Stefan Goßner works for Microsoft as a Senior Escalation Engineer in Microsoft Global Business Support. He provides third-level support for SharePoint products and technologies and Microsoft Content Management Server to customers. In this role he works directly with the product group to address customer problems through the development team if required.
He provides SharePoint related information on his personal blog: http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner. The information he shares on his blog and his contribution in SharePoint forums have helped many customers around the globe to implement and maintain stable SharePoint environments.
He has co-authored the books Building Websites With Microsoft Content Management Server (ISBN 1-904811-16-7, Packt Publishing), Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development (ISBN 1-904811-53-1, Packt Publishing), and Enhancing Microsoft Content Management Server with ASP.NET 2.0 (ISBN 1-904811-52-3, Packt Publishing) as well as several whitepapers around SharePoint.
He lives in Munich, Germany.
Sothilingam Jeyashanker is a Senior Consultant with NCS Pte Ltd. He enjoys solution design, administration, and development on the Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies platform. He has worked for many Microsoft Gold Partner companies as a consultant in the past years in Singapore. He obtained his Masters degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, India.
Michael Nemtsev is a Senior Consultant working at Microsoft, helping clients to improve business productivity and collaboration using Office365, SharePoint, and Azure.
Doug Ortiz is an independent consultant whose skillset encompasses multiple platforms, such as .Net, SharePoint, Office, and SQL Server.
He possesses a Master's degree in Relational Databases and has over 20 years of experience in Information Technology. Of those years half have been within .Net and SharePoint. His roles have ranged from Architecture, Implementation, Administration, Disaster Recovery, Migrations, Development and Automation of Information Systems; in and outside of SharePoint.
He is the founder of Illustris, LLC and can be reached at <[email protected]>. He has experience in integrating multiple platforms and products with the purpose of sharing data, and has improved, salvaged, and architected projects by utilizing unique and innovative techniques.
His hobbies include Yoga and Scuba diving.
Richard Paterson is co-founder and Director of the international Microsoft Partner BrightStarr, specializing in SharePoint, Cloud, and Apps. He provides technical and architectural leadership to a team of consultants, architects, and software developers. He has been designing and developing for the web since its inception, and is passionate about its application in the business environment.
Prior to founding BrightStarr, he worked as an architect and developer in a broad range of industries, including weapons modeling and psychometric profiling.
In 2009, he was selected as one of the United Kingdom's top 30 young entrepreneurs in recognition of the rapid international growth of BrightStarr.
He has an Honors degree in Physics and is Microsoft accredited. Outside of work, he is a committed family man and an enthusiastic triathlete.
Daniele Proietti is a Microsoft-certified SharePoint architect and trainer with more than 20 years of experience in design and development of software. He has been working with SharePoint since version 2003.
He has a strong background in .NET, SQL Server, BizTalk, PowerBuilder, and Sybase.
He has worked on important projects for telecommunications, banking, insurance, public administration, financial police, utilities, and industry as technical specialist, team leader, and technical account manager.
He maintains a technical blog at http://blogs.ugidotnet.org/dproietti.
His LinkedIn profile is http://www.linkedin.com/in/danieleproietti.
Mikhail Pushin is an independent SharePoint Consultant who came into SharePoint world from the open source world. He has good expertise in both SharePoint administration and development fields.
He is an active member of the SharePoint community, and the majority of his answers (more than 300 per quarter) are marked as helpful and as solutions on Microsoft and Stack Exchange Forums.
He has widespread experience in SharePoint development; however, his favorite field is the new 2013 Workflow platform where he has very good insight. He shares this knowledge on his blog at http://sp2013.pro, where he publishes useful information and solutions, based on his experience in SharePoint world.