Agnes Molnar, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [Hungary]
Agnes Molnar has been working with Microsoft technologies and SharePoint since 2001. After releasing MOSS 2007, she founded her own SharePoint consultant company in Hungary, Central Europe. She’s working as senior consultant and solutions architect, has lead numerous Central European companies’ SharePoint implementation. She’s also a MOSS MVP and a frequent speaker at Hungarian and international events and conferences.
Blog: http://aghy.dotneteers.net
UserGroup: http://www.sharepointgroups.org/hunsug
Hector Insua, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [Bolivia]
Hector Insua is Uruguayan, systems analyst, and with more than 12 years of experience in Microsoft Technologies and Management Systems under various platforms. Consultant in Productivity and Business Process for several companies in Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia and Argentina. He has worked as Movicom BellSouth Enterprises, John Deere, and Microsoft. Specialized in SharePoint Technologies (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in MOSS and WSS). He has made more than 30 Implementations Product in the face of Internet and Intranets Organizations in recognition of the Region.
His blog is SharePoint: http://www.sharepoint2007.co.cc
Web : www.sharepoint2007.co.cc
Mail : hinsua@msn.com
Emer McKenna
ISPA Regional Evangelist
[US N.California Region]
Emer McKenna, is an independent consultant focusing on Microsoft's Information Worker product suite, including Exchange, SharePoint, Office Communications Server, and Groove. Emer has worked with SharePoint since its first beta release. She has co-authored three books on the product, one for each version, the most recent of which is Microsoft SharePoint 2007: Planning, Design and Implementation. Emer also speaks at conferences, writes articles for magazines and is working to start a SharePoint User Group in Sacramento, California, where she lives.
Maurice Prather , MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [US Northwest Region]
Renowned blogger Maurice Prather has worked with SharePoint Products and Technologies long before the product received it’s official name. He has worked on the teams responsible for the creation of the web part framework as well as the developer platform teams. Maurice has also worked on Microsoft Script Editor, Office Designer, Visual Basic for Applications, and Windows SharePoint Services during his seven year stint at Microsoft. He’s is active within the blogosphere and can be found presenting information as user groups and ad-hoc SharePoint gatherings and, when time allows, working on tools. Maurice is currently employed as a Sr. SharePoint Architect at ShareSquared, Inc.
Blog: http://www.bluedoglimited.com/SharePointThoughts
Joel Oleson
ISPA Regional Evangelist [US Northwest Region]
Blogger, speaker, trainer, and IT evangelist, Joel is known world wide in the SharePoint world for his prescriptive guidance delivered through his blog, classes, Global Tech-Eds and SharePoint Conferences. Most recently TechEd SEA in Malaysia, IT Forum in Barcelona, SharePoint Conference Seattle, Dubai, and Istabul. He recently completed 7 years at Microsoft most recently as Sr. Technical Product Manager and is now consulting with Nintex and training with Ted Pattison Group as an Independent Consultant
Eli Robillard, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [Canada]
Eli Robillard is a frequent speaker at user groups and conferences, a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP, co-author of Professional SharePoint 2007 Development, the founder of the Toronto SharePoint Users Group, co-producer of the Toronto SharePoint Camp, a member of the Microsoft Canada Speakers Bureau, a founding member and past chair of a group of high-profile industry influencers and early-adopters known as the ASPInsiders, a technical editor, and a popular blogger. As a Principal Architect in the Technology Architecture Group at Infusion Development Corporation, Eli designs SharePoint solutions for large companies world-wide. He lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where he plays music and goes on adventures with his girlfriend and daughter.
Phillippe Sentanac , MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [France]
Philippe Sentenac is a SharePoint Consultant at Winwise, a French Gold Partner. Obviously most of his work is focused on SharePoint 2007, both on Training and Missions. He is also interested in ASP.Net (MVC), Silverlight and everything about Web development with .Net. Development addict, he enjoys working on new methodologies and tools to improve the “developer experience”. Philippe is also a SharePoint MVP, he got the pleasure to be a speaker in France at Mercredis du Développement and TechDays 2008. You can find him on the SharePoint MSDN Forums, at Paris SharePoint User Group meetings or on his blog http://blogs.developpeur.org/phil
Muhanad Omar, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [Middle East]
Muhanad Omar [MVP] is a consultant, trainer and speaker focusing on SharePoint Products and Technologies. His primary technical disciplines within SharePoint are architecture, deployment, administration and collaboration solutions. He is the Founder and President of the Jordan SharePoint User Group, and board member of the Jordan .NET User Group. Based in Amman, Jordan, Muhanad works as a SharePoint Specialist for Devosis, Inc.
