Reza Alirezaei is an author, independent consultant and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP. He is focused on developing custom solutions with SharePoint, .Net platform, and Microsoft Business Intelligence stack. As a technical leader with over 10 years of experience in software development, he has helped many teams architect and build large-scale, mission-critical applications. In addition to consulting, Reza is also an instructor and speaker. He speaks at many local and international conferences. Reza frequently blogs at http://blogs.devhorizon.com/reza.
Biographies
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| Reza Alirezaei Principal Architect Development Horizon |
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| Darrin Bishop Lead Developer Darrin Bishop Group Inc. |
Darrin Bishop is a speaker, author and developer focusing on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies. Darrin is the president and lead developer for Darrin Bishop Group, Inc. a Midwest-based Microsoft Partner focusing on SharePoint Technologies, portals and collaboration. He is the author of The Rational Guide to Building SharePoint Web Parts published by Rational Press as well as several articles in various magazines. Darrin is an international speaker and speaks at many SharePoint conferences, SharePoint Saturdays, MOSS Camps and User Groups. Darrin has been working with SharePoint Technologies since the release of SharePoint Portal Server 2001.
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| Rich Blank President JTC |
Rich Blank is President of Jade Technology Consulting and provides strategy and technology consulting focused on web 2.0, portals, collaboration, ECM and e-Discovery solutions. He has advised many Fortune 500 organizations on technologies including Microsoft SharePoint, EMC eRoom/Documentum, IBM Lotus Quickr/Connections. Rich is a certified Project Management Professional and a Six Sigma Green Belt. He obtained his MBA from the Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and has a BBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He has also been a guest speaker at other IT & Business Alignment conferences.
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| Danny Boulanger Executive Vice-President Alcero |
Danny Boulanger has over twenty five (25) years of experience in the field of unstructured information and content management. He was one of the innovators in the field of unstuctured information using Enterprise Content Management platforms such as Documentum, LiveLink, Hummingbird and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
From 1990 to 1995, Mr. Boulanger held the position of Director of Advanced Solutions at Xerox and was also responsible for marketing SGML, Workflow (InConcert), Electronic Document Management (Documentum) and oversaw several major integration projects.
In 1995 he found InterDoc, a firm specialized in Enterprise Content Management, which included Electronic Document Management, Archiving and Records Management, Web Content Management, Enterprise Portals, Imaging and Workflow. Under his Direction InterDoc established itself as one of the largest organizations specialized in understanding, modeling and implementing Enterprise Content Management systems. In 1996 he founded the Document Computing Institute, which in 2001 was recognized alongside the likes of Mellon University, New York University and the University of Bremen as being amongst the premier learning centers in the world in the field of unstructured information. Danny Boulanger was one of the principal instructors.
In 2007 he founded Alcero, a product company focused on developing a SharePoint Solution Platform to help organizations improve their business process and information management. Under the leadership of Danny Boulanger, Alcero product sales are growing at a rate of 200% per year and have also established a reseller network and have secured customers in Europe, Latin America, USA and Canada.
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| Ramzi Boulifa President - IT Architect Pubmedia |
M. Ramzi Boulifa as a founder and CEO of Pubmedia (Sharepoint Consulting Firm) and as a senior architecture has outsourced and deployed Sharepoint, unified communication services , Portable Mobile solutions, cloud content management networks, UbiMedia portable solutions, Geo localized oriented services, Business intelligence and dashboards for banking, Supply chains, distribution, healthcare, transportation and manufacturing industries.
Having accumulated 20 years of practice in the field of business service oriented plat-forms and service oriented architecture for governing e-transformation of enterprise solution and critical mission back office IT solution.
Inventor and creator of the leading expert system for Windows Mobile plate-form for psycho-analysis (GINO) and fast tracking of human behavior, HR, Meet Market and business relationship applications.
He established added value partnerships with Canadian clients such as Sanofi, Alphamosaik, Avalon, SoftChoice, Microsoft, Van-houtte, Blue Cross, National Bank, Produits forestiers alliances, Montréal Exchange, Canada National, Alcan, Livingston International, SoftImage, Informatica and the Government of Canada.
