Learn from the Worlds’ Top SharePoint Experts at SharePoint Fest DC
http://www.sharepointfest.com/DC/
Microsoft Speakers:
Arpan Shah, Senior Director of Technical Product Management for Office 365/SharePoint Online at Microsoft (key100)
Arpan Shah is the Senior Director of Technical Product Management for Microsoft Office 365 based in Redmond, WA, and is a frequent speaker at Microsoft & industry events. Before his current role, Arpan led the Product Management team for Microsoft Project and led the SharePoint Technical Product Management for the SharePoint 2010 and 2007 releases. Before Microsoft, Arpan spent several years in the Internet Business industry in a variety of Product Management roles. Arpan holds Bachelors & Masters degrees from MIT.
@arpanshah
Ira Fuchs, SharePoint Technical Specialist at Microsoft and Author (wf103 bi204)
Ira Fuchs is a Microsoft SharePoint Technical Specialist working out of the New York Metropolitan District. He has assisted some of Microsoft's largest financial services organizations deploy and exploit the full set of features and capabilities of the SharePoint platform. He has written numerous white papers on BizTalk Server, InfoPath and SharePoint and is the author of the book "Enterprise Application Development in SharePoint 2010 – Creating an End-to-End Application without Code".
Invited SharePoint Community Speakers:
Dux Raymond Sy, MVP PMP (ws101 spt105 key200)
With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management, Dux has earned a reputation as among the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), he is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, a Microsoft Gold Partner focused on leading, inspiring and being the catalyst of organizational transformation that enables clients to achieve tangible business result. As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, he is the author of "SharePoint for Project Management" published by O'Reilly Media. A sought after speaker, Dux has presented in various Microsoft and Project Management Institute (PMI) events worldwide. He regularly blogs on topics related to project management, SharePoint and globalization at MeetDux.com.
@meetdux
Christian Buckley, MVP (bv103 bv203)
Christian Buckley is a SharePoint MVP, internationally recognized author and speaker, and is a Top 25 SharePoint Influencer. As Director of Product Evangelism for Axceler, he drives product awareness and partner and community development. At Microsoft, he was part of the team that launched SharePoint Online (now part of Office365). Prior to Microsoft, Christian was managing director of a regional consulting firm in the San Francisco East Bay, started and sold two technology startups, and worked with some of the world's largest hi-tech and manufacturing companies to build and deploy collaboration and supply chain solutions. He is co-author of "Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects" (MSPress), three books on software configuration management and defect tracking, and can be found online at www.buckleyplanet.com.
@buckleyplanet
Dan Holme, MVP (ws102 ecm104 bv202)
Dan Holme's 18 years of experience and impact on hundreds of thousands of IT professionals and business decision makers have earned him a reputation as one of the world's most respected consultants, authors, and experts on Microsoft technologies. Dan, a native of Colorado, resident of Maui, and graduate of Yale, has been recognized as an MVP for six years, and one of the top ten partner MVPs in the world. Dan has penned hundreds of articles for SharePoint Pro Magazine and numerous best-selling books for Microsoft Press. This summer, Dan served as the Microsoft Technologies Consultant for NBC Olympics during the broadcast of the 2012 Olympics in London, a role he also played in Torino, Beijing, and Vancouver. Dan's viewpoint on SharePoint blog.
@danholme
Mark Miller (soc102 soc204)
"I help companies create strategic plans to gain global visibility for their products and services through the use of social media tools , online community building and relationship development." – Mark Miller, Senior Storyteller.
Mark Miller, Senior Storyteller, is recognized internationally for weaving engaging tales to simplify the explanation of complex, technological solutions. He is a serial community builder, participating in the creation of global online communities such as NothingButSharePoint, EndUserSharePoint and NothingButBranding.
