Nicknamed "Mr. Turnaround" Melvin has more than 20 years of experience in the Turnaround and Knowledge Management business. Melvin serves as the Chief of Staff, for the Office of Information Technology, at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, with the Department of Homeland Security. He is an adjunct professor for Leadership and Management for the University of Phoenix. Melvin is also president of MC Brown & Associates LLC, a small management and training consulting firm. He is currently working on his first book "The Drive of Your Life".

Tony Byrne oversees all Real Story Group's technology streams.

In 2001, Tony founded CMS Watch as a vendor-independent analyst firm that evaluates digital markting and workplace technologies and publishes research comparing different solutions head-to-head. Today Real Story Group covers ten different marketplaces, with a focus on customer experience technologies. 

Unique in the analyst industry, Real Story Group only works for technology buyers and never vendors.  RSG's vendor evaluations are considered the toughest in the industry, and research and advisory services for DX/CX stack owners offers unique candor and depth.

 

A founding principal of AKG, Andy's skills and expertise have contributed greatly to AKG along with his vision for a company that values people first and foremost. Andy has extensive experience as a management consultant with a focus on government and larger organizations. His background includes experience in the national security community, as well as experience in the White House, working in the Office of the Vice President on the National Performance Review Team. As Senior Partner, he is a key resource leading high level consulting engagements, focused on helping executive management to recognize and achieve their goals.

Russ is the Founder, President & CEO of Corridor Company, a Software Development and Consulting Company, focused specifically on Microsoft SharePoint and the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) industry.  Russ is an active industry analyst helping to define key industry trends by contributing to media outlets including HBR, CNBC, InformationWeek, CIO Magazine, AIIM Infonomics and KMWorld.  He is a featured speaker at industry conferences and sits on a number of emerging technology committees in the ECM industry. He is one of the originating members of www.sharepointgovernance.org, a non-profit, peer-to-peer site for organizations planning, introducing, and managing SharePoint.

In 2008, Russ also co-authored his first book titled "Nice Guys Can Get The Corner Office", published by the Penguin Group in 2008.  It has received international praise and he is regularly featured on TV, radio, magazine and podcast interviews.  Russ is also a regular blogger on CNBC and Huffington-Post as he reports on relevant management trends.

Martin Garland has over 20 years experience in the knowledge management industry focusing on sales, marketing and general management, with expertise in both start-up and turn around operations throughout Europe, the US and Asia Pacific.  One of the founders of Concept Searching, Martin is responsible for North American and International operations.

Jarrod Gingras is Real Story Group’s Managing Director and an analyst covering Digital Workplace and Marketing technologies. He is the author of The Right Way to Select Technology, published by Rosenfeld Media.

As a conference speaker and consultant, he regularly advises some of the world’s largest and most complicated enterprises on their enterprise information challenges.

Prior to joining Real Story Group, Jarrod worked as a web developer, information architect and user interface designer at a systems integration firm, where he developed user-focused content management strategies and solutions for clients in a multitude of industries.

Jarrod’s passions include following Boston’s sports teams, relaxing in Costa Rica with his wife Lindsey, and helping enterprises select the right technology for their unique needs.

"Know what you know, know what you don't know, and never confuse the two." - The MCM Motto

Over the past 7 years I have had the pleasure of working extensively with SharePoint as an end user, developer, administrator, architect, business analyst, and consultant. In this time I defined, architected, developed, and implemented well over a hundred SharePoint solutions from small implementations of WSS on a single server, to 80,000+ user implementations in international organizations.

Technology, challenges, and business are the things I am most passionate about. These passions have resulted in me working with truly fantastic people who I admire, and respect for their dedication, intelligence, and generosity. I absolutely love learning, and have found that people seem to love teaching, sharing, and helping as much as I do. As a result I have a habit of getting involved in a great many community and professional events (organizing and presenting) which always leave me a bit smarter, stronger, more humbled and better off.

I hope to see you/speak with you at SharePoint Symposium as it's an amazing event where hundreds of people exchange and share experience, knowledge, and relationships to help us all become even better at our jobs and the things we are passionate about.

A proven leader in Content and Information Management, Laurence has two decades of experience solving the challenges organizations face as they implement and deploy information solutions. The author of Word of Pie, Laurence is a respected voice in the industry, contributing to multiple publications and speaking regularly on Content and Information Management and how technology can address the challenges people face today and tomorrow.

Laurence helps organizations develop and implement their Content Management and Information Governance strategies. He has led a wide range of projects including content digitization, Records Management, BPM, and Collaboration for both the commercial and public sectors. These projects have spanned multiple technologies from proprietary systems, such as Documentum and SharePoint, to open source solutions including Alfresco and Nuxeo.

 

Kathleen is Vice President of Northeast Federal Operations for DSA. She also functions as Program Director, responsible for the overall performance of a contract for the U.S. Army Program Executive Office Command, Control, and Communications Tactical (PEO C3T). She leads the team which provides a Knowledge Management Portal and Services, Web 2.0 Solutions, Collaboration and Project Management Solutions, and Tactical Applications. Her projects have received the Knowledge Transformation Initiative Award and the Government Technology Leadership Award. Kathleen was awarded an MBA in Business Administration from Penn State University and a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Drexel University. She is a Certified Lotus Notes Application Developer, and is Lean Six Sigma Certified.

