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Mike Ammerlaan, Microsoft Bio not available.
Todd Baginski, Fresh Tracks Consulting, LLC Todd began working with WSS and SPS in the beta stages of the products, in 2003. He has architected and implemented intranets, extranets, wireless deployments, and several custom applications with the WSS and SPS platforms. Todd created the first SharePoint advanced development training curriculum in the training industry for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Two versions in a row, Todd broke ground in the training industry by being the first to offer advanced developr training for SharePoint! Todd speaks at many SharePoint conferences including the Microsoft SharePoint Conference, Microsoft TechEd, and SharePoint Connections. He has also spoken at Microsoft events at the Microsoft offices in both Denver, Colorado and Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has also presented several sessions at the Rocky Mountain SharePoint User’s Group.
Todd is also the content author and presenter for the BDC portion of the SharePoint Master Certification program. Most recently, Todd architected and led the team which developed the new sharepoint.microsoft.com and sharepoint2010.microsoft.com web sites. He enjoys spending time with his wife and their dogs, playing and coaching lacrosse, playing hockey, riding his bike in the Rocky Mountains, and skiing every chance he gets.
Julian M. Bucknall, Developer Express Julian M Bucknall is Chief Technology Officer for Developer Express. Julian is an experienced professional architect and designer, with design, analysis, and development expertise in a variety of object-oriented languages. Julian has wide experience in implementing commercial software and frameworks--most notably in the component, library, and tools markets--and has mentored and promoted agile methodologies for several years.
Miguel Castro, IDesign, Inc. Miguel is an architect with IDesign and provides architectural and development services to clients worldwide. He is a Microsoft MVP, INETA speaker, ASP Insider, and has been in the software industry for over 20 years. With a Microsoft background that goes all the way back to Visual Basic 1.0 (and QuickBasic in fact), Miguel jumped on .NET as soon as the first public Beta was released and has provided .NET solutions for clients in a variety of industries. He considers himself to be a .NET Developer and Architect and has equal love for both Visual Basic and C#, with no tolerance for language bigotry. He’s spoken at numerous user groups around the country as well as developer conferences in the US and abroad. His Web site, where you can find many downloads, article code, and his commercial product, CodeBreeze, can be found at: www.steelbluesolutions.com. Miguel currently lives in Lincoln Park, NJ with his wife Elena and his daughter Victoria. You can find more of Miguel’s bio and his blog at: http://www.dotnetdude.com
Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training, LLC Andrew Connell is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training (www.CriticalPathTraining.com), a SharePoint education focused company. Andrew is a five-time recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) & Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. He has contributed to numerous MCMS and SharePoint books over the years. In June 2008 he published the only book on the subject of developing Publishing / Web Content Management (WCM) sites using Office SharePoint Server 2007: Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development by WROX. Andrew has spoken on the subject of SharePoint development and WCM at various events and national conferences such as TechEd North America & EMEA, SharePoint Connections, VSLive, Office Developer Conference and Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Sydney, Australia & Seattle, Washington. You can always find Andrew at his SharePoint development and WCM focused blog at http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog.
Ben Curry, Summit 7 Systems Ben Curry (CISSP, MVP, MCP, MCT) is an author and enterprise network architect specializing in knowledge management and collaboration technologies. Ben is a Managing Partner at Summit 7 Systems, a company focused on the next generation of Microsoft products. Prior to launching Summit 7 Systems, Ben was an owner/partner at Mindsharp, the world leader in technical education for SharePoint. Ben’s philosophy is that the best solutions are inspired by the best ideas, and he encourages his team to generate and share ideas on a continuous basis. His philosophy is also exemplified in his numerous published books, and in his willingness to share his ideas as an instructor, both in the IT world and in the underwater world — Ben is a certified scuba instructor with a passion for diving. Other passions for life include riding his Harley Davidson through his hometown of Huntsville, Alabama, coaching his daughter’s softball team, and of course, being a husband to his wife, Kimberly, and a proud father of his children, Madison and Bryce.
Kathleen Dollard, AppVenture Kathleen has been developing business applications for over 20 years, programming in Visual Basic for almost ten years, and working with .NET since the early betas. As an independent consultant, she has had the opportunity to work in a variety of domains, including the finance and justice sectors. Kathleen has worked extensively with application code generation and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft .NET (from Apress). She has published numerous articles on a range of .NET technologies including XSLT, debugging, ADO.NET, and code generation. Kathleen is also a long time Microsoft MVP, president of the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, and is an active member of the Denver Visual Studio User Group.
