John Roe is the new Technology Solutions Professional (TSP) for SharePoint at Microsoft, with a focus primarily on enterprise customers in Southern California. Prior to that John worked at Perficient, a national System Integrator, formerly known as speakTECH. He spent about 6 years at Perficient, most recently as the National SharePoint Practice Lead. During that time he worked in a variety of roles related to architecture, development, planning, and training on the SharePoint platform. He enjoys speaking at a variety of community events including the Orange County SharePoint user group.

Art Fort Profile With over 12 years in the software industry Art Fort has been in many roles including developer, manager, architect, and consultant. Most recently his passion has been focused on helping customers get to the cloud, specifically Windows Azure. Chris Whitney has 6 years of experience in implementing innovative, complex, and cutting edge SharePoint solutions. Chris shares his passion and excitement for SharePoint by working with companies located in Southern California

Brian Alderman has his Master's in Computer Information Systems. Since 1995, he has held several Microsoft certifications that currently include; MCT, MCITP for SharePoint, MCITP for SQL Server(R), MCSA and MCSE for Windows Server(R), and also his PMP certification. As a Senior Technical Instructor and Consultant he has nearly 15 years of experience in networking, SQL Server databases, SharePoint technologies, and project management. Brian's publications include Windows 2000 Professional, SQL Server 2000 Administration and SharePoint 2010 Administrator's Companion. He is an active speaker at SharePoint Industry conferences including SharePoint Saturday's, SharePoint Best Practices Conferences (BPC), and the recent International SharePoint Conference in London.

Chris Givens is the CEO of Architecting Connected Systems, a course ware development company focused on advanced development topics. ACS credits include the top selling worldwide development course in SharePoint 2007. Chris’s past experiences include Microsoft, Avanade, several technology startups in the Seattle area and a 5-year career at IBM. Chris grew up in Oklahoma and is a computer science graduate of the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, OK.

Derek works in Slalom Consulting's Award-Winning Microsoft technology practice locally in Southern California. With 10 years of web development experience and nearly 5 in consulting, he has worked on all sides of the consulting cycle including sales, technology evangelism and envisioning all the way through project delivery. He specializes in SharePoint, FAST Search, Windows Phone, ASP.NET, Silverlight and custom development.

A badged Microsoft Technical Professional for SharePoint, Office, CRM and Business Productivity, Don has been working with SharePoint and related products since 2003. In his current role, he is responsible for developing and managing Microsoft services solutions across the entire Microsoft stack. He brings 16 years of IT industry experience, multiple certifications and dozens speaking engagements across the Country.

Elmer is the founder and CEO of CloudBits, an Office 365-focused software company. He previously worked as a Partner with Phenom where he lead the technical delivery of numerous SharePoint consulting projects and played a lead technical role in a Fortune 100 deployment to Office 365 (formerly BPOS-D). Prior to Phenom, Elmer spent many years as a Sr. Architect with Avanade (a joint venture from Microsoft and Accenture) where he focused on enterprise collaboration and social computing. Over the years, Elmer has contributed design and code to SharePoint projects for Microsoft, American Express, World Vision, Accenture and many others. Elmer lives with his wife and children in Southern California, enjoys bike riding, gourmet food and the occasional huge pile of chicken wings.

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.

Galen is the SharePoint Lead at Brandes Investment Partners and a Steering Committee member for the San Diego SharePoint Users Group. Galen began working with SharePoint Team Services at Brandes Investment Partners and has been a key piece in their SharePoint evolution. Galen is an active member of the San Diego SharePoint community and is an avid promoter of SharePoint as a productivity tool that can be used by everyone.

Ivan Sanders is an independent consultant with more than 15 years of broad-based hands-on experience with the design and development of mission-critical applications and innovative information management strategies in the enterprise deployment of Microsoft products, and delivering nothing but Microsoft SharePoint solutions since 2004. Ivan is active in the SharePoint Community through the MSDN and TechNet forums, TechEd and PDC Birds of a Feather, SharePoint Saturdays, SharePoint ShopTalk, SharePoint Intelligence Conference, SharePointConnections, INETA, GITCA, and Local Southern California User Groups. Ivan can be found bi-weekly on SharePoint ShopTalk or http://twitter.com/iasanders, http://www.linkedin.com/in/iasanders, https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Ivan.Sanders http://msmvps.com/blog/ivansanders.

