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SCHOOL OF DEV / SHAREPOINT SATURDAY TULSA - MARCH 28th 2009!
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| Becky Isserman, B & R Solutions |
Becky Isserman
B & R Solutions
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Becky Isserman has been a SharePoint Developer, since 2005 when she attended the Portal University with Levi, Ray, and Shoup in Springfield, IL. She is an Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD). She has been a web designer/developer since she was fifteen hand coding HTML 3.0 websites in NotePad. She enjoys working with SharePoint 2007, because she can perform the roles of administrator, developer, designer, and architect. She has presented at five code camps, two conferences, and three user groups in 2008. She currently lives in Olathe, Kansas working remotely for B&R Solutions. She lives with her two cats, Gambit and Rogue, plus her boyfriend, Johnny. If you would like to contact her you can e-mail her at rebecca.isserman@gmail.com or fill out the contact form at her blog http://www.mosslover.com |
| Boyd Evert,
Director of Development |
Boyd Evert
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Boyd Evert is a Director of Development at APR, an audit software company based in Charleston, SC. Boyd specializes in optimizing T-SQL code running against very large datasets, the size of which exceeds 2 billion rows and 20TB. Boyd troubleshoots SQL servers, supports developers, and mentors data analysts.
Boyd has nearly 15 years of experience working with major retailers. He has devoted most of his career to understanding how retailers create and consume data. He has worked with datasets from Target Stores, Home Depot, CVS, and Wal-Mart.
Boyd is also cofounder of the NWA SQL User Group. Their group has attendees from all of the major companies in NW Arkansas: Wal-Mart, Tyson, and JB Hunt.
In his spare time he coaches little league baseball and teaches his sons how to read Latin. |
| Chris Koenig, Microsoft, Developer Evangelist |
Chris Koenig
Microsoft
Developer Evangelist
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Chris Koenig is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, based in Dallas, TX. Prior to joining Microsoft, Chris worked as a Senior Architect on the Architecture Strategy Team for The Capital Group in San Antonio, and as an Architect, Developer and Development Team Lead for the global solution provider Avanade. As a consultant, Chris worked with a variety of clients from many vertical markets, ISVs and other solution providers on enterprise-class Windows and web-based applications. Today, Chris focuses on building, growing, and enhancing the developer communities in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. Chris is a devoted husband and father of four awesome children who keep him very busy. In his spare time, Chris serves as Scoutmaster for his oldest son's Troop, and Committee Chair for his youngest sons' Pack. Chris also enjoys traveling, cooking, camping and playing guitar. You can contact Chris through his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/chkoenig, via email at chris.koenig@microsoft.com, or via Windows Live Messenger at chris@koenigweb.com. |
| Chris McLean, Atlas Pipeline, MCPD: Windows App Dev, MCTS: MOSS 2007 Config |
Chris McLean
Atlas Pipeline
MCPD: Windows App Dev, MCTS: MOSS 2007 Config
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Chris McLean is a MCPD: Windows Application Developer & MCTS: MOSS 2007 Configuration and is currently working for Atlas Pipeline Mid-Continent on a nice sized MOSS & K2 farm. |
| Corey Roth, Stonebridge, Senior Consultant |
Corey Roth
Stonebridge
Senior Consultant
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Corey Roth is an Enterprise Consultant at Stonebridge specializing in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 in the Oil & Gas Industry. He has ten years of experience delivering solutions in the energy, travel, advertising and consumer electronics verticals. Corey has always focused on rapid adoption of new Microsoft technologies including Visual Studio 2008, .NET Framework 3.5, LINQ, and SilverLight. He also contributed greatly to the beta phases of Visual Studio 2005. For his contributions, he was awarded the Microsoft Award for Customer Excellence (ACE). Corey is a graduate of Oklahoma State University. Corey is a member of the .NET Mafia (www.dotnetmafia.com) where he blogs about the latest technology and SharePoint. |
| David Walker, The Revere Group, Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET, Technical Specialist |
David Walker
The Revere Group
Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET, Technical Specialist
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David Walker is the current board member for INETA (Vice President, Speakers Bureau), President of the Tulsa Developers .NET users group, founder and President of the Tulsa SQL Server Group and Tulsa Java Developers, Director of Member Services for the Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group. He has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winnercomm, Inc. and IBM Global Services. He is currently a Technical Specialist in the Interactive Group for The Revere Group, an NTT Data Company, delivering solutions utilizing .NET enterprise content management systems such as Sitecore and SharePoint. He has been an MCP since 2003, MCAD and MCSD since 2005, and a Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET since July 2007. |
| Devlin Liles, Tyson Foods, Software Programmer |
Devlin Liles
Tyson Foods
Software Programmer
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Devlin Liles is a software programmer for Tyson Foods specializing in the capture and reporting of plant floor efficiency data and yield information. He has 3 years experience with using .NET languages and now coordinates the speakers for the Tyson developers forum (DEVLOOP). Currently He is focused on creating platform independent reporting solutions for production driven environments for Tyson foods. |
| Eric Shupps, Binary Wave, Microsoft SharePoint MVP, Founder / President |
Eric Shupps
Binary Wave
Microsoft SharePoint MVP, Founder / President
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Eric Shupps is the founder and President of BinaryWave, a premier SharePoint consultancy headquartered in Irving, Texas, and Director of BinaryWave Limited, a subsidiary 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 and a participating member of the UK SharePoint User Group. Eric has authored numerous articles on SharePoint, speaks at user group meeting and conferences around the world, and publishes a popular SharePoint blog athttp://www.binarywave.com/blogs/eshupps. |
| Jay Smith, Tyson Foods, Software Architect and Developer Evangelist |
Jay Smith
Tyson Foods
Software Architect and Developer Evangelist
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Jay Smith works for Tyson Foods, Inc. in the Program Management Office as a Software Architect and Developer Evangelist where he works diligently with teams to test bed new projects and promote and teach development best practices. Jay is a Microsoft ASP .NET MVP, founding of the Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group and actively works with INETA. Jay is also the creator and host of User Group Radio a podcast dedicated to helping user groups be more successful. |
| Jim Hudson, OakTree Software, Senior Technology Evangelist |
Jim Hudson
OakTree Software
Senior Technology Evangelist
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Jim Hudson is Senior Technology Evangelist for OakTree Software, a Microsoft Gold Partner in Tulsa OK. Jim has been in the IT field for almost 20 years as a trainer and consultant. Jim is CoAuthor of "Special Edition Using Microsoft Active Directory" and has trained Microsoft Customers and employees all over the US. He is currently interested in anything that is connected to a SQL Server. |
| Ken Byrd, TekFocus, .NET Consultant, Mentor |
Ken Byrd
TekFocus
.NET Consultant, Mentor
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Ken Byrd is a .NET consultant and mentor with more than 20 years of experience designing and building client/server and web-based distributed database applications. He has worked with a variety of languages including C, C++, Delphi, C# and VB.NET and has worked extensively with Microsoft .NET since the initial Beta releases.