Gert Drapers, SQLDEV.net Gert Drapers is a Software Architect in the SQL Server Development group at Microsoft. As a member of the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team, he is involved in providing architecture design guidance and performance tuning for the largest and most challenging SQL Server deployments in the world. Gert brings extensive experience in the areas of application development, database management, data loading, and performance tuning of VLDB environments. Prior to his current position, Gert was working as Software Architect in the .NET Developer Division, responsible for the design and development of the next generation transaction manager and programming model. He started working on SQL Server in 1988 while working for Ashton-Tate. He joined Microsoft in 1991 where he held various development positions within the Developer Relation Group and Microsoft Consulting Services before joining the SQL Server development team in 1996. Gert worked on both SQL Server 7.0 and 2000; first as Software Design Engineer in the SQL Server Storage Engine and later as the Product Unit Manager of the SQL Server Management Tools team and as Architect of SQL Server DTS.
Dino Esposito, IDesign, Inc. An IDesign software architect and prolific author, Dino Esposito writes the Cutting Edge column for MSDN Magazine. Dino is also the author of two popular architecture books for Microsoft Press. They are "Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise" (2008) and "ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications" (2009). Get in touch at http://weblogs.asp.net/despos.
Steve Fox, Microsoft Steve Fox has worked at Microsoft for 10 years across a number of different technologies including natural language, search, social computing, and more recently Office and SharePoint development. He is a customer-facing Sr. Evangelism Manager and regularly speaks to developers about Office and SharePoint development. He has spoken at several conferences, contributed to technical publications, and co-wrote a number of books including Professional Office Business Application Development: Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and VSTO (WROX) and Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Using Microsoft Silverlight 2 (WROX).
David Gerhardt, 3Sharp David Gerhardt manages a team at 3Sharp that develops out-of-the-box and custom solutions for clients using Microsoft SharePoint offerings and Office System client applications. He has more than 12 years of consulting experience and loves to focus on XML-related technologies and workflow. He has written articles for Windows IT Pro, the MSDN Library, and the Windows Vista and Microsoft Office Beta Experience newsletter and has presented at Microsoft Tech·Ed, the Microsoft Office System Developer Conference, and other internal sales and technical conferences. He is also a frequent contributor to the 3Sharp Blogs site at http://blogs.3sharp.com/blog.
Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft Steve Guggenheimer, a 14-year veteran of Microsoft Corp., is the General Manager of Microsoft’s Application Platform & Development marketing division. In this role Guggenheimer focuses on Microsoft’s cross-company Application Platform strategy and it’s sales and marketing initiatives, in conjunction with the WW development, sales, evangelism organizations. Also Guggenheimer leads the global Microsoft® SQL Server™, BizTalk® Server and Developer Tools marketing organizations; and manages the operations teams focused on driving effective relationships with Microsoft’s broad customer and industry partner communities.
Before assuming his current role, Guggenheimer lead the Small Business and Operations divisions in Microsoft’s Small and Midmarket Solutions & Partners Group (SMS&P). Specifically he was focused on Microsoft and its industry partners better serve the needs of the growing small-business segment globally. Prior to this, Guggenheimer worked abroad as part of the Microsoft U.K. subsidiary leadership team, helping improve the overall experience Microsoft provides to its customers and industry partners. He also worked directly for Microsoft’s president and chief operating officer on strategic business and process projects.
Billy Hollis, Author Billy Hollis is co-author of the first book ever published on Visual Basic. NET, VB.NET Programming on the Public Beta, from Wrox Press, as well as numerous other books and articles on .NET. His most recent book is Fast Track Visual Basic .NET. He writes a monthly column for MSDN Online, and is heavily involved in training, consultation, and software development on the Microsoft .NET platform, focusing on smart-client development and commercial packages. He frequently speaks at industry conferences such as Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC), TechEd, and Comdex. Billy is also a member of the INETA (International .NET Association of user groups) speaker’s bureau and speaks at user group meetings all over the country.
Neil Iversen, Inetium Neil’s dedication to technology is genuine. He thrives on digging into business issues and surfacing the specific technologies that solve the problem. As Solutions Developer for Inetium, Neil’s specialty is that he doesn’t specialize in just one technology. His expertise crosses SharePoint, CRM, Office and the right variety of technology to offer clients the solutions that meet their specific needs. He is also a frequent speaker at the Minnesota SharePoint User Group. His extracurricular activities include, of course, learning and playing with new technology. He splashes it up a bit with reading, movies, and lots of outside activities such as skiing, rafting and skydiving.
Alex Keh, Oracle Alex Keh is a principal product manager at Oracle. He focuses on Oracle data access and database integration with .NET and Windows. He''''s spoken previously at many Microsoft and Oracle events, including Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, VSLive!, and Oracle OpenWorld.
Don Kiely, Senior Technology Consultant Don Kiely, MCSD, is a senior technology consultant, building custom applications as well as providing business and technology consulting services. His development work involves tools such as SQL Server, Visual Basic, C#, ASP.NET, and Microsoft Office. He writes regularly for several trade journals, including Visual Studio Magazine and Advisor Media, Inc., is a top poster and moderator on the www.asp.net community forums, and trains developers in .NET technologies. When he isn’t living and breathing technology, he is exploring the Alaska wilderness with his dogs Mardy and Izzi, hiking, whitewater kayaking, skiing, and searching for the perfect sun dog. You can reach Don at donkiely@computer.org.
