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Our Schedule Today

BUSINESS/END USER DEVELOPER/IT PRO IT PRO EXHIBITOR SESSIONS

Room 117 (capacity 96) Room T-130 (capacity 96) Room 119 (capacity 120) Room 126 (capacity 54)

7:30 – 8:10 Breakfast and Registration – Building T Lobby

8:10 – 8:30 Welcome – Room 119

8:30 – 9:45 “SharePoint Extranets” Peter Carson

“Automating your SharePoint Deployments with TFS and Build

Server” Vlad Catrinescu

“An Introduction to Semantics for SharePoint”

Luca Scagliarini

“SharePoint in the Cloud in its Many Forms”

Simon Langlois, SherWeb

9:45 – 11:00 “Microsoft SharePoint and Dynamics - Better Together” Ryan Merpaw

“Microsoft Azure: Central component of your SharePoint Online DevOps?”

Sebastien Levert Julien Stroheker

“Real World tips and tools to build your SharePoint 2013 Records Management System”

Noorez Khamis

“Control in The Microsoft Cloud” Dave Martin, Gimmal

11:00 – 12:15 “How to use SP2013, O365 and Yammer to create a knowledge

Social Network across your organization” Nicolas Georgeault

“Managing SharePoint Online with PowerShell + Client Side

Object Model (CSOM)” Amit Vasu

“SharePoint Always-On Deployment”

Mike Maadarani

“Increasing SharePoint mobile user productivity without the hassle of

device installation & maintenance” Anthony Pham, KwizCom

12:15 – 1:15 Lunch and Sponsor Exhibitors

1:15 – 2:30 “Migrating to SharePoint 2013 - A

Business and Technical Perspective” John Calvert

“InfoPath RIP… What next?”

Jason Kaczor

“SharePoint 2013: Managing

access and security or sharing?” Serge Tremblay

“Emails, Emails, and More Emails. How

much information are you missing out on?” Randy Whitcroft, Syntapa

2:30 – 3:45 “The Value of Tribal Knowledge and

Strategies to Increase Adoption” Kanwal Khipple

“Best Practices: Information

Management using Enterprise Content Types and Metadata” David Wu

“Build your business portal on

Office 365 : the social company” Vincent Biret Fabrice Vaxelaire

“SharePoint ROI: Maximize Solution

Impact and Success” Kendall Lougheed, Microworks

3:45 – 4:00 Snacks and Sponsor Exhibitors

4:00 - 5:15 “Lessons learned from migration to Office 365”

Dan Dwyer

“What's New in PowerShell to Help you Manage SharePoint”

Nik Charlebois

“Architecting and Deploying SharePoint 2013 as a BI Platform”

Edwin Sarmiento

“Information Management and Governance with SharePoint”

John Brown, Helux Systems

5:15 – 6:00 Prize Giveaways and Wrap-up – Room 119

6:00 onwards SharePint – Observatory Student Lounge, in Building A


Our Sessions

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Vincent Biret /

Fabrice Vaxelaire

X 117 Build your business portal

on office 365 : the social company

Through this session we will show how a manufacturing company can

combine its business applications and infrastructure on premise with Office 365. This allows the company to upgrade its whole information s ystem to a business portal having its collaboration workspaces, social workspaces and custom business applications. Our company will then capitalize on its

employees ideas with social and have a clear knowledge of what is its status with business intelligence.

John Brown X 126 Information Management and Governance with SharePoint

SharePoint places control into the hands of business users once completely dependent on IT for solution delivery. When SharePoint users are empowered to do their own thing, the result over time is often chaos. Before

long users are unable to find any of the information they require, and the blame falls on SharePoint – the tool claiming to solve your Information Management needs.

Can anything be done about this? Absolutely. Thi s session addresses governance as the key to effective SharePoint deployment and the important role information architecture plays in a governance framework.

Peter Carson X 117 SharePoint Extranets SharePoint is a powerful tool for collaboration. This works well for users in

your organization, but how do you extend it beyond the firewall? Approving and managing users, getting them their credentials, and dealing with forgotten passwords are some of the things that will frustrate both the business and IT. External sharing in Office 365 works well for l ight Extranets,

but what if you want stronger governance and branding control. Learn about the different options, including how to delegate this to the business, and provide a seamless single sign on experience for your external users, either

on premise or in the cloud. Vlad

Catrinescu

X 130 Automating your

SharePoint Deployments with TFS and Build Server

Have you ever wanted to get rid of the classic PowerShell deployments

scripts every time you build a new SharePoint Solution? As a developer, don’t you wish you could just deploy the solution on a DEV / QA farm directly from your Visual Studio without having to wait for your SharePoint Administrator

to deploy them for you since he doesn’t want developers to be local admins on the servers? As a SharePoint Admin, aren’t you tired of developers bugging you to deploy their solutions? In this session you will learn how to configure TFS Build Server to automate the SharePoint Package deployment

to SharePoint servers and how to monitor your deployments!

Nik Charlebois X 130 What's New in PowerShell Overview of the new features of PowerShell v5 and how they can assist us in


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to Help you Manage

SharePoint

managing our SharePoint environments both on-premises and in the cloud.

John Calvert X 117 Migrating to SharePoint 2013 - A Business and Technical Perspective

Many organizations stil l run versions of SharePoint prior to 2013, but the appetite and pressure to upgrade is increasing as business and IT better understand the new features and capabilities of SharePoint 2013 / Online combined with its sister products Office 2013 and Exchange 2013, or

alternately Office 365. Drawing on experience from real client engagements in this session we will examine the business and technical roadmap, and challenges in planning and executing a migration to SharePoint 2013.

Dan Dwyer X 117 Lessons learned from migration to Office 365

We have migrated (and migrating) many of our applications to Office 365 in response to several business requirements. Cost, collaboration features,

BYOD requirements and the need to improve / increase access to information. We have learned some valuable lessons along the path and have acheived many of the goals we set out acheive. Full speed ahead!!

