| Alpesh Nakar |  | Alpesh Nakar is a SharePoint consultant and trainer based in Brisbane, Australia. Prolific blogger, speaker and a contributing author for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed authored by Michael Noel and Colin Spence, you can find Alpesh on the social media circuit or in the MSDN Forums! Community presentations – SharePoint Saturday India (Online) and SharePoint Saturday Brisbane (2010) Alpesh blogs on http://alpesh.nakars.com and manages content on http://justsharepoint.com and is also experimenting with SharePoint URL Shortening Service http://mysp.in besides tweeting selective SharePoint Resources via @justsharepoint and @alpesh | |
| Anil Rangappa |  | Anil plays the role of a Product Manager for solutions around the Enterprise Line of Business on SharePoint 2010. Anil has been with MindTree since 2005 and has worked on multiple projects on Office Business Applications, MOSS 2007 and SharePoint. In his career spanning 11+ years, Anil has experience in application design & development and Project Management. | |
| Benjamin Lim |  | Benjamin Lim graduated from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology with a Masters of Business in Information Technology and has been focusing on Knowledge Management for the past 5 years. He leads a KM team of 3 staff in setting up Communities of practice and transforming hardcopy registry to electronic Registry by examining the content types that flows thru the hardcopy registry. He is currently implementing Sharepoint 2007 for Collaboration and Document Management for managing corporate contents for Singapore Sports Council. He will be sharing with you on his team’s journey in implementing sharepoint 2007 as a collaboration platform. | |
| Chan KwokHoe |  | KwokHoe is currently the Technical Account Manager who manages solution consulting, architect and implementation of Quest’s Windows Management solutions. These solutions are around the areas of Migration, Recovery & Availability, Auditing, Monitoring and Management for Microsoft’s technologies namely Active Directory, SharePoint and Exchange. Since joining Quest in 2004, KwokHoe had worked on several major projects that include Lotus Notes migration to Microsoft Exchange for HP-EDS Singapore (SOE project), Novell NDS migration to Microsoft Active Directory for Petronas and Active Directory Recovery for HP-EDS Malaysia (Shell IT Outsourcing project). Prior to Quest, KwokHoe brings with him more than 10 years of experience in enterprise application design & development and IT Operation streamlining & automation | http://sg.linkedin.com/in/kwokhoe/ |
| Choirul Amri |  | Choirul Amri is experienced in ASP.NET, BizTalk, SQL Server, ERP System, change management and project management. He was involved in the early development of Microsoft Official Curriculum for SQL Server 2008. For his efforts in evangelizing Microsoft technologies and providing community support, Microsoft awarded him the MVP status 2005.
Acting Founder and President of the SQL Server User Group in Indonesia, Choirul also runs the Singapore SQL Server User Group which is the main forum for local DBAs and developers. He speaks regularly at Technet, MSDN, and Microsoft events focusing on SQL Server, Business Intelligence, and SharePoint. He writes regularly in his blog at http://choirulamri.org. | |
| Daniel McPherson |  | Daniel McPherson has been involved in SharePoint since attending the first public announcement of project “Tahoe” at the Microsoft Technical Briefing in January 1999. It has had a profound impact on his career, taking him to the doorstep of hundreds of companies, of all shapes and sizes, in a range of industries and in over 25 different countries. He’s worked on projects that create solutions, evaluate possibilities, deploy to tens of thousands of users and fix problems when the sirens are sounding. After 10 years at Microsoft, spent mostly in Microsoft Consulting Services, he co-founded zevenseas ( www.zevenseas.com), a boutique consultancy focused solely on the SharePoint platform, and is having more fun than ever before. | |
| Debbie Ireland |  | Debbie Ireland has 15 years experience in managing IT projects across a number of industries and has realised many of SharePoint's benefits as a Project Management tool. Debbie manages envisionIT, a Tauranga, New Zealand based company, specialising in SharePoint training.
