Event Speakers

 

Agnes Molnar, SharePoint MVP

Agnes has been working with Microsoft technologies and SharePoint since 2001. Before joining BA Insight in Autumn 2010, she's been working in her own company and as an independent SharePoint consultant, and has leaded numerous Central European companies' SharePoint implementation.
Her main focus is on Information/Knowledge Management and Enterprise Search.
Agnes is also a frequent speaker of both Central European and international conferences, for example Best Practices Conferences in Washington DC, La Jolla, CA and London, SharePoint Saturdays, and many other SharePoint Conferences around the globe. She's a co-author of the book 'Real World SharePoint 2010' and contributor of 'SharePoint 2010 Unleashed'.
Blog: http://aghy.hu
MVP Profile and more details: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Agnes.Molnar

 

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 world renowned BETT show in London, UK on using SharePoint 2010 and other Microsoft technologies to cut costs while providing a state of the art ICT system to his users.

 

Alex 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 in the corporate world developing SharePoint solutions for Local Education Authorities. As Learning Platform Solutions Architect at Redstone, Alex 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 run annually in the summer.

 

Andrew Connell

Andrew Connell is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training (www.CriticalPathTraining.com), a SharePoint education focused company. Andrew is a five-time recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) & Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. He has contributed to numerous MCMS and SharePoint books over the years. In June 2008 he published the only book on the subject of developing Publishing / Web Content Management (WCM) sites using Office SharePoint Server 2007: Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development by WROX. 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, Office Developer Conference and Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Sydney, Australia & Seattle, Washington. You can always find Andrew at his SharePoint development and WCM focused blog at www.andrewconnell.com/blog.

 

Aonghus Fraser

Aonghus Fraser (@gusfraser) is the Chief Technology Officer of UniTech, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Edinburgh, Scotland specialising in collaboration, content management and cloud-based solutions. 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. In addition to bridging the gap between the sales and technical delivery teams, Gus delivers the technical elements of UniTech's regular SharePoint events and provides consultancy and technical training for clients' IT teams. In the little spare time he has, Gus also guest lectures at Edinburgh Napier University to undergraduate Software Engineering 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 and last year's SharePoint Evolution 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.

 

Ben Curry

Ben Curry (CISSP, MCP, CNE, CCNA) is highly respected as an enterprise network architect specializing in knowledge management and collaboration technologies. As a senior instructor for Mindsharp, Ben shares his knowledge in training courses that cover the next generation of Microsoft products. In his capacity as a Mindsharp consultant, Ben draws on his years of experience to develop powerful customized solutions based on the SharePoint platform for our clients.
In recognition of his expertise with SharePoint Server Products and Technologies, Microsoft awarded Ben the prestigious title of Most Valuable Professional (MVP).
Ben is the author or co-author of two books SharePoint products and technologies. He contributes articles to key Web sites such as TechNet and enjoys speaking at user groups and private engagements.
Ben has over fifteen years of experience designing, managing, implementing and securing datacenter IT solutions. He has worked primarily with the federal government including U.S. Army, Veteran's Administration, and most recently, NASA.
Ben lives in Huntsville, Alabama with his wife and two children.

 

Ben Howard

Ben Howard is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and is an independent consultant specialising in implementing Microsoft Project Server, with over 20 years of experience of enterprise solution deployment and implementation under his belt. Ben provides implementation, configuration, deployment and training services for Project and Project Server, both in the UK and further afield. Ben's spoken at various Microsoft events, both in the UK and US, and recently recorded a Microsoft TechNet webcast (User Controlled Scheduling in Project 2010) that was ranked in the top 10! He is a regular contributor to the Project Server newsgroups, and publishes a blog based on Project Server scenarios at http://www.applepark.co.uk/ben-howard-blog

 

Ben Robb, SharePoint MVP

Ben Robb is CTO of cScape, a Microsoft Gold Partner specialising in intranet and website design and build, and provides 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 four years for his work on SharePoint, and is publishing "Enterprise Content Management using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010" for Microsoft Press / O'Reilly this year.

 

Bert Jan van der Steeg

Bert Jan van der Steeg is owner of Companio BV and founder of SharePointTraining.nl. He started working with SharePoint Portal Server 2003 about 5 years ago, at which time he also engaged in a significant amount of Exchange projects. He switched his focus primarily on SharePoint, just before Microsoft released Office SharePoint Server 2007.
His work as a SharePoint consultant consists of assisting organizations in designing and planning their implementations, working with the design teams and bridging the gap between the IT-department and the business side of the company.
Bert Jan is a Mindsharp Associated Trainer and delivers Mindsharp’s courseware in The Netherlands through SharePointTraining.nl.

 

Bill English

Bill English (MCSE, MCSA, MVP, MCT) is an industry leader, author, and educator specializing in the exciting SharePoint Products and Technologies product set from Microsoft. In this role as Mindsharp’s CEO, Bill focuses on emerging technical changes in SharePoint to ensure Mindsharp continues to provide cutting-edge training and business solutions. Bill draws on his expertise in knowledge management and collaboration technologies to teach and consult worldwide about powerful customized solutions based on the SharePoint platform.
Microsoft has acknowledged Bill’s professional contributions to the SharePoint Portal Server platform by awarding him the prestigious title of Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for six consecutive years.
Since 2000, Bill has authored 12 books on Exchange and SharePoint products and is currently working on another book with Microsoft Press. Bill has presented at key conferences including Comdex, Microsoft Exchange Conference, TechMentor, TechEd, Advisor Live, TechEd Europe, and Networld Interop. You can find Bill’s blog at his AdminCompanion book site.
Bill lives in Maple Grove, Minnesota with his wife and two children.

