Speakers
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Marc D. Anderson - MVP

Marc is the Co-Founder and President of Sympraxis Consulting LLC, located in the Boston suburb of Newton, MA. He has  almost 30 years of experience in technology, professional services, and software development. He is an independent SharePoint consultant, the developer of the jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (aka SPServices), a faculty member focused on Middle Tier Development with SharePoint at the USPJ Academy, and a frequent contributing author to EndUserSharePoint.com and SharePoint Magazine. Marc is also a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server.

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John Arnold

John Arnold is the CEO of DataLan Corporation, a Gold Certified Microsoft Solution provider that specializes in enterprise SharePoint business solutions. John has worked with all versions of SharePoint related products since 2001, and spends his time with senior business leaders and IT executives envisioning and developing solution architectures for enterprise SharePoint business solutions.

From his early roots in software development and network infrastructure, John has more than 25 years of industry experience in a wide variety of industries, technologies, and solution areas.

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Dehun Benton

Dehun has been designing and implementing Microsoft Solutions and networked-based solutions for major organizations for several years. As Information Worker practice manager at EPC Group, he is skilled in implementing Microsoft Business and Information Worker Solutions, including Enterprise Project Management and SharePoint Portal. Dehun currently consults organizations to help them understand business processes, workflows and business objectives, and provides analysis and recommendations for current systems to help improve performance. Dehun also teaches several classes on how to utilize SharePoint Server 2007 from an end-user, admin or developer perspective.

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Todd Bleeker - MVP

Todd is an industry leader in Microsoft-centric software development, specializing in SharePoint products and technologies. As co-owner and CTO of global education company Mindsharp since 2004, Todd helped establish its strategic plan for educational assets. In addition to writing and teaching SharePoint training courses for Mindsharp, Todd uses his nearly 15 years of experience architecting solutions to help clients improve their content management capabilities. Microsoft has awarded Todd the title of Most Valuable Professional for his contributions to the SharePoint Server Platform and community. He has authored or co-authored several books on Microsoft's integrated suite of products, and he is a regular contributor to websites such as Microsoft TechNet.

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Robert Bogue - MVP

Robert has contributed to more than 100 book projects and numerous publishing projects, and has also authored his own book, “The SharePoint Sheperd’s Guide for End Users.” Writing about topics from networking and certification, to Microsoft applications and business needs, Robert blogs at www.thorprojects.com/blog.

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Christian Buckley

Christian helps drive partner and community development for Axceler, and he previously worked at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager on the enterprise hosted SharePoint platform team (now part of BPOS). Prior to Microsoft, he was managing director of a regional consulting firm in San Francisco's East Bay, participated in several 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. Christian is co-author of three books on IBM Rational Software configuration management and defect tracking solutions, and he can be found online at www.buckleyplanet.net and www.twitter.com/buckleyplanet.

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Mauro Cardarelli

Mauro is co-author of "Essential SharePoint 2010 - Overview, Governance, and Planning" and "Essential SharePoint 2007 - Delivering High Impact Collaboration." His deep knowledge of the Microsoft platform and recognized expertise in the areas of knowledge management and business intelligence make him a popular technology expert with experience. He has been published in various industry journals and is a featured speaker at many industry conferences. Mauro has 20 years of experience designing and building technology solutions for customers, representing a wide range of industry verticals. Read his blog at http://www.officezealot.com/mauro.

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Liam Cleary - MVP

After 12 years in the IT industry, Liam became a consultant for SharePoint. Afterward, he became principal consultant for .NET development and collaboration within BT Lynx in the U.K., and now works as a solution architect for SusQtech in Virginia, primarily working with non-profits and associations. His core focus as a solution architect is to ensure that SharePoint can either natively, or with minimal customization, meet the business requirement. Liam is also a four-time SharePoint MVP focused on architecture, but also crosses the boundary into development. He is passionate about all aspects of the SharePoint platform and loves to share the good word. He can often be found at user groups or conferences speaking, offering advice or just spending time in the community.

