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Presenters Biodata

 Aaron Tan Dani
Alistair Speirs
Andrew Donnelly
Andrew McMurray
Azra Rizal Noor Azman
Bikesh Lakhmichand
Chad Hower
Ching Loong Poo
Chris Ismael
Daniel van Soest
David Foo
David Tesar
Deepak Setty
Dennis Chung
Dirk Primbs
Edwin Sarmiento
Ervin Loh
Gareth Alun Jones
Gerald Hoong
Hak Teng Quah
Il-Sung Lee
Jeff King
Jeff Low
Jerald Cheong
Joel Oleson
Joey Gurango
John Phillips
Joy Rathnayake
Justin Francis
Justin Lee
Ken Schaefer
Kok Chiann
Lai Hoong Fai
Lim Fun Jin
Lisa Feigenbaum
Loke Uei Tan
Lutz Seidemann
Lv Chong
Maung Maung Phyo
Milan Gross
Nadzif Jay
Nicole Loh
Nigel Watling
Oliver Scheer
Orin Thomas
Patrick Yong
Poh Sze Lim
Prasanna Amirthalingam
Rajeev Natarajan
Ralf M. Schnell
Raymond Chou
Richard Taylor
Rohan Thomas
Ronald Beekelaar
Sarbjit Singh Gill
Sheng Sin Chia
Steve Riley
Sukhdev Singh
Suresh Thiru
TK Teh
Tok Wee Hyong
Tony Krynen
Walter Wong
William Lim
Willie Lim
Y-Mi Wong

Aaron Tan Dani

Director – Financial Platform Strategy
Microsoft Malaysia


Aaron is the Director of Financial Platform Strategy with Microsoft and is responsible for engaging with both Technical & Business Decision Makers in the Financial Services Industry in transforming their customers, employees and operations experience so they can maximize opportunities for increased market share and profitability. Aaron is also an active and frequent public speaker in various IT conferences, seminars & workshops presenting various IT & Business-related topics across Asia Pacific regions. Aaron is also the Chairman of IASA Asia Pacific and has actively involved in setting up and leading IASA Chapter across Asia Pacific countries and is well connected with the industry leaders and government bodies in the respective countries.

Allen leads the Microsoft Virtualization Customer Advisory Council, which has a core set of customers who help drive the next-generation virtualization scenarios. Allen is also a Microsoft Certified Architect, and is on the board of directors of the Microsoft Certified Architect Program.

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Alistair Speirs

Technology Specialist
Office Microsoft


Alistair Speirs is a Technology Specialist for Office at Microsoft Australia. Before joining Microsoft, Alistair worked with technology start-ups and as a consulting developer. Alistair has a wide understanding of the Office Platform and how organizations can get even more out of it.
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Andrew Donnelly

Senior Consultant - Microsoft Consulting Services
Microsoft Australia


Andrew Donnelly is a Senior Consultant working for Microsoft Consulting Services in Adelaide, Australia. Andrew has been involved in the development and delivery of deployment solutions and best practices during his three years at Microsoft. Andrew is heavily involved in the development and training of both Microsoft Consulting Services and partner resources in the area of deployment, specifically the Desktop Deployment Planning Services (DDPS) and spends most of his time assisting customers in making best use of Microsoft Technology. Andrew regularly delivers technical Windows deployment trainings to customers and partners worldwide and is a regular speaker at internal and external Microsoft readiness events.

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Andrew McMurray

Technology Specialist – Management
Microsoft Australia


Andrew McMurray is a Technology Specialist in Management Solutions for Microsoft Australia based in Melbourne, specializing in the System Center suite of products, and the new Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance. Prior to joining Microsoft, Andrew spent many years as a professional trainer and consultant in Microsoft management technologies.

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Azra Rizal Noor Azman

Security Advisor
Microsoft Malaysia


Azra Rizal is a Security Advisor in Microsoft's Security Developer and Platform Evangelism Unit in Malaysia. He specializes in Network and Host Security, and information security policies and process. His customers include various ISPs and ASPs around the United States, as well as traditional enterprise IT customers, for whom he has conducted security assessments and risk analyses, deployed technologies for prevention and detection, and designed highly-available network architectures.

