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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.
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Ty Anderson, Cogent Company, LLC
 Ty Anderson is a partner at Cogent Company in Dallas, Texas. He spends his time consulting and building software using Microsoft technologies. In addition to consulting, Ty writes frequently about Microsoft products including VSTO, SharePoint, Office, SQL Server, etc. and his work has been published on Devx, DevSource, Simple-Talk.com, and CIO.com. Currently Ty is writing Pro Office 2007 Development with VSTO (Apress). Those who know Ty best stand in awe and amazement at two things: 1) His incredible good looks and, 2) his cynical and sarcastic (and sometimes offensive) behavior. Look for him at any tech conference as he will be wearing his yellow Oakland Athletics hat. Say hello, and he will most likely buy you an adult beverage.
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Todd Anglin, Telerik
 Todd Anglin is Chief Evangelist for Telerik, a leading vendor of development, team productivity, and automated testing tools, as well as UI components and content management solutions for Microsoft .NET. Before joining Telerik, he worked for a large Fortune 200 financial services company IT shop where he learned the way of the "Enterprise" — big budgets, big projects, legacy systems, and incessant measurement. He now leverages this Enterprise experience at Telerik to create tools that help software development teams every day to be more productive and to deliver reliable applications on time and under budget. Todd is an active author and speaker in the .NET community, focusing on web development technologies, a Microsoft MVP, ASP Insider, founder and President of the North Houston .NET Users Group, and an O’Reilly author.
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Chris Bannon, ComponentOne
 Chris Bannon is familiar with many acronyms: UX, ASP.NET, AJAX, C#, SQL & jQuery. As the Lead Web Developer at ComponentOne, he has mastered techniques such as CSS layout, unobtrusive JavaScript, semantic markup, and progressive enhancement. Chris manages ComponentOne’s product lines for ASP.NET and iPhone Web development. He spends most of his time building or using the web and it is his passion. When he isn’t at a computer you can find him spending time with his family, trying to golf, or pretending that he can still play ice hockey.
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Itzik Ben-Gan, SolidQ
 Itzik Ben-Gan is a Mentor and Founder of SolidQ. 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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Lee Benjamin, ExchangeGuy/Wadeware
 With over 20 years experience in the messaging industry, Lee Benjamin (Exchange MVP) is an expert on Microsoft Exchange and has in-depth experience in a number of other messaging systems. Lee has delivered several Wadeware courses worldwide and is a highly regarded Exchange trainer. Lee is chairman of the largest Exchange user group in the world ExchangeServerBoston, and Vice President for BostonUserGroups, an umbrella organization of over 50 user groups in the New England Area. Lee has been an analyst at Ferris Research, and is a regular speaker at industry conferences such as Exchange Connections.
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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 six-time recipient of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award (2005-2010) for Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) & Microsoft SharePoint Server. He has authored and contributed to numerous MCMS and SharePoint books over the years including his book Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development by WROX and is the author of numerous articles on the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN). Andrew has spoken on the subject of SharePoint development and WCM at conferences such as TechEd, SharePoint Connections, VSLive, SharePoint Best Practice Conference, SharePoint Evolutions Conference, Office Developer Conference and Microsoft SharePoint Conference in the United States, Australia, England, Spain and Netherlands. You can find Andrew on his blog (www.andrewconnell.com/blog) and on Twitter @andrewconnell.
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Randy De Meno, CommVault
 Chief Technologist–Windows Products and Microsoft Relationship: Randy De Meno joined CommVault in 1994 and initiated CommVault’s direction into the heterogeneous data management segment of the industry. Randy holds patents on a number of CommVault’s technologies including the Granular Application Integrated Backup and Recovery capabilities. He also spearheaded the partnership with Microsoft in 1999 and still manages the strategic relationship. Randy leads CommVault’s application efforts for their Exchange, Active Directory, SQL, SharePoint, Notes/Domino, as well as other Windows-based solutions. On a personal note, Randy is married with three children and leads the CommVault Ice Hockey team which has enabled CommVault and partners to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for various children’s charities over the years.