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Andrew Connell - MVP (MOSS)

Andrew is an author, instructor and cofounder of Critical Path Training, a SharePoint education-focused company. Andrew is a five-time Microsoft MVP and has contributed to numerous books over the years. In June 2008, he published “Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development,” the only book on the subject of developing Web content management sites using SharePoint 2007. Andrew has spoken on the subject of SharePoint development and WCM at various events and national conferences, such as TechEd North America & EMEA, SharePoint Connections, VSLive, and Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference. Andrew blogs at www.andrewconnell.com/blog.

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Ben Curry - MVP (MOSS 2007)

Ben is a respected enterprise architect specializing in knowledge management and collaboration technologies. As a senior architect for Mindsharp, Ben shares his knowledge in training courses that cover the next generation of Microsoft products. Ben is the author or co-author of three books for SharePoint products and technologies, including “Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices.” Ben has more than 15 years of experience designing, managing, implementing and securing data center IT solutions

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Randy Drisgill - MVP (MOSS)

Randy has more than 10 years' experience developing, designing and implementing Internet-based software for clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Randy co-wrote “Professional SharePoint 2007 Design” and has worked on several SharePoint articles and white papers. Randy blogs at blog.drisgill.com.

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Phill Duffy

Phill works for Lightning Tools Ltd with Brett Lonsdale and Nick Swan (MVP) as a SharePoint Developer. He has worked with SharePoint for three years and has been involved in the Development of Web Parts and Tools centered 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.

John Ferringer

John is a Solutions Architect for Apparatus, Inc. with more than six years experience administering and supporting SharePoint technologies and more than 12 years in IT consulting. He co-authored the “SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide”  AND the “SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide.” John is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in the installation and configuration of SharePoint 2010, WSS v3, MOSS 2007, and SCOM 2007, as well as a Microsoft Certified IT Professional for Virtualization Administration 2008 R2 and Enterprise Project Management with Project Server 2007.

Christophe Fiessinger

Christophe is Senior Technical Product Manager for Microsoft. As part of the Microsoft Business Division Product Marketing Group he focuses on the enterprise project and portfolio management solution - EPM. Christophe is responsible for technical readiness and in particular IT Professional readiness. Christophe focuses on promoting the value of EPM by speaking at global Microsoft conferences like TechEd, SharePoint Conference, and Project Conference. He is a major advocate for enterprise deployments of Project Server, speaking on topics such as architecture planning and design, deployment and upgrade, administration and operation. Christophe also focuses on whitepapers, trainings, blogs, solution starters and other technical readiness materials related to Project Server.

Christian finn

Christian and his team lead Microsoft’s marketing and business strategy in the enterprise collaboration, social computing, portal, and content management markets. Christian is the executive sponsor of the influential FastForward blog on Enterprise 2.0 adoption www.fastforwardblog.com. He frequently speaks with customers, press, analysts, and industry groups about SharePoint and collaboration topic. A 13 year Microsoft veteran, Christian has a wide range of experience as a consultant, developer, and marketer of collaboration solutions. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.

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Jeff Fried

Jeff is focused on strategic applications of search technology. Prior to joining BA-Insight as its chief technology officer, Jeff was a VP of Advanced Solutions for FAST Search and Transfer. After Microsoft’s acquisition of FAST, he served as core product manager for FAST Search for SharePoint, and then became technical product manager for all Microsoft enterprise search products. Jeff is a frequent speaker and writer in the industry, holds 15 patents, has authored more than 50 technical papers, and has led the creation of pioneering offerings in next-generation search engines, networks, and contact centers. He is a co-author of two new books: “Professional SharePoint 2010 Development” and “Professional Microsoft Search.”

