Speakers - Share Cloud Dallas
speakers are subject to change without notice
Microsoft Speakers:
Maggie Chan Jones (key100)
As Director of Cloud Services and Office 365 in the U.S. Marketing and Operations Group, Maggie is responsible for leading Microsoft’s commercial cloud services marketing strategy in the US, which spans across Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Private Cloud. Maggie also directs a product marketing team to drive the product and marketing strategy for Office 365, the next generation of cloud-based business productivity offerings, in the US. These products include Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Lync Online and Office. Maggie is responsible for current revenue performance, market share growth, and long-term success of Microsoft’s cloud businesses. Day-to-day, she directs Go to Market (GTM) activities, customer campaigns, competitive campaigns, and participates in customer and partner engagements. Prior to joining the U.S. team in June 2009, Maggie spent two years in the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Group, leading a cross-company initiative to roll out a partner opportunity framework for cloud services and launched the partner model for Microsoft Business Online Services. She also launched the Small Business Specialist Community, and led the strategy for global small business customer marketing campaigns since joining the company six years ago.
John Weston (pri102) (pre104)
Some may call John a geek. He prefers the term “technologist.” Truth is, John began working with computers before PCs even hit the scene – and he’s probably got a dusty prototype stashed somewhere to prove it. He’s a fourth generation educator who loves to help people learn new technologies and relishes that magic moment when the light comes on in their eyes. Before joining Microsoft full time, he spent six years as an MCT, training people at a local college and getting new Microsoft hires up to speed. John holds more certifications than he can remember, but the list definitely includes MCITP, MCSE, MCDBA, MCT, and CCNA. His favorite technology is Unified Communications, LYNC and he gets a special thrill from solving customers’ problems. For John, there’s nothing like coaxing people from panic to joy when a server goes down and he can help get the business back up on line. When he’s not working, John can usually be found sailing around Texas with his kids.
Jeff Medford (off105)
Jeff Medford is a Technical Product Manager for Office 365 in the US. Jeff's focus has been within the cloud and online services since the beginning of BPOS; evangelizing and supporting the partner ecosystem, delivering the Future of Productivity messaging, and working with customers directly.
Dr. Tom Shinder (pri103) (pri104)
Dr. Tom Shinder is a 15 year veteran of the IT industry. Prior to entering IT, Dr. Tom graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine with a Doctor of Medicine was a practicing neurologist with special interests in epilepsy and multiple sclerosis. Dr. Tom began his career in IT as a consultant, and worked with many large companies, including Fina Oil, Microsoft, IBM, HP, Dell and many others. He then started his writing career toward the end of the 1990s and has published over 30 books on Windows, Windows Networking, Windows Security and ISA Server/TMG. For over a decade, ISA Server and TMG were Tom's passions, and he ran the popular web site www.isaserver.org, in addition to writing 8 books on ISA/TMG. Tom joined Microsoft in December of 2009 as a member of the UAG DirectAccess team and started the popular "Edge Man" blog that covered UAG DirectAccess. Tom is currently a Principal Knowledge Engineer in the Server and Cloud Division Information Experience Group Solution's Group and his primary focus now is private cloud – with special interests in private cloud networking and security.
Yuri Diogenes (pri103)
Yuri has a MBA from FGV in Brazil and currently is a candidate for a Master of Science Degree in Cybersecurity Intelligence & Forensics from UTICA College. Currently Yuri works for Microsoft as Senior Technical Writer in the Windows Security Team. Prior to joining Windows Security Team, Yuri was a Senior Security Support Escalation Engineer in the Forefront Edge CSS Security Team. He is co-author of Forefront TMG Administrator's Companion book from Microsoft Press and also a co-author of three other books about Forefront (UAG, TMG and FPE) from Microsoft Press.
Rajeev Perera (azr104)
Rajeev Perera has been with Microsoft for over 16 years and is a Principal Partner Technology Advisor. As a Partner Technology Advisor he works to develop and mature the services practices of Managed Microsoft Solution Partners. Prior to the Partner Technology Advisor role he was the Database and BI Architect for Microsoft Consulting Services in the Central Region.
Invited Cloud & SharePoint Speakers:
Phil Wicklund, Author (pre103) (off104)
Phil Wicklund is the author of "Deploying Cloud-based Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Solutions" by Microsoft Press, as well as "SharePoint 2010 Workflows in Action" by Manning Publications. He has over 7 years of SharePoint experience and is a frequent blogger, speaker, and author around SharePoint products and technologies. He started working with SharePoint back in 2003 and has since architected and administered many dozens of corporate SharePoint environments. He started as a SharePoint development instructor and has since moved into consulting with RBA Consulting, where he shares real-world insights and in-depth best practices with his clients.