Allen leads the Microsoft Virtualization Customer Advisory Council, which has a core set of customers who help drive the next-generation virtualization scenarios. Allen is also a Microsoft Certified Architect, and is on the board of directors of the Microsoft Certified Architect Program.

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Bikesh Lakhmichand

Chief Executive Officer
iTrain


Bikesh (MCT, MCTS, ITIL, MSF Practitioner) is the co-founder of iTrain, a Microsoft Gold Certified Learning Solutions Partner. He has the technical expertise in a vast variety of programming languages, development tools and software process models. With over 11 years of training and development experience in the IT industry, and being an early adopter of .NET, he is now conducting projects to promote best practices in .NET development among government agencies in Malaysia with collaborative efforts of Microsoft and INTAN.

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Chad Hower

The Big Woo Hoo
Woo Hoo


Chad is a Microsoft MVP and a Microsoft Regional Director covering Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia and a professional speaker at popular developer conferences worldwide. Chad was once introduced as having "mastered more languages than a United Nations translator." He is the author of the book Indy in Depth and has contributed to several other books on network communications and general programming. He writes regularly for the Software Developer Network Magazine (Dutch), and occasionally for other magazines.

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Ching Loong Poo

Microsoft MVP

Mr. Poo has more than ten years of IT experience, which includes managing projects, consulting, as well as involved in RDPs for Microsoft. He has the ability to translate technical jargon into simple ‘English’ terms. Certified as MCSE since 1999 and MCITP recently, he is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Last year, he was awarded as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP).

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Chris Ismael

Developer Evangelist
Microsoft Singapore Pte Ltd


Chris works as a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft Singapore, focusing on interoperability and web technologies. He helped evangelize the ISO standard document format, Open XML, and is now working with the open source community to build solutions on the Microsoft platform.

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Daniel van Soest

IT Professional Evangelist
Microsoft Netherlands


Daniel van Soest is working for Microsoft Netherlands as an IT Professional Evangelist. In his role, he delivers technical sessions and demonstrations for large audiences on technical infrastructure-related issues. Daniel mainly focuses on migration, deployment, security and operational strategies of Windows-based infrastructures. Besides local events, he also presented at Tech·Ed Israel, Tech·Ed South East Asia, Tech·Ed IT Forum Barcelona and other international events.

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David Chan

Solution Specialist
Microsoft Operations Pte Ltd


David Chan is a Solution Specialist for Unified Communications Services at Microsoft Operations, responsible for business development in South East Asia. David has more than 10 years of sales and marketing experience in IT security and services.

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David Foo

DPM Solution Specialist
Microsoft Operations


David Foo is a veteran in Microsoft for over 10 years. He has undertaken various roles in Microsoft - Product Management, Security Evangelist, Technical Specialist, Business Development etc. He is currently looking after the DPM business in South East Asia as the product manager in the regional team. He will doing a deep dive session on System Centre DPM, on the underlying technologies and how customers in the region have been benefiting from it.

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David Tesar

IT Professional Technical Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation


David Tesar has gained expertise in networking, directory services, and security during his 6 years tenure at Microsoft as a Support Escalation Engineer and a Premier Field Engineer. He currently works as an IT Professional Technical Evangelist, creating content for his blog and TechNet Edge and occasionally speaks at events.

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Deepak Setty

Regional Manager, Asia Pacific Operations
Microsoft Corporation


Deepak Setty leads the HPC initiative at Microsoft for Asia Pacific region and is responsible for sales, marketing, product definition and strategic collaborations. Deepak has been actively engaged in HPC domain for the last 5+ years between Europe and Asia. Deepak has a special interest in ramping adoption of technical computing in the commercial sector and building an outreach into the Asian research and academic institutions.

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Dennis Chung

IT Professional Evangelist
Microsoft Singapore


Dennis is a Windows Server MVP and works in Microsoft as an IT Professional Evangelist. He has extensive experience with Windows infrastructures and manages large heterogeneous enterprise environments before he joined Microsoft. He loves meeting people and talking to people about technologies. He is very passionate about technology and helps people realize their full potential. He speaks actively at events locally and in the region. Dennis is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer.

