Andrew Clark Andrew is a Senior SharePoint Consultant based in the Chicagoland area. Andrew graduated from North Central College with a Finance degree, however his background is predominately ASP.NET web application development with an emphasis on security. Having seen the 'light' with SharePoint, his focus has been entirely dedicated to SharePoint for the past three years. Andrew attempts to balance technology and gadgets with his first love: basketball. When not behind a computer screen, he can be found at the nearest basketball court. MoreBert Johnson - MCM Bert is a Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint Server 2010 and a SharePoint Architect with PointBridge Solutions. He has extensive experience building knowledge management and enterprise search solutions using Microsoft technologies. Bert has worked with Fortune 500 leaders and mid-market firms across myriad industries. MoreCathy Dew Cathy Dew (MCTS) is a Senior Consultant and Graphic Designer for Summit 7 Systems in Huntsville, Alabama. Summit 7 Systems is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner which specializes in the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure, including Office SharePoint Server, Office Communications Server and Exchange Server.
Cathy comes from an Advertising Agency and Graphic Design background, so her focus is on User Interface Design and User Experience with sites. She has worked primarily with SharePoint 2007 with a focus on branding and user experience. She has worked on many SharePoint installations to brand SharePoint and make it look “Not like SharePoint”. Cathy worked to start the Birmingham SharePoint User’s Group last year and has been working on growing the community in the area ever since. She has presented at both user groups and conferences.
Chris Geier Chris Geier is a 15 year veteran of the technology industry and specializes in all things Microsoft. He was introduced to SharePoint in 2001 while working for Microsoft services. Chris is a participant in, and advocate for, the SharePoint community, as well as a regular participant/speaker at SharePoint Saturday and other grassroots events. MoreDarrin Bishop - MVP Darrin Bishop is a speaker, author and developer focusing on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies. Darrin is the president and lead developer for Darrin Bishop Group, Inc. a Midwest-based Microsoft Partner focusing on SharePoint Technologies, portals and collaboration. He is the author of The Rational Guide to Building SharePoint Web Parts published by Rational Press as well as several articles in various magazines. Darrin is an international speaker and speaks at many SharePoint conferences, SharePoint Saturdays, MOSS Camps and User Groups. Darrin has been working with SharePoint Technologies since the release of SharePoint Portal Server 2001. MoreFabian Williams Fabian Williamsis a Technical Lead at CDW Advanced Technology Services Information Worker Practice, where he leads a SharePoint Delivery Team. His work with the SharePoint product line dates back to the 2003 release. Fabian holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Information System “Magna-Cum-Laude” from Strayer University, Washington D.C. and his Masters in Computer Information Technology studies at the Johns Hopkins University Carey School for Business in Columbia, Maryland. He holds the following Microsoft Certifications MCSE, MCSD and MCDBA. You may find him on twitter at the @fabianwilliams handle and his blog is http://www.SharePointFabian.com/blog MoreHersh Ajgaonkar Hersh Ajgaonkar has over 12 years of experience ranging from writing Windows device drivers to Enterprise Solutions in SharePoint. Hersh has been working exclusively in SharePoint since ‘03 on various projects ranging from Intranets to Document Management in SharePoint. His twitter alias is @wcyber
Jason Gallicchio Jason Gallicchio is currently a Senior SharePoint Consultant with Sapphire Technology. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) in SharePoint 2007/2010. He has been in the tech field for over 10 years providing end user support and solutions. The last 4 years have been working exclusively with SharePoint Technologies. He is the founder of the Princeton SharePoint User Group in Princeton, NJ as well as a speaker and organizer for many SharePoint related community events. MoreJavier Barrera Javier Barrera live, works, and plays in San Antonio, TX. He graduated from University of the Incarnate Word and eventaull found his happy home at Rackspace Hosting. he designs, implements, and troubleshoots SharePoint services for intranet or extranet environments. His primary focus is the infrastructure of numerous SharePoint SharePoint farms ranging in size from single-server to multi-farm multi-server configurations. His other various responsibilities