Nicolas Georgeault

X 117 How to use SP2013, O365 and Yammer to create a

knowledge Social Network across your organization

Internal communication is the source of your company knowledge. During this session, I will talk about Knowledge Management and particularly how to

capitalize on all your internal communication content. You will see how to use SharePoint 2013, Office 365 and Yammer to create a

Knowledge Social Network across your organization and out of your boundaries, with external partners or customers. You will learn the differences between using social in SharePoint 2013 and Yammer, and how to build the foundation for an efficient Corporate Social

Graph strategy. By the end of this workshop you will learn: • How to choose between SharePoint 2013 and Yammer to start your Social

Network initiative • How to use Yammer in SharePoint Online and On-Premise • What your Corporate Social Graph is and how to use it to optimize your

Knowledge Management process

Jason Kaczor X 130 InfoPath RIP… What next? Uh-oh… InfoPath has been discontinued… What’s next? What do we do today? Tomorrow? Next year?

What alternatives are available? This session will review the announced slow “death” of InfoPath, demonstrate and review possible alternatives (i.e. Word forms, fi l lable PDF


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documents, LightSwitch, HTML5 offline capabilities, etc.) and finally end with

an open, round-table discussion.

Noorez Khamis

X 119 Real World tips and tools to build your SharePoint 2013 Records Management System

This session will bust the myth that SharePoint is not a good platform and robust enough to build out your SharePoint 2013 Records Management System. Noorez Khamis [Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP] will delve into demos and real world examples of how to start the build out of your

SharePoint 2013 Records Management system from scratch. It will talk to many of the built in and add-on features that will help ease your deployment while showing you how your system can scale to an Enterprise Records Management system.

Kanwal

Khipple

X 117 The Value of Tribal

Knowledge and Strategies to Increase Adoption

Organizations are investing in enterprise social networks at an alarming rate.

To gain the benefits of improving employee engagement, collaboration, and knowledge sharing requires you to look beyond technology deployment. Attend this session to learn how social tools can pl ay a critical role, what strategies that can help drive organizational change. This session will help IT

architecture and infrastructure personnel understand #esn adoption issues, the role of change management, and alignment of social tools with strategic business initiatives. As part of this session, we’ll also look at a customer case

study on how Yammer is continuing to transform a global organization. Agenda: > Social Maturity – present how social enterprise networks have changed over the course of the past decade (atlassian, give, newsgator, sp2010,

yammer) > Creating a Collaborative / Social Environment – what are some of the top ways organizations are changing the traditional collaboration model and the

risks involved. > Enable business value – scenarios and opportunities to create business value > Change Mgmt models – what training, governance and adoption strategies

work and where your organization fits.

Simon Langlois

X 126 SharePoint in the Cloud in its Many Forms

This presentation is oriented towards organizations thinking about upgrading SharePoint in the near future. Whether you are pro- or anti-cloud, or fall somewhere in between, dismissing the cloud outright is no longer an option. Understanding all the available hosting options will impa ct any decision to

continue operating SharePoint internally. The objective is to provide decision makers and SharePoint administrators with a simple yet detailed analysis framework that covers major technical and business angles, so that they can make an informed decision when deploying a new SharePoint version. The

SharePoint cloud hosting models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) will be compared across three themes (technical, service and licensing) and with regards to their


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capabilities, l imitations and costs.

Sebastien

Levert Julien Stroheker

X 130 Microsoft Azure: Central

component of your SharePoint Online DevOps?

The Cloud can help you and your organization to maximize your investments

and to simplify your business processes for all your SharePoint activities. Microsoft Azure can offer you a lot of services that can allow you to transform your infrastructures, your development paradigm and your IT teams to start thinking in terms of DevOps. In this session, our goal will be to

show you how to use the Azure platform in an enterprise where SharePoint is used as an application platform. Subjects covered will be : - Microsoft Azure as IaaS

- Microsoft Azure as CDN - Microsoft Azure as hub for all your ALM with Visual Studio Online - Microsoft Azure as an application layer for all your SharePoint Apps

- Microsoft Azure as a complex integration environment - Microsoft Azure as a deployment framework The cloud and Microsoft Azure to help the SharePoint platform, it's possible!

Kendall

Lougheed

X 126 SharePoint ROI: Maximize

Solution Impact and Success

Microworks has been doing IT/IM strategy with our clients for many years.

An IT/IM strategy defines the key business drivers for the organization and prioritizes information technology and information ma nagement initiatives that will help the organization achieve their business objectives. Using our tried-and-true methodology, we work with executive and staff to identify

issues, rank them, and define strategically important initiatives that will have high impact and high success. We are a SharePoint implementer with over a decade of experience with

intranets, extranets, electronic document and records management systems, and websites. A key learning from this experience is that SharePoint solutions deriving from clearly defined priorities and arrived at through consensus building have the highest success rate.

This presentation will: • Present an overview of our methodology; • Highlight some of the interesting commonalities across

organizations and sectors; • Il lustrate how SharePoint is a cost-effective solution that meets many of these strategic priorities; and

• Present key learnings for achieving successful SharePoint outcomes. Mike

Maadarani

X 119 SharePoint Always-On

Deployment

Are Disaster Recovery and High-Availability requirements to implement

SharePoint or to expand your current SharePoint farm? This session will


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cover how to implement an infrastructure that supports up to 99.999% High

Availability farm, covering SQL server, SharePoint services and servers, and other related components. Learn about the tools and tips to deploy such a topology, and what you can

do to make life easier managing your farm.

Dave Martin X 126 Control in The Microsoft Cloud

Just about every survey on Cloud adoption exposes data security, control and compliance risks as the biggest mitigating factors of adoption. Simply put, organizations aren’t comfortable with their data in the Cloud. These concerns certainly impact Microsoft as it moves its solutions to the Cloud. But worries

about controlling content in SharePoint Online, OneDrive and Azure based private Cloud instances of SharePoint can be overcome with Gimmal Solutions. In this session, see how Gimmal helps with Cloud governance,

controlled Cloud sharing and Records as a Service in the world’s most secure government Cloud.