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Markus Egger, EPS Software Corporation
 Markus is the President and Chief Software Architect of EPS Software Corp., a custom software development and consulting firm located in Houston, Texas. He specializes in consulting for object-oriented development, Internet development, B2B, and Web services. Markus has written numerous articles for publications including CODE Magazine, asp.netPro Magazine, FoxPro Advisor, Fuchs, FoxTalk, and Microsoft Office & Database Journal. Markus is the publisher of Component Developer Magazine (CODE). He is the author of a book on advanced object-oriented programming. You can contact Markus via e-mail megger@eps-software.com or visit him online (http://www.epssoftware.com).
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Steve Fox, Director, MCS, Microsoft
 Steve Fox has worked at Microsoft for 12 years across a number of different technologies including natural language, search, social computing, and more recently Office, SharePoint and Windows Azure development. He is a Director in MCS and regularly speaks to many different audiences about building applications on Microsoft technology, with a specific focus on the cloud. He has spoken at several conferences, contributed to technical publications, and co-wrote a number of books including Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development (Wrox), Developing SharePoint Solutions using Windows Azure (MSPress), and the forthcoming Professional SharePoint 2010 Cloud Based Solutions.
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Perry Fritz, Rockline Industries
 Bio not available.
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David Goldberg, Mimecast
 As the VP of Product Strategy and Delivery, David brings 15 years of development and business leadership to Mimecast. Having worked as a software engineer and a solution architect within global organizations, David has been involved in all aspects of delivering new software solutions. Experiencing software lifecycles from all angles has given him a unique perspective on using technology to solve real-world problems. Before joining Mimecast, David worked for messaging vendor Open-Xchange, helping them grow their North American SaaS business. David is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, where he studied computer science and mathematics.
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Chris Hammond, DotNetNuke Corp.
 Chris Hammond has spent a number of years as a DotNetNuke Core Team member, and recently became the Director of Training with DotNetNuke Corporation. Solidifying his role within the DotNetNuke community as a leading expert and evangelist on the platform Chris is a published author and has been a frequent presenter at conferences, user groups and companies around the world. Chris provides tips and tricks through his blogs at DotNetNuke.com and DNNDaily.com. He is also an active DotNetNuke Community member, providing support in the DotNetNuke Forums. You can read more about Chris on his personal blog at www.chrishammond.com.
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Wendy Henry, SharePoint-eLearning.com
 A Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), Wendy has been an independent technical trainer, author, and consultant for the last 10 years...specializing in Microsoft SQL Server since 1999 and SharePoint since 2005. Wendy is a contributing partner on SharePoint-eLearning.com which provides tutorial screencasts, live webcasts and other educational material about all things SharePoint. The author of various proprietary courseware for leading technical education centers, Wendy has also been called on to edit technical material by national publishers such as McGraw-Hill and Microsoft Official Learning Products. Her technical certifications include Microsoft (MCITP, MCTS, MCSE, MCT); Novell (CNE, CNI) and Cisco (CUSE, CCNA). She also consults on Windows/ADS network architecture and SQL/SharePoint design to several Fortune 500 companies.
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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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John Holliday, John Holliday & Associates, Inc.
 John Holliday is an independent consultant and Microsoft MVP for Office SharePoint Server and has over 25 years of professional software development and consulting experience. John has been involved in a broad spectrum of commercial software development projects ranging from retail products to enterprise information systems for the Fortune 100. He is a co-author of Professional SharePoint 2007 Development from Wrox Press and a contributing author of The SharePoint Administrator’s Pocket Consultant from Microsoft Press.
After receiving his bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from Harvard College and a J.D. from the University of Michigan, John developed a specialized computing language for constructing legal expert systems. His expertise includes all aspects of distributed systems development, with a special emphasis on document automation, collaboration, and enterprise content management.
In addition to his professional career, John is actively engaged in humanitarian activities through Works of Wonder International, a non-profit he co-founded with his wife Alice, and the Art of Living Foundation, an international service organization devoted to uplifting human values throughout the world.