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Ira Fuchs

Ira is a SharePoint Technical Specialist at Microsoft working in the New York Metropolitan District. In this role, he has assisted numerous companies deploy and exploit the full set of features and capabilities of the SharePoint platform. He is the author of the book “Enterprise Application Development in SharePoint 2010 – Creating an End-to-End Application without Code.” In addition, he has written numerous white papers for Microsoft on BizTalk Server, Customer Care Framework and InfoPath.

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BjØrn Furuknap

Bjørn, known as "B," is the acting dean, cofounder, and faculty member of USPJ Academy, the world's first SharePoint university (http://uspja.com). He is also the lead editor of SharePoint Magazine, and author of 16 books and journals on SharePoint. In addition, he blogs, does the odd consulting gig, and provides training for SharePoint developers throughout the world. In his spare time, he keeps trying to count to 100, but has never found enough time.

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Ruven Gotz - MVP

Ruven is a Senior Consultant & SharePoint MVP with Navantis, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Toronto, Canada. With over 20 years of IT industry experience, Ruven has spent the past six years delivering award-winning SharePoint solutions for a wide range of clients. Working as a Business Analyst and Information Architect, Ruven is able to apply his eclectic education and varied experience in Psychology, Computer Science, Economics, Software Development and Training to get to the heart of complex problems.

Ruven is a great communicator who is able to discuss technology concepts in language that is relevant to his audience, whether they are from IT or business. He has become a leader in the use of visual tools to help his clients and team members achieve shared understanding of problems and goals and shared commitment towards implementing a successful solution. Ruven’s blog is at http://spinsiders.com/ruveng and you can follow him on Twitter at @RuvenG.

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Anthony Guevara - MCTS

As senior solution architect and CIO at EPC Group, Anthony uses his nearly two decades of experience designing and implementing Microsoft Solutions and network-based solutions to help organizations understand business processes, workflows and business objects. He also helps them design, build and deliver information worker solutions. Anthony is also skilled in implementing all Microsoft Business and Information Worker Solutions, including Enterprise Project Management, SharePoint Portal and secured networks from the ground up.

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Joshua Haebets - MCTSS

Joshua is a Microsoft Certified SharePoint specialist based in Australia with more than 11 years' experience in the IT industry. He has delivered or been involved in more than 100 SharePoint implementations, using different components of the platform and across a range of different businesses and business functions. Joshua is passionate about SharePoint and is an active advocate for the platform, presenting at a number of conferences around the world.

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Richard Harbridge

For the past seven years, Richard has worked extensively with SharePoint as an end user, developer, administrator, architect, business analyst and consultant. In this time he has defined, architected, developed and implemented well over 100 SharePoint solutions from small implementations of WSS on a single server, to more than 80,000 user implementations in international organizations. Richard is passionate about technology and business challenges, and enjoys teaching, sharing and helping others through involvement with the community.

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John Holliday - MVP

John is president and founder of SharePoint Architects, a SharePoint consultancy focused on enterprise content management and business process automation. John has over 25 years of professional software development experience and has been involved in a wide range of commercial software projects, such as being a consulting software architect and developer for Fortune 100 clients.

John is the author of “Professional SharePoint 2007 Records Management Development,” and has co-authored several popular SharePoint development books, including “Professional SharePoint 2007 Development.” He is the developer of the CAML.NET framework, which enables developers to create SharePoint queries more easily, and the CAML.NET IntelliSense add-in for Visual Studio. John is the founder of the SharePoint Developer Network which is committed to helping SharePoint developers find work and professional support, and he is also the founder of SharePoint Heroes, a network of professionals devoted to helping charitable and humanitarian groups use SharePoint technologies more effectively.

