Alan Richards Alan Richards has been working in Schools for 17 years and during that time has been at the forefront of using IT. He has led teams that have been among the first to roll out Windows 7, Exchange 2010 and SharePoint 2010, many of these successes have been showcased in Microsoft case studies. As well as managing his own school's SharePoint implementation he also manages the SharePoint farm for the local consortium of schools. Alan is also a regular blogger and speaker at various events. This year presenting at the October European SharePoint conference in Berlin on using SharePoint 2010 and other Microsoft technologies to cut costs while providing a state of the art ICT system to his users MoreAlex Pearce Alex has been working on educational projects for the last 6 years using Microsoft products to increase learner’s knowledge.
Following 5 years of working in public state schools he moved back into the corporate world developing SharePoint solutions for Local Education Authorities. As Learning Platform Solutions Architect at Redstone, he gets to build the most advanced learning portals for students, staff, parents and the local community.
Alex was awarded SharePoint MVP in 2008 and runs the Learning Gateway User Group. He is also the co-founder of the Learning Gateway Conference which run annually in the summer. You can follow his blog at http://www.bfcnetworks.com. Anders Rask Anders Rask is a SharePoint architect and developer living in Århus, Denmark. He has worked as a developer with SharePoint since Tahoe -for good and bad.
Anders is actively participating in the SharePoint community on forums, especially SharePoint.StackExchange.com, twitter and by blogging on SharePoint. Anders is also a SharePoint Runner (#sprunners)
MoreAndrew Woodward Andrew Woodward has been a SharePoint Consultant since 2001. Now owner and Principal Consultant at 21apps, a small consultancy with an emphasis on providing community support, expert consultancy and products targeting the expanding SharePoint platform.
Andrews day job is usually as Technical Architect for large SharePoint deployments and migrations and as product owner at 21apps.
Andrew has always worked in a development environment; is passionate about agile approaches and is constantly looking at ways to improve the development story in SharePoint.
Ant Clay Ant is Chief Strategy Officer at 21app. With over 15 years IT delivery and consulting experience, Ant is one of a new breed of SharePoint 'business consultants' working with clients using visualisations, game-play and organisational storytelling to 'change the way they work' and effectively deliver their organisational vision through SharePoint and Office 365. Ant consults and delivers on a range of topics including facilitating project governance, innovating client's business models, architecting and delivering business aligned technology solutions and a number of innovative training and workshop sessions. He is a regular speaker across Europe on a range of topics including SharePoint & Office 365 governance, the 'Celery Effect', business model innovation, hybrid organisations, social media and aligning technology with the business vision. MoreAonghus Fraser Aonghus Fraser (@gusfraser) is the SharePoint Lead Consultant for C5 Alliance, a Gold Partner in the Channel Islands with over 50 experienced IT consultants where he leads the SharePoint Team delivering solutions to financial institutions, legal firms and governments based offshore. Gus has been developing solutions with Microsoft technologies for over 10 years and has been working with SharePoint since the 2003 version of the product. He has been responsible for the SharePoint solution architecture for a wide variety of enterprise clients in that period including British Telecom, Heineken, ASCO, Bright Grey and The British Transport Police.
Gus also runs the Channel Islands SharePoint User Group and provides consultancy and technical training for clients' IT teams. In the little spare time he has, Gus guest lectures to undergraduate Software Engineering and Computing students and blogs occasionally at http://techblurt.com
Ari Bakker Ari Bakker is an experienced SharePoint consultant based in London. His focus is on the design and development of large-scale SharePoint based applications. Over the last 6 years he has worked with development teams to successfully deliver SharePoint projects in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. Ari has also spoken at events such as the Asia Pacific SharePoint conference, the SharePoint 2010 Evolution conference and the SharePoint 2010 best practices conference in London. He is a big supporter of the SharePoint community and as well as running a SharePoint focused blog he has contributed to several open source SharePoint projects such as the Community Kit for SharePoint. Ari's blog is at http://www.sharepointconfig.com and you can follow him on Twitter at @aribakker. MoreBecky 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 2011, 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 three years.
She currently works for Planet Technologies. She lives with her cat, Gambit. 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. Ben Athawes Benjamin's primary focus is on SharePoint infrastructure administration and design, although he does occasionally dabble in some development. Benjamin's ambition is to become a SharePoint MCM, although by his own admission he needs to get a few more years’ experience under his belt before pursuing this. MoreBen Robb Ben Robb works on the global deployment team for a large professional services firm, and has previously provided expert consultancy to clients such as Barclays, Aviva, Catlin and Deutsche Bank. He has been given the Microsoft "Most Valuable Professional" award for the past five years for his work on SharePoint, and is publishing "Enterprise Content Management using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010" for Microsoft Press / O'Reilly this year. Brett Lonsdale Brett Lonsdale is a SharePoint Developer specializing in the Business Data Catalog, Business Connectivity Services, Aggregation of SharePoint Lists/Libraries and SharePoint Permissions.