Debbie participates in many community events, encouraging knowledge sharing around SharePoint technologies and was awarded the Most Valuable Professional award by Microsoft in SharePoint for 2009 and 2010.Debbie is the primary organiser of the SharePoint Conferences in Australia, and New Zealand and Southeast Asia. | |
| Dewi Maya |  | Dewi Maya has more than 6 years of experience working in the IT industry. She is a regular speaker at Microsoft Events(SG.NET and SQL User Group) and was awarded with MVP for C#.
She has delivered quality training and seminars by relating implementation experiences. She was working for Microsoft Indonesia, and involved with ISV’s in building top notch solutions based on Microsoft Technology.
Dewi Maya plays an active role in managing Indonesia DotNet Community (INDC, www.netindonesia.net).
As a Senior Consultant Trainer with the Avantus Training Pte Ltd, Dewi Maya is specialized in delivering courses on .Net Technology and SAP Business Objects. | |
| Dino Cavestany |  | Dino Cavestany is the Technical Director for AvePoint APAC. He has 7 years experience in the industry, focusing almost exclusively on SharePoint starting with SharePoint 2003. 4 years of that was spent managing the Citibank Singapore SharePoint environment’s technical and business requirements | |
| Donna Tellam |  | Donna Tellam is responsible for managing Global 360’s viewpoint Assessment program as well as the usability practice for the Professional Services organization. She has over 15 years experience in software user experience design. Prior to coming to Global 360, Ms. Tellam served as Director of User Experience for webMethods / Software AG. She also held senior user experience and product management rolls at Corporate Express, and NetDeivery, and has worked as a user experience and technical communications consultant to Fortune 500 companies including IBM, American Express, and USWest. | |
| Dr. Tianyi (TJ) Jiang |  | Dr. Tianyi (TJ) Jiang, AvePoint COO and co-founder, AvePoint – TJ oversees operations that support extensive growth of the company and sets product direction for AvePoint’s expanding suite of infrastructure management solutions for SharePoint Server. Prior to establishing AvePoint, TJ had worked as senior technology consultant for major investment banks in New York City and Chicago, where his projects ranged from fix-income trading systems, to global equity program trading systems, to credit risk modeling. TJ received both B.S. and Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University, and a Masters and PhD in Data Mining from New York University. | |
| Dux Raymond Sy |  | He is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, Inc., an organization focused on leading, inspiring and being the catalyst of organizational transformation that enables clients to achieve tangible business results. As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, he authored the book ‘SharePoint for Project Management’ published by O’Reilly Media. He has successfully managed the implementation of various SharePoint-based solutions for commercial, educational and government institutions. A sought after speaker, Dux has presented in various Microsoft and Project Management Institute (PMI) events worldwide. Dux regularly writes about project management, SharePoint and globalization at http://MeetDux.com. | |
| Eric Ku |  | Eric Ku (MCT, MVP, ITIL Certified, CompTIA Green IT Certificate) has been in the IT industry for the past 15 years. He has extensive experience in the IT consulting and training space. He is the co-founder of iTrain, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, a Registered Education Provider (REP) for Project Management Institute (PMI), and a CompTIA Authorised Education Partner. He speaks for Microsoft USA in TechNet webcasts, SEA Annual TechEd conference, developing hands-on lab and virtual lab image for Microsoft and contributes articles in local technology magazines. Eric has been a strong advocate for SharePoint and has organized and speaks at SharePoint Best Practices Summit and SharePoint Summit 2009 and 2010 back in Malaysia. Eric has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) title by Microsoft Corporation USA on his contributions toward Microsoft Technology. Eric likes to share his technology know-how in his blog www.ericku.com. | |
| Ishai Sagi |  | A SharePoint expert since 2001, I have worked for several consulting companies, and developed several SharePoint solutions. I have been awarded the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP award from Microsoft on the 1st April 2007, and renewed in 2008 and 2009. I have authored a end user book called SharePoint 2007 How To which is available in www.tinyurl.com/SharePointBook I am running my own SharePoint consultancy - Extelligent Design which provides clients with architecture advice, development services and SharePoint products. | |
