Agnes Molnar, MVP Company: aghy.hu Agnes has been working with Microsoft technologies and SharePoint since 2001. After releasing MOSS 2007, she founded her own SharePoint consultant company in Hungary, Central Europe. She’s been working as senior consultant and solutions architect, has leaded numerous Central European companies’ SharePoint implementation.
Agnes’s main focus is on Architecture, Governance, Information and Knowledge Management, and Enterprise Search.She’s also a frequent speaker of both Central European and international conferences, for example Best Practices Conferences in Washington DC and London, SharePoint Conferences in Peru and many countries in Central Europe, SharePoint Saturdays, etc. She’s a co-author of the book ‘Real World SharePoint 2010’. Andrew Woodward, MVP Company: 21Apps Founder and CEO of 21apps, a small consultancy focused on helping our clients deliver measurable business value from their SharePoint deployments. I have a long time passion for Agile/Lean techniques, more recently looking at Systems Thinking and the Rightshifting ideals to help companies gain a Shared Understanding of what their goals are and how they can achieve them.
Ant Clay Company: 21apps I am Chief Strategy Officer at 21apps. We help our clients realise SharePoint business value. I am a SharePoint Business Consultant, Strategist, Sailing Geek and Family Man... My passions are:
1. SharePoint Business Consulting
2. Applications Strategy
3. Re-telling Business Stories
4. How cultural changes and Web2.0 influence the Enterprise
5. Delivering business value through the Microsoft applications platform
6. Sailing a hydro-foiling International Moth
21apps are a relaxed, high quality, deep thinking, strategic consulting company that enjoys what it does, which is provide companies with the leadership, experience, techniques, tools and knowledge to deliver the maximum value from their investments in people, solutions and services.
Ayman El-Hattab, MVP Company: Ayman El-Hattab is a Regional Technology Solution Professional, SharePoint MVP, Author & Speaker. He is the co-founder of MS3arab community, SharePoint4Arabs.com and he is always an active participant in Microsoft online and offline communities. Ayman has also is a contributor author of "SharePoint 2010 Unleashed". Brett Lonsdale Company: Lightning Tools Brett Lonsdale is co-founder of Lightning Tools and specialises in Business Connectivity Services and SharePoint Permissions.
Chirag Patel Company: The Salvation Army (UK Territory) Chirag Patel (BSc, MSc, MCSD, MCTS) has worked with Microsoft technologies and SharePoint since 2002. He is a database-centric application practitioner at the Salvation Army ( www.salvationarmy.org.uk), built various line-of-business applications to help support their mission and involved in all stages of technical implementation's life cycle, including requirements gathering, system design, development and deployment. Whilst serving as SQL Server Database Administrator he has designed and implemented portals, content and collaboration using SharePoint and making the art of practical application. Chirag has presented at Ark Group's conferences including live SharePoint demonstration. Chris Poteet Company: Portal Solutions Chris Poteet is a Senior Consultant for Portal Solutions. He specializes in information architecture and business analysis as well as molding the SharePoint user experience. Christian Buckley Company: Axceler Christian Buckley is Director of Product Evangelism for Axceler, where he drives partner and community development. Christian previously worked at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager on the enterprise hosted SharePoint platform team (now part of BPOS), and also managed an engineering team in advertising operations.
Prior to Microsoft, Christian was managing director of a regional consulting firm in the San Francisco East Bay, participated in several startups, and worked with IBM, HP, Cisco, Matsushita, Solectron, Seagate and other large hi-tech 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
Coskun Cavusoglu Company: West Monroe Partners Coskun Cavusoglu currently is a Senior Architect in the Customer Solutions practice, at West Monroe Partners. Coskun has completed SharePoint projects for over 100 clients, one of them being Microsoft where he was a part of the team that wrote the questions for the SharePoint 2007 Developer Certification exams.
Coskun has authored two books on SharePoint - Professional Microsoft(R) SharePoint(R) 2007 Design and Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Reporting with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services published by Wrox Publishing. He is currently working on a new book - SharePoint 2010 Developer Certification Study Guide.Coskun also is a speaker who attends various community events both local and international where he talks about various SharePoint topics and his past and future engagements can be found at his blog ( www.sharepointcoskun.com).
Coskun is a Microsoft Certified Professional and is also a MCTS for SharePoint technologies.
