Boyd Evert is a Director of Development at APR, an audit software company based in Charleston, SC. Boyd specializes in optimizing T-SQL code running against very large datasets, the size of which exceeds 2 billion rows and 20TB. Boyd troubleshoots SQL servers, supports developers, and mentors data analysts.

Boyd has nearly 15 years of experience working with major retailers. He has devoted most of his career to understanding how retailers create and consume data. He has worked with datasets from Target Stores, Home Depot, CVS, and Wal-Mart.

Boyd is also cofounder of the NWA SQL User Group. Their group has attendees from all of the major companies in NW Arkansas: Wal-Mart, Tyson, and JB Hunt.

In his spare time he coaches little league baseball and teaches his sons how to read Latin.

Chris McLean is a MCPD: Windows Application Developer & MCTS: MOSS 2007 Configuration and is currently working for Atlas Pipeline Mid-Continent on a nice sized MOSS & K2 farm.

Chris Patterson is a software architect for RelayHealth at the Tulsa, OK office. Chris has over 18 years of software development experience on Microsoft platforms, ranging from real-time systems written in C/C++ to customer facing web applications built using C#, .NET, Classic ASP, and C++/COM/ATL.

Corey Roth is an Enterprise Consultant at Stonebridge specializing in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in the Oil & Gas Industry. He has ten years of experience delivering solutions in the energy, travel, advertising and consumer electronics verticals. Corey has always focused on rapid adoption of new Microsoft technologies including Visual Studio 2008, .NET Framework 3.5, LINQ, and SilverLight. He also contributed greatly to the beta phases of Visual Studio 2005. For his contributions, he was awarded the Microsoft Award for Customer Excellence (ACE). Corey is a graduate of Oklahoma State University. Corey is a member of the .NET Mafia (www.dotnetmafia.com) where he blogs about the latest technology and SharePoint.

David McCollough is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer with more than 10 years experience in developing software applications and is currently working for Microsoft Managed Gold Partner SpringPoint Technologies.

David Walker is the current board member for INETA (Vice President, Speakers Bureau), President of the Tulsa Developers .NET users group, founder and President of the Tulsa SQL Server Group and Tulsa Java Developers, Director of Member Services for the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group. He has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winnercomm, Inc. and IBM Global Services. He is currently a Technical Specialist in the Interactive Group for The Revere Group, an NTT Data Company, delivering solutions utilizing .NET enterprise content management systems such as Sitecore and SharePoint. He has been an MCP since 2003, MCAD and MCSD since 2005, and a Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET since July 2007.

Dennis J. Bottjer is a Solutions Architect, for Microsoft Gold Partner SpringPoint Technologies (www.MySppringPoint.com). Currently he is a Microsoft ASP/ASP.NET MVP and has worked with FORTUNE 100 companies.  Dennis has over 10 years of experience in helping companies transform their reactive frustrations to proactive solutions. His is also a MCP, MCTS, and a INETA Membership Mentor for Oklahoma. Dennis is proudly serving his technical-community as the President of his local User Group.

Devlin Liles is a software programmer for Tyson Foods specializing in the capture and reporting of plant floor efficiency data and yield information.  He has 3 years experience with using .NET languages and now coordinates the speakers for the Tyson developers forum (DEVLOOP). Currently He is focused on creating platform independent reporting solutions for production driven environments for Tyson foods.

Eric Shupps is the founder and President of BinaryWave, a premier SharePoint consultancy headquartered in Irving, Texas, and Director of BinaryWave Limited, based in Bristol, England.  Eric has worked with SharePoint Products and Technologies since 2001 as a consultant, administrator, architect, developer and trainer.  He is an advisory committee member of the Dallas/Ft. Worth SharePoint Community group, participating member of the UK SharePoint User Group and Regional Evangelist for the International SharePoint Professionals Association.  Eric has authored numerous articles on SharePoint, speaks at user group meeting and conferences around the world, and publishes a popular SharePoint blog at http://www.sharepointcowboy.com.  

