As Director of the Solutions Center for Bamboo Solutions, Julia Auletta is responsible for all areas of services and consulting, including customized solutions and application development. She brings more than 15 years of consulting experience to her position, having led numerous successful consulting organizations.  She has extensive experience implementing enterprise document management solutions for various government and fortune 500 commercial clients.

       Tony is a Sr. Software Engineer and Instructor for SharePoint Solutions.  He has been in the IT industry for over 18 years.  Prior to joining SharePoint Solutions, Tony was a Project Manager, Ecommerce Team Leader and Enterprise Architect for HNI Corporation, makers of HON office products.

       Tony is responsible for leading the Software Division at SharePoint Solutions.  Through his leadership, SharePoint Solutions has provided the market with much-needed SharePoint add-ons such as WSS Alert Manager, SPS Alert Manager, Documents for You Web Part and Tasks for You Web Part.

       Steve is an Architect with the Microsoft Corporation and has over 20 years experience in the technology business. His academic training in chemistry and computer science provided a unique skill set for process modeling, robotics and automation early in his career which led to a career in software development.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Steve has been an architect, developer, product manager, executive and owner. He currently has responsibility for architecting business and technology solutions, SharePoint Technology and Enterprise Search.

       David joined Prolifiq in July of 2006 to lead the company’s growth initiatives.

Previously, David was Direct Marketing Strategist for The Hacker Group, a division of Draft FCB and a leading national Direct Marketing firm. David provided his professional services and strategic direction to clients including Xerox, Microsoft, World Vision, AAA, Kawasaki, Toshiba, RSA Security, Getty Images, H&R Block and Option One Mortgage.

David is the Past President of the DMA Seattle Chapter, and a speaker on topics ranging from demand generation to the use of technology in marketing at events nationwide for the Direct Marketing Association, the Business Marketing Association, and the American Marketing Association.
 

       Jeff is the Founder and President of SharePoint Solutions. He is also a member of the editorial council of Advisor Guide to Microsoft SharePoint.

       Jeff has 25 years of IT consulting and education experience. Formerly a Senior Manager with Accenture, he has advised some of the largest organizations in the world including Philips, Sara Lee, McCann Erickson, Progressive Insurance and the U.S. Army.

       He has authored seven custom courses on SharePoint, conducted over 80 classes around the U.S. and trained over 1000 professionals.

       Dr. Darwish is an award-winning educator who has taught a wide range of students from primary through graduate school.  She has been Director of Organizational Learning at the Hamilton County, OH Educational Service Center and is now the Collaborative Knowledge Management Program Director for KnowledgeWorks Foundation in Cincinnati.

       While at Hamilton County Educational Service Center her work received national recognition as she led the design and implementation of an organizational learning system based on SharePoint Products and Technologies serving 500 colleagues and the school leaders within the 22 public school districts of Hamilton County.  In her current work with KnowledgeWorks Foundation, she and her team are creating a peer-to-peer learning network for teachers across Ohio, again using SharePoint Products and Technologies as the platform.

       Dr. Darwish earned a Master’s from Xavier University in Elementary Education and a Doctor of Education from the University of Cincinnati in Curriculum and Instruction.

Mike has over 15 years experience developing mission-critical business applications for the enterprise. Since 2003 he has devoted 100% of his time to helping clients design and deploy SharePoint Products and Technologies.  He also serves as a SharePoint instructor at SharePoint Solutions.

Mike's SharePoint clients include Central Michigan University, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, Proctor & Gamble, Chiquita, Datatel and Hitachi.
 

       Patrick is the founder, President and Chief Technology Officer of Qdabra Software which is the leading software development and consulting firm on Microsoft's InfoPath product.

       Patrick worked for many years at Microsoft as a developer. He led solutions and Office integration development for the first version of Microsoft InfoPath.

       Patrick is a Microsoft InfoPath MVP for the years 2004-2006. He was the lead author of the Microsoft Press book "Developing Solutions with Microsoft InfoPath" and is the creator of the #1 site on the Internet for InfoPath resources, InfoPathDev.com.