Brett Hill, MVP (off101)
Brett Hill, an Office 365 MVP, develops high-impact, relevant, actionable training on Office 365 for end users, professionals, companies, and Microsoft Partners. Brett currently is authoring a book on Office 365 for Microsoft Press, scheduled for availability August 2011. His blog, Office365Answers.com, is quickly becoming a trusted resource for Office 365 advice and guidance.
Adam Grocholski, MVP (azr102) (azr105)
Adam Grocholski is a National Solutions Lead at RBA Consulting where he focuses on the Windows Azure and Windows Phone platforms. In 2011 Adam worked in cooperation with Microsoft to deliver 12 two day Windows Azure Boot Camps across the country. In 2010 he was selected as a Microsoft MVP for his contributions to the development community including speaking at local .NET and Silverlight user groups along with code camps and a number local, regional, and national conferences. Put simply, Adam is committed to building a great community of well-educated Microsoft developers. When not working he enjoys spending time with his three awesome daughters and amazing wife. You can catch up with his latest projects and thoughts on technology at http://thinkfirstcodelater.com.
Ira Fuchs, Author (spc101) (st106)
Ira Fuchs is a Microsoft SharePoint Technical Specialist working out of the New York Metropolitan District. He has assisted some of Microsoft's largest financial services organizations deploy and exploit the full set of features and capabilities of the SharePoint platform. He has written numerous white papers on BizTalk Server, InfoPath and SharePoint and is the author of the book "Enterprise Application Development in SharePoint 2010 – Creating an End-to-End Application without Code".
Jeff Willinger, Social Media Expert (st104)
Jeff Willinger is the Director of Social Computing at Rightpoint. Jeff specializes in advising clients on social computing strategies, social intranets and portals and increasing employee engagement. With experience spanning more than two decades, Jeff possesses specific expertise in social computing inside an organization's four walls and social media outside their four walls. He is a frequent speaker throughout the world specializing in exploiting new business models, highlighting the opportunities of Web2.0 and social media and advising on new technology. A character with character, as he is known, is the President and Founder of the Social Media Club of Chicago.
Sponsor Speakers and Subject Matter Experts:
Jason Carolan, ViaWest (cld101)
Jason Carolan is Vice President of Product Development at ViaWest Inc. Prior to joining ViaWest, Jason was Director of Cloud Solution Engineering at VMware where he was responsible for reference architectures for cloud data center solutions in service provider and hybrid cloud markets. Jason spent 11 years at Sun Microsystems, where he was a Distinguished Engineer in network and systems architecture and Director of Technical Initiatives for Global Sales and Services. He led Sun's field community of experts (COE) in cloud computing and a team of cross-functional experts in data center architectures. He was a lead author or contributor to several recent publications, including "Sun's Data Center Design Guide", several cloud architecture whitepapers, and one of the first books highlighting the combined use of virtualization and automation, "Building N1 Grid Solutions" in 2004. He's also held several startup, financial services, and healthcare technology roles. Jason speaks at many industry events including Interop, Technology Services World, JavaONE, and others. Jason has several patents (some pending) in networking, data center resource management, virtualization, and security. He also contributes to various open source projects in cloud and virtualization management. Jason lives in Denver, Colorado with his family and is an avid cyclist and runner when time and life permits. His blog is http://archmatters.wordpress.com.
Jim Surlow, ViaWest (cld104)
Jim Surlow is a Principal Storage Architect for Viawest. He has been doing system or storage architecture for the last 8 years of his 25 years of IT experience. In the architecture role, he has been involved with disaster recovery planning for 6 of those years. He also recently completed his MBA with an emphasis in Finance from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado.
Sean McNeill, Catapult Systems (off103)
Sean McNeill is a Managing Consultant with Catapult Systems. Sean has over 15 years of professional experience with the last 11 in Microsoft Infrastructure technologies. His primary areas of expertise are Windows Server, Microsoft Active Directory, DNS, Exchange 2007/2010, PowerShell and virtualization with Hyper-V. Sean is also the Office 365 Technical Evangelist for Catapult Systems; in this role he is responsible for all things Office 365. Sean has done numerous Microsoft Infrastructure assessments, Active Directory domain consolidations and migrations and Exchange 200x to Exchange 2010 migrations. He has worked with Microsoft Online services over the past three years with BPOS and now Office 365. Clients that Sean has worked with range from small 50 seat organizations to large companies with over 10,000 seats worldwide. Sean currently holds two MCITP certifications and six MCTS certifications.