Blog: http://www.muhanado.com
Email: muhanado@live.com
User Group: http://www.JordanSUG.com
Company: http://www.devosis.com
Loke Kit Kai, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [Singapore]
I’m a senior solution consultant in Chief Architect Office of a large SI in the sunny island of Singapore, with the focus on SharePoint. I’ve been working with SharePoint since SharePoint 2003 beta 2. Prior to SharePoint, I’m a .Net developer.Outside work, I’m involved in running SGDotNet, a .Net developer usergroup with a colleague, friend and fellow MVP. I maintain a blog at community.sgdotnet.org/blogs/kitkai
Cornelius J. van Dyk, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [US Mid West Region]
SharePoint Architect
Senior Trainer and Consultant for SharePoint Experts
Corne has been involved in SharePoint since the beta days of 2003 and has been named WSS MVP for the past 3 years. Based out of Indianapolis, he's also a Contributing Editor for SharePoint Magazine and a regular blogger. He can be reached through:
Blog: http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cjvandyk
Daniel McPherson
ISPA Regional Evangelist [Netherlands]
Daniel “Point2Share” 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 (http://www.zevenseas.com), a boutique consultancy focused solely on the SharePoint platform, and is having more fun than ever before.
Jason Medero, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [US NJ, NY, CT Region]
Jason Medero, MCP, MCT, MCTS –Is a systems architect with a concentration in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and its related Microsoft technologies. He is a managing partner of B&R Business Solutions, a central New Jersey based firm specializing in SharePoint and surrounding technologies, infrastructure, messaging and application development. He is an active member of the SharePoint community, contributing as a mentor for both the SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services forums on MSD2D.com along with many other popular forums. Jason also works closely with the New Jersey SharePoint User Group and New York City SharePoint User Group to provide a great learning and enjoyable experience for the SharePoint community.
Matt Ranlett, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [US SouthEast Region]
Matt Ranlett, a SharePoint Server MVP, has been a fixture of the Atlanta .NET developer community for many years. A founding member of the Atlanta Dot Net Regular Guys (www.devcow.com) and the SharePoint Guys (www.sharepointguys.com), Matt has formed and leads several area user groups. Despite spending dozens of hours after work on local and national community activities such as the Free Training 1, 2, 3! series (www.freetraining123.com), organizing two Atlanta Code Camps, working on the INETA Board of Directors as the Vice President of Technology, and appearing in several Pod Casts.
Matt Passannante
ISPA Regional Evangelist [US Mid West Region]
Matt is a SharePoint evangelist in the purest sense of the word. He is an energetic person who’s passion is driven by real-world experiences in learning, planning, and implementing Microsoft SharePoint Solutions. Matt is a very process focused individual, who finds great joy in helping others learn more about Microsoft SharePoint. Matt is the Director of Implementation Services and a Senior Trainer with SharePoint Experts. He also serves as the President of the Rocky Mountain SharePoint User Group in Denver, Colorado. Matt is an active participant in the ISPA and provides support for SharePoint User Groups located in the western United States. He is a very family-centered individual who enjoys music, football, Aikido, animals, video games, and stupid humor.
To learn more about Matt, please visit the following:
Website: http://www.RockyMountainSharePoint.org
Website: http://www.sharepointbootcamp.com/about_matt.htm
Blog: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/matt/default.aspx
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
Xinyi Liu
ISPA Regional Evangelist [China]
Location: China, Qingdao
IT manager of Hexagon Metrology China
Paul Galvin, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [US Greater NY.NJ.CT Region]
Working as a SharePoint Solutions Architect at EMC (formerly Conchango), Paul Galvin has worked in the IT industry for over 15 years in a number of roles including software development, consulting and most recently SharePoint solutions design. Paul works with clients to create to-notch business solutions using the SharePoint platform. He contributes to the SharePoint community through MSDN forums, blogging (both as host and regular guest at End User SharePoint.com) and online news letters and magazines, including SharePoint Beagle and SharePoint Magazine. Microsoft awarded Paul with MVP for SharePoint in July 2008.