Mark travels internationally from his home in New York City, speaking on the building of community, methods for using social media to engage an online audience, the uses of SharePoint for enterprise level collaboration, and the future of productivity. His most recent excursion with the "Sharing the Point" team found him in Africa, stopping in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Nairobi , Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
@eusp
Naomi Moneypenny (soc103 bv201)
Naomi Moneypenny is CTO at Synxi (a ManyWorlds brand) where she leads the development team for the adaptive recommendations & learning engine for SharePoint and other social business systems such as Yammer and Tibbr. Previously, Naomi was a business and IT strategist at Shell working on technology forecasting and collaboration. She has a Masters degree in Astrophysics as well as graduating in executive programs in strategy and M&A from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. She holds 15 patents in the area of adaptive systems.
@nmoneypenny
Jeremy Thake, MVP (dev102 dev202)
Jeremy Thake utilizes more than 10 years of software development industry experience and expertise in Microsoft technologies to assist global enterprises in building solutions that will set the standard for the next generation of collaboration platforms. As a SharePoint MVP, Jeremy's proven expertise has earned him multiple speaking engagements at technical conferences, symposiums, and user groups worldwide. Jeremy is a co-founder of NothingButSharePoint.com, a SharePoint community portal focusing on the Developer Channel, and built the platform on top of SharePoint 2010.
@jthake
Robert Bogue, MVP (ecm101 wf202)
Robert Bogue is a thought leader on all things SharePoint and an engaging speaker who speaks at events around the world on SharePoint. Rob has been awarded the Microsoft MVP designation nine times, and earned recognition as a Microsoft Patterns and Practices Champion. Rob holds certifications from Microsoft: MCPD, MCITP, MCTS, MCSA: Security, MCSE as well as CompTia: A+, Network+, Server+, I-Net+, IT Project+, E-Biz+, CDIA+. Rob also served as a team member for the SharePoint Guidance. He is the author of 22 books including, "The SharePoint Shepherd's Guide for End Users-2010" which is also available in a Wiki version as The SharePoint Tutor. Robert is committed to "making the complicated, simple." Find out more about SharePoint made simple at, http://www.SharePointShepherd.com or follow Rob's blog at http://www.ThorProjects.com/blog/. You can also email Rob at Rob.Bogue@ThorProjects.com
@robbogue
Asif Rehmani, MVP (pwr102 pwr204)
Asif has been training and consulting on primarily SharePoint technologies since 2004. He is a SharePoint Server MVP and MCT. Asif runs a SharePoint Videos website (http://www.sharepoint-videos.com) which provides SharePoint, SharePoint Designer and InfoPath Video Tutorials. His videos have been published at Microsoft's TechNet, Channel 9 and Office.com site. Asif also provides in-person and online SharePoint training publicly and in private workshops through Critical Path Training (http://www.criticalpathtraining.com). Asif has been a speaker at conferences since 2006 on SharePoint topics at several conferences around the world (USA, Germany, Amsterdam, Den Haag, New Zealand etc) including Microsoft's TechEd, SharePoint Conference, SPTechCon, SharePoint Connections, Best Practices Conference, SharePoint Saturdays, SharePoint Roadshows and more. He is the co-author of the books "Professional SharePoint Designer 2007", "Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010" and "Real World SharePoint 2010" by Wrox publications. Asif was the co-founder and is currently one of the active leaders of the Chicago SharePoint User Group (http://www.cspug.org) For a more detailed bio, please visit http://www.sharepoint-videos.com. You can reach Asif at: asif@sharepointelearning.com This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
@asifrehmani
Sarah Haase (spt103 spt202)
Sarah Haase is an information architect and corporate librarian with more than 15 years of knowledge management, technical writing, and business process re-engineering experience. From building wikis and other online knowledge-bases to supporting content management system implementations, Sarah has focused on using technology to enable efficient information storage/retrieval. In her current role as a Collaboration & Search Engineer, Sarah relies on SharePoint to drive online collaboration and optimize business processes. To date, these efforts have netted more than $750,000 in annual cost savings. Sarah's Blog: http://sarahlhaase.wordpress.com
@sarahhaase
Jeff Willinger, Social Computing Strategist (spt201)
Jeff Willinger is the Director of Social Computing at Rightpoint. Jeff specializes in advising clients on social computing strategies, social intranets and portals and increasing employee engagement. With experience spanning more than two decades, Jeff possesses specific expertise in social computing inside an organization's four walls and social media outside their four walls. He is a frequent speaker throughout the world specializing in exploiting new business models, highlighting the opportunities of Web2.0 and social media and advising on new technology. A character with character, as he is known, is the President and Founder of the Social Media Club of Chicago.