| James Milne |  | James is a Senior SharePoint Consultant (MCTS, MCSE, MCT, MVP) with over 16 years of direct IT experience. James has spent the last six years working exclusively with enterprise level SharePoint Solutions. Prior to this James spent a number of years working for a leading integration company based in Silicon Valley. While working directly with large customers such as Intel and Siebel, James gained an in-depth knowledge of Middleware, Workflow and Business Intelligence. Today, James consults on large scale Portal deployments and publically evangelises SharePoint within the community. Recent Public Speaking Engagements: SharePoint Asia Pac Conference 2007 (Sydney)SharePoint Conference 2008 (Singapore) OfficeDev Con 2008 (Sydney) OfficeDev Con 2009 (Brisbane) | |
| Jirat Srisawat |  | Jirat Srisawat is the senior search consultant at Ventek International. He is a specialist in the installation, configuration and customization of the FAST enterprise search platform. He has extensive experience in the implementation of high end search applications for customers such as the Yellow Pages in Thailand, Yellow Pages in South Africa, Singapore Press Holding ( Rednano.sg ). Jirat has also implemented the advanced linguistic support for the Thai language for the FAST platform. | |
| Joe Eades |  | Joe has 15 years experience in the Project / Engineering / Construction sector, where he has been responsible for leading multidiscipline teams on projects ranging from US$10million to US$280 million on both the engineering side and the client representative side. Joe is a co-founder of the Ispahan Group based in Singapore. Joe also co-wrote and lectures a Masters Module in Project Engineering at NUS (National University of Singapore). Joe also holds the post of Vice Chairman of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) in Singapore. | |
| John Romano Rafol |  | John is an IT Manager at Keppel Land Int’l Ltd. He has been in the IT Industry for 15 years since graduating from Adamson University, Philippines with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. He has thought in the academe for a few years before joining the IT Industry to become a developer of various web and client server applications. He currently handles the dev team of Keppel Land IT and have also been in involved in the implementation of SharePoint 2003 and its migration to MOSS 2007. He also regularly conducts in-house end-user SharePoint training for Keppel Land and lately, its sister-companies. | http://sg.linkedin.com/in/johnrafol |
| Joy Rathnayake |  | Joy Rathnayake is a SharePoint Mentor for Solid Quality Mentors. Joy has been developing application using Microsoft .NET technologies since 2002 and has been working with SharePoint Products and Technologies since 2006, including architecting, designing, implementing and developing portal solutions using SharePoint Products and Technologies. His experience spans a wide breath of industrial sectors including Airline, Training and Telecom. He is a product of NIIT and he has been working as a Consultant Trainer for past 9 years and he has trained a lot of corporates. Joy has been recognized as both Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). | |
| Justin Lee | | I'm a software development consultant of various Microsoft Technologies like SharePoint for the past 4 years and a C# MVP for the past 5-6 years. My interests lies in various types of languages such as C#, F#, Java, Haskell, Ruby, etc. I'm always in the forefront of exploring new technologies and their uses. I'm the co-founder of HackerspaceSG ( http://hackerspace.sg) which is Singapore's first open-space kiasu-free zone. I'm also the editor of Tech65, Singapore's leading technology and gadget focused video/audio podcast. I help run and organize the Singapore Silverlight User Group ( http://sgsug.org). Otherwise, I'm just a geek during my free time | |
| Kai Sheng Hoo |  | Kai Sheng is a SharePoint focused professional that has survived various collaboration and workflow implementations with SharePoint, long enough to remember earlier names like SharePoint Portal Server 2001 (SPS) and Content Management Server 2002 (CMS). About a few years back, he found refuge in K2 - an organization that specializes in workflow technologies on the Microsoft platform. Today, he is part of the crew running the K2 operations in South East Asia. | |
| Michael Noel |  | 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 best-selling industry books that have been translated into over a dozen languages. Significant titles include SharePoint 2007 Unleashed, Teach Yourself SharePoint 2007 in 10 Minutes, Windows Server 2008 Unleashed, ISA Server 2006 Unleashed, Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed, and many more. Currently a partner at Convergent Computing 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. | |