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| Mauro Cardarelli Managing Partner Jornata |
Mauro Cardarelli is co-author of "Essential SharePoint 2007 - Delivering High Impact Collaboration". His deep knowledge of the Microsoft platform and recognized expertise in the areas of knowledge management and business intelligence make him a popular technology expert with experience. He has been published in various industry journals and is a featured speaker at many industry conferences. Mauro is a Managing Partner and founder of Jornata, a Boston-based Microsoft SharePoint technology solutions provider. He has 20 years of experience designing and building technology solutions for customers representing a wide range of industry verticals.
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| Peter Carson President Envision IT |
As the founder and president of Envision IT, Peter brings over 20 years of technology consulting and application development strengths combined with strong communication, analytical planning and business skills.
Within the Microsoft Community, Peter is known as a partner-evangelist for leading-edge Microsoft Technology. Peter is a past President of the International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners - Canadian Chapter and speaks at a variety of Microsoft and industry events.
Peter is actively involved in Envision IT''s SharePoint 2010 preparedness plans and maintains a blog on these activities at blog.petercarson.ca.
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| Mirella Chiodo Informatics Coordinator University of Alberta |
Mirella Chiodo is the Informatics Coordinator for the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Alberta and her responsibilities include managing the Departmental IT needs, Electronic Medical Records solutions for the four Academic teaching clinics as well as coordinating new initiatives in the way of e-learning. She also has a role as Alberta AIM Faculty assisting physicians and their teams focus on access, efficiency and clinical care improvements. She has been a Peer Leader for the Physician Office System Program for the past six years. Prior to that, Mirella worked for Capital Health for 25 years beginning with a Laboratory background and eventually spending her last 20 years at the RAH Family Medicine Centre as the Business Manager for the physicians group.
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| Alexandre Dinnouti Director Web Applications Conservation International |
Alexandre (Alex) Dinnouti is the director of web applications for Conservation International and is the technical lead of SharePoint since July 2007 when www.conservation.org was released. He is interested in finding simple solutions to fix complex problems. He has a master degree in Database, with specialization in XML and query optimization from University of Belo Horizonte.
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| Michael Doyle SharePoint Architect Waggener Edstrom |
Michael Doyle, MCTS, MCSD, MCSE Currently Michael is working as the SharePoint Architect for Waggener Edstrom, one of the leading PR companies with offices around the world.
Michael has been working almost exclusively with SharePoint for the last seven years. He has been in the software arena professionally for the last 20 years and has worked for companies such as A-dec, Fedex, Intel, NETWARCOM, Deloitte and Touche, HCA, Vanderbilt and others. Michael has done consulting, teaching and professional software development. He got his B.E. and M.S. from Vanderbilt University. In his spare time, he likes to kayak and travel. He currently lives in Santa Cruz, CA.
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| Steve Fox Sr. Technical Evangelist Microsoft |
Steve Fox is a Sr. Technical Evangelist with Microsoft and has worked in IT for over 15 years. He's spent many of those years developing Office and SharePoint solutions and has authored a number of books and articles on the subject, including Professional SharePoint 2007 Development using Silverlight 2 (Wrox) and the forthcoming Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development (Wrox). Steve regularly lectures both domestically and internationally to developers, and in his spare time reads, writes, watches movies, and is an avid hockey player. Steve lives in Seattle, Washington.
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| Marc Gagnon President and Founder MGA Concept |
Marc Gagnon, holder of a mechanical engineering degree from École Polytechnique de Montréal, is the President and Founder of MGA Concept, a consulting company that has specialized in SharePoint for many years. He is among the pioneers in developing business solutions thanks to his expertise. For many years now, he has been a lecturer for various technological associations, DevTeach among them. He has been a technology columnist for Radio Canada and Canal Z’s specialty television channels. He has also participated in technology chronicles in daily newspapers such as Le Monde, Speed and La Presse.