Brett is the co-founder of Lightning Tools Ltd famous for its product BDC Meta Man.
Brett has also authored the SharePoint 2007 Developers Guide to the Business Data Catalog which is available from www.manning.com/lonsdale. You can often find Brett on twitter @brettlonsdale and hosting with co hosts Nick Swan and Rob Foster on the SharePointPodShow.com and on his blog www.brettlonsdale.comBrian Culver Brian Culver is a SharePoint Solutions Architect for Expert Point Solutions in Houston, Texas. Brian is a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) in SharePoint 2007 and a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD). He has worked in the Information Technology industry for since 1998 and he has been working with SharePoint since 2005. His deep expertise includes SharePoint, ASP.Net, SQL Server and Project Server. He has been involved in many large SharePoint implementations including Internet and Intranet sites, Partner Portals, Enterprise Content Management and Governance, and much custom application integration and development. MoreChirag Patel Chirag Patel (BSc, MSc, MCSD, MCTS) has worked with Microsoft technologies and SharePoint since 2002 and is a holder of Microsoft Community Contributor 2011 Award.
He is a database-centric application practitioner at the Salvation Army ( www.salvationarmy.org.uk), built various line-of-business applications to help support their mission and involved in all stages of technical implementation's life cycle, including requirements gathering, system design, development and deployment.
Whilst serving as SQL Server Database Administrator he has designed and implemented portals, content and collaboration using SharePoint and making the art of practical application. Chirag has presented at various conferences including live SharePoint demonstrations and can be found online at www.techChirag.com Chris Forbes Chris Forbes has been a software developer for over 16 year. And has extensive experience designing and developing globally deployed SharePoint solutions. Chris was a director of a leading Gold Partner based in Scotland which he sold earlier this year. Chris now focuses on specific client engagements throughout Europe and is spending more time working within the SharePoint community and is an organizer within SUGUK for Scotland. MoreChris O'Brien Chris O’Brien (MCSD.Net, MCTS, MVP) is an independent SharePoint consultant with over 10 years’ experience working with complex projects on Microsoft technologies. Chris is still very much a hands-on developer, and has led several large-scale web initiatives including e-commerce, WCM, intranet, back-end integration and workflow projects. Past clients include BP, Microsoft, London's Metropolitan Police Service, the Ministry of Defence (UK), Northern Ireland government and Standard Chartered Bank. With a background in ASP.Net/Content Management Server/Commerce Server, Chris’s work often involves building public-facing websites or collaboration solutions on SharePoint and he continues to learn with every project.
In addition to his day job, Chris runs a highly-regarded blog focused on the development aspects of SharePoint at www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com, and has created several popular community tools such as the SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard. Chris is also a regular speaker at the UK SharePoint user group, and is based in London, England. Christian Buckley Christian Buckley is Director of Product Evangelism for Axceler, driving product awareness, SharePoint best practices, and both partner and community development.
He previously worked at Microsoft as part of the enterprise hosted SharePoint platform team (now part of BPOS), and led an engineering team in advertising operations. Prior to Microsoft, Christian was managing director of a regional consulting firm in the San Francisco East Bay, started and sold two technology startups, and worked with IBM, HP, Cisco, Matsushita, Solectron, Seagate and other large hi-tech and manufacturing firms to deploy collaboration and supply chain solutions.
He is co-author of three books on IBM Rational Software configuration management and defect tracking solutions, and can be found online at www.buckleyplanet.com and www.twitter.com/buckleyplanet Daniel Haywood TSP within the Digital Marketing Platform Group, previous to Microsoft I was a consultant at Trinity Expert Systems and came most recently from Outsourcery. Dave Coleman 19 years working in the IT industry with 11 of those working in the education sector and i have worked with many versions of Windows server, Exchange, SQL Server. Over the last few years i have been specializing in SharePoint starting with SharePoint team services back in 2001 through SharePoint portal server 2003 with Class Server and on to SharePoint 2007 and now onto SharePoint 2010 after introducing SharePoint into Twynham and making it a key component of their IT strategy.