Daniel McPherson Company: Zevenseas Daniel McPherson has been involved in SharePoint since attending the first public announcement of project “Tahoe” at the Microsoft Technical Briefing in January 1999. It has had a profound impact on his career, taking him to the doorstep of hundreds of companies, of all shapes and sizes, in a range of industries and in over 25 different countries. He’s worked on projects that create solutions, evaluate possibilities, deploy to tens of thousands of users and fix problems when the sirens are sounding.
After 10 years at Microsoft, spent mostly in Microsoft Consulting Services, he co-founded zevenseas ( www.zevenseas.com), a boutique consultancy focused solely on the SharePoint platform, and is having more fun than ever before Dave Coleman Company: Twynham School 19 years working in the IT industry with 11 of those working in the education sector and i have worked with many versions of Windows server, Exchange, SQL Server. Over the last few years i have been specializing in SharePoint starting with SharePoint team services back in 2001 through SharePoint portal server 2003 with Class Server and on to SharePoint 2007 and now onto SharePoint 2010 after introducing SharePoint into Twynham and making it a key component of their IT strategy.
In 2008 Twynham was the sole winner of the Beyond the Classroom BECTA ICT Excellence Award 2008 for their SharePoint work on Parental engagement. Many articles have been written about our SharePoint deployment with case studies and architecture models appearing on the Microsoft websites worldwide.
I am also a regular speaker on our SharePoint achievements including on the Microsoft stand at BETT, Learning Gateway Conference and recently presenting to the Microsoft SharePoint product group and education team at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond.
Derek Weeks Company: Global 360 Derek is responsible for the business analysis and commercialization of Global 360’s SharePoint-based BPM and Visio-based process modeling solutions. In July 2010, these products helped Global 360 secure a 210 Microsoft partner of the year award, followed by KMworld’s Trending Setting Product of the Year 2010 in August.
Prior to joining Global 360, Derek held executive and senior management positions at Hewlett-Packard, StorageTek (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Hyperformix (acquired by CA), and Systar – successfully launching new enterprise software solutions to market. Eric Riz Company: eMark Consulting, Ltd. Eric is the Founder and CEO of eMark Consulting, Ltd. a strategy and systems integration firm based in Toronto, Canada. For over 12 years, Eric has been providing operational and tactical advice to clients. His focus is on engaging teams in the areas of organization design and effectiveness, performance measurement, strategy implementation and change management.
Eric has worked with many Fortune 500 companies on their business productivity architecture and deployment plans to ensure they maximize the benefits of Microsoft technologies and successfully deploy their SharePoint-based solutions. A sought after speaker, Eric has developed and facilitated management and technology sessions through-out North America.
You can follow Eric on Twitter @emarkconsulting for updates on the latest SharePoint tips and tricks.
Fabian Williams Company: Adotob, LLC 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 Bachelor’s 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 an MCSE, MCSD, and 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.
Geoff Varosky Company: Grace-Hunt, LLC. Geoff Varosky (MCP, MCTS) is the Director of Development and Evangelism for Grace-Hunt, LLC ( www.grace-hunt.com), a Microsoft Gold Partner focusing on SharePoint and Dynamics Solutions based out of Hudson, MA. He has been architecting and developing web based applications for over 13 years, and has been working with SharePoint for the past 6 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, including the SharePoint Best Practices 2010 Conference and the SharePoint Technology Conference. Hossam Behery Company: Digicon A hands-on solution architect experienced in building enterprise SharePoint applications, Hossam worked in IT management positions since 1997. He has more than 14 years of professional industry experience working with Microsoft technologies with a focus on custom software development and business IT solutions.
Hossam holds various Microsoft certifications such as MCSD.net and MCDBA in addition to the Microsoft Certified Technology specialist In SharePoint.Hold a master degree in IT management from the University of Virginia and a Master in computer science.
Ian Woodgate Company: PointBeyond Limited Ian’s background is in financial services and IT, and he has worked with SharePoint since its first release in 2001 as a developer and subsequently as a solution architect. Ian set up his own company in 2004 and now employs a team of people at Microsoft Gold Partner PointBeyond Limited ( www.pointbeyond.com).
Ian regularly speaks at SharePoint events, and he organises meetings of the SharePoint UK User group in the South of England, and when he isn’t sailing or windsurfing.
