BJ Velez has more than a decade of experience providing solutions to Federal, Commercial, and Public Sector markets.  As an Assistant Vice President of a well known financial firm he implemented a worldwide Content Management and Disaster Recovery solution for hundreds of offices and datacenters.  As Chief Developer for a well know Value Added Reseller he designed a process for converting traditional on premise solutions to hosted models.  He has specialized in Archiving and Compliance for the last 6 years and is currently working as a Sr. Systems Engineer for Mimosa Systems residing in Wake Forest, NC.

Chris Kaveney has over 15 years aligning technology with business needs and IT experience.  At CorasWorks, he advises SharePoint customers how to best architect and build business applications using the CorasWorks Modular Application Development System for SharePoint.

President and founder of Infotronics, a consulting firm established in 1993.   Specializes in development, consulting and training with various SharePoint technologies.  Provides regular SharePoint seminars at Microsoft-Charlotte over the last two years.

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.

Currently a Senior Systems Engineer for L-3 Communications. Most recent work involves deploying Hyper-V failover clustering for a Network Load Balanced MOSS portal.

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.

Lee is laser focused on helping companies leverage their SharePoint investment to more easily and efficiently accomplish their business goals. His passion is in demystifying technology and increasing information worker collaboration using the powerful SharePoint platform.  He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and has trained over 2,400 users on the proper use of SharePoint 2007 and its supporting applications.  Lee is also a contributing author to EndUserSharePoint.com.  On EndUserSharePoint.com, you can read his articles and watch the SharePoint videos he contributes for the benefit of the SharePoint community.

Michael ( Mike ) Gannotti works at Microsoft as a Principal Technology Specialist.
 
Blogger, Podcaster, SocialMedia, Digital Media, SharePoint Samurai, wanna be world travelor.

Susan Lennon is an independent consultant / Microsoft Certified Trainer. She has been an independent for eight years and has been working on US Navy projects during that time. The last six years have all been involved with architecting SharePoint solutions for the Navy. Susan has certifications as an MCT, IT PRO Database Admin, MCTS SharePoint ( all 4) 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.