SharePoint Speakers in Houston
The following speakers participate with H-SPUG or SharePoint Saturday Houston.
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| | Critical Path Training | 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. 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 and Spain. Andrew blogs at http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog and on Twitter @andrewconnell.
Expertise: SharePoint Development, Web Content Management, Enterprise Content Management. | Andrew Connell Blog | andrewconnell | | | Critical Path Training | Asif is a SharePoint Server MVP and MCT. He provides in-person and online SharePoint training publicly and in private workshops through Critical Path Training (http://www.criticalpathtraining.com).
Asif also runs a SharePoint Videos website (http://www.sharepoint-videos.com) which provides SharePoint, SharePoint Designer and InfoPath Video Tutorials | http://www.sharepoint-videos.com/about/ | | | | YES Prep | I am a SharePoint Developer and a .NET Developer creating solutions for SharePoint 2010 | | | | | Lightning Tools | Brett Lonsdale is co-founder of Lightning Tools and is a SharePoint Developer specializing in Business Connectivity Services. Brett is the main author of “Developers Guide to the Business Data Catalog” and co-author of several books including “Developers Guide to Windows SharePoint Services v3.0” and “Administrators Companion for SharePoint 2010”. | | | | | Sogeti | Brian has over 5 years experienced SharePoint developer and currently specializes in Silverlight integration with SharePoint. He likes to dabble with esoteric topics in SharePoint and try to bring them to light for education and functionality. | | | | | Expert Point Solutions | A SharePoint Solutions Architect for Expert Point Solutions in Houston, Texas. Brian is a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) in SharePoint 2007 and a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD). He has worked in the Information Technology industry for since 1998 and he has been working with SharePoint since 2005. His deep expertise includes SharePoint, ASP.Net, SQL Server and Project Server. He has been involved in many large SharePoint implementations including Internet and Intranet sites, Partner Portals, Enterprise Content Management and Governance, and much custom application integration and development.
Expertise: SharePoint Internet, Intranet and Extranet sites, Enterprise Content Management, Governance, and customizing SharePoint. | Brian Culver blog | SPBrianCulver | | | Stonebridge | | Corey's Blog | coreyroth | | | Sogeti | A consultant with Sogeti specializing in architecting and managing SharePoint projects. Within Sogeti, he helps to lead the Houston SharePoint practice and is a member of Sogeti’s national SharePoint steering committee. Dan has been working in the IT industry for 8 years and with SharePoint for over 3 years. He helped Schlumberger to build Avance which is a mission critical project management platform using SharePoint 2007.
Dan also has been using SharePoint 2010 for several months and excited about the investments Microsoft made in the platform. He holds certifications in WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, and SharePoint 2010 Config and Admin. You can find Dan via his blog at http://danluciano.wordpress.com and on twitter as @danluciano.
Expertise: Architect, Administration, Development and Customization | Dan Luciano Blog | danluciano | | | JackBe | Dan oversees the JackBe Application Platform, leading the JackBe technology strategy and delivering key elements of the JackBe innovative product suite. Dan is the lead architect of Mashup Sites for SharePoint, a product that supports quick and easy sharing of SharePoint content with other Enterprise information sources.
Before joining JackBe, Dan was a Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems where he was a leader in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and strategic initiatives. Dan led efforts for Sun's top customers, including Sabre and AOL and contributed to countless others. Dan was awarded "Technology Innovator of the Year" in 2005 in Arlington, VA for his work leading the development of a global messaging infrastructure for Bono and U2's worldwide Vertigo tour. Also in 2005, Dan was the lead architect for Live8's US mobile messaging infrastructure. Through his career, Dan has focused on software patterns and object-oriented technologies, working primarily in Java and Smalltalk.