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Dan Holme, AvePoint
 As AvePoint’s Chief SharePoint Evangelist, Dan Holme utilizes both his expertise in Microsoft technologies and proven experience solving customers’ IT business challenges to educate the global SharePoint community, as well as develop solutions that will set the standard for the next generation of collaboration platforms.
A graduate of Yale University and Thunderbird School of Global Management, Dan spent 17 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.
In addition to earning the prestigious title of Microsoft MVP (Windows Server Directory Services, 2007, and SharePoint Server, 2008-2011), Dan is a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro and SharePoint Pro magazines as well as the community lead of SharePointProMag.com. Dan’s two most recent Microsoft books—the Windows Administration Resource Kit and the training kit for the 70-640 MCTS exam—are regular bestsellers in their category. He also contributed to the Microsoft Official Curriculum for SharePoint 2010, and penned the SharePoint 2010 Training Kit for Microsoft Press.
Prior to joining AvePoint, Dan founded Intelliem, a boutique consulting and training firm with a Fortune-caliber clientele and deep expertise and experience in Windows, Active Directory, and SharePoint. He was also a founding partner of Aptillon, a consulting and development firm created by seven of the world’s top SharePoint MVPs. He also played an instrumental role as Microsoft Technologies Consultant for NBC Olympics during the Winter Olympics in Vancouver (2010), Beijing (2008), and Torino (2006)—a role he plans to play again for the broadcast of the 2012 Summer Olympics from London.
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Kevin Israel, Ironworks Consulting
 Kevin Israel is a Solutions Architect with Ironworks Consulting in Richmond, VA and has been developing solutions with Microsoft technologies for 10 years. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Team System, President of the Innsbrook .Net User Group, serves on the Richmond Code Camp Committee, and is a member of the INETA Technical Team. In his spare time he enjoys working with the developer community, spending time with his family and pets, reading books (both technical and non-technical), practicing Aikido as well as hunting and fishing.
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Rajesh Jha, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft
 Rajesh Jha is the corporate vice president for Microsoft Exchange. In this capacity, Jha leads the team responsible for worldwide development of Microsoft Exchange, one of the world’s most popular communications systems. The technologies Jha and his team deliver are used daily by tens of millions of people via PCs, the Web and mobile phones.
Jha has a long track record of positive contribution to Microsoft Corp. Joining the company right out of university in 1990, he began his career as a software design engineer, developing five product releases with the Microsoft Works team. He moved on to create multimedia technologies in the Consumer Division and as a director of development worked for several years developing Internet technologies. Continuing his path of success in the company, Jha then became the general manager of Microsoft Office InfoPath and oversaw the launch of InfoPath 2003, as well as the planning for and early execution of Office InfoPath 2007 and form technologies in the 2007 Microsoft Office system.
Jha most recently served as corporate vice president of award-winning Microsoft Office Live and guided his team through the early days of Microsoft’s software-plus-services strategy and product development.
Jha holds a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (Chennai).
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Anup Kafle, 3Sharp
 Anup Kafle is a Senior Solutions Consultant at 3Sharp in Redmond, WA. He focuses on building out-of-the-box and custom solutions using various Microsoft Technologies. He has been specializing in Microsoft SQL Server since 2000 and SharePoint since 2003. His articles have been published in Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Pro and MSDN magazines. He was also one of the core architects for the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint solution, an accelerator for sharing social media using SharePoint.
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Eric Legault, Collaborative Innovations
 Eric has over ten years experience in the IT industry, and has focused his energies developing solutions based on the Microsoft application platform such as Microsoft Office, SharePoint Portal Server, SQL Server and Exchange Server. His current certifications are as a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (MCDBA) and Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) for Messaging & Collaboration, SharePoint Infrastructure, WSS 3.0 Application Development and MOSS 2007 Application Development. Eric has also published articles in MSDN, Office Online, Windows IT Pro magazine and various online technology newsletters. Eric maintains a Blog on Outlook programming and SharePoint technologies at http://blogs.officezealot.com/legault, and runs a Micro ISV - Collaborative Innovations (http://www.collaborativeinnovations.ca).