Nickolas Landry, Infusion Development Corporation Nickolas Landry is a Principal Architect and Practice Manager in New York for Infusion Development, a Microsoft Gold Partner which offers quality software development services, developer training and consulting services for large corporations and agencies in the North America, the UK and Dubai (www.infusion.com). Known for his dynamic and engaging style, he is a frequent speaker at major software development conferences worldwide, a member of both the INETA and the MSDN Canada Speakers Bureaus, a Microsoft MVP on Device Application Development, and a former Microsoft Regional Director in Montreal. He is the Vice-President of IASA New York (www.iasahome.org), and is a Founding Member of WWISA (www.wwisa.org). His primary goal is to help businesses connect their information, systems, and people together in a seamless integration to achieve complete enterprise agility. Aside from his work in designing business solution architectures using .NET technologies, Nick provides mentoring services in architecture, design and .NET development, authors and teaches .NET classes, performs system audits, and profiles technologies for various enterprise scenarios. With over 17 years of professional experience – starting with Visual Basic 1.0 – and a career almost entirely dedicated to Microsoft technologies, Nick specializes in .NET mobility, Bing Maps, SOA, architecture & design patterns, High-Performance Computing (HPC), game development with XNA, and smart clients. He wrote multiple articles for CODE Magazine and several .NET mobility courses for Microsoft, has been a technical editor for many books, and holds several professional certifications from Microsoft and IBM. Contact and blog: http://home.infusionblogs.com/nlandry.
Julie Lerman, The Data Farm Julie Lerman is a Microsoft MVP, .NET mentor and consultant who lives in the hills of Vermont. You can find Julie presenting on data access and other Microsoft .NET topics at user groups and conferences around the world. Julie blogs at thedatafarm.com/blog, is the author of the highly acclaimed "Programming Entity Framework (with a second edition coming soon) and authors the MSDN Magazine "Data Points" column. Follow Julie on twitter at julielerman.
Michele Leroux Bustamante, IDesign, Inc. Michèle Leroux Bustamante is Chief Architect of IDesign Inc., Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, and a Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems. At IDesign Michele provides training, mentoring and high-end architecture consulting services focusing on scalable and secure architecture design for .NET, web services, interoperability, federated security scenarios, CardSpace, and globalization architecture. Michele participates in Software Design Reviews for products in the Microsoft roadmap, including WCF, CardSpace and other security-focused products. During the Beta 1 phase Michele participated in prototyping elements of the CardSpace technology for the product team. She is a member of the International .NET Speakers Association (INETA), a frequent conference presenter, conference chair for SD West, and is frequently published in several major technology journals. Michele is also on the board of directors for IASA (International Association of Software Architects), and a Program Advisor and instructor for UCSD Extension. Her latest book is Learning WCF (O’Reilly 2007) – see her book blog here: http://thatindigogirl.com. Reach her at mlb@idesign.net, or visit www.idesign.net and her main blog at www.dasblonde.net.
Paul Litwin, Deep Training Paul Litwin is a developer specializing in ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, and related technologies. Paul is a Programmer Manager with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. He is also the owner of Deep Training, a developer owned training company specializing in .NET developer training (www.deeptraining.com). Paul has authored a number of books and training courses on ASP.NET, SQL Server Reporting Services, and Micrsoft Access. Paul is the conference chair of Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, a Microsoft MVP, and a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau. He has spoken at a number of conferences and code camps, including Microsoft ASP.NET Connections, TechEd, and Seattle Code Camp.
Lawrence Liu, Microsoft Lawrence is responsible for the community strategy and execution plan for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies and is the primary product group liaison for SharePoint MVPs and SharePoint Community Champions. He is the manager of the SharePoint Team Blog and is the founder and lead product manager of the shared source Community Kit for SharePoint project. He is currently focused on building stronger and more vibrant developer and IT pro communities around SharePoint and increasing the adoption of SharePoint for social networking and online community solutions.
Dmitry Lomov, JetBrains Dmitry Lomov is a technical lead for JetBrains ReSharper, an industry leading productivity add-in for Visual Studio. He has been crafting intelligent software development tools at JetBrains for 5 years. Dmitry also teaches graduate courses at St. Petersburg State University.
Juval Lowy, IDesign, Inc. Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign (www.idesign.net), specializing in .NET 3.0 architecture consulting and advanced .NET 3.0 training. Juval is Microsoft’s Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, working with Microsoft on helping the industry adopt .NET 3.5. His latest book is Programming WCF Services 2nd Edition (O’Reilly 2008). Juval participates in the Microsoft internal design reviews for future versions of .NET and related technologies. Juval published numerous articles regarding almost every aspect of .NET development, and is a frequent presenter at development conferences. Microsoft recognized Juval as a Software Legend as one of the world’s top .NET experts and industry leaders.
