Brad Maust (MCTS) has over 20 years of experience in IT. He began working with online DOS-based collaboration environments in 1989 with a software company in Bakersfield, CA.  Brad has over 10 years of consulting experience primarily with Microsoft Products and Technologies. He has been a SharePoint Architect and Senior Consultant with several Microsoft-certified Gold Partners in the Bay Area. He has provided consulting and professional services to various government agencies and educational institutions including U.S. EPA, US NRC, USDA, US DOE, WVU, and Stanford. Most recently, he was invited to join the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division in Baghdad, Iraq as a SharePoint Engineer and Subject Matter Expert.  He has worked for Hewlett-Packard, Delta Airlines, Cisco, Matsushita, EDS, Compaq, and Michelin as well as several Silicon Valley companies such as Genentech, Xilinx, and WebVan. He was a trainer and instructor at universities in Sichuan, China where he taught Microsoft Official Curriculum courses.  He has led several certification study groups across the nation and in October 2008, Microsoft asked him to lead the San Francisco Bay Area SharePoint User Group.  The SPUG began with a handful of attendees; it has grown to San Jose and Sacramento with a total of over 200 attendees and over 1,000 members today.