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Dirk Primbs

Developer Evangelist
Microsoft Germany


Dirk Primbs works as a Developer Evangelist based in Microsoft Germany. While he is interested in .NET-based development technologies in general, he has developed a sincere passion for secure coding on one hand and UI topics such as WPF, Silverlight or game development on the other. He regularly speaks at technology events and is an author in various technology magazines focusing on Microsoft technologies.

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Edwin Sarmiento

Systems Engineer/DBA
Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd


Edwin Sarmiento works as a senior systems engineer/DBA for Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd in Singapore and is responsible for maintaining 200+ servers and databases for a global client in 10 countries.  He is very passionate about technology and works on mobility and business intelligence during his spare time aside from Windows SBS.

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Ervin Loh

Software Architect
k365labs (M) Sdn Bhd


Ervin Loh is a Software Architect at k365labs (M) Sdn Bhd. He is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Ervin has more than 9 years of experience in software developments around South East Asia. He has spent time on researching frameworks for both .NET and Java environments. Ervin is also active in the IT community space by contributing contents to Microsoft Malaysia’s Start.NET program workshops and talks in events such as .NET Mamak.

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Gareth Alun Jones

Architect
Microsoft Corporation


Gareth Jones is the architect for the Visual Studio extensibility group at Microsoft. For the last five years, he has been working on DSL Tools and software factories. Now he is helping make extending Visual Studio much easier. He co-authored the book “Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools”.

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Gerald Hoong

Training Manager
Info Trek Sdn Bhd


Gerald is the Training Manager and also the main training powerhouse for Info Trek Sdn Bhd, one of the prominent Microsoft Gold CPLS in Malaysia. Packed with 12 years of experience in the industry, he sports a very long list of certifications in his profile. He is very high in demand for his extensive knowledge and experience in Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft SharePoint technologies. Being a frequently nominated trainer to conduct technical workshops for Microsoft Malaysia, he builds a very strong commitment and passion to help train and evangelize Microsoft technologies in this region.

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Hak Teng Quah

Developer Tools Technology Specialist
Microsoft


Quah Hak Teng is a Developer Tools Technology Specialist at Microsoft based in Singapore, specializing in Visual Studio Team System. He is responsible for creating and meeting the demand for Microsoft Developer Tools in the South East Asia region. Prior to joining Microsoft, Quah was a Developer Consultant and Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems.

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Il-Sung Lee

Program Manager
Microsoft


Il-Sung Lee is a Program Manager for the Storage Engine team in the SQL Server product group and is the PM owner for SQL Server Engine Security. Il-Sung has had over ten years of experience in the database industry as a developer and a program manager focusing on Database Security and Database Communications. His current focus is to advance the capabilities of SQL Server in areas such as authentication, authorization, encryption, audit, and intrusion detection.

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Jeff King

Program Manager
Microsoft


Jeff King is a Program Manager in Microsoft's Developer Division. He is responsible for the Visual Studio ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript editors. In previous releases, Jeff has also been responsible for the WYSIWYG design surface, delivering the Visual Web Developer Express Edition product, and authoring the Personal Web Site Starter Kit. On the side, he enjoys developing user experiences with WPF.

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Jeff Low

Technical Product Manager
Microsoft Corporation


An 8 year veteran in Microsoft, Jeff is a regular presenter at conferences across Asia. As part of the Windows Product Group, Jeff is responsible for the creation and deployment of compelling Windows Vista demos for events and executive keynotes worldwide.

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Jerald Cheong

Technical Specialist – HPC
Microsoft Operations Pte Ltd


Jerald has been working with Grid Computing and High Performance Computing (HPC) for the past 3 years. He has designed and implemented various HPC architectures for customers from various industry verticals, including Finance Services, Digital Content Creation and Engineering. He has worked on various HPC platforms, including Linux and Windows, and has also deep familiarity with high performance and parallel file systems.

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Joel Oleson

Senior Consultant
Nintex


Blogger, speaker, trainer, and IT evangelist, Joel is known worldwide in the SharePoint world for his prescriptive guidance delivered through his blog, Global Tech·Eds and SharePoint Conferences. He completed 7 years at Microsoft as Senior Technical Product Manager and is now working with Nintex as a Senior Product Manager for Nintex Reporting 2008 and instructor with Ted Pattison Group.

