Adam Macaulay is responsible for research and development of the technology platform driving the success of CorasWorks products. He has over 14 years of experience, 12 in Microsoft and 8 in SharePoint, developing Internet Applications that have taken internal, cost ineffective solutions and turned them into profitable internet applications that continue to exist today.

With over 10 years of experience in the technology industry, Bill is responsible for all enterprise sales in North America for Colligo. From 2006 through May 2008 Bill was in charge of sales and channel development in the European market.

Prior to joining Colligo, Bill was involved in a VoIP start-up division at Spectrum Signal Processing as the Regional Sales Manager for the western US and handling distribution into Asia.  In his time at Spectrum he was also involved in a variety of sales roles in the wireless defence business unit including distribution into Israel and Canadian sales.

Bill started his career as a software engineer prior to moving into sales. He holds an Electrical Engineer degree (Computer Option) from Simon Fraser University. 

Mr. Davis has worked for Lockheed Martin contractor, at FT. Hood, TX and, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.  He has taught many seminars and individual classes to enhance collaboration and knowledge sharing through the use of Microsoft’s SharePoint and Office 2007 applications. He is a Systems Thinker, and uses his vast experience to enable organizations to function more effectively.
Mr. Davis served 18 years in the U.S. Army’s Chemical Corps in a variety of assignments. He also worked as contractor providing SME to the Biological Detection Community and as a Trainer/Developer for Battle Command Sustainment Support System (BCS3). His personal interests are in the areas of knowledge management, Scuba Diving/Instruction and teaching CPR/First Aid.  His wife is a Nurse working at Munson Medical Center, and he has one young daughter living at home.
Mr. Davis is a Certified Knowledge Management Professional and is an active member of the KMPro Society as well as other KM and IT Groups.

Cathy Dew is a graphic designer and SharePoint Consultant for CTS in Birmingham, Alabama.  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 on many SharePoint installations to brand SharePoint and make it look “Not like SharePoint”. She is also the President and Founder of the Birmingham SharePoint User’s Group

Chris Geier is a 15 year veteran of the IT industry, specializing in security and Microsoft product lines.  For the past 4 years he has been working in the workflow and BPM space.  Also dabbling in community development and Social Media.

Chris is a SharePoint and Office 2007 trainer providing services as a contractor for the US Army Combined Arms Center (CAC) located at Fort Leavenworth, KS. As a member of the CAC G6 Learning Center Team his responsibilities include but are not limited to providing live training; developing custom training lesson plans; contributing to the production of on-demand training;   and development and implementation of marketing and promotion plan for technical training services. 

With an education degree and more than 20 years experience in adult training and education as a health care contractor primarily for Fortune 500 companies, Chris brings a unique approach to technical training for the non-technical user. Emphasis is placed on practical application of technology to promote effectiveness and efficiency in everyday business tasks.

Corey Roth is an Enterprise Consultant at Stonebridge specializing in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in the Oil & Gas Industry. He has ten years of experience delivering solutions in the energy, travel, advertising and consumer electronics verticals. Corey has always focused on rapid adoption of new Microsoft technologies including Visual Studio 2008, .NET Framework 3.5, LINQ, and SilverLight. He also contributed greatly to the beta phases of Visual Studio 2005. For his contributions, he was awarded the Microsoft Award for Customer Excellence (ACE). Corey is a graduate of Oklahoma State University. Corey is a member of the .NET Mafia (www.dotnetmafia.com) where he blogs about the latest technology and SharePoint.

Coskun Cavusoglu is the Director of Consulting Services and the Chief Solution Architect of Captaré  Consulting, LLC (www.captare.com). He has been architecting and implementing technology solutions for more than 10 years in both large, enterprise organizations and fast growth midmarket firms. As a Software Engineer specializing in the .NET Framework and the Office Server System, specifically Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, he has extensive experience designing, implementing and supporting Internet solutions using Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint, CRM, Project Server, Windows Server, Active Directory, Exchange, IIS and ASP .NET 2.0/3.5. Coskun is a technology writer, blogger and a published author on Microsoft server products. His latest book which he co-authored with fellow SharePoint experts is called Professional Microsoft® SharePoint® 2007 Design by Wrox Publishing (ISBN #978-0-470-28580-0) and his blog is located at http://www.sharepointcoskun.com. He 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. Coskun is a Microsoft Certified Professional and is also a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist for SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

