Conference Speakers 

David Linthicum - Keynote Speaker

David Linthicum

Keynote Speaker: Author of Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in the Enterprise

David Linthicum (Dave) is an internationally known cloud computing and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) expert, and is the author of the new bestselling book “Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence.” In his career, Dave has formed or enhanced many of the ideas behind modern distributed computing including EAI, B2B Application Integration, and SOA, approaches and technologies in wide use today. For the last 10 years, Dave has focused on the technology and strategies around cloud computing, including working with several cloud computing startups. Dave’s industry experience includes tenure as CTO and CEO of several successful software companies, and upper-level management positions in Fortune 500 companies.  Dave focuses on best practices and the real business value of cloud computing, as well as the true fit of the technology within the context of enterprise requirements. His expertise lies in his ability to define where the business meets Cloud computing using familiar tools and understandable terminology.

 

Reggie Henry

Reggie Henry

CTO at ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership

Reggie Henry is the chief technology officer at ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership. Henry joined ASAE/The Center in November of 1994 and has been working with and/or for nonprofit organizations since 1985.  

Reggie speaks regularly on technology, board development, and strategy issues.  Some of his most recent speaking engagements include the 2009 National Association of Secondary School Principals Leadership Meeting, the 2009 Association Technology Conference, the 2008 Oregon Society of Association Executives Annual Meeting, the 2008 Council of Engineering and Scientific Societies Executives Mid-Winter Meetings, and the 2008 Council of Manufacturing Associations Summer Leadership Conference. He was recently invited by the Secretary of The Smithsonian to participate in Smithsonian 2.0, a Gathering to Re-Imagine the Smithsonian in the Digital Age.

Henry holds a B.S. in Economics and Computer Science from Georgetown University and serves on the boards of the National Association of Colleges and Employers and NPower Greater DC Region. He enjoys cooking, drawing, pottery and golf.

Gretchen Steenstra

Gretchen Steenstra

Senior Consultant, Technology Management, DelCor

Gretchen Steentra has been a Senior Consultant, Technology Management with DelCor for three years. She assists clients with the evaluation and selection of association management systems and other related software applications; project management of major system implementations; Web strategic planning and usability; business process analysis and improvement; and, development of standard operating procedures.

Ms Steenstra’s background spans some technical training as well as training in project management, facilitation and delegation to help span boundaries between association staff members and technology.

Ms. Steenstra is a member of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and the Project Management Institute (PMI). She has conducted educational sessions at ASAE and other organizations, including recent sessions on AMS Implementation Project Management and Web Usability.  She is also a board member of Computer CORE, a nonprofit organization to provide computer and life skills to low income adults.

Prior to joining DelCor, Ms. Steenstra spent four years at the Optical Society of America, where she served as IT Project Manager.  Her responsibilities involved a variety of technology projects including managing the implementation of a new AMS and redesign of the OSA Web site, creating a centralized Member/Customer Serve Center and managing the integration of OSA’s budgeting and job costing process. While managing financial, staff and vendor resources, her focus for all projects is to ensure that all success measures are developed and achieved. She has also held positions at the Construction Specification Institute and the Tax Executive Institute.

Jim Haigh

Jim Haigh

MS Online Cloud Architect

Jim joined Microsoft Corporation in 1993, His first team was the Microsoft Access 1.0 unit.  Since that time, Jim has had several roles within Microsoft including Solution Specialist, Developer Technology Specialist and Partner Technolgy Advisor. His account experince ranges from large enterpise accounts to small business.  He has spoken at major launch events in the East Region.


Jim is currently responsible for Microsoft Online Partner development in the East Region.  Jim has consulted with more than 160 customers looking to move to the Microsoft cloud portfolio.  One example of his successful engagements was Reed Jewelers, who recenlty published a case study on their cost saving experiences.