       Brian joined KnowledgeWorks Foundation in the spring of 2006 after sixteen years in public school districts in the Seattle and San Francisco areas.  He is the team leader for the functional development of the KnowledgeWorks Foundation Network which is based on SharePoint Portal Server and provides an online community and knowledgebase for public school teachers in Ohio.

Brian has completed a Masters Degree in Curriculum and Instruction, secured and administered grants to create vibrant technology programs, and led a successful and comprehensive school reform effort that transformed a school for at-risk students.

       Kevin Pine is Vice-president of SharePoint Solutions. He is a consultant, trainer and author of articles, courseware and curriculum for SharePoint technologies.

       In 2003, with several years of  web development experience, he turned to SharePoint and worked to develop strategies for branding portals and collaboration sites, as well as creating custom templates and site definitions. He authored the popular SharePoint training course for web developers, Extreme Makeover: Portal Edition.

In addition to teaching SharePoint branding, Kevin has completed numerous branding projects for companies such as MB Financial, Central Michigan University, Sarah Cannon Research Institute and British Petroleum.

       Asif is an experienced Solution Architecture Consultant and Trainer from Chicago specializing in SharePoint Products and Technologies.  He is a SharePoint Server MVP and holds the Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) credential.  He has been delivering SharePoint public and private training for the past 3 years. Asif has extensive experience architecting and developing solutions using both Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server.

Over the course of several years, Asif has consulted for many companies in Financial, Insurance and Telecommunication sectors. His list of clients includes State Farm, CNA, Federal Home Loan Bank, NASA, Toshiba, Applied Systems, Allstate, SBC, Department of Defense, Griffith Laboratories and more.

       Ron has been focused on defining and modeling Virtual Work Environments (VWE) enterprise solutions to include implementation strategies, training and support infrastructure, and organizational VWE indoctrination/coaching. This internal FAA solution is known as Knowledge Services Network (KSN), and currently has over 150 FAA Business Units, over 1,500 teams and over 22,000 users. KSN was recognized in 2003 with an “e-Gov Knowledge Management Award”; in 2004 with “Government Productive Solution Award”; and in 2006 the Gartner “High-Performance Workplace Initiative Award” 

In 2006, while continuing to lead the FAA KSN team, Ron accepted a consulting role to the US Marine Corps as the Director of KM Integration for CDD/MCCDC. His responsibility is to define a VWE infrastructure process and plan for the US Marine Corps; establish a VWE core support team; and model solutions to accelerate the adoption of VWE.

       Ricky is an instructor and curriculum author for SharePoint Solutions. Prior to joining SharePoint Solutions he worked as the Senior Webmaster for Allegacy Federal Credit Union where he designed and built the organization’s first intranet, and later migrated it to the SharePoint platform. Ricky’s focus in business has always been on process improvement and automation for both the employees of an organization as well as for their customers.

Ricky’s personal mission statement is, “Empower. Challenge. Advance.” He says, “The work we do every day is ultimately all about people. My goal is to use technology, and my God given talents, to challenge and empower people so that they can advance in every aspect of their life and business.”

       Zach leads the Knowledge Management Practice at Project Performance Corporation, which has helped over 100 public and private organizations successfully implement portals and other knowledge management tools. He specializes in the development of business taxonomies and ontologies and the deployment of Enterprise Information Portals.

He has consulted with a variety of organizations including Pratt & Whitney; Columbia University; the Department of Defense (DoD); the International Monetary Fund; and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). He has developed his own taxonomy design methodology, has authored a series of courses on portal knowledge management and development, and is a frequent speaker and trainer on the subjects of eGovernance, portals, and taxonomy design.

       Shane is Founder and President of SharePoint911.com in Cincinnati, OH.  He is also a Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server MVP.

       Shane is a frequent speaker at SharePoint conferences and teaches SharePoint classes at SharePoint Solutions.  Shane's consulting clients include Central Michigan University, BMW, KnowledgeWorks Foundation and many others.