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| Karuana Gatimu Principal Enthusiast SharePointStrategist.com |
Karuana Gatimu is a technologist with 18 years of experience in the enterprise content management and
business process space. She is the lead SharePoint Architect for Skechers USA, Inc., a global footwear
manufacturer and is the Principle Enthusiast at her blog, SharePointStrategist.com. As Vice Chair of
SPUGS.org, a non‐profit organization dedicated to promoting SharePoint User Groups across the country, she
collaborates with others in architecting solutions that meet business needs using SharePoint and other
enterprise level applications. She is an AIIM certified Enterprise Content Management Practitioner, a
contributing Guru at SharePointGovernance.org and a great cook in her spare time.
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| Nimrod Geva Product Group Manager KWizCom |
Director of Sales & Product Management
Specialty: Solution design & business development
Nimrod has 15 years of experience in software design & development for real-time avionics systems and Microsoft-based IT systems. Nimrod has 10 years in marketing and business development.
Nimrod manages the roadmap for KWizCom products i.e. defining new products and their features set. He manages the KWizCom marketing and sales team as well.
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| Ruven Gotz Consultant Ideaca |
Ruven Gotz is a senior member of the Portals and Collaboration team at Ideaca in Toronto. He has been architecting and delivering successful technology solutions for over 20 years.
Over the past four years, Ruven has created SharePoint solutions for companies in the Retail, Manufacturing, Services, Health Care and Public Sectors.
Ruven acts as the senior Business Analyst/Information Architect, leading teams that deliver award-winning SharePoint solutions.
Ruven is a great communicator who takes advantage of his background in computer science, economics, psychology, software development and training.
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| Susan Hanley President Susan Hanley LLC |
Susan Hanley, President of Susan Hanley LLC, is an expert in the design and implementation of successful portals, with a specialization in Microsoft SharePoint. Previously, Sue led the Portals and Content Management practice at Dell. Sue has 30 years experience as a technology consultant, holding leadership positions at Dell, Plural, and AMS. Sue is a writer and speaker on intranet governance and information architecture, building communities of practice and measuring the value of knowledge management investments. Sue is the co-author of the book Essential SharePoint 2007: Developing High Impact Collaboration Solutions and blogs about collaboration and SharePoint
at NetworkWorld.com.
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| Trevor Hellebuyck Senior Architect BlueThread Technologies |
Trevor is a solutions architect and operations manager with over 15 years experience in the information technology field with a focus on architecting and implementing large-scale SharePoint-based solutions since 2001.
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| Jason Kaczor Consultant |
Jason Kaczor has been solving business problems with focussed IT solutions for 18 years and is currently an independent consultant specializing in SharePoint products and technologies; architecture, design, governance, operations, training as well as custom solutions & applications. As a former Premier Field Engineer/Rapid Response Engineer for Microsoft for 4 years, he provided SharePoint and .NET expertise worldwide.
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| Nick Kellett CTO StoneShare |
Mr. Kellett is a software technologist, speaker, instructor and blogger who brings more than fourteen years of professional experience to the technology team at StoneShare. He first began programming as a teenager and his professional career has included engagements in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.
Mr. Kellett is a recognized expert in the areas of Web 2.0 trends and Microsoft technologies such as SharePoint. He was one of the first professionals in the world to achieve a Microsoft SharePoint certification.
An advocate of lifelong learning and sharing knowledge, he has spoken at conferences and user groups and instructs a SharePoint Master's class for programmers. He maintains a popular SharePoint blog called Planet MOSS and has spent his spare time over the last five years creating an open source web software framework.
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| John Kreisa Director of Industry Solutions Mark Logic |
As the director of industry solutions at Mark Logic Mr. Kreisa is in charge of helping organizations in the media, government, financial services, health care industries understand how XML and related information technologies help them solve their information infrastructure challenges. John works closely with customers, partners, and the Mark Logic’s sales teams to define solutions that meet unique industry challenges. John's career in the high tech field has spanned more than 19 years. Prior to joining Mark Logic, he worked for Business Objects enabling sales teams with innovative solutions to demonstrate the value of business intelligence to various industries and the federal government.
