All Speakers

Marc is the Co-Founder and President of Sympraxis Consulting LLC, located in the Boston suburb of Newton, MA, USA. He is a three-time recipient of the Microsoft MVP award for SharePoint Server (2011, 2012, 2013) with 30 years of experience in technology professional services and software development. He is the developer of the popular jQuery Library for SharePoint Web Services (aka SPServices). Read Marc’s blog at http://sympmarc.com.

Gregory Hedges is a founding Managing Director of Protiviti and leads the firm’s Social Business consulting practice. He is a certified Community Specialist and certified Community Manager, skilled at developing and deploying Social strategies while assisting CEOs and other senior leaders to use social business to engage - not manage - their customers.  Greg strategizes with executives on ways that social communities might improve their business operations and, with particular knowledge and expertise in financial services, is adept at developing and deploying social strategies in an environment  of regulated online conversations.  Greg has led social business engagements across a number of industries including insurance, banking, energy and travel/tourism. He was a featured speaker at the recently completed 2012 Useful Social Media Conference in New York and has organized and led several webinars on the topic of Social Business.  He participated in this year’s SXSW Social Media event in Austin, sharing strategic perspectives with participants on social business community maturity.  Finally, he has facilitated a number  of roundtables for the National Association of Corporate Directors designed  to educate them on strategies and metrics to consider as they evaluate their companies’ strategic focus on social business.

​John is a part of the Google+ User Experience team in Mountain View, CA. There he conducts research on social interactions and interfaces to inform the user experience across Google’s properties. He formerly led the global User Experience practice at APCO Worldwide, a communications consultancy. John's background also includes more than seven years of work specializing in experience design, information architecture and usability evaluation for clients such as Coca-Cola, eBay, Ford's Theatre, Dow Corning, and MasterCard. He's designed successful websites, intranets and applications across a variety of development platforms, including Sharepoint. Follow him on Google+ and Twitter.

Corey Harrison is one of the founding members of the Protiviti SharePoint Business Consulting practice and has over 17 years of IT consulting experience. As an advocate for the configuration side of SharePoint implementations, Corey stresses the importance of strategic design as the predecessor to success.  His experience spans multiple industries within the public and private sectors and employment at multiple global service organizations, real estate investment firms and a start-up strategic consulting practice in Chicago.

Maggie Swearingen has more than six years’ experience managing Web projects from the ground up. As an Experience Architect she works with clients to audit their current website content and to create simple, effective information architecture, taxonomy and governance plans for their future site. Her experience working for and with associations, government agencies and education institutions makes her especially sensitive to the unique challenges these organizations face as they move forward creating a cohesive Web strategy. She specializes in Web content strategy, Web writing, social media strategy and helping organizations build their internal online communities. She has a Master’s in Communication, Culture and Technology from Georgetown University, and a Bachelor’s in Political Science and Journalism from Miami University.

Danny Jessee is a senior manager in the SharePoint practice at Protiviti. For over eight years, he has specialized in the development of custom SharePoint solutions that enable organizations to leverage the power and flexibility of the SharePoint platform to deliver business value and drive customer engagement. He holds an MCPD certification (SharePoint Developer 2010) and two MCTS certifications (SharePoint 2010, Application Development and SharePoint 2010, Configuring). Danny enjoys being active in the SharePoint community and has spoken at numerous user groups and community events around the country. His blog can be found at http://dannyjessee.com/blog and he can be reached on Twitter @dannyjessee.

Terry Simpson is an experienced project manager,  solutions architect, trainer and speaker.  Terry has spoken at numerous SharePoint events including SharePoint Conference.ORG, SUGDC, TheSUG, and several SharePoint Saturday events around the country.  As a SharePoint Solutions Architect, Terry specializes as a consultant for associations and non-profits. Terry is PMP certified, a part of the Microsoft VTSP program, graduate of Marshall University with a degree in Finance and also a graduate from Frostburg State University with a master’s degree in Business Administration. 

Sean is the “Lead Bitsmith” and owner of Bitstream Foundry, a software and custom development company based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Sean has been developing software and crafting solutions for over two decades, and he has focused on Microsoft’s SharePoint platform since 2004. Sean possesses a somewhat eclectic set of SharePoint skills that come from time spent in a diverse set of roles, including consultant, product manager, solution architect, team lead, administrator, and platform evangelist. Sean is an author, blogger, and frequent speaker/instructor at SharePoint conferences, user groups, and similar events all over North America. He can be reached through his blog (http://SharePointInterface.com) or Twitter (@spmcdonough).

Jakob Maciolek is responsible for and manages the Sales operation in the Americas for Nintex. He has been working with Nintex products for over 6 years as a SharePoint consultant, business development manager and trusted advisor with a focus in business process improvement.   Working with some of world’s largest mining and professional service companies, Jakob has advised on SharePoint and Nintex solutions in billion dollar industries.

Through this experience and understanding of SharePoint and Nintex in numerous other industries and business scenarios, he brings an excellent perspective on how workflow can be used in the real world.