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Jim Bob Howard

Jim Bob is first a husband and a father. For fun, he gets to go to work and play with SharePoint. Jim Bob has invested over 17 years in software development and website management for companies of all sizes. For the past two years, Jim Bob served as a webmaster/designer (read: THE SharePoint Guy) in the healthcare arena. Meanwhile, he helps others work with SharePoint by writing technical "how-to" articles at EndUserSharePoint.com and offering guidance as a panel member on EUSP's Stump the Panel. His first eBook, “Extending the DVWP,” was published in October 2010. Specialties include SharePoint customization (especially with jQuery, SPD workflows, XSLT and JavaScript), public speaking, mind mapping, business analysis, and writing (whether technical, instructional, promotional or creative).

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Scott Jamison - Microsoft Certified Master

Scott is a managing partner at Jornata, a premier Microsoft-focused consulting and training firm based in Boston. Scott has extensive experience implementing business solutions using SharePoint technologies, and is one of only a handful of Microsoft Certified Masters for SharePoint in the world. He is a recognized thought leader, teacher and published author with several books, including “Essential SharePoint 2007” and “Essential SharePoint 2010.” You can find his blog at www.scottjamison.com.

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Todd Klindt - MVP (WSS)

Todd is a popular speaker and consultant specializing in SharePoint technologies for IT administrators. He contributed to the book “Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences from 16 MOSS and WSS MVPs.” Read his blog at toddklindt.com/blog.

TONY LANNI

Tony is the Chief Evangelist at AvePoint, where he utilizes his knowledge, experience, leadership and authoritative expertise to spread the company’s message throughout the SharePoint community, as well as help AvePoint create and build solutions that will set the standard for the next generation of collaboration platforms. Since SharePoint’s debut, he has played an instrumental role in helping bring to market many pioneering tools and strategies to help organizations reap all of the benefits the platform has to offer. Tony’s expertise in the areas of deployment architecture, governance, content life-cycle management, storage optimization and data protection has garnered him numerous speaking engagements at industry events and technical conferences worldwide. 

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Jennifer Mason

Jennifer has spent the past several years providing consulting services around SharePoint technologies and is currently working with the team at SharePoint911. Her focus has been on strategy, planning, governance and best practices for implementing business solutions using SharePoint technologies. Jennifer is also a founding member of the Columbus, Ohio SharePoint Users Group.

Sean McDonough – MCTS, MCPD

Sean is a Product Manager for SharePoint Products at Idera, a Microsoft gold certified partner and creator of tools for SharePoint, SQL Server, and PowerShell.  As a consultant, Sean has worked with a number of Fortune 500 companies to architect, implement, troubleshoot, tune, and customize their SharePoint environments. Sean is an MCPD, an MCTS, and the co-author of both the “SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide” and the “SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide.”

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Chris McNulty - MSA, VTSP, MCSE, MCTS

Chris leads the SharePoint practice at KMA, a Microsoft Gold Partner in New England. Chris has more than 20 years’ experience in financial services technology at State Street, Santander, GMO and John Hancock/Manulife. A frequent speaker at conferences nationwide, he’s the author of the "SharePoint 2010 Consultant's Handbook—A Field Guide to Managed Metadata Services," and the popular Microknowledge blog (http://blogs.kma-llc.net/microknowledge). Chris holds an MBA from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College in Investment Management and Corporate Finance, and is a Microsoft MSA, VTSP, MCSE and MCTS.

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Mark Miller

Mark is the founder and editor of EndUserSharePoint.com one of the world’s most popular sites for SharePoint end users. He coordinates a group of a dozen contributing authors, managing the day-to-day aspects of editing and publishing content for the site. He also publishes a weekly newsletter and handles hundreds of questions weekly through the Stump the Panel: SharePoint Q&A Forum.

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Michael Noel - MVP (MOSS)

Michael is an internationally recognized technology expert, best-selling author and a well-known public speaker on a broad range of IT topics. He has written several major bestselling industry books that have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Significant titles include “Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed” and “Sams Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 10 Minutes.” Michael is a consultant with Convergent Consulting, located in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Errin O’Connor

Errin is the founder and CEO of EPC Group, and the author of "Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Inside Out." He has completed more than 120 individual SharePoint implementations and has worked with some of the largest organizations in the United States. Errin is also the founder of WebPartGallery.com, on online solutions provider of SharePoint Web parts and custom solutions, and a frequent speaker at SharePoint events throughout the United States and Canada.