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| Mano Kulasingam Principle Consultant Digiflare |
Mano Kulasingam is a founding partner and principle consultant with Digiflare, focusing on presentation layer technologies like Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation and SharePoint. He also has several years of experience developing B2B and B2C eCommerce and Content Management Web applications using ASP.NET and C#. His design skills include working with the latest professional design tools including Microsoft Expression Studio. He is recognized as a Microsoft MVP for his involvement in the Silverlight and Blend user community. He is a co-founder and host of the Toronto Silverlight User Group.
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| Tony Lanni VP of Corp. Development Avepoint |
Tony is the Vice President of Corporate Development at AvePoint, where he is responsible for directing product design and shaping business strategy. Since SharePoint’s debut, he has helped innovate many pioneering tools and strategies to optimize the platform and streamline its administration. Tony’s expertise in the areas of deployment architecture, governance, and protection has garnered him numerous speaking engagements at technical conferences and industry-events worldwide.
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| Martin Laplante VP IceFire Studios |
Martin Laplante is with IceFire Studios in Ottawa, making SharePoint multilingual. Martin has many years of experience in computational linguistics and document management. He has worked on Internet document applications since the late 80s and on Web-based collaboration systems since 1995, with clients in Canada and many other countries. After a brief career as a bikini inspector (his software helps women assemble the high-quality two-piece swimsuit that is right for them) he has returned to web-based collaboration using SharePoint a few years ago. Martin has a PhD from the University of Ottawa.
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| André Larose President and CEO Techtra |
President and CEO of Techtra, André Larose has more than 20 years of experience in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Business Process Automation (BPM). Prior to Techtra, Mr. Larose was the president of Ordiplan, one of the first enterprises in the Eastern Canada to concentrate its activities in the ECM and BPM areas. Well-known in the IT industry, he assumed leadership in the development of several process management solutions and was the initiator of a revolutionary Internet workflow solution that received numerous international awards.
As Techtra’s CEO, he succeeded in creating a company that is 100% dedicated to SharePoint and the Microsoft stack, and became one of the most prestigious Microsoft SharePoint partners in Canada.
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| Max LaRoche Account Consultant & Subject Matter Expert for SharePoint Fusepoint |
Max LaRoche is a 20 year veteran of the Information Technology industry. Specializing in knowledge management and collaboration technologies, Max has been involved in the strategic planning and development of enterprise web applications for the past 10 years. His experience in the SharePoint arena has focused on helping organizations increase operational efficiencies through e-commerce, content management, collaboration, search and process automation applications, governance and production imaging solutions.
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| Sébastien Leduc Associate GSoft Group Inc. |
Sebastien Leduc is the co-founder of GSoft Group, an agile development and consulting firm based in Montreal that specializes in .NET and SharePoint.
Sebastien has been working with SharePoint and Microsoft Technologies since 2003. He has a strong background in software development for the SharePoint platform using agile methodologies like Scrum and XP. He also provides solution architecture consulting for SharePoint deployments, covering information architecture planning and governance.
In addition to his day job, Sebastien is the project owner of sharegate, a tool to compare and synchronize SharePoint sites which is being developed by GSoft Group.
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| Stephanie Lemieux Taxonomy Practice Lead Earley & Associates |
Stephanie is the Taxonomy Practice Lead at Earley & Associates, a firm specializing in information and content management.
She has broad expertise in taxonomy development, content management, information architecture and search. Recent projects have involved developing a global corporate taxonomy and integrating it with a content management system, creating taxonomies and information architecture for SharePoint Intranets and Portals, and faceted search taxonomy for digital asset management systems. Her clients include Motorola, American Greetings, AstraZeneca, and the Ford Foundation. She holds a Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS) from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Stephanie has most recently specialized in taxonomies for faceted search and hybrid approaches to folksonomy and taxonomy, and is a frequent conference speaker on these and other topics. Stephanie also manages the Taxonomy Community of Practice, founded by Earley & Associates in 2005.