Jai Kasinathan (MCTS SharePoint 2010 and a Masters in Computer Science) is a Sr. SharePoint Architect in Parsons , Pasadena. CA. Specializing in collaboration technologies and End User adoption. Jai ‘s philosophy is ‘the best way to learn anything is to teach it. Jai previously worked with Emerson Network Power where he led the Architecture, Upgrade and End User Adoption for a 100 million budgeted engineering project that powers the next generation datacenter solution with engineers in 1000’s working from 5 different countries on the same project used SharePoint 2010 as a collaboration platform for day in day out update on the Product.

Javier Barrera is a 10-year IT veteran. He is now a SharePoint Engineer for Rackspace Hosting Company, where he designs, implements, and troubleshoots SharePoint services for intranet or extranet environments. His primary focus is the infrastructure of numerous SharePoint SharePoint farms ranging in size from single-server to multi-farm multi-server configurations. His other various responsibilities include Microsoft SQL and Exchange implementations.

Jeff Shuey is a veteran in the Enterprise Content Management industry. Over the past 20 years he has worked with customers and partners to design, develop and deploy solutions around the world. Jeff is currently the Director of Business Development for the Kodak Document Imaging division. He has worked for Microsoft, FileNet, K2, Captaris, Open Text, and Kofax. He speaks and blogs about ECM, SaaS, and Cloud Computing and how companies are putting these tools to work in their businesses and across the Social Media spectrum.

Jeremy Thake utilizes more than 10 years of software development industry experience and expertise in Microsoft technologies to assist global enterprises in building solutions that will set the standard for the next generation of collaboration platforms. As a SharePoint MVP, Jeremy’s proven expertise has earned him multiple speaking engagements at technical conferences, symposiums, and user groups worldwide. Jeremy is a co-founder of NothingButSharePoint.com, a SharePoint community portal, focusing on the Developer Channel and built the platform on top of SharePoint 2010.

Jim is a 20+ year member of the Microsoft Community and the former founder of "Compass Computer Group", an award winning Microsoft Managed Partner and one of Microsoft's first SharePoint Partners. Over a period of 13 years, Compass successfully delivered over $50 million in custom solutions for clients such as Warner Bros., Fidelity National, The Salvation Army, CAA, Universal Studios, Westwood Insurance, Chicago Title, Paramount, Paul Hastings Janofsky and Walker, The City of Hope, UCLA, and Microsoft Consulting Services. As Managing Partner and Senior SharePoint Architect at SharePoint Pros, Jim focuses on the design, development, and deployment of SharePoint solutions. He is also a frequent speaker at Microsoft events and SharePoint conferences.

John's experiences as a Business Technology Consultant at Microsoft taught him that IT must serve the needs of the business, not the other way around. At Microsoft, he specialized in Windows desktop deployment, MS Exchange, Active Directories and Mergers and Acquisitions. His hands-on experiences include co-authoring the Microsoft Forefront Integration Kit for Network Access Protection and the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit as well as heading up enterprise-scale projects for companies such as UPS, Martha Stewart, KPMG, SDGE, San Diego Community College, and Price Waterhouse Cooper.

With excellent communication and leadership skills, Mr. Frost has successfully overseen the development of over 75 SharePoint portals and intranets since 2003. His talent in Thought Leadership combined with his in-depth knowledge and experience in SharePoint technologies has become a saving grace for many client organizations. Mr. Frost is often asked to speak at industry events and share his SharePoint expertise with others.

Kenneth Lo, PMP is the Chief Strategist of Kattelo Consulting which provides professional services to companies of all sizes adopting SharePoint technologies. Kenneth is a battle-tested SharePoint evangelist and entrepreneur with extensive management consulting experiences. His clientele ranges from Silicon Valley startups to Fortune 500 companies. Kenneth combines his passion and expertise in mobile technologies and specializes in SharePoint mobility strategies and adoption. Being a risk-averse person at heart, Kenneth spends his leisure time mountain biking, rock climbing, and scuba diving.

Lara Ferguson is the Director of Information Systems for Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, a communications agency with offices around the world. She has 18 years of experience building enterprise information management solutions, giving her the opportunity to build particular expertise in the areas of Intranets, Extranets, Identity Management and System Integration. When she’s not wrangling business requirements and stakeholders, Lara enjoys gardening, kayaking and traveling.

Linnea Lewis works in the Program Management Office of Denver Public Schools on large district-wide initiatives, with past experience as a management consultant working in a variety of industries including energy, finance and mortgage, telecom, non-profit, education, and the arts. Linnea is valued for her strategic thinking, leading collaborative teams and experience in spear-heading cultural change efforts. She is passionate about developing SharePoint evangelists and power users wherever she works and loves to find new ways to bring people and organizations together using SharePoint, making it easy for Business to do business.

