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Speakers
Sessions and Speakers are subject to change without notice
Scott Allen, Pluralsight
 Scott Allen is a founder of OdeToCode and a member of the Pluralsight technical staff. Scott has over 15 years of experience with commercial software development in areas ranging from 8-bit embedded systems to highly scalable web applications. Scott is also a Microsoft MVP and a columnist for MSDN Magazine.
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Bob Beauchemin, SQLSkills.com
 Bob Beauchemin is a Developer Skills Partner with SQLskills. He is a database-centric application practitioner and architect, instructor, course author, writer, and has worked with computers since 1977. He has been an application developer and DBA with relational databases like Microsoft SQL Server™, Oracle, Sybase, and DB2 as well as non-relational databases including IMS/DB, IDMS, and others. Over the past two years he’s been teaching his SQL Server 2005 course to premier customers and Microsoft personnel worldwide through the SQL Server 2005 Ascend program. He’s provided SQL Server 2005 training to over 500 developers through this program.
Bob is lead author of two books on SQL Server 2005, A Developer’s Guide to SQL Server 2005 and A First Look at SQL Server 2005 For Developers, and sole author of Essential ADO.NET and has another book, SQL Server 2005 Developer’s Guide, in the works for Addison-Wesley publishers. A First Look at SQL Server For Developers has also been made available in a custom CD format. He has written articles on database, data access and XML technologies for MSDN Magazine, MSDN Online, SQL Server Magazine, Visual Studio Magazine, Java Developer’s Journal and others. His latest articles include a pair of articles on SQL Server 2005 XML topics and a series of six articles on ADO.NET 2.0 for MSDN Online.
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Itzik Ben-Gan, Solid Quality Mentors
 Itzik Ben-Gan is a Mentor and Founder of Solid Quality Learning. A SQL Server Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) since 1999, Itzik has delivered numerous training events around the world focused on T-SQL Querying, Query Tuning and Programming. Itzik is the author of Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Querying (MSPress), Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: T-SQL Programming (MSPress), and a co-author of Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000 (APress). He has written many articles for SQL Server Magazine as well as articles and whitepapers for MSDN.
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Glenn Berry, NewsGator Technologies
 Glenn works as a Database Architect at NewsGator Technologies in Denver, CO. He is a SQL Server MVP, and he has a large collection of Microsoft certifications, including MCITP, MCDBA, MCSE, MCSD, MCAD, and MCTS, which proves that he likes to take tests. His expertise includes DMVs, high availability, hardware selection, full text search, and SQL Azure. Glenn is also an adjunct faculty member at University College - University of Denver, where has been teaching since 2000, and also where he recently completed the Master Teacher Program. He is the author of two chapters in the book SQL Server MVP Deep Dives, and blogs regularly at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/.
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Robert Bogue, Thor Projects
 Robert Bogue, MCSE (NT4/W2K), MCSA:Security, A+, Network+, Server+, I-Net+, IT Project+, E-Biz+, CDIA+ is the president of Thor Projects LLC, which provides SharePoint consulting services to clients around the world. Robert has contributed to more than 100 book projects and numerous other publishing projects. Robert’s latest book is The SharePoint Shepherd’s Guide for End Users. You can find out more about the book at http://www.SharePointShepherd.com. Robert has been pleased to be a part of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) program for the past 6 years. He was most recently awarded for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. Before that Robert was a Microsoft Commerce Server MVP and before that Microsoft Windows Servers-Networking MVP. Robert is also a Microsoft Patterns and Practices Champion and a team member for the SharePoint Guidance. Robert is the president of the SharePoint Users Group of Indiana (SPIN, www.spindiana.com). He’s also a member of the board for the Indiana Windows Users Group (www.iwug.net). Robert blogs at http://www.thorprojects.com/blog. You can reach Robert at Rob.Bogue@thorprojects.com.
