SharePoint Experts Weigh In on War Wounds and Peer-to-Peer Content

As a result of SharePoint’s popularity, a small but growing population of SharePoint gurus has emerged. These SharePoint veterans measure their stripes not just in years of active duty, but by how many projects they’ve had to slug and sweat through to achieve success. Read what they have to say about their latest experiences as well as their comments on your peer-to-peer postings.

Aaron Cutlip

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Corridor Consulting, Inc

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Chief Solution Architect

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Aaron has spent his career focused on designing, implementing and developing solutions around ECM (Enterprise Content Management) systems. He has exposure and experience with both large and small solutions involving all aspects of electronic records including document management, content management, records management, imaging, business process management, and enterprise search. He has worked with many different pure play ECM/BPM (workflow) vendors including EMC Documentum, Hummingbird/OpenText, IBM/FileNet, PlumTree, Kofax, HandySoft BizFlow, Ultimus, and BlueSpring. Since the release of SharePoint 2003 Aaron has been leveraging his ECM experience by exclusively developing solutions for the very successful Microsoft SharePoint platform. Aaron resides in Atlanta Georgia and is Cheif Architect at Corridor Consulting where he focuses on building mission critical contract and records management solutions on top of the SharePoint platform.



Russ Edelman

Company:

Corridor Consulting, Inc.

Job Title:

President

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http://www.corridorconsulting.com

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I have been working in the world of Enterprise Content Management for over 20 years. In 1997, I wrote an article in Imaging World titled Enterprise Document Management - Myth or Reality. The premise of the article was that there was no enterprise solution that could serve the needs of large company. With the introduction of SharePoint 2007, I'm happy to report that I have changed my position. And because of this, we are really pleased to be introducing www.sharepointgovernance.org.




J. Dan Attis

Company:

B&R Business Solutions

Job Title:

SharePoint Solutions Architect

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http://wssguy.com/blogs/dan

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J. Dan Attis hails from Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada and attended the University of Western Ontario (UWO), graduating in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics.  Dan has been heavily involved in the local Atlanta user group community since 2003.  In addition to being an occasional speaker at both the VB.NET and the C#.NET user groups, he helped create the Free Training 1,2,3! series (www.freetraining123.com) to help developers learn Microsoft technologies.  Dan created and presented material at the first SharePoint 1,2,3! event (www.sharepoint123.com) along with the other leaders of the Atlanta Microsoft Professionals user group.  Dan is also on the team responsible for the highly successful Atlanta Code Camps that runs every year as well as a speaker.
Today, Dan works as a senior consultant for B&R solutions, working primarily with cutting edge SharePoint and .NET technologies creating innovative technology solutions that achieve measurable business improvements for their clients.
Dan resides in Atlanta with his wonderful wife Jody and beautiful daughter Lily.



Michael Gannotti

Company:

Microsoft

Job Title:

Principal Technology Specialist

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http://socialmedia.mikegannotti.com

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Blogger, Podcaster, SocialMedia, Digital Media, SharePoint/SocialMedia Samurai, wanna be world traveler. Part of the Microsoft field organization focusing on SharePoint since 2001, Michael has helped countless organizations to implement SharePoint within their environments.  You can also find Mchael on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/samuraimike as well as on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/gannotti



Gautam Desai

Company:

Doculabs

Job Title:

Vice President

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http://www.doculabs.com

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Jeff Borghoff

Company:

KnowledgeLake, Inc.

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Senior Technical Architect, MCTS, CDIA+, AIIM SharePointP & SharePointS

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http://www.borghoff.com

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Jeff.Borghoff Jeff Borghoff is Senior Technical Architect with KnowledgeLake, Inc. He is a CompTIA Certified Document Imaging Architect (CDIA+), Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) and an AIIM SharePoint Practitioner & Specialist. Jeff has been developing enterprise business applications with Microsoft products for 20 years. Much of his experience has been in electronic document generation and document management in the Insurance and Reinsurance industry. As an early adopter and evangelist of the SharePoint platform for Enterprise Collaboration he subsequently saw the viability of SharePoint in the Document Management space and now works exclusively with SharePoint ECM.




Russ Houberg

Company:

KnowledgeLake, Inc.