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| Alain Lord Enterprise Architect Industrielle-Alliance |
Alain Lord is a IT Senior Architect at a large financial services company in Canada. With over 20 years of experience in various roles within IT, he also has a solid background in Enterprise Content Management, Enterprise Application Integration including Business Process Management, Web Services and heterogeneous systems connectivity.
Mr. Lord is also founding member and president of the SharePoint Quebec User Group, a community of architects, developers, managers and business users that have a common objective of sharing their knowledge and experiences surrounding the use of SharePoint and MOSS technology. This french-speaking community has a strong presence in Montreal and Quebec and has over 300 members coming from various industries. He is an active speaker and blog author for this community and is often referred to by his peers for its knowledge of SharePoint technology in the context of Enterprise Content Management
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| Mary Leigh Mackie Product Marketing Manager Avepoint |
Mary Leigh works directly with AvePoint’s research & development team in the design and implementation of new SharePoint infrastructure management products and solutions. She has been actively engaged in the SharePoint space for several years, working with many Fortune 500 companies and government organizations to develop successful SharePoint management and protection strategies. Born and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, Mary Leigh received her engineering degree from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, in New York City.
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| Gord Maric Principle Consultant CiRAM eSolutions Ltd. |
I have worked in the computer field for over 23 years, the last 12 years a computer consultant, and trainer. I specialize in business reporting systems and have implemented solutions to many clients using Crystal Reports, SQL Server Reporting Services and SharePoint. My most recent implementation is for the Government of Nunavut''s financial Reporting. I have co-authored a book on Crystal Reports (http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Crystal-Reports-Cate-McCoy/dp/0782141730) and wrote and deliver two courses for Learning Tree International, Hands-On Crystal Reports (http://www.learningtree.com/courses/126.htm) and Building Data Driven SharePoint application with SharePoint Designer (http://www.learningtree.com/courses/955.htm).
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| Nathan McQueen SharePoint Architect Morse Best Innovation |
Nate McQueen is a SharePoint architect working for MorseBest Innovation in Seattle Washington. MorseBest was tapped by Microsoft to create the Sharepoint Conference 2009 keynote demos highlighting the potential of SharePoint 2010. Prior to working for MorseBest Nate was a software architect working for the University of Washington in the field of Digital Asset Management.
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| Louis-Philippe Meunier Technical Product Manager Alcero |
Louis-Philippe is the Technical Product Manager at Alcero. Part of his responsibilities is to work with the development team in order to guide them in the elaboration and maintenance of the Alexya SharePoint Solutions Platform. He also charged with the task to innovate and bring new features and capabilities to the Alexya SharePoint Solutions Platform.
Having worked in the information technology field since 1998, Louis-Philippe Meunier has acquired a solid expertise in a multitude of leading technologies. This versatility is further bolstered by a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, providing Mr. Meunier with excellent analysis and management capabilities relating to information technologies development.
Mr. Meunier has worked with a wide variety of clients in different business sectors such as insurance, law and finance. His diversified experience provides him with the ability to identify the different problems found in today’s information technology in different enterprise architecture domains such as business architecture, process, information, application and technology.
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| Dustin Miller President SharePoint Experts Inc. |
Just as comfortable training his dog as he is writing custom web parts, his style and demeanor makes training fun and entertaining. He's been doing nothing but SharePoint since Office XP and SharePoint Team Services and loves to share those crazy and creative things that you never knew you could do with SharePoint.
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| Mark Miller Founder and Editor EndUserSharepoint.com |
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. He is a frequent speaker at SharePoint Saturday events, national conferences and online webcasts. During SharePoint Conference 2009, Mark 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 who could not attend the conference.
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.
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| Bob Mixon Principal / SharePoint Architect Mixon Consulting Inc. |
Bob has been providing technology solutions since the 1980's and is currently the co-owner of Mixon Consulting (www.MixonConsulting.com), a consulting and training company providing technology solutions for SharePoint, Collaboration, Knowledge Management, and Business Process Management.