Ivan Brebner, MCTS
ISPA Regional Evangelist [Australia]
Ivan Brebner draws upon technical experience from working with businesses throughout the Asia Pacific region. His extensive work history has seen Ivan work across a wide variety of industry verticals such as Government, Education, Mining, Importers/Exporters and Retail Sectors. From this exposure he has gained an understanding of generational change that ensures he understands the broader picture of how SharePoint can inspire, expose and develop business processes in organisations via electronic methods. Ivan has over 10 Year experience in Information Technology to which the last six years have been at the Microsoft application layer (MBS, OFFICE Servers) and has travelled the journey of SharePoint since DDRK3 (2001).
Brendon Schwartz, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [US South East Region]
Brendon Schwartz is a principal consultant in Atlanta specializing in SharePoint 2007. He currently specializes in social computing consulting for Fortune 500 companies. A Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Brendon is also a co-author of Professional SharePoint 2007 Development from Wrox Press. He has also contributed to other Wrox titles such as “Professional SharePoint 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007” and “Professional Microsoft SharePoint Workflow Programming”. Brendon has become a seasoned conference speaker, authored several magazine articles, and is co-founder of the Atlanta .NET Regular Guys which is hosted at DevCow (www.devcow.com). You can find his blog at http://blogs.sharepointguys.com/brendon/.
Rob Foster, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [US Heartland Region]
Rob Foster is a Microsoft MVP in MOSS and an enterprise architect in Nashville, Tennessee. He began writing code at the age of 10 when he purchased his first computer, a Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer 2, with money that he received for his birthday. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a BBA in Computer Information Systems and holds several certifications, including MCSD, MCSE, MCDBA, and MCT. In 2000 with the PDC bits in hand, Rob founded the Nashville .NET Users Group (http://www.nashdotnet.org), which is a charter member of INETA. Rob is also a founder and user group leader of the Nashville SharePoint Users Group. He has been writing and designing .NET applications since version 1.0, as well as has been implementing SharePoint solutions since SharePoint 2001. In his spare time, Rob enjoys writing books and articles relating to SharePoint and .NET. Rob lives in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, with his wife, Leigh, and two sons, Andrew and Will.
Christian Hougardy, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [France]
MCTS WSSv3 and MOSS 2007 (configuration) Working for Wygwam (http://www.wygwam.com) as a SharePoint Expert and Consultant. I coach customers in governance, IT Admin and infrastructure (logical and physical), I'm not a dev, so I'm working with MOSS, not WSS :)
My blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/moss (in french)
Linkedin profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/hougardy
Paul Schaeflein
ISPA Regional Evangelist [US Midwest Region, Chicago]
Paul Schaeflein, MCTS, manages the development team for Barracuda, LLC, an independent software vendor (ISV) building tools for SharePoint Technologies. Previously, Paul was an independent consultant specializing in solutions built using ASP.NET and SharePoint. He is a contributing author to Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices and has written numerous articles and whitepapers. Paul spent 5 years teaching programming and has presented at numerous User Groups and MOSS Camps (Code Camps for SharePoint).
Todd Klindt, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [US North Central Region]
Todd Klindt is an IT Pro and a Microsoft MVP in Windows SharePoint Services. He has been published in TechNet magazine and wrote a chapter for the book Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From16 MOSS and WSS MVPs. He has spoken at TechEd in the United States and EMEA as well as The SharePoint Conference in the US, Dubai and Istanbul. He has been using SharePoint since curiosity got the best of him when he saw it on the Office XP CD and wondered what it was. When he's not playing with SharePoint he loves to spend time with his lovely wife Jill and his beautiful new daughter Lily.
Alex Silva
ISPA Regional Evangelist [Brazil]
Alex Silva is a Microsoft Solutions Developer with main focus on building business solutions based on Sharepoint and related technologies. He has been involved with the Sharepoint world over the last 6 years and now he is the Development & Technology Lead at e-Solum, a Brazilian Microsoft Partner specializing in the Sharepoint and related Technologies. During this time, he has also supported his regional community through forums, weblogs and User Groups Speaking. Alex can be reached through “alex [at] e-solum.com”.
Blog: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/alexs
Arno Nel
ISPA Regional Evangelist [South Africa]
I’m a web technologist, first and foremost. I choose the best technology for a specific purpose. In my experience, for intranets, SharePoint fits that bill. I am not an evangelist. Why would I be? I don’t get paid by Microsoft. My opinions are honest and unbiased. I use WordPress to host my own blog. Why don’t i eat my own dog food and use SharePoint? The reason is obvious and in the first 2 sentences of this Bio J.