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Denny Cherry, Awareness Technologies
 Denny Cherry has over a decade of experience managing SQL Server, including some of the largest in the world. Denny’s areas of technical expertise include system architecture, performance tuning, replication and troubleshooting. Denny uses these skills on a regular basis in his current role as the Manager of Information Systems at Awareness Technologies. Denny currently holds several Microsoft Certifications related to SQL Server for versions 2000 through 2008 as well as being a Microsoft MVP. Denny is a longtime member of PASS and Quest Software’s Association of SQL Server Experts and has written numerous technical articles on SQL Server management and how SQL Server integrates with Enterprise Storage.
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Quentin Clark, Microsoft
 Quentin is currently the General Manager of the Database Engine group in Microsoft SQL Server. He joined Microsoft in ’94 in the Office group, and helped drive Office’s early Internet integration; products and features for Word 6, Word 95 and Office 97. He was then a Program Manager and Lead in the Internet Information Server (IIS) team working on IIS 4.0, then NT 4.0 Option Pack, and IIS 5.0 for Windows 2000 Server. In ’99 Quentin founded and shipped the web and application server scale-out product Application Center as its Product Unit Manager, then ran the Application Center and Operations Manager teams. In 2002, he joined the WinFS relational file system project in the SQL Server group as its Director of Program Management. He was Product Unit Manager of WinFS until Microsoft focused the integrated storage efforts on SQL Server and ADO.NET in 2006. Quentin then took a General Manager role overseeing the core database technology groups within SQL Server.
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Mike Flasko, Microsoft
 Mike is a Program Manager (PM) in the SQL Data Programmability group at Microsoft. He is currently focused on the ADO.NET Data Services project. Prior to working with ADO.NET Data Services, Mike was a PM on the Windows Network Developer Platform team at Microsoft, where he was responsible for the System.NET namespace (.NET Framework), the Winsock API, and the Winsock Kernel API. Prior to his roles as a Program Manager, Mike worked as a .NET Developer Technology Evangelist.
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Scot Hillier, Scot Hillier Technical Solutions, LLC
 Scot Hillier is an independent consultant and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional focused on creating solutions for Information Workers with SharePoint, Office, and related .NET technologies. He is the author of 10 books on Microsoft technologies including Microsoft SharePoint: Building Office 2007 Solutions in C# 2005. Scot splits his time between consulting on SharePoint projects and training for Critical Path Training (a joint venture of Ted Pattison and Andrew Connell). Scot is a former U. S. Navy submarine officer and graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. Scot can be reached at scot@shillier.com.
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Dan Holme, Intelliem, Inc.
 A graduate of Yale University and Thunderbird, Dan has spent 15 years as a consultant and trainer, delivering solutions to tens of thousands of IT professionals from the most prestigious organizations and corporations around the world. Dan’s company, Intelliem, is a boutique consulting and training firm with a Fortune-caliber clientele and deep expertise and experience in Windows, Active Directory, and SharePoint. From his base in beautiful Maui, Dan travels around the globe supporting customers and delivering Microsoft technologies training. Dan is also a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro and SharePoint Pro Connections magazines, a Microsoft MVP (Windows Server Directory Services, 2007, and SharePoint Server, 2008-2010), and the community lead of SharePointProConnections.com. Dan most recent two books with Microsoft—the Windows Administration Resource Kit and the training kit for the 70-640 MCTS exam—are at the top of the bestseller list of Windows books. In early 2010, Dan was in Vancouver, British Columbia where he built SharePoint solutions to support the broadcast of the 2010 winter Olympics as the Microsoft Technologies Consultant for NBC Olympics, a role he also played in Beijing and previously in Torino.