In 2008 Twynham was the sole winner of the Beyond the Classroom BECTA ICT Excellence Award 2008 for their SharePoint work on Parental engagement. Many articles have been written about our SharePoint deployment with case studies and architecture models appearing on the Microsoft websites worldwide. I am also a regular speaker on our SharePoint achievements including on the Microsoft stand at BETT, Learning Gateway Conference and recently presenting to the Microsoft SharePoint product group and education team at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond.
Denise Wilson Denise has been with Continental Airlines (now United Airlines) for almost 14 years. As a Senior Manager of Technology, she has worked on both the Application Development and Enterprise Engineering teams. She was part of the team that developed the "EZR" GUI interface to the airline reservations mainframe that won a Windows World Open award in 1999. Her team is currently responsible for Engineering process improvement, architectural review and standards, and the Enterprise-wide deployment of SharePoint as a content management and collaboration platform for the new United Airlines. MoreEric Schupps Eric Shupps is a SharePoint Server MVP and the founder and President of BinaryWave, a global provider of SharePoint managed services. Eric has worked with SharePoint Products and Technologies since 2001 as a consultant, administrator, architect, developer and trainer. He is a sponsor of the Dallas/Ft. Worth SharePoint Community group, participating member of the UK SharePoint User Group and President of the International SharePoint Professionals Association. Eric has authored numerous SharePoint articles, creates educational SharePoint content for Microsoft, speaks at events around the world, and publishes a popular SharePoint blog at www.sharepointcowboy.com MoreIan Woodgate Ian’s background is in financial services and IT, and he has worked with SharePoint since its first release in 2001 as a developer and subsequently as a solution architect. Ian set up his own consultancy company in 2004 and now employs a team of people at Microsoft Gold Partner PointBeyond Limited ( www.pointbeyond.com). Ian regularly speaks at SharePoint events, and he organises meetings of the SharePoint UK User group in the South of England “in his spare time”, and when he isn’t sailing or windsurfing. Johan Oliver Johan has 12 years’ experience in planning, designing, developing, training and implementing Microsoft technical solutions in a wide range of industries.
He has done a wide range of international projects and successfully led development teams in India, Germany, Greece, United Kingdom, Scotland and South Africa.
He loves to see individuals develop their technical abilities through his efforts as technical leader and motivator.
Johan is actively involved in the SharePoint development community as a regular speaker at Information Worker- and SharePoint Saturday events and he has been selected as a speaker at the European SharePoint Conference 2011 event as well as SharePoint Saturday India.
He is currently playing the role as SharePoint Architect at relate technologies in Cape Town, South Africa and maintains a SharePoint blog at http://www.johanolivier.blogspot.com
MoreKanwal Khipple Kanwal Khipple, is a SharePoint Server MVP & Principal SharePoint Architect with BrightStarr, a Microsoft Gold Partner who has developed some of the best user experiences on SharePoint.
Kanwal focuses on cloud technologies, ECM, WCM and designing solutions using SharePoint. Kanwal is an author, SharePoint evangelist, speaker, and you can find him blogging on his personal blog and SharePoint Buzz.
Kanwal is the co-founder of Toronto SharePoint Business User Group and calls Toronto, Canada home. Connect with him - @kkhipple, @sharepointbuzz and LinkedIn, Facebook Marc D Anderson Marc is the Co-Founder and President of Sympraxis Consulting LLC, located in the Boston suburb of Newton, MA, USA.
Sympraxis focuses on enabling collaboration throughout the enterprise using the SharePoint application platform. Marc has almost 30 years of experience in technology professional services and software development.
Over a wide-ranging career in consulting as well as line manager positions, Marc has proven himself as a problem solver and leader who can solve difficult technology problems for organizations across a wide variety of industries and organization sizes.
Marc was awarded the Microsoft MVP Award for SharePoint in January 2011.
Mark Macrae Mark Macrae (MCTS, MCAD) has been working with SharePoint Technologies since 2003 and is now Director and Senior Consultant at Intelligent Decisioning Ltd ( www.id-live.com) a SharePoint focussed solutions provider based in Nottingham, UK.
Mark has worked on numerous SharePoint projects with a wide range of industries, in both the private and public sectors, covering both development and deployment. Recently, he has been heavily involved in delivering Business Intelligence solutions for the SharePoint platform using the Microsoft BI Stack, including SQL Reporting Services and PerformancePoint.
Mark is also an active member in the SharePoint Community in the UK, attending and speaking at SharePoint User Group UK (SUGUK) events and organising SUGUK events in the Midlands and Yorkshire regions.
Outside work Mark is also a football coach, avid West Ham Utd fan, and keen practitioner of self defence systems including Krav Maga and FAST Defence. He lives in Nottingham with his wife and two young children.