Ryan Merpaw X 117 Microsoft SharePoint and Dynamics - Better Together

Our clients are our l ife source: their satisfaction determines our survival and they alone can dictate if we flourish, or starve. And so, we want to ensure our clients are satiated. SharePoint has been able to serve well when dealing

with organisational content storage needs, but when it comes to structured client interaction information, there is more which can be done to help you meet your customers’ needs.

This session will explore the added benefits that unfold when we combine SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics CRM. After setting a stage of organisational niches, the session will help attendees identify key integration

points and discover the benefits of combining these two high-powered systems through a scenario-based demonstration. Why watch Ang Lee’s Hulk when you can what the whole Avengers team fight against evil at the same time?

Anthony

Pham

X 126 Increasing SharePoint

mobile user productivity without the hassle of device installation & maintenance

Have an idea for a SharePoint Mobile solution that would be helpful for your

organization? However you don’t have the technical knowledge to implement this mobile solution. In this session, I will show you how you can easily create custom SharePoint Mobile solutions with KWizCom Mobile in a few minutes without any code development at all.

Edwin

Sarmiento

X 119 Architecting and Deploying

SharePoint 2013 as a BI Platform

With SharePoint as the business collaboration platform of choice for the

enterprise, it has become an important piece in the overall Microsoft BI stack. However, deploying and configuring it to support Microsoft BI solutions have become cumbersome tasks for the IT professional. In this session, learn what it takes to successfully architect and design SharePoint

2013 as a BI platform. We will cover multiple configuration scenarios and the


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different technologies necessary to build the infrastructure. At the end of the

session, you can walk away feeling confident to run Power Pivot, Power View and Reporting Services in your SharePoi nt 2013 farm

Luca Scagliarini

X 119 An Introduction to Semantics for SharePoint

This presentation will provide business users, IT Pro and End Users with a better understanding on how semantics can make Sharepoint content more findable while improving the user experience.

Serge

Tremblay

X 119 SharePoint 2013: Managing

access and security or sharing?

With SharePoint 2013, Microsoft made it easier than ever to share

documents, images, videos and more. It is easy to share, but how can I make sure that the right users have access to my documents? Users are changing department, do they stil l have access to my document? What if they leave the company? Do you really know what happens when you break permission

inheritance? This session will help you to understand the SharePoint security model, the securable objects and the tools that are available to manage SharePoint access and security. You will also learn how to use fine-grained permissions, to create new permission levels and much more.

Amit Vasu X 130 Managing SharePoint

Online with PowerShell + Client Side Object Model (CSOM)

With SharePoint 2013, Microsoft made it easier than ever to share

documents, images, videos and more. It is easy to share, but how can I make sure that the right users have access to my documents? Users are changing department, do they stil l have access to my document? What if they leave

the company? Do you really know what happens when you break permission inheritance? This session will help you to understand the SharePoint security model, the securable objects and the tools that are available to manage SharePoint access and security. You will also learn how to use fine-grained

permissions, to create new permission levels and much more.

Randy Whitcroft

X 126 Emails, Emails, and More Emails. How much information are you missing out on?

According to industry statistics the average worker wrote the equivalent of a small novel in emails within 2012. As email has now surpassed traditional communication methods like writing letters, etc. it has created a situation where vital business information may not always be captured through typical

document management capabilities within SharePoint and other technologies. The information that is contained within each of these users “novels” are often locked away in individual email accounts and are not able

to be accessed, shared, or leveraged by organizations when trying to manage their business. Util izing integrations between SharePoint, Outlook, and standard Microsoft technologies, Syntapa has built an easily deployable solution that enables organizations to effectively capture, manage, and

ultimately benefit from the business information contained within all of its users’ emails. Join us for an overview session where we will discuss the challenges that organizations face as it relates to effectively capturing and managing all of the information within its users’ emails and learn how an


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organization can easily begin to realize the benefits that come from being

able to access and share this valuable information.

David Wu X 130 Best Practices: Information Management using Enterprise Content Types and Metadata

Many SharePoint implementations are pressured to implement and deliver immediate solutions and therefore suffer from less than perfect Information Management and Information Architecture. Within this session we will look at the three common scenarios related to less than perfect IM/IA

implementations within SharePoint and develop a roadmap to implement IM/RM Best Practices within SharePoint. Understanding of Enterprise content types and metadata have profound effects that will improve adoption and util ization of SharePoint for users.

Topics Covered: Content Types, Managed Metadata Service, Site columns and IM Policies. A case study will be reviewed on how content types were retro-fitted in an existing SharePoint deployment not leveraging content

types. Another benefit was improving search within the Intranet over a corpus of 600K documents.


Our Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors Company About Us

Orangutech www.orangutech.com

Orangutech is a Microsoft Gold Certified SharePoint Partner in Collaboration and Content. We have been in business for 11 years, after being founded in 2003.

Orangutech has been dedicated to helping public and private organizations na vigate through the available information technologies by providing flexible and scalable information systems designed

to improve business processes, productivity and profitability in three key areas: Enterprise Workflows, Enterprise Web Content Management (EWCM); and Enterprise Document and Records Management Systems (EDRMS). Our development team has been focused on SharePoint since its inception, and we have completed projects for each of the major iteration of the product including

2003/ 2007 /2010/ 2013.

StoneShare www.stoneshare.com

StoneShare is a Systems Integration and consulting firm focused exclusively on the planning, development, implementation and support of business solutions centered on Microsoft’s SharePoint platform.

In addition to its consulting practice, StoneShare has recently a software product that automates the creation and deployment of SharePoint-based technology solutions. The product, called RAPID, is targeted at IT Professional Services , Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Managed Service providers and allows them to easily (and cost- effectively) deploy and support multiple SharePoint solutions.