Daniel A. Galant is an Associate with English, Bleeker and Associates and has been specializing in SharePoint and its related technologies for the past few years. With a long history in IT education and consulting, Daniel brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the SharePoint table. Daniel is also an accomplished speaker  having presented at both conferences and National Microsoft Partner events. He was a content contributor for the Microsoft Press book, SharePoint Best Practices and also provided Technical editing for Sybex's Mastering SharePoint Services 3.0. While he truly enjoys delving in the fascinating world of tech, Daniel can often be found within the land of Disney, be it Orlando or Anaheim where the cares of everyday can be forgotten. At least for a little while. (He also hates writing bios.)

From desktop support to IT Director, Dave Petersen has seen IT from just about every conceivable vantage point.  For the last two years, Dave has worked with organizations planning and implementing SharePoint solutions.

For over 12 years, David has been delivering technical solutions that make sense. He runs a small consulting business helping companies leverage and support Microsoft SharePoint and .NET. When he is not working, he spends time with his beautiful wife and two adorable children. David may be reached at david.frette@gmail.com.

Ms. Wall is a SharePoint and Office 2007 trainer currently employed as part of a contract with the Combined Arms Center located at Fort Leavenworth, KS. She helps the soldiers, civilians, and contractors at the fort learn how to get the best out of SharePoint and the Office 2007 products. The sessions are very people orientated and offered at various levels. Ms. Wall also helps create on demand training videos that are available at all times.
 
Before being employed with Lockheed Martin IS&GS, Deborah worked over 20 years with the University of Missouri - Kansas City in their Computing Services and Information System departments. She helped the students, faculty, and staff use the wide variety of software, hardware, and systems available to them. Ms. Wall has always been a user-centered IT professional.

Dennis J. Bottjer is a Solutions Architect, for Microsoft Gold Partner SpringPoint Technologies (www.MySpringPoint.com). He is a Microsoft ASP/ASP.NET MVP and has worked with FORTUNE 100 companies.  Dennis has over 11 years of experience in helping companies build 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 the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group.

In between searching the planet high and low for the best skiing conditions, deepest powder and crazy ‘steeps’, Eric Harlan spends most of his time in the technology field.

Eric Harlan has been in the I.T. industry for ten years, and heavily involved with SharePoint for six years.  Starting from a developer role, Eric has moved on to a more architectural role with a focus on configuration and server implementation

Never forgetting his developer roots, he still jumps in when needed to pick up the slack on custom dev needs. As Principle Architect for Sogeti Baltimore Eric is the first on the ground to plan and initiate SharePoint engagements and guide them to fruition.

Eric is involved with many volunteer organizations from the Maryland Elder technology Outreach, SharePoint Saturdays, and educational code camps to President and Co-Founder of the Baltimore SharePoint Users group.

Eric also does many speaking events revolving around SharePoint. Topics range from SharePoint Development, InfoPath development tricks and gotcha’s to basic SharePoint sessions for the end user. (see upcoming speaking engagements below)

Howard Davy is presently a SharePoint developer with Massman Construction.  His duties include site collection development, work flows and web part development.  He’s responsible for the SharePoint servers and the administrative duties for Massman.

Howard started his professional career in the US Army, repairing radar and electronics systems.  Upon his discharge from the service, he began working as an electrical engineer working with control and instrumentation systems for various pumping applications across the US.

Howard has been working as a software developer since he graduated college with a Bachelors of Science in computer science in 2000.  His first job out of college was developing expert systems and knowledge engineering for a company specializing in artificial intelligence applications primarily for military applications.  He spent several years developing different software projects of varying types before settling on a position at Fort Leavenworth.  He spent three years developing NET applications and SharePoint for the military at Ft. Leavenworth.  Last August he accepted his present position with Massman Construction.
Howard has lived in Kansas City for 6 years.  He’s married and has a daughter.  His hobbies include photography and creative writing.

J.D. Wade, SharePoint Consultant, has been providing infrastructure solutions for various Microsoft products in the St. Louis area for over 13 years. J.D.’s expertise is the design, deployment and troubleshooting of infrastructure and governance for SharePoint as well as interfacing with the surrounding technologies (directory services, e-mail, load balancers, DNS, WAN accelerators, etc.). J.D. has worked on the deployment of several large corporate intranet solutions and deployed the latest versions of SharePoint as part of Microsoft Technology Adoption Programs (TAP).