Sites: http://SharePointMagazine.net
http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnonel (Connect to me, im building my network)
Twitter: http://twitter.com/arnonel
FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/nookie
FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Arno_Nel/528426610
Bradley Thomas Smith
ISPA Regional Evangelist [US Mid Atlantic Region]
Bradley Thomas Smith is a software developer providing business technology consulting services. He became involved in software development and consulting using Microsoft technologies after serving a tour in the United States Marine Corps, and has since been doing business primarily with the US Department of Defense and associated agencies. His work with MS Office server product teams led to a seat on the Office Developer Advisory Council, allowing Bradley to contribute towards upcoming Office Server products and subsequently, the Office 12 Technology Adoption Program. Bradley received his second Microsoft MVP award in April 2005, his third award in April 2006, and his fourth award in April 2007 for his continuing contributions in the general community for the next versions of SharePoint Products and Technologies and continuing dedication to work with and grow the defense and commercial communities. In 2005, Bradley founded Black Blade Associates, Inc. to provide real world solutions to customers in the public and private sectors. Several individuals of exceptional ability have joined the firm, and Black Blade has established partnerships with several key systems integrators and consultant firms in the Washington DC/Metro area.
Carlos Segura Sanz, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist[Spain]
English Profile:
Carlos has worked in the computer technology field for over 15 years where he has been specializing in the business and collaboration areas. The roles covered during these years include: system administrator, all levels of developer and consultant. Now he is working as IT Manager in a big company located in Pamplona (Navarra) Spain. Carlos has developed complete business systems from accounting to quality systems based in web and sharepoint. He has a blog with information about SharePoint for the Spanish community. In his web you can find free webparts to use with sharepoint.
Spanish Profile:
Carlos ha trabajado en el mundo de las tecnologías de la información desde hace 15 años, especializándose en las áreas empresariales y de colaboración. Los roles en los que ha trabajado van desde administrador de sistemas, pasando por todos los niveles de desarrollador y consultor
Ahora trabaja en una gran empresa como Director de tecnologías de la información, localizada en Pamplona (Navarra) España.
Carlos, ha desarrollado completos sistemas de información para la empresa así como sistemas para el control de la calidad usando tecnología Web y SharePoint. El tiene un blog con información acerca de SharePoint para la comunidad española. En su web puedes encontrar Webparts de uso libre para SharePoint.
Ed Richard, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [Austrailia]
After starting my professional career in the Royal Dutch Navy I studied IT in the eighties. After a few years as application developer as a civilian for the navy the commercial IT companies were too much of an attraction. I managed the technical aspects of a Clipper development team of 8 people until starting his own development and consultancy company in 1994. During these years both companies were leading training institute for Clipper and later Visual Objects in The Netherlands and ran the Dutch Clipper & VO Helpdesk for CA. I have been president of the VO-user group section of SDGN (now SDN) the biggest developer user group in The Netherlands and have been a board member for many years. Never shy of new environments I was always very interested in application integration with a strong affinity for Microsoft. When .net came along in 2000 I dived right in and when Tahoe was released I started using and promoting SharePoint. In 2005 I joined Software Objectives in Australia. I have been a speaker at many national and international conferences such as CA-World and CttM/SDC and regularly publish articles for SDN and others. I have co-founded the Melbourne Office Special Interest Group and am a board member of Victoria.net.
Eric Shupps, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [US Southwest District]
Eric Shupps is the founder and President of BinaryWave, a SharePoint consultancy and ISV headquartered in Irving, Texas, and Director of BinaryWave Limited, based in Bristol, England. Eric has worked with SharePoint Products and Technologies since 2001 as a consultant, administrator, architect, developer and trainer. He is an advisory committee member of the Dallas/Ft. Worth SharePoint Community group, participating member of the UK SharePoint User Group and Regional Evangelist for the International SharePoint Professionals Association (South Central United States). Eric has authored numerous articles on SharePoint, speaks at user group meeting and conferences around the world.
Blog: http://www.sharepointcowboy.com
Evren Ayan, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [Turkey]
Evren Ayan is a consultant on Bilge Adam Corporate and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional focused on creating solutions for Information Workers with SharePoint and related .NET technologies. He is an author, speaker, trainer and co-president of www.maxiasp.net community. He specializes in deployment, portal and site customization, administration, development, extending and collaboration solutions. He can be reached via his web site www.evrenayan.net and he writes about Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 / WSS 3.0 on his blog (http://onlysharepoint.spaces.live.com)
Personal Web Site: http://www.evrenayan.net
Blog: http://onlysharepoint.spaces.live.com
Email: eayan@evrenayan.net
Joris Poelmans, MVP
ISPA Regonal Evangelist [Belgium]
Joris Poelmans works at Realdolmen, a Belgian IT services company and Microsoft Gold Partner. His main competence area is Information Worker solutions using both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. He is a MVP for Windows SharePoint Services and one of the founding members of BIWUG - Belux Information Worker User Group - http://www.biwug.be. He also worked as a co-author on "Real World SharePoint 2007" (Wrox, 2007) and SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide (O'Reilly, 2007)
Blog: http://jopx.blogspot.com.