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Syntapa

www.syntapa.com

Since 1984 Syntapa has been focused on building solutions to satisfy our clients’ true business

requirements. At Syntapa, we are Information Management specialists. We have built a number of affordable, repeatable, and easily deployable solutions that allow you to unify your people, processes, and technologies. Leveraging technologies l ike Microsoft SharePoint and .NET, our solutions help organizations to increase revenues, strengthen client relationships, and

maximize profits through increased project and operational efficiencies.

http://www.orangutech.com/

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Gold Sponsors

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Gimmal www.gimmal.com

At Gimmal, we enable organizations to make the most of their investment in Microsoft technologies. We are the world’s leading provider of Microsoft SharePoint solutions for

enterprise information governance and management, certified records management, and SAP content archiving and interoperability. Gimmal helps organizations increase efficiency and cost savings by leveraging SharePoint as the single source for enterprise content access, management, and governance both on-premises and in the Cloud, from any device. We

combine documents, scanned images, and content, including SAP transactional information, to create powerful SharePoint solutions that are consistently deployed, and transparently managed.

With Gimmal software, business user productivity is improved, compliance is extended to everyone, and eDiscovery is further simplified. Our solutions eliminate the need for costly and redundant traditional ECM suites. Information Technology, Legal and Records

Management groups like the familiarity, lower cost of ownership, control, global support and end-user adoption. Together, we can transform your SharePoint environment into a more scalable and consistent enterprise platform that delivers enhanced access, governance,

usability, search, compliance, and improved business processes. Gimmal is the premier provider for commercial and government organizations who demand the most productive and compliant SharePoint solutions to manage their business critical information.

A Microsoft Partner of the Year Finalist i n 2014 for both the Content and Collaboration and Public Sector: Government categories, Gimmal is a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner and GSA provider, Microsoft Business Critical SharePoint (BCSP) and Microsoft-SAP Unite partner. Gimmal offers Apps on Office and Windows App Stores. For more information, visit

www.gimmal.com.

Helux www.heluxsystems.com

Helux Systems is a specialized SharePoint consultancy, specializing in Information Management, Document Management and EDRMS solutions design and deployment. A certified Microsoft Gold Partner, Helux delivers services that include information analysis,

regulatory compliance assessment, system design, custom development, taxonomy development, system configuration, governance, search optimization, and deployment of enterprise-wide solutions.

Just as Microsoft SharePoint 2013 introduces new ways to share your work and work with others, Helux helps your organization manage its information assets in new and exciting ways that bring cost-effective solutions to the enterprise.

Helux also provides SharePoint product development, professional services and training that assists organizations with every aspect of SharePoint planning and implementation. Our expertise spans the information lifecycle—from initial planning through deployment and

support. Our SharePoint experts are with you every step of the way.

http://www.gimmal.com/


http://www.heluxsystems.com/


At Helux, we look beyond what technology can do and focus on what our customers need.

Backed by years of experience and innovation, Helux brings high-value solutions to help organizations optimize their information assets. Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, Helux offers its services throughout the US and Canada.

KWizCom www.kwizcom.com

Since 2005, KWizCom has provided innovative solutions and services to make SharePoint even better for over 5,000 companies worldwide. KWizCom's solutions and services expand

Microsoft SharePoint out-of-the-box capabilities, streamline workflow, maximize efficiency and enhance over-all productivity for hundreds of thousands of users. KWizCom, a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner, is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

KWizCom’s mission is to provide clients with high quality products geared toward the perfect solution for their business goals, which is always bundled with great service and exceptional customer support. Please visit www.kwizcom.com to find out more about KWizCom's clients,

people, partners and solutions.

Microworks www.microworks.ca

Microworks is an IT consulting firm that has been providing services across all business sectors since 1983. From strategy to business systems to infrastructure, we provide end -to-end solutions that work.

Our services include: • IT strategy development • Microsoft SharePoint solutions • Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions

• Full infrastructure support – 24/7/365 Our success comes from our ability to understand and satisfy our clients’ business needs. In

2010 and again in 2011, Microworks achieved 100% customer sa tisfaction ratings in independent surveys. We have the highest customer retention in the industry. Microworks follows an ISO- and PMBOK-compliant framework to ensure quality project management and successful outcomes.

Great solutions are delivered by great people. Our team of full -time employees includes certified infrastructure technicians, business analysts, SharePoint and CRM specialists,

creative designers, .NET developers, project managers, and trainers. Microworks offers a fully redundant and secure data centre and disaster recovery site. We offer a Canadian, privacy-compliant hosting service, providing server hosting and software as a service.

SherWeb

www.sherweb.com

Since 1998, SherWeb has been helping businesses increase agility and trim IT overhead with

our best-in-class cloud services. Today, more than 25,000 customers in over 100 countries are working more productively thanks to the added value we build into our wide range of SaaS, IaaS and PaaS solutions. SherWeb also has a growing network of 4,000 partners who successfully resell our affordable and customizable cloud services around the world. Visit us

http://www.kwizcom.com/

http://www.microworks.ca/

http://www.sherweb.com/


at www.sherweb.com.

Silver Sponsors

Company About Us

Envision IT www.envisionit.com

Envision IT is an award winning Microsoft Gold Partner focused on SharePoint and Office 365. Our Extranet User Manager makes it easy for the business to collaborate with external partners, customers, vendors, etc.

Prize Sponsors

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Collabcon http://www.collabco

n.org

CollabCon is a Microsoft focused business and information technology conference that will help you discover creative and innovative business solutions through collaboration. Taking place March 9 -11, 2015 at the Metro Toronto Convention

Centre, it brings together world-class speakers talking about their areas of expertise in SharePoint, Yammer, and Office 365.

Crow Canyon Systems http://www.crowca

nyon.com

Crow Canyon provides a powerful and flexible suite of business applications for SharePoint, including Help Desk, Customer Service, Employee Services, Asset Management, HR, Facili ties, Marketing, Purchase Reqs, and others. Our applications deliver critical functionality to organizations all over the world, including major financial institutions,

government agencies, military units, colleges, corporations of all sizes, healthcare companies, and more. Based in California, and with over 16 years’ experience in developing business tools, Crow Canyon has earned its reputation as a leader in building applications on the Microsoft platform. Our programs run in all versions of SharePoint, including on-premise and Office 365/SharePoint Online. We also have successfully delivered many custom SharePoint

development projects, such as a quote generator, contract and document management, and freedom of information request. Along with this, we have a set of tools and web parts available that enhance the SharePoint platform.