Li Ma, Microsoft Li Ma (also known as Lily) is a Program Manager in Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) team. She has been focused on building two important features for the coming release of VSTO: Word Content Control and VBA-VSTO Interoperability. Currently, she also actively involves in the planning of VSTO next version in supporting both Office client and Office Server.
Dustin Miller, SharePoint Experts Dustin Miller is the President and owner of SharePoint Experts (www.sharepointexperts.com), a leading provider of SharePoint Products and Technologies Training. He authored the first course devoted to SharePoint development and customization, the SharePoint Bootcamp (www.sharepointbootcamp.com), and also maintains two popular SharePoint Community sites, SharePoint University (www.sharepointu.com) and SharePoint Blogs (www.sharepointblogs.com). He lives in the Chicago suburbs with his wife Julie, his son Graham, and his White German Shepherd dog, Stella.
Mark Miller, Developer Express Mark Miller is a high-speed coder with strong expertise in plug-in architectures, decoupled design, and great UI. Mark is Chief Architect of the IDE Tools division at Developer Express, and is the visionary force behind CodeRush, Refactor!, and the DXCore. Mark has been writing software for over two decades.
Tiffany Nguyen, Sogeti Tiffany is the Information Worker Solutions Lead for the Sogeti/Phoenix office (http://www.sogeti.com). Prior to focusing on SharePoint, she worked on large-scale international E-Commerce solutions. She has architected and implemented SharePoint portal solutions for over a dozen clients of all sizes and industries including oil, banking, constructions, semiconductor, and software makers. Currently, Tiffany is engaged in implementing a forward-thinking Internet site for a leading cable company with full shopping-cart functionalities and extensive integration with back-end systems using SharePoint as the platform. She also frequently works with decision makers to craft comprehensive IT solutions that help companies achieve their long-term goals. Tiffany is a graduate of the Master of Science in Information Management (MSIM) at Arizona State University and is a member of the Project Management Institute. On her time off, she emcees for large events and plays music in a local band. Tiffany also is the President and Chief Editor of the non-profit organization But Tre Magazine that produces a nation-wide Vietnamese magazine (http://www.buttre.org).
Michael Noel, Convergent Computing Michael Noel, MCSE+I, CISSP, MVP, has been involved in the computer industry for nearly two decades, and has significant real-world experience helping organizations realize business value from Information Technology infrastructure. Michael has authored several major best-selling industry books translated into 7 languages with a total worldwide circulation of over 100,000 copies. Significant titles include SharePoint 2007 Unleashed, Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed, Windows Longhorn Unleashed, ISA Server 2006 Unleashed, SharePoint 2003 Unleashed, and many more. Currently a principal consultant at Convergent Computing in the San Francisco Bay area, Michael’s writings and worldwide public speaking experience leverage his real-world expertise designing, deploying, and administering IT infrastructure for his clients.
Joel Oleson Blogger, speaker, trainer, and IT evangelist, Joel is known worldwide in the SharePoint world for his prescriptive guidance based on his 7+ years at Microsoft with the SharePoint and IT teams. His background includes 12 years of industry experience on various Internet technologies. Joel’s passion and consulting experience with many Fortune 500 provide him with war stories he loves to tell. Joel loves to travel and speak on IT Pro topics at IT conferences globally, most recently this summer at Tech Ed US, Australia, New Zealand, and South East Asia. He’s happy to be a returning speaker at SharePoint Connections.
Paul Randal, SQLskills.com Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp are a husband-and-wife team who own and run SQLskills.com, a world-renowned SQL Server consulting and training company. They are both SQL Server MVPs and Microsoft Regional Directors, with over 30 years of combined experience on SQL Server.
Paul worked on the SQL Server team for nine years in development and management roles, writing many of the DBCC commands, and ultimately with responsibility for core Storage Engine for SQL Server 2008. Paul writes extensively on his blog (SQLskills.com/blogs/Paul) and for TechNet Magazine, for which he is also a Contributing Editor.
Paul and Kimberly have written Microsoft whitepapers and books for SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, and are regular, top-rated presenters worldwide on database maintenance, high availability, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and SQL Server internals. Together they teach the SQL MCM certification and throughout Microsoft.
In their spare time they like to find frogfish in remote corners of the world.
Sean Regan, Symantec Sean Regan is a Product Marketing Manager for Symantec Enterprise Vault focused on unstructured content archiving as it relates to E-Discovery and Compliance. Regan brings more than 7 years experience in messaging, archiving and electronic discovery. He has most recently held positions in IT, business development, competitive analysis and product marketing. Before joining Symantec, Regan held sales and marketing positions at IMlogic, an instant messaging and archiving and security firm acquired by Symantec. Prior to that he served as an IT Administrator, where he worked to balance technical and legal requirements related to the early use of Instant Messaging and P2P in the enterprise. Regan is a member of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model working group on Collection and Preservation as well as the Code of Conduct Working Group. He also participates in the Electronic Document Retention and Production Working Group of the Sedona Conference.
