Highlighting Australian MVPs who work on the Office System

Lucy  Thomson , Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor 

Lucy set up 'an easier tomorrow' in 2006 with two goals: to rid South Australia of bad PowerPoint and to raise the bar on I.T. training. A passionate speaker and advocate of PowerPoint, her work has been seen on the international conference stage, been used for international tenders and has even been known to get a standing ovation in the tricky after lunch slot. An enthusiastic trainer who fell into I.T. (unlike most I.T. trainers who come the other way) Lucy brings a couple of things to computer training many have never experienced in that context before - relevance and fun.

Lucy was born & raised in Leicester (England), spent a year in Zhongshan (China) teaching English, moved to Edinburgh (Scotland) and now lives in Adelaide (Australia). She is hoping to pass her citizenship test and claim Australian citizenship in 2008 so that she finally has a cricket team worth supporting.

 

Sezai  Kömür , MCTS 

Based in Perth, Western Australia, I am a SharePoint Technical Lead at Ignia (Microsoft Gold Partner)      http://www.ignia.com.au

Ignia specialise in custom .NET systems and business systems integration with Microsoft CRM and SharePoint to support powerful Intranet, Document Management, Knowledge Management and Workflow solutions. I have been working with MOSS 2007 & WSS 3.0 since early 2006, and originally started working with SharePoint Portal Server back in 2005.

 

Daniel William Brown , MCP, MCTS 

Daniel is a Senior Application Developer and Senior SharePoint Architect at Hostworks in Adelaide, Australia.  At Hostworks Daniel’s main duties include developing internal applications in C# and Microsoft Office SharePoint as well as  client SharePoint implementations.

He is a member of the Australian Computer Society and International Association of Software Architects. Previous to being employed at Hostworks, Daniel was employed at OBS as a Solutions Consultant dealing with both SharePoint Portal Services 2003 and WSSv3/Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

 

Marc  Soester

Marc is the National Manager for Enterprise Project Management in Australia and has many years experience implementing Project Server. Marc is the first Project MVP in Australia.

 

Ivan Wilson

Based in Sydney, Australia, I have been working with SharePoint since 2001. In 2004 I set up the Sydney SharePoint User Group and am still actively involved in the running of it.
I focus mainly on architecting solutions on SharePoint and helping organizations understand how they can get the best use out of their existing technologies on the SharePoint platform.

 

Ishai  Sagi , BSC, MCTS in MOSS and WSS development

I am a sharepoint developer and solution architect, currently working for Unique World (Microsoft Gold Partner) in Australia - www.uniqueworld.net
I have been working in the past with many sharepoint solution providers such as www.omnisys.co.il , www.kwizcom.com and www.infowize.co.il
I have a blog dealing with sharepoint development and related issue where I publish my code samples and "how to" articles - www.sharepoint-tips.com
I have been awared the MVP award from Microsoft on 1/4/2007 and again on 1/4/2008

 

Glen  Scales

I’m from Sydney Australia and I've been working in IT for 11 years I’m a MCSE and MCDBA, Over my time in IT I’ve worked in and for a number of large multinational, local governments and SMB businesses.  I’ve been working with Exchange for about 9 years in a number of different environments from SBS to multi-site installations. I been writing a Exchange blog at http://gsexdev.blogspot.com for about 3 years which is my creative outlet. I’m a passionate scripter and out of box thinker and spend a lot of time writing Exchange and LCS scripts. When I’m not working in IT I’m usually playing around on my guitar but I won’t be quitting my day job any time soon.

 

John Graham McGhie

I work as a Technical Writer and Business Analyst, consulting on large-scale technical writing projects, and selling Microsoft Word Solutions (templates and VBA macros).  I have been a professional writer since 1973, first as a journalist and then as a technical writer.  I have operated my own consultancy company since 1993, working mainly in software documentation for major corporations.  I live in Sydney, Australia and outside of work have interests in motorcycling and addiction recovery.

 

Ben  Walters , MCSD

I've been in the Software industry for 8 years now, I have developed a number of InfoPath solutions at an enterprise level both with and without managed code. I have also delievered a number of SharePoint solutions that incorporate the use of InfoPath.  In addition to my work with InfoPath I'm also one of the founding board members of MOSSIG (Microsoft Office System Special Interest Group) based in Melbourne.