Al Scarborough is a results oriented IT practitioner and manager with 18+ years of experience, 8 of which have been working on various SharePoint projects encompassing Windows SharePoint Services through the latest release of SharePoint Server 2010.

Brian Jackett is a Senior Consultant at Sogeti USA specializing in Microsoft Collaboration and BI technologies, primarily SharePoint development and administration for almost 3 years.  Brian is a steering committee member of the Central Ohio SharePoint User Group and enjoys giving back to the community through giving presentations, volunteering at conferences, maintaining a SharePoint centric blog, and contributing to the SharePoint Twitterverse.  He also holds several Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certifications for SharePoint technologies.

Carlos has been in software development since the mid-80's working in financial services, insurance and technology. He has worked with C, C++, Java, J2EE, Spring, Eclipse and Python in various locations around the United States and Australia. During his time as an independent consultant he presented sessions on software development and distributed system architecture in the US, UK, Germany and France. In 2004 Sams Publishing published his first book, Eclipse Kick Start (for Eclipse version 3.0).

He has been with Fast, A Microsoft Subsidiary, since March of 2007 in a pre-sales technical role.

Chris Geier is a 15-year veteran of the technology industry and specializes in all things Microsoft.  He was introduced to SharePoint in 2001 while working for Microsoft services.  Currently Chris is the a product manager for Metalogix on the StoragePoint product.  Chris is a participant in, and advocate for, the SharePoint community, as well as a regular participant/speaker at SharePoint Saturday and other grass roots events. When he’s not twiddling with the latest gadgets, software and technology, you’ll probably find Chris on a bleacher cheering his budding baseball and gymnastics stars.  Chris and his wife Sara have four kids and live in the suburban Chicago area.

Chris McNulty has over twenty years’ experience in financial services technology at State Street, Santander, GMO and John Hancock/Manulife.  He is currently SharePoint practice lead at KMA, a New England Microsoft Gold Partner, where he leads engagements using SharePoint, SQL Server, Project Server, and .NET.   Chris also holds an MBA from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College in Investment Management and Corporate Finance.  Chris is a member of the Microsoft Solutions Advocate and MVTS programs, and holds both MCSE and MCTS certifications.  A frequent speaker and author, he was part of the original Ignite airlift for SharePoint 2010, and is a contributing author on the upcoming book “Essential SharePoint 2010”.  He lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife Hayley and three children.

Damon came from the urban wilds of Japan where he worked for and then with the Marine Corps supporting distributed enterprise systems.  He has been working with SharePoint since the bad old days of STS 2001.  He has a breadth of experience from UX to hard core product development.

Errin O’Connor is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer
for EPC Group. Errin focuses his efforts on implementing
Microsoft Technologies in organizations throughout the
country. Errin manages EPC Group’s corporate strategy as
well as architects the proven methodologies around
collaboration, enterprise content management, and custom
application development that have set EPC Group apart
from its competitors.

Errin is the author of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Inside Out by Microsoft Press. Errin is also writing a new
book for Microsoft on SharePoint 2010 that set to be
released in the later part of 2010. He has completed more
than 120 highly successful individual SharePoint
implementations and has worked with some of the largest
organizations in the United States. Errin also works with
EPC Group’s clients on the architecture and design of
large-scale Project Server implementations to ensure best
practices integration across the enterprise.

Errin is also the founder of WebPartGallery.com an online
solutions provider of SharePoint web parts and custom
solutions and is a frequent speaker at Microsoft SharePoint
events throughout the United States and Canada including
this year’s Gartner Portals Content and Collaboration Summit.

Eugene Rosenfeld is the CTO of Black Blade Associates, and 2-time Microsoft MVP awardee. He started his IT career as a database programmer and soon moved into enterprise application integration (EAI) and portal systems. Eugene holds a strong belief that all systems should have the innate ability to intelligently communicate with one another. Most recently he has been heavily involved with distributed systems architecture, Services Oriented Architected (SOA), peer-to-peer systems, and cloud computing.