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D. Britton Johnston, Microsoft
 As product unit manager for Data Programmability Tools at Microsoft Corp., Britt Johnston is responsible for building and delivering data developer-focused tools for the SQL Server and Visual Studio product lines. Johnston’s product unit was created in fall 2007 with a mission to deliver data-focused developer tools spanning client, server and cloud to make the Microsoft Data Platform accessible and productive. Johnston’s team specifically delivers core tool experiences for Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Entity Data Model (EDM) technologies through extensible tool platforms. Individual tools the team builds include Microsoft’s XML Editor, which includes XML Schema Definition (XSD) support, an Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation (XSLT) Debugger, an XSD Designer for understanding and creating XML schemas, and the Entity Designer for building EDM models that work with the .NET Entity Framework. Through Data Programmability Tools, Johnston has created a center of excellence for designing, architecting, building and delivering data programming tools as a critical component of the Microsoft data platform vision.
Before joining Microsoft in March 2005, Johnston was the chief technology officer at Progress Software Corp. and was general manager of the PeerDirect Distributed Enterprise product line that pioneered Occasionally Connected Computing (OCC) through the use of database replication in peer-to-peer networks. Johnston co-founded NuSphere Corp., an early entrant in the open source database marketplace with MySQL and PHP, creating the first commercially supported LAMP stack for Windows in the late ’90s. Johnston was director of database development at Progress Software in the ’90s, where he redesigned the storage engine for the Progress RDBMS to remove size and scale limitations and was able to demonstrate linear scalability for commercial workloads on commodity SMP hardware. The Progress RDBMS was recognized as the No. 1 embedded application database and No. 5 overall database, and approached $500 million in revenue.
In the 1980s after graduating from the University of Connecticut with a bachelor of science in computer engineering, Johnston worked on the Rdb/VMS database at Digital Equipment Corp. where he helped deliver Rdb’s cluster technology, the first shared-disk cluster database product to be widely deployed. At Digital he also managed the SQL engine development effort for the RdbStar project that pioneered portable database and distributed query technology. Johnston designed Digital Standard Relational Interface (DSRI) V2 as a formal database instruction set and designed SQL Module Language, which served as the foundation for SQL/PSM in ANSI/ISO SQL-92.
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Christian Kleinerman, Microsoft
 Christian Kleinerman has close to 10 years of experience working with SQL Server - the last five as part of the SQL Server development team in Redmond, WA. He is currently a Program Manager in the relational engine team where he has worked on a variety of features and technologies. Before Microsoft he worked on eCommerce Web site development and previously was co-founder of a development company specializing on scheduling software.
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Todd Klindt, SharePoint 911
 Todd has been a professional computer nerd for 15 years, specializing in SharePoint for the last six years. His love affair with SharePoint began one slow day at the office when he discovered SharePoint Team Services 1.0 on the Office XP CD and decided to install it. The rest is history. In 2006 he was honored to be awarded the MVP award from Microsoft for Windows SharePoint Services. He has had the pleasure of working with SharePoint farms both large small. He has written several books and magazine articles on SharePoint. Todd has presented sessions on SharePoint at many major conferences both in the United States as well as Europe and Asia and does the user group circuit as well. He chronicles his SharePoint adventures on his blog.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Todd McDermid, Moulding and Millwork
 Todd works as part of a very lean IT department in a building products distributor, architecting and developing supply chain systems, supporting multiple vendor applications, and in his spare time growing the business intelligence capabilities of the organization. He has almost 20 years of software development in various languages - substantially in C# and SQL Server in the last decade. Todd has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, and has earned the MCAD, MCSD and MCTS (SQL 2008 BI) Microsoft Certifications. In 2009, he earned a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for supporting the SQL Server community. You’ll find him active in several ways in the SQL Server community providing guidance on the MSDN forums, contributing extensions to CodePlex and speaking at organizations like user groups and PASS.
