Ben McMann is a senior SharePoint consultant for Tribridge, the 2008 Worldwide Microsoft Dynamics Partner of the Year.  With over 10 years of web design experience, Ben focuses on helping end users and information workers build scalable, usable solutions within SharePoint to improve every day business processes.

Blake Blackshear is a consultant for Pariveda Solutions, a Dallas based IT Consulting firm.  Blake has been focused on using SharePoint as a platform by extending its capabilities beyond out of the box features through custom developed solutions.  He has provided clients with SharePoint based extranets to target thousands of external users with mixed authentication methods.  He has implemented large scale document management and workflow solutions targeting contract management and subscription based communications.  Blake is a graduate from Texas A&M with a degree in Computer Science.

Brian, MCP, MCTS, is a SharePoint Consultant with over 8 years experience in various Microsoft technologies. Now focused on SharePoint 2007, Brian helps clients with custom branding, development and administration.

Dan is a Principal and manages Sales and Marketing for ISI in Dallas.   ISI is the founding sponsor of the DFWSharePoint User Community.  Dan has guided many companies on building a winning Business Case for SharePoint that captures both Strategic and Economic ROI.  If you’re struggling to get management buy in to spend dollars or see the value in SharePoint, this will benefit you.

Dennis J. Bottjer is a Solutions Architect, for Microsoft Gold Partner SpringPoint Technologies. Currently he is a Microsoft ASP/ASP.NET MVP and has worked with FORTUNE 100 companies.  Dennis has over 10 years of experience in helping companies transform their reactive frustrations to proactive solutions. His is also a MCP, MCTS, and a INETA Membership Mentor for Oklahoma. Dennis is proudly serving his technical-community as the President of his local User Group.
 

Eric has worked in the Information Technology for about 15 years now and has spent the last 5 years focused on SharePoint and related technologies with a primary focus in Information Architecture and solving complicated business problems, for top Fortune 500 companies, using SharePoint. With the recent boom in “Social Networking” most engagements over the last year have had heavy focus on Social Computing and using SharePoint to support “the new” way of working.

Eric Shupps is the founder and President of BinaryWave, a premier SharePoint consultancy 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.  Eric has authored numerous articles on SharePoint, speaks at user group meeting and conferences around the world, and publishes a popular SharePoint blog at http://www.sharepointcowboy.com. 

Jeff DeVerter has been working with SharePoint for the past 5 years.  Jeff deployed SharePoint to 2 Fortune 200 financial services firms and acted as Enterprise Collaboration Architect.  Jeff is now the SharePoint Architect at Rackspace where he is involved in the architectural planning, installation, and configuration of SharePoint farms for our customers.

Jeremy is a managing consultant at BlueThread Technologies, a Gold Microsoft ISV. With over 12 years experience within e-Commerce, BPM and ECM technologies, Jeremy has architected and deployed a number of large-scale SharePoint solutions managing several terabytes of content serving 1,000’s of users.

Mark has been writing software for over 15 years filling the roles of Project Manager, Business Analyst, Lead Developer, and Software Architect.  He has been involved in projects for such companies as Dell, Motorola, Intel and Agilent Technologies. He has worked in large corporate environments, small software start-ups, and as a consultant.  Mark currently works for UNFI (http://www.unfi.com) where he has recently been introduced to the world of SharePoint and has taken on a lead role within his organization making key development, administration, and architecture decisions.

Steve has been delivering SharePoint 2007 Solutions for many clients in many areas ranging from Intranets and Extranets to .coms and social networking platforms since 2006. Before that, Steve developed Intranet solutions and Line of Business Applications using various platforms but settled on SharePoint in 2006 and hasn’t looked back since.

Tom Resing is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in all 4 areas related to SharePoint. Tom heard a challenge from Bill Gates to focus on SharePoint at the keynote of the 2006 Office Developers Conference with the announcement of the Office 2007 brand. His first programming job was a high school internship for the Naval Research Lab. He’s been in technology his entire career focusing on the web since graduating with a Computer Science degree from Northwestern 12 years ago.

Travis Lingenfelder is a Senior Consultant for Catapult Systems and has been providing custom application development on the SharePoint platform since 2005.

Wayne Gentile is a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist in all 4 areas of SharePoint. Additionally, Wayne has over 14 years of diverse application development and design experience, focusing on enterprise application architecture, portals, and best practices. In recent years, Wayne has focused on SharePoint deployments, architecture, and custom solutions. He has successfully implemented many SharePoint solutions, ranging from small deployments to large scale, highly customized solutions.