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Joel Oleson

Joel is a senior product manager and SharePoint evangelist at Quest Software, where he is responsible for product direction and strategy. He is well known in the SharePoint community as an enthusiastic trainer, evangelist and architect. Joel is a frequent speaker at popular technology conferences such as Microsoft TechEd, and often presents to local SharePoint user groups. Prior to joining Quest, Joel worked at Microsoft and was part of the first Microsoft global deployment of SharePoint. During his Microsoft tenure, Joel helped various customers achieve the critical governance they needed to upgrade and achieve scale with SharePoint.

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Prashanth B. Panduranga

Prashanth, Senior Technical Architect with Technosoft Corporation, heads the Center of Excellence for Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, SharePoint and Performance Engineering. Having published various articles and white papers on “SharePoint best practices,” Prashanth’s core area of expertise has been in developing enterprise applications using Microsoft technologies.

As a Microsoft SharePoint Manager—his role demanded successful setting up of labs, building SharePoint communities and conducting group discussions, and training of SharePoint professionals. Prashanth has extensive hands-on experience in SharePoint 2003, 2007 and 2010 and has been involved in various speaking engagements, in addition to training developers, mentoring teams, and conducting technical and executive workshops.

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Scott Peterson - MCSD, MCPSB, MCT

Scott has been developing software with Microsoft tools and technologies since the late 1980s and has designed, developed and deployed solutions for clients across the globe. Scott was the architect and primary developer of the first MOSS 2007 deployment to go into production worldwide while at Halliburton Energy Services. He has since developed solutions for organizations large and small, including Microsoft as part of their Partners in Learning initiative. Most recently Scott has been developing Windows Phone 7 mobile tools for SharePoint, and is a profoundly happily married father of 10 who lives in Richmond, Texas.

Mark Rackley

Mark has been developing software applications 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. Mark currently works for Juniper Strategy, LLC as a Solutions Architect and SharePoint Practice Lead making key SharePoint architecture and development decisions, as well as bringing the appropriate SharePoint Best Practices to his clients and customers. Mark’s goal as a speaker, blogger, and author is to help every new architect and developer avoid the frustrations and brick walls he ran into while learning SharePoint.

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Asif Rehmani - MCT, MVP

Asif has been training and consulting on primarily SharePoint technologies since 2004. He is a SharePoint Server MVP and MCT. Asif runs a SharePoint Videos website, which provides SharePoint, SharePoint Designer and InfoPath Video Tutorials. Some of his videos have also been published at Microsoft's TechNet site. Asif also provides in-person and online SharePoint training publicly and in private workshops through Critical Path Training.
 
Over the years, Asif has been a speaker on SharePoint topics at several conferences including Microsoft's TechEd, SharePoint Conference, SharePoint Connections, and Advisor Live. He is the co-author of the book "Professional SharePoint Designer 2007” and is currently working on two more book projects. Asif was the co-founder and is currently one of the active leaders of the Chicago SharePoint User Group.

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Eric Riz

Eric is the Founder and CEO of eMark Consulting, a strategy and systems integration firm based in Toronto, Canada. For over 12 years, Eric has provided operational and tactical advice to clients in the United States and Canada. His focus is on engaging teams in the areas of organization, design and effectiveness, performance measurement, strategy implementation, and change management. He has worked with many Fortune 500 companies on their business productivity architecture and deployment plans to ensure they maximize the benefits of Microsoft technologies and successfully deploy their SharePoint-based solutions. A sought-after speaker, Eric has developed and facilitated management and technology sessions throughout North America. You can follow Eric on Twitter @emarkconsulting for updates on the latest SharePoint tips and tricks and visit the firm online at www.theemarkgroup.com.