 

Bob Fox

Bob Fox has been working as an IT Professional since the mid 90’s. During that time he has spent a great deal of time working as a Systems Administrator with a focus on various Microsoft Technologies. For the past 7 years Bob's primary focus has been Microsoft SharePoint Services. He specializes in Architecture, Deployment, Portal and Site Customization, Administration and Collaboration Solutions. Bob has worked for such companies as Merrill Lynch, BISYS Retirement Services and Educational Testing Services, Time Warner Cable, The National Football League, MetLife, Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson to name a few. Bob is a member of CDW and is a founding member of the ISPA (International SharePoint Professionals Association)

 

Bradley T. Smith, CEO, Black Blade Associates, Inc.

Bradley Thomas Smith is a business owner and entrepreneur living and working in Northern Virginia. He became involved in software development and consulting using Microsoft technologies after serving a tour in the United States Marine Corps. In 2005, Bradley founded Black Blade Associates, Inc. to provide high quality solutions to customers in the public and private sectors. Since that time, Black Blade has established partnerships with several key systems integrators, consultant firms, and vendors in the Washington DC/Metro area and the Microsoft market segments. Personally, Bradley’s work with MS Office server product teams led him to be provided a seat on the Office Developer Advisory Council in 2004, allowing him to contribute towards upcoming Office Server products and subsequently, the Office 12 Technology Adoption Program. Bradley was awarded the Microsoft "Most Valued Professional" award four years in a row for his continuing contributions in the general community for the next versions of SharePoint Products and Technologies and continuing dedication to work with and grow the defense and commercial markets for Microsoft business software.

 

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 spent 2 years living on Anna Maria Island, FL but now lives back in the UK in Welford Northamptonshire. You can often find Brett on twitter @brettlonsdale, hosting with co hosts Nick Swan and Rob Foster on the SharePointPodShow.com and on his blog www.brettlonsdale.com. Brett has also authored the SharePoint 2007 Developers Guide to the Business Data Catalog which is available from manning.com/lonsdale.

 

Brian Alderman

Brian has his WSS and MOSS 2007 certifications and has specialized in Microsoft products since the mid-1990s. As a "Jack of all Trades" he has developed expertise as a network architect, and DBA, and SharePoint administrator. Brian works as Senior Technical Instructor/Technical Consultant for Mindsharp and Summit 7 Systems where his breadth of knowledge spans across Microsoft operating systems, Active Directory, SQL Server, and SharePoint. His years of experience and broad background ideally suit him to handle designs that combine network, SQL Server, and SharePoint Administration topics. Paul is a frequent speaker at conferences and SharePoint Saturday events. Brian has contributed chapters to some and he recently completed The SharePoint 2010 Administrator Companions book which is to be released in the spring of 2010.

 

Cathy Dew

Cathy Dew (MCTS) is a Senior Consultant and Graphic Designer for Summit 7 Systems in Huntsville, Alabama. Summit 7 Systems is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner which specializes in the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure, including Office SharePoint Server, Office Communications Server and Exchange Server.
Cathy comes from an Advertising Agency and Graphic Design background, so her focus is on User Interface Design and User Experience with sites. She has worked primarily with SharePoint 2007 with a focus on branding and user experience. She has worked on many SharePoint installations to brand SharePoint and make it look “Not like SharePoint”. Cathy worked to start the Birmingham SharePoint User’s Group last year and has been working on growing the community in the area ever since. She has presented at both user groups and conferences.
Blog: www.sharepointcat.co

 

Chandima Kulathilake

Chandima aka “Chan” is an Enterprise Solutions Consultant based in New Zealand. He is a Microsoft Certified SharePoint expert who has been working with SharePoint technologies since 2001. He provides solution architecture consulting for SharePoint deployments covering planning information architecture and governance. He is the co-owner of Knowledge Cue Ltd ( http://www.knowledgecue.com ) a company based in New Zealand specialising in SharePoint. He has presented at International and local conferences on deployment and governance best practices for SharePoint. He has been awarded with Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award since 2007 for his contributions to the worldwide SharePoint community. He also coordinates the New Zealand Community SharePoint User Group events.

Chan Blogs at: www.chandima.net/Blog/

Chris Johnson

Chris is a Senior Technical Product Manager in the SharePoint group at Microsoft Corporation headquarters in Redmond Washington where he is responsible for SharePoint’s professional developer audience. Prior to moving to Redmond in 2007 Chris worked at Microsoft New Zealand where he was a Consultant to customers across the Asia Pacific region on designing and implementing Content Management Server and SharePoint deployments. In 2007 he moved with his family to Redmond to join the team working on the SharePoint 2010 release. Chris’ background is in Microsoft software development and enjoys all things technical. He is an avid speaker at numerous conferences around the world such as Tech.Ed and the SharePoint Conference. Chris holds a Bachelor of Computer Science & enjoys throwing himself out of perfectly good airplanes.

 

Chris O’Brien

Chris O’Brien (MCSD.Net, MCTS, MVP) is an independent SharePoint consultant with over 9 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 current main area of focus is building public websites on MOSS 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.

 

Christina Wheeler

Based in Philadelphia, PA, Christina (MCTS: SharePoint) is a SharePoint Trainer for Mindsharp 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 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.

 

Claudio Brotto

Claudio is a SharePoint developer based in Bologna (Italy). His main areas of expertise range from low-level platform development (C/C++/COM) to application analysis and design, using the Microsoft .NET Framework since the early days of beta 1. Since 2005, his focus has moved from raw application development to higher level solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies.
Nowadays he's involved in consulting and training services on SharePoint projects that his company, Green Team, is delivering to local and worldwide customers. He's a regular speaker in SharePoint events and conferences. He’s a 3yr Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server.

