The Experts Conference

Joel Oleson is a senior product manager and SharePoint evangelist at Quest, where he is responsible for product direction and strategy. He is well known in the SharePoint community as an enthusiastic trainer, evangelist and architect, and he maintains a popular blog. He is a frequent speaker at popular technical conferences, such as Microsoft TechEd, and often presents to local SharePoint user groups.

Ben Curry (SharePoint MVP, CISSP, MCT, MCP, MCTS) is an enterprise architect specializing in knowledge management and collaboration technologies. As a Managing Consultant for Summit 7 Systems, Curry draws on his years of experience to manage the most demanding projects and system architectures while delivering powerful customized solutions based on the Microsoft Information Worker platforms. He has authored or co-authored 4 books on SharePoint Server, including SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices and the forthcoming SharePoint Server 2010 Administrators’ Pocket Consultant, both by Microsoft Press. http://sharepoint.mindsharpblogs.com/Ben/default.aspx.

Zlatan Dzinic’s primary role is an Enterprise Content Management Lead, System Architect/Lead Developer and an Enterprise Content Management/Enterprise Architecture Consultant. He also comes from an extensive Enterprise Content Management (ECM) product background – MS SharePoint 03/07, Opentext – Livelink, Identitech – FYI, Global 360, Meridio, K2.NET, Opentext – Domea (including Business Intelligence), working, providing solutions and managing projects for the public sector (local, provincial and national government) and also corporate sector with a strong business and technical background. He is a technical lead/system architect as well as project manager or a best practices consultant on large Enterprise Content Management projects and Enterprise Strategy Initiatives. His main focus is Developing and Architecting Enterprise Content Management, Document and Records Management, including Business Process Management, Business Intelligence and Performance Management Solutions as well as Office Business Applications (full blown end to end enterprise industry solutions). He’s a guest speaker at International and National Microsoft Conferences, and he also presents at local community events on the topics of Enterprise Content Management, SharePoint Server and Technologies, Business Intelligence and Office Business Applications.

Spencer Harbar is an enterprise architect who helps organizations implement and drive value from solutions based upon Microsoft SharePoint. With over 16 years of commercial experience in the architecture, design, development, deployment and operational service management of Web based applications and hosting platforms, his broad base of fundamental skills routinely enables Europe’s largest organizations to succeed with SharePoint.
Harbar delivers enterprise content management and portal systems architecture, design, development and deployment solutions, application security best practices, threat modeling and the implementation of highly available Windows Server based hosting platforms. He is one of 46 people worldwide currently to hold the Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2007 certification, and is a Microsoft Certified Master Instructor for the Enterprise Content Management, Web Content Management, Excel Services and Security elements of the SharePoint MCM.
He is also a strong community advocate, as Vice President of the International SharePoint Professionals Association, supporting and speaking at the UK SharePoint User Group and helping others through his blog, forums and public events such as the SharePoint Conference. He has been awarded the prestigious Microsoft MVP award for the past 10 years. In his spare time (not much of it) he listens to the Jazz giants of yesteryear and some young blood, and spends time with family and friends in the beautiful capital city of Edinburgh, Scotland and his home town of Manchester, England.

A graduate of Yale University and Thunderbird, Dan Holme 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. His 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, Holme travels around the globe supporting customers and delivering Microsoft technologies training. He is also a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro magazine, a Microsoft MVP (Windows Server Directory Services, 2007, and Office SharePoint Server, 2008-2009), and the community lead of OfficeSharePointPro.com. Last year, Holme published two books with Microsoft: the Windows Administration Resource Kit and the training kit for the 70-640 MCTS exam, both of which are at the top of the bestseller list of Windows books. He built SharePoint solutions to support the broadcast of the 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver as the Microsoft Technologies Consultant for NBC Olympics, a role he played in Beijing and Torino.

Mark Miller is Founder and Editor of EndUserSharePoint.com. He is a dedicated evangelist for the Information Workers, Site Managers and Site Collection Administrators of SharePoint. Miller is a frequent speaker at SharePoint Saturday events, national conferences and online webcasts. During SharePoint Conference 2009, he coordinated 30 live bloggers, sending out real time feed streams of audio, video and twitter from the exhibit floor and the conference sessions to over 3,000 online followers.

Michael Noel is an internationally recognized technology expert, bestselling author, and well known public speaker on a broad range of IT topics. He has authored several major industry books that have been translated into over a dozen languages worldwide. Significant titles include SharePoint 2010 Unleashed, Exchange Server 2010 Unleashed, Windows Server 2008 R2 Unleashed, ISA Server 2006 Unleashed, and many more. Currently a partner at Convergent Computing (www.cco.com) in the San Francisco Bay Area, Michael’s writings and extensive public speaking experience across six continents leverage his real-world expertise helping organizations realize business value from Information Technology infrastructure.

Muhanad Omar is a consultant, trainer and speaker focusing on SharePoint Products and Technologies. His primary technical disciplines within SharePoint are architecture, deployment and administration. Based in Amman, Jordan, Omar works as a SharePoint Specialist for Devosis, Inc. Omar was awarded the Microsoft MVP Award in 2008 for his contributions to the SharePoint technical community. He is the Founder and President of the Jordan SharePoint User Group, board member of the Jordan .NET User Group, and Middle East Regional Evangelist for the International SharePoint Professionals Association (ISPA). He actively speaks and participates at user group meetings, universities and Microsoft conferences.

Paul J. Swider is a freelance consultant and the Enterprise SharePoint Strategist for OnClick Solutions. In addition, he is president of the Charleston SharePoint Users Group and an accomplished entrepreneur. Swider’s 17 years of software consulting experience combined with many Microsoft certifications and speaking credentials have made him an authority in the SharePoint Community. Swider also writes and teaches about enterprise collaboration concepts with demonstrated knowledge you can only get in “the trenches”. His specialties include enterprise SharePoint deployment, information architecture, SharePoint development best practices and social media integration.

Rick Taylor is a SharePoint architect and has assisted numerous, large companies in their implementations in high profile industries such as Defense, Financial, Manufacturing, and Health Care. He is a published author, co-author, and contributing author including the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion by MS Press. He worked for Microsoft in the Business Productivity Online Services division as a member of the SharePoint Platform Architecture Team. He is an avid Triathlete (Clydesdale class), enjoys playing chess and is active in the Boy Scouts of America.

Daniel Wessels is co-founder and managing director of MicroVation GmbH, a German-based company specializing in planning, building and customising SharePoint environments. As a senior consultant and developer for SharePoint technologies, he is responsible for the consulting services group within MicroVation. He started to work with SharePoint Technologies beginning with version 2001 Beta 2. Since then Microsoft has awarded him the MVP designation for his contributions to newsgroups, forums and within the Microsoft Student Program. Wessels is co-organizer of the SharePoint User Group in Munich.