"The International SharePoint Professionals Association (“ISPA”) is the first independent, community-run, not-for-profit organization designed specifically for SharePoint Professionals. ISPA is a professional association dedicated to the promotion and global adoption of Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies. The Association provides support and guidance to the community by establishing connections between SharePoint professionals and groups, resources, education and information."
The individuals listed on this page are the founding members of this organization. We want to thank the SharePoint Community for the great efforts they have put forth helping us make this Organization GO LIVE. We also want to thank the ISPA Regional Evangelist members who with no hesitation jumped on board and saw the vision the board came up with and enveloped it as their own. We SharePoint Professionals are a small but very close community. With the work we will be doing in both the User Group areas and the SharePoint Professionals areas we hope you will embrace this and call it your own as well. Welcome aboard its going to be a great ride.
Bob, Natalya, Chris, Darrin and Spence
Darrin Bishop, MVP - Darrin Bishop Group, Inc.
Darrin Bishop is an author, speaker and developer focusing on Microsoft SharePoint Technologies. Darrin is the president and lead developer for Darrin Bishop Group, Inc. a Midwest-based Microsoft Partner focusing on SharePoint Technologies, portals and collaboration. He is the author of The Rational Guide to Building SharePoint Web Parts published by Rational Press as well as several articles in various magazines and frequently speaks at user groups and conferences. He recently presented at TechEd IT Forum 2007 in Barcelona, Spain and TechEd 2008 in Orlando, Florida. Darrin has been working with SharePoint Technologies since the release of SharePoint Portal Server 2001.
Blog: www.darrinbishop.com/blog
Bob Fox, MVP - B&R Business Solutions
Bob Fox has been working as an IT Professional since the mid 90’s. During that time he has spent a great deal of time working as a Systems Administrator with a focus on various Microsoft Technologies. For the past 6 years Bob's primary focus has been Microsoft SharePoint Services. He specialize in Architecture, Deployment, Portal and Site Customization, Administration and Collaboration Solutions. Bob has worked for such companies as Merrill Lynch, BISYS Retirement Services and Educational Testing Services, Time Warner Cable, The National Football League, Pfizer and Johnson and Johnson to name a few. Bob is a member of B&R Business Solutions, LLC as a SharePoint Technologies Technical Lead and based out of Lawrenceville NJ.
Blog: http://bobfox.securespsite.com/FoxBlog/
Natalya Voskresenskaya, SharePoint Architect - EMC (formerly Conchango)
Natalya had been involved in SharePoint Technologies since the 2003 version. With experience in design, architecture, development and deployment of Web based applications, since early days of 2000 her main area of concentration had been development of portal solutions. An avid blogger and writer, Natalya strives to share her passion for SharePoint and its community
Blog: http://spforsquirrels.blogspot.com/
Christopher Regan, MCP, MCTS, MCT - B&R Business Solutions
Christopher Regan is a Managing Partner of B&R Business Solutions, a Central New Jersey-based Microsoft Gold Certified Partner that specializes in Microsoft SharePoint Server-centric solutions and custom development. Prior to his founding of B&R, Chris worked as the Director of Information Systems at the world’s largest private pharmaceutical marketing company, where he managed a global staff of IT professionals. Chris received his Bachelor’s of Science from The College of New Jersey in Ewing, New Jersey, and is also a Microsoft Certified Professional, Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist, Microsoft Certified Trainer, and co-author of O'Reilly's The Definitive Guide to SharePoint 2007.
Blog: http://cregan.wordpress.com
Spencer Harbar, MVP
Spencer is an enterprise architect who helps organisations implement and drive value from solutions based upon Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. With over fourteen 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 organisations to succeed with SharePoint. Spencer 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 System based hosting platforms. He is also pretty handy with single-pixel GIFs. Spencer is also a strong community advocate, supporting 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 Most Valuable Professional award for the last six years. In addition he frequently assists other community contributors with their writing projects. Spencer represents Microsoft at events worldwide and was a speaker most recently at Microsoft Tech Ed Developers EMEA, 2007.
Blog: http://harbar.net