Shane Young - Owner / Principal SharePoint Consultant
Shane has over 12 years experience architecting and administering large-scale server farms using Microsoft enterprise technologies. For the past three years, he has been working exclusively with SharePoint Products and Technologies as a consultant and trainer. Shane has been recognized by Microsoft as an authority on SharePoint and is among an elite group of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MVP’s. He has architected SharePoint solutions for clients ranging from 20 to 25,000 users. Shane is a renowned speaker at national and international SharePoint conferences. He is also the author of The Ted Pattison Group’s course SPA401: Professional SharePoint Server 2007 Administration. Shane also maintains a popular SharePoint Admin blog.
Todd Klindt - Senior SharePoint Consultant
Todd has been a professional computer nerd for 15 years, specializing in SharePoint for the last five years. His love affair with SharePoint began one slow day at the office when he discovered SharePoint Team Services 1.0 on the Office XP CD and decided to install it. The rest is history. In 2006 he was honored to be awarded the MVP award from Microsoft for Windows SharePoint Services. He has had the pleasure of working with SharePoint farms both large small. He has written several books and magazine articles on SharePoint. Todd has presented sessions on SharePoint at many major conferences both in the United States as well as Europe and Asia and does the user group circuit as well. He chronicles his SharePoint adventures on his blog.
Randy Drisgill - SharePoint Branding and Design Lead
Randy has more than ten years experience developing, designing, and implementing Internet based software for clients ranging from small business to Fortune 500 companies. Randy has been working with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 since the early beta and has worked on several large-scale internal and public facing SharePoint implementations. In 2009, Randy was recognized by Microsoft as an authority on SharePoint branding and design by being awarded MVP status for SharePoint Server. Randy has worked on several SharePoint articles and white papers as well as having co-authored Professional SharePoint 2007 Design for Wrox Press. Before working with SharePoint, Randy’s involvement in both the ColdFusion and Actionscript communities has led to his co-authoring several related books and publications. You can visit Randy’s blog at http://blog.drisgill.com.
John Ross - Senior SharePoint Consultant
John has more than eight years of experience implementing solutions for clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies as well as government organizations. He has worked with all project phases from analysis to implementation and has been involved with a wide range of SharePoint solutions that include public facing Internet sites, corporate intranets, and extranets. In 2009, John was awarded Microsoft’s MVP award for SharePoint Server and is one of 190 people worldwide with this distinction. He is co-author of the book, “MOSS Explained: An Information Workers Deep Dive into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007” and was a contributing author to “Professional SharePoint 2007 Design.” Check out John's blog at http://www.sharepoint911.com/blogs/john.
Jennifer Mason - Senior SharePoint Consultant
Jennifer has spent the last several years providing consulting services around SharePoint Technologies and is currently working with the team at SharePoint 911. Her focus has been on strategy, planning, governance and best practices for implementing business solutions using SharePoint Technologies. She has worked with a range of companies each one being in a different lifecycle of their SharePoint implementation. She has experience with both MOSS and WSS implementations. Prior to her consulting work she was a team lead who was responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of several SharePoint environments. She is passionate about SharePoint, and loves using the out of the box features to bring immediate ROI to the organization. Jennifer is also one of the founding members of the Columbus Ohio SharePoint Users group.
Ryan Keller - SharePoint Consultant
Ryan has been working exclusively with SharePoint technologies since 2007. He has experience in building and implementing both public-facing internet sites using SharePoint, as well as internal collaborative solutions using the built-in functionality of the program. He is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist in MOSS 2007 Configuration. Ryan also has experience with SharePoint branding and customization, including development of custom master pages and page layouts to meet each client’s unique needs. Read his blog at http://www.sharepoint911.com/blogs/ryan.
Laura Rogers - Senior SharePoint Consultant
Laura is a Senior SharePoint Consultant, and has ten years of experience with Microsoft's messaging and collaboration systems. This includes five years in SharePoint implementation, training, and customization. She has a background in server administration, and has been a MCSE since 1999, with her most recent certifications being MCSE 2003 + Messaging, MCTS in MOSS and MCTS in WSS 3.0 Configuration. Laura also wrote one chapter (about web parts) in the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator's Companion. She is an enthusiastic member of the SharePoint community, and can often be found blogging and tweeting about SharePoint.
Chris Caravajal - SharePoint Technologies Consultant
Chris brings his technical abilities, hi-energy level, and strong communication skills to the front lines of SharePoint 911 everyday. Chris is the primary contact for the SharePoint911 Helpdesk. As a consultant, Chris focuses on site collections, InfoPath forms, SharePoint Designer workflows, and works with administrators and business users to develop strategies to implement SharePoint to fulfill current and future organizational needs. Additionally, Chris specializes in information organization and site collection architecture.
Nicola Young - SharePoint Planning and Design Consultant
Nicola works exclusively with SharePoint technologies. She specializes in information organization and usability. Nicola is currently a SharePoint trainer and consultant.Her primary focus is on the business applications of the product. She has recently published a SharePoint book specifically for information workers, MOSS Explained: An Information Worker's Deep Dive into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. Nicola is the lead author of The Ted Pattison Group's course SBU201: Business Users Guide to SharePoint Server 2007. Additionally, she is the co-author of SAB301: Building Enterprise Solutions with SharePoint Server 2007 and SPG301: SharePoint Planning and Governance.
Larry J. Riemann - Senior SharePoint Developer
Larry is a Senior SharePoint Developer for SharePoint911 and has over 14 years of experience in information systems with extensive experience in application, database and solution architecture, distributed web based applications, systems integrations and Object Oriented Analysis/ Design. Larry has a breadth of knowledge across several industries that include: finance, accounting, legal, supply chain and consumer goods. You can visit Larry on his blog here.