Mark Andrews' career in technology has been a varied one. Over the last 18 years, he has held several different positions ranging from customer service to quality assurance. In all of these positions, the responsibility for configuration management and build management has always fallen on Mark either personally or through one of the groups that he managed. Because of his "keeping a hand in" management style, he has been involved closely with the scripting and automation framework for this area. Creating scripted frameworks that intercommunicate across machines, operating systems, or domain boundaries is a passion for him.
Mahmoud El-bagoury is a Senior Web/Cloud Computing Developer. He is an MCSD and MCTS. He has been working in the ICT industry since 2005. He used to work with Ford Motors, US and Compuware, US as an Azure Cloud Solution Developer and Architect with the main focus on Azure deployment and automation process, Azure Cloud security, and developing SmartCloud-based web apps (SaaS).
He is one of the early adopters of Windows Azure in the Middle East and Africa. Also, he is among the rare developers in the world who use open source Apache SolrCloud solutions for Big Data search engine with Azure PaaS and Microsoft PowerSell.
Hosam Kamel is currently a Regional Technology Solution Professional working for MEA Center Of Expertise, specializing in Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Team Foundation Server. His main focus is helping software professionals and organizations build better applications and solutions using Microsoft Application Lifecycle Management technologies, practices, and tools. He works with development teams and helps them eliminate traditional silos between development, testing, and project management to establish cohesive processes with the Visual Studio ALM tools. His experience with Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio started with the beginning of the VSTS and its product family, nearly seven years ago.
He is also an active Visual Studio ALM Ranger with contributions to many projects. He has also authored several articles and spoken at various user groups, events, and conferences. You can find him sharing his experience on his technical blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/hkamel and on Twitter with his handler @HosamKamel.
Shay Levy works as a Systems Engineer for a government institute in Israel. He has over 20 years' experience, focusing on Microsoft server platforms, especially on Exchange and Active Directory.
He is a worldwide-known, knowledgeable figure in the PowerShell scripting arena, and is very active on forums and user-group sessions. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) at the John Bryce training center, and for his contribution to the community he has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for six years in a row.
He is the co-founder and the editor of the PowerShellMagazine.com website, and as a long time PowerShell community supporter he also moderates multiple PowerShell forums, including the official Microsoft PowerShell forum and The Official Scripting Guys Forum on Microsoft TechNet.
He often covers PowerShell related topics on his blog at http://PowerShay.com, and you can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ShayLevy.
Shay was also the technical reviewer of the best-selling PowerShell book, Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook by Mike Pfeiffer, Packt Publishing.