Thomas Rizzo, Microsoft Tom Rizzo has worked at Microsoft for the past ten years in a variety of roles including in the Microsoft field sales force as a systems engineer, a variety of roles in Microsoft’s server products including Exchange Server, SharePoint, and BizTalk Server and most recently SQL Server. Tom is also the author of a series of Microsoft Press books including Programming Microsoft Outlook and Exchange, 3rd Edition (October 2003). You can reach Tom either via e-mail at thomriz@microsoft.com.
Scott Salyer, VMware Scott Salyer is a Technical Solutions Architect on VMware’s HP Services Global Alliance Team. In his role Scott helps HP Services develop go-to-market solutions involving VMware products, integrating VMware technology with HP hardware and software as well as third-party applications that represent a significant portion of HP Services business, i.e., the Microsoft suite, BEA, SAP, etc. Scott has eleven years of experience in Infrastructure Consulting for various system integrators including HP Consulting and Integration. His project experience has been mainly focused on Microsoft infrastructure (Active Directory, Exchange, MSSQL, and MSSMS) and Identity/Access Management projects.
Bill Sheldon, Interknowlogy Bill Sheldon is a contributing editor for SQL Server Magazine, a principal engineer with InterKnowlogy, and a Microsoft MVP for Visual Basic .NET. He''''s coauthor of Professional Visual Basic .NET with .NET 3.0 (Wrox) and an extension instructor at the University of California, San Diego. Bill has 20 years of software development experience across an array of development languages and is a veteran event and user group speaker.
Richard Taylor, Perficient, Inc. Rick is a SharePoint architect and has assisted numerous, large companies in their implementations including the US Air Force, Charles Schwab, and Nestle. He is a published author, co-author, and contributing author including the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion by MS Press. His influence within the MCT and SharePoint communities facilitated his being selected to present at the first MCT Community Summit held in Zurich, Switzerland and prompted Microsoft Learning to make changes to the Beta courseware that it might be ready for prime time. Rick currently resides in the Phoenix, AZ area where he is an avid triathlete (Clydesdale class), and active in the Boy Scouts of America.
Jerome Thiebaud, Microsoft Bio not available.
Kimberly L. Tripp, SQLskills.com Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal are a husband-and-wife team who own and run SQLskills.com, a world-renowned SQL Server consulting and training company. They are both SQL Server MVPs and Microsoft Regional Directors, with over 30 years of combined experience on SQL Server.
Kimberly worked on the SQL Server team in the early 1990s as a tester and writer before leaving to found SQLskills and embrace her passion for teaching and consulting. Kimberly has been a staple at worldwide conferences since she first presented at TechEd in 1996, and she blogs at SQLskills.com/blogs/Kimberly.
Kimberly and Paul have written Microsoft whitepapers and books for SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008, and are regular, top-rated presenters worldwide on database maintenance, high availability, disaster recovery, performance tuning, and SQL Server internals. Together they teach the SQL MCM certification and throughout Microsoft.
In their spare time they like to find frogfish in remote corners of the world.
Veli-Matti Vanamo, HP Veli-Matti Vanamo is a Technologist in the HP Services Advanced Technologies Group (HPS CTO Office). His main focus is designing, developing and deploying enterprise knowledge management systems based on Microsoft .NET and he was the Lead Technical Architect responsible for the HP Services Knowledge Management System. Veli-Matti is a co-author of Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Technologies: Planning, Design and Implementation and Microsoft SharePoint Technologies: Planning, Design and Implementation (2003) and a frequent speaker at industry events, including Microsoft TechEd.
Dan Wahlin, Wahlin Consulting Dan Wahlin (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for ASP.NET and XML Web Services) is the president of Wahlin Consulting which specializes in .NET and SharePoint consulting and training solutions. Dan founded the XML for ASP.NET Developers Web site (http://www.xmlforasp.net), which focuses on using ASP.NET, XML, AJAX, Silverlight and Web Services in Microsoft’s .NET platform. He’s also on the INETA Speaker’s Bureau, speaks at conferences and user groups around the world and is recognized as a leading authority on .NET technologies. Dan has written several books on .NET including Professional Silverlight 2 Development, Professional ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX, ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks and Tips, and XML for ASP.NET Developers. Dan’s blog is located at http://weblogs.asp.net/dwahlin.
Stephen Walther, Microsoft Stephen Walther is a Microsoft Senior Program Manager who works with the ASP.NET MVC team to develop content around ASP.NET MVC. He is the author of the all time, biggest, best-selling book on ASP.NET, ASP.NET Unleashed. He is currently writing ASP.NET MVC Unleashed. Read his blog on ASP.NET MVC at http://StephenWalther.com.
Bio not available.