Mart Muller
ISPA Regional Evangelist [Netherlands]
Mart Muller is working as a solution architect at Tam Tam (http://www.tamtam.nl) in The Netherlands since 2002. Mart has been implementing SharePoint solutions since the release of SharePoint Portal Server 2001. The experience obtained in projects is reflected in his SharePoint weblog which has become a knowledge base for the SharePoint community. Together with Daniel McPherson, Mart is supporting The Netherlands for the ISPA.
Blog: http://blogs.tamtam.nl/mart
Email: mart@martmuller.nl.
Marwan Tarek, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [Middle East, Egypt]
Team Leader in ITWorx, developing portal solutions using Microsoft Office SharePoint 2003/2007, .NET Framework, Microsoft SQL Server, C#, ASP.NET, Exchange, ISA Server, and Active Directory.
Microsoft Certified Professional since 2001, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in Web, Windows, MOSS, and WSS (Development and configuration), Professional Developer in Web, MCAD and MCSD.
Worked as instructor for 3 years delivering trainings for C#, Visual Basic.Net, SQL, and SharePoint development. Delivers sessions for SharePoint for IT communities in Egypt e.g. ITWorx cuttingEdge club, DotNetwork.org
Blog: http://www.sharepointblogs.com/marwantarek
Email: marwan_tarek@yahoo.com
Michael Greth, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [Germany]
Lives in Berlin, Germany and works as an independant consultant, trainer, author and speaker for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies - specialized in planning information structures. He is Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for more than 10 years and a big supporter of the idea of online communities. He’s hosting and managing the SharePointCommunity.de, Germany's largest SharePoint user community (> 5,000 users), the SharePointPodcast.de, the weekly audio update for SharePoint users and SharePointLive.tv, a WSS based live video site for SharePoint events.
Website: http://www.sharepointcommunity.de
Blog: http://weblogs.mysharepoint.de/mgreth
Email: mgreth@mysharepoint.de
Podcast: http://www.sharepointpodcast.de
Wiki: http://live.sharepointcommunity.de/wiki
Video: http://sharepointlive.tv
Twitter: http://twitter.com/mysharepoint
Steve Smith (MCT, MVP-SharePoint Server, MCSE 4.0 , 2000 & 2003 )
ISPA Lead Evangelist [EMEA, Based in UK]
Steve is part owner of Combined Knowledge in the UK providing Microsoft SharePoint Technical Training courses and Consultancy.
Steve is well travelled spending most of his 20's travelling in the US and South Asia for the companies he worked with , achieving his NT 4 MCSE in New Delhi India in 1998 whilst based there for 3 years. Although tinkering with computers since early Teenage years Steve has specialized with Microsoft's systems since 1996 and been involved in many Microsoft Beta programs including Windows 2000, Exchange 2000 and SharePoint. The last 6 years however has seen a majority of his time with SharePoint and running the Mindsharp Administrator courses in the UK and Europe, also helping many UK based companies with their SharePoint Implementations including the US Air Force, The Ministry of Defence and Several Blue chip companies. Steve is a Co Organiser of the UK SharePoint User Group www.suguk.org and time allowing Steve also likes to help others in the Microsoft SharePoint Portal Public newsgroup and hurtle down a Welsh mountain on his mountain bike. Steve lives in South Leicestershire, England with his wife and 3 children and can be contacted on steve@combined-knowledge.com
Eugene Rosenfeld, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [US NorthEast Region]
Eugene Rosenfeld is a software systems architect with years of experience providing consulting services to businesses. In his role as a Mindsharp instructor, Eugene incorporates his mentoring philosophy into the classroom: “The best way to achieve true scalability is to mentor and encourage others to think differently about how software systems should interact with users and other software.” Eugene became involved in software development when working on the design and implementation of database systems that served financial institutions. He quickly realized that no single database or data system could store all information for an entire organization. After this realization, Eugene specialized in custom software development for enterprise application integration. Portal and knowledge management systems were a natural extension to his work in EAI since most projects required a user-facing window. Eugene regularly incorporates various server platforms into his designs to dramatically increase the value and quality of results delivered to clients. The platforms he uses include Autonomy, Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, and SharePoint, all of which are backed by Microsoft .NET. Eugene uses these platforms to deliver tactical-level system deployments for the Department of Defense. He also creates smart client applications and extensible run-time frameworks for clients. In his spare time, Eugene is active in the online community through his blog, “Things That Should Be Easy,” where he provides solutions to programming problems he encounters.