Jim Hudson is Senior Technology Evangelist for OakTree Software, a Microsoft Gold Partner in Tulsa OK. Jim has been in the IT field for almost 20 years as a trainer and consultant. Jim is CoAuthor of "Special Edition Using Microsoft Active Directory" and has trained Microsoft Customers and employees all over the US. He is currently interested in anything that is connected to a SQL Server

Kyle Kelin has four years of experience in web development using Microsoft technologies. Kyle has built web applications across multiple industries that include consumer electronics, travel, energy, and investment banking. Kyle is currently employed as a Senior Consultant at Infusion in New York where his primary focus is SharePoint development and architecture. Infusion specializes in the architecture and implementation of enterprise-scale solutions for some of the world's largest banks and government agencies. Kyle a graduate of The Oklahoma State University. When Kyle is not developing he enjoys working out, martial arts, and drinking.

Mark has been writing software for over 15 years filling the roles of Project Manager, Business Analyst, Lead Developer, and Software Architect. He has been involved in projects for such companies as Dell, Motorola, Intel and Agilent Technologies. He has worked in large corporate environments, small software start-ups, and as a consultant. Then there was SharePoint.

Rafael Perez is a Senior SharePoint Architect for EPC Group, one of the nation’s Leading SharePoint firms and provider of Microsoft Integration and consulting services throughout the US and Canada. Rafael has been designing, developing, and implementing custom Microsoft based solutions for 12 years, most of which he has specialized in the development of custom web based applications leveraging Microsoft Technologies primarily involving the .NET Framework and SharePoint Products & Services.

Rafael is an avid contributor to the SharePoint community via his blog http://blog.rafelo.com, numerous speaking engagements, the Houston SharePoint users group, and online forums.

Richard Oltmann is a senior consultant and principal instructor for OakTree Software in Tulsa Oklahoma. He has been in the training sector for over 7 years and specializes in the messaging and collaboration and AD fields. Richard has been working with SharePoint Portal since 2001 and was one of the first trainers in the US to train SharePoint and has been involved in numerous installations and upgrades of the product. He is also an active member of the SharePoint User group. Richard was a proctor for the hands on labs for TechEd 2004. Richard was just recently elected president of the Oklahoma chapter of the IAMCP (International association of Microsoft Certified Partners )

I live in Fayetteville, AR with my wife, two daughters, and our Keeshond Boomer. College is what brought me to the area - I graduated with a BS in Computer Science from the University of Arkansas in 2001.

By day I'm a software developer and by night I'm about one part developer and two parts gamer. In my free time, I've grown to really love community and participate as much as I can in the local .net user group. In 2007, I also co-started an internal user group at work called DEVLOOP (Developing Excellence Via Leveraging Object Oriented Principles).

To learn more about me, see my blog or take a look at my resume.

Scott is a Senior Solutions Architect at Covenant Technology Partners in St. Louis, Missouri and is primarily focused on delivering business solutions based on SharePoint. With over 25 years in the industry, Scott brings a broad perspective to software development. Wrapping that in a strong sense of business value and ROI is what lets him get paid to do what he loves. Scott is actively involved in the developer community both locally and nationally. Talk to him about getting involved!

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Tony Lanni, AvePoint’s Vice President of Marketing, performs research and analysis on Microsoft SharePoint landscape and evaluates industry trends that impact the course of business. Tony co-develops strategies for new product design and works on enterprise-level data protection and management software deployments for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies. Tony’s extensive experience with SharePoint custom backup, recovery and administration applications has earned him multiple speaking opportunities within SharePoint communities and at technical events, such as Microsoft TechEd, Data Protection Summit and IBM Tivoli Nation.

For over 14 years Zain has been teaching and consulting on the latest Microsoft technologies.  He's been a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 1995 and holds all major Microsoft certifications, plus credentials from Cisco, Checkpoint and CompTIA. Zain launched his development career with Visual Basic 3.0 and honed his implementation skills with Windows NT 3.51 and OS/2.  He is the creator of Virtual World Evangelism (VWE) which is an effort to build communities in virtual places like Second Life and OpenSim.  He is not only a proponent of the community aspect of virtual worlds but also is a supporter of the myriad business applications that these new mediums offer.  Zain's efforts have been featured by eWeek, Redmond Developer News, Reuters and many others.  He has also been interviewed by Forrester Research, ThinkBalm, UgoTrade, and Gartner for his work with virtual world communities.  He is a frequent speaker at events in Second Life and other virtual worlds. and lectures world-wide to evangelize the future of this exciting new medium.. Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/zainnab.