Todd began working with WSS and SPS in the beta stages of the products, in 2003. He has architected and implemented intranets, extranets, wireless deployments, and several custom applications with the WSS and SPS platforms. Todd created the first SharePoint advanced development training curriculum in the training industry for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Two versions in a row, Todd broke ground in the training industry by being the first to offer advanced developr training for SharePoint! Todd speaks at many SharePoint conferences including the Microsoft SharePoint Conference, Microsoft TechEd, and SharePoint Connections. He has also spoken at Microsoft events at the Microsoft offices in both Denver, Colorado and Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has also presented several sessions at the Rocky Mountain SharePoint User’s Group.
Julian M Bucknall is Chief Technology Officer for Developer Express. Julian is an experienced professional architect and designer, with design, analysis, and development expertise in a variety of object-oriented languages. Julian has wide experience in implementing commercial software and frameworks--most notably in the component, library, and tools markets--and has mentored and promoted agile methodologies for several years.
Miguel is an architect with IDesign and provides architectural and development services to clients worldwide. He is a Microsoft MVP, INETA speaker, ASP Insider, and has been in the software industry for over 20 years. With a Microsoft background that goes all the way back to Visual Basic 1.0 (and QuickBasic in fact), Miguel jumped on .NET as soon as the first public Beta was released and has provided .NET solutions for clients in a variety of industries. He considers himself to be a .NET Developer and Architect and has equal love for both Visual Basic and C#, with no tolerance for language bigotry. He’s spoken at numerous user groups around the country as well as developer conferences in the US and abroad. 
Andrew Connell is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training (
Ben Curry (CISSP, MVP, MCP, MCT) is an author and enterprise network architect specializing in knowledge management and collaboration technologies. Ben is a Managing Partner at Summit 7 Systems, a company focused on the next generation of Microsoft products. Prior to launching Summit 7 Systems, Ben was an owner/partner at Mindsharp, the world leader in technical education for SharePoint. Ben’s philosophy is that the best solutions are inspired by the best ideas, and he encourages his team to generate and share ideas on a continuous basis. His philosophy is also exemplified in his numerous published books, and in his willingness to share his ideas as an instructor, both in the IT world and in the underwater world — Ben is a certified scuba instructor with a passion for diving. Other passions for life include riding his Harley Davidson through his hometown of Huntsville, Alabama, coaching his daughter’s softball team, and of course, being a husband to his wife, Kimberly, and a proud father of his children, Madison and Bryce.
Kathleen has been developing business applications for over 20 years, programming in Visual Basic for almost ten years, and working with .NET since the early betas. As an independent consultant, she has had the opportunity to work in a variety of domains, including the finance and justice sectors. Kathleen has worked extensively with application code generation and is the author of Code Generation in Microsoft .NET (from Apress). She has published numerous articles on a range of .NET technologies including XSLT, debugging, ADO.NET, and code generation. Kathleen is also a long time Microsoft MVP, president of the Northern Colorado .NET SIG, and is an active member of the Denver Visual Studio User Group.
Gert Drapers is a Software Architect in the SQL Server Development group at Microsoft. As a member of the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team, he is involved in providing architecture design guidance and performance tuning for the largest and most challenging SQL Server deployments in the world. Gert brings extensive experience in the areas of application development, database management, data loading, and performance tuning of VLDB environments. Prior to his current position, Gert was working as Software Architect in the .NET Developer Division, responsible for the design and development of the next generation transaction manager and programming model. He started working on SQL Server in 1988 while working for Ashton-Tate. He joined Microsoft in 1991 where he held various development positions within the Developer Relation Group and Microsoft Consulting Services before joining the SQL Server development team in 1996. Gert worked on both SQL Server 7.0 and 2000; first as Software Design Engineer in the SQL Server Storage Engine and later as the Product Unit Manager of the SQL Server Management Tools team and as Architect of SQL Server DTS.
An IDesign software architect and prolific author, Dino Esposito writes the Cutting Edge column for MSDN Magazine. Dino is also the author of two popular architecture books for Microsoft Press. They are "Microsoft .NET: Architecting Applications for the Enterprise" (2008) and "ASP.NET and AJAX: Architecting Web Applications" (2009). Get in touch at 
Steve Fox has worked at Microsoft for 10 years across a number of different technologies including natural language, search, social computing, and more recently Office and SharePoint development. He is a customer-facing Sr. Evangelism Manager and regularly speaks to developers about Office and SharePoint development. He has spoken at several conferences, contributed to technical publications, and co-wrote a number of books including Professional Office Business Application Development: Using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and VSTO (WROX) and Professional Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development Using Microsoft Silverlight 2 (WROX).