Microsoft Canada www.microsoft.com

/canada

Established in 1985, Microsoft Canada Inc. is the Canadian subsidiary of Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq "MSFT"), the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Recognized as one of Canada's Great Places to Work, Microsoft Canada Co. provides nationwide sales, marketing, consulting and local support services. Headquartered in Mississauga, Microsoft Canada has nine regional offices across the country dedicated to empowering people through great software. Microsoft Canada is a creative workplace which

attracts the best and brightest talent in the IT industry who bring an ever evolving vision of the future to reality. Microsoft software helps businesses and consumers to reach their full potential, however they define it. Woven throughout daily l ife, whether it be work or play, Microsoft technologies flourish when they get into the hands of mill ions

of Canadian partners and customers enabling innovation often in new ways. Microsoft Canada is equally passionate about committing to Canadian communities. Since its inception, Microsoft Canada

has had a corporate giving philosophy that goes beyond financial donations to champion inventive forms of philanthropy. For more information on how Microsoft Canada has joined forces with organizations across Canada to make a difference

http://www.envisionit.com/

http://www.collabcon.org/

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and invest in local communities visit: http://www.microsoft.com/canada/potential/default.aspx.

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om

O'Reilly spreads the knowledge of innovators through its technology books, online serv ices, magazines, research, and tech conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the

technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from th e alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, O'Reilly has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.

SharePoint-Videos.com

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SharePoint-Videos.com provides training and on-demand consulting for SharePoint end users & administrators. Our goal is to enable sustainable SharePoint adoption within an organization and empower users to be more successful working

with SharePoint in their current work environment.

TekDog http://tekdoginc.com/

TekDog Inc. is a global leader in SharePoint and Nintex Workflow User Adoption and Training services. TekDog was founded to provide individuals as well as enterprises creative and innovative methods to drive adoption rates and ROI in these technologies.

What makes TekDog different is very simple. Passion. SharePoint and Nintex Workflow training & consulting is not just a job, it’s a l ifestyle. We live and breath these technologies, and it shows.

We don’t try to be everything to everybody, after all there are enough of those companies out there. We prefer to offer boutique services where we can be industry leaders and experts. So that’s who we are… a few people trying to make a big difference, while having a good time doing it. You can’t take yourself too seriously when you name your company TekDog,

right?

Wiley http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/

Wiley's Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly (STMS) business, also known as Wiley-Blackwell, serves the world's research and scholarly communities, and is the largest publisher for professional and scholarly societies. Wiley -Blackwell's programs encompass journals, books, major reference works, databases, and laboratory manuals, offered in print and electronically. Through Wiley Online Library, we provide online access to a broad range of STMS content: over 4 mill ion

articles from 1,500 journals, 9,000+ books, and many reference works and databases. Access to abstracts and searching is free, full content is accessible through licensing agreements, and large portions of the content are provided free or at nominal cost to nations in the developing world through partnerships with organizations such as HINARI, AGORA, and OARE.

Wiley's Professional Development business creates products and services that help customers become more effective in the workplace and achieve career success. It brings to life the ideas and best practices of thought leaders in business,

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2ToLead http://2tolead.com

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Our Speakers

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Vincent Biret [MVP] SharePoint Developer Negotium http://negotium.com

@baywet

SharePoint Geek for many years, I'm thril led to share a bit of SharePoint Knowledge with you!

http://www.algonquincollege.com/

http://negotium.com/


John Brown CEO

Helux Systems [email protected] www.heluxsystems.com

John Brown is the founder and Chief Executive Officer at Helux Systems Inc. Helux was formed in 2001 to focus on SharePoint technologies and Information Management, product development,

and professional services. John is considered a visionary by his peers and has been involved in Enterprise Content Management technologies since 1985. John started his career at SoftQuad, a pioneering company in internet and structured markup technologies, where he worked for 15 years. John has been involved in the implementation of over fifty SharePoint projects and brings

strong leadership and dedication to every engagement.

Peter Carson [MVP] President Envision IT

www.envisionit.com @carsonpeter

Peter is President of Envision IT, a Microsoft SharePoint MVP, and Virtual Technical Specialist with Microsoft Canada. Leading his team at Envision IT in the use and deep customization of SharePoint since 2001, he is also the VP of the Toronto SharePoint Users Group and Past

President of the International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners – Canadian Chapter. He is well recognized as an evangelist in the SharePoint community, speaking regularly at SharePoint user group meetings, conferences, Microsoft events such as SharePoint Conference, Tech Days, Convergence, and local universities.

Vlad Catrinescu [MVP]

VNext Solutions SharePoint Consultant @vladcatrinescu

http://absolute-sharepoint.com http://www.vnext.solutions

Vlad is a SharePoint Consultant specializing in analyzing and deploying your perfect SharePoint

Infrastructure. He also specializes into designing and implementing High Availability and Disaster Recovery SharePoint solutions as well as automating everything with the magic of PowerShell.

Vlad got the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award when he was 21 years old and is known in the community for his technical abilities and for founding the biggest and most active SharePoint Community that you can find at www.SharePoint-Community.net. Vlad also has his own blog at www.absolute-sharepoint.com and he often shares his knowledge by speaking at

local conferences and community events.

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.heluxsystems.com/

http://www.envisionit.com/

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http://www.vnext.solutions/


Nik Charlebois [MVP] Manager

IgniteSoft @NikCharlebois http://www.nikcharlebois.com

Nik is the Manager of the Collaboration & Corporate Systems team at Library and Archives Canada, as well as the owner of IgniteSoft, a company specializing moving small and medium

businesses to the cloud using Office 365. Awarded the titl e of MVP in 2014, Nik is always trying to innovate and tries to deliver relevant and useful content on his personnal Blog

John Calvert Chief Architect Software Craft, Inc. @softwarecraft99 http://softwarecraft.ca/

Mr. Calvert is a seasoned SharePoint and .NET solution architect with over 18 years experience developing business solutions for a wide variety of customers. Mr. Calvert has architected solutions and led teams for multi -mill ion dollar enterprise systems down to departmental scale

solutions. He is well versed in all aspects of the software development life-cycle including requirements, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment and support. He specializes in Microsoft technologies. Mr. Calvert has previously presented at SharePoint Summit Toronto 2014, SharePoint Saturday

Ottawa 2013 and several Ottawa user group meetings.

