of a major mobility application using the new Microsoft Sync Framework.

 

Brian Jackett is a Senior Consultant at Sogeti USA specializing in Microsoft Collaboration and BI technologies, primarily SharePoint development and administration for almost 3 years.  Brian is a steering committee member of the Central Ohio SharePoint User Group and enjoys giving back to the community through giving presentations, volunteering at conferences, maintaining a SharePoint centric blog, and contributing to the SharePoint Twitterverse.  He also holds several Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certifications for SharePoint technologies.

Chris McNulty has over twenty years’ experience in financial services technology at State Street, Santander, GMO and John Hancock/Manulife.  He is currently SharePoint practice lead at KMA, a New England Microsoft Gold Partner, where he leads engagements using SharePoint, SQL Server, Project Server, and .NET.   Chris also holds an MBA from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College in Investment Management and Corporate Finance.  Chris is a member of the Microsoft Solutions Advocate program, and holds both MCSE and MCTS certifications.  A frequent speaker and author, he was part of the original Ignite airlift for SharePoint 2010, and is presently co-writing a book on SharePoint 2010.  He lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife Hayley and three children.

Christian Buckley is a SharePoint Evangelist and Senior Product Manager for echoTechnology where he helps drive product strategy and marketing. Christian previously worked at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager on the enterprise hosted SharePoint platform (now part of BPOS), and led an engineering and PM team in advertising operations. Prior to Microsoft, Christian was managing director of a regional consulting firm and participated in a couple startups, working with IBM, HP, Cisco, Matsushita, Solectron, Seagate and other large technology and manufacturing firms to deploy collaboration and supply chain solutions. He is co-author of three books on IBM Rational Software configuration management and defect tracking solutions, and can be found online at www.buckleyplanet.net and www.twitter.com/buckleyplanet

 

Based in Philadelphia, PA, Christina (MCTS: SharePoint) is a Senior Consultant for Summit 7 Systems and Founder of CM Portal Solutions, LLC. With over 10 years of experience in the industry, Christina has a background in graphic design, web development, custom development, and has been working with SharePoint since May 2005. She helps Summit 7 clients take their SharePoint environment from concept to reality through her expert application of out of the box capability, custom development and polished branding that can take an environment from standard to outstanding.

Chuck is the principal consultant for Infotronics.  Infotronics specializes in collaboration, development, training, business process modification and implementation technologies centered on SharePoint.  Infotronics has clients throughout the Carolinas and has been working with SharePoint since 2003/2004.  Infotronics is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner. 

Project Manager, RDA Corporation
Dan Gilroy is a Project Manager with RDA Corporation. He has over 15 years of experience developing business solutions utilizing Microsoft technologies. Managing cross-functional project teams ranging in size from 5 to 30, Dan has a depth of management experience in a large variety of industries and corporate environments. He has leveraged a variety of methodologies and technologies to successfully and efficiently solve business problems for a long list of satisfied clients.  Dan’s technical specialty is projects that leverage SharePoint and FAST to provide business value through collaboration.

Fabian Williams is a Technical Lead and SharePoint Architect for CDW Advanced Technology Services SharePoint Practice. He is based out of Herndon Virginia. Mr. Williams has a Bachelors degree in Computer Information Systems from Strayer University, Washington, D.C. and is 9 Credits and a Capstone away from Masters in CIS at Johns Hopkins University in Columbia Maryland. In addition, he is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD) and a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA). Prior to CDW., Mr. Williams was the Chief Technology Officer for WING, Inc. Recently, he was the Chief Internet Developer for the Department of Defense’s Global Emerging Infections System and a Sales Engineer at Citrix Incorporated.

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.

Ken Price is a Senior SharePoint Consultant for RDA Corporation’s Charlotte SharePoint Delivery team, which builds custom Collaboration and Information Worker solutions for some of largest and well-known companies in the US. Ken has been employed by Fortune 50, large enterprises, Federal, State and Military organizations and has over 13 years of web application development experience and has specialized in SharePoint for the last 3 years.