Jim has authored the “First 30” guide that was published in November 2009 discussing what common criteria all customers look for answers in the first 30 minutes. Jim is currenlty based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

 

Chris Ertz - Microsoft

Chris Ertz

Microsoft Corporation

Chris Ertz is a Partner Technology Advisor with the Mid-Atlantic commercial sales team.  In this role, Chris ensures our managed partners are ready to deliver the latest Microsoft solutions to over 1200 mid-size business in MD/DC/VA.  The SharePoint adoption in the Mid-Atlantic are is one of the highest in the nation thanks to community support and talented partners like Susqtech. Chris lives in Washington, DC with his wife, a Microsoft recruiter, and two boys.

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Becky Isserman

MCP, MCAD

Becky Isserman has been a SharePoint Developer since 2005 when she attended the Portal University with Levi, Ray, and Shoup in Springfield, IL. She is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD). She has been a web designer/developer since she was fifteen, hand coding HTML 3.0 websites in NotePad.


Becky enjoys working with SharePoint 2007, because she can perform the roles of administrator, developer, designer, and architect. She has presented at over 15 events in 2008 and 2009. She ran the Kansas City Office Geeks from December of 2007 until December of 2009.  She has helped run the two SharePoint Saturday events in the Kansas City area.  She currently lives in Olathe, Kansas working remotely for B&R Solutions. She has helped out with several other events in Kansas City, such as the Day of Dot Net and Coders 4 Charity.  She will continue to help out in the New Jersey .Net and SharePoint Communities.  She lives with her two cats, Gambit and Rogue, plus her boyfriend, Johnny in Somerville, NJ.

Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo

MCSD .NET, MCP, MCTS

Peter is a published author, a founder of the SouthEastern SharePoint group and a speaker at conferences, and he works for Trillium Teamologies as a SharePoint Architect. Peter has been in the IT industry for 20 years. He has extensive experience with SharePoint, implementing solutions for several enterprise organizations over the past six years. Using a varied background, including a degree in English, Peter brings a fresh perspective to each engagement and the clients he represents. Each session he presents is told in story mode in order to engage and educate. This type of communication presents SharePoint technology in an understandable format, including best practices that are immediately accessible. You can follow Peter on Twitter (pserzo) or on his website at www.sharepointusermagic.com.

Tom Lin - AvePoint

Tom Lin

VP of Strategic Alliances, AvePoint

For a number of years Tom has been working exclusively with enterprise-level data protection and management software deployments for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies. Tom’s extensive experience with SharePoint custom backup and recovery applications has earned him multiple speaking opportunities within SharePoint communities and at technical events.

Bill Vencil

Bill Vencil

Senior Technologist

 

Bill has a passion for envisioning and designing solutions built on Microsoft technologies.  He has deep and broad experience in e-Commerce, web application development, LOB application development and commercial software product development, delivering solutions to many well-known organizations such as Bank of America, Johns Hopkins University, United States Air Force and Martha Stewart Living. 


An engaging and experienced speaker, Bill has the ability to present technical topics to both IT and business people.  On the heels of designing and delivering SharePoint 2007 solutions to a variety of clients, Bill is enthused and excited about SharePoint 2010 and its broad set of new and improved capabilities.

Craig Dellorso

Craig Dellorso

VP of Consulting Services, Avectra

Craig Dellorso is the VP of Consulting Services.  His team works with clients to maximize the return on their investment in netFORUM by identifying new ways the system can address their business challenges and providing recommendations for additional technology initiatives to help them meet their goals.

Craig previously served as CIO for the National Association of
College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), where he spearheaded the integration of multiple disparate systems into one
accessible database.  During his tenure, he increased the benefits and services provided to members and staff while significantly reducing overall IT costs.

Daisy Anand

Daisy Anand

Manager of Federal Business Development, Bamboo Solutions

As Manager of Federal Business Development at Bamboo Solutions, Daisy focuses on establishing long-term relationships with Bamboo’s Federal customers. Utilizing her 15 years of business consulting and management experience, Daisy engages with Public and Private enterprises to seamlessly integrate Bamboo products into their SharePoint environments. 