Bob has extensive skills with design, architecture and implementation of Windows SharePoint Services 2003 (WSS), SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS), Windows SharePoint Services 2007 (WSS v3), Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), and Microsoft Office and Microsoft Server technologies. Other core technical competencies include development experience in .NET, ASP.NET, C#, Web Services, MSMQ and other leading Microsoft developer tools.
In January 2009 Bob was honored with a 4th Microsoft SharePoint MVP award for his continued efforts and dedication to growing and helping the technical SharePoint community.
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| Ed Musters SharePoint MVP Open Highway Consulting |
Ed Musters, SharePoint MVP, is a SharePoint Architect for Infusion Development. Ed has instructed the exclusive Critical Path SharePoint Training courses extensively across North America over the last several years. Ed holds all certifications in SharePoint including WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 for Development and Administration. Ed also teaches Microsoft Official Curriculum Developer .NET training.
Ed has been a featured speaker at DevReach in Sofia Bulgaria (2009/2008), at the SharePoint Summit in Montreal (2010/2009), at SharePoint Saturdays (2009) in Toronto and Birmingham, at Microsoft Tech Days 2009, at the Great Indian Developer Summit (2008) in Bangalore India, the Toronto SharePoint Camp (2010/2009), and the Toronto Code Camp (2009). Ed also speaks to user groups across Canada, including Toronto, Winnipeg, Halifax, and Vancouver.
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| Marieke Nelissen Engineer Nelissen Management en Cursussen |
Marieke Nelissen lives in Amsterdam, and is an independent consultant. She has led a business in courses for the Office Suite, and is now an Enterprise Content Manager. She is currently developing a system for supporting flexible processes in organisations, primarily in local government and services in general.
She was always interested in the history of computers, has been a developer of ideas, a teacher in large organisations (city of Amsterdam) and has been helping with structuring ideas into the work environment of business and local government. She has both a technical and a social studies degree.
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| Philippe Ouellette Advisor - Intranet Communications Fédération des caisses Desjardins |
Phillipe Ouellet has a Master's degree in Communications, Marketing and Management from Université Laval in Québec. His career focus lies on media strategy, market studies, consumer behavior studies and organizational development. He has been a strong follower of the Internet since its inception and is particularly interested in its impact both as media and a tool. Since 2001, he has been in charge of the Intranet platform within a financial institution in Quebec. He is also Webmaster for some sites and acts as an advisor for Web projects. He has also completed project management, Web ergonomics, coaching and SharePoint Designer courses.
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| Carmien Owen Chief Business Architect Collaboration Consulting |
Carmien Owen is the Chief Business Architect of Collaboration Consulting Inc. As an innovator and educator, Carmien specializes in facilitating collaboration strategies, business and process analysis, Microsoft SharePoint deployments and information re-architecture and is the creator of the Process Portal®, providing cutting edge and real time insight into collaboration within the organization.
With his approach to structuring business problems as a part of leveraging SharePoint as a solution he has assisted many teams and organizations in understanding how to incorporate SharePoint as an integral part of their business. In addition to experience with Six Sigma, ITIL, CMMI, Lean, ISO, Quality Assurance, RUP, and over 12 years of process engineering, Carmien is also a guest lecturer at the University of Alberta’s MBA program where he speaks on Collaboration and Methodology in the Real World. Carmien lives in Edmonton, Alberta with his wife and daughter where he enjoys hand-drumming, photography, and living in the moment.
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| Matt Passannante Director of Implementation Services SharePoint Experts Inc |
Matt is a SharePoint evangelist in the purest sense of the word. He is an energetic person who's passion is driven by real-world experiences in learning, planning and implementing Microsoft SharePoint Solutions. Matt is a very process focused individual, who finds great joy in helping others learn more about SharePoint.
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| Eli Robillard Principal Architect Infusion Development Corp. |
Eli Robillard is a SharePoint Server MVP, a co-author of Professional SharePoint 2007 Development (Wrox), a technical editor, the founder of the Toronto SharePoint Users Group, co-chair of the Toronto SharePoint Camp and a founding member and past chair of a group of high-profile industry influencers and early-adopters known as the ASPInsiders. As a Principal Architect at Infusion Development Corporation, Eli designs and guides the successful delivery of SharePoint solutions for large organizations world-wide. He lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where he also plays music and goes on adventures with Dawn, Irina and their dog Dakota.
