With over 24 years of IT and business consulting experience in management and system development roles including project manager, business analyst, solution architect, and application developer, Alan has successfully delivered many SharePoint-based and custom business solutions within a variety of industries. Alan is a Senior Principal Technology Consultant at Northridge and is based in Charlotte, where he works with clients to design and implement customized SharePoint solutions.

Josh has been developing using Microsoft tools for over 14 years, SharePoint since 2003 and heads up the B&R North Carolina office. In his current role, he works with clients to design, architect, and implement SharePoint-based enterprise & commerical solutions. Josh is a co-founder of the Triangle SharePoint User Group, frequent speaker at SharePoint Saturdays, user groups & code camps throughout the country.

Thomas Daly  - is a seasoned SharePoint Solutions developer. He specializes in delivering custom developed solutions from both the server side or client side. He is an expert in web technologies and highly proficient in many languages including C#, Javascript, Jquery, CSS, XSLT. His educational background is composed of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering and a Master’s degree in Software Engineering. He holds many technical certifications such as his MCTS in both MOSS 2007 & WSS 3.0 Application Development, MSTC in MOSS 2007 and WSS 3.0 Configuration.

John DeSue is a director at Northridge – a nationally-recognized leader in delivering collaboration solutions.  John has over twenty years of experience successfully delivering information technology and methodology solutions to global clients.  He lives in Chapel Hill, NC with his wife, three children, cat, and dog.

Susan Lennon is a Microsoft Consulting Services Senior Consultant as well as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. She was an independent for eight years and was working on US Navy projects during that time. The last six years have all been involved with architecting SharePoint solutions for the Navy. Susan has certifications as an MCT, IT PRO Database Admin, MCTS SharePoint and MCSD .NET. Susan is deeply committed to the development community and helps run several user groups in VA and is a frequent speaker at SharePoint Saturdays Code Camps.

Adam is a Software Architect/Manager with over 13 years of experience, specializing in web applications. He currently works for Iron Works Consulting working with clients to implement SharePoint.

Jason Medero, MCP, MCT, MCTS, is a systems architect with a concentration in SharePoint Products and Technologies and its related Microsoft technologies. Jason has been working with SharePoint Products and Technologies exclusively since 2003 and has presented at major conferences across the United States. He is a managing partner of B&R Business Solutions, a central New Jersey-based firm specializing in SharePoint and surrounding technologies, infrastructure, real-time communications (OCS), and application development. He is currently the speaker committee chairman for the SharePoint User Group in New York City where he sits on the speaker selection committee. He has authored two SharePoint books, one for SharePoint 2007 and most recently for SharePoint 2010. He also contributes his SharePoint knowledge as a mentor for some of the popular forums (TechNet, Yahoo groups). You can visit his blog at www.sharepointblogs.com/JasonMedero or visit his company’s page at www.bandrsolutions.com

Jessica M. Moss is an architect at CapTech Consulting, speaker, author, and Microsoft MVP of SQL Server business intelligence. Jessica has created numerous data warehousing solutions for companies in the retail, internet, health services, finance, and energy industries and has authored technical content for multiple magazines, websites, and the book "Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services Problem-Design-Solution".Jessica enjoys working with the central Virginia community and speaks regularly at user groups, code camps, and conferences. You can read more on her website, http://www.jessicammoss.com

Mike Oryszak is a SharePoint Server MVP and Practice Manager with Intellinet in the Portals and Collaboration practice specializing in SharePoint Architecture and Development. Mike has been living in the Raleigh-Durham, NC area since 1998 and has held a number of development and consulting positions servicing clients from a range of industries including major financial institutions, telecommunications and manufacturing. Mike's favorite SharePoint topic is social computing and how it can be used to increase team and cross-functional collaboration in the enterprise.

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John Scott is a senior consultant for Eastridge Technology and a member of Microsoft’s SharePoint Virtual Technical Specialist Program (V-TSP). He has recently relocated to the Raleigh area from Pittsburgh, PA and is enjoying the weather (but not the tornados). Prior to moving to Raleigh, John headed up the SharePoint development and information architecture division for a Pittsburgh based Microsoft consulting company. He holds Microsoft certifications for SharePoint 2010 and 2007. You can visit his blog at http://vspug.com/jscott/

With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management, Dux has earned a reputation as among the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), he is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, Inc., a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner focused on leading, inspiring and being the catalyst of organizational transformation that enables clients to achieve tangible business result. As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, he is the author of "SharePoint for Project Management" published by O'Reilly Media. He is focused on empowering organizations on how to leverage the benefits of SharePoint technologies with quantifiable goals such as: Increasing productivity and efficiency, decreasing collaboration redundancies and streamlining electronic communications. He has successfully managed the implementation of various SharePoint-based solutions for commercial, educational and government institutions. A sought after speaker, Dux is a SharePoint MVP and has presented in various Microsoft and Project Management Institute (PMI) events worldwide. He regularly blogs on topics related to project management, SharePoint and globalization at MeetDux.com.

Ryan is AvePoint’s VP of Enterprise Sales in the Southeastern U.S. region and the Oil and Gas vertical, and works directly with Fortune 500 and other enterprise customers to develop and implement cost-effective SharePoint management, protection, and optimization strategies. Ryan’s experience with SharePoint dates back to the early days of WSS 2.0, when he worked as a technical consultant for product companies dedicated solely to SharePoint solutions. His knowledge of SharePoint has earned him multiple speaking opportunities within the SharePoint community and at technical tradeshows and events.