I started in the IT world as an IT generalist back in 2001 and since then I spent 7 years as a dedicated Exchange administrator working on everything from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2010 and working with Exchange organizations with 15 mailboxes to 6000 mailboxes. In 2010 I started working with SharePoint as I saw it as the next evolution in collaboration and haven't looked back since. My main focus is on SharePoint farm administration and I am starting to scratch the surface with SharePoint branding and web design.

Matt is the founder and President of Enovo Solutions, a San Diego based SharePoint consultancy focusing on custom solution architecture and development. Matt has over 17 years of experience in the IT industry with a focus in User Interface Design and Development. Matt holds Microsoft Professional certifications in both SharePoint 2010 Configuration and SharePoint 2010 Application Development.

Michael is a System Engineering Manager at AvePoint.

Neal Fischer is the founder of Hershey Technologies, a highly successful Microsoft Partner focused in the delivery of SharePoint Solutions, Content Capture, Document Management and Workflow automation services. Educated with a Business Degree in Massachusetts. Neal brings a unique business oriented approach focused on improved organization efficiency and bottom-line results. Current company engagements include: nationally recognized process improvement works at The Boeing Company, County of San Diego, Auto Club, Jack in the Box, and JP Morgan Chase.

Peter Roth has been working with SharePoint since 2006. Peter’s role at KnowledgeLake is focused on helping clients get the best from their platform investment, and his SharePoint expertise covers a wide range of areas such as extranet collaboration, search, analytics, and Enterprise Content Management technologies – always focusing on the business/end-user. Peter Roth has an extensive background in many industries and has worked with organizations such as Mayo Clinic, Bosch, Fair Isaac, Cargill, smaller entities, state/local government, and non-profits. He is currently focused on partner and channel management for KnowledgeLake in the West.

Sag is an enterprise architect with over 10 years’ experience designing, implementing and operating enterprise-class infrastructure solutions centred around the Microsoft stack of products. He specializes in virtualization, enterprise security, data management, systems management and collaboration solutions built around the Microsoft SharePoint platform. Sag has lived and worked across Canada, extensively throughout the United States, in Europe and in South America. He is presently employed as a Senior Technical Solutions Professional (TSP) with AvePoint, a global software company specializing in SharePoint governance and administration.

I serve as a primary technical resource for our worldwide sales force, ensuring the success of 40-plus prospects every week. I am a SharePoint expert and work with other IT professionals to improve their SharePoint environment. Prior to Axceler, I was a SharePoint consultant at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), specializing in custom SharePoint development.

Stuart Laurie is Senior Consultant at Smartlogic working on a variety of projects in a number of business sectors & organizations including, but not limited to, Intel, SAIC, Gartner, UNICEF, CIA, NASA, Oxy and many more. He has twelve years of experience in delivering information management systems using classification and search. In addition to an in depth knowledge of Smartlogic’s products, Stuart has experience in a broad range of partner technologies such as integration with SharePoint 2007 and 2010, Fast Search, Google Search Appliance, and Solr.

Tim McCarthy lives in San Diego and works for Perficient where he architects and develops applications with the latest Microsoft platforms & technologies, which is usually SharePoint. Previously a Microsoft MVP in Solutions Architecture, his expertise covers a wide range of Microsoft technologies. Tim has worked as both a project technical lead/member as well as being in a technical consulting role for several Fortune 500 companies. He holds several Microsoft developer-focused certifications and is a published author. When not spending time with his family, Tim is usually torturing himself by preparing for and competing in triathlons and half-marathons.

Tom is a Principal with Hershey Technologies and has been developing software solutions for workflow and document management using .NET and other Microsoft technologies for 15 years. Tom sits on the board of the San Diego .NET Users Group and is also a founding board member of the San Diego SharePoint Users Group. Tom has Microsoft certifications in C#, ASP.NET and SharePoint.​

Tony Rockwell is a Sr. Program Analyst at EPM Live and a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in SharePoint 2010. His background includes systems administration, business systems analysis, document imaging and continuous improvement. Tony has implemented SharePoint in several industries; completed numerous installations & upgrades of SharePoint 2003 & MOSS 2007 to current editions of SharePoint 2010. Tony is a founding board member of the San Diego SharePoint Users Group and active in organizing SharePoint Saturday San Diego (SPSSAN).