Speakers
 | Mike Blaylock is both a Dotnet and SharePoint consultant and trainer with fifteen years of experience. He also founded and is the president of the Puget Sound SharePoint User Group in Redmond, WA. Mike has been a featured speaker at BAADD in the bay area, NETDA in Seattle, and PSSPUG.org. He also does private training engagements for developers and users. In his spare time he enjoys travel and the arts. |
 | Melissa Fraser brings with her a decade of experience and excellence in technical education and software development. This experience includes application development, project management, education management, instructional design and technical instruction delivery. In addition to road-tested skills, Melissa holds a Masters degree in Business Administration and holds multiple Microsoft Certified Professional titles for .NET, SQL Server and Windows. Melissa has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer in good standing since 1997. She is employed by Netfusion, a technology consulting firm in Arizona. Additionally, Melissa can be found instructing courses for University of Phoenix students enrolled in the Bachelor of Science Information Technology degree program. |
 | Chris Givens started his career in Tulsa, Oklahoma as a Computer Science major at the University of Tulsa. It was here that he was picked up early by IBM and started an amazing 5 year career there. IBM moved Chris to Seattle where he founded his own company, Givens Consulting to work with customers that IBM Global Services wasn't targeting. He later co-founded Architecting Connected Systems and through this company has devoted his time and energy to building high-end courseware and delivering it to small and large corporations (IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Dell, and many more) around the world. |
 | Wendy Henry is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) who has been an independent technical trainer, author, and consultant for more than 10 years. She has specialized in Microsoft SQL Server since 1999 and SharePoint since 2005. Wendy is a contributing partner on SharePoint-eLearning.com and frequently teaches and presents at conferences on WSSv3/MOSS2007. She has written a variety of proprietary courseware for leading technical education centers, and has also been called on to edit technical material by national publishers such as McGraw-Hill and Microsoft Official Learning Products. Her technical certifications include Microsoft (MCITP, MCTS, MCSE, MCT); Novell (CNE, CNI), and Cisco (CUSE, CCNA). She also consults on Windows/ADS network architecture and SQL/SharePoint design to several Fortune 500 companies. |
 | Dan Holme, a graduate of Yale University and Thunderbird, has spent over a decade as a consultant and trainer, delivering solutions to tens of thousands of IT professionals from the most prestigious organizations and corporations around the world. He has recently supported Active Directory design and implementation at enterprises such as Raytheon, ABN AMRO, Johnson & Johnson, and General Electric. He was also the Windows Technologies Consultant for NBC during the Torino Winter Olympics, and is helping NBC to prepare for the Beijing games in 2008. Dan’s company, Intelliem, specializes in boosting the productivity of IT professionals and end users by creating advanced, customized solutions that integrate clients’ specific design and configuration into productivity-focused training and knowledge management services. Dan is also a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro magazine, and is currently penning his third book, to be released later this year by Microsoft Press. |
 | Michael Noel is an MVP for SharePoint Server and an MCSE+I. He has been involved in the computer industry for nearly two decades, and has significant real-world experience helping organizations realize business value from Information Technology. Michael has authored several major best-selling industry books that have been translated into seven languages with a total worldwide circulation of over 150,000 copies. Significant titles include SharePoint 2007 Unleashed, Exchange Server 2007 Unleashed, Windows Server 2008 Unleashed, ISA Server 2006 Unleashed, SharePoint 2003 Unleashed, and many more. Currently a partner at Convergent Computing in the San Francisco Bay Area, Michael's writings and worldwide public speaking experience leverage his real-world expertise designing, deploying, and administering IT infrastructure for his clients. |
 | Colin Spence is an MCP and a Partner at Convergent Computing, and performs in the roles of Senior Consultant, Project Manager and Technical Writer for the organization. He focuses on the design, implementation, and support of Microsoft based technology solutions, with a current focus on Microsoft SharePoint technologies. He has over 17 years experience providing a wide range of IT related services to a wide range of organizations. He is a co-author of Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Unleashed and Microsoft SharePoint 2003 Unleashed, which have become a bestsellers on the subject, as well as Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft SharePoint 2003 in 10 Minutes. He has also contributed to numerous other Sams Publishing titles on Microsoft technologies and regularly presents on Microsoft Technologies.
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