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Michele Leroux Bustamante, IDesign, Inc.
 Michele Leroux Bustamante is Chief Architect at IDesign (architecture consulting and training, www.idesign.net) and Chief Security Architect at BiTKOO (providing authorization and identity management software, http://www.bitkoo.com/). She is also Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, and a Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems. Michele specializes in scalable and secure architecture design, federated identity, and cloud computing. Michele is a frequent conference presenter at technology conferences such as Tech Ed, PDC, Dev Connections, and NDC; and regularly publishes in several technology journals. Michele wrote the best-selling book Learning WCF – O’Reilly 2007 (http://www.learningwcf.com/). Visit her blog at: http://www.michelelerouxbustamante.com/, or follow her tweets: @michelebusta.
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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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Mary Leigh Mackie, AvePoint
 Mary Leigh works directly with AvePoint’s research and development team in the design and implementation of new SharePoint infrastructure management products and solutions. She has been actively engaged in the SharePoint space for several years, working with many Fortune 500 companies and government organizations to develop successful SharePoint management and protection strategies. Born and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, Mary Leigh received her engineering degree from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, in New York City.
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Dave Mendlen, Senior Director, Developer Platform and Tools, Microsoft
 Dave Mendlen is the Senior Director, Developer Platform and Tools. Prior to this role, he served as the speech writer for Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. In his time at Microsoft, he was the Director of Web Services strategy in the Developer Platform and Evangelism division at Microsoft responsible for driving Web Services excitement and standards across the industry. He has also served as the Director of Windows Product Management responsible for the marketing of Windows XP Home, Pro, Tablet PC and Windows XP Media Center Edition. He started at Microsoft in the developer division and served as the lead product planner on .NET and Visual Studio .NET driving a team to bring web services and .NET to millions of developers.
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Danny Milrad, Symantec
Currently a Sr. Manager for Symantec Enterprise Vault Product Marketing, Danny has been with Symantec for almost 8 years and has over fourteen years industry experience with numerous storage hardware and software companies. Danny joined Symantec by way of the Veritas Software merger and has held management positions in marketing and business development at Veritas Software, BlueArc Corp, Network Appliance, FullTime Software and NeTpower Systems. Mr. Milrad holds an MBA and Bachelor of Science degree from San Jose State University.
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Mark Minasi, Minasi Research and Development
 Mark Minasi is a best-selling author, popular technology columnist, commentator, keynote speaker, and IT consultant. He first got the chance to play with a computer at a university class in 1973. At that time, he learned two things:
• First, computers are neat. (People still said "neat" back in 1973. Hey, it was back in the 20th Century.)
• Second, many technical people are very nice folks, but they can sure put you to sleep in an instant while explaining technical things.
Mark transformed those two insights into a career making computers and networking easier and more fun to understand. He’s done that by writing over a thousand computer columns, several dozen best-selling technical books, and explaining operating system and networking planning, installation, maintenance and repair to crowds from two to two thousand. An independent voice hailed as "Favorite Technical Author" by CertCities four times out of four, Mark has the unusual ability to take even the most technical topics, filter out the hype and explain them in plain English. Perhaps that’s why when TechTarget hired him to deliver a webcast on PC tuning, he drew three times as many attendees as any of their previous webcasts, crashing Yahoo’s servers, and why he’s been hired to deliver keynote addresses at hundreds of techie conferences around the world.
Mark is probably best known for his Mastering Windows Server and Complete PC Upgrade and Maintenance Guide books, both of which have seen more than 12 editions and sold over a million copies. Mark’s humorous, provocative and yet informative style makes him a favorite of audiences around the world. Mark’s firm, MR&D, is based in Pungo, a town in Virginia’s Tidewater area which is distinguished by having one and only one traffic light.