 

Daniel McPherson

Daniel McPherson (@danmc) has been involved in SharePoint since attending the first public announcement of project “Tahoe” at the Microsoft Technical Briefing, January 1999. It has had a profound impact on his career, taking him to the doorstep of hundreds of companies, of all shapes and sizes, in a range of industries and in over 25 different countries. He’s worked on projects that create solutions, evaluate possibilities, deploy to tens of thousands of users and fix problems when the sirens are sounding. After 10 years at Microsoft, spent mostly in Microsoft Consulting Services, he co-founded zevenseas (www.zevenseas.com), a boutique consultancy focused solely on the SharePoint platform, and is having more fun than ever before.

 

Darvish Shadravan, Microsoft

Darvish ("D") Shadravan is a Senior Technology Specialist employed by Microsoft where he focuses on SharePoint, InfoPath, and related technologies. He has been with Microsoft for 12 years in various technical roles working directly with enterprise customers. Darvish holds MCTS-SharePoint, MCSE, and CISSP certifications.

 

 

Dave McMahon

Dave McMahon is a SharePoint MVP and is Software Systems Architect for Ridgian a Microsoft Gold Partner who specialise in BI, SharePoint, Data Integration and Custom Web Applications. Over his 14 years in the industry following a career in the RAF, Dave has worked and gained extensive experience of SQL Server, XML/XSLT and ASP.NET Web Application Development. He has worked at Ridgian for the past 8 years delivering solutions to the public and private sector. In the last 3 years he has specialised in SharePoint 2007 and has delivered successful SharePoint installations to NHS Organisations, Waste Disposal Companies, Legal Firms and Local Councils. His technology interest and specialisations lie with SQL Server, XML/XSLT and .NET Development.
Dave is very active in the UK Community and is a co-founder and Birmingham Regional Co-ordinator for The Next Generation User Group, one of the largest and most active User Groups in the UK today with 7 regions around the UK, and meetings every month on the whole range of Microsoft Developer Technologies. He has spoken at User Group meetings, at the UK Community DDD events in the UK and Ireland, at SQLBITS and at TechEd Europe.

 

Eric Shupps

Eric Shupps is the founder and President of BinaryWave, a SharePoint consultancy and ISV 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 (South Central United States). Eric has authored numerous articles on SharePoint, speaks at user group meeting and conferences around the world.
Blog: http://www.sharepointcowboy.com

 

Eugene Rosenfeld

Eugene Rosenfeld is the CTO of Black Blade Associates, and Microsoft MVP awardee. He started his IT career as a database programmer and soon moved into enterprise application integration (EAI) and portal systems. Eugene holds a strong belief that all systems should have the innate ability to intelligently communicate with one another. Most recently he has been heavily involved with distributed systems architecture, Services Oriented Architected (SOA), peer-to-peer systems, and cloud computing.
Eugene spends his time developing innovative SharePoint products and utilities, like the docBlock Ascend, which brings virtual documents to the SharePoint platform and incorporates Eugene’s interests in distributed systems, SOA, peer-to-peer systems. Eugene also maintains his blog, "Things that Should be Easy" (http://thingsthatshouldbeeasy.blogspot.com). Check it out for tips that may make your current project a little easier.

 

Gary Lapointe

Gary Lapointe is a SharePoint MVP who has been planning and implementing SharePoint solutions since early 2007. A developer by trade, Gary spends most of his time developing tools that enable IT professionals to be more productive so that they can focus on solving business problems and satisfying their customers’ needs. Gary’s blog at http://stsadm.blogspot.com has become the definitive source for all things related to the automated deployment and management of SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with his wife and daughter. When he’s not architecting SharePoint solutions or writing code, he’s usually playing ice hockey, snow skiing, or off on a hike in the mountains.

 

Ian Woodgate

Ian's (@ianwoodgate) 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 is managing director of PointBeyond Limited (www.pointbeyond.com), a SharePoint specialist company based in southwest London. He has been actively involved in many SharePoint projects across industries as diverse as finance, food manufacture, petrochemical, professional services, retail and engineering, and he particularly enjoys interfacing between business and technology, assisting with IT strategy, and leveraging technology appropriately to deliver effective solutions. Ian regularly speaks at SharePoint events, organises regular meetings of the SharePoint UK User group in Southampton, and has a blog at blog.pointbeyond.com. Ian likes to escape to the south coast of the UK for a spot of sailing or windsurfing.

 

Joel Oleson

In the year 2000, Joel Oleson, a Sr. Web Engineer was brought in to Microsoft IT design the first Microsoft global deployment of SharePoint. Later he would design the extranet, and hosted SharePoint deployments at Microsoft. Not less than a year later he was sharing these experiences at internal MGB, TechReady, and later to customers at Microsoft Tech Ed and IT Forum conferences globally. On the SharePoint team as Sr. Technical Product Manager for IT Professionals, leading up to and at the release of SharePoint Server 2007, he helped various customers to get the critical governance information, upgrade, achieve scale, and get the essential best practices that they needed. After managing the critical SP1 and Windows Server 2008 launches, Joel started an external SharePoint blog where he would share his decks, best practices, lessons, and joined the field to share his experiences. As trainer, blogger, evangelist, sr. consultant and architect, he continues to gain valuable experience and share it with the SharePoint community on his blog, at major technical conferences, and local SharePoint user groups around the globe. Check out his blog at: http://www.sharepointjoel.com/default.aspx

 

John Holliday

John Holliday is an independent consultant and Microsoft MVP for Office SharePoint Server and has over 25 years of professional software development and consulting experience. John has been involved in a broad spectrum of commercial software development projects ranging from retail products to enterprise information systems for the Fortune 100.
After receiving his bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Harvard College and a J.D. from the University of Michigan, John developed a specialized computing language for constructing legal expert systems. His expertise includes all aspects of distributed systems development, with a special emphasis on document automation, collaboration and enterprise content management.
In addition to his professional career, John is actively engaged in humanitarian activities through Works of Wonder International, a non-profit he co-founded with his wife Alice, and the Art of Living Foundation, an international service organization devoted to uplifting human values throughout the world.