Eugene spends his time developing innovative SharePoint products and utilities, like the docBlock Ascend, which brings virtual documents to the SharePoint platform and incorporates Eugene’s interests in distributed systems, SOA, peer-to-peer systems. Eugene also maintains his blog, "Things that Should be Easy". Check it out for tips that may make your current project a little easier.

Fabian is a Technical Lead and SharePoint Architect for CDW Advanced Technology Services SharePoint Practice. He is based out of Herndon, Va. Prior to CDW, Fabian was the CTO 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. Catch him on Twitter as @FabianWilliams or his blog at fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com

Geoff Varosky (MCP, MCTS) is a Senior Solutions Developer for Grace-Hunt, LLC (http://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 a decade, and has been working with SharePoint Technologies for the past 6 years. Geoff is an active member of the SharePoint community, and speaks regularly at SharePoint events and user groups, and maintains a blog on SharePoint at http://www.geoffvarosky.com.

Jaime Velez is an enterprise services consultant with Microsoft and has over 7 years of experience working with SharePoint Products & Technologies. Over the past three years Jaime has worked solely on MOSS 2007 enterprise projects for various commercial and financial services customers across the U.S. and has extensive experience deploying large-scale SharePoint farms. Over the last several months Mr. Velez has been exclusively working with one of the largest Microsoft enterprise customers participating in the SharePoint 2010 Technical Adoption Program (TAP) and now hopes to share some of his valuable “real-world” experiences with the SharePoint community at large.

Janis Hall, Lead SharePoint Instructor,  combines more than 10 years of technical knowledge with business acumen when working with organizations on needs analysis and delivery for custom support models, system integration and upgrades, process analysis, and the design and implementation of collaborative sites. In her previous work at Mindsharp, and now as a MetroStar Systems Instructor, Janis incorporates her passion for SharePoint and its countless benefits into viable, innovative classes that provide students with both technical know-how and concepts of functional benefits. In her 10 years with a technical consulting firm, Janis has applied her expertise in various roles including that of a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Analyst. With an admittedly quirky and outgoing personality, Janis has a particular enthusiasm for working with people. Her varied technical background provides Janis with a uniquely broad perspective on how technology is learned, adapted, and applied.  

Jeff is a ten year veteran of the Managed Application Services and SaaS group at AT&T (formerly USi, the company that pioneered the delivery of Software as a Service way back in 1998), during which time he has been a consultant and team lead on a wide variety of Microsoft-based software and managed hosting solutions.  

 Jeff now collaborates with AT&T’s Enterprise customers worldwide as they “Rethink Possible” in the planning and design for their fully managed SharePoint hosting solutions powered by AT&T’s industry-leading Synaptic Infrastructure.
 

Jeff frequently blogs and tweets on SharePoint and related topics at http://www.BecraftsBlog.com and http://twitter.com/jeffbecraft

John Burkholder is a Senior Project Manager for Digicon

Corporation, where he is the primary business manager for

SharePoint and specializes in architecting hosted SharePoint

environments. He has extensive experience with architecting MOSS, WSS as well as enterprise systems environments in general. John first started working with SharePoint since 2001 as an administrator and has been working with technology for 25 years. John also coaches Odyssey of the Mind and Chess for elementary school students.

Twitter: @n8ivwarrior

Mr. Colon has more than 25 years experience in providing customized technical solutions delivery to private sector clients. Under the employment of industry leading product vendors and in his own private consultation practice, he has built solutions for Fortune 500 companies in the financial, energy, legal, entertainment, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical markets. Mr. Colon’s career has been focused on enterprise full text search integrations for these industries for 20 years. Mr. Colon holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Columbia College of Columbia University in the City of New York.

Kathryn Birstein is an independent software consultant in the NYC metropolitan area. She has been a SharePoint Architect for the last 3-1/2 years and has worked with Microsoft software in various other capacities for many years before that. She is the founder of the NYC SharePoint Developers User Group (http://meetup.com/nycsdug) and on the board of the NYC SharePoint Users Group. Her recent clients include Microsoft, the United Bank of Switzerland and the New York Power Authority. She is presently consulting at McKinsey & Company where she is architecting and deploying SharePoint 2010.