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Joey Gurango

MVP (Software Technologies and Businesses)

Joey Gurango is a “Mentor Capitalist” – he makes investments in Software Technology start-ups, and acts as an Executive Coach for entrepreneurs and senior managers. In January 2007, Joey was inducted into the Hall of Fame for Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professionals, in recognition of his mastery of, and contributions to, software technologies and businesses. In November 2006, the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship acknowledged him as one of the country’s Ten Most Inspiring Technopreneurs.

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John Phillips

Enterprise Technology Strategist
Microsoft Asia


John joined Microsoft in January 2006 in Singapore as the Enterprise Technology Strategist for ‘Identity & Access Management’ within the Customer Advocacy & Technology Management (CATM) team. He has a wide range of experience with Novell and similar technologies during his 20+ years in the IT solutions marketplace. This includes time working in New Zealand, Australia, Asia and India, and has been based in Singapore and Malaysia since February 1999.

As a member of the CATM team, John supports customer and partner engagements focused around Infrastructure solutions including Windows Server, Security and Identity & Access Management. He assists through seminars, executive briefings, and pre-sales technology skills transfer to those in the field, customers and partners throughout the Asia Pacific region.

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Joy Rathnayake

Microsoft MVP (Visual C#)

Joy is an MVP for Visual C#, and he specializes in SharePoint advanced customization and C# .NET development. He is a technical author and Microsoft Certified Trainer with over 5 years of experience and in-depth knowledge in the software development industry. His primary focus is on the .NET platform (MCPD) and Java.

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Justin Francis

Technology Specialist
Microsoft Malaysia


Justin has been involved with IT for nearly 10 years. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked as a System Architect responsible for design and deploying Microsoft-based technology for enterprise customers. Currently he works for Microsoft Malaysia as a Technology Specialist. His areas of expertise are Identity, Security, Networking and Virtualization.

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Justin Lee

MVP (Visual Developer C#)

Justin Lee is a software consultant for ObjectSharp. His expertise lies mainly with languages, operating systems, software architecture processes and best practices, and low-level hardware architecture. Justin is a Microsoft C# MVP, and has spoken in various conference like DevTeach and user groups.

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Kok Chiann

User Experience Designer
Nexus Media Inc.


Kok Chiann is a User Experience Designer at Nexus Media Inc., in which he focuses on designing rich user experiences. He has a passion for UI technologies like WPF and Silverlight. He also contributes to the Malaysian ICT community as a SilverKnight, evangelizing and training others on Microsoft technologies.

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Ken Schaefer

MVP (ISS)

Ken Schaefer is a consultant with global systems integrator Avanade. Avanade is a joint partnership between Microsoft and Accenture. Ken has worked with IIS for around 10 years, and been a Microsoft MVP for IIS since 2003. He has presented at numerous Microsoft Tech·Ed events across the US, Australia and Asia, written articles for Microsoft TechNet and spent countless hours talking about IIS at other events, user group meetings and roadshows. He was lead author for Professional IIS 7 (Wrox/Wiley) and co-author of Securing IIS 6.0 (Syngress Press). He is currently an MCITP, MCSE+Security, MCDBA, MCTS and holds a Masters in Business and Technology from UNSW. Ken blogs about IIS at http://adopenstatic.com/blog.

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Lai Hoong Fai

Senior ISV Technology Advisor
Microsoft Malaysia


Hoong Fai is the Senior ISV Technology Advisor in Microsoft Malaysia. He engages the Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and developers in Malaysia. He reviews ISV partners’ existing architecture and provide guidance on emerging technologies to help ISV partners strategically align with the Microsoft product roadmap and plan for the future. He has worked in Malaysia, Singapore and Australia in the areas of software architecture, R&D, consulting, professional services and academic teaching.

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Lim Fun Jin

MVP (Office Communications Server)

Fun Jin is the Technical Director at ISA Technologies and leads a team in the implementation of Enterprise Solutions. He has 15+ years of IT experience in the Telecommunications, Government and FSI sectors. He is the Microsoft Regional Director and MVP for Office Communications Server.