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Brad McGehee, Red Gate Software
 Brad is the Director of DBA Education for Red Gate Software, and is an accomplished Microsoft SQL Server MVP with over 15 years SQL Server experience. He is a frequent speaker at SQL PASS, European PASS, SQL Server Connections, SQLTeach, devLINK, SQLBits, SQL Saturdays, TechFests, Code Camps, and SQL Server user groups. Brad is the author or co-author of more than 15 technical books and over 250 published articles. His most recent books include How to Become an Exceptional DBA (2nd Edition), Mastering SQL Server Profiler, and Brad’s Sure Guide to SQL Server Maintenance Plans. He blogs at http://www.bradmcgehee.com.
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Microsoft,
 Microsoft program managers, architects, evangelists, developers, and product managers will present this session. The specific speaker will be assigned closer to the conference date.
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Ross Mistry, Microsoft
 Ross Mistry is a Technical Architect at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in Silicon Valley. He specializes in SQL Server, Active Directory Exchange and Hyper-V. Prior to joining Microsoft, Ross was a Principal Consultant responsible for designing and implementing technology solutions for organizations with a global presence. Ross is also an author, former SQL Server MVP, and frequently speaks at technology conferences around the world. His latest books include; Introducing SQL Server 2008 R2 (MSPress), Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed (SAMS) and SQL Server 2008 Management and Administration (SAMS). Ross has recently spoken at the North American PASS Community Summit, SQL Connections, European PASS, and SQL BITS. You can follow him on twitter @RossMistry.
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Mark Mortimore, Microsoft
Bio not available.
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Peter ODowd, Blade/Wadeware
 Peter is a Windows Server MVP for Exchange Server. He is well known and respected worldwide and often utilized by Microsoft to train the trainers in Windows Server products. He was recently contracted by Wadeware LLC (http://wadeware.net) to develop labs for the internal Microsoft course "Exchange Server Support Best Practices" and has delivered the material to MCS Premier Support and selected customers on five continents.
Peter works for Blade (http://www.blade.net.nz), a New Zealand company, and is a regular presenter for events such as TechEd and Connections around the globe. Peter specializes in Exchange Server 2007, Security, and Active Directory. He has been heard to say “give me a wet piece of string, and I’ll get mail going across it!”. Peter has designed and installed all versions of Exchange Server since when it was called MS Mail.
Peter says, "The versions change, the products are updated, but the core essentials and best practices often remain the same." Enjoy the stories from an experienced professional and learn about Exchange Server 2010 the same time.
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Tom Phillips, Wadeware
 Tom is an Exchange Server Consultant for Wadeware, LLC based in Kirkland, WA, with more than 13 years of experience in the IT industry. Currently living in the Dallas, Texas area, Tom leverages his real-world consulting experiences to create Microsoft courseware and instructional content, specializing in Exchange 2010 upgrades, coexistence, and high availability. He has worked on numerous Microsoft courses and training materials, including the Exchange 2010 Ignite course content starting with the pre-Beta release, as well as contributing to courses focused on messaging and unified communications.
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Srik Raghavan, Microsoft
Bio not available.
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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.
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Paul D. Sheriff, PDSA, Inc.
 Paul D. Sheriff is the President of PDSA, Inc. (www.pdsa.com), a Microsoft Partner in Southern California. Paul acts as the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California assisting the local Microsoft offices with Developer Days and several of their large events each year. Paul has authored several books, webcasts, and articles on .NET, SQL Server and SharePoint. You can reach Paul via e-mail at PSheriff@pdsa.com or at Paul Sheriff''’s Inner Circle (www.PaulSheriffInnerCircle.com).
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Eric Shupps, BinaryWave
 Eric Shupps is the founder and President of BinaryWave, a SharePoint consultancy specializing in enterprise application development and performance optimization. Eric has worked with SharePoint products and technologies since 2001 as a consultant, administrator, architect, developer and trainer. He is a sponsor of the Dallas/Ft. Worth SharePoint Community group, participating member of the UK SharePoint User Group and President of the International SharePoint Professionals Association. Eric has authored numerous articles on SharePoint, speaks at user groups and conferences around the world, and publishes a popular SharePoint blog at http://www.sharepointcowboy.com.