Microsoft SQL Server MVP 2010

(Microsoft .NET/C# MVP 2005-2009)
 

SQL Server/.NET Developer/Author/Speaker/Trainer

Trainer and Curriculum author for SetFocus, LLC

Automated Business Solutions since 1987

Kevin has working with SharePoint since 2003, mostly developing custom applications.  In 2007 he released his first SharePoint 2007 public facing internet site in January 2007 for the Microsoft Flight Simulator Community team in Redmond while working at Microsoft. Since then, he has deployed several custom SharePoint solutions, with a focus on public facing implementations. Currently Kevin is  a Senior SharePoint Development Consultant for KWizCom where he is responsible for developing custom components for SharePoint implementations.

Lyudmila is a Microsoft technology specialist and Microsoft Certified developer with over ten years IT experience. She is a co-founder of the New York SharePoint
Developers User Group. Lyudmila’s core skills are focused around software development, predominantly utilizing .Net, SQL Server, and SharePoint Server.
Lyudmila currently works as a SharePoint Consultant  for MRM Worldwide and makes a master degree in computer science in NYIT.

Matt Vignau is a senior developer with Liquid Hub, Inc specializing in SharePoint.  He has worked with SharePoint 2007 for the last 5 years, specializing in the development of features and the packaging of solutions.

Over 10 years of IT experience. Worked for both corporate and consulting firms in the past utilizing client - server, web, and windows applications. Currently concentrating on Share Point technologies and Business Intelligence. Microsoft SharePoint Certified, MCT; WSS 3.0, MOSS2007; Pace University Graduate of 2001 in NYC, Bachelors in Computer Science/Business Minor.

Michael Mukalian is a SharePoint Services MVP, Director and Architect for LiquidHub, Inc. (www.liquidhub.com) an information technology consultancy based in the Philadelphia area serving clients worldwide. With over 20 years of IT experience and certifications in VB.NET and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Michael has architected and developed solutions for companies of all sizes. Check out Michael's blog at http://www.mukalian.com/blog.

Mostafa Elzoghbi is a Microsoft C# MVP since 2006, A technology advocate likes to share his knowledge and experience with Microsoft communities through online and offline events. Working with SharePoint for the last 4 years and heavily involved in designing and developing SharePoint solutions. Working for MetroStar Systems as a Sr. Software Engineer. Mostafa Holds MCAD,MCSD,MCTS,MCT professional certifications. he is running an active blog: http://moustafa-arafa.blogspot.com ;and you can connect with him in twitter: @MostafaElzoghbi

Session Details: In this session we will cover the farm solutions vs. sandbox solutions, the architecture design for sandbox solutions underlying processes, Limitation with Sandbox solutions, deploying and managing Sandbox solutions, and how to manage sandbox solutions resources. how to extend sandbox solutions by running your code with full permissions in your sandbox solution. session is full of demos and code driven.

Natalya Voskresenskaya, had been working in the field of Information Technology for over 10 years. With experience in design, architecture, development and deployment of Web based applications, since early days of 2000 her main area of concentration had been development of portal solutions. Natalya delivers enterprise Portal applications and business solutions, as well as portal systems architecture, design, implementation, and best practices guidance. She has been involved in SharePoint Technologies since the 2003 version. Besides SharePoint, Natalya’s interest had been captured by another enterprise level search technology FAST, to her joy these technologies had been combined to compliment each other’s functionality. In 2009, Natalya co-founded Arcovis LLC, a business solutions consulting company focused on high quality SharePoint delivery. She has been awarded the prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for the first time in year 2008.

Neil Barkhina is an MCAD Certified professional with nearly 5 years of experience working with .NET technologies. He specializes in web development and SharePoint technologies and has worked on numerous projects including Leading Development on a SharePoint Intranet site for the largest real estate firm in New York. He has also worked in the video games industry doing 3D Game Development and Mobile Phone Applications. He is currently a Solutions Architect at Gig-Werks.

