Speakers

Alan Richardson

Alan Richardson is a Sr. Project Manager at Covenant, having delivered projects at such companies as Ameren, XTRA Lease, Enterprise and Monsanto.  He works closely with SharePoint, Project Server and Project Professional to lead software development, BI, and infrastructure projects
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Andy Milsark

As the Lead SharePoint Engineer at Fpweb.net, Andy is responsible for the SharePoint team’s daily operations, including customer builds, build automation, escalated SharePoint support incidents, research and development, technical inquiries, architecting cost effective SharePoint farms.  Andy is active in the SP community through blogging, Twitter, and speaking engagements.
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Becky Bertram

Becky Bertram is the owner of Savvy Technical Solutions, a St. Louis-based consulting company that focuses on SharePoint implementations, development, and training.  Becky is a four time Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Becky is the co-author of the book Wrox SharePoint Six in One. You can visit her Blog at http://blog.beckybertram.com or follow her on Twitter at @beckybertram.
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Becky Isserman

Becky Isserman has been a SharePoint Developer, since 2005 when she attended the Portal University with Levi, Ray, and Shoup in Springfield, IL. She is a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer in SharePoint Server 2010 (MCPD), a SharePoint Server MVP in 2012, and a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT).  She has been a web designer/developer since she was 15 years old notepad coding HTML 3.0 websites. She enjoys working with SharePoint, because she can perform the roles of administrator, developer, designer, and architect. She has presented at several conferences, code camps, user groups, and SharePoint Saturdays in the past four years. She currently works for Planet Technologies and lives in New York City.  If you would like to contact her you can e-mail her at rebecca.isserman@gmail.com or fill out the contact form at her blog http://www.mosslover.com.
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Benjamin Niaulin

Passionate about SharePoint, Benjamin has been helping people around the globe reaching their goals by simplifying SharePoint solutions. With his Microsoft Certified Trainer certification and over 5 years of Training and Speaking experience, he has acquired the skills needed to help everyone understand and use SharePoint.
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Bill Feldker

Bill is an Architect with Covenant technology Partners.  Bill works on both the BI Team and the SharePoint team but spends most of his time doing SharePoint development and solution design.  When not working, Bill enjoys running, coaching soccer and spending time with his family.
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Chris Schwab

Chris leads the SharePoint Team at Fpweb.net. This team has a dedicated focus on sizing environments, issue escalations, SharePoint builds and SharePoint Architecture Planning. As one of Fpweb.net’s leading SharePoint evangelists and a respected expert in the SharePoint Community, he travels around the globe to speak at SharePoint conferences and SharePoint Saturdays.
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Curtis Hughes

Curtis Hughes is an entrepreneur, speaker, author, and Managing Partner of C5 Insight, a Microsoft Gold consultancy specializing in SharePoint, Dynamics CRM and platform solutions.  He has over 15 years of experience consulting with businesses and government agencies across North America, Europe and Asia in the areas of software architecture, cloud and platform development, business process automation, and collaboration.  In addition to C5 Insight, Curtis has also founded or co-founded two additional startups focused on cloud technologies, software development, and process automation.
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Darrin Bishop

Darrin is a co-founder and director at Aptillon, Inc. Darrin has been awarded SharePoint MVP for 7 years and has been involved in SharePoint since 2001 when the code-named product Tahoe was released as SharePoint Portal Server 2001. Darrin has a diverse background in SharePoint and has covered the product lifecycle from envisioning, design, installation, development, customizations and even administering farms. Recently Darrin has been working with the integration of the Windows Phone  platform and Azure. He has been focusing on the integration of the platforms with SharePoint 2010. You can commonly find Darrin speaking at user groups and conference.
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David Peterson

David Peterson has been actively engaged in some way, shape, or form with SharePoint since 2004. Currently the SharePoint Administrator at Trek Bicycles Corporation in Waterloo, WI, David specializes in integrating business processes in to SharePoint. His focus has been - and always will be - putting the organization's people first before the conversations around technology ever start.
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Doug Meyer