@jwillie
Brian Culver, MCM (spt102 wf204)
Brian Culver is a SharePoint Solutions Architect for Expert Point Solutions in Houston, Texas. Brian is a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) in SharePoint 2007 and a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD). He has worked in the Information Technology industry for since 1998 and he has been working with SharePoint since 2005. His deep expertise includes SharePoint, ASP.Net, SQL Server and Project Server. He has been involved in many large SharePoint implementations including Internet and Intranet sites, Partner Portals, Enterprise Content Management and Governance, and much custom application integration and development.
@spbrianculver
Benjamin Niaulin, MVP MCT (sia101 pwr202)
Benjamin Niaulin works as a SharePoint Specialist at GSoft, a Montreal-based software development firm specialized in Microsoft technologies. Passionate about SharePoint, Benjamin has been helping people around the globe reaching their goals by simplifying SharePoint solutions. With his Microsoft Certified Trainer certification and over 5 years of Training and Speaking experience, he has acquired the skills needed to help everyone understand and use SharePoint.
@bniaulin
Susan Hanley, Author (sia103)
Susan Hanley is a recognized expert in knowledge management and the design, development and implementation of successful portal solutions, with a specialization in Microsoft SharePoint. Her areas of expertise include information architecture, user adoption, governance and business value metrics. Sue's client list includes many of the Fortune 500 along with some of the world's leading academic, professional services, and not-for-profit organizations. Immediately prior to establishing her own firm, Sue led the Portal practice for Dell Professional Services. Sue is the co-author of "Essential SharePoint 2007", "Essential SharePoint 2010" and "Essential SharePoint 2013". She writes the Essential SharePoint blog for NetworkWorld.com.
@susanhanley
Sean McDonough, Author (dev104 dev204)
Sean is the "Lead Bitsmith" and owner of Bitstream Foundry, a software and custom development company based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Sean has been developing software and crafting solutions for over two decades, and he has focused on Microsoft's SharePoint platform since 2004. Sean possesses a somewhat eclectic set of SharePoint skills that come from time spent in a diverse set of roles, including consultant, product manager, solution architect, team lead, administrator, and platform evangelist. Sean is an author, blogger, and frequent speaker/instructor at SharePoint conferences, user groups, and similar events all over North America. He can be reached through his blog (http://SharePointInterface.com) or Twitter (@spmcdonough).
@spmcdonough
Eric Riz, Author (soc105 ecm203)
Eric is the Executive Vice President of Concatenate, Inc. a software firm focused on maximizing SharePoint through product innovation and systems integration based in Toronto, Canada. He has worked with many Fortune 500 companies on their business adoption, change management and deployment strategies to ensure they maximize the benefits of Microsoft technologies and successfully implement SharePoint-based solutions. A thought-leader in the SharePoint business space, Eric is a sought after speaker, strategist and author of SharePoint for Decision Makers. He has developed and facilitated management and technology sessions through-out North America and addressed conferences around the world. You can follow Eric on Twitter @rizinsights and read his latest articles on www.ericriz.com.
@rizinsights
Eric Overfield, Branding Expert (dev201)
Eric Overfield is a leading expert in SharePoint Branding and User Interface design. Mr. Overfield, President and co-founder of PixelMill, has over 13 years experience with web design best practices and techniques, and over 8 years experience with SharePoint branding. Besides his in-depth knowledge of SharePoint's branding capabilities, he has expertise includes general SharePoint technology, design and architecture along with custom coded web parts, solutions, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3. An active speaker at User Groups and SharePoint events as well as an active blogger (blog.pixelmill.com/ericoverfield), he discusses all things SharePoint Branding and UI Design. He resides in Davis, California.