Ken graduated from Baylor University in 1986 with a B.S. degree in Computer Science and currently works in Dallas with TekFocus, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions where he teaches advanced development classes in C#, VB, ASP.NET, Silverlight, WCF, Workflow, ADO and WPF.
Ken can be reached through his blog at http://www.kenbyrd.com/. |
| Kyle Kelin, Infusion, Senior Consultant |
Kyle Kelin
Infusion
Senior Consultant
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Kyle Kelin has four years of experience in web development using Microsoft technologies. Kyle has built web applications across multiple industries that include consumer electronics, travel, energy, and investment banking. Kyle is currently employed as a Senior Consultant at Infusion in New York where his primary focus is SharePoint development and architecture. Infusion specializes in the architecture and implementation of enterprise-scale solutions for some of the world's largest banks and government agencies. Kyle a graduate of The Oklahoma State University. When Kyle is not developing he enjoys working out, martial arts, and drinking. |
| Mark Rackley, UNFI, Web Developer III |
Mark Rackley
UNFI
Web Developer III
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Mark has been writing software for over 15 years filling the roles of Project Manager, Business Analyst, Lead Developer, and Software Architect. He has been involved in projects for such companies as Dell, Motorola, Intel and Agilent Technologies. He has worked in large corporate environments, small software start-ups, and as a consultant. Then there was SharePoint. |
| Richard Oltmann, OakTree Software, Senior Consultant / Principal Trainer |
Richard Oltmann
OakTree Software
Senior Consultant / Principal Trainer
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Richard Oltmann is a senior consultant and principal instructor for OakTree Software in Tulsa Oklahoma. He has been in the training sector for over 7 years and specializes in the messaging and collaboration and AD fields. Richard has been working with SharePoint Portal since 2001 and was one of the first trainers in the US to train SharePoint and has been involved in numerous installations and upgrades of the product. He is also an active member of the SharePoint User group. Richard was a proctor for the hands on labs for TechEd 2004. Richard was just recently elected president of the Oklahoma chapter of the IAMCP (International association of Microsoft Certified Partners ) |
| Rob Tennyson, Tyson Foods, Lead Programmer Analyst |
Rob Tennyson
Tyson Foods
Lead Programmer Analyst
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I live in Fayetteville, AR with my wife, two daughters, and our Keeshond Boomer. College is what brought me to the area - I graduated with a BS in Computer Science from the University of Arkansas in 2001.
By day I'm a software developer and by night I'm about one part developer and two parts gamer. In my free time, I've grown to really love community and participate as much as I can in the local .net user group. In 2007, I also co-started an internal user group at work called DEVLOOP (Developing Excellence Via Leveraging Object Oriented Principles).
To learn more about me, see my blog or take a look at my resume. |
| Steve Walker, Microsoft, Senior Consultant |
Steve Walker
Microsoft
Senior Consultant
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Steve Walker works as a Senior Consultant for Microsoft Consulting Services in the South Central District. |
| Tony Lanni, Vice President of Marketing |
Tony Lanni
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Tony Lanni, AvePoint’s Vice President of Marketing, performs research and analysis on Microsoft SharePoint landscape and evaluates industry trends that impact the course of business. Tony co-develops strategies for new product design and works on enterprise-level data protection and management software deployments for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies. Tony’s extensive experience with SharePoint custom backup, recovery and administration applications has earned him multiple speaking opportunities within SharePoint communities and at technical events, such as Microsoft TechEd, Data Protection Summit and IBM Tivoli Nation. |
| Zain Naboulsi, Microsoft, Developer Evangelist |
Zain Naboulsi
Microsoft
Developer Evangelist
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For over 14 years Zain has been teaching and consulting on the latest Microsoft technologies. He's been a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 1995 and holds all major Microsoft certifications, plus credentials from Cisco, Checkpoint and CompTIA. Zain launched his development career with Visual Basic 3.0 and honed his implementation skills with Windows NT 3.51 and OS/2. He is the creator of Virtual World Evangelism (VWE) which is an effort to build communities in virtual places like Second Life and OpenSim. He is not only a proponent of the community aspect of virtual worlds but also is a supporter of the myriad business applications that these new mediums offer. Zain's efforts have been featured by eWeek, Redmond Developer News, Reuters and many others. He has also been interviewed by Forrester Research, ThinkBalm, UgoTrade, and Gartner for his work with virtual world communities. He is a frequent speaker at events in Second Life and other virtual worlds. and lectures world-wide to evangelize the future of this exciting new medium.. Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/zainnab. |
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