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 | | | AvePoint | With over 13 years experience in the technology sector, Arnoldo (Nono), has extensive knowledge of Business Service Management strategies, data protection technologies, and forensic & e-discovery applications. Arnoldo works directly with Fortune 500 and other enterprise customers to develop and implement cost-effective SharePoint management, protection, and optimization strategies. His contributions to the SharePoint community have garnered him speaking opportunities at technology conferences, seminars, and user groups throughout North and Latin America. | | | | | 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/ | | | | F5 Networks | | | | | | YES Prep | I am a SharePoint Developer and a .NET Developer creating solutions for SharePoint 2010 | | | | | RSA Security | | | | | | 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 | | | Improving Enterprises | Chris Weldon has been developing agile-centric infrastructure solutions against SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 for the last several years, and has been developing in .Net since 2005. Chris has been reading, loving, living, and mentoring SharePoint developers and SharePoint teams to build high quality, high value solutions. Chris has spent a great deal of time studying and implementing identity management solutions in and around the SharePoint, leveraging WCF and WIF. Sharing his knowledge by speaking at user groups, universities, conferences, and one-on-one with others is a passion. Chris has been a speaker for several Aggieland user groups, tech fests, SharePoint Saturdays, and other conferences and technology groups alike. Chris is also the leader of the B/CS PHP Users Group, blogs at http://www.chrisweldon.net, and is an occasional contributor to Improving Podcasts.
Chris loves being a Senior Consultant at Improving Enterprises. Aside from being given the opportunity to do what he loves, he believes that delivering excellent software is the only way to roll. Although an agile purist at heart, Chris strives to strike the right balance between the ideal and the real in order to meet the team's objectives.
| Chris Weldon blog | | | | Stonebridge | | Corey's Blog | coreyroth | | | Microsoft | Born and raised in the South of France, Cyrielle first joined Microsoft France as a pre-sales engineer. There, she was responsible for deployment and adoption of Office solutions for Enterprises and Public Sector for over 4 years. She worked with various customers to help them drive successful deployment and change management plans. In August 2011, she joined Microsoft Corporation as a Product Marketing Manager and she is now in charge of SharePoint user adoption. She is based on Microsoft Campus, in Redmond, Washington, and loves the Seattle Area.
| | @cyriellesimeone | | | 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 | | | United Airlines | Denise Wilson has been with United Airlines (formerly Continental Airlines) for 15 years. She has worked in Application Development and Engineering, on projects including multi-tiered application development, software deployment, Server Imaging, System Management (SCCM), and SharePoint.
She is currently responsible for the Enterprise SharePoint platform for internal Content Management (ECM) for 87,000 employees, as well as Social Media and Collaboration Architecture at United. She has worked on SharePoint since 2001 and has managed the platform since 2007 as it has grown to become a Tier I application serving global operations at the world’s leading airline. | http://www.unitedhub.com | @denisewilson330 | | | Innovative-e | As managing partner for Innovative-e, Inc., Dux is responsible for business development for a global client base ranging from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies to small- and medium-sized enterprises. Dux is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with more than 15 years of experience in the IT industry. He has earned a reputation as being among the leading experts on leveraging collaboration tools for project management.
As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, Dux is also the author of SharePoint 2010 for Project Management published by O’Reilly Media. He is focused on empowering organizations on how to leverage the benefits of SharePoint technologies with quantifiable goals, such as increasing productivity and efficiency, decreasing collaboration redundancies and streamlining electronic communications. A sought after speaker, Dux has presented in various Microsoft and Project Management Institute (PMI) events worldwide. He is very much involved in the greater SharePoint community and is an event chair for SharePoint Saturday events, which are free community-driven conferences held worldwide.
Dux is a SharePoint MVP and has a bachelor's of science degree in telecommunications engineering technology with a minor in mathematics from Southern Polytechnic State University. | | @meetdux | | | 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. | | | | | Sentri, Inc. | | Jason's Blog | @sharepointlhorn | | | 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. | | | | | Muhimbi | Jeroen Ritmeijer is the CTO and one of the founders of Muhimbi for more than 4 years. Before Muhimbi Jeroen held several CTO and Technical Architect positions in the finance and retail industry. As an architect of third party products he has a technical knowledge of SharePoint and InfoPath that extends well past the average developer. | http://www.muhimbi.com/ | | | | Microsoft | Jon Lua is a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft. Jon is experienced in MS Office 2003, 2007, and 2010 including Infopath 2007 and 2010, Sharetpoint Portal Server 2003 (SPS 2003), Windows Sharepoint Services 2.0, Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS), Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0, SharePoint Server 2010, SharePoint Foundation, Sharepoint Designer, and Corasworks Workplace Suite. | | | | | COMPU-DATA International, LLC | Juan J. Celaya founded COMPU-DATA International, LLC in 1988 and has been successfully delivering “Content and Data Integration” solutions for ECM implementations through the use of capture, administration, collaboration, retrieval technologies and solutions. Juan has a broad Information Technology background covering 30 years of experience with successful system implementations with Energy, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and Transportation companies, the U.S. Department of Defense and the National Nuclear Security Administration. Juan can be reached via e-mail at jcelaya@cdlac.com and can also be found on LinkedIn and Twitter. | http://www.cdlac.com/ | | | | 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 | | | | Brightstarr | As a leader in the SharePoint community, Kanwal has received the SharePoint MVP award for the past two years. He focuses on helping organizations acheive quantifiable goals by leveraging SharePoint technologies.
A sought after speaker, Kanwal has presented in various Microsoft events worldwide. He is very much involved in the greater SharePoint community and is an organizer and speaker for many SharePoint Saturday events, which are free community-driven conferences held worldwide.
| | @kkhipple | | | AvePoint | Kevin recently joined AvePoint and is responsible for sales in Oil and Gas. He comes to AvePoint with over 15 years of experience in sales with market-making technology companies.
During his career, Kevin has been recognized as a top performer by being very proactive and able to help clients identify and prioritize needs. He began his technology sales career after helping Hertz Equipment Rental with international expansion. He settled in Dallas, TX as he was among the originating members of Trinity e-Ventures in 1999.
Kevin has been a top sales rep with Autonomy (now an HP Company), Coremetrics (now an IBM Company), RightNow Technologies (now an Oracle Company), and MyBuys.
Kevin graduated from State University of New York at Buffalo with a MS International Business and BA in History. Originally from Buffalo, NY he is still a big fan of the Buffalo Bills / Sabres and The Who (Attended 15 shows across the US). Kevin has lived abroad and has traveled to more than 35 countries. He is a passionate golfer and an accomplished travel photographer. Samples of his photography can be found at www.ruxfotos.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 | | | |
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