He is co-author of the book "Core J2EE Patterns" and also a member of the Editorial Board of the Web 2.0 Journal. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from The College of William & Mary and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University. | | | | | JackBe | | | | | | MOSS Delight | David has been delivering technical solutions for nearly 13 years. He runs a small consulting business helping companies leverage and supportSharePoint technologies. When he is not working, he spends time with hisbeautiful wife and three adorable children. | David Frette blog | davidfrette | | | Antares Technology Solutions | Eric Trivette, MCPD, has been working with Microsoft ASP.NET since December 2006. Eric began SharePoint development with SharePoint 2010 and works with Antares Technology Solutions as a consultant where he designs and implements custom solutions in SharePoint 2010 and all versions of ASP.NET. | | | | | Wintellect | Jason Masterman has been working in the industry since his college days in 1989. He brings extensive experience in working with many large and small companies around the world with a variety of different application needs. His passion is working with collaborative technologies, especially SharePoint. Jason has also worked with many groups inside of Microsoft building applications, samples, and whitepapers that target early adopter programs before the technology is available for general consumption.
Jason has written several courses around Microsoft Technologies as well as authored articles for MSDN and contributed to books for Addison-Wesley and MacMillan Publishing. Most recently Jason authored courses on SharePoint 2010 and ASP.NET MVC2.
Jason has also been a speaker to thousands of developers through numerous conferences around the world. Jason has delivered conference seminars and courses on all versions of Microsoft SharePoint, C#, VB .NET, ASP .NET, Web Services, SQL Server, Windows Server, and IIS. Jason continuously challenges himself to stay current in the industry by developing real applications. Jason has managed development projects for teams within Hewlett-Packard, Hyundai, and Microsoft. He really enjoys working with diverse groups of people to achieve a common goal. He is a valued asset on any project for his ability to listen, understand and communicate clearly with people at all levels in the organization. This comes from being an excellent communicator of technology combined with real development expertise and a passion for working with people. | | | | | | Jason Trent is a native of Oklahoma, but moved to Dallas, TX after college to start working in the energy services industry and then migrated into the consulting area where he started getting exposure to custom .NET development and SharePoint 2003 (and eventually 2007 and 2010). Jason began working with K2 as a BPM platform in 2006 and re-focused his efforts towards building workflow-based solutions within the SharePoint ecosystem. Before recently joining K2, Jason was a SharePoint Solutions Architect for a consulting firm in Dallas where he also became a K2 Insider. Jason still lives in Dallas with his wife, 2 year old daughter and Dachshund. | | | | | Boxer Property | Justin Segal is the Chief Operating Officer of Boxer Property, a privately-held real estate company based in Houston with over 550 employees. As COO, Justin’s responsibilities include Boxer’s Information Technology department, which is in the process of a multi-system upgrade affecting all aspects of the company. Justin has also started several companies, including a software publisher, an oil and gas company, and a firm supporting the operations of venture-backed startups in Silicon Valley. Justin is a licensed attorney in the State of Texas, serves on the Board of Directors of YES Prep Public Schools, and is President of the Sharpstown Super Neighborhood Council. | http://www.boxerproperty.com | | | | Independent Consultant | Mark Freeman is an independant consultant with over fourteen years experience in various technical
roles, including Architecture design, application development, Data modeling, Network
administration, Enterprise application integration, and Project management. During his career, he
has been involved with several high-profile projects for various clients, including National
Institutes of Health, Aramark Global Food Services, Pew Charitable Trusts, GMAC Financial, and
Microsoft Consulting Services. He holds several Microsoft technical certifications, has spoken at
numerous developer conferences, and has spent countless hours in technical curriculum
development as well as a trainer and mentor for colleagues and clients in Microsoft’s newest
development technologies and servers. Mark specializes primarily in Microsoft technologies,
specifically SharePoint and .Net, and has been working exclusively with the SharePoint 2010
platform for the past 14 months. | | SPS2010 | | | Microsoft | | | | | | AbleBlue | Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP, is a Principal Consultant for AbleBlue in Austin, Texas. AbleBlue specializes in SharePoint Integration, Strategy and Implementation Consulting. Matthew is an author and specialist in SharePoint technologies focused on web content management, collaboration, search and social computing, Matthew has led SharePoint implementations for Fortune 500 companies since 2002.