As VP of Innovation and Education at Ambassador Solutions, Kevin is responsible for trailblazing new technologies and insuring that both our consultants and customers are up to speed on how these new technologies impact existing investments as well as how they can be leveraged on new solutions.  As a 15 year veteran to the IT industry with a heavy focus on SharePoint technology in the last 5, Kevin is extremely excited to integrate his passions for SharePoint and Social Computing as we move forward towards the release of SharePoint 2010.

Mike is the National Gypsum lead person for Portals (SharePoint), Security / Business Continuity and Voice / Data / eMail Communications (Exchange).  He has worked at National Gypsum for the past 24 years in various IT capacities, and has been around the IT field even longer than that.   NGC deployed a sales rep / CRM system based upon SharePoint 2001 that has grown into an extensive Extranet (custom .NET / SharePoint / SQL) system and a Company Intranet – Employee Directory system running on a mix of SharePoint 2003 and 2007.   

Mike Oryszak is a SharePoint Server MVP and Principal Consultant with Intellinet in the Information Workers practice specializing in SharePoint Architecture and Development.  Mike has been living in the Raleigh-Durham area since 1998 and held a number of development and consulting position servicing clients from a range of industries including major financial institutions to telecommunications.  Mike's favorite SharePoint topic is social computing and leveraging tools to increase team and cross-functional collaboration in the enterprise.  In addition he enjoys listening to music and studying world history.

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 lead a 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.

He is actively involved in SharePoint Community, AIIM, IEEE and NJTC and is frequent speaker on topics based on ECM, BPM and BI.

I have been working with SharePoint in many different versions over the last few years. Having SharePoint as a content management system for my own personal sites I have wanted to step away from the basic look of SP without sacrificing the capabilities of its strength.

Russ Basiura Jr. is the President and Chief SharePoint Architect of RJB Technical Consulting, Incorporated, an information technology company established in 1995 to provide business collaboration services. He is a published author and his books include “Professional Asp.Net Web Services” through Wrox Press, Inc. and “.Net Security”. Additional publications include “Professional Web Services using C#” and “Professional Web Services using VisualBasic.Net”. Mr. Basiura holds the following technology certifications: Microsoft Certified Professional + internet (MCP+I), Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) - SharePoint Configuration and Development, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Russ is also the President of the Philadelphia Area SharePoint User Group which he established and is now in its 4th year.

Ryan works directly with Fortune 500 and other enterprise customers to develop and implement cost-effective SharePoint management, protection, and optimization strategies. Ryan’s experience with SharePoint dates back to the early days of WSS 2.0, when he worked as a technical consultant for product companies dedicated solely to SharePoint solutions. His knowledge of SharePoint has earned him multiple speaking opportunities within the SharePoint community and at technical tradeshows and events.

Sam Carlson is the leader of Virtual IT’s SharePoint consulting practice providing portal envisioning, deployment, and governance solutions to clients in federal and local government as well as the energy, construction, retail, and telecommunications industries. Sam is a regular speaker at the Roanoke, VA and Charlotte, NC SharePoint User Groups, several PMI chapters, and is a continuing education provider in SharePoint for the North Carolina Local Government IT Association (NCLGISA). Sam is an MCTS in configuring both WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007. Virtual IT is a Microsoft Gold Partner.

Steve Pietrek, MCP, MCTS, is a Managing Consultant at Cardinal Solutions Group, a Microsoft Managed Partner, with offices in Cincinnati, Columbus, and Charlotte. Steve is a SharePoint Architect/Developer at Cardinal Solutions and is active in the SharePoint community through his blog, public speaking at user groups and conferences, MSDN, and Twitter. He has been working with the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies since SharePoint 2007 Beta. Prior to joining Cardinal, he was the lead User Interface developer for 13 years at Exact Business Analytics, a business intelligence software provider.