Mr. Meyer serves as the Managing Partner for Covenant Technology Partners.  He has been a strategic technology advisor to executives in diverse industries including:  healthcare, financial services, manufacturing/distribution and telecommunications.  Mr. Meyer and his team are currently delivering innovative, technology-based business solutions to companies throughout the Midwest.
Covenant Technology Partners is an Information Technology Consulting partnership that focuses on Business Intelligence and Portal solutions. Mr. Meyer has earned a B.S., Computer Science/Economics- Illinois State University, Normal, IL.
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Gina Montgomery

Gina Montgomery is a Strategic Account Manager for Softmart. A frequent speaker at Information Technology events, SharePoint conferences, Microsoft focused events, and User Group meetings, she has a passion for helping organizations maximize their I.T. investments. Her focus has been on strategy, project planning, analysis, best practices in software licensing and implementing business solutions. Gina has years of experience in I.T. as a SharePoint Architect, Applications Specialist, and Business Intelligence Consultant.
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Gopi Kondmeda

Gopi Kondameda is a SharePoint Architect, SharePoint Saturday Speaker, developer and trainer with more than fifteen years of experience implementing solutions for clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies, as well as governmental organizations. He has been involved in a wide range of SharePoint Implementations and Migrations. Currently he is working as a SharePoint Architect at Brink’s Inc. leading the MOSS migration from version 2007 to 2010.
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Jeff Willinger

Jeff Willinger is the Director of Social Computing, Collaboration and Intranets at Rightpoint and was recently named the top SharePoint person to watch in 2012 and one the most influential social media people in the city of Chicago.  He specializes in advising clients on social computing strategies, social intranets and portals, mobile reach vs. reach and increasing employee engagement.   With experience spanning more than two decades, Jeff possesses specific expertise in social computing inside an organization’s four walls and social media outside their four walls.  He is an internationally recognized speaker and expert in Microsoft SharePoint and is a technology and business evangelist with deep expertise in information architecture, enterprise content management, and web 2.0 technology strategy.  A character with character, as he is known, he is the President and Founder of the Social Media Club of Chicago. 
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Ken Maglio

Ken Maglio comes from a background of a .Net developer with concentrated experience in application design, building and leading new feature implementations, working with teams and supporting systems created, as well as other end-users. Over the last 3+ years, Ken moved into the SharePoint world, moving up into an Architect role. Ken has performed seminars for Oakwood on SharePoint 2013 Preview and Development.
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Ken Price

Ken is currently a Premier Field Engineer specializing in SharePoint and works with public sector customers to maintain healthy environments, investigate new collaboration technologies and serves as a technology advisor for organizations deploying and supporting Microsoft products. He has been employed by Fortune 50, large enterprises, Federal, State and Military organizations and has over 15 years of web application support and development experience and has specialized in SharePoint for the last 7 years.
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Kurt Rolland

Kurt is SharePoint practice manager with Covenant Technology Partners. He is also founding member of the St. Louis SharePoint Users Group (STLSUG) and planning team member of St. Louis SharePoint Saturday.
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Mark Rackley

Mark Rackley is a Solutions Architect for Summit 7 Systems with more than 17 years of experience designing and developing software solutions. Mark’s daily responsibilities include forging the direction of solution architecture and development projects for clients while providing the best solutions for clients' unique problems. As a globally recognized SharePoint geek, Mark is an active blogger, presenter, author (and bacon aficionado) who is eager to lend his real-world knowledge of SharePoint to all who need it. In addition to speaking at various SharePoint conferences, Mark is the organizer of SharePoint Saturday Ozarks and can be found speaking at as many Saturday events as his professional and family life will allow. Mark engages his audiences with humor, real world stories from the trenches, and practical solutions. For more information follow Mark on Twitter at @mrackley or read his blog at www.SharePointHillbilly.com
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Marrell Sanders

Marrell has been a web technology enthusiast since 1999, with a focus on hosting technologies, design, and creating web solutions that solve user technical problems.  Since stumbling into SharePoint, where he has focused for the past 8 years, he has worn many “hats” and roles in many fortune 500 companies. He currently works as a Senior Web Consultant for MS Group IT and contract SharePoint Administrator for Devon Energy.
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Marty Hansen