Dan Dwyer

Director IT Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement

http://www.cfhi-fcass.ca @dgdwyer

Director of IT @ CFHI

Involved in SharePoint since 2003 (Yikes...) Have managed numerous software projects and implementations including SharePoint 2007, 2010 and now 2013, Microsoft CRM, Office 365, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics. Currently

transforming our business processes using Office 365!!

http://www.nikcharlebois.com/

http://softwarecraft.ca/

http://www.cfhi-fcass.ca/


Nicolas Georgeault [MVP] Senior SharePoint Architect

Negotium http://www.negotium.com @ngeorgeault

Since 1996, Nicolas Georgeault works on portals and collaboration tools. More particularly on the social networks usage in a business context with open source and editor's solutions. Since

2001, he has specialized in the use and implementation of SharePoint. Senior SharePoint Architect for Negotium Technologies in Montreal, he has the honor of being MVP SharePoint Server for 5 years. He now works for developing a new concept called "Enterprise Brain" which is a method to get the best of Enterprise BigData using social mining tools. Although he recently

moved to Canada, it continues to participate in the French SharePoint user group in France and Montreal, and he leads the Office 365 User Group Montreal. He is with several of his colleagues MVP from the User Group SharePoint France (UGSF), an author of French books "MS SharePoint

Server 2010" and "MS SharePoint Server 2013" published by Editions Lavoisier under the direction of Pierre Erol Giraudy.

Jason Kaczor [MVP] SharePoint Architect/Consultant Illumination Industries Ltd

@jjkaczor

Jason Kaczor has been providing technical solutions to business problems for over 23 years; covering nearly all industry sectors.

He has been awarded Microsoft SharePoint MVP - Architecture in 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011 as well as being an external Microsoft "Virtual"-Technology Specialist (V-TS, VTS). Formerly a Premier Field Engineer/Rapid Response Engineer for Microsoft Canada, he provided

SharePoint and .NET expertise worldwide. While at Microsoft he was involved in several unique initiatives, including; Bad Guy Patrol and the Child Exploitation Tracking System (CETS).

He is active in many technology user group and community-based initiatives, most recently a co-founder of the Calgary SharePoint User Group (CalSPUG).

Noorez Khamis [MVP] ReyJen Inc. @nkhamis

http://www.khamis.net/blog

Noorez Khamis is a Microsoft recognized MVP in SharePoint Technologies. He has a background as a Senior Information Management Consultant & Senior SharePoint Solutions Architect with comprehensive experience in enterprise scale information solutions and portals.

His technical background involves the project management, envisioning, architecting and hands -on development of complex IT solutions. He has 13+ years of industry experience in a consulting capacity while having been directly involved in hundreds of projects spanning the entire

SharePoint spectrum including collaboration, document management, records management, business process management as well as web and enterprise content management solutions.

His latest experience includes the administration of large development teams in his roles as IT Director and Senior Consulting Manager at large consulting companies. As a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and a highly accomplished applications architect, Noorez has a strong base in on-premises and cloud based information solutions capable of guiding clients to meet their IT

needs. Noorez is also an active blogger, speaker, trainer, community contributor and an evangelist of the SharePoint platform.

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Kanwal Khipple [MVP] Founder

2toLead http://2tolead.com @kkhipple

Kanwal Khipple (@kkhipple) is the Founder of 2toLead, a one of a kind consulting services firm. Kanwal is a thought leader within the SharePoint industry, experienced in building engaging and

award winning solutions; most recently awarded Nielsen Norman award for the Top 10 Intranets for 2014. He continues to push for innovation and disruption in tackling business problems by leveraging the right blend of design and technology.

Kanwal has been recognized as a SharePoint Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Microsoft for the past five years (2009 to 2014).

Simon Langlois SharePoint Product Manager SherWeb

www.sherweb.com @SimonLanglois

Simon Langlois is a SharePoint Product Manager at SherWeb. He specializes in cloud technologies, specifically SharePoint Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud innovations, along with market trends for business applications and adoption. Having also worked for companies such as

IBM Canada, Simon has a concrete understanding of the challenges faced by corporate IT departments. His analytical mind and outgoing personality allow him to quickly pinpoint, structure and communicate key factors in strategic decision making. Simon holds an MBA from the Université de Sherbrooke and was a member of the Board of Directors for SharePoint

Summit 2014. He can be found on Twitter @SimonLanglois.

Sebastien Levert [MVP]

SharePoint Architect Pollen http://www.pollengroup.ca @sebastienlevert

I am a software architect being in the SharePoint / Office 365 world since more than 7 years

now. Based in Montreal, I am mainly focusing on the development side of the platform. I have worked with every versions of SharePoint, BPOS and Office 365. Always looking to keep my knowledge up to date, I have been recognized by Microsoft as MCTS, MCITP and MCPD on SharePoint Server 2010. I am also a very active member of the Quebec SharePoint User Group

and of the Office 365 User Group and I love to share my passion for technologies.

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http://www.sherweb.com/

http://www.pollengroup.ca/


Kendall Lougheed President

MicroWorks www.microworks.com

Kendall Lougheed founded Microworks in 1983 and is the company President. MicroWorks provides knowledge management (KM) solutions and supporting IT network infrastructure. In

the early 1990’s, Kendall began to integrate business strategy with IT strategy. He has refined Microworks’ processes over the years to develop a structured approach to technology strategy that is consistent with ISO standards and with Balanced Scorecard. Over the years, he has helped numerous organizations realize success by aligning IT to the business goals, identifying priority

initiatives, and developing a roadmap to implement the initiatives. In 2001, Microsoft SharePoint was released and Kendall immediately recognized it as the KM

tool of the future. He developed a SharePoint IM practice to help organizations implement KM solutions to meet the business needs defined in their IT/IM strategy. His particular interest is in group and consensus building, setting priorities, and focusing on user adoption.

