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.