Job Title:

Senior Technical Architect, SharePoint MCM

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http://www.houberg.net

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Russ Houberg has been a techie as far back as the 80's. It all started with a software program called "Delta Draw" on an original IBM XT personal computer owned by a close friend. These days he spends most of his time neck deep in legacy to SharePoint migrations. Russ serves as a SharePoint MCM for a Microsoft ISV called KnowledgeLake. They specialize in document centric transactional content management. That's fancy talk for high volume scanning using SharePoint as a storage repository and document processing workflow. Due to the nature of document imaging, Russ is involved heavily in the scalability, performance tuning, and index/search nuances of SharePoint. Russ is married with two great boys, and a labradoodle. He is also very active in his local church and little league baseball organizations.



Brendon Schwartz

Company:

DevCow Software

Job Title:

Collaboration Architect

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http://blogs.sharepointguys.com/brendon

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Dan Keeling

Company:

Slalom Consulting

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Senior SharePoint Architect

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http://dankeeling.blogspot.com/

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Dan Keeling is a SharePoint Architect and Developer consulting with Slalom Consulting in Atlanta, GA. He has worked with SharePoint since SPS 2003 focusing on development and architecture for enterprise solutions surrounding SharePoint.



Zlatan Dzinic

Company:

Business Connexion

Job Title:

Principal Consultant

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http://dotnet.org.za/zlatan/

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Zlatan's primary role is an Enterprise Content Management Lead, System Architect/Lead Developer and an Enterprise Content Management/Enterprise Architecture Consultant, he also comes from an extensive Enterprise Content Management (ECM) product background - MS SharePoint 03/07, Opentext - Livelink, Identitech - FYI, Global 360, Meridio, K2.NET, Opentext - Domea (including Business Intelligence), working, providing solutions and managing projects for the Public Sector (Local, Provincial and National Government) and also Corporate Sector (Mining, Retail, Telecommunications, Oil, Manufacturing, Banking and Tourism Industry) with a strong Business and Technical background. Mostly he is a Technical Lead/System Architect as well as Project Manager or a Best Practices Consultant on large Enterprise Content Management projects and Enterprise Strategy Initiatives.
His main focus is Developing and Architecting Enterprise Content Management, Document and Records Management, including Business Process Management, Business Intelligence and Performance Management Solutions as well as Office Business Applications (full blown end to end enterprise industry solutions).
He's a guest speaker at International and National Microsoft Conferences and he also presents at Local Community events on the topics of Enterprise Content Management, SharePoint Server and Technologies, Business Intelligence and Office Business Applications.
Zlatan’s SharePoint work has been recognized by Microsoft in his position as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional.



Matt Ranlett

Company:

Intellinet

Job Title:

Principal Consultant

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http://www.devcow.com

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Matt Ranlett, a SharePoint Server MVP, has been a fixture of the Atlanta .NET developer community for many years. A founding member of the Atlanta Dot Net Regular Guys (www.devcow.com) and the SharePoint Guys (www.sharepointguys.com), Matt has formed and leads several area user groups. Despite spending dozens of hours after work on local and national community activities such as the Free Training 1, 2, 3! series (www.freetraining123.com), organizing four Atlanta Code Camps, having served two years on the INETA Board of Directors as the Vice President of Technology, and appearing in several Pod Casts, Matt recently found the time to get married to a wonderful woman named Kim whom he helps to raise 3 dogs and their first child, born in early May 2008.



Mark Bruininga

Company:

MicroLink, LLC

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Solutions Architect

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Mark is a seasoned technology professional whose 25-year career has emphasized Web, technology, project and program management for major corporations and clients in the public and private sectors. Mark holds accomplished consulting and in-house experience, is a people-focused technology leader, and possesses an international and multicultural background. His functional expertise includes strategy and planning; Web presence; information architecture; people and project management; policy and procedure development; application development and support; and business process improvement.

In recent years, Mark has focused on the adoption of SharePoint and similar technologies in the private and public sectors. At MicroLink, Mark is developing a SharePoint governance framework that approaches adoption with a balanced mix between business and technology.




Michael Lotter

Company:

B&R Business Solutions

Job Title:

SharePoint Solutions Architect

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http://blog.michaellotter.com

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Michael Lotter, MCTS, is a SharePoint Solutions Architect for B&R Business Solutions, and travels throughout the United States implementing SharePoint and InfoPath-based solutions. He is an active speaker at East Coast Code Camps and user group meetings, and is a co-author on O’Reilly’s SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide.



