Event Speakers

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Keynote Speakers

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

Keynote Topic:
"Don't let rookie mistakes that come from default settings, and poor designs plague your deployment. In 10 quick steps, Joel Oleson, will provide you with guidance and best practices gathered from nearly 8 years of enterprise SharePoint experience."

Session Speakers

Agnes Molnar, SharePoint MVP

Agnes Molnar has been working with Microsoft technologies and SharePoint since 2001. After releasing MOSS 2007, she founded L&M Solutions, her own SharePoint consultant company in Hungary, Central Europe. She’s been working as senior consultant and solutions architect, has leaded numerous Central European companies’ SharePoint implementation. Agnes’s main focus is on Architecture, Governance and Office Business Applications (OBAs).
Blog: http://aghy.dotneteers.net
MVP Profile and more details: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Agnes.Molnar

 

Andrew Connell

Andrew Connell has a background in content management solutions and Web development that spans back to his time as a student at the University of Florida in the late 1990’s managing class sites. He has consistently focused on the challenges facing business today to maintain a current and dynamic online presence without having to rely constantly on Web developers or have a proficiency in Web technologies. Andrew is a 4 time recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) & Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS).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 sites using MOSS 2007: Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development by WROX.
Andrew has spoken on the subject of MOSS 2007 development and Web Content Management (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. You can always find Andrew at his SharePoint development and MOSS 2007 WCM focused blog at http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog and as a senior SharePoint development instructor with the Ted Pattison Group.

 

Andrew Woodward

Andrew Woodward has been a SharePoint Consultant since Tahoe. Now Principal Consultant at 21apps, a small consultancy with an emphasis on providing community support and expert consultancy around the expanding MOSS 2007 platform. Andrews day job is usually as Technical Architect for large SharePoint deployments and migrations; having architected some of the largest deployments in the UK, if not globally. Andrew is currently working in the Education arena and has a specific interest in the community initiatives Microsoft Learning Gateway, SharePoint Learning Kit and the Community Kit for SharePoint. 
Andrew has a development background and is passionate about agile approaches to development;  he has taken on the challenge of providing developer courses for Combined Knowledge to help other people get the most from their SharePoint development and to help people through the challenges this can bring.

 

Ben Robb, SharePoint MVP

Ben has been using Microsoft web technologies for over 10 years, and has been a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server for the past 2 years. He is currently lead technical consultant for Microsoft Gold Partner cScape, where he has implemented many SharePoint 2007 builds, including the first public facing website using MOSS in the world - HedKandi.com. In the last year he has spoken at Tech-Ed Europe, MIX 08 and the Microsoft SharePoint Conference.

 

Bert Jan van der Steeg

Bert Jan van der Steeg is co-owner of IT-Support 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.

 

Bob Fox, SharePoint MVP

Bob Fox, is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP has been working as an IT Professional since the mid 90's. During that time he have spent a great deal of time working as a Systems Administrator with a focus on various Microsoft Technologies. For the past 6 years Bob's primary focus has been Microsoft SharePoint Services. Bob specialize in Architecture, Deployment, Portal and Site Customization, Administration and Collaboration Solutions. Bob is a Lead SharePoint Technical Specialist for B&R Business Solutions, LLC based out of New Jersey.

 

Bradley T. Smith

Bradley Thomas Smith is a software developer providing business technology consulting services. He became involved in software development and consulting using Microsoft technologies after serving a tour in the United States Marine Corps, and has since been doing business primarily with the US Department of Defense and associated agencies. His expertise and willingness to offer assistance to members of the community won him his first Microsoft MVP award in April 2004. His work with MS Office server product teams led to a seat on the Office Developer Advisory Council, allowing him to contribute towards upcoming Office Server products and subsequently, the Office 12 Technology Adoption Program. In 2005, Bradley founded Black Blade Associates, Inc. to provide real world solutions to customers in the public and private sectors in the Washington DC/Metro area.