Parth Patel is Founder and Chief Solutions Architect at SharePoint Engine, a NJ based Microsoft Gold Partner focused on Enterprise Content Management, Business Process Management and Business Intelligence solutions based on SharePoint Platform.
Parth Patel has over 8 years of experience in content management industry. He concentrates his efforts on architecting cutting edge solutions that ensure clients receive the most robust and cost effective solutions.

Parth Patel has led  number of Projects based on SharePoint platform for clients such as KPMG, Lilly (ImClone), City Of Philadelphia, South Jersey Health Care each having unique requirements.

He is actively involved in SharePoint Community, AIIM, IEEE and NJTC and is frequent speaker on topics based on ECM, BPM and BI.

Paul Galvin has worked in the IT industry for over 15 years in a number of roles including software development, consulting and most recently SharePoint solutions design. Paul works with clients to create top-notch business solutions using the SharePoint platform. He contributes to the SharePoint community through MSDN forums, blogging (both as host and guest at End User SharePoint.com) and online newsletters and magazines, including SharePointBriefing.com and SharePoint Magazine. Microsoft awarded Paul with MVP for SharePoint in July 2008.

Paul J. Swider is both founder and the Enterprise SharePoint Strategist for OnClick Solutions. In addition he is president of the Charleston SharePoint Users Group and an accomplished entrepreneur. Straight from a barrier Island near Charleston, SC Paul chases the tides and winds as an avid boater and sailor. Paul is grateful he is able escape the summer heat in Charleston and consults with some of the most successful companies in the country. 17 years of software consulting experience combined with many Microsoft certifications and speaking credentials has made Paul an authority in the SharePoint Community. As an MCT Paul has trained and consulted thousands of administrators, developers and architects. His vast knowledge is not overshadowed by his witty entertainment when he speaks at numerous conferences and seminars nationwide. With unique creativity, Paul implements enterprise SharePoint Solutions for clients around the country. In addition, he writes and teaches about enterprise collaboration concepts with demonstrated knowledge you can only get in "the trenches". His specialties include enterprise SharePoint development patterns, information architecture, business process and social media integration.

Peter Serzo (MCSD .Net, MCP, MCTS) is a published author, a founder of the SouthEastern SharePoint group, a speaker at conferences, and works for Trillium Teamologies as a SharePoint Architect. Peter has been in the IT industry for 20 years.  He has extensive experience with SharePoint implementing solutions for several enterprise organizations over the past six years.  

Using a varied background, including a degree in English, Peter brings a fresh perspective to each engagement and the clients he represents.  Each session he presents is told in story mode in order to engage and educate.  This type of communications presents SharePoint technology in an understandable format, including best practices that are immediately accessible.
 

You can follow Peter on twitter: pserzo or on his website at www.sharepointusermagic.com.

Peter Ward is the Business Collaboration Manager for InterDynAKA.  In this position, Ward is responsible for the continued success of implementing Microsoft’s Information Worker product suite which includes SharePoint, InfoPath, and Office. Ward draws on 18 years of industry experience in consulting and project management capacity and has a proven track record of delivering portal and project management solutions through cultural acceptance and integration of multiple technologies. His experience enables him to find creative, yet pragmatic solutions to collaboration challenges in a broad cross section of industries including, consumer goods, on line gambling, government, financial services, and transportation.

Co-author of the ”SharePoint 2010 User Guide”.  To be published in July 2010.  This book was co-written with Microsoft.

