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Learn practical, productive and technical practices from the industry's leading authorities including:

Microsoft Executives
Industry Thought Leaders
SharePoint Technical Experts
Microsoft Product Team Members
Microsoft Consulting Services
SharePoint Trainers and MVPs
SharePoint Systems Integrators and Software Vendors

Kirk Koenigsbauer - Microsoft
Corporate Vice President, Office Business Productivity Group

Kirk is focused on the worldwide business strategy for SharePoint Products and Technologies, Project, and PerformancePoint. He also is responsible for sales, marketing, and services for FAST, and enterprise marketing for the 2007 Office system. His earlier Microsoft experiences have included responsibility for the MSN.com Product Management team, and product and program management leadership roles.

Previously Mr. Koenigsbauer built and ran Amazon.com's retail software and video games businesses and led the development and launch of Amazon's Electronics and Auction sites. He began his career as a management information systems consultant with Andersen Consulting (Accenture). Mr. Koenigsbauer earned a B.A. in American Studies from Colby College and attended Seattle University's Albers School of Business.

Nathan Treloar - Microsoft
Search Technology Evangelist

Nathan Treloar is search technology evangelist for Microsoft's Enterprise Search Group where he has responsibility for the group's technology innovation and evangelism programs. He has more than 20 years of engineering and management experience working with search and decision support systems and has advised hundreds of the world's largest companies and government agencies on applications of search and search related technologies.

Mr. Treloar came to Microsoft through the acquisition of FAST, where he was Senior Vice President of Technology and a member of the leadership team that took FAST from an entry level player to a leader in the enterprise search market. Prior to FAST, Mr. Treloar was founder and President of AvaQuest, where he developed ground breaking applications of search and text mining software including one of the earliest commercial forays into automatic sentiment analysis.

Abbie Allen - SoftwareONE
Business Development Manager

Abbie Allen joined SoftwareONE in November, 2008, as Business Development Manager of the North Central Region. Abbie has thirteen years of industry experience having managed the Vendor Management Office for Koch Industries in Wichita, Kansas, which is the largest privately held company in North America. She also spent 4 years at Cerner Corporation in Kansas City as Senior Manager of Technology Purchasing, managing more than 250 million in spend annually.

In 2005, she left the corporate world to become a Large Account Reseller rep. Having many years experience as a customer she brings a unique prospective to the selling role.

Chris Carper - Aspect
Senior Managing Consultant

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.

As a member of Aspect’s Professional Services Team, Chris has spent the last 5 years deploying SharePoint intranet solutions for educational and healthcare organizations.

Dean Furness - Aspect
Director, Aspect Business Intelligence National Practice

Dean Furness is Director of the Aspect's 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.

Jim McPherson - Aspect
Director, St. Louis Professional Services & Digital Agency

Jim McPherson is a Managing Director for Aspect. His responsibilities include developing the business strategy for Aspect’s Interactive National Practice which specializes in web site design, content management, interactive marketing and other creative services. In this capacity, Jim oversees the delivery of these services and all web site projects across the country.

Jim’s background includes 15 years experience in the marketing, advertising and IT industries. Over the last 9+ years, Jim has spent his time working with clients on the strategy, planning, design and development of literally hundreds of web site projects. The vast majority of these projects include content management.

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.

Darvish Shadravan - Microsoft
Senior Technology Specialist

Darvish ("D") Shadravan is a Senior Technology Specialist employed by Microsoft where he focuses on SharePoint, InfoPath, and related technologies. He has been with Microsoft for 13 years in various technical roles working directly with enterprise customers. Darvish holds MCTS-SharePoint, MCSE, and CISSP certifications.

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