 

Brett Lonsdale

Brett Lonsdale (MCSD, MCAD, MCT) is a Microsoft SharePoint Developer & Instructor. Brett has been providing Technical Training on Microsoft Products since 1997 and has a wealth of experience in a wide range of Microsoft Products including SharePoint, Visual Studio, SQL, and Windows. In 2003 Brett formed Combined Knowledge in the UK to provide SharePoint Technical Training with two partners Steve Smith (MVP) and Craig Carpenter. We formed a strong relationship in 2004 with Mindsharp and worked closely with Bill English and Todd Bleeker to provide excellent training materials so that we could provide second to none SharePoint classroom training. Brett also helped Bill English with the SharePoint 2007 Administrators Companion which was launched early 2007, and Todd Bleekers ‘Developers Guide to Windows SharePoint Services’.
In May 2007, Brett made the decision to spend more time on SharePoint development and has formed a company called Lightning Tools Ltd with Nick Swan (MVP). Lightning tools is the official provider of the tool ‘BDC Metaman’ and Brett & Nick are also spending every spare hour writing new tools to help the SharePoint community. Brett will be spending the majority of his time developing from home in the Sarasota area of Florida as of November 2007, although will still continue to provide classroom training for Combined Knowledge in the UK and for Mindsharp in the US.
Prior to living in Florida, Brett’s home town is Welford, Northamptonshire, UK with his Wife ‘Vicki’, daughter ‘Rio’, and dog ‘Dude’.

 

Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson is a senior consultant in the collaboration team in Microsoft Consulting Services UK with over 10 years IT experience. Brian has a background in software development for the .net platform, and in architecting intranet and extranet solutions using the SharePoint platform. He is involved in a variety of leading-edge SharePoint projects for clients in the UK across all industries and all areas of SharePoint. Most recently, he completed a project on a publishing, collaboration and search portal for a global insurance company. It uses all the ECM features (variations, multi time zone, extreme personalization, multi language implementation) of SharePoint 2007 and is hosted by Microsoft SharePoint Online. Before joining Microsoft he worked in both the large enterprise and in the Microsoft gold partner space where he was involved in all stages of the technical implementation’s life cycle, including technical pre-sales, architecture, system design, consulting and development to deliver innovative solutions on time and within budget.
Brian lives in the quiet corner of the busy city of London in between Richmond Park and the Thames River. He enjoys skiing, scuba diving, cycling, travelling and is an avid rugby union fan. He shares his life with his wife and new born child. To see him online, go to the new UK SharePoint Team Blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint , his personal blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/brianwilson or alternatively, feel free to contact him direct on brian.wilson@microsoft.com or follow him on twitter “brianwilson1”.

 

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.

 

Daniel McPherson

Daniel “Point2Share” McPherson has been involved in SharePoint since attending the first public announcement of project “Tahoe” at the Microsoft Technical Briefing in 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.

 

Daniel Wessel

Daniel Wessels is co-founder and managing director of MicroVation GmbH, a German-based company specialising in planning, building and customising SharePoint environments. As a senior consultant and developer for SharePoint technologies he is responsible for the consulting services group within MicroVation. He started to work with SharePoint Technologies beginning with version 2001 Beta 2. Since then Microsoft have awarded him the MVP designation for his contributions to newsgroups, forums and within the Microsoft Student Program. Daniel is co-organiser of the SharePoint User Group in Munich.

 

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.

 

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

 

Evan Burfield - CEO, Synteractive

Evan BurfieldEvan Burfield is a dynamic entrepreneur with more than a dozen years of experience using innovative strategy and technology to transform some of the most complex organizations in the world. Evan co-founded Synteractive in 2003 with a mission of unleashing the power of people, organizations, and markets. Evan's recent speaking engagements include the 2008 DISA Conference discussing the possibilities of advanced information technologies and organizational approaches to war fighting and peacekeeping, the 2007 Creative Economy summit discussing life in a connected world, and the 2007 New New Internet Conference discussing agile approaches to composite applications. Evan also discussed the emergence of SharePoint as the platform for business transformation at the 2008 SharePoint Best Practices Conference.

 

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, Microsoft MVP

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 MOSS, including 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. He is currently involved in Central Government work for the Department of Children, Schools and Families and holds the Technical Assurance role on a virtualised multi-farm and cross project implementation of Sharepoint for around 700,000 users.
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 worlds leading book companies.
He is a Microsoft MVP in the Sharepoint Architecture field and a regular speaker and host for the Sharepoint User Group UK.

 

Mark Eichenberger , Microsoft

Mark EichenbergerMark Eichenberger works for Microsoft as a Business Productivity Architect assisting customers in the Mid-Atlantic region with their SharePoint needs. He has acquired over 25 years software development and project management experience working in a number of industries. During those years, he implemented various portal and ECM solutions with his most recent focus on SharePoint.