David Gerhardt manages a team at 3Sharp that develops out-of-the-box and custom solutions for clients using Microsoft SharePoint offerings and Office System client applications. He has more than 12 years of consulting experience and loves to focus on XML-related technologies and workflow. He has written articles for Windows IT Pro, the MSDN Library, and the Windows Vista and Microsoft Office Beta Experience newsletter and has presented at Microsoft Tech·Ed, the Microsoft Office System Developer Conference, and other internal sales and technical conferences. He is also a frequent contributor to the 3Sharp Blogs site at 
Steve Guggenheimer, a 14-year veteran of Microsoft Corp., is the General Manager of Microsoft’s Application Platform & Development marketing division. In this role Guggenheimer focuses on Microsoft’s cross-company Application Platform strategy and it’s sales and marketing initiatives, in conjunction with the WW development, sales, evangelism organizations. Also Guggenheimer leads the global Microsoft® SQL Server™, BizTalk® Server and Developer Tools marketing organizations; and manages the operations teams focused on driving effective relationships with Microsoft’s broad customer and industry partner communities. 
Billy Hollis is co-author of the first book ever published on Visual Basic. NET, VB.NET Programming on the Public Beta, from Wrox Press, as well as numerous other books and articles on .NET. His most recent book is Fast Track Visual Basic .NET. He writes a monthly column for MSDN Online, and is heavily involved in training, consultation, and software development on the Microsoft .NET platform, focusing on smart-client development and commercial packages. He frequently speaks at industry conferences such as Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC), TechEd, and Comdex. Billy is also a member of the INETA (International .NET Association of user groups) speaker’s bureau and speaks at user group meetings all over the country.
Neil’s dedication to technology is genuine. He thrives on digging into business issues and surfacing the specific technologies that solve the problem. As Solutions Developer for Inetium, Neil’s specialty is that he doesn’t specialize in just one technology. His expertise crosses SharePoint, CRM, Office and the right variety of technology to offer clients the solutions that meet their specific needs. He is also a frequent speaker at the Minnesota SharePoint User Group. His extracurricular activities include, of course, learning and playing with new technology. He splashes it up a bit with reading, movies, and lots of outside activities such as skiing, rafting and skydiving.
Alex Keh is a principal product manager at Oracle. He focuses on Oracle data access and database integration with .NET and Windows. He''''s spoken previously at many Microsoft and Oracle events, including Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, VSLive!, and Oracle OpenWorld.
Don Kiely, MCSD, is a senior technology consultant, building custom applications as well as providing business and technology consulting services. His development work involves tools such as SQL Server, Visual Basic, C#, ASP.NET, and Microsoft Office. He writes regularly for several trade journals, including Visual Studio Magazine and Advisor Media, Inc., is a top poster and moderator on the www.asp.net community forums, and trains developers in .NET technologies. When he isn’t living and breathing technology, he is exploring the Alaska wilderness with his dogs Mardy and Izzi, hiking, whitewater kayaking, skiing, and searching for the perfect sun dog. You can reach Don at donkiely@computer.org.
Nickolas Landry is a Principal Architect and Practice Manager in New York for Infusion Development, a Microsoft Gold Partner which offers quality software development services, developer training and consulting services for large corporations and agencies in the North America, the UK and Dubai (
Julie Lerman is a Microsoft MVP, .NET mentor and consultant who lives in the hills of Vermont. You can find Julie presenting on data access and other Microsoft .NET topics at user groups and conferences around the world. Julie blogs at 
Michèle Leroux Bustamante is Chief Architect of IDesign Inc., Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, and a Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems. At IDesign Michele provides training, mentoring and high-end architecture consulting services focusing on scalable and secure architecture design for .NET, web services, interoperability, federated security scenarios, CardSpace, and globalization architecture. Michele participates in Software Design Reviews for products in the Microsoft roadmap, including WCF, CardSpace and other security-focused products. During the Beta 1 phase Michele participated in prototyping elements of the CardSpace technology for the product team. She is a member of the International .NET Speakers Association (INETA), a frequent conference presenter, conference chair for SD West, and is frequently published in several major technology journals. Michele is also on the board of directors for IASA (International Association of Software Architects), and a Program Advisor and instructor for UCSD Extension. Her latest book is Learning WCF (O’Reilly 2007) – see her book blog here: 
Paul Litwin is a developer specializing in ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, and related technologies. Paul is a Programmer Manager with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. He is also the owner of Deep Training, a developer owned training company specializing in .NET developer training (
Lawrence is responsible for the community strategy and execution plan for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies and is the primary product group liaison for SharePoint MVPs and SharePoint Community Champions. He is the manager of the 
Dmitry Lomov is a technical lead for JetBrains ReSharper, an industry leading productivity add-in for Visual Studio. He has been crafting intelligent software development tools at JetBrains for 5 years. Dmitry also teaches graduate courses at St. Petersburg State University.
Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign (
Li Ma (also known as Lily) is a Program Manager in Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) team. She has been focused on building two important features for the coming release of VSTO: Word Content Control and VBA-VSTO Interoperability. Currently, she also actively involves in the planning of VSTO next version in supporting both Office client and Office Server.
Dustin Miller is the President and owner of SharePoint Experts (
Mark Miller is a high-speed coder with strong expertise in plug-in architectures, decoupled design, and great UI. Mark is Chief Architect of the IDE Tools division at Developer Express, and is the visionary force behind CodeRush, Refactor!, and the DXCore. Mark has been writing software for over two decades.