Prior to joining Bamboo Solutions, Daisy worked as Senior Engagement Manager at AOL where she managed AOL’s AIM Enterprise Programs including the SIP Federation, Open AIM Developer and Certified Application Provider Programs.  Prior to AOL, Daisy in the role of Account Relationship Manager at eGain Communications, successfully managed multiple enterprise level product implementation projects, managing a team of resources, deliverables, client relationships and issue resolution. 

Daisy holds an MBA in Finance from George Washington University and a Masters in Literature from Panjab University.

Erik Williams

Erik Williams

Information Technology Manager, The Wallace Foundation

Erik has been Manager of Information Technology at The Wallace Foundation for almost five years.  He has a BA in Computer Science from Alfred University and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.  The Wallace Foundation started using Sharepoint 2003 in 2006 for a new Intranet which was subsequently updated to Sharepoint 2007 in 2009. 

The foundation’s website, Wallacefoundation.org was migrated to Sharepoint 2007 from MS Content Management Server in 2008.  The website averages over twenty thousand downloads per month of various free education and arts related publications.

John Stover

John Stover

SharePoint Solution Architect

John Stover is an experienced SharePoint consultant, Trainer and Speaker.  A popular presenter, John has presented at numerous SharePoint Events including SPTechCon, SharePoint Best Practices Conference and multiple SharePoint Saturday events around the country.  John’s primary focus is on architecting solutions utilizing SharePoint, but he also designs technical solutions using a variety Microsoft technologies such as Active Directory, IIS, ASP.NET, SharePoint 2003, MCMS 2002, SQL Server, Exchange, and ISA.  John blogs on SharePoint topics at The Stover Effect.

 

Kyle Schaeffer

Kyle Schaeffer

Senior User Experience Developer

Kyle is a popular speaker on topics related to User Interface design and SharePoint and streamlining the process of designing in SharePoint.  A Senior User Experience Developer, Kyle's background includes years of experience in interface programming, creative design, branding, styling, graphic design, content strategy, SEO, and content management.  He has produced, architected, and implemented designs, master pages, page layouts, and user interfaces for dozens of sites on the SharePoint platform.  He is also a contributing presenter for the ASAE Technology conference. Kyle’s presentations at past SharePoint Conferences have been among the most popular and best attended. Check out Kyle's SharePoint Karate and KyleSchaeffer.com for more of his work.

 

Liam Cleary

Liam Cleary

Microsoft SharePoint MVP

Liam Cleary is a passionate individual who is excited about technology. Over 10 years ago he started life as a Trainer, then became a developer, looked after Servers, Firewalls and Security, became a Consultant for SharePoint, then a Solution Architect and now works as a Principal Consultant for .NET Development and Collaboration.


In 2007 Liam was awarded the Microsoft Valued Professional award for my efforts within the community around the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) platform. Liam has spent many hours and travelled many miles working as a consultant and loves to get his “hands dirty” with the SharePoint Platform. He spend as much time as possible helping people around the world to see the value and benefit of SharePoint. Liam is an avid blogger (http://www.helloitsliam.com); He covers all aspects of the SharePoint platform by using real world experience and solutions.

Mark Conrad

Mark Conrad

PMP, Client Engagement Senior Manager, Membership Management Technologies, AARP

Mark has had a long career in the IT industry with experience ranging from early mainframe development to web portal design and implementation.  He has worked for IBM Global Services and KPMG Consulting as well as several government, healthcare, and non-profit entities. 

Mark is currently dedicated to the implementation of SharePoint collaboration and publishing solutions for a growing number of organizations within AARP, the nation’s largest non-profit association.

