Albert Liu joined Metalogix Software after graduating from Dalhousie University with a Master of Applied Computer Science degree. Albert worked for GE Healthcare Canada as an intern prior to graduation.

Andrew Connell is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training. Andrew is a six-time recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award (2005-2010) for Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) & Microsoft SharePoint Server. He has authored and contributed to numerous MCMS and SharePoint books over the years including his book Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development by WROX. Andrew has spoken on the subject of SharePoint development and WCM at conferences such as TechEd, SharePoint Connections, VSLive, SharePoint Best Practice Conference, SharePoint Evolutions Conference, Office Developer Conference and Microsoft SharePoint Conference in the United States, Australia, England and Spain. Andrew blogs at http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog  and on Twitter @andrewconnell.

In late 2002, Ben Nadler sat in a three-day training class on something called SharePoint, repeatedly saying to himself, “this class is useless, and I’m never going to use this stuff.” A month later, he found himself on a project to deliver on SharePoint 2001 for a client. Since then, he’s worked with 100s of clients to facilitate their adoption of SharePoint – versions 1 through 4 – and related technologies.

 

Ben is a seasoned IT consultant, with experience in project management, business analysis, and development. He is in his 9th year with Abel Solutions, Atlanta’s leading consulting firm specializing in helping companies fulfill the four core promises of SharePoint. Ben is also a contributing author of the upcoming book, SharePoint 2010 Unleashed, writing chapters on Business Connectivity Services and Performance Point. 

 

When he isn’t busy preaching about content types, he can be found chasing his two young daughters around or chasing down pop flies on the softball field.

Bryan Letcher is an Information Worker solution specialist focusing on SharePoint solutions for CDW.  At CDW for 6 years, he works specifically to understand customer requirements and assists them in driving SharePoint adoption.  Bryan has been architecting, designing and deploying solutions around SharePoint since SharePoint Portal Server 2003.  Bryan is a geek at heart is passionate that SharePoint will someday solve world peace!

Based in Philadelphia, PA, Christina (MCTS: SharePoint) is a Senior Consultant for Summit 7 Systems and founder of CM Portal Solutions, LLC. With over 10 years of experience in the industry, Christina has a background in graphic design, web development, custom development, and has been working with SharePoint since May 2005. She helps Summit 7 clients take their SharePoint environment from concept to reality through her expert application of out of the box capability, custom development and polished branding that can take an environment from standard to outstanding.

Cory Peters is a Solutions Architect at Eastridge Technology, a Microsoft Gold Partner focused on SharePoint. Cory started working with SharePoint by branding SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and has been architecting, developing, designing and branding SharePoint solutions ever since. Cory is based out of Winston-Salem, North Carolina and is a developer at heart but enjoys all aspects of SharePoint.

With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management, Dux (you're right, it's pronounced as "ducks") 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, business technology consulting and services company that serves startups to Global 50 clients.

 

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. A sought after speaker, Dux has presented in various Microsoft and Project Management Institute (PMI) events worldwide. He is very much involved in the greater SharePoint community and is an event chair for SharePoint Saturday, a free community driven conference that has been held worldwide.

 

Gary has been in the IT industry for over 25 years, working with a variety of platforms and technologies. For the last 14 years he has focused exclusively on the Microsoft suite of tools, executing both small and large scale projects equally.  His extensive experience with SharePoint includes architecting, developing and implementing deployments for up to 60,000 users worldwide in one client scenario. He is so focused on the SharePoint product, his FL license plate reads SHRPNT.

 

Gary is MCTS certified in SharePoint in addition to being a MCT-Microsoft Certified Trainer.

John has more than eight years of experience implementing solutions for clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies as well as government organizations.  He has worked with all project phases from analysis to implementation and has been involved with a wide range of SharePoint solutions that include public facing Internet sites, corporate intranets, and extranets.  In 2009, John was awarded Microsoft’s MVP award for SharePoint Server and is one of 190 people worldwide with this distinction.  He is co-author of the book, “MOSS Explained: An Information Workers Deep Dive into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007” and was a contributing author to “Professional SharePoint 2007 Design.”  Check out John's blog at http://www.sharepoint911.com/blogs/john.

As a Senior Consultant for Unbounded Solutions, Kajan Moorthy specializes in the areas of Document and Content Management, Collaboration and Portal solutions. Kajan has worked with many large organizations over the last 5 years designing and implementing the architecture for their enterprise wide portal, collaboration and content management systems using Microsoft SharePoint.