Mike Maadarani MCM Consulting Senior SharePoint Architect

@mikemaadarani http://www.maadarani.com/blog

Mike Maadarani is a SharePoint Architect and had been providing strategic SharePoint solutions for the past 10 years. With over 18 years of IT industry experience, Mike spent the last few years managing and delivering SharePoint solutions to a wide range of mid to large scale projects. He

is an evangelist and visionary where he can and provide the business and technical leadership required for delivering successful global SharePoint projects. Mike is a Search and WCM expert and has deployed large SharePoint ECM and Collaboration implementations in North America.

Dave Martin Vice President of Product Marketing & Microsoft Alliance

Gimmal www.gimmal.com

Vice President of Product Marketing & Microsoft Alliance at Gimmal. Dave has been involved with Microsoft technologies and information management in one way or another for nearly 20 years. Throughout his career he has worked with Microsoft solutions and market leading

information management products as an analyst, marketing executive, systems integrator, and always to help organizations better leverage their investment in technology. He is currently responsible for Gimmal's go-to-market strategy and Microsoft relationship.

http://www.microworks.com/

http://www.maadarani.com/blog



Ryan Merpaw Vice President of Operations

Orangutech @RyanMerpaw www.merpaw.com www.orangutech.com

Ryan Merpaw is the Vice-President of Operations at Orangutech, an IT/Business solutions provider with offices in both Ottawa and Toronto. He has 20 years of experience in the software

industry, having provided clients with everything from technical support, development, business analysis, project management, senior management, and everything in between. Wi th a strong focus on the Microsoft product stack in the last 18 years, Ryan has specialized in SharePoint for the past 8 years. He is an active member of the Ottawa SharePoint community and this will be

his second time presenting at SharePoint Saturday.

Anthony Pham Product Support Manager KWizCom

@KWizCom www.kwizcom.com

As KWizCom's Product Support Manager and SharePoint Solution Specialist, Anthony’s specialty is helping users examine areas where they can improve their SharePoint environment through custom business applications. He has helped hundreds of SharePoint users build custom

business applications in SharePoint using web parts and templates.

Edwin Sarmiento [MVP]

Pythian www.pythian.com @EdwinMSarmiento

Edwin Sarmiento is a Microsoft Certified Master and a SQL Server MVP from Ottawa, Canada

specializing in high availability, disaster recovery and system infrastructures running on the Microsoft server technology stack - ranging from Active Directory to SharePoint and anything in between. He is very passionate about technology but has interests in music, professional and

organizational development, leadership and management matters when not working with databases. He lives up to his primary mission statement – “To help people and organizations grow and develop their full potential as God has planned for them."

http://www.merpaw.com/


http://www.kwizcom.com/

http://www.pythian.com/


Luca Scagliarini CEO

Expert System USA http://www.expertsystem.com @scagliarini

Luca leads Expert System USA and the worldwide sales organization. Prior to Expert System, as CEO Luca cofounded and launched ADmantX, contributed to an impressive first-year growth at

SiteSmith, which culminated in a sale to Metromedia Fiber Network, and has held leading positions at Hewlett Packard in the US and Italy. Luca holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and an Engineering degree from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

Julien Stroheker [MVP] Cloud Specialist - Microsoft Azure & Office 365

Pollen http://www.pollengroup.ca @Ju_stroh

I'm a passionate guy who love the technology, specially cloud concepts. MVP Azure and Co-founder of pimpthecloud.com blog and webcasts, I enjoy every moments to share my passion on Microsoft Azure and Office 365.

Serge Tremblay [MVP]

Victrix Senior Consultant @SergePoint

http://tremblayse.wordpress.com www.victrix.ca/accueil

Serge has been training and consulting with the SharePoint Technologies since 2001. He has

been an MCT since 2000 and has been awarded the MVP award for SharePoint since 2009. Serge is very active in the SharePoint community in Montral where he is leading the SharePoint Qubec User Group. He is passionate about SharePoint and has been speaking in multiple conferences

and events.

http://www.expertsystem.com/

http://www.pollengroup.ca/

http://tremblayse.wordpress.com/

http://www.victrix.ca/accueil


Amit Vasu Senior SharePoint Consultant

Momentum Digital Solutions http://www.momentum.com @amitvasu www.amitvasu.com/blog

Amit Vasu is Sr. SharePoint consultant, working on SharePoint and related technologies since 2003. For the past 10 years Amit is working at MS Partner OnX Enterprise Solutions. Amit's main

area of focus is creating business process automation with SharePoint and related technologies. He also has several years of experience building dashboards using Reporting Services. Amit also frequently participates in the SharePoint community events including SharePoint Saturday, SharePoint code camp and local user groups.

Fabrice Vaxelaire SharePoint Solutions Architect Victrix

http://www.victrix.ca @vaxpoint

SharePoint Solutions Architect, I'm a seasoned IT professional on Microsoft Solutions. I assess the Microsoft technologies to define and recommend the architecture, implementation and maintenance of internal and external information systems.

Randy Whitcroft

Syntapa President [email protected]

www.syntapa.com

Randy Whitcroft is the President of Syntapa Technologies Inc. He has spent over 20 years within

the technology industry and has held both individual contributor and management positions within Corel, Rational Software, and IBM just to name a few. Wanting to give back to the SharePoint community, Randy is one of the origina l founders of the SharePoint Ottawa Meetup

Group and also a founding co-chair of the SharePoint Saturday event in Ottawa.

http://www.momentum.com/

http://www.amitvasu.com/blog

http://www.victrix.ca/




David Wu Vice President of Canada

Concept Searching http://www.conceptsearching.com/wp

David Wu is the Vice President of Canada at Concept Searching. He possesses over 16 years of experience in the Information Technology industry. His broad skil l sets in both technology and

business enable him to communicate effectively to a wide audience at a technical and non-technical level. In his senior executive position, David is responsible for software sales, partnerships, and implementations of Concept Searching’s award winning flagship product conceptClassifier for SharePoint.