include Microsoft SQL and Exchange implementations MoreJeff Shuey Jeff Shuey is a veteran in the Enterprise Content Management industry. Over the past 20 years he has worked with customers and partners to design, develop and deploy solutions around the world. Jeff is currently the Director of Business Development for the Kodak Document Imaging division. He has worked for Microsoft, FileNet, K2, Captaris, Open Text, and Kofax. He speaks and blogs about ECM, SaaS, and Cloud Computing and how companies are putting these tools to work in their businesses. MoreKris Wagner - MVP Kris Wagner, Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP, MCITP, MCTS is a business solutions architect for Synteractive (www.synteractive.com). Kris focuses on cloud technologies, Business Intelligence and designing solutions using SharePoint. Kris is an author of MCTS Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Configuration Study Guide: Exam 70-631 & SharePoint 2010 Developer's Certification: Certification Toolkit for Exams 70-573 and 70-576, SharePoint evangelist, speaker, and blogger. He is also the founder of SharePoint Saturday Chicago, The SharePoint Road Show and The Office 365 Users Group. Kris lives in Chicago and you can find him on his blog (www.sharepointkris.com) and on Twitter @sharepointkris. MoreMichael Blumenthal Michael Blumenthal is a SharePoint solutions architect and Senior Consultant with Magenic, a Microsoft Gold Partner and National Systems Integrator. He has been in IT for 15 years and has been implementing collaboration and business productivity solutions on the SharePoint platform since 2003. Michael has designed, implemented, and supported SharePoint intranets, extranets, and Internet sites for clients in markets as diverse as Banking, Energy, Government, Professional Services, and Transportation. Michael holds multiple Microsoft certifications (MCITP: SharePoint 2010, MCTS: MOSS Configuration, WSS Configuration, WSS Development; MCAD; MCDBA; MCSE) and is a Certified Associate of Project Management (CAPM) from the Project Management Institute. Michael is also a member of the leadership team for the Chicago SharePoint Users Group and its webmaster. Michael speaks on SharePoint topics locally and nationally at conferences including SharePoint Saturday Chicago, SharePoint Connections, and Microsoft Virtual Tech Days MoreNik Patel Nik Patel, MCTS, working for the Slalom Consulting as Microsoft Solutions Architect with extensive experience in architecting and developing n-tier enterprise systems with a strong focus on collaboration and portal, web content management, business intelligence, and custom development using the Microsoft technologies. Nik has been working for major consulting companies for more than 16 years with the recent focus of enterprise level SharePoint architected solutions using MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010. He has been working with SharePoint 2010 since TAP and Pre-Beta program MorePaul Schaeflein - MVP Paul Schaeflein (MVP, MCT, MCPD) is an application developer with experience in all versions of the SharePoint platform. Paul has presented at user groups, as well as the Microsoft SharePoint Conference and the Best Practices conference. Paul is also a writer, providing contributions to books, periodicals, CodePlex projects and his weblog. 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. MoreRaymond Mitchell Raymond Mitchell is a Senior SharePoint Consultant at Avtex in Minneapolis, MN. He has over 10 years of IT experience and has worked with every version of SharePoint since its release as SharePoint Team Services. Since 2004 he has helped coordinate and speak at the Minnesota SharePoint User Group and led the effort to offer the user group to online attendees starting in 2009. He has also been a speaker at the Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, and St. Louis SharePoint User Groups, as well as at several SharePoint Camps and SharePoint Saturday events. Raymond wrote a Wrox Blox on Building Dashboards with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 using SharePoint Designer 2007 and contributed two chapters on the BCS to SharePoint 2010 Six-in-One. He also blogs under the alias IWKID on Information Worker technologies including SharePoint and Office development. MoreRichard Harbridge "Know what you know, know what you don't know, and never confuse the two." - The MCM Motto Over the past 7 years I have had the pleasure of working extensively with SharePoint as an end user, developer, administrator, architect, business analyst, and consultant. In this time I defined, architected, developed, and implemented well over a hundred SharePoint solutions from small implementations of WSS on a single server, to 80,000+ user implementations in international organizations. Technology, challenges, and