Dinesh Priyankara Dinesh Priyankara (MSc IT) is a SQL Server MVP in Sri Lanka with 13 years' experience in various aspects of database technologies. Currently he is stationed as a Business Intelligence Architect at IronOne Technologies (Pvt) Ltd; a Microsoft Gold Partner. He teaches, consults and runs training programs for various institutes/companies in Sri Lanka and he is one of founders of www.sqlserveruniverse.com. Dinesh maintains his technical blog at http://dinesql.blogspot.com. Dux Raymond Sy With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management, Dux has earned a reputation as among the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), he is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, Inc., a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner focused on leading, inspiring and being the catalyst of organizational transformation that enables clients to achieve tangible business result.
As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, he is the author of "SharePoint for Project Management" published by O'Reilly Media. He is focused on empowering organizations on how to leverage the benefits of SharePoint technologies with quantifiable goals such as: Increasing productivity and efficiency, decreasing collaboration redundancies and streamlining electronic communications. He has successfully managed the implementation of various SharePoint-based solutions for commercial, educational and government institutions.
A sought after speaker, Dux is a SharePoint MVP and has presented in various Microsoft and Project Management Institute (PMI) events worldwide. He regularly blogs on topics related to project management, SharePoint and globalization at MeetDux.com. Gayath Ratnayaka Gayath is currently the Test Manager for Creative Search Technologies, A Microsoft IEG partner. He works towards designing and developing test systems targeted towards enterprise search solutions. Before moving into the Test Manager role, Gayath worked as a Senior Tech Lead, leading a team of developers in building and sustaining features of the core search engine for an Enterprise Search platform and a Complex Event Processing engine at Creative Search Technologies.
Gayath holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Moratuwa. He also holds a great passion for Formula 1 cars. Hasanga Abeyratne Hasanga is a software engineer who enjoys being part of a successful and productive team. He is quick to grasp new technologies, ideas and concepts in order to develop innovatively creative business solutions. While he enjoys coding, Hasanga is also passionate about making things he builds look good.
Currently Hasanga is working for Innovative-e Inc. as a software engineer and is mainly involved in developing SharePoint based business solutions. Specialized in user interface engineering and developing user experience for SharePoint solutions, he has been involved in most stages in software engineering life cycle.
He is always willing to share his knowledge with anyone who is interested in what he does, and as a result has been contributing the developer community for last few years, and willing to learn from people in the field of his interest.
You can follow him on Twitter http://twitter.com/hasanga and find him on LinkedIn http://lk.linkedin.com/in/hasanga Jey Srikantha Jey has over 11 years' experience in the Australian IT industry with the last 7 years as a Consultant specializing in the design and implementation of business process automation systems using Microsoft technologies including SharePoint & .NET.
He has been a Workflow automation expert and speaking at User groups and conferences since 2006 around Australia.
He has contributed to online and printed materials and a passionate technologist interested in sharing and learning from each other.
He is a K2 insider and worked for K2. Currently runs a consulting company that specializes in workflow automation on the SharePoint platform. Joy Rathnayake Joy Rathnayake works as a Senior Architect (Principal Architect) for the SharePoint Practice at Virtusa Pvt. Ltd. Joy has been developing application using Java and Microsoft technologies since 2002 and has been working with SharePoint Products and Technologies since 2006, including architecting, designing, implementing and developing portal solutions using SharePoint Products and Technologies. His experience spans a wide breath of industrial sectors including Airline, Training and Telecom. He is a product of NIIT and he has been working as a Consultant Trainer for the past 9 years and he has trained a lot of corporates within the region. Joy has been recognized as both Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and has great experience in the area of content development as well.
Joy has contributed a lot to the community by presenting at various technology focus events such as Tech-Ed Europe, Tech-Ed SEA, Tech-Ed Sri Lanka, Tech-Ed India and SEA SharePoint Conference. Joy is very passionate on presenting as well as writing and you can follow him through his Web: http://www.SharePoint24x7.com and Blog: http://www.joyr.ws. Michael Noel Michael Noel is an internationally recognized technology expert, bestselling author, and well known public speaker on a broad range of IT topics. He has authored several major industry books that have been translated into over a dozen languages worldwide. Significant titles include SharePoint 2010 Unleashed, Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed, Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed, ISA Server 2006 Unleashed, and many more. Currently a partner at Convergent Computing ( www.cco.com) in the San Francisco Bay Area, Michael's writings and extensive public speaking experience across six continents leverage his real-world expertise helping organizations realize business value from Information Technology infrastructure. Nalaka Withanage Nalaka is a Senior Consultant and a Technical Specialist (SharePoint) at Readify who helps organizations implement and drive value from solutions based upon Microsoft developer platform. With 10 years of commercial experience in the architecture, design, development, and operational service management of Web-based applications and hosting platforms, His focus has been on strategy, planning and development best practices for implementing custom business solutions both on premise and the Cloud. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD), Certified Scrum Master and an active member of the SharePoint community and speaks regularly at SharePoint user groups and events. Prabath Fonseka Software Architect having over 11+ years of experience in the computer software systems architecture, analysis, design and development including lecturing for Microsoft Certifications on SharePoint and .Net related languages and technologies. Currently working for IronOne Technologies. He possesses a MSc. in Advanced Software Engineering from the University of Westminster. He is an MVP for SharePoint also a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer and a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in various technologies. He involves in providing consultancy and training for software firms and different corporates. He is one of the founders of www.SharePointSriLanka.org. Shakir Majeed Khan Shakir Majeed Khan, graduated in Software Engineering from the Department of Computer Science, University of Karachi. He has 5 years of Software Development Experience and is currently working as a Senior SharePoint Consultant at Twin Technologies.
While having worked with startups, MuseWerx and Twin Technology, to incept, develop and launch their new products, he has also worked for the blue chip organization Telenor to implement best practices of using Microsoft Office SharePoint server 2007 within the organization.
Shakir is the founder, User Group Leader for SharePoint Techies User Group, which is the emerging SharePoint User Group in Pakistan and has more than 500+ members (http://sharepointtechies.wordpress.com)
For past 2 years, he has been on the speakers’ panel in the Microsoft Innovation Center, Karachi Pakistan (MIC), and has represented MIC, at several universities and Microsoft training institutes such as Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, APTECH, Techno-Ed etc.
He has also been involved in the students and industry experience meet ups and has participated as the final year project evaluator/advisor/guest speaker in many universities. |
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