Julio Casal
ISPA Regional Evangelist [Mexico]
Julio Casal has been developing both desktop and web based solutions on the .NET platform since 2003 for several customers in his natal Ecuador. There he also created the current website for MSGuayaquil's .NET user group and gave several speeches in both Microsoft and community events. In 2008 Julio got an MCTS certification and moved to México City to start working on enterprise solutions based on the SharePoint platform. Today, he is working for Ascenzo Consulting, a local Microsoft Partner specialized in SharePoint solutions and is also helping local communities to spread the word of both SharePoint and Silverlight technologies.
Blog: http://juliocasal.com.
Maclau Gonzalez
ISPA Regional Evangelist [Colombia South America]
Systems and Telecommunications Engineer born in Bogotá, Colombia. Actively working with developer communities since 2003. Microsoft Student Partner on 2005. Specialized in SharePoint and working for the biggest Microsoft partner of her Region, as Information Worker Solutions Architect.
Blog: http://www.maclauweb.net
MSN Messenger: maclau1013@hotmail.com
Ivan Wilson, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [Austrailia]
Ivan Wilson runs the SharePoint User Group in Sydney, Australia. He is the founder of SharePoint Gurus, a small consultancy firm that focuses on assisting clients with their Information Management requirements. Based on his work within the SharePoint community, Ivan has been recognized by Microsoft as an MVP for the SharePoint platform (learn about the Microsoft MVP programme here). Ivan is originally from Ireland, where he worked for the consultancy firm Accenture for five years. He arrived in Sydney in 1999 and spent the next eight years building the Information Management practice at a Microsoft Gold Partner. Ivan’s blog is at http://guru-web.blogspot.com where he writes about interesting approaches to solving business problems using the SharePoint platform.
Blog: http://guru-web.blogspot.com
Email: ivanw@sharepointgurus.net
Chandima Kulathilake (MVP - MOSS, MCTS - WSS/MOSS)
ISPA Regional Evangelist [New Zealand]
Chandima is an Enterprise Solutions Consultant and a Microsoft Certified SharePoint expert based in Wellington, New Zealand. He has been working with SharePoint technologies since 2001 and have over twelve years of experience in the IT industry and provides Architecture and deployment guidance for SharePoint deployments. He also presents at International and local conferences on various SharePoint topics and helps to coordinate regional SharePoint User Group events in New Zealand.
Chandima Blogs at: http://www.chandima.net/Blog/
Email: chandima@chandima.net
New Zealand SharePoint User Groupshttp://www.sharepointusergroup.net.nz
David Mann, MVP
ISPA Region Evangelist [USA - Mid Atlantic Region]
David Mann is a SharePoint MVP and an independent consultant, author and trainer, focusing on Microsoft’s Information Worker and Collaboration stack. He has been working with portal, collaboration, and content management technologies for over 13 years. Dave is the author of Workflow in the 2007 Microsoft Office System and founder of the Philadelphia Office Geeks User Group (www.officegeeks.org/philly), focused on developer and administrator topics covering SharePoint and the entire Office System. He is a Regional Evangelist for ISPA covering Pennsylvania, Delaware, South Jersey and Northern Maryland.
Blog: www.mannsoftware.com/blog.
Reza Alirezaei, MVP
ISPA Regional Evangelist [Canada]
Reza Alirezaei is a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP, MCTS, managing partner and founder of Dev Horizon, a SharePoint Consulting Firm with offices in Toronto, Vancouver and Fargo(US). As a technical leader with over 8 years experience, he has helped many development teams architect and build large-scale and mission critical applications. Reza has been focused on Collaboration, Knowledge Management, Business Process Management and SharePoint since its Tahoe days (2001). In addition to consulting, Reza is a speaker and instructor. He frequently speaks on a variety of SharePoint related topics at local user group meetings and industry events. Former SQL Server Reporting Services MVP was also appointed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MVP due to his commitment to the technical community. More information about Reza can be found at the following links
Blog: http://blogs.devhorizon.com/reza
Web Site: http://www.devhorizon.com