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| Gail Shlansky Director of Product Management Axceler |
Gail leads the company's global product management and overall strategy for Axceler. Gail brings extensive product experience to the company, having started her career in software development. Gail's experience in product management and product marketing includes working at such leading firms as Bell Labs, Digital Equipment Corporation, Wang, Lotus and IBM. Gail led the product management efforts of enterprise messaging, Security, and Administration and Management. Gail holds a BS in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts and an MS in Computer Science from Northeastern University.
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| Brian Salsman HR Business Process Planner Bell Aliant |
Residing in Halifax, Brian is an HR Business Process Planner at Bell Aliant, one of North America's largest regional communications providers serving customers in six Canadian provinces with innovative information, communication and technology services.
With an interest in process improvement, his involvement in WSS started when Bell Aliant first explored the tool as a collaborative and document management platform. Foreseeing the business opportunities SharePoint offered, he grew his knowledge to build larger, more complex solutions across the organization using out of the box functionality (i.e. pandemic planning and monitoring, job evaluation, competency assessment, employment portal, etc.
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| Eric Samuelson Principal Eric J. Samuelson, LLC |
Eric J. Samuelson is an internationally known thought leader in the electronic discovery, unconventional computer forensics, knowledge management, enterprise architecture, and Web 2.0 spaces. He is a sought-after consultant, speaker, writer and formed Eric J. Samuelson, LLC, a leading consulting organization focusing on electronic discovery, social media, enterprise architecture and use of the next-generation Web within the enterprise. In addition, Eric was a professor of computer music for five years and continues to lecture at major technical colleges and universities. He regularly speaks and keynotes at many leading technology conferences and has several well-read columns and blogs, as well as a weekly Podcast.
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| Paul Schaeflein Manager of Advanced Technologies LaSalle Consulting Partners, Inc. |
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.
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| Geoffrey Schaller Computer Engineer Software Objectives |
Geoff is a Computer Engineer by profession and has been building line of business applications for the last 20 years. A keen coder and trainer, Geoff has operated a team of software developers using the latest technologies for the benefit of clients. The advent of SharePoint and MS SQL Server has turned his business to migrating legacy applications to Windows and then deeply integrating them SharePoint solutions. He has delivered sessions in practical software development and delivery in many countries around the world.
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| Shawn Shell Principal Consejo |
Shawn Shell is the founder and Principal consultant at Consejo, Inc., a firm specializing in the development of information worker solutions. Shawn has spent twenty years in the information technology field. For the last ten years, Shawn has concentrated on the development of portal, collaboration and content management solutions. He is an expert on SharePoint, Office, Groove, Content Management Server and custom ASP.NET applications. Shawn is also the lead analyst for CMS Watch on the SharePoint Report 2009 and a co-author of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002: A Complete Guide, published by Addison-Wesley. Prior to founding Consejo, Shawn held various management roles at Dell, Inc. and Warner-Lambert Company (now Pfizer).
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| Heather Solomon Director of Creative Services SharePoint Experts Inc. |
Heather is a web designer first and a SharePoint nerd second. With over 10 years of experience working with online applications and sites, she knows how to get under the hood with SharePoint. Considered by many to be THE industry expert in SharePoint branding, Heather enjoys sharing her knowledge in a laid-back atmosphere. She knows how to make SharePoint look like anything but SharePoint!
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| Ronald Surette CIO Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency |
Ron has considerable experience in the area of business transformation and information management, in the private and public sector. During his 20 years in the public service, he has worked in various roles related to IM/IT and has successfully led several innovative development projects using new and evolving technologies. Before joining the Canadian public service, he worked as a University Professor, an Information Systems Consultant and established a training institution for managers. His current area of focus is on Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise Architecture, Web 2.0, Cloud Computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as they relate to case management systems.