Mark has authored best-selling books, videos, and widely-read magazine on networking, microcomputer operating systems, and PC hardware maintenance. His most recent books and regular columns include:
• Windows Server 2008 Networking Foundations, Sybex (2008)
• Mastering Windows Vista Business and Ultimate, Sybex (2007)
• Administering Windows Vista Security: The Big Surprises, Sybex (2007)
• Mastering Windows Server 2003 Upgrade Edition for R2 and SP1, Sybex (2006)
• Mastering Windows Server 2003, Sybex (2003)
• Linux for Windows Administrators, Sybex (2002)
• Windows IT Pro Magazine Special Update, monthly opinion column, since 1999
• Windows Power Tools (previously This Old Resource Kit), monthly column in Windows and .NET Magazine, since 1996
You can learn more about Mark at http://www.minasi.com/mb2.htm.
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Jeremy Moskowitz, Moskowitz, Inc.
 Jeremy Moskowitz a Group Policy MVP and is the Chief Propeller-Head for Moskowitz, inc. and GPanswers.com. He is one of less than a dozen Microsoft MVPs in Group Policy. Since becoming one of the world’s first MCSEs, he has performed Active Directory, and Group Policy planning and implementations for some of the nation’s largest organizations. His latest book is Group Policy Fundamentals, Security, and the Managed Desktop (WILEY, 2010). Learn more about the book and Jeremy’s Group Policy Master Class training www.GPanswers.com. GPanswers.com was ranked as one of “The 20 most useful Microsoft sites for IT professionals” by ComputerWorld magazine.
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Jessica M. Moss, Solid Quality Mentors
 Jessica M. Moss, a Microsoft SQL Server MVP and business intelligence mentor with Solid Quality Mentors, is certified as an MCDBA, MCTS: SQL Server 2005 BI, and an MCITP: SQL Server 2005 BI. She has been working with SQL Server 2005 since its release and has participated in many warehousing and reporting solutions. Jessica enjoys working with the local community and is a regular speaker at user groups, code camps, and conferences. Jessica blogs at http://jessicammoss.blogspot.com/.
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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.
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Errin O’Connor, EPC Group.net (sponsored by Idera)
 Errin O’Connor is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer for EPC Group.net. Errin focuses his efforts on implementing Microsoft Technologies in organizations throughout the country. Errin is the author of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Inside Out by Microsoft Press and has completed more than 130 successful individual SharePoint implementations and has worked with some of the largest organizations in the United States. Errin is also the founder of WebPartGallery.com an online solutions provider showcasing EPC Group’s SharePoint Web parts and custom solutions and is a frequent speaker at Microsoft SharePoint events throughout the United States and Canada including this year’s Gartner Portals Content & Collaboration Conference 2009.
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Peter ODowd, Datacom/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 Datacom, a New Zealand company, and is a regular presenter for events such as TechEd and Connections around the globe. Peter specializes in Exchange Server 2010, Lync Server 2010, 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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Mark Olsen, Symantec
 Mark Olsen is a Senior Regional Product Manager for Enterprise Vault. A veteran of 7 different industries, he brings 25 years of IT experience to Symantec including 13 years in Senior IT Management at the Director/VP/CIO level. Most recently, Mark was Director of Controls and Compliance at Mitel, where he managed the implementation of Enterprise Vault and Discovery Accelerator.
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Dave Pae, Microsoft
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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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Asif Rehmani, SharePoint-Videos.com
 Asif has been training and consulting on primarily SharePoint technologies since 2004. He is a SharePoint Server MVP and MCT. Asif provides online and in-person SharePoint training publicly and in private workshops. In addition to training, Asif also runs a SharePoint Videos website (http://www.sharepoint-videos.com) which provides dozens of SharePoint, SharePoint Designer and InfoPath video tutorials.
Over the years, Asif has been a speaker on SharePoint topics at several conferences including Microsoft’s TechEd, SharePoint Conference, SharePoint Connections, and Advisor Live. He is the co-author of the book Professional SharePoint Designer 2007 by Wrox publications (http://tinyurl.com/8tdsoq). 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/about/. You can reach Asif at: asif@sharepointelearning.com.
