Jerome Thiebaud - Senior Product Manager Microsoft |
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Jerome Thiebaud is the SharePoint Designer product manager. Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 is a Web site development and management program that provides powerful tools for delivering rich and attractive SharePoint sites.
Born in Paris, France, Jerome got his MBA from Duke University in 1998. In his spare time, Jerome enjoys hiking, cooking, biking, skiing, reading and photography.
In his role, Jerome focuses on the inbound/outbound marketing for SharePoint Designer 2007 including training, deployment, licensing, PR/AR, and customer interaction. A significant portion of Jerome's time will be spent in FY08 on SharePoint Designer v-next.
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Joseph Khalaf – Global Escalation Manager Microsoft |
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I am currently the Global Escalation Manager for Office. I have spent over 10 years with the Product group for FrontPage, FrontPage Server Extensions and SharePoint. My capacity as part of the SharePoint team had been to get involved early on during the Alpha milestones to address supportability, Training and PSS release management. I developed all the FrontPage and SharePoint Designer training and also served as the Escalation Engineer for in-market products.
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Todd Klindt – Sharepoint MVP |
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Todd Klindt is an IT Pro and a Microsoft MVP in Windows SharePoint Services. He has been published in TechNet magazine and wrote a chapter for the book Real World SharePoint 2007: Indispensable Experiences From16 MOSS and WSS MVPs. He has spoken at TechEd in the United States and EMEA. He has been using SharePoint since curiosity got the best of him when he saw it on the Office XP CD and wondered what it was. When he's not playing with SharePoint he loves to spend time with his lovely wife Jill and his beautiful new daughter Lily.
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Joel Oleson |
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Prolific blogger and Sr. Technical Product Manager for SharePoint Products and Technologies, Joel Oleson owns the technical messaging and product positioning for the IT Professional audience. With more than 10 years of experience in the Internet Industry, Joel has a vast background in web technologies. First, starting out with Internet and intranet application web design including enterprise backend data storage. Later he moved into design and infrastructure architecture, engineering, and operations. Previous to his 6 years at Microsoft, Joel spent a few years at a McCaw Telco designing extranets and deploying intranet business applications. His first experience on Microsoft campus came in the form of a contract job at Slate.com managing the staged deployment including web publishing aspects of a daily webzine. In 2000 he was brought in to lead the initial deployment and service offering of an early version of both SharePoint Team Services and SharePoint Portal Server which would become the largest and most influential deployment of SharePoint Products and Technologies. Over the next 5 years he would play the role of lead architect in deployment of Microsoft’s global intranet portal and collaboration service offering. He rarely misses an opportunity to present at world wide Tech Eds.
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Gerrit Otto –Consultant OpenText |
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Gerrit Otto has been consulting on OpenText’s Livelink ECM product suite of applications for the last 8 years. Throughout his career with OpenText, he have assisted many customers in planning, designing and implementing various Enterprise Content Management solutions, from Document Management, Business Process Management to Archiving and Records Management solutions. Following OpenText’s roadmap on successfully getting rid of information silos, as a solutions consultant, he has been focusing in a large part of his career on OpenText’s integrated solutions to other vendors, especially OpenText’s extensions to Microsoft products like MOSS 2007 and Microsoft Exchange Server.
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Eray Chou – Lead Program Manager |
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Eray Chou is a Lead Program Manager on the Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer team. He is focused primarily on data integration and general application building features. During the Office 2007 release, he worked on Data Views and Web Part integration. In addition to his work on SharePoint Designer, Eray led the design and development for the Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and occasionally contributes to the SharePoint Designer team blog. In his spare time, Eray enjoys cooking and playing guitar
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Vijay Kolli – MEA HQ Lead Architect |
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Vijay Kolli is a MEA Architect and he has been with Microsoft for 10 years and he is currently primarily focused on providing Architecture and Technical Leadership on SharePoint products for key MEA Services projects. He was involved in the Architecture and Design of a number of high profile projects in the MEA region including Mobily Etisalat in Saudi, Ministry of Labor in Qatar, National Bank of Dubai, Dubai Municipality, Argaam in Dubai, SABIC in Saudi, CMA in Saudi, SABIS in Lebanon. He also conducts hands on training for SharePoint Technologies in the MEA region. Previously he worked in the Development Teams in Microsoft Product groups for 8 years in Redmond and worked on early versions of SharePoint, SiteServer, Commerce Server, FrontPage and Windows Server.
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Jan Hein van Campen - Sr. Solution Engineer for Kofax SEMEA |
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DICOM Benelux NV, Zandvoorstraat 49, B-2800, Mechelen, Belgium Started with the DICOM group in May 2002 as a Technical Consultant for DICOM Benelux, focussing on both pre-sales consultancy and post-sales implementations and support. In 2004, moved to Vienna , Austria to join the TOPCALL organisation to support that group with Kofax expertise ( pre-sales and post-sales). Jan will relocate to Dubai this year to support the Middle East and Africa region as the senior Solution Architect.
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Dr. Ulrich Knechtel |
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Ulrich Knechtel is Strategic Alliances Manager EMEA of AMD. Ulrich Knechtel joined AMD in 2001 as server and workstation product manager for the European Product Marketing Group, worked as Enterprise Program Manager and changed into his current position. Knechtel began his professional career as a software developer for graphical, scientific and database applications. In 1991, he joined NCR as a consultant for Product Data Management systems and moved to the role of a consultant for Business Process Re-Engineering at AT&T after AT&T had acquired NCR. Knechtel moved to Silicon Graphics as Marketing Manager for the European Automotive industry in 1996. Later he moved to the role of server product marketing manager. In 1998 he was promoted to the position of business development manager for the media and telecommunications industry. Knechtel holds a doctor’s degree in engineering.
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Hazem Bayado - AMD Business Development Manager |
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Hazem Bayado has more than 12 years of experience in the IT industry with extensive knowledge in heterogeneous infrastructure services. Mr. Bayado has helped many organizations plan and implement their data centers and IT services on x86 platforms. He has been a passionate promoter of IT in the region and has spoken at many high profile events about emerging technologies and best practices in network security and management.
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Erkan Tatlidil - NGS |
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With over 15 years of experience in the Software Industry, Erkan started NGS Information Technologies in 2001 after leaving Microsoft. He is the Cheif Software Architect and Managing Director concentrating on Web and SharePoint Technologies. Erkan and his team successfully developed several SharePoint tools including NGS Moss Migrator and NGS Scan to Moss. He is now focused on the release of NGS ION.
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Patrick Beeharry the Microsoft SharePoint Server Product and Solutions Marketing Manager |
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Patrick Beeharry the Microsoft SharePoint Server Product and Solutions Marketing Manager for Middle East and Africa. Before joining the Middle East and Africa Headquarters, he was the technology specialist for the Microsoft Indian Ocean Islands and French Pacific region, focusing on the Microsoft Collaboration platform. Prior to joining Microsoft he has worked for the Mauritius Commercial Bank Ltd before joining FRCI, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. As the Manager of FRCI eServices, Patrick pioneered e-commerce in Mauritius, developing the first online grocery for a large chain of Supermarkets. He is now based in Dubai supporting the regional offices in delivering value around Microsoft Office SharePoint Server products and solutions.
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Florian Moser - EMC |
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Florian Moser is a senior member of the EMC² MS Alliance in EMEA. Within the alliance, Florian focuses on the collaboration between Microsoft and EMC² for Content Management and Archiving Solutions. Florian Moser has been working in EMC² EMEA for more than 5 years.
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