A recognized Microsoft SharePoint thought leader, evangelist, consultant, author and blogger.  Joe is also the Founder and Managing Partner for The Portal Group, LLC, an Indianapolis-based consultancy, and SharePointSupport.com, which provides off-site SharePoint administration, support and maintenance services.

As a consultant and solution architect, Joe has been working with SharePoint for over 5 years and has more than 75 successful SharePoint engagements and implementations to his credit, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 customers.  His company, The Portal Group, also provides knowledge management and business intelligence consulting services.

The Portal Group can be found online at www.theportalgroup.biz.  More information about the off-site SharePoint administration, support and maintenance service can be found at www.sharepointsupport.com.  Joe Mack can be found blogging at www.themackpage.com and tweeting as @mack247.

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. He also managed the internal web development and test environments for Slate.com, a political webzine.

 

Blog: www.sharepointjoel.com

Consultant, Author, and Coach John Alexander is a recognized Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) and is a Managing Partner with AJI Software, a Kansas City-based Microsoft partner and software consulting firm., John has also served as the Microsoft Regional Director for the Kansas City Region for the last eleven years. Experienced in the delivery of scalable, stable, and open enterprise-level .NET applications, John is an industry recognized trainer, consultant, speaker and writer on the Microsoft .NET vision and implementation at both the technical and business decision maker level. He has also coached several teams of developers, including one that was directly responsible for placing that organization on CIO Magazine's Agile 100 List. John was most recently co-author of Professional SharePoint 2007 Development, the top selling SharePoint Developer book, published by Wrox Press.

Joshua Carlisle is a principal consultant with B&R Business Solutions. He specializes in collaboration solutions based on SharePoint, ASP.NET, and the .Net Framework. He has been developing with Microsoft tools for over 13 years and with SharePoint since 2003. In his current role he works with clients to design and implement enterprise and commercial solutions based on the SharePoint platform. He is the co-founder of the new Raleigh SharePoint User Group, active in many community projects, and can be found speaking at many user groups, regional conferences, and code camps across the east coast.

Joy has been harnessing technology to improve business practices and revamp legacy systems for 10 years. A SharePoint Business User Trainer, her SharePoint duties have recently expanded to include Administration and Development.

Juan has been a leader and innovator in the world of electronic content management system applications for over two decades. He is the founder, President and CEO of COMPU-DATA International, LLC, a company successfully delivering content & data integration solutions through the use of capture, administration, collaboration and retrieval technologies and services. Juan has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Sam Houston State University and a Master of Science in Management and Computer Science from Houston Baptist University.

Justin is a Solutions Architect and founding partner of Valorem Consulting which operates in St. Louis and Kansas City.  Justin focuses on SharePoint technologies, primarily around infrastructure, security and governance.  He has been working on SharePoint since the early 2001 release.

Justin also co-produces a SharePoint focused podcast at www.mossgonewild.com.

Karthik Venkataraman is a Senior Consultant with Trabon Solutions, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner specializing in the development of portals and web applications.  With over 9 years of experience building & architecting a variety of enterprise applications, Karthik is proficient in Microsoft technologies and has a passion for developing innovative SharePoint solutions.

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.  Mark currently works for UNFI (http://www.unfi.com) where he was introduced to the world of SharePoint and has taken on a lead SharePoint architect role within his organization making key development, administration, and architecture decisions.  Mark’s goal is to help ever new architect and developer avoid the frustrations and brick walls he ran into while learning SharePoint.

Matt Bremer is currently a Solutions Architect with Covenant Technology Partners focusing on SharePoint 2007. As a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, he has assisted a number of clients in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 architecture, infrastructure and development. In addition, Matt has a wealth of experience in .NET application development. Since leaving Microsoft in July of 2008, he has enjoyed working with Covenant, providing architectural guidance and building robust solutions for its clients. In addition, Matt’s office smells of rich mahogany and contains many leather bound SharePoint books. You can read Matt’s blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/mattbremer or follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/mattbremer. Stay classy!

Michael is a SharePoint Solutions Architect for B&R Business Solutions, and travels throughout the United States implementing SharePoint and InfoPath-based solutions. He is an active speaker at East Coast Code Camps and user group meetings, and is a co-author on O’Reilly’s SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide.

