Joel is a senior product manager and SharePoint evangelist at Quest where he is responsible for product direction and strategy. He is well known in the SharePoint community as an enthusiastic trainer, evangelist and architect and he maintains a popular blog. Joel is a frequent speaker at popular technical conferences, such as Microsoft TechEd, and often presents to local SharePoint user groups. Prior to Quest, Joel worked at Microsoft and was a part of the first Microsoft global deployment of SharePoint. During his Microsoft tenure Joel helped various customers achieve the critical governance they needed to upgrade and achieve scale with SharePoint 2007. He would later design the extranet and hosted SharePoint deployments. Before Joel joined Microsoft, he worked for a large telecom organization where he architected multi-tiered web applications and multi-staged extranet deployments. Blog: www.sharepointjoel.com

Michael Noel, MCSE+I, CISSP, MVP, has been involved in the computer industry for nearly two decades, and has significant real-world experience helping organizations realize business value from Information Technology infrastructure. Michael has authored several major best-selling industry books translated into 7 languages with a total worldwide circulation of over 100,000 copies. Significant titles include SharePoint 2007 Unleashed, Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed, Windows Longhorn Unleashed, ISA Server 2006 Unleashed, SharePoint 2003 Unleashed, and many more. Currently a principal consultant at Convergent Computing in the San Francisco Bay area, Michael’s writings and worldwide public speaking experience leverage his real-world expertise designing, deploying, and administering IT infrastructure for his clients.

Mohamed Saleh is a Sr. Development Engineer at Devosis, based in Amman, Jordan. His focus lies within Microsoft .NET technologies, primarily in Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, Mohamed has worked with Microsoft Technologies since Visual Studio 5 and he is working now with SharePoint Products and Technologies as a consultant, developer and trainer. In 2008, he received the Microsoft MVP Award for Visual C# for his contributions to the Jordan .NET Community, as well as his published Visual Studio 2008 Community Training Material. He is a frequent speaker at both the .NET and SharePoint User Groups.

Muhanad Omar is a consultant, trainer, speaker and community advocate who helps organizations in the Middle East successfully develop, deploy and derive value from solutions built on SharePoint Products and Technologies. Muhanad works for Devosis and specializes in architecture, deployment, administration and business adoption of SharePoint. Muhanad is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for SharePoint Server, the Founder and Leader of the Jordan SharePoint User Group, and Regional Evangelist for the International SharePoint Professionals Association (ISPA).

Tamer Nassrawin is a Business Services Section Head for Nuqul Group. He is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in MOSS 2007 and has been working with the product since its first release. He is responsible for managing the Group’s intranet implementation in terms of Unified Communications, BI and Portal.