Mickey Williams, MVP Neudesic (azr101)
Mickey Williams is a VP at Neudesic where he leads the Technology Platform Group. He has extensive experience building mission-critical applications on a wide variety of platforms, has authored or co-authored ten books on Windows programming. Mickey was working with Windows Azure before its public release and has recently architected and delivered a massive mission-critical Azure application for the hospitality industry. He is a frequent speaker on Azure and other distributed computing topics.
Dino Dato-on, Neudesic (azr106)
Dino Dato-on is a 10-year veteran in the SharePoint community. Previously with the SharePoint Online deployment team, he travelled around the world deploying many Fortune 500 enterprise customers to the Microsoft Office365 cloud. Now at Neudesic, he leads the SharePoint Portals and Collaboration Practice in Dallas.
Shawn Beeson, RBA Consulting (spc104)
Shawn Beeson is the Principal Consultant in the Portals and Collaboration practice with RBA Consulting in Denver and has expertise in all facets of SharePoint with a strong emphasis on architecting and delivering highly customized, highly usable solutions built on the SharePoint platform. Shawn has worked in IT for the past 12 years and as an IT consultant for the last 6. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer in ASP.NET and SharePoint 2010 Development, a Certified Technical Specialist in SharePoint 2010, MOSS and WSS Configuration and also a Certified Scrum Master. Most recently, Shawn worked as a member of the Patterns & Practices team at Microsoft developing the Version 3.0 of the SharePoint Guidance.
Russ Ruggia, RBA Consulting (spc103)
Russ is known throughout the industry for his strong business acumen with diverse industry experience ranging from a Principal Business Productivity Specialist at Microsoft to his years as a Lead Evangelist and Technology Specialist for Microsoft's most popular development platforms. Russ brings a broad technical background including database, infrastructure, and development experience. His deep knowledge of Microsoft technology, licensing and competitive offerings combined with his world class ability to set vision and align technology with business needs guarantees his customers get the absolute best results.
Steven Balusek, RBA Consulting (st101)
Steven is well known as a highly skilled Engagement Manager and Lead Technical architect. He has over 14 years of consulting experience in a wide range of industries including Financial Services, Retail and Hospitality, Manufacturing, and Healthcare. Steven has many years of experience analyzing, designing, and deploying enterprise SharePoint and Microsoft focused solutions. His extensive experience in developing and deploying internal portals, business productivity and automation applications, customer facing internet sites, mobile browser-based applications, and business intelligence/reporting solutions gives him in depth insight into surfacing Internet content via Mobile devices.
Jesus Salazar, Credera (pre102)
Jesus Salazar is a Principal with Credera and a member of Microsoft's SharePoint Development Advisory Council. He has over 11 years of experience delivering enterprise IT solutions for large and medium sized businesses throughout the United States. Throughout his career, Jesus has developed, architected, managed, and provided leadership to many complex and highly visible project for Fortune 1000 companies. Jesus is a Microsoft Certified Professional who held a seat on the Office 14 Developer Advisory Council where he helped shape the features and architecture of the next generation of Microsoft Office and SharePoint. Jesus has an M.S. degree in Engineering and Technology Management and a B.S. degree in Math and Computer Science from the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO.
Derek Martin, Slalom Consulting (pri101)
Derek Martin is an accomplished Microsoft systems development and integrator. Derek has eight years of experience in developing and deploying both SharePoint and CRM solutions both on premises and in the cloud as well as integrating line of business applications. He is the Cloud Solutions Practice Area Lead, a Microsoft VTSP for Windows Azure, a .Net Developer, certified in MS SharePoint and has strong skills in Active Directory, Exchange, Lync and SQL. He's focused on applying technology to help achieve business goals and objectives through the utilization of existing infrastructure investments.
Wayne Gentile, Slalom Consulting (spc106)
Wayne Gentile has over 17 years of diverse application architecture and development experience, focusing on enterprise application architecture, portals, and best practice solutions. Wayne has designed and developed many enterprise class web based solutions using and SharePoint and related technologies for a variety of organizations in various industries. Wayne is the Practice Area Lead for Portals and Collaboration at Slalom Consulting where he is focused on building a practice centered on delivering world class solutions based on the SharePoint platform.