Mr. Wu has obtained the AIIM SharePoint Practitioner, SharePoint Specialist and Taxonomy and Metadata Practitioner designations and is the authorized AIIM Training Partner for Canada. In

addition he is the Senior Global trainer for the AIIM (Association for Information and Image Management) organization. David has taught many courses across North America and Europe. AIIM has been the leading non-profit organization focused on helping users to understand the challenges associated with managing documents, content, records, and business processes. AIIM

is also known as the enterprise content management (ECM) association.

http://www.conceptsearching.com/wp

http://www.conceptsearching.com/wp


Our Organizing Committee

Committee Member Bio

Nik Charlebois [MVP] Manager

IgniteSoft @NikCharlebois http://www.nikcharlebois.com

Nik is the Manager of the Collaboration & Corporate Systems team at Library and Archives Canada, as well as the owner of IgniteSoft, a company specializing moving small and

medium businesses to the cloud using Office 365. Awarded the title of MVP in 2014, Nik is always trying to innovate and tries to deliver relevant and useful content on his personnal Blog

Barry Doucette Orangutech President

Barry Doucette is the President and CEO of Orangutech. He is a leader in hi -tech consulting, services and solutions who understands how to motivate multiple corporate teams and develop rewarding client relationships. Corporate stakeholder success is his driving passion.

He leads Orangutech in all corporate functional areas (Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Customer Relationship Management, Operations, Finance and Delivery)

demanding Orangutech meet and exceed client’s expectations. Orangutech is a SharePoint information technology and system integrator focused on Records Management, Web Content Management, Workflow and SharePoint 2013 Migrations.

Richard Hagemeyer Richard is a professor at Algonquin College and has been a huge help to the Organizing Committee of SharePoint Saturday Ottawa since its first year.

Theresa Jamone

Since 2007, Theresa has been exploring and supporting small SharePoint installations. She

recently coordinated project tasks to migrate a few dozen sites to SharePoint 2013 and delivered introductory training to 50 plus users. Theresa enjoys networking with and learning new features from SharePoint administrators, business users and SharePoint champions.

http://www.nikcharlebois.com/


Nick Kellett [MVP] StoneShare Inc.

Chief technical Officer [email protected] @NickKellett www.stoneshare.com

Nick is a software technologist, speaker, instructor, and blogger with over fifteen years of professional experience.

He is currently focusing on web and Microsoft technologies, in particular SharePoint and cloud services. He is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP. His approach to software development is to combine cutting edge technology with proven

software best practices and frequent prototyping. This approach helps to deliver solutions that give clients maximum value and input while reducing their risk and expense.

Noorez Khamis [MVP] ReyJen Inc. @nkhamis


Noorez Khamis is a Microsoft recognized MVP in SharePoint Technologies. He has a background as a Senior Information Management Consultant & Senior SharePoint Solutions Architect with comprehensive experience in enterprise scale information

solutions and portals. His technical background involves the project management, envisioning, architecting and hands-on development of complex IT solutions. He has 13+ years of industry experience in

a consulting capacity while having been directly involved in hundreds of projects spanning the entire SharePoint spectrum including collaboration, document management, records management, business process management as well as web and enterprise content management solutions.

His latest experience includes the administration of large development teams in his roles as IT Director and Senior Consulting Manager at large consulting companies. As a Microsoft

SharePoint MVP and a highly accomplished applications architect, Noorez has a strong base in on-premises and cloud based information solutions capable of guiding clients to meet their IT needs. Noorez is also an active blogger, speaker, trainer, community contributor and an evangelist of the SharePoint platform.

Wes McDonald [MVP]

LIKE 10 INC. Principal Consultant @wesmacdonald http://blogs.like10.com

http://www.like10.com

As a principal consultant and Microsoft Evangelist working at LIKE 10 INC., Wes assists

organizations with setting up, configuring and implementing Microsoft SharePoint Server and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server to deliver new levels of productivity. Wes has been a Microsoft Visual Studio ALM MVP since 2008.


http://www.stoneshare.com/


http://blogs.like10.com/

http://www.like10.com/


Ryan Merpaw Vice President of Operations

Orangutech @RyanMerpaw www.merpaw.com www.orangutech.com

Ryan Merpaw is the Vice-President of Operations at Orangutech, an IT/Business solutions provider with offices in both Ottawa and Toronto. He has 20 years of experience in the

software industry, having provided clients with everything from technical support, development, business analysis, project management, senior management, and everything in between. With a strong focus on the Mi crosoft product stack in the last 18 years, Ryan has specialized in SharePoint for the past 8 years. He is an active member of the Ottawa

SharePoint community and this will be his second time presenting at SharePoint Saturday.

Amitabh Srivastav Senior Project Manager

Amitabh Srivastav is a Senior ECM / EIM Strategy Consultant / Program Manager with over

20+ years of IM/IT experience planning, managing, and delivering enterprise-wide

programs and projects with an aggregate value of $40 mill ion to private and public sector

clients. He has extensive knowledge and experience delivering business transformation

programs, business / IT enablement projects, change management initiatives, governance

strategies, IT roadmaps, and policies and procedures to clients. Since 2001, Amitabh has

used his ECM / EIM knowledge, combining it with strategic thinking and practical

implementation experience to deliver several enterprise-wide projects using products such

as SharePoint, Content Server / Livelink / GCDocs / RDIMS, Autonomy / Interwoven, and

Plumtree Enterprise Portal (now Oracle WebCenter). Amitabh has a Bachelor of Computer

Science (Hons.), Master of Science (Comp. Sc.), and Master of Science (Proj. Mgmt.)

degrees and is a PMP.

Randy Whitcroft

Syntapa President [email protected] www.syntapa.com

Randy Whitcroft is the President of Syntapa Technologies Inc. He has spent over 20 years

within the technology industry and has held both individual contributor and management positions within Corel, Rational Software, and IBM just to name a few. Wanting to give back to the SharePoint community, Randy is one of the original founders of the SharePoint Ottawa Meetup Group and also a founding co-chair of the SharePoint Saturday event in

Ottawa.

http://www.merpaw.com/




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