Tiffany is the Information Worker Solutions Lead for the Sogeti/Phoenix office (
Michael Noel, MCSE+I, CISSP, MVP, has been involved in the computer industry for nearly two decades, and has significant real-world experience helping organizations realize business value from Information Technology infrastructure. Michael has authored several major best-selling industry books translated into 7 languages with a total worldwide circulation of over 100,000 copies. Significant titles include SharePoint 2007 Unleashed, Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed, Windows Longhorn Unleashed, ISA Server 2006 Unleashed, SharePoint 2003 Unleashed, and many more. Currently a principal consultant at Convergent Computing in the San Francisco Bay area, Michael’s writings and worldwide public speaking experience leverage his real-world expertise designing, deploying, and administering IT infrastructure for his clients.
Blogger, speaker, trainer, and IT evangelist, Joel is known worldwide in the SharePoint world for his prescriptive guidance based on his 7+ years at Microsoft with the SharePoint and IT teams. His background includes 12 years of industry experience on various Internet technologies. Joel’s passion and consulting experience with many Fortune 500 provide him with war stories he loves to tell. Joel loves to travel and speak on IT Pro topics at IT conferences globally, most recently this summer at Tech Ed US, Australia, New Zealand, and South East Asia. He’s happy to be a returning speaker at SharePoint Connections.
Paul Randal and Kimberly Tripp are a husband-and-wife team who own and run SQLskills.com, a world-renowned SQL Server consulting and training company. They are both SQL Server MVPs and Microsoft Regional Directors, with over 30 years of combined experience on SQL Server. 
Sean Regan is a Product Marketing Manager for Symantec Enterprise Vault focused on unstructured content archiving as it relates to E-Discovery and Compliance. Regan brings more than 7 years experience in messaging, archiving and electronic discovery. He has most recently held positions in IT, business development, competitive analysis and product marketing. Before joining Symantec, Regan held sales and marketing positions at IMlogic, an instant messaging and archiving and security firm acquired by Symantec. Prior to that he served as an IT Administrator, where he worked to balance technical and legal requirements related to the early use of Instant Messaging and P2P in the enterprise. Regan is a member of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model working group on Collection and Preservation as well as the Code of Conduct Working Group. He also participates in the Electronic Document Retention and Production Working Group of the Sedona Conference.
Tom Rizzo has worked at Microsoft for the past ten years in a variety of roles including in the Microsoft field sales force as a systems engineer, a variety of roles in Microsoft’s server products including Exchange Server, SharePoint, and BizTalk Server and most recently SQL Server. Tom is also the author of a series of Microsoft Press books including Programming Microsoft Outlook and Exchange, 3rd Edition (October 2003). You can reach Tom either via e-mail at thomriz@microsoft.com.
Scott Salyer is a Technical Solutions Architect on VMware’s HP Services Global Alliance Team. In his role Scott helps HP Services develop go-to-market solutions involving VMware products, integrating VMware technology with HP hardware and software as well as third-party applications that represent a significant portion of HP Services business, i.e., the Microsoft suite, BEA, SAP, etc. Scott has eleven years of experience in Infrastructure Consulting for various system integrators including HP Consulting and Integration. His project experience has been mainly focused on Microsoft infrastructure (Active Directory, Exchange, MSSQL, and MSSMS) and Identity/Access Management projects.
Bill Sheldon is a contributing editor for SQL Server Magazine, a principal engineer with InterKnowlogy, and a Microsoft MVP for Visual Basic .NET. He''''s coauthor of Professional Visual Basic .NET with .NET 3.0 (Wrox) and an extension instructor at the University of California, San Diego. Bill has 20 years of software development experience across an array of development languages and is a veteran event and user group speaker.
Rick is a SharePoint architect and has assisted numerous, large companies in their implementations including the US Air Force, Charles Schwab, and Nestle. He is a published author, co-author, and contributing author including the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion by MS Press. His influence within the MCT and SharePoint communities facilitated his being selected to present at the first MCT Community Summit held in Zurich, Switzerland and prompted Microsoft Learning to make changes to the Beta courseware that it might be ready for prime time.
Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal are a husband-and-wife team who own and run SQLskills.com, a world-renowned SQL Server consulting and training company. They are both SQL Server MVPs and Microsoft Regional Directors, with over 30 years of combined experience on SQL Server. 
Dan Wahlin (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for ASP.NET and XML Web Services) is the president of Wahlin Consulting which specializes in .NET and SharePoint consulting and training solutions. Dan founded the XML for ASP.NET Developers Web site (
Stephen Walther is a Microsoft Senior Program Manager who works with the ASP.NET MVC team to develop content around ASP.NET MVC. He is the author of the all time, biggest, best-selling book on ASP.NET, ASP.NET Unleashed. He is currently writing ASP.NET MVC Unleashed. Read his blog on ASP.NET MVC at