Marty Hansen is Executive Vice President of Jordan Lawrence, a leading solution provider for records retention, data privacy and information governance.  He has over 15 years of experience in information technology and governance.  Marty plays a key role in the development of technology that helps companies develop effective, defensible and cost effective information governance programs.  Most recently, Marty led a team in developing the Jordan Lawrence SharePoint Integration Feature, a proprietary product that integrates with SharePoint to automatically provision content types and/or Records Libraries within a client’s SharePoint site collection.  He is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/IT) and frequent contributor and speaker in the legal, privacy and technology communities.
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Matt Bremer

Matt Bremer is currently a SharePoint Technology Specialist with Microsoft in St. Louis. Matt is a recovering SharePoint consultant and .NET developer. When Matt is not out evangelizing about SharePoint he can often be found in his office which smells of rich mahogany and contains many leather bound SharePoint books. You can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/mattbremer. Stay classy!
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Matt Holt

Matt Holt of Covenant Technology Partners is a consultant with 15+ years of experience in developing solutions for clients ranging from HealthCare to Insurance.  Half of that time has been spent in SharePoint building solutions and helping others’ learn how to best take advantage of this technology.
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Neil Sly

Neil R. Sly is a Consultant at Covenant Technology Partners specializing in SharePoint infrastructure with an emphasis on building, maintaining and migrating SharePoint and Office 365.  Prior to relocating to the St. Louis area from Indianapolis, Indiana to join Covenant, Neil was a critical member of the highly-regarded Solutions Delivery Team for a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, considered to be the world's largest SharePoint consumer.  There, he provided global SharePoint support and acted as an Infrastructure SME and Enterprise Search SME where his responsibilities included deploying FAST and integrating it with additional LOB systems.  Neil has worked for more than ten years in the industry and holds several certifications, including MCITP: Enterprise Administrator and MCITP: SharePoint 2010, MCTS: MOSS 2007, MCTS: ForeFront as well as VMware VCP.  He blogs regularly at http://sly.us and can be found on Twitter at @nrs
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Patrick Tucker

Patrick is a SharePoint architect, developer and trainer with over 13 years of experience developing applications with Microsoft technologies and training others to do the same.  He has provided consulting services and solutions for a variety of companies, non-profits, military and government clients in the US and abroad.  Tucker has presented at a number of SharePoint events and holds certifications in SharePoint, .NET and SQL Server, including MCPD, MCITP, MCSD, MCTS, and MCT.
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Rob LaMear

Rob started Fpweb.net from scratch and believes that the key to success has been its people and the energy they bring, hands down. Rob has been with SharePoint since its inception and his passion for customer care and delivering a premium product has set a new standard in SharePoint Hosting. As much as he likes work and technology, Rob loves spending time with his family completely unplugged and has never missed an opportunity to join a pickup game of soccer in the park.
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Sharon Weaver

Sharon Weaver is the Knowledge Management Technology Lead for Black & Veatch, a Kansas based global engineering firm that supports over 10,000 users on four SharePoint farms. She has over 10 years of experience designing, developing, and managing software, including 6+ years of SharePoint administration for software development teams and corporate entities.
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Tamara Bredemus

Tamara Bredemus is a SharePoint Consultant with RBA, Inc., where her experience working with SharePoint, SharePoint Designer and InfoPath helps clients get the most out of their SharePoint deployment. Prior to consulting at RBA, Inc., Tamara used her teaching skills as a Senior Technical Instructor with Mindsharp, process improvement skills as a Promotion Analyst at Best Buy Dotcom, and her leadership skills as the Operations Supervisor of Sunset Environmental. Tamara lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She enjoys playing with her Boston Terrier, Stella, swing dancing, Argentine tango, and bending SharePoint to her will.
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Todd Kitta

Todd is currently the Business Intelligence Technology Specialist at Microsoft in Saint Louis and his background includes architecture & development, project management, consulting, and technology advisement. His expertise spans across the Microsoft BI stack, SharePoint, as well as Microsoft's Connected Systems platform including Windows Azure, BizTalk, Windows Workflow Foundation, and Windows Communication Foundation.  Todd has authored two books on Wrox Press, the most recent being “SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Content Management” in 2011.
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