 

John Timney

John is a Principal Strategy Consultant based in the UK. Much of his interest and day to day work is around Business Impact and Technical Strategies for Collaborative Solutions based on Sharepoint, including Architectural Assurance, Project Management, Service Assurance and Delivery, Human Computer Interaction and Human Factors in IT systems. He is employed by Capgemini and is based in the North of England.
With 20 years in IT, he has a lot of experience to draw upon. Recent work includes a long stint as a Lead Collaboration Architect at British Telecom PLC where the team he led implemented a 120,000 seat VMware hosted MOSS 2007 farm implementation. His previous role for three years sat within the Senior Leadership Team as Programme Assurance Lead and Principle Strategy Consultant for the Central Government Department of Education's "2010 e-Government excellence" award winning flagship Government Information Workplace programme. He is now the Enterprise Assurance and Strategy Lead Architect for G-CLOUD, a 500,000 seat multi-platform cloud enabled IL3 secured end-to-end virtualized Sharepoint 2010 Cross Government Multi-Tenanted (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) implementation.
John has in the past co-authored a number of books on technologies in both .NET and J2EE and is active in the Microsoft .NET newsgroups daily. He also reviews for some of the world's leading book companies.
He is a Microsoft MVP in the Sharepoint Architecture field, the North east Co-ordinator and a regular speaker for the Sharepoint User Group in the UK.

 

Laura Rogers

Laura is a Senior SharePoint Consultant at SharePoint911 and recently awarded SharePoint MVP. She has more than five years’ experience in SharePoint architecture, administration, training and customization. Her background is in messaging server administration, and she has been a MCSE since 1999. Laura focuses on maximizing SharePoint’s out-of-box capabilities, and can be found doing screencasts on endusersharepoint.com, for her data view web part series. She is an enthusiastic blogger and tweeter, and an active member of the SharePoint community.

 

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 has also been an active member in the SharePoint Community in the UK since early 2009, attending and speaking at SharePoint User Group UK (SUGUK) events and organising SUGUK events in the Midlands region.
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.

 

Mark Miller

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. Mark is a frequent speaker at SharePoint Saturday events, national conferences and online webcasts. During SharePoint Conference 2009, he 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.
EndUserSharePoint.com is a community of SharePoint authors dedicated to providing support and encouragement for the SharePoint End User. The site receives 650,000 unique page views a month, has a Weekly Newsletter subscription base of 9100 readers and handles hundreds of questions weekly through the Stump the Panel: SharePoint Q&A Forum. EUSP provides twice weekly Live Online Workshops for all three levels of SharePoint End User.

 

Mark Orange

Mark Orange is a director and practicing consultant at Knowledge Cue down under in Wellington, New Zealand. Mark has been specialised in implementing SharePoint solutions since early 2007 for numerous New Zealand Government Agencies, State Owned Enterprises, and private companies. Prior to this he designed and architected Intranet and Internet solutions on early versions of SharePoint and Microsoft Content Management Server. To compliment his technical SharePoint expertise Mark brings significant experience in business process, creative design, and information architecture to ensure that SharePoint solutions are fit for purpose, easy to use and delivering value to the business. Much of his time is spent supporting clients in establishing enterprise strategies for SharePoint and Information Management.
Mark has been awarded with Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award since 2007 for his contributions to the SharePoint community down in New Zealand and Australia. He is a regular speaker at technology and business conferences across New Zealand where he shares his passion and opinions on SharePoint and emerging technologies that impact information management within organisations.

 

Mark Stokes

Mark (@MarkStokes) is an independent consultant who has been working with SharePoint technologies since the introduction of SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Working mainly in the collaboration space Mark has a keen focus on driving effective business knowledge management. From a developer background Mark has recently moved more into application design and SME type roles. Mark has worked for many leading organisations such as 3i, McLaren F1, Kellogg, Unilever, Savills Plc, Macmillan Cancer Support and many more. Mark is also the North West regional Co-ordinator for the SharePoint User Group (http://suguk.org), arranging and speaking a meetings in the Manchester area.
Website: http://www.sharepointstudio.com

 

Matt Groves

Matt Groves is a Strategic Consultant with a Microsoft Gold Partner in the UK, specialising 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 the Tahoe days.
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, OCS, Office, Exchange etc).
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. Matt remains keen on evaluating the latest technologies and was involved in the Windows 7 beta programme, and is currently evaluating SharePoint/Office 2010 (in beta).
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 blogs about SharePoint, technology and his other interests and passions at http://www.mattgrovesblog.com

 

Matthew Hughes

The newest recruit at Combined Knowledge, Matt has been in IT for 8 years spending the last 3 years fully immersed in SharePoint 2007 and most recently SharePoint 2010. He has spent most of his time creating a SharePoint Learning Gateway for Leicester's first Academy as well as branding both the Learning Gateway and the External website.
Blog: Engage In SharePoint
Twitter: @MattHughesCK

Mathew McDermott

Matthew McDermott, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP, is a Principal Consultant for AbleBlue in Austin, Texas. AbleBlue specializes in SharePoint Integration, Strategy and Implementation Consulting. Matthew is an author and specialist in SharePoint technologies focused on web content management, collaboration, search and social computing, Matthew has led SharePoint implementations for Fortune 500 companies since 2002.
Matthew’s free time is spent as a canine handler for K9 Search • Austin, a volunteer K9 search team serving the FBI and Austin & San Antonio Police Departments. An accomplished cook and bartender, in his spare time Matt spends as much time with his wife as his dogs will allow.