Rob serves content and collaboration professionals with research in the areas of information workplace and collaboration strategy. Rob delivers strategic guidance, helping enterprises define enterprise that drive efficiency and competitive differentiation. His current research focuses on core elements of collaboration strategy including collaboration platforms, workspaces and enterprise social strategy.

Rob comes to Forrester with many years of experience in enterprise software consulting, product marketing, product management, and strategy. Most recently, he was director of product management with Microsoft where he played a strategic role with Duet, a joint initiative brought to market with SAP. Prior to Microsoft, Rob was a senior director of product marketing with Oracle Corporation where he focused on Oracle's content, collaboration, portal and business intelligence offerings. He also spent fifteen years in consulting working for Lotus/ IBM and other global software services firms with a focus on corporate collaboration.

Rob holds a BA in Economics from The University of California, Davis.

A former technical editor and writer for the Boeing Company, Hugh McKellar has more than 30 years of experience with the technical and business press in a variety of management roles. Prior to joining KMWorld as Executive Editor in 1999, Hugh developed business plans and content strategies for a number of B2B Web sites. He is a member of the founding board of governors for The George Washington University Institute for Knowledge and Innovation.

Mark Miller
Founder and Editor, EndUserSharePoint.com
Chief Community Officer and SharePoint Evangelist, Global 360

Mark Miller is Founder and Editor of EndUserSharePoint.com (www.EndUserSharePoint.com) and the Chief Community Officer and SharePoint Evangelist for Global 360.
 
Mark is a dedicated evangelist for the Information Workers, Site Managers and Site Collection Administrators of SharePoint. He is a frequent speaker at SharePoint Saturday events, international conferences and online webcasts. His current concentration is to introduce the ideas of business process management to SharePoint Site Administrators. Mark's newest project is working with Joel Oleson (www.SharePointJoel.com) and Jeremy Thake (www.SharePointDevWiki.com) to create the world's largest  SharePoint Community site.
 
EndUserSharePoint.com is a community of dozens of SharePoint authors dedicated to providing support and encouragement for the SharePoint End User. The site holds one of the world's largest SharePoint jQuery solutions repositories, including over 1600 articles and 12,000 comments, all written for SharePoint End Users. EUSP receives 50,000 unique page views a week, has a Weekly Newsletter subscription base of 13,700 readers and handles hundreds of questions weekly through the Stump the Panel: SharePoint Q&A Forum.

Corey J. Milliman is a Systems Engineer, based in AvePoint's McLean, VA regional office, and has extensive experience in implementing AvePoint solutions into complex SharePoint deployments within the federal government, and the private sector in the Mid-Atlantic region. With over thirteen years of experience in SharePoint and SharePoint deployment, Milliman is well-versed in implementing and maintaining SharePoint portals and sites as well as developing custom applications. His expertise and contributions to the SharePoint community have earned him speaking opportunities at technical conferences, symposiums, and user groups throughout North America.

Lynda Moulton is principal consultant at LWM Technology Services, with an area of focus on practices and technologies that support enterprise information and knowledge asset management. Lynda currently blogs on enterprise search at Bluebill Advisors [http://bluebillinc.com/author/lynda-moulton/], and researches and writes on knowledge management and information technologies. In 2008 she wrote the Gilbane report: Enterprise Search Markets and Applications; Capitalizing on Emerging Demand and was the principal writer of a 2010 study, Semantic Software Technologies; Landscape of High Value Applications for the Enterprise. Lynda is a leader in the Boston KM Forum, and recently taught "Organizing and Accessing Information and Knowledge: Practice and Methods" for Columbia University's Master of Science in Information and Knowledge Strategy program.  She is co-authoring a book on practical KM with Larry Chait for publication in early 2014. You can find links to past publications and presentations at http://www.lwmtechnology.com.

As VP & MD of VOCalis at Digital Clarity Group, Alan has extensive experience working with senior executives around the world in business and IT. He has managed international teams of consultants and analysts focused on a wide range of business application software projects.

His work encompasses channel and partner management, project and change management, digital transformation and content management.

Alan has given keynotes, speeches and runs workshops around the globe. He is regularly quoted in both the business and IT press, including the BBC, Wall Street Journal, The Register and TechCrunch. Over the course of his career he has written literally hundreds of reports and authored the first book-length study in 1999 of the then newly emerging Web Content Management (WCM) sector.

Prior to DCG, Alan was the Research Director for Business Applications at 451 Research, and prior to that he was a partner and analyst at Real Story Group. Alan’s career has encompassed both consulting and analysis work, running the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) consulting practice at Indian outsourcing firm Wipro and starting his IT career with 10 years as a freelance consultant in the Oil & Gas sector. Originally from the UK, Alan moved to the Boston area in 2002 to run the North American division of research firm Ovum and in time settled and now calls the US home. Alan studied at the University of Leicester in England and later trained as an analytical psychotherapist.