Expertise: Search, Social and Web Publishing
The fun stuff: Matthew’s free time is spent as a canine handler for K9 Search • Austin, a volunteer K9 search team serving the FBI and Austin & San Antonio Police Departments. An accomplished cook and bartender, in his spare time Matt spends as much time with his wife as his dogs will allow. | | | | | Idera | The lead architect and software developer for the
SharePoint product group at Idera. Currently, he is working on the Idera
SharePoint backup™ product. Previously, he was the lead developer of Idera
SQLsafe™, a very popular high-performance backup and recovery solution for
Microsoft SQL Server. Michael is a popular speaker with SharePoint user groups
and conferences. | Michael Foertsch Blog | weneversleep | | | Stone Bond Technologies | Since Mike Guillory joined Stone Bond in August 2008, he has guided the architecture and development of Enterprise Enabler’s SharePoint connectivity initiatives as the primary technical liaison with Microsoft’s TAP team. Mike’s twenty years of experience include technical architecture, design, development and leadership positions at Telecheck and El Paso Energy as well as several startup “.com” technology companies. Mike’s specialties in .NET architecture, security, and QA architecture and automation complement his team management and constant collaboration with the Sales and Marketing teams. | | | | | Neudesic | Russell has been a developer for 9 years, working with Microsoft technologies
for 8 of those. After building Texas A&M’s Association of Former Student’s
award winning website, he moved to the Middle East to work at A&M’s branch
campus in Doha, Qatar. Working as a Sr IT Manger for Enterprise Applications he
oversaw the implementation of TAMUQ’s intranet using MOSS 2007. | | | | | Idera | A Product Manager for SharePoint Products at Idera, a Microsoft gold certified partner and creator of tools for SharePoint, SQL Server, and PowerShell. As a consultant, Sean has worked with a number of Fortune 500 companies to architect, implement, troubleshoot, tune, and customize their SharePoint environments. Sean is an MCPD, an MCTS, and the co-author of both the “SharePoint 2007 Disaster Recovery Guide” (http://tinyurl.com/SPDRBook) and the “SharePoint 2010 Disaster Recovery Guide” (http://tinyurl.com/SPDRGuide2010). He can be reached through his blog (http://SharePointInterface.com) or Twitter @spmcdonough.
Expertise: Disaster Recovery, Backup/Restore, Caching
The fun stuff: Everyone loves to hassle me for it: I’m a pescetarian (i.e., a vegetarian who will eat seafood). There’s no activist or political reason for it; I simply feel better when I’m not eating meat. I can usually find something to eat at just about any restaurant, though, and I do make one exception during the year: Thanksgiving. When Thanksgiving arrives, turkeys flee from my location in a cacophony of gobbling that can be heard in the surrounding states... | Sean McDonough Blog | spmcdonough | | | Stone Bond Technologies | | | | | | Access Sciences Corporation | Steve is an IT professional with more than 15 years of software development and systems integration experience. A convert to SharePoint since the release of WSS 2.0 and SPS2003, Steve's days are typically filled with MOSS and SPS2010 projects, helping companies use SharePoint in more effective and sustainable ways. | | | | | Critical Path Training | | | TedPattison | | | Logic Bound | Thor is the SharePoint Branding & Information Architect and Usability Expert for Logic Bound. Thor specializes in all things SharePoint, Web Development and Branding. He is Designer and Implementation Manager for Microsoft's SharePoint-based Visio.Microsoft.com and collaborator on several other Microsoft properties.
Thor has also served as trainer and presenter on SharePoint Branding and Design sites for Internet with SharePoint. | | | | | SharePoint911 | 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 and 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 and SharePoint Saturday events as well. He chronicles his SharePoint adventures on his blog, http://www.toddklindt.com/blog. His latest book, Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration is now available at fine booksellers everywhere. He is currently working his dream job as a consultant at SharePoint911 where he spends his days fixing broken SharePoint environments and bringing new SharePoint environments into the world.
| Todd Klindt Blog | toddklindt |
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