Matthew Rohrer

Senior Sales Consultant, Avectra

Matthew Rohrer has served as a Senior Sales Consultant with Avectra for the past five years, working with membership associations to provide them with tools to deliver rich web content to their constituents.  Before coming to Avectra Matthew was a highly sought-after technical trainer specializing in SQL Server and database development.

Patrick Rodgers

SharePoint Solution Architect

Patrick Rodgers is a longtime SharePoint Developer and contributor to many SharePoint Conferences and SharePoint related publications.  His has extensive experience in content management solutions, and NET Development.  Patrick graduated from James Madison University with a degree in Computer Science and is currently SharePoint Architect.  Patrick's SharePoint blog goes by the tongue-in-cheek title "SharePoint is Flowers and Rainbows and Unicorns."

Ron McGrath

Chief Technology Officer of HighRoad Solution

Ron McGrath is one of the original founders and now Chief Technology Officer of HighRoad Solution.  HighRoad specializes in bringing integrated messaging solutions (email, mobile and webinar) to the association/non-profit market.  Ron has over 18 years developing and providing cutting edge technology solutions to various markets including associations and not for profits.  Ron, a serial entrepreneur, speaks at conferences on email best practices and is known to have a talent for making complex technologies accessible and compelling.

 

Sean Bordner

Sean Bordner

SharePoint Solution Architect

Sean is an inspiring and accomplished SharePoint Speaker who has presented SPTechCon (Boston), SharePoint Saturday (VA Beach, Boston & Washington, DC), The SharePoint Users Group Live (Chicago & DC), ASAE Technology Conference (DC), SharePoint .ORG Conference (Baltimore) and others.  Sean’s specific areas of expertise include SharePoint and FAST Search, Search Engine Optimization, Information Architecture (including taxonomy), SharePoint Governance and best practices related to planning, architecting and deploying SharePoint solutions.  Sean holds many SharePoint Certifications, and serves as the Community Manager for the largest SharePoint Group on LinkedIN, as well as the TheSUG.org, the largest private online SharePoint Users Group community.  Sean is the author of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Search Engine Optimization site (MOSSSEO.com).

 

Steve Witt

Steve Witt is an experienced SharePoint/Web Consultant having worked with SharePoint dating back to SharePoint Team Services. With a focus on Web Content Management and Strategy, Steve has worked with dozens of organizations on enabling their business with SharePoint. He has also managed the developed of Business Intelligence solutions utilizing Cognos and Microsoft's suite of BI tools.

 

Terry Simpson

PMP, MBA

Terry is an experienced project manager who excels at guiding clients through all of the project phases to meet objectives and deliverables.  Clients such as ACT-IAC, ASNE, APTA, AABB, NACo and AIHA have all enjoyed Terry as a project manager on their SharePoint implementations.  Terry is a graduate from Marshall University with a degree in Finance and also a graduate from Frostburg State University with a  Masters in Business Administration.
Thad Lurie

Thad Lurie

Director of Technology, American Health Lawyer's Association

Thad Lurie is the Director of Technology for the American Health Lawyers Association. He has a Master's in Education from the University of Hartford and has presented for ASAE, SNAP, and the SharePoint User Group on topics ranging the technology spectrum. Thad is also on the executive board of the Protech User Group. He can be contacted at tlurie@healthlawyers.org.
Thomas Nordby

Thomas Nordby, CAE

Thomas Nordby is the AVP of Business Operations and CIO at the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA), where he is responsible for developing, implementing, and integrating business growth strategies to support all of NDIA’s business ventures. NDIA’s total budget is currently $30 million and staff size is 75. He is very active within the association community, and is a long time member of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). He currently serves as the Chair of the Board for the Finance and Administration Roundtable (FAR), a non-profit organization dedicated to focusing on finance and administration issues for non-profit professionals. He is also a member of SHRM, PCMA, and AMA. He has 14 years of progressive association management experience. He is a Certified Association Executive (CAE), and received his Masters of Mass Communications degree from the University of South Carolina.