Alan lives in rural New England with his wife, youngest daughter, and their overweight cat. Alan volunteers time in prisons running Alternative to Violence (AVP) workshops for and with inmates. He is also a sometime screen actor and when he has the time loves to fence competitively (Sabre).

Shannon has cemented his position in an international network of Internet authorities. A snapshot of his speaking engagements include Enterprise 2.0 Conference, Safeguard Scientifics' Think Again conference, the Internet Marketing Conference, the Gilbane CMS Boston, Paine Webber's Growth and Technology conference, and numerous others. He is a regular and reliable source of information for the media about web strategy, execution and metrics.

With a proven record of building lasting relationships, Shannon's unique business experience offers clients more than expertise in web services. In senior roles before non-linear creations, Shannon raised USD $21.5 million in financing for a software analytics company, and recruited teams of developers from Russia and drove sales activities in Siberia for a US based software company in the oil and gas industry.  Shannon holds a B.A. in Soviet and Eastern European Studies from Carleton University and a Masters in International Business from the University of Vienna. An avid world traveler, Shannon can speak fluent Russian, passable German and restaurant French. 

For more information about Shannon Ryan and non-linear creations, go to www.nonlinearcreations.com or go to Shannon's blog at www.nonlinearcreations.com/blog

 

Lt Col David Sanchez, USAFR, Deputy PM, USAF Pilot Physician Program, is an Individual Mobilization Augmentee attached to the Pilot Physician Program for the Air Force Medical Service. Focused on the subject of metadata driven application of policies for both Information and Knowledge Operations. Lt Col Sanchez also serves as an Air Force Medical Service representative to various working groups is responsible for exploiting the SharePoint ECAL Suite Enterprise Agreement for the Air Force Medical Service by driving the ability to leverage automatic metadata tagging capabilities and Managed Metadata Services within SharePoint 2010.

Shawn Shell is the Executive responsible for Avanade’s Advisory Services practice in the mid-West. Shawn has spent nearly 30 years in the information technology field. For more than a decade, Shawn has concentrated on assisting his clients chart their journey to improved operations and employee productivity through various portal & collaboration solutions, as well as enabling operational technologies. He is an expert on SharePoint, Office 365, cloud-based application development, and IoT solutions. Shawn is also a Contributing Analyst for the Real Story Group and a frequent conference speaker.

Prior to Avanade, Shawn was a Vice President in Hitachi Consulting’s Digital Practice. He was also Founder & Principal Consultant at Consejo, Inc, held various leadership roles at Dell, was an adjunct professor in Rutgers University’s Department of Computer Science, and started his career at Warner-Lambert Company, now Pfizer.

You can follow Shawn on Twitter (@shawnshell)

With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management, Dux has earned a reputation as among the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), he is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, Inc., a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner focused on leading, inspiring and being the catalyst of organizational transformation that enables clients to achieve tangible business result. As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, he is the author of "SharePoint for Project Management" published by O'Reilly Media. He is focused on empowering organizations on how to leverage the benefits of SharePoint technologies with quantifiable goals such as: Increasing productivity and efficiency, decreasing collaboration redundancies and streamlining electronic communications. He has successfully managed the implementation of various SharePoint-based solutions for commercial, educational and government institutions.

A sought after speaker, Dux has presented in various Microsoft and Project Management Institute (PMI) events worldwide. He regularly blogs on topics related to project management, SharePoint and globalization at MeetDux.com.

Ms. Tabuchi is an expert in information architecture, taxonomy design, and portal strategy for clients in the government, media, hospitality, and products industries. She has significant experience in the design, maintenance, and content management of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and 2007and Oracle Web Center portal and related systems. In addition, she possesses expertise in web usability and project strategy.  She is a frequent speaker on topics including taxonomy design, social computing, portal strategy, content management, and web usability.

Previously, Ms. Tabuchi was an information architect for a major federal government agency IT modernization program.  She coordinated the taxonomy design, content management and analysis for a critical public facing information system that provided government transparency to the public.  Ms. Tabuchi has provided similar services for a wide array of clients including United States Senate, Government of Bermuda, Johnson and Johnson, and Jacobs Engineering.

Jay Ven Eman has been with Access Innovations since late 1978. He has been active in all aspects of its business. He has overseen Access' database production services where he was responsible for the design and conversion of large, legacy databases for a variety of government and commercial organizations. He writes, gives workshops, consults, and helps build large-scale, complex, information rich databases. He has presented papers and workshops at ASIS&T, SLA, ASIDIC, InternetWorld, Online - London, AGSI - Netherlands, and many others. Before joining Access, he worked for the University of New Mexico at the Technology Applications Center, operated under a contract from NASA. He specialized in technology transfer and information dissemination of space technology to the commercial arena. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Fabian is a Technical Lead and SharePoint Architect for CDW Advanced Technology Services SharePoint Practice. He is based out of Herndon, Va. Prior to CDW, Fabian was the CTO for WING, Inc. Recently, he was the Chief Internet Developer for the Department of Defense's Global Emerging Infections System and a Sales Engineer at Citrix Incorporated. Catch him on Twitter as @FabianWilliams or his blog at fabiangwilliams.wordpress.com