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Laura Rogers - MVP, MCSE

Laura is a Senior SharePoint Consultant at SharePoint 911 and was recently recognized as a SharePoint MVP. She has six years of experience in SharePoint implementation, training, customization and administration, and has been a MCSE since 2000. Her focus is on making the most of SharePoint’s out-of-the-box capabilities. She works extensively with SharePoint Designer workflows, InfoPath and Data View Web Parts. Laura’s latest book on SharePoint 2010 is “Beginning SharePoint 2010: Building Business Solutions with SharePoint.” Her blog is www.sharepoint911.com/blogs/laura.

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John Ross - MVP (MOSS)

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. He is co-author of the book “MOSS Explained: An Information Worker’s Deep Dive into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007,” and was a contributing author to “Professional SharePoint 2007 Design.” You can visit John's blog at www.sharepoint911.com/blogs/john.

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Corey Roth - MVP

Corey is a solutions architect at Stonebridge, specializing in SharePoint solutions in the oil and gas Industry. Corey has recently been awarded as Microsoft MVP in SharePoint Server. He has always focused on rapid adoption of new Microsoft technologies including SharePoint 2010, Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0, LINQ, and Silverlight. When it comes to SharePoint, he specializes in ECM, Enterprise Search, and Business Connectivity Services. As an active member of the SharePoint community, he often speaks at user groups, Tech Fests, and SharePoint Saturdays. Corey is a member of the .NET Mafia (www.dotnetmafia.com) where he blogs about the latest technology and SharePoint. Corey is Vice President of the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group. He loves contributing to the SharePoint community and currently has four active open source projects on CodePlex.

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Peter Serzo - MCSD .NET, MCP, MCTS

Peter is a published author of the “SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook,” a founder of the SouthEastern SharePoint group, speaker, and works for High Monkey Consulting as a SharePoint Architect. Peter has been in the IT industry for 20 years.  He has extensive experience with SharePoint implementing business solutions for several enterprise organizations over the past seven years.

Using a varied background, including a degree in English, Peter brings a fresh perspective to each engagement and the clients he represents.  Each session he presents is told in story mode in order to engage and educate.  This type of communications presents SharePoint technology in an understandable format.

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Jeffrey Shuey

Jeff is a veteran in the Enterprise Content Management industry. Over the past 20 years, he has worked with customers and partners to design, develop and deploy solutions around the world. His work spans CRM, ERP and other LOB systems with a focus on the business aspects of utilizing enterprise content to drive both social and system alignment. Jeff is currently the Director of Business Development for the Kodak Document Imaging division. He has worked for Microsoft, FileNet, K2, Captaris, Open Text and Kofax. He speaks and blogs about ECM, SaaS and Cloud Computing, and how companies are putting these tools to work in their businesses.

Tony Smith

Tony is a product manager for DataLan Corporation, a Microsoft Gold Certified partner. An author of several SharePoint books, including the “SharePoint 2010 User’s Guide: Learning Microsoft’s Business Collaboration Platform” and “SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Learning Microsoft's Collaboration and Productivity Platform,” Tony has worked with SharePoint technologies since its introduction in 2001 and has been working with SharePoint 2010 since its initial beta release.

Tony also has experience designing and deploying SharePoint solutions in a wide range of organizations across many industries. With a background that includes business analysis, network engineering, and application development, Tony has over 15 years of experience engineering business solutions and regularly presents to engineers, analysts, and business decision makers.

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Heather Solomon

Heather is a Web designer with more than 10 years of experience designing and deploying online applications and sites. Specializing in SharePoint branding, layout and usability, she has extensive experience with SharePoint technologies and Web content management. Heather is the director of Creative Services and senior trainer at SharePoint Experts, and delivers training, branding and consulting services to help corporations maximize SharePoint’s potential. She authored and teaches the “SharePoint Branding Bootcamp.”  Considered by many to be THE industry expert in SharePoint branding, Heather shares her knowledge in a laid-back way and knows how to make SharePoint look like anything but SharePoint!