 

Maurice Prather

Maurice Prather is an independent consultant and enterprise architect who helps companies build and implement innovative solutions built on the Microsoft SharePoint platform. Maurice is a Microsoft Certified Master. Maurice was awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SharePoint Services in 2008, 2009, and 2010. He has been working with SharePoint since 2001 (both as a former member of the product team and now as a consultant).
Maurice is an active participant in the blogosphere, conferences, SharePoint gatherings, and user groups.
You can find more information at his company site (http://www.bluedoglimited.com/SharePointThoughts).

 

Michael Noel

Michael Noel is an internationally recognized technology expert, bestselling author, and well known public speaker on a broad range of IT topics. He has authored over 15 major industry books that have been translated into over a dozen languages worldwide. Significant titles include SharePoint 2010 Unleashed, Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed, Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed, ISA Server 2006 Unleashed, and many more. Currently a partner at Convergent Computing (www.cco.com) in the San Francisco Bay Area, Michael's writings and extensive public speaking experience across six continents leverage his real-world expertise helping organizations realize business value from Information Technology infrastructure.

 

Mike Fitzmaurice

Mike Fitzmaurice is the Vice President of Product Technology for Nintex, a global company committed to delivering out-of-box productivity solutions built for and with SharePoint Technology, and is responsible for product direction, evangelism, technical marketing, and technical business strategy. Until May 2008, he had spent more than 10 years at Microsoft, the majority of that time working on Windows® SharePoint® Services and Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server in roles including developer evangelism, competitive strategy, enterprise consulting, user education, product marketing, and technical event planning. Before joining Microsoft, Fitzmaurice served as Director of Research and Development at Advanced Paradigms Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based Microsoft Solution Provider Partner, as well as a five-year tenure as IT Director of the National Association of Broadcasters.

 

Mirjam van Olst

Mirjam van Olst works as a SharePoint Architect for Avanade in the Netherlands. Mirjam has been helping companies in different industries and of different sizes to implement successful SharePoint portal, ECM and search solutions since 2004.

Mirjam is one of 50 Microsoft Certified Masters for SharePoint 2007 and one of 15 Microsoft Certified Masters for SharePoint 2010.

Being a strong community advocate Mirjam is a co-organizer of the Dutch Information Worker User Group (DIWUG). Apart from being a regular author and editor for the popular DIWUG eMagazine, she is also an author for the Dutch .Net Magazine and the Dutch TechNet magazine. Mirjam is a regular speaker at both national and international conferences and events and can be found blogging at http://sharepointchick.com. Mirjam has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award in 2010 and 2011.

 

Neil Hodgkinson

Neil Hodgkinson (PhD, MCM : Office SharePoint Server 2007/2010) is a Senior Escalation Engineer for Microsoft SharePoint Online Services. Starting his IT career as a SQL and ASP developer Neil transitioned to SharePoint Technologies back in 2000 when it was still known as Tahoe Server and since then has seen his fair share of real good, bad and ugly SharePoint deployments around the world. Primarily his role in keeping the Microsoft SharePoint Online platform in good shape and adhering to the best practice guidance for very large scale deployments.. Neil is an instructor and content owner for Enterprise Search on the Microsoft Certified Master Program as was an instructor for Operational Health, and Enterprise Search on the SharePoint Server 2010 Ignite World Tour. He has spoken as an ITPRO at several internal, external and partner conferences for Microsoft and also presented at Office Developer Conference on Search customisations. He is also a founder contributor to the Microsoft Field Engineering blog at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/fromthefield.
Neil hails from Manchester and outside of work is a fan of classic rock music and UK metal bands but most of all enjoys spending time at home with his wife watching their three young children having fun and living life.

 

Nick Swan

Nick, a MVP for Office SharePoint Server, has been developing on top of the Microsoft technology stack since 2000. After creating one to many ASP.NET web sites and Winform applications Nick decide to look into another area and since 2005 has been concentrating on SharePoint.
Nick spends the majority of his time developing SharePoint tools under the umbrella of Lightning Tools. They specialize in BDC development tools and web parts. Having a background of consulting and commerical product development certainly allows real world experience to be bought into the classroom when Nick is delivering the SharePoint Development track. Nick also co-organises the SharePoint User Group (www.suguk.org) which has 2,600 active members with monthly meetings organised with presentations, and has been known to write the odd blog post at www.sharepointnick.com/blog.Nick lives in Reading with his fiance Sophie and cats Fluffy and Carragher.

 

Paul 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.

Twitter: @paulgrimley
Blog: www.paulgrimley.com

 

Paul Schaeflein

Paul Schaeflein (MVP, MCTS) is an application developer with experience in all versions of the SharePoint platform. Paul has managed and worked on development teams building applications on SharePoint. As an instructor, Paul brings this real-world experience to the classroom.
Paul is an active writer, providing contributions to books, online periodicals, numerous CodePlex projects and his weblog. Paul has presented at many user groups and code camps, as well as the SharePoint Best Practices conference. Currently, Paul is on the advisory committee for Microsoft's patterns & practices group, working on SharePoint Guidance.
Paul has more than two decades experience in architecting, designing and developing software solutions. This experience covers a vast range of technologies, languages and industries. Having developed many line-of-business applications, Paul has a firm grasp on the challenges that corporate developers face when integrating them into a corporate portal.
Paul lives outside of Chicago, IL with his wife and three children. Paul spends his summers over the charcoal grill and his winters at Blackhawks games.