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| Toby Tobescu Sr Technology Architect Microsoft |
Toby Tobescu is originally from Romania and has an Aerospace Engineering background. While pursuing his Ph.D. with Northrop, Mr. Tobescu moved from engineering to Information Technology and started to work with SGI-Cray Research supercomputing group at the end of nineties on parallel processing with MIPS and CICS. As a logical option, he moved to Personal Computing and Consumerization of IT;
He gained valuable experience in different areas such as computational clusters, finite element methods, numeric modeling and much more.
Mr. Tobescu spent ten years in the Financial Services sector where he engineered sophisticated IT solutions for a very demanding environment.
Part of Microsoft Technology Center team, he architects solutions for global enterprise customers across different industries. Mr. Tobescu’s focus for the last two years has been in Enterprise Search, Collaboration and Productivity Vision-Innovation solutions.
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| Serge Tremblay Senior Consultant Victrix |
Serge Tremblay is a SharePoint MVP and has been working with the SharePoint Technologies since 2001. He is a senior consultant with Victrix since July 2007. He also helps lead the SharePoint Québec usergroup in Montréal.
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| Paul-Olivier Trudeau Programmer-Analyst National Research Canada |
Currently works for the National Research Council of Canada since 2006 and has been involved with SharePoint since the MOSS 2007' launch.
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| Martin Tuip Sr. Technical Product Marketing Manager Mimosa Systems, Inc. |
Martin Tuip has more than 15 years of IT experience in messaging and is a widely known and well-regarded technical expert on archiving and records management. In his career he has helped many customers around the globe plan and deploy large-scale messaging and archiving environments. He is the webmaster of resource sites for both Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint and as well is the owner of some of the world's largest user communities for these products and writes on one of the few archiving software dedicated blogs at www.archiving101.com. Martin has presented on archiving and messaging at numerous of venues around the globe including Microsoft Teched and Interact.
Martin is a published author, a nine-time Microsoft MVP for Exchange Server and currently works as a Sr. Technical Product Marketing Manager for Mimosa Systems.
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| Gustavo Velez Manager, Solutions Avanade Netherlands BV |
Gustavo Velez is a Manager in the Solutions Development department at Avanade Netherlands ( http://www.avanade.com ), a global consultancy company. He has many years experience developing Windows and Office applications, and more than ten years of daily design and programming experience with SharePoint. The author's articles can be found in many of the leading trade magazines in English, Dutch, German and Spanish. He is also pleased to be Webmaster of http://www.gavd.net , the only Spanish-language site dedicated to SharePoint. Spanish-language readers may want to consult Velez's book, “Programación con SharePoint 2007”. In March 2009, Gustavo's latest book, “Workflows and SharePoint: Going with the Flow”, went on the market; his last book about SharePoint 2010 is at editorial staging at the moment. Velez has been awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) status in the area of SharePoint MOSS.
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| Wouter van Vugt Owner Code Counsel |
Wouter is a Microsoft MVP and independent expert on Office and SharePoint technologies. He has focused on SharePoint Foundation as a developer platform, wrote the world''s first book on Open XML and is an author for MSDN. Wouter is a trainer with Critical Path Training, with which he successfully authored and delivered SharePoint 2010 workshops to hundreds of professional software developers from Microsoft as well as other ISVs and System Integrators that have participated in the private beta as part of the TAP, Metro and Ignite programs.
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| Wanda Yu Senior SharePoint Product Manager Microsoft |
Wanda Yu is the Senior SharePoint Product Manager at Microsoft Canada. Wanda Yu is responsible for the strategic business planning and in-market execution of SharePoint related programs and activities. Wanda joined Microsoft as a SharePoint Technology Specialist where she spent a number of years helping Fortune 500 companies in the Bay Area to attain the greatest business value from SharePoint within their organizations.
Prior to Microsoft, Wanda held a number of technology positions in the financial services industry including Scotiabank Business Architecture team and Mercer Consulting Systems engineering team.
Wanda Yu holds a Joint B.A.Sc in Computer Engineering option in Management Science and B.A in Speech Communications from University of Waterloo.