business are the things I am most passionate about. These passions have resulted in me working with truly fantastic people who I admire, and respect for their dedication, intelligence, and generosity. I absolutely love learning, and have found that people seem to love teaching, sharing, and helping as much as I do. As a result I have a habit of getting involved in a great many community events (organizing and presenting) which always leave me a bit smarter, stronger, more humbled and better off. I hope to see you/speak with you at SharePoint Saturday Chicago as it’s an amazing free event where hundreds of people exchange and share experience, knowledge, and relationships to help us all become even better at our jobs and the things we are passionate about. MoreRobert Bogue - MVP Robert Bogue, MCITP, MCT, MCTS, MCSE (NT4/W2K), MCSA:Security, A+, Network+, Server+, I-Net+, IT Project+, E-Biz+, CDIA+ is the president of Thor Projects LLC. Thor Projects LLC provides SharePoint consulting services to clients around the world. Robert has contributed to more than 100 book projects and numerous other publishing projects. Robert’s latest book is The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users. You can find out more about the book at http://www.SharePointShepherd.com. Robert has been pleased to be a part of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program for the past 7 years. Robert is also a Microsoft Patterns and Practices Champion and has been a team member for the SharePoint Guidance. Robert is also the author of the Microsoft Learning course for Professional SharePoint developer’s (10232). Robert is the president of the SharePoint Users Group of Indiana (SPIN, www.spindiana.com). Robert blogs at http://www.thorprojects.com/blog You can reach Robert at Rob.Bogue@thorprojects.com. MoreRuven Gotz - MVP Ruven Gotz is a Senior Consultant & SharePoint MVP with Navantis, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Toronto, Canada. With over 20 years of IT industry experience, Ruven has spent the past seven years delivering award-winning SharePoint solutions for a wide range of clients. Working as a Business Analyst and Information Architect, Ruven is able to apply his eclectic education and varied experience in Psychology, Computer Science, Economics, Software Development and Training to get to the heart of complex problems. Ruven is a great communicator who is able to discuss technology concepts in language that is relevant to his audience, whether they are from IT or business. He has become a leader in the use of visual tools to help his clients and team members achieve shared understanding of problems and goals and shared commitment towards implementing a successful solution. Ruven’s blog is at http://spinsiders.com/ruveng and you can follow him on Twitter at @RuvenG. MoreSarah Haase Sarah Haase is an information architect and corporate librarian with more than 15 years of knowledge management, technical writing and business process re-engineering experience. From building wikis and other online knowledge bases to supporting content management system implementations, Sarah has focused on using technology to enable efficient information storage/retrieval. In her current role as a Collaboration Manager, Sarah relies on SharePoint to drive online collaboration and optimize business processes. To date, these efforts have netted more than $500,000 in annual cost savings. There’s more to life than work, though… In her copious amounts of spare time, Sarah focuses on her husband, 2 great kids and the obligatory family dog. MoreTodd Klindt - MVP 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. MoreVirgil Carroll Virgil has run High Monkey Consulting over the past 14 years and is instrumental in HMC’s three practice areas: Collaboration, User Experience and Interface Design / Development. Virgil has countless years of experience working with Microsoft technologies and assisting clients in building systems that both work and are 'easy-to-use' (I know, crazy isn't it). Virgil loves to talk, which allows him to speak to audiences all around the world on collaborative topics and user experience. MoreWes Preston - MVP Wes Preston is a SharePoint consultant and Microsoft MVP. He works primarily as a SharePoint product specialist, Solution Designer and IT Pro – helping align business needs with the SharePoint platform and guiding organizations through the use of best practices. Wes has been a developer, consultant and technology evangelist for 15 yrs. Outside of the office Wes spends time with his wife and 2 boys. He is one of the organizers and a frequent speaker at the Minnesota SharePoint User Group and SharePoint Saturday – Twin Cities. Wes maintains a blog at http://www.idubbs.com/blog. More |
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