Jeremy Thake, MVP Company: NothingButSharePoint Jeremy Thake is a SharePoint MVP based in Perth, Western Australia. He has worked with SharePoint since the beta release of SharePoint 2007 in November 2006. He founded the SharePointDevWiki.com in December 2008 and co-founded NothingButSharePoint.com in October 2009. He is the Perth SharePoint User Group Lead and is always up for a SharePint! Jerry Yasir, MVP Company: EJADA Systems Jerry is SharePoint Server MVP, Trainer, Founder of Riyadh SharePoint User Group (RSUG.NET), Co-Owner of SharePoint Pakistan User Group and Sr. SharePoint Consultant at EJADA, Saudi Arabia. RSUG is one of the biggest SharePoint Community in Saudi Arabia with over 1500 Members. He holds a Master degree in Computer Sciences and has over 8 Years of experience working in Microsoft Technologies including SharePoint, Microsoft .NET and Project Server.
Jerry is a regular speaker at Microsoft events and community related events around the world. He is currently responsible of developing and managing many large scale SharePoint implementations in Saudi Arabia.
He is Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and also holds MCPD, MCTIP and MCTS for SharePoint 2010 Admin and Development, and MCTS WSS 3.0 & SharePoint Server 2007, MCPD, MCITP (EPM 2007) and MCSD.NET
Jim Bob Howard Company: Jim Bob Howard is a web designer / webmaster in the healthcare industry. He has been working with SharePoint since March 2009 and enjoys sharing what he has learned. He's the author of popular Extending the DVWP series on EndUserSharePoint. He is a moderator and frequent contributor to Stump the Panel, and answers SharePoint questions on Twitter (@jbhoward).
Jose Antonio Morales Company: B4Contact Born peruvian, currently in NY, previously in Slovenia. Father of 2 and husband of 1.The relationship between technology and human development fascinates me. I’m a born entrepreneur and started early with IT. My first encounter was with an Atari 800XL and my latest gadget is an iPad.
I have organized and participated in many events, the latest being the SharePoint Conference in Peru.
Laura Rogers Company: SharePoint911 Laura is a Senior SharePoint Consultant working with SharePoint911. She has more than five years' experience in architecting SharePoint solutions, with a focus on maximizing SharePoint's out-of-the-box capabilities. She enjoys these features so much, you can often find her as a featured presenter on EnduserSharePoint.com screencasts and online workshops.
In her free time, she enjoys tweeting and blogging, and writing books about SharePoint.
Mai Omar Company: ITEgyptCorp Mai Omar Desouki is a Senior Solutions Developer at ITEgyptCorp (MCTS 2007 & 2010). She has been working with Microsoft Technology for several years, with the main focus on SharePoint. Her main SharePoint deployments have been for customers in Egypt & Middle East region. She also has done multiple migrations for enterprise customers from MOSS 2007 to SharePoint 2010.
Mai is focused on helping customers get the most business value from their SharePoint deployment through integrating SharePoint with other solutions such as Microsoft CRM Dynamics and others. Marc Anderson, MVP Company: Sympraxis Consulting LLC Marc is the Co-Founder and President of Sympraxis Consulting LLC, located in the Boston suburb of Newton, Mass. He has more than 25 years of experience in technology, professional services, and software development.
Marc is the developer of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (aka SPServices) and a faculty member at the USPJ Academy focused on Middle Tier Development with SharePoint.
Mark Rackley Company: Juniper Strategy, LLC Mark has been developing software applications 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.
His goal as a speaker, blogger, and author is to help every new architect and developer avoid the frustrations and brick walls he ran into while learning SharePoint.
Mark currently works for Juniper Strategy, LLC ( http://www.juniper-strategy.com) as a Solutions Architect and SharePoint Practice Lead making key SharePoint architecture and development decisions as well as bringing the appropriate SharePoint Best Practices to his clients and customers. Marwan Tarek, MVP Company: SharePoint MVP since 2008, and working with SharePoint technologies since 2005, experienced developer and SharePoint consultant working with SharePoint 2003, 2007 and 2010. Participated in Office and SharePoint 2010 beta testers program with Microsoft Product team and Windows 7. Also Microsoft certified professional since 2001, (MCAD, MCSD, MCPD and MCTS in SharePoint development and configuration.)
Marwan is the founder of the Egypt SharePoint User Group and leading all SharePoint events in Egypt and co-founder of SharePoint4Arabs.com first website publishes Arabic screencasts for SharePoint. Speaker in different event (Microsoft Innovation day, SharePoint Techday, Egypt SharePoint UG). Matt Bramer Company: Denier Electric Co., Inc. Matt Bramer works as a Systems Admin in the construction industry. He has been working with Search Server Express since 2008 and frequently blogs about his findings at http://mattbramer.blogspot.com.