Ken Price is a Senior SharePoint Consultant for RDA Corporation’s Charlotte SharePoint Delivery team, which builds custom Collaboration and Information Worker solutions for some of largest and well-known companies in the US. Ken has been employed by Fortune 50, large enterprises, Federal, State and Military organizations and has over 13 years of web application development experience and has specialized in SharePoint for the last 3 years.

 

Twitter: @kennethprice

Lee Reed is a Senior SharePoint Strategy Consultant with Northridge, which has offices in Atlanta and Raleigh.  His work at Northridge includes consulting on SharePoint strategy, building impactful SharePoint solutions and creating custom SharePoint Training solutions for large companies throughout the US. 

 

Lee is laser focused on assisting companies in leveraging their investment in SharePoint as well as demystifying its capabilities for end user communities.  He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, SharePoint Saturday’s and is a contributing author at EndUserSharePoint.com.

Marc is the Co-Founder and President of Sympraxis Consulting LLC, located in Newton, MA.  Sympraxis Consulting focuses on collaboration within the enterprise and how to best enable it through effective use of SharePoint.

Mark Miller is Founder and Editor of EndUserSharePoint.com. He is a dedicated evangelist for the Information Workers, Site Managers and Site Collection Administrators of SharePoint. He is a frequent speaker at SharePoint Saturday events, national conferences and online webcasts. During SharePoint Conference 2009, Mark coordinated 30 live bloggers, sending out real time feed streams of audio, video and twitter from the exhibit floor and the conference sessions to over 3000 online followers who could not attend the conference.

EndUserSharePoint.com is a community of SharePoint authors dedicated to providing support and encouragement for the SharePoint End User. The site receives 50,000 unique page views a week, has a Weekly Newsletter subscription base of 13,000 readers and handles hundreds of questions weekly through the Stump the Panel: SharePoint Q&A Forum.

Michael Lotter, MCTS, is a SharePoint Solutions Architect for B&R Business Solutions, and travels throughout the United States implementing SharePoint and InfoPath-based solutions. He is an active speaker at East Coast Code Camps and user group meetings, and is a co-author on O’Reilly’s SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide. You can also follow Michael’s work through his blog, located at http://blog.michaellotter.com.

Mike Oryszak is a SharePoint Server MVP and Principal Consultant with Intellinet in the Portals and Collaboration practice specializing in SharePoint Architecture and Development.  Mike has been living in the Raleigh-Durham, NC area since 1998 and has held a number of development and consulting positions servicing clients from a range of industries including major financial institutions, telecommunications and manufacturing.  Mike's favorite SharePoint topic is social computing and how it can be used to increase team and cross-functional collaboration in the enterprise.  In addition he enjoys listening to music and studying world history.

Randy has more than ten years experience developing, designing, and implementing Internet based software for clients ranging from small business to Fortune 500 companies. He has been working with SharePoint since the beta of SharePoint 2007 and has worked on several large-scale internal and public facing SharePoint implementations. In 2009, Randy was recognized by Microsoft as an authority on SharePoint branding and design by being awarded MVP status for SharePoint Server. Randy has also worked on several articles and books on the topic of SharePoint. You can visit Randy’s blog at http://blog.drisgill.com.

Ryan works directly with Fortune 500 and other enterprise customers to develop and implement cost-effective SharePoint management, protection, and optimization strategies. Ryan’s experience with SharePoint dates back to the early days of WSS 2.0, when he worked as a technical consultant for product companies dedicated solely to SharePoint solutions. His knowledge of SharePoint has earned him multiple speaking opportunities within the SharePoint community and at technical tradeshows and events.

Shane has over 13 years experience architecting and administering large-scale server farms using Microsoft enterprise technologies. For the past five years, he has been working exclusively with SharePoint Products and Technologies as a consultant and trainer. Shane has been recognized by Microsoft as an authority on SharePoint and is among an elite group of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MVP’s. He has architected SharePoint solutions for clients ranging from 20 to 50,000 users. Shane is a renowned speaker at national and international SharePoint conferences.  He is also the author of several of the leading SharePoint 2007 and 2010 SharePoint Training courses. Shane also maintains a popular SharePoint Admin blog. 

Ted Pattison is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training (www.CriticalPathTraining.com), a company dedicated to education on SharePoint technologies. Ted has frequently worked with Microsoft’s Developer Platform Evangelism group to research and author SharePoint training material for developers early in the product lifecycle while in its alpha and beta stages. Ted published a SharePoint 2007 book for Microsoft Press titled Inside Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 that focuses on how to use SharePoint as a development platform for building business solutions. He is currently revising the content of this book for SharePoint 2010. Ted also writes a developer-focused column for MSDN Magazine titled Office Space.