| Mike Fitzmaurice |  | Mike Fitzmaurice is the Vice President of Product Technology for Nintex www.nintex.com, a global company committed to delivering out-of-box productivity solutions built for and with SharePoint Technology, and is responsible for product direction, evangelism, technical marketing, and technical business strategy. Until May 2008, he had spent more than 10 years at Microsoft, the majority of that time working on Windows® SharePoint® Services and Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server in roles including developer evangelism, competitive strategy, enterprise consulting, user education, product marketing, and technical event planning. Before joining Microsoft, Fitzmaurice served as Director of Research and Development at Advanced Paradigms Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based Microsoft Solution Provider Partner, as well as a five-year tenure as IT Director of the National Association of Broadcasters. | |
| Milan Gross |  | Milan Gross is one of the founding partners of Synergy Corporate Technologies, a consulting and training company specializing in SharePoint technologies. Milan has 15 years’ experience as an IT consultant and has been architecting and developing solutions on the SharePoint platform since 2001. He is a contributing author to two books on MOSS 2007 from Microsoft Press and is a frequent invited speaker at industry events. Milan is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and holds the MCSE, MCSD, and MCDBA, certifications as well as a MRP from the University of Pennsylvania. | |
| Pinal Dave |  | Pinalkumar Dave is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Mentor for Solid Quality Mentors, India and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). He has written over 1400 articles on the subject on his blog at http://blog.sqlauthority.com. He is a dynamic and proficient Principal Database Architect, Corporate Trainer and Project Manager, who specializes in SQL Server Programming and has 7 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Masters of Science degree and a number of certifications, including MCTS, MCDBA and MCAD (.NET). He is also Regional Mentor for PASS Asia. | |
| Randy Williams |  | Randy is a Senior Solution Architect and Trainer for Synergy Corporate Technologies. He has 20 years of eclectic IT experience and his focus for the last 13 is architecting and developing Microsoft-based web and database solutions. Randy writes for Windows IT Pro magazine and contributes to books. He has a master's degree in Information Systems along with a number of Microsoft certifications. For 2009 and 2010, he was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in SharePoint Server. Randy is based in Singapore and runs Synergy's operations there. He also helps run the SharePointPROs.SG user group. | |
| Raymond Chou |  | Raymond Chou is a current standing 4 year MVP on System Center and the Principal Consultant of Redynamics Asia. For the last 10 years, Raymond has been helping companies on managing and monitoring their IT infrastructures, and in particular, utilizing Microsoft Management technologies. He is also an established 11 year Microsoft Certified Trainer and regularly speaks at industry events. Raymond has also contributed his expertise to several books and whitepapers.
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| Razi Bin Rais |  | Razi bin Rais is Microsoft SharePoint Services MVP, MCPD SharePoint 2010 Developer and MCITP SharePoint Administrator 2010. Razi has extensive experience in designing, implementing and supporting enterprise solutions using Microsoft SharePoint Product & Technologies. Razi has authored numerous articles published online and also worked with Microsoft MSL as a SME on several SharePoint 2010 courses. Razi is also a speaker for INETA and GITCA, and had led many sessions in several industry trade show conferences including the Microsoft TechDays, ISV innovation Days, Community Technology Updates and SharePoint Saturdays.Razi blogs at http://razi.spaces.live.com and can be reached at razibinrais@live.com. | |
| Rene Modery |  | Rene Modery has been working with SharePoint since 2007. Based in Singapore, he’s been working on two AsiaPacific-wide SharePoint deployments for his previous and his current company. For these implementations, Rene has been working with colleagues all over Asia and has encountered all kinds of technological and cultural challenges.
Having earned his Master’s degree in Information Systems, Rene generally looks at the ”business side of IT”, but keeps a keen interest in technology and how it can provide solutions to common problems. | |
| Rico Ho |  | Rico is a veteran IT professional; having worked over 15 programming languages have decided to wean from programming to focus on model based software construction methodology. The result: Webparts360 AppStudio is the most sophisticated and comprehensive SharePoint solution designer that empower even business users to build complex collaborative applications without any coding. This solution is fast becoming the new tool standard for global companies such as Coca Cola, Daikin, Panasonic, Malaysia Airlines and etc… A two time Asia Pacific ICT Alliance award winner, Rico loves the ocean and will be sailing, fishing, kayaking or diving when he is not tinkering with software. | |