 

Paul Stork

Paul is a SharePoint MVP who has specialized in Microsoft products since the mid-1990s. As a "Jack of all Trades" he has developed expertise as a network architect, developer, and DBA. Paul works as Senior SharePoint Architect/Lead Consultant for Share Squared where his breadth of knowledge is useful for SharePoint questions that cross traditional boundaries. His years of experience and broad background ideally suit him to handle designs that combine Administrative, Development, and SharePoint Designer topics. Paul is a frequent speaker at conferences and SharePoint Saturday events. He recently delivered a Keynote on SharePoint 2010 improvements at the SharePoint Saturday held November, 2009 in Cleveland, OH and will be speaking on customizing the SharePoint ribbon at the SharePoint Evolutions conference to be held in London in April of 2010. Paul has contributed chapters to several SharePoint books and recently coauthored the MCTS Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Configuration Study Guide: Exam 70-631 for Sybex. He is currently working on a book about SharePoint Designer 2010 to be released in the summer of 2010.

 

Paul Swider

Paul J. Swider is a freelance consultant and MCT. 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. Straight from a barrier Island near Charleston Paul chases the tides and winds as an avid boater and sailor. Paul is grateful he is able escape the summer heat in Charleston and consults with some of the most successful companies in the US. 17 years of software consulting experience combined with certifications and speaking credentials has made Paul an authority in the SharePoint Community.

 

Paul Turner

Paul has over 15 years’ experience in the consultancy world with the last 10 being SharePoint focused. He was involved in the Tahoe JDP, working through all versions of SharePoint and has worked on the early implementations of the new technologies including installing the first production Exchange 2000 (1999) and MOSS 2007 (Aug 2006) servers in Europe. Paul is also the Worldwide Services Competency leader for SharePoint in HP Software and this role includes knowledge transfer to consultants in HP and customers as well as working with a major customer on their 2010 migration and governance plans. He is currently the working on the SharePoint 2010 TAP for developing HP Trim software as well as the internal implementation of SharePoint and Records management for 300,000 users.

His main expertise is as a Solution Architect in Information Management (IM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and compliance solutions based on the Microsoft SharePoint Technologies. He also specialises in the Web Content Management area with external facing portals such as http://www.business.govt.nz/default.aspx and partner based portals for well-known companies. His latest project is with a European Car manufacturer, who are transferring their Notes applications into SharePoint. The SharePoint delivery will be cloud based and Paul is the lead architect for this work. Other recent projects have included the role of solution architect for to Dutch, Canadian, Irish, Finnish and UK Government departments for their eCollaboration requirements including compliance regulations.

When not travelling the world (testing economy class seats) Pauls main distractions are sailing and power boating as well as watching Rugby Union after retiring from the game from the last set of injuries (4 broken ribs)

 

Penny Coventry, SharePoint MVP

Penelope Coventry is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and an independent consultant based in the U.K., with more than 25 years of industry experience. She focuses on the design, implementation, and development of SharePoint Technology–based solutions. She has worked with SharePoint since 2001 and, in recent years, has lead a team for the ATLAS Consortium on the Defence Information Infrastructure project, provided consultancy services to U.K. Microsoft Gold partners, and trained consultants, administrators, and end-users on Microsoft and Hewlett Packard projects. She has produced SharePoint related courseware for Mindsharp since 2002 and teamed up with Steve Smith of Combined Knowledge to produce several SharePoint related whitepapers. Penny has co-authored a number of books, including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion, Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit, the two editions of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Step by Step and the Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2007 Step by Step book. Penny has spoken at a number of conferences, at the UK’s SharePoint User Group meetings and is frequently seen at TechEd and IT Forum, either as a Technical Learning guide or at the Ask-the-Experts stands.

 

Randy Perkins

Randy Perkins BSc(Hons) MBCS CITP Randy Perkins has been working with SharePoint and other CMS/DMS solutions since 2001. He is now a SharePoint Architect at Microsoft Gold Partner Fujitsu, where he works within the Information Management department of the Applications Division. At Fujitsu along with one of the UKs largest SharePoint teams he helps to provide effective SharePoint based solutions. Randy is a BCS Chartered IT Professional, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist and Microsoft Certified IT Professional. He founded the Channel Islands SharePoint User Group and supports the activities of the East Anglia branch of the SharePoint User Group. He is also on the Committee of the BCS Internet Specialist Group. He has delivered SharePoint solutions to various industries including art, charity, entertainment, not-for-profit, legal and financial. In his spare time, when he is not providing pro bono services to charities and small businesses, he enjoys watching basketball and playing Lego with his sons.
Twitter: @SharePointRandy
Blog: http://www.SharePointRandy.com

 

Richard Willis

Richard has been working with Microsoft Learning Gateway since SharePoint 2003 and Class Server. He is the Managing Director at SalamanderSoft a small software house specialising in integrating school management systems (Sims, Facility CMIS etc) with all the components of Microsoft Learning Gateway especially SharePoint, Active Directory and Exchange. He also the project co-ordinator and developer for the open source projects SharePoint Learning Kit and the CodePlex Microsoft Learning Gateway. In addition to his SLK roles Richard is also the co-founder of the Learning Gateway Conference which runs annually in the summer. Richard's blog is at http://blog.salamandersoft.co.uk.

 

Rick Taylor

Rick is a SharePoint architect and has assisted numerous, large companies in their implementations in high profile industries such as Defense, Financial, Manufacturing, and Health Care. He is a published author, co-author, and contributing author including the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion by MS Press. Rick worked for Microsoft in the Business Productivity Online Services division as a member of the SharePoint Platform Architecture Team. Rick is an avid Triathlete (Clydesdale class), enjoys playing chess and is active in the Boy Scouts of America.