Martin Hatch I am an independent SharePoint Solutions Architect / Developer / Consultant based in the South East / London. My primary role is a Solutions Architect, which basically means I design and scope client solutions, drive best practice both internally and on client projects, and generally play around with the technical bits of SharePoint. MoreMatt Groves Matt Groves is a Managing Consultant with Trinity Expert Systems Ltd (a leading Microsoft Gold Partner in the UK) and his practice (IW Solutions) specialises in helping clients maximise benefit from effective use of technology, thought leadership and solution architecture. Matt has worked in IT for over 10 years and has been involved in SharePoint since it was born!
Matt is passionate about ‘Web 2.0’ and using social media in the enterprise. The Microsoft stack is of primary interest and Matt is focussed on the IW platforms (SharePoint, Lync, Office, etc), he is also an advocate of cloud computing and was heavily involved on the Office365 beta programme.
Matt’s experience is a unique blend of infrastructure and applications, but he has always had a focus on web enabled technology dating right back to his time at Freeserve in the late 90’s. In his personal life Matt enjoys spending time with his family (he has 2 young children) and has a wide range of hobbies that he no longer has much time for including Fishing, Golf and Photography.
Matt is a regular speaker at SUGUK, SPSUK and BPCUK and blogs about SharePoint, technology and his other interests and passions at Matthew Hughes Matthew Hughes has been working in schools and colleges for the last 7 years and now works for a new Academy in Leicester.
He has been working with Sharepoint for just 18 months and during this time he has created a learning gateway, public website and intranet paying attention to branding and administration without ever starting Visual Studio. No educational establishment chases technology as hard as his and he has been part of a team who have deployed Windows 7, Exchange 2010 and as soon as it hits RTM he will deploy SharePoint 2010. Blog: http://www.weknownothing.co.ukNick Swan Founder of SUGUK, co-founded SharePoint Podshow and Lightning Tools. Lately been working on discussion forums for SharePoint and thinking about how to make work more fun. MoreNigel Price In this session I look at the various SharePoint Development options and why do we develop. I also explore No Code Solutions and what we need to do to not keep starting each project from scratch and writing thousand’s of lines of C# code. MorePaul Grimley Paul is a SharePoint Consultant working for a Microsoft Gold Partner based in the UK. He has an infrastructure background and over 10 years' experience in IT. He was first introduced to SharePoint back in 2005, working with SharePoint 2003. Paul is an enthusiast of Microsoft Technologies and his passion helps bring together solutions based on the SharePoint platform and Microsoft product stack. MorePaul J Swider Paul J. Swider is an international speaker, writer and freelance consultant. In addition he is president of the Charleston SharePoint Users Group and a contributing author of the new Professional SharePoint 2010 Development book published by Wrox Press. He is an accomplished entrepreneur straight from a barrier Island near Charleston; SC.
Paul consults with some of the most successful companies in the world. 17 years of software consulting experience combined with many Microsoft certifications and speaking credentials has made Paul an authority in the SharePoint Community. Paul has trained and consulted thousands of SharePoint administrators, developers and architects.
Penny Coventry Penelope Coventry, MVP SharePoint Server and MCTIP: SharePoint Administration 2010, is an author and independent consultant based in the U.K. with more than 30 years of industry experience.
She focuses on the design, implementation, and development of SharePoint Technology–based solutions.
Penny has spoken at a number of conferences including TechEd North America, SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference and SharePoint Best Practices Conferences. Phil Duffy Phill Duffy works for Lightning Tools Ltd with Brett Lonsdale and Nick Swan (MVP) as a SharePoint Developer.
He has worked with SharePoint for 3 years and has been involved in the Development of Web Parts and Tools centred on and around the BDC and BCS.
Phill is currently the lead developer working on BCS Meta Man. He has also talked at San Diego and London Best Practices Conferences on the BCS.
Symon Garfield Chief Technology Officer with Microsoft Gold Partner ICS Solutions. Passionate about realising the value created by combining people, technology and information and with a special focus on Microsoft Information worker technologies. Todd Klindt SharePoint MVP specializing in SharePoint administration for SharePoint911.com
MoreWes Hackett Wes Hackett is a Solutions Architect at Content and Code. Wes has been building WCM, ECM and ecommerce SharePoint solutions for the last four years.
As the technical lead for the RNIB SharePoint programme he built the reusable accessibility solution which underpins www.rnib.org.uk providing AAA level accessible SharePoint editing.
Wes is currently working on a global SP2010 collaboration portal and the Community Kit for SharePoint: Development Tools Edition. |
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