Ricardo Palhano – Senior Systems Architect
    * Bachelor of Science (BS), Applied Information Technology, George Mason University
    * Experience as a SharePoint architect and systems integrator since SharePoint 2003.
    * Recent Projects include
          o Marines.mil Team Lead/ SharePoint Architect for the largest Marines Corps public facing website with 600 internal users and millions of hits per day.
          o Technical Lead for NTSB SharePoint implementation.  Created Portal sites, analyzed requirements, wrote Technical Manual , workflows, custom SharePoint pages for several offices and created Pivot Charts and Key Performance Indicators for NTSB Prototypes
          o PM and SharePoint Architect for XM’s internal portal deployment responsible for designing both the infrastructure and SharePoint site
            layout as well as services.
          o Strategic planning process to ensure strongly aligned IT and business goals
    * Architectural design, development, customization, and integration efforts of enterprise solutions involving Collaboration, Portals, Enterprise Content Management, Business Process and Forms, and Business Intelligence
    * Several Certifications including MCSA and MOF 4.0

Over the past 6 years I have had the pleasure of working extensively with SharePoint as an end user, developer, administrator, architect, business analyst, and consultant. In this time I defined, architected, developed, and implemented well over a hundred SharePoint solutions from small implementations of WSS on a single server, to 80,000+ user implementations in international organizations.

This has resulted in me working with truly fantastic people who I admire, and respect for their dedication, intelligence, and generosity. I absolutely love learning, and have found that people seem to love teaching, sharing, and helping as much as I do. As a result I have a habit of getting involved in a great many community events (organizing and presenting) which always leave me a bit smarter, stronger, more humbled and better off.

Rob Windsor is a developer, trainer, writer and Senior Consultant with ObjectSharp Consulting - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Toronto, Canada. He has over fifteen years experience developing rich-client and web applications with Delphi, VB, C# and VB.NET and is currently spending a majority of his time working with SharePoint. Rob is a member of both the INETA Speakers Bureau and the MSDN Canada Speakers Bureau and is a regular speaker at conferences, code camps, and user groups across North America and Europe. He regularly contributes articles and "How Do I" videos to MSDN and TechNet and is the co-author of Professional Visual Basic 2010 and .NET for Wrox. He is President of the Toronto Visual Basic User Group and has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his involvement in the developer community.

Supriyo "SB" Chatterjee is an Architect/Tech-lead based in Hartford CT. He has over 20 years IT experience and has worked at companies like Aetna, IBM, UNICEF and State of Connecticut. He holds graduate degrees in Computer Science, Business Administration and Economics. He was thrice awarded the Microsoft MVP Award for Groove. He moderates several public Groove workspaces and is an Acting Director of the Connecticut .NET Developers Group. Twitter: @sbc111

Scott Lavoie has been implementing software training rollouts for 12 years.  He has worked in healthcare, energy, corporate governance, finance and telecommunications in both the private and public sectors.  He spent five years in the ECM industry, where he travelled extensively to the U.S. to implement training solutions. He currently is an independent consultant and lives in Toronto, Canada.

My background spans 11 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 Social Media applications and 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.
 

I am the co-founder of the Baltimore SharePoint User Group and Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist in MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Configuration

Steven Fowler is an author, speaker, and consultant possessing a mix of advanced technology and strategic business acumen derived from over 15 years of progressive project management, architecture and engineering experience. Steven has worked with SharePoint since version 2003 and recently completed one of the world’s largest SharePoint implementations for the Department of Defense.

Tal Paleg, FAST/Microsoft since 2007, focused on NY media accounts .  This support includes the pre-sales briefings, evaluation support, requirements analysis, architectural design and working with implementation services teams. 

Thomas Daly  - is a seasoned SharePoint Solutions developer. He specializes in delivering custom developed solutions from both the server side or client side. He is an expert in web technologies and highly proficient in many languages including C#, Javascript, Jquery, T-SQL, CSS, XSLT. His educational background is composed of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and a Master’s degree in Software Engineering. He holds many technical certifications such as his MCTS in both MOSS 2007 & WSS 3.0 Application Development, MSTC in MOSS 2007 & WSS 3.0 Configuration.

Tony is the Vice President of Corporate Development at AvePoint, where he is responsible for directing product design and shaping business strategy.  Since SharePoint’s debut, he has helped innovate many pioneering tools and strategies to optimize the platform and streamline its administration.  Tony’s expertise in the areas of deployment architecture, governance, and protection has garnered him numerous speaking engagements at technical conferences and industry-events worldwide.