 

Rob Foster

Rob Foster is an enterprise architect and MOSS MVP in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a BBA in Computer Information Systems and holds several certifications, including MCSD, MCSE, MCDBA, and MCT. In 2000 with the PDC bits in hand, Rob founded the Nashville .NET Users Group (www.nashdotnet.org), which is a charter member of INETA. Rob is a user group leader for the Nashville SharePoint Users Group (www.nashsug.org) and is the regional ISPA evangelist for the US Heartland District. He has been writing and designing .NET applications since version 1.0, as well as implementing SharePoint solutions since SharePoint 2001. In his spare time, Rob enjoys writing books and articles related to .NET and SharePoint. His latest books are "ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Unleashed" and "SharePoint 2007 Development Unleashed", which is a best-selling SharePoint development book. Rob lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA with his wife Leigh and two sons, Andrew and Will.

 

Rolly Perreaux

Rolly Perreaux is a Senior EPM Consultant/Instructor for PMO Logistics Inc., a company that specializes in Enterprise Project Management consulting services and training.
Rolly has over 25 years business experience in Network Information Systems, Project Management, and Finance & Administration at the Executive and Managerial level. He has a Business Administration diploma and designations from the PMI, Microsoft, Compaq, IBM, CheckPoint and CompTIA and has been awarded Microsoft MVP for Project.
Rolly has published 3 training courses on Microsoft Project / Project Server with MVP-Press that can purchased online at: http://www.mvp-press.com. You can also read Rolly’s blog at http://blogs.mvp-press.com/RollyPerreaux

 

Russ Houberg

Russ Houberg is a SharePoint Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) and has been a Senior Architect at KnowledgeLake for over 5 years. Russ is responsible for designing the taxonomy and topology architecture for KnowledgeLake’s document imaging customers that require enterprise class scalability. Russ has spent the last several years focused on pushing the boundaries of SharePoint scalability and is the author of the SharePoint Storage Architecture Whitepaper and the co-author of the Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server to implement a large-scale content storage scenario with rapid search availability TechNet whitepaper.

 

Ruven Gotz

Ruven Gotz 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 helps his clients understand that strong technical teams are necessary but not sufficient to deliver a successful result. A successful SharePoint project requires excellent planning, a good understanding of the client’s corporate culture, and thoughtful change management.
When he wants to get away from computers, you’ll find Ruven at the week-night races on Lake Ontario, sailing his keelboat, “In the Groove”.
Ruven’s blog is at http://spinsiders.com/ruveng and you can follow him on Twitter at @RuvenG.

 

Shaun O’Callaghan

Shaun O’Callaghan (MCTS) is a Senior SharePoint Consultant specialising in the commercial real estate, private equity and legal sectors. He has been working with SharePoint for 5 years, the last 3 of which with MOSS 2007 where he has been technical lead on a number of projects for major international organisations. Shaun enjoys leading a mix of customer engagements which involve architecting new SharePoint deployments for customers as well as in-depth development engagements with heavy customisation. Shaun has a wealth of experience in the enterprise search space where he has contributed to popular community projects which extend the MOSS enterprise search offering significantly. When Shaun isn’t working late at night on SharePoint projects, he enjoys all manners of equestrian sports and spending time with his wife.

 

Spencer Harbar, SharePoint MVP

Spencer Harbar is an enterprise architect who helps organizations implement and drive value from solutions based upon Microsoft SharePoint. With over sixteen years of commercial experience in the architecture, design, development, deployment and operational service management of Web based applications and hosting platforms, his broad base of fundamental skills routinely enables Europe’s largest organizations to succeed with SharePoint.
Spencer delivers enterprise content management and portal systems architecture, design, development and deployment solutions, application security best practices, threat modeling and the implementation of highly available Windows Server based hosting platforms. He is also pretty handy with single-pixel GIFs. Product expertise includes SharePoint, MCMS, IIS, SQL Server, Commerce Server and BizTalk Server, Windows Security, Active Directory, Identity Integration Server and High Availability.
Spencer is one of 46 people worldwide currently to hold the Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2007 certification, and is a Microsoft Certified Master Instructor for the Enterprise Content Management, Web Content Management, Excel Services and Security elements of the SharePoint MCM.
Selected clients include Barclays Bank, ScottishPower, Microsoft, The Royal Bank of Scotland, BP, Unilever, HBOS, Scottish Enterprise, British Airways, The BBC, Centrica, NHS, Clifford Chance, SCVO, The Automobile Association, Ballie Gifford, Shell, British Sky Broadcasting and BASF.
Spencer is also a strong community advocate, as Vice President of the International SharePoint Professionals Association, supporting and speaking at the UK SharePoint User Group and helping others through his blog, forums and public events such as the SharePoint Conference. He has been awarded the prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for the last ten years.
He also continues to maintain www.mcmsfaq.com, a Content Management Server resources portal. In 2006, Spencer co-authored Enhancing Microsoft Content Management Server with ASP.NET 2.0, and he frequently assists other community contributors with their writing projects.
Spencer represents Microsoft at events worldwide and was a speaker most recently at Microsoft Tech Ed Developers EMEA, 2007, SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2009, and the SharePoint Conference 2009.
Spencer is also an instructor for Combined Knowledge, EMEA’s premier SharePoint training provider.
In his spare time (not much of it) he listens to the Jazz giants of yesteryear and some young blood, and spends time with family and friends in the beautiful capital city of Edinburgh, Scotland and his home town of Manchester, England.

 

Stuart Cochrane

Stuart Cochrane BSC, MSC Internet Computing. A .Net and SQL developer turned Intranet Manager. I am responsible for driving best practice across the Kellogg's European Intranet focusing on collaboration, governance, usability and design. Achievements include the rollout of 3 European Intranets across 8 countries, using various technologies and content management systems. More recently I led the rollout of SharePoint 2007 collaboration sites globally, and I manage the Global Centre of Excellence for SharePoint. Currently, mid way through a global implementation of SharePoint 2010, I am leading the governance track and a member of the core project team.