Karuana Gatimu

Company:

SharePoint Strategist

Job Title:

Solution Architect

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http://www.sharepointstrategist.com

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Karuana Gatimu is a Solution Architect for ECM and BI solutions as well as an AIIM Certified ECM Practitioner. With 18 years of experience in this space as a technologist and content producer she is currently the lead SharePoint Architect for Skechers USA, writes a blog, SharePointStrategist.com and is one of the driving forces behind SharePoint user groups in California.




Joris Poelmans

Company:

RealDolmen

Job Title:

Unit Manager ECM

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http://jopx.blogspot.com

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MVP Windows SharePoint Services since 2006 - works at Realdolmen, an IT services company based in Brussels, Belgium. Main areas of expertise are the .Net application platform and SharePoint . Founding member of BIWUG - Belux Information Worker User Group - http://www.biwug.be



Natalya Voskresenskaya

Company:

Arcovis

Job Title:

SharePoint Architect

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http://spforsquirrels.blogspot.com/

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I have been working in the IT field for the past 10 years. My professional experience has been very diverse from Media Publishing Group, Online Crime News, Digital Music World, Corporate Law Firm to a consultancy and system integration company.

With experience in design, architecture, development and deployment of Web based applications, I’ve been dedicated to developing portal solutions since early days of 2000. I have been working with SharePoint Technologies since the 2003 version to the present.  I am very passionate about this technology and I hope through sharing my experience  I can help people to understand how they can get the best use out of SharePoint platform.




Alan Weintraub

Company:

Perficient

Job Title:

Principle, ECM Solutions

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http://www.perficient.com

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Alan has over twenty five years of experience in the information systems profession. Alan has worked on SharePoint for the last 5 years as a Business Architect helping companies utililize SharePoint to meet their business objectives. Alan was the Gartner Analyst covering the initial release of SharePoint in 2001. Through both written reports and interactive sessions, he has used his analytical skills to advise both end-user organizations and vendors on strategic directions in Content Management. As a consultant, he has designed and implemented document management and imaging systems for Fortune 100 companies .




Andrew Chapman

Company:

EMC

Job Title:

General Manager - SharePoint Technologies Group

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http://nevertalkwhenyoucannod.typepad.com/

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Andrew is the Senior Director of EMC’s SharePoint Technologies Group. He is responsible for setting the strategic direction and ensuring the timely delivery of products that facilitate the interoperability of SharePoint and EMC’s content management and archiving products. Andrew has been working with ECM technology since 1996 as a customer, partner and vendor. He is also the author of a book on implementing ECM-based compliance systems and a Blog on SharePoint, ECM and compliance.

 

Andrew hails from the North of England but has lived in New Jersey for the last 14 years; he is still working on perfecting his Jersey accent.




Arno Nel (MVP) - SharePoint Magazine

Company:

Sword

Job Title:

Principal Consultant

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http://SharePointMagazine.net

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I’m a web technologist, first and foremost. I choose the best technology for a specific purpose. In my experience, for intranets, SharePoint fits that bill. I am not an evangelist. My opinions are honest and unbiased. I currently work for Sword in the United Kingdom as a Principal Consultant.



Barclay T. Blair

Company:

FCS Information Governance

Job Title:

Practice Lead

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www.fcsig.com
 
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Barclay T. Blair is a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, software and hardware vendors, and government institutions, and is an author, speaker, and internationally recognized authority on a broad range of policy, compliance, and management issues related to information governance and information technology. Barclay has led several high-profile consulting engagements at the world’s leading institutions to help them globally transform the way they manage information.



Michael Blumenthal

Company:

Magenic

Job Title:

Sr. Consultant

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http://blumenthalit.net

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Michael Blumenthal is a SharePoint solutions architect and Senior Consultant with Magenic, a Microsoft Gold Partner and National Systems Integrator.  He has been working with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 since its beta versions in 2006 and its predecessor SharePoint Portal Server 2003 since it was in beta as well.  Michael has been streamlining human-centered business processes via a variety of SharePoint solutions.  Michael has well-rounded SharePoint expertise, with SharePoint development, infrastructure, and administration experience. He's designed, implemented, and supported SharePoint 2003 & 2007 intranets, extranets, and Internet sites for clients in markets as diverse as Banking, Energy, Government, and Transportation. Michael holds four Microsoft certifications (MCTS: MOSS Configuration, WSS Configuration;MCAD; MCDBA; MCSE) and the Certified Associate of Project Management (CAPM) from the Project Management Institute.  Michael has been a Microsoft developer for the last 14 years.