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Brian Lewis is our Microsoft IT Pro Evangelist. He enjoys working with all computer and networking technologies. He enjoys everything from programming and scripting to working with all types of infrastructure. There just isn’t a technology that isn’t interesting to him. Brian enjoys several hobbies outside of computers including rock climbing, trail biking, and swimming. Brian received his Bachelors degree in Management of Information Systems from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. One of Brian’s passions is computer security and he holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification among other computer industry certifications.
You can follow Brian on his blog at: Brian Lewis' Blog

Michael Collier is a Windows Azure MVP and serves as a National Architect for Neudesic, a Microsoft SI partner that specializes in Windows Azure. He has nearly 11 years of experience building Microsoft-based applications for a wide range of clients. Michael spends his days serving as a developer or architect – helping clients succeed with the Microsoft development platform. He gets very “geeked up” about any new technology, tool, or technique that makes his development life easier. He is also an avid golfer and attempts to be good at shooters on the Xbox 360. Michael also speaks nationally on Windows Azure - previous speaking engagements include multiple regional user groups, CodeMash 2011, Cloud Connections, Cloud Expo, and multiple Windows Azure Boot Camp events.
You can follow Michael on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/MichaelCollier
and on his blog at: www.MichaelCollier.com

Brian H. Prince is a Principal Cloud Evangelist for Microsoft, based in the US.
He gets super excited whenever he talks about technology, especially cloud computing, patterns, and practices. His job is to help customers strategically leverage technology, and help them bring their architecture to a super level.
In a past life Brian was a part of super startups, super marketing firms, and super consulting firms. Much of his super architecture background includes building super scalable applications, application integration, and award winning web applications. All of them were super.
Further, he is a co-founder of the non-profit organization CodeMash (www.codemash.org). He speaks at various international technology conferences. He only wishes his job didn’t require him to say ‘super’ so much.
Brian is the co-author of “Azure in Action”, published by Manning Press.
Brian holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and Physics from Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. He is also a zealous gamer. For example, he is a huge fan of Fallout 3, Portal, and pretty much every other game he plays.
You can follow Brian on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/brianhprince
and on his blog at: www.brianHprince.com

Rich Werhun has over 2 decades of technology experience and was an early adopter of virtualization with VMware and storage virtualization with DataCore Software. Today as a Sales Engineer with StorageCraft, Rich helps VARs and MSPs gain greater market share and deliver greater business value to their customers by leveraging StorageCraft at the core in their best-of-breed solutions architecture.

Tony Maddin is a Senior Practice Consultant with Ascendum Solutions in Blue Ash, Ohio. Tony has 15 years of experience as a web developer, web administrator, web applications administrator, and 7 years as a SharePoint administrator. He serves on the University of Dayton MIS Advisory Board. And a member of Dayton Technology First, Dayton Business Leaders and Manager’s group, DANPA, Cincinnati SharePoint User Group, and Buckeye SharePoint User Group. Tony's passion is technology and his view on SharePoint administration encompasses: installation, automation, workflows, power user items, disaster recovery, and performance tuning. He especially enjoys achieving quality results working with myriad business entities to leverage SharePoint as a platform to meet not only their needs, but also those for their customers. Tony is also the founder and owner of the Dayton SharePoint User Group (DAYSPUG).
You can follow Tony on his blog at: www.tonymaddin.com

Sean M. Darragh is the Security Principal for Ascendum Solutions in Blue Ash, Ohio. From an early age, Mr. Darragh has specialized in analyzing situations from a "Breaker's" viewpoint. Naturally, for the past 16 years, Sean has utilized his "Breaker" powers to provide consulting services for Penetration testing of Networks, cloud services, and Web Applications, Risk Analysis, and the destructing of contract language for large utilities, higher education, financial firms, medical companies and various tri-state fortune 500s. Sean holds the C.I.S.S.P. certification, is a member of O.W.A.S.P., ISACA, and InfraGard.

Kevin Royalty is a Managing Partner, MCSE & SBS MVP, at Total Care Computer Consulting
Since 1986, Kevin has been satisfying the needs of clients as an IT professional. He is a Computer Science graduate, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, and is certified by Microsoft for support of their Small Business Server products.
He is the Managing Partner of Total Care Computer Consulting, a leading Cincinnati-based consulting firm that serves the IT needs of small and medium businesses in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Since 1986, he’s held programming and network engineering positions in large companies including but not limited to Chiquita Brands, Computer Sciences Corp, Kroger, Anthem, Nationwide, and Great American Insurance. He currently serves as President of the International Association of Microsoft Channel Partners – Cincinnati Chapter (www.iamcp-us.org), President Emeritus of Cincinnati Network Professional Association (www.cinpa.org); President of the Cincinnati Small Business Server Users Group; Member Emeritus of Microsoft’s Small Business Specialist Advisory Board; Board Member Emeritus of the Information Technology Advisory Team for the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and CincyTechUSA. Six year member of Business Network International.
He has been recognized by Microsoft as a leading expert on their influential Small Business Server product line for the 6th year. The “Most Valuable Professional” (MVP) designation is a rare honor that is bestowed on a small number of people each year worldwide. It recognizes product expertise, community leadership, and willingness to help others. He is a nationally known Small Business Server expert, author, and regular speaker at industry conferences throughout the United States.

Steven Goddard is Senior Program Manager for Windows MultiPoint Server team. Since joining Microsoft in 1994, Steven has served in various engineering and management roles across Microsoft product groups such as Small Business Server, Windows Home Server, Exchange Server, and Mobile Information Server. Prior to joining Microsoft, Steven was a Engineer at Xerox Canada and British Columbia Systems Corporation. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of New Brunswick, Canada.
You can follow Steve on his blog at: TechNet MultiPoint Server Blog

Ryan Troy has over 15 years of Unix/Linux system administrator experience, working in diverse industries that range from web hosting to sales. He has an entrepreneur spirit and has owned two businesses in the hosting industry over the years. He is passionate about virtualization, specifically Hyper-V and VMware technologies. Ryan is certified in both virtualization platforms and is a published author with O’Reilly on VMware. In addition to VMware, he is also fluent with OpenVZ, Xen (open source) and Hyper-V. He has written articles for Linux + magazine. He also founded the now-official Ubuntu Linux forums (http://www.ubuntuforums.org) in October 2004; he transferred ownership to Canonical in June 2007.

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