 

Steve Smith, SharePoint MVP

Steve Smith ( MVP-SharePoint Server ) is the owner of Combined Knowledge in the UK and Combined Knowledge Asia Pacific providing Microsoft SharePoint Technical Training courses and Consultancy.
Steve is well travelled spending most of last 20 years travelling in the US and South Asia for the companies he owned and worked with including achieving his first qualification with Microsoft technologies on NT 4 and IIS 3 in New Delhi India in 1998 whilst based there for 3 years. Although tinkering with computers since early Teenage years Steve has specialized with Microsoft's systems since 1996 and been involved in many Microsoft Beta programs including Windows 2000, Exchange 2000 and SharePoint. The last 8 years however has seen a majority of his time with SharePoint and running the Mindsharp and Combined Knowledge SharePoint courses in the UK, Europe and Asia Pacific, also helping many UK based companies with their SharePoint Implementations including the US Air Force, The Ministry of Defence and Several Blue chip companies. Steve is a Co Organiser of the UK SharePoint User Group www.suguk.org and Co Author of the SharePoint 2007 Administrators Companion from MS Press
Steve lives in South Leicestershire, England with his wife and 3 children and can be contacted on steve@combined-knowledge.com

 

Symon Garfield

Symon is a leader, technologist and management consultant.
He creates value by bridging the gap between business and technology through a focus on strategy; people, processes and information; and Information and Communication Technology.
He helps organisations to define and understand their challenges; to create a vision; and to design and successfully implement innovative solutions which deliver measurable benefits.
Over the past five years he has worked with medium and enterprise clients in the UK in a wide variety of sectors including retail; public; financial; media and communications; energy; and professional services.
His Specialities include:
· Corporate strategy
· Information worker productivity
· Knowledge Management; Collaboration; Social Computing; Content Management
· Microsoft Enterprise technologies
· Governance
· Organisational change and user adoption
· Cloud computing
Blog : http://www.symongarfield.me.uk
Web : http://www.ics.net
Twitter: @symon_garfield

 

Ted Pattison

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 worked with Microsoft's Developer Platform Evangelism group since August of 2008 testing and researching SharePoint 2010 to author developer-focused training material. Ted published the best-selling Microsoft Press book titled Inside Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 which is considered as the industry standard reference for .NET developers moving to SharePoint 2007. He is currently revising this book for SharePoint 2010.

 

Tobias Zimmergren

I am a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) within the area of SharePoint.
My main role is a consultant, with a strong focus on SharePoint and it's related products and technologies.
Currently I am involved in a few SharePoint 2010 projects, which of course is very exciting.
I conduct SharePoint training in scandinavia where I regularly tutor SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 advanced development courses!
I started working with .NET around 2002, and has ever since been working with it. Mostly in the form of web development (ASP.NET) and related techniques and technologies.

 

Todd Bleeker, SharePoint MVP

Todd Bleeker - (Ph.D. and MVP) - is an industry leader in Microsoft-centric software development, specializing in SharePoint products and technologies. Todd is an innovative, resourceful, and competitive technologist with an intense desire to excel. Todd has authored or co-authored several books on Microsoft's integrated suite of products, including Developer's Guide to Windows SharePoint Services v3 Platform and Step by Step series Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 by Microsoft Press. Todd has been awarded the title of Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Microsoft for his contributions to the SharePoint Server Platform and community. He has and he is a regular contributor to Web sites such as Microsoft TechNet.

 

Todd Carter

Todd Carter is a Principal Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft, where he helps ensure the success of SharePoint at Fortune 500 companies with some of the largest deployments in the world. He is a frequent speaker and trainer with a primary focus on SharePoint customization and development. Todd is a 14 year Microsoft veteran whose product experience includes not only SharePoint, but ASP.Net, .Net development, IIS, and Active Directory. Todd was the first SharePoint 2007 Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) in the United States and is currently a SharePoint 2010 MCM content author and instructor for workflow, search customization, BCS, and performance testing and tuning. You can reach Todd at his blog, http://todd-carter.com, at toddca@microsoft.com or on Twitter @Toddca

 

Virgil Carroll, Owner - High Monkey Consulting

Virgil CarrollVirgil Carroll has owned and operated High Monkey Consulting over the past 10 year and is instrumental in HMC's three practice areas: Collaboration, User Experience / Interface Design, and Education. He has 8+ years working with Microsoft technologies and is both an MCTS-SharePoint and MCT. Knowing that usability plays a role in all software applications, he is currently pursuing his 2nd Master's Degree in Human Computer Interactions. Virgil has implemented SharePoint projects of all shapes and sizes, and has built a reputation around truly aligning collaboration with business needs. He is a great storyteller and will keep you entertained with his sense of humor and great Dilbert cartoons.

 

Wesley Hacket

Wes is a Solution Architect at Content and Code, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in London. He has been designing WCM, ECM and eCommerce solutions based on SharePoint and supporting technologies for the last four years. As Technical Lead for the RNIB SharePoint programme he was responsible for the design and implementation of the reusable accessibility solution, this underpins http://www.rnib.org.uk providing AAA level accessible SharePoint editing. Wes is currently working with a global retailer implementing a person centric social collaboration platform using SharePoint 2010. In his spare time Wes can be found working on the Community Kit for SharePoint: Development Tools Edition, a Visual Studio extension providing extended development tools for SharePoint. You can follow Wes on Twitter @weshackett and read his blog at
Blog: http://weshackett.com