Matt often posts to Stump the Panel and likes to tweet about his IT projects on Twitter (@iOnline247).
Matthew Hughes Company: Engage Multimedia Matthew Hughes has been working in schools and colleges in Leicester, England for the last 8 years and has now started his own consultancy business helping organisations add someone colour to their SP2007 and SP2010 environments. He has been working with SharePoint for 3 years and during this time he has created a learning gateway, public website and intranet paying attention to branding and administration without ever starting Visual Studio. Michael Hinckley Company: DSM.net After ten plus years of developing and managing e-learning projects I have found myself in the unique position to drive the innovation at an enterprise level using knowledge management tools and social media.
My current role is as Product Manager at DSM.net. I am formally an AVP at Citibank, although training delivery is one aspect of what I did, most of my job and interests included knowledge/content management, efficiencies projects and how they can be effectively distributed. This path has led me to SharePoint as the medium to deliver customized solutions.
When I am not tinkering under my MOSS sites hoods and bothering the IT department regarding admin level permissions you’ll find me either at home relaxing with my wonderful wife and three children or at my boxing gym trying to improve my “sweet science” despite the science of gravity and advancing years.
Mohammed Nabil Company: Microsoft, Middle East and Africa Collaboration platform TSP, A Master degree holder in Information system with quality assurance as my major. 6+ years working as System Analyst operated in Kuwait, Qatar, Egypt, Saudi and US. Area of expertise beside SharePoint 2010 are portal development, e-Gov, BPM.
Nicolas Georgeault, MVP Company: Exakis Working on portals and collaboration in business context since 1996 and Social Networking specific subjects. Using and implementing SharePoint since 2001.SharePoint Evangelist at ExakisFirst SharePoint Server MVP year ;) Active member of the French SharePoint User Group and President of the West branch of the group.Co-writer of “MS SharePoint Server 2010” French Book published in last september
Nigel Price Company: Cscape Nigel is a SharePoint Consultant at Cscape and has been working with SharePoint 2010 for the past 18 months. Before that he has worked with SharePoint 2007 since its beta version. He has also worked with SharePoint 2003 and MCMS 2000
Rutherford Wilson Company: Vizit, Inc Rutherford joined Atalasoft in 2007 to lead Atalasoft’s SharePoint product development and strategy. He is responsible for managing the engineering and marketing of our SharePoint document management product, Vizit. Prior to joining Atalasoft he held software product management positions at Novartis, Mass Mutual, CH2M Hill, and several startup companies developing one of the first RIA (Rich Internet Applications) in the mid-1990s. Rutherford holds an MBA degree from New York University.
Ruven Gotz, MVP Company: Ruven Gotz is a senior SharePoint consultant based in Toronto. For the past six years he has been focused on delivering award-winning SharePoint solutions (including multiple Microsoft Impact Awards for Information Worker Solutions).
Ruven is a great communicator who is able to translate technology concepts into language that is relevant to his audience, whether they are from I.T. or business.
Saifullah Shafiq, MVP Company: Wali Systems Inc. Saifullah Shafiq is a blogger, author and technology consultant. He provides SharePoint consultancy to the clients on the East coast of the US.
Saifullah maintains a SharePoint blog that is read all over the world, whereever there are people who work in the SharePoint technology. Saifullah has also authored books and has been writing technical articles since 1999.
Saifullah was first awarded SharePoint MVP status in 2007 and has maintained the status since then.
Sarah Haase Company: Best Buy Sarah Haase is an information architect and corporate librarian with more than 10 years of knowledge management and business process re-engineering experience. From building wikis and other online knowledge bases to supporting BestBuy.com's content management strategy, Sarah has focused on using technology to enable efficient information storage/retrieval.
In her current role as dotcom's Collaboration Manager, Sarah relies on SharePoint to drive online collaboration and optimize business processes. To date, these efforts have netted more than $450,000 in annual cost savings.
Symon Garfield Company: ICS Solutions People. Information. Technology. I explore the value and the possibilities that are created when they combine. For the past five years my focus has been on Collaboration, Knowledge Management and Microsoft Business Productivity technologies, with a special emphasis on SharePoint. Today my attention is shifting to include Cloud Computing and Microsoft’s Azure and Office365 technologies. I am currently the Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft Gold Partner ICS Solutions.
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