@ericoverfield
Rob Windsor, MVP Author (dev105 dev203)
Rob Windsor is a Lead SharePoint Consultant with Portal Solutions - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in DC and Boston. He has twenty years experience developing rich-client and web applications with Delphi, VB, C# and VB.NET and is currently spending a majority of his time working with SharePoint. Rob is a regular speaker at conferences, code camps, and user groups across North America and Europe. He regularly contributes articles and videos to MSDN, TechNet, and the Pluralsight On-Demand library and is the co-author of "Professional Visual Basic 2010 and .NET 4" for Wrox. Rob is the founder and past-president of the North Toronto .NET User Group and has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his involvement in the developer community.
@robwindsor
Wes Preston, MVP Author (pwr104 pwr201)
Wes is an independent consultant based in Minneapolis, MN and works primarily as a SharePoint platform evangelist, product specialist and solution designer. Wes assists organizations through roadmap development, planning and governance, and alignment of business needs with out of the box SharePoint platform capabilities. Wes has been a developer, IT Pro, consultant, and technology evangelist for over 15 yrs. He was an organizer and frequent speaker at the Minnesota SharePoint User Group (MNSPUG) for over 4 yrs and is now a board member for SharePoint Saturday - Twin Cities events. Wes has been a contributing author to two books: - "Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real-World Projects (Microsoft Press, 2012)" - "SharePoint 2010 Six-in-One (Wrox, 2011)". Wes maintains a blog at http://www.idubbs.com/blog.
@idubbs
Patrick Tucker, MCT (ecm101 pwr203)
Patrick is a SharePoint architect, developer, consultant and trainer with more than 13 years of experience developing applications with Microsoft technologies, and training others to do the same. His certifications in SharePoint, .NET and SQL Server include MCPD, MCITP, MCSD, MCTS, and MCT. He has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 2000. SharePoint captured his attention and imagination in 2005 and he has never looked back. Patrick is President and Chief Architect of White Owl Tech LLC, based in the Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati. Patrick blogs at: www.tuckersnet.com
@tuckersnet
Jason Himmelstein, Author (sia102 spt203)
Jason Himmelstein, MCTS, MCITP, is the SharePoint Practice Director for Sentri, Inc. and has been working with Microsoft Server technologies since 1998 when he was supporting Motorola in Austin, TX. He went to work for the University of Texas for 5 years where he developed expertise in Active Directory and Exchange. He left UT to go on the road doing work for Dell in a partnership with Microsoft doing architecture, design and implementation of Active Directory and Exchange. He started working with SharePoint in 2007 as an Enterprise Architect for Raytheon Company. Today he leads a team of dynamic SharePoint Consultants for Sentri, a four-time Microsoft Partner of the Year. Jason is the co-author of the upcoming O'Reilly book "Developing Business Intelligence Apps for SharePoint". Outside of this crazy working world he is a happily married father of 2 boys and a die-hard Texas Longhorns and San Antonio Spurs fan.
@sharepointlhorn
Chris McNulty, Author (ws103 sia105 sia201)
Chris McNulty oversees SharePoint Solutions at Quest Software, now part of Dell. He's a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), and a member of the Microsoft Solutions Advocate and MVTSP programs. A frequent speaker at events around the globe, Chris is the author of the "SharePoint 2013 Consultant's Handbook" and other books. He also blogs at http://www.chrismcnulty.net/blog and http://www.sharepointforall.com. Prior to Quest, Chris led the SharePoint consulting practice at KMA, a Boston based Microsoft Gold Partner. He holds an MBA from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College in Investment Management and has over twenty years' experience in financial services technology with John Hancock, State Street, GMO and Santander. He lives with his wife Hayley, and his family in Milton, Massachusetts, USA. Chris' blog at Quest.