 

Martijn van der Jagt

NEC Philips is creator and seller of voice applications (PABX, call centers, Voice response systems, DECT, Voice over IP, Voice over wireless LAN) and European distributor of all related NEC products.
Martijn van der Jagt (MSc) is ICT architect for NEC Philips. In this role he is responsible for the creation and business alignment of 'BusinessNet', the Partner Portal of NEC Philips. He has graduated as Master of Science in Aeronautics. He has gained experience in the ICT world through the creation of a project support department within Philips Telecom & Information Systems. Within the same company he became product manager for systems management products in the Telecom sector. After an internationally oriented follow up of this function in the product division of Philips Business Electronics and an intermediate job as Marketing Manager Banking products he became the initiator and responsible manager for the intranet and extranet portals of this division, later NEC Philips. Initially by in-house development of NSOnet (the name NSO targeting the National Sales Organisations of the product division), later after migration by using the SharePoint platform. Nowadays this platform contains all required facilities for document management, content management, content approval workflow, knowledge management workflows, search and drill-down with (close to) individual trust levels.

 

Mike Watson

Mike Watson (MCSE, MCSA) is a senior product manager at Quest specializing in SharePoint manageability, scalability and availability. Before moving to Quest Software, Mike was instrumental in planning and deploying Microsoft Managed Services and Microsoft Online, as well as Microsoft Services efforts such as MOSSRAP (MOSS Risk Assessment Program) and SLM (Service Level Manager). Mike is a top-rated speaker at technical conferences, an instructor for Microsoft's Certified Master program, and a frequent contributor to whitepapers, articles, and books.

 

Maurice Prather, SharePoint MVP 

Maurice Prather is an enterprise architect who helps companies build and implement innovative solutions built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Maurice serves as the Lead Architect for ShareSquared, Inc. Maurice is a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Services. He has been working with SharePoint for eight years and he has worked on the SharePoint product team for nearly 5 years. Maurice is an active participant in the blogosphere, conferences, SharePoint gatherings, and user groups. You can find more information at his company site or his blog located at http://www.bluedoglimited.com/SharePointThoughts

 

 

Natalya Voskresenskaya, SharePoint MVP

Natalya, SharePoint Architect, EMC, has been working in the IT field for over 10 years. Her professional experience has been very diverse from Media Publishing Group, Online Crime News, Digital Music World, Corporate Law Firm to a consultancy and system integration company.  With experience in design, architecture, development and deployment of Web based applications, she has been dedicated to developing portal solutions since early days of 2000. Natalya has been working with SharePoint Technologies since the 2003 version to the present. 

 

Neil Hodgkinson

Neil Hodgkinson (PhD, MCSA, MCSE, MCTS, MCDBA) is a Senior Premier Field Engineer and EMEA Office Servers Technical Lead for Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft Neil was employed by Computer Science Corporation for 6 years as a technical lead for Microsoft Internet Technologies and as a Senior Technical Specialist for SharePoint in all its guises and prior to this was a web and SQL developer of a number of small document management specialist companies in the North West of England. Currently his work is focuses on Microsoft’s MOSSRAP (MOSS Risk Assessment Programme) where Neil is a member of the core platform development team and the EMEA lead master trainer ensuring the offering is delivered consistently throughout the EMEA region. When not ‘RAPPING’ or troubleshooting he spends his time with Microsoft Premier customers in a supportability role as a dedicated engineer working in the run, maintain and optimize phase of SharePoint deployments. Primarily involved with improving support ‘best’ practices and enabling support teams to manage and maintain their SharePoint environments in the most efficient and supported manner. Neil has spoken at several internal and partner conferences for Microsoft and also presented on SharePoint faceted search extensions at Office Developer Conference 2008. 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 70s rock music and UK metal bands but most of all enjoys spending time at home with his wife watching their two young children having fun.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Spencer Harbar, SharePoint MVP

Spencer Harbar is an enterprise architect who helps organizations implement and drive value from solutions based upon Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. With over fifteen 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 skills enables Europe’s largest organizations to succeed with SharePoint. Product expertise includes SharePoint Technologies, MCMS, IIS, SQL Server, Commerce Server and BizTalk Server, Windows Security, Active Directory, Identity Integration Server and High Availability. Spencer is also a strong community advocate, as a board member 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 six years. In 2006, Spencer co-authored Enhancing Microsoft Content Management Server with ASP.NET 2.0. Spencer represents Microsoft at events worldwide and was a speaker most recently at Microsoft Tech Ed Developers EMEA, 2007 and the SharePoint Best Practices Conference 2008. 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.

 

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 6 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

 

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.

 

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.