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Jay Schmelzer, Microsoft
 Jay Schmelzer is a Group Program Manager on the Visual Studio Team at Microsoft. Jay and his team are responsible for the Visual Studio design-time tools and runtime components used to build applications that leverage Microsoft Office client and server products, many of the Visual Studio features vital to end-to-end application development experience including Data Design-time, building and consuming WCF services and Deployment, as well as the application programmability and extensibility available in Visual Studio Tools for Applications. Prior to joining Microsoft, Jay was a partner with a leading consulting firm and specialized in the design and development of enterprise applications. Jay has authored several articles and books on application development and is a frequent speaker at application development conferences.
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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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Michael B. Smith, The Essential Exchange
 Michael owns and operates his own consulting company based in Central Virginia; with strong emphasis on Windows Server core technologies, Active Directory, Exchange and SharePoint. Along with his sons, Michael loves to sit in front of computers and answer questions. Michael was responsible for connecting ECU, in North Carolina, to the ARPANet in 1981 and published his first article in Byte Magazine in February 1984. While working for Burroughs Corporation in 1984-1988 helped design and implement a mail system that was turned into a product. Also at Burroughs, Michael taught an OS internals class and helped author an internal book on compiler design.
Between 1990 and 1996, Michael was the primary maintainer of a freeware message transport and email system known as AmigaUUCP. Between 1995 and 1998, Michael was one of the primary developers of I-Net 225, a commercial TCP/IP stack and related utilities (including a full-fledged email system) for the Amiga Computer. In 1998, Michael switched to Windows and Exchange full-time. By 1999, Michael was deploying Exchange 2000 RC2 for a hosting company and he’s been doing Exchange and Windows hosting since. Beginning in 2001 Michael began regularly contributing to a number of mailing lists. Primarily on Exchange and SMTP, of which he knows a little bit. :-)
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Bob Spurzem, Mimosa Systems
 Bob Spurzem has over 20 years experience in high technology product development and marketing with an emphasis in bringing new products to market in both the email archiving and storage industries. As director of international business for Mimosa Systems, he is responsible for all aspects of the product life cycle for Mimosa™ NearPoint™ including market requirements definition, competitive research, positioning, sales enablement, and product launch. Prior to Mimosa, Bob served in senior product management positions for Legato Systems and VERITAS Software. Bob has a Masters Degree in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from Santa Clara University.
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Paul Stubbs, Microsoft
 Paul Stubbs is a Microsoft Technical Evangelist for SharePoint and Office where he focuses on information worker development community around SharePoint and Office, and Silverlight. He has authored four books on solution development using Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Silverlight, several articles for MSDN Magazine, and has also spoken at Microsoft Tech-Ed and the Microsoft Professional Developers conferences. Paul has also worked as a Senior Program Manager with the Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) team in Redmond, Washington. Read Paul’s blog at msdn.com/pstubbs.
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Alan Sugano, ADS Consulting Group
 Alan Sugano writes the monthly Networking Perspectives commentary for Windows IT Pro UPDATE. He’s the president of ADS Consulting Group, Inc. (ADS), which specializes in networking, custom programming, Web development, SQL Server development, and ACCPAC Plus accounting implementations. Alan frequently delivers talks on network audits, server selection, network documentation, network management, network design and topologies, SQL databases, and disaster recovery.
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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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Dan Wahlin, Wahlin Consulting
 Dan Wahlin (Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET and XML Web Services) is the founder of The Wahlin Group which specializes in .NET and SharePoint onsite, online and video training and consulting solutions. Dan also 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 and speaks at conferences and user groups around the world. Dan has written several books on .NET including Professional Silverlight 2 for ASP.NET Developers, 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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Troy Werelius, Lucid8
 Troy Werelius is the President of Lucid8 a Microsoft Gold Certified ISV Partner. Troy’s 27-year career in IT includes extensive work in network & business process design and implementation, as well as Exchange Disaster Recovery since 1996. In 2001, Troy guided Lucid8 from an Exchange Consulting and Disaster Recovery practice into a full time commercial development organization. Lucid8 develops and sells next-generation Disaster Prevention‚ Data-Protection‚ e-Discovery and Recovery products for Microsoft Exchange.
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