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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.
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Craig Utley, Solid Quality Mentors
 Craig Utley is a Mentor with Solid Quality Mentors where he focuses on business intelligence using the Microsoft SQL Server BI platform. He has been working with Microsoft’s business intelligence products since their inception and has worked on BI and data warehousing solutions for companies throughout the world. Craig spent just over a year at Microsoft on the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team (SQLCAT), working with some of Microsoft’s largest BI customers worldwide. Craig’s experience with BI tools and techniques have led to a number of articles and speaking engagements on BI. He is the author of three books, numerous articles, courseware for various companies, and a number of white papers. He is a member of the INETA speaker’s bureau and is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP.
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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.
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Allen White, Upsearch Technology Services
 Allen is a consultant and mentor for Upsearch Technology Services in Northeast Ohio. He’s spent over 35 years in IT and has been using SQL Server since 1992, and is certified as both a SQL Server MCITP and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Allen has been awarded Microsoft’s MVP Award for the last three years. He’s active in the Ohio North SQL Server User’s Group and contributes in the MSDN Forums, answering questions about SMO and PowerShell, and maintains a blog at http://sqlblog.com/blogs/allen_white/default.aspx.
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Shawn Wildermuth, Wildermuth Consulting Services LLC
 Shawn Wildermuth is an eight-time Microsoft MVP (Data), member of the INETA Speaker’s Bureau and an author of six books on .NET. Shawn is involved with Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider, Data Insider and Connected Technology Advisors (WCF/Oslo/WF). He has been seen speaking at a variety of international conferences including SDC, VSLive, WinDev, MIX, DevTeach and DevReach. Shawn has written dozens of articles for a variety of magazines and websites including MSDN, DevSource, InformIT, CODE Magazine, ServerSide.NET and MSDN Online. He has over twenty years in software development regularly blogs about a range of topics including Silverlight, Oslo, Databases, XML and web services on his blog (http://wildermuth.com). He is currently teaches workshops around the country through his training company AgiliTrain (http://agilitrain.com).
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Buck Woody, Microsoft
 Buck is a SQL Server Senior Technical Specialist for Microsoft, working with enterprise-level clients to develop data platform architecture solutions within their organizations. He has over twenty years professional and practical experience in computer networks and database design. He is a popular speaker at TechEd, PASS and many other conferences; the author of over 400 articles and five books on SQL Server; and he teaches a Database Design course at the University of Washington. He blogs at http://blogs.msdn.com/buckwoody/.
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Ronald Yenko, 1Staff Training and Development
 Ron Yenko is Director of Information Technology and Level III Technical Trainer at 1Staff Training and Development in Omaha, NE. For over 18 years he has been involved with various Microsoft technologies including providing enterprise database architecture solutions using Microsoft SQL Server (from 6.5 through 2008) in the retail, law enforcement, government and financial industries. In recent years, he has specialized in enterprise architecture with focus on business continuity/disaster recovery and performance tuning. He holds various Microsoft certifications including Microsoft Certified Trainer and MCITP/MCTS in SQL Server 2008 Administration.
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Shane Young, SharePoint911
 Shane has over 12 years experience architecting and administering large-scale server farms using Microsoft enterprise technologies. For the past three years, he has been working exclusively with SharePoint Products and Technologies as a consultant and trainer for http://www.SharePoint911.com. Shane has been recognized by Microsoft as an authority on SharePoint and is among an elite group of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MVP’s.. He has architected SharePoint solutions for clients ranging from 20 to 50,000 users. Shane is a renowned speaker at national and international SharePoint conferences. He is also the author of The Ted Pattison Group’s course SPA401: Professional SharePoint Server 2007 Administration. Shane also maintains a popular SharePoint focused blog http://msmvps.com/blogs/shane that contains a lot of beneficial technical information about SharePoint administration.
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