I have been working professionally in the IT consulting world since 1991 but started off with the Timex Sinclair 1000 somewhere around the age of 10, learning to program its peculiar form of BASIC. In my “previous life” (before Microsoft) I worked with Progress technology products (e.g. 4GL, WebSpeed) using them to create a development toolset called eFramework, a B2B product, a B2C product, a CRM and ERP integration product and dozens of custom solutions for our customers. We built many great things with EFW and it’s still in use today. I made the switch to Microsoft technology by diving into BizTalk Server 2004 (I’m told that I was lucky to miss 2002) and was amazed and excited by the improvements in 2006. I thought my career providing integration solutions with BizTalk would never end. That abruptly changed when I went to work at Conchango the first business day of 2007. I was placed into the collaboration group which uses SharePoint to deliver business solutions and I haven’t looked back since (well, maybe once). I am first and foremost a solutions architect. SharePoint, as all the business and technical world has learned, is a great platform for creating business solutions. Its horizontal nature leads to many other exciting opportunities for systems management, integration, BPI and more. It’s a solution architect’s dream platform. I live in northern Bergen County, NJ, just a few miles west of Manhattan with my wife and son.

Paul is a SharePoint MVP who has specialized in Microsoft products since the mid-1990s. As a "Jack of all Trades" he has developed expertise as a network administrator, developer, and DBA. Paul works as a consultant/trainer for Mindsharp where his breadth of knowledge makes him ideally suited to combine Administrative, Development, and SharePoint Designer topics.  His 20+ years of experience and broad background make Paul a much sought after resource for SharePoint questions that cross traditional boundaries. Paul is a contributing author to the Developer's Guide to Windows SharePoint Services v3 Platform and the SharePoint Server 2007 Deployment Best Practices.

Russ Houberg is a SharePoint Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and has been a Senior Architect at KnoweldgeLake for over 5 years.  Russ is responsible for designing the taxonomy and topology architecture for KnowledgeLake’s document imaging customers that require enterprise class scalability.  Russ is the author of the SharePoint Storage Architecture Whitepaper and the co-author of the Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to implement a large-scale content storage scenario with rapid search availability TechNet whitepaper.

Sandeep has been working in Microsoft stack of technologies for over 12 years. For the past 3 years he has been involved with SPS 2003 and MOSS. Sandeep has done extensive work in integrating workflows using InfoPath forms, enhancing ECM capabilities utilizing third party scanning tools and is Lead Developer on Integration Now’s flagship product. Sandeep is a graduate from Univ of Missouri Kansas City and holds PMP and several Microsoft certifications.

My background spans over 10 years of supporting the unique demands of Federal and state government sectors.  I am a US Navy veteran with extensive background in cloud services
support and implementation, configuration management,

process development, SharePoint backup and recovery, and SharePoint integration. My primary projects include supporting the Obama Administration's Open Government initiative in bringing transparency to government leveraging SharePoint platform integration with a wide range of internal government platforms and applications.  I currently support multiple SharePoint implementations within the
fast-paced, high pressure legal community in downtown

Washington DC providing End User support for the US Attorney General's staff and related sections and components.

Susan Henry is a SharePoint Consultant with ettain group, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, based in Charlotte, NC. Her career began in web design and development, but for the past two years her primary focus has been with Mircosoft SharePoint Technologies. She specializes in Administration, Architecture and Design. She has extensive experience with SharePoint Branding and Web Content Management and has helped several clients take their SharePoint sites to the next level through customization and design.

Susan Lennon is an independent consultant / Microsoft Certified Trainer. She has been an independent for seven years and has been working on US Navy projects during that time. The last five years have all been involved with architecting SharePoint solutions for the Navy. Susan has certifications as an MCT, IT PRO Database Admin, MCTS SharePoint and MCSD .NET. Susan is deeply committed to the development community and helps run three user groups in VA and is a frequent speaker at Code Camps and SharePoint Saturdays.

Tony Lanni, AvePoint’s Vice President of Marketing, performs research and analysis on Microsoft SharePoint landscape and evaluates industry trends that impact the course of business. Tony co-develops strategies for new product design and works on enterprise-level data protection and management software deployments for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies. Tony’s extensive experience with SharePoint custom backup, recovery and administration applications has earned him multiple speaking opportunities within SharePoint communities and at technical events, such as Microsoft TechEd, Data Protection Summit and IBM Tivoli Nation.