Mike
Fitzmaurice
- Nintex
Vice President, Product Technology
Mike Fitzmaurice is the Vice President of Product Technology for Nintex, a
global company committed to delivering out-of-box productivity solutions built
for and with SharePoint technology, and is responsible for product direction,
evangelism, technical marketing, and technical business strategy.
Phil
Sorgen
- Microsoft
Corporate Vice President, U.S. Small and Mid-market Solutions
& Partners
Phil Sorgen is corporate vice president for the Small and Mid-market Solutions &
Partners (SMS&P) business in the United States. He assumed that role after three
and a half years as the president of Microsoft Canada.
As vice president for SMS&P, Sorgen is responsible for a team of sales,
marketing, and partner-management professionals serving Microsoft's business
customers and partner community. Sorgen and his leadership team are responsible
for ensuring that Microsoft and its ecosystem of partners deliver
technology-based business solutions to meet the needs of the 6 million small and
mid-market businesses across the United States. Sorgen also has responsibility
for the Dynamics business in the United States, as well as for the U.S.
telesales and telemarketing operation.
Eric Swift
- Microsoft
General Manager of Product Management for SharePoint Practice
As General Manager of Product Management for SharePoint, Eric Swift is
responsible for managing customer and industry requirements, product
positioning, licensing, and marketing strategies for Microsoft’s Collaboration
Platform for the Enterprise and Internet. Swift has been with Microsoft for nine
years. Previous to his current position, he had roles as General Manager of the
Unified Communications Group and Director of Product Management in Microsoft’s
Application Platform Group.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Swift held Vice President positions at Enterprise
Application Integration and CRM software vendors where responsibilities included
product management, CRM, Data Warehouse implementations, and technical support
operations.
Chris
Carper
- Aspect
Senior Managing Consultant Business Analysis/Project Management Specialist
Chris has over 25 years experience in the healthcare industry. He has spent the last 14 years developing and implementing healthcare solutions for hospitals, reference laboratories, and other healthcare organizations. Most recently, Chris served as the New Products Development Manager for one of the top vendors in the rural healthcare market. His application development experience includes Interface Systems to Reference Laboratories and PACS vendors, Laboratory Systems, Radiology Systems, and CPOE systems.
A registered member of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, Chris received his degree in biology and chemistry from Murray State University and his MT (ASCP) degree from the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine.
Tony Coppa
- AvePoint
Systems Engineer
Tony Coppa is a Systems Engineer, based in AvePoint’s Chicago office, with extensive experience in implementing AvePoint solutions into complex, enterprise-level SharePoint deployments within organizations across numerous verticals. With several years of experience in optimizing Microsoft NTFS storage access and availability underlying complex SQL deployments, his contributions to the SharePoint community have earned him speaking opportunities at technical conferences, symposiums and user groups throughout the Midwest region.
Dean
Furness - Aspect
Director, Quilogy Business Intelligence National Practice
Dean Furness is Director of the Quilogy Business Intelligence National Practice. Dean speaks nationally on industry technology trends and at many events in all vertical markets. He has over 15 years experience developing and implementing solutions for all types of organizations, with significant experience in creating leading-edge Microsoft Business Intelligence solutions. Dean is an active member of the Microsoft Partner Advisory Council for Business Intelligence.
Jeff
Garrett - SoftwareONE
Business Development Manager
Jeff Garrett recently joined SoftwareONE, bringing with him a tremendous track record of success, most recently running his own business for 4 years in the IT industry. Jeff has spent 10+ years in the reseller/LAR channel doing everything from Sales and Marketing to Operations, where he’s gained valuable knowledge in the complex nature of Software Licensing and providing superior customer service.
Chris Hayes
- Aspect
Senior Managing Consultant, Digital Agency
Chris Hayes, Managing Consultant, eLearning and Digital Solutions: Chris has been passionate about harnessing technology to engage learners for over 10 years, while focusing on driving efficiency in media development. Chris most recently served as Director, eLearning Development for Maritz Learning.
Prior to that, Chris served as Technical Manager for Maritz Learning, focusing on process improvement and collaboration. Before coming to Maritz, Chris served as Senior eLearning Developer at SSE, pushing technology adaptation while improving processes and reducing production costs for eLearning development.
Matthew Homann
- LexThink LLC
Founder
Matthew Homann is a facilitator, writer, speaker and entrepreneur. The founder of LexThink LLC, he regularly designs and facilitates high-stakes meetings, conferences, retreats and brainstorming workshops, where he helps people to tap into their own creative reserves, see things a different way and make dramatic improvements in their business.
Matthew has delivered over 50 Customer Immersion Experiences for Microsoft, and he’s also worked with other large organizations including McDonald’s, HP, British Petroleum, Sungard and the U.S. Marine Corps.
Matthew is a lawyer by training. Please don’t hold that against him.
Jason McClure
- Microsoft
Office & SharePoint Solution Specialist
Jason McClure is the Office & SharePoint Solutions Specialist for the Microsoft Enterprise Sales Team in the Kansas City region. Jason , a graduate from the University of Kansas, has been with Microsoft for more than four years and will be leading the “Social Networking Tools in SharePoint : Big Productivity and Best Practices” session at the Kansas City SharePoint Conference. Jason also has more than 15 years experience as a sales engineer for software, consulting and training companies.
Greg Petrites - Aspect
Senior Architect
Greg is a senior architect with over 25 years of experience developing software on a wide variety of technologies from mainframe to minicomputers. His informative years as a developers were spent working for majors corporations in the manufacturing, healthcare and financial services industries. Twelve years ago, he abandoned his COBOL roots for good and has focused on the Windows platform. For the past five years, his major focus has been on SharePoint starting with SharePoint 2003, through the early betas of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and is now a point person for Aspect’s participation in the Microsoft’s Office 2010 Technical Acceptance Program (TAP).
Greg has architected a number of business process automation projects using all the different workflow technologies offered by SharePoint and is responsible for several frameworks application built using SharePoint. Additionally, he is an enterprise search expert, helping companies make the most of the search features of SharePoint.
Daniel Webster
- Combined Arms Center
SharePoint Architect
SharePoint Architect for Combined Arms Center G6 at Ft. Leavenworth. Subject Matter Expert with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Search Server 2008 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for Insignia Technology Services. Co-Author, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator's Companion, Microsoft Press; Technical Editor and Contributing Author, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices; Currently writing chapters on Search for SharePoint Server 2010 Administrator’s Companion and SharePoint Server 2010 Administrator’s Pocket Guide for Microsoft Press. Courseware Manager for SharePoint 2010 Administrators courseware for Mindsharp.