@cmcnulty2000
Javier Barrera, Author (src101 sia202)
Javier Barrera is a SharePoint Engineer at Rackspace (USA), a premier service leader focusing on business class audience. He is the Senior Lead Engineer who is an architect, and administrator, to hundreds of enterprise-level SharePoint farms. Javier delivered over 30 presentations at SharePoint focused events, authored numerous blogs and articles. He is a contributing author to forth coming "Professional SharePoint 2013 Administration", and "Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Inside Out", books. In addition he is a technical editor for, "Beginning SharePoint 2013: Building Business Solutions with SharePoint". Javier his beautiful wife Roxane, and three children live in San Antonio, Texas.
@jtbarrera
Paul Stork, MVP MCM (sia104 ecm201)
Based in Ohio, Paul Stork is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and MCM who works as a Principal Architect at Blue Chip Consulting. He has an MBA from the Weatherhead School of Management and holds myriad of Microsoft certifications including being a SharePoint 2013 Solutions Expert, Systems Engineer, Solutions Architect, Developer, Database Admin, IT Professional and Professional Developer. He recently completed work on his Microsoft Certified Masters (MCM) certification. He is an author and/or contributor on several SharePoint books including:
· Pro SharePoint 2010 Development for Office 365
· MCTS Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Configuration Study Guide
· Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices
· Developer's Guide to the Windows SharePoint Services v3 Platform
· Windows 2000: Essential Reference
Paul has worked with SharePoint in many roles from Chief Architect to Solution Developer to Trainer and is a well-known contributor to the SharePoint community.
@pstork
Adam Preston (spt100)
Adam Preston is the Manager of SharePoint Services for The Computer Solution Company (TCSC), a Microsoft Gold Partner based out of Richmond, VA. Adam specializes in aligning technology solutions with business needs through the use of SharePoint. Adam's experience as a consultant has offered the ability to analyze, architect and implement SharePoint in a variety of industries from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Adam is active throughout the SharePoint community and is currently the President of the Richmond SharePoint User Group.
@_apreston
Suzanne George, Author (pwr103)
Suzanne is an expert in Microsoft SharePoint and .Net technologies. Susanne is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Web Applications and SharePoint Application Developer who presents at various SharePoint conferences and has participated in Microsoft's "Born to Learn" blog and is a contributing author of SharePoint 2010 books and an avid speaker at Technology conferences. Suzanne has been in internet technologies since 1994 and has been working on SharePoint for 10 years. She has led and participated on teams doing analysis, design, development, implementations, and enhancements and testing of applications in these areas: Microsoft SharePoint, ESRI ArcServer, and custom developed Internet web sites.
@spgenie
Peter Carson, MVP (src104 ecm202)
Peter is President of Envision IT, a Microsoft SharePoint MVP, and Virtual Technical Specialist with Microsoft Canada. Leading his team at Envision IT in the use and deep customization of SharePoint since 2001, he is also the VP of the Toronto SharePoint Users Group and Past President of the International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners – Canadian Chapter. He is well recognized as an evangelist in the SharePoint community, speaking regularly at SharePoint user group meetings, conferences, Microsoft events such as SharePoint Conference, Tech Days, Convergence, and local universities.
@carsonpeter
Therelee Washington II (spt104)
Therelee Washington, CEO of AgiliShare Solutions Group and Microsoft SharePoint Technology Specialist, is a unique individual who thrives to enlighten and broaden ones view from information emphasis rather than a technologies spectrum that changes rapidly. His approach to information technology solution requirements, rest purely upon the simplicity that information drives technology solutions. With a solid background in Business and System analysis, his skills as a SharePoint Solution Architect excelled with Enterprise Content Management and Collaborations forefront stance. Therelee is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, with a keen sense on Microsoft SharePoint's logical and system architecture. He has envisioned and implemented key strategies and approaches that have proven effective in his organization. His leadership and management style engages and motivates others. He continues to train and coach many IT professionals that seek to receive an unorthodox out-of-the-box way of thinking towards Information Technologies Collaborative, Information Management and intelligence solutions.
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