Steve Witt is an experienced SharePoint/Web Consultant having worked with SharePoint dating back to its original release (SharePoint Team Services). Having worked with all aspects of SharePoint from Web Content Management, Search, Document Management and Collaboration to Business Intelligence, Integration and Business Intelligence he has worked with dozen of organizations on their SharePoint initiatives. Steve has nearly 20 years of digital marketing and consulting experience working with major brands in the publishing, association/nonprofit and media and entertainment industries. He is speaks frequently on SharePoint and acts as primary host/moderator for the ’30 on Thursdays’ webinar series.

As the Director of Software Development at LimeLeap, Jed works with developers and project managers at the intersection of business and technology to provide robust, cost effective, and scalable solutions for businesses.  With over 8 years of software development experience, he has a range of knowledge in Microsoft development technologies such as .NET, C#, and SQL Server.   In addition, Jed acts as a product manager for Pistachio – LimeLeap’s form and application building tool for SharePoint.  He holds a BS in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. He writes for the LimeLeap blog and he can be reached on Twitter: @JedLake.

Lisa Ruff is the Business Development Manager for Mobile Entrée. Lisa has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry. She has worked for both Hardware and Software organizations, including 13 years as a Technology Specialist with Microsoft Corporation, 12 of which were in the Federal Systems Organization, providing enterprise technical sales solutions to several US Government agencies including all branches of the DoD and many civilian divisions. Lisa presented on and demonstrated the full Microsoft Office System including SharePoint when it was first known as Tahoe.  Lisa graduated from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore MD and earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering. Lisa lives in Washington DC and loves to take advantage of all it has to offer.

Don Miller, Vice President of Sales at Concept Searching, has over 20 years’ experience in knowledge management. He is a frequent speaker on records management, and information architecture challenges and solutions as it applies to unstructured content. Don has been a guest speaker at Taxonomy Boot Camp, and numerous SharePoint events about information organization and records management. His broad skill set in both technology and business enable him to effectively communicate to a wide audience at a technical and non-technical level.

Troy has been active in the enterprise content management (ECM) industry for 20 years.  In his current role he is responsible for developing and nurturing strategic relationships in support of Bottomline’s SharePoint-powered document automation products. Prior to joining Bottomline, Troy was the Managing Vice President at 5280 Dynamics Solutions and oversaw all aspects of their document management practice.   He was integral to the creation and development of several award-winning SharePoint-based products and has a strong understanding of ECM technologies including capture, workflow, storage and records management.

Mohamed Elkholy is a Technical Specialist with K2, leading software solutions company providing BPM platforms for building workflow and process-driven applications. Mohamed has more than 8 years of extensive experience in Business Process Management as product expert for enterprise level BPM suites and implementing global projects in the EMEA region. Mohamed has shared his experience in BPM and Application Integration through numerous events and training global teams in all aspects of the BPM life-cycle from Business Analysis to Implementation and Deployment.  Prior joining K2, Mohamed was a Senior Technical Lead for BPM Suite provider Ultimus, based in Dubai and covering the Middle East and Africa region. Mohamed earned his Bachelor's degree at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology in Egypt.

Bill Holley has over 15 years of experience in the Document Imaging and Information Capture industry focusing in areas such as professional services, technical support, sales and business development.  Currently, Bill works for the Eastman Kodak Company as a Enterprise Solutions Manager.  Prior to Kodak, Bill was a sales engineer for Kofax Image Products and a professional services consultant for eSystems Group and CheckFree Corporation.  His primary mission today is to be an evangelist and help users understand the balance of working with paper documents in an electronic world and to see that the information contained on our paper documents today plays a vital role across the spectrum of document management and using SharePoint to search and retrieve those documents.  Bill can be found at http://twitter.com/billholley and http://linkedin.com/in/billholley.  

Marc Dreyfus is an specialist in Risk Management and Compliance at AvePoint, Inc. He is responsible for advising and informing AvePoint's customers on industry trends, best practices, and new technologies for data governance and compliance. Marc is a published author with 5 patents and 15 years of experience in collaborative computing and end-user solutions. Marc holds a BA from Emory University and attended the MBA program at Georgia State University.

With 15 years of experience in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) space, Lee Duis is an industry veteran who has successfully architected and deployed hundreds of ECM solutions. In his current role, Duis provides technical sales support for KnowledgeLake, the market leader in Microsoft SharePoint ECM solutions. Duis leverages his extensive, technical knowledge of ECM, SharePoint and KnowledgeLake’s award-winning suite of products and solutions to support and build sales growth. Duis provides technical presentations and demonstrations and assists in other sales activities, such as the configuration of software and envisioning/architecting solutions to customer business requirements. Duis’s business process knowledge, combined with his very strong technical skills, enable him to successfully assess potential applications of KnowledgeLake products and services to offer solutions that not only meet, but exceed, the individual business objectives of each client.