Ron Robbins, Quest Software (off102)
Ron Robbins is a product manager at Quest Software, where he is responsible for guiding the direction of Quest's migration solutions for messaging and Active Directory and provides assistance to Quest's customers and strategic partners. Ron has over 15 years of experience in IT and has authored several white papers and articles covering the topics of Exchange migration and management. Prior to joining Quest Ron provided IT support and consulting services to many different organizations including fortune 500 companies. Ron holds a bachelor's degree from Mount Vernon Nazarene University.
Chris Woodruff, MVP Perficient (st103)
Chris Woodruff (or Woody as he is commonly known as) has a degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University’s College of Engineering. Woody has been developing and architecting software solutions for almost 15 years and has worked in many different platforms and tools. He is a community leader, helping such events as Day of .NET Ann Arbor, West Michigan Day of .NET and CodeMash. As a speaker and podcaster, Woody has spoken and discussed a variety of topics, including database design and open source. He is a Microsoft MVP in Data Platform Development and was recently recognized as one of the top 20 MVPs world-wide. Woody works at Perficient, Inc. as the Microsoft Cloud Practice Lead. Woody is the co-host of the popular podcast “Deep Fried Bytes” and blogs at www.chriswoodruff.com. He is the President of the West Michigan .NET User Group and also is a co-founder of the software architecture online portal nPlus1.org. Woody has worked in many areas throughout the years, including healthcare, manufacturing, publishing, promotion execution and the automotive industry. He has experience with starting and running new ventures, including past work with technology startups. Woody continues to develop his expertise by learning & developing new technologies to better meet the needs of his clients, while devoting his free time to improving the development community at large, and giving back to the community in which he lives.
Jeremy Ragan, Metalogix (cld102)
Jeremy is a Solutions Architech with Metalogix and has been working with SharePoint since 2001 with the bulk of his experience focused on large-scale SharePoint-based Enterprise Content Management and Business Process Automation solutions.
Greg Leflar, Pariveda Solutions (azr103)
Greg Leflar is a Principal at Pariveda Solutions with more than 12 years of experience managing, architecting and implementing business-driven technology solutions across a number of industries including energy, finance, transportation and government. Greg's balance of management and technical knowledge allows him to add value to projects as a project manager and technical leader. His primary areas of expertise are in custom software development, service-oriented architecture, application lifecycle management and enterprise portal implementations using Microsoft tools and technologies.
Aaron Boswell, Pariveda Solutions (st102)
Aaron Boswell is a Vice President at Pariveda Solutions. He worked with clients for more than 15 years in the areas of application architecture, service oriented architecture, integration and enterprise content management. His industry experience includes work in consumer software, transportation and logistics, insurance, health care, energy, real estate and mortgage, education, legal and financial services. He has applied his skills in strategizing, architecting and implementing solutions for companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500s. Aaron leads Pariveda's National SharePoint Practice and is actively involved as the company sponsor to the Dallas - Fort Worth SharePoint Users Group.
Tim Sparks, CLM Matrix (spc102)
Tim Sparks is co-founder and CEO of CLM Matrix, headquartered in Dallas, Texas. He is responsible for the company's overall go-to-market strategy as well as product innovation for extending Microsoft Office/SharePoint technology. Tim has led and participated in dozens of implementations and has learned first-hand the universal challenges faced by most organizations when designing and deploying SharePoint-based collaborative workflow solutions. CLM Matrix created one of the first collaborative workflow solutions for Microsoft on SharePoint 1.0 and for the past 10 years has pioneered solutions that allow organizations to standardize, streamline and automate document centric workflow processes in over 18 industry verticals for organizations big and small. Previously, Tim worked for 16 years at Koch Industries, the largest privately held company in the U.S., with over $125 billion in revenues and served in a variety of leadership roles including: Managing Director of Koch's internal business execution consulting practice, the Market-based Management Capability. Tim holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Oklahoma, serves on the Board of Advisors for the University of Oklahoma's Price College of Business and has completed Executive Education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dan Hooper (spc105)
Dan Hooper joined ISI as VP of Sales and Marketing in 2003, having previously worked with the company on several IT projects. Prior to that, he built a strong track record of successful businesses in the DFW market. During the 1980s and 1990s, he effectively turned around and launched several major marketing and trading divisions at Commercial Metals, a Fortune 500 company. He has also led several emerging companies to profitable growth. In 1999, under his leadership as VP of Sales and Marketing at ePartners, the company was listed as one of Fortune Magazine's Fastest Growing Companies. Dan is a graduate of Vanderbilt University with a B.S. in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering.
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