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Paul Swider – MCT (WSS)

Paul is an Enterprise SharePoint Architect for OnClick Solutions. With over15 years of software consulting experience, Paul has trained thousands of students, developers and architects. Paul's specialties include enterprise SharePoint deployment and development, .NET development, SQL Server, Business Intelligence, BizTalk Server 2006, and Windows Workflow Foundation.

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Dux Raymond Sy - PMP, MVP

Dux Raymond is a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, a Microsoft-certified business technology consulting and services company. He is the author of “SharePoint for Project Management,” published by O’Reilly Media. 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.

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Sadie Van Buren

Sadie is a Senior Software Engineer at BlueMetal Architects, based in Watertown, MA.  She designs SharePoint solutions and leads deployments, with a strong focus on strategy, usability, information architecture, and business process improvement.  Sadie has a Bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and a Certification in Project Management from Boston University, and is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist. 

She is a member of the Boston Area SharePoint User Group, the Boston Knowledge Management Forum and the Boston chapter of SIKM (System Integrator Knowledge Managers).  She is the creator of the SharePoint Maturity Model, and blogs about SharePoint and technology at http://amatterofdegree.typepad.com.

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Geoff Varosky - MCP, MCTS

Geoff is a Senior Solutions Developer for Grace-Hunt (www.grace-hunt.com), a Microsoft Gold Partner focusing on SharePoint and Dynamics Solutions, based out of Hudson, Mass. He has been architecting and developing Web-based applications for over a decade, and has been working with SharePoint Technologies for the past six years. Geoff is an active member of the SharePoint community, speaks regularly at SharePoint events and user groups, and maintains a blog on SharePoint at www.geoffvarosky.com.

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Kat Weixel

Kat is the Intranet Manager at the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) in Rockville, MD, where she's responsible for managing and developing ASHA’s intranet. Over the course of her five years in that role, she's learned that a good intranet manager needs to wear many hats, including: planner, manager, strategist, mediator, counselor, trainer, mentor, decision-maker, translator, interpreter, cheerleader, and friend. She enjoys talking “intranets” with others, and loves to share ideas with her peers."

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Fabian Williams - MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA

Fabian is a Technical Lead at CDW Advanced Technology Services Information Worker Practice, where he leads a SharePoint Delivery Team. His work with the SharePoint product line dates back to the 2003 release. Fabian holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Information System “Magna-Cum-Laude” from Strayer University, Washington D.C. and his Masters in Computer Information Technology studies at the Johns Hopkins University Carey School for Business in Columbia, Maryland. He holds the following Microsoft Certifications MCSE, MCSD and MCDBA.

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Christina Wheeler - MCTS

Based in Philadelphia, PA, Christina is a SharePoint Trainer for Mindsharp and founder of CM Portal Solutions, LLC. She is a highly respected SharePoint consultant who is extremely active in the SharePoint community. With over 10 years of experience in the industry, Christina has knowledge in graphic design, web development and custom development with her work primarily targeted toward educational and financial institutions.

As a trainer, Christina brings her real-world experience to the classroom. Christina was the tech-editor of “SharePoint 2007 Developer’s Guide to Business Data Catalog” and continues to edit books for various publishers and authors. She enjoys contributing articles to technical websites and often speaks at SharePoint community events and conferences.

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Shane Young - MVP (SharePoint Server)

Shane is president and principal consultant at SharePoint911, with more than 13 years of experience architecting and administering large-scale server farms using Microsoft enterprise technologies. He has been recognized by Microsoft as an authority on SharePoint and is among an elite group of SharePoint MVPs. Shane has written three SharePoint 2007 books and maintains the popular SharePoint Farmer’s Almanac at msmvps.com/blogs/shane