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Lisa Feigenbaum

Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation


Lisa Feigenbaum is the Microsoft Program Manager for Visual Basic’s Editor and Debugger. She has been a member of the Visual Basic team since 2004. Her team is responsible for features such as IntelliSense, error correction, edit-and-continue, and code snippets. She is also involved in the VB Community. You can find Lisa at various US & international conferences and user groups, watch her on the Channel9 webcasts, or read her posts on the VB team blog.

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Loke Uei Tan

Technical Product Manager
Microsoft Corporation


Into his sixth year working for Microsoft, Loke Uei is currently responsible for creating and deploying technical resource and content to over 1,000 field evangelists within Microsoft on all Windows Mobile topics and technologies. He was the content lead and expert for many Microsoft developer events and has been voted Top Developer Evangelist for Asia Pacific in 2004.

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Lutz Seidemann

Lead Architect
Microsoft


Lutz Seidemann is a Lead Architect for Microsoft APAC, focusing on infrastructure deployment and management technologies. Lutz is a frequent speaker and trainer at industry conferences and workshops such as Tech·Ed, MMS and IT Forum. He contributes regularly to deployment-related articles for Microsoft TechNet and TechNet magazine. Lutz has more than 15 years IT experience and has done several Infrastructure and Deployment projects across the globe.

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Lv Chong

Microsoft MVP

Lv Chong, the creative visionary behind Monster Interactive Co. & Treble Vintage Co., leverages his extensive background in motion graphics and cutting-edge new media technologies to create high impact solutions for his clients. He has mastery of a wide array of design & user experience tools, including Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression Studio & Windows Live! Platform. Over the past seven years, he has delivered on over 50 designs & web projects. His creative direction and inspiration drive home the company vision for “High-impact Design & UX Technology”.
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Maung Maung Phyo

Maung Maung is a senior consultant at NCS Pte Ltd, the largest Singapore IT firm. Assuming the role of team lead, he architects and implements numerous solutions using .NET platform and technologies. He was awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Visual Developer - Security category. Maung Maung, being passionate about technologies, loves getting his hands dirty with latest Microsoft servers and technologies, enjoys sharing his knowledge with others.

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Milan Gross

Principal
Synergy Corporate Technologies


Milan Gross is the head of the Asia Pacific arm of Synergy Corporate Technologies and a consultant and trainer with over 12 years experience as an architect and developer of Microsoft technologies. Milan has been working with SharePoint technologies since their inception in 2001 and has developed solutions for customers worldwide using SharePoint as the application platform of choice.

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Nadzif Jay

Technical Consultant
Iverson Associates Sdn Bhd


Nadzif Jay Zainal has more than fifteen years of experience working in Information Technology particularly on Microsoft technologies. With five years as IT head of department and project management consulting experience, he is currently a technical consultant and a trainer specializing in Windows Servers and Windows Vista. He is the President and co-founder of ELITE (IT Professional community funded by Microsoft Malaysia). He is also an MCSE, MCSA and MCT since year 2001.

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Nicole Loh

Technology Solution Professional - Data Platform
Microsoft Malaysia


Nicole is a Technology Solution Professional with Microsoft Malaysia focusing on data platform solutions. She has over 12 years of working experience in the Information Technology industry. Her areas of competency include enterprise Data Warehousing and Data Mining for BI implementations.

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Nigel Watling

Technical Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation


Nigel Watling is a technical evangelist for Identity. In this role he focuses on Microsoft identity and access management technologies, working with partners and customers to improve interoperability and adoption across the IT ecosystem.

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Oliver Scheer

Microsoft Germany

Oliver is a Developer Advisor and joined Microsoft three years ago. He is a speaker, author, full-time developer and a hobby designer. He spent the last couple of months with a lot of design agencies and early adopters of Silverlight.

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Orin Thomas

MVP

Orin Thomas (MCSE, MCITP, MVP) is an author and Systems Administrator who has worked with Microsoft Windows Server Operating Systems for more than a decade. He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen self-paced training kits for Microsoft Press, including the recent Configuring Windows Vista™ Client and MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-647): Windows Server® Enterprise Administration. He is also a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro magazine.

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Patrick Yong

Application Platform Advisor
Microsoft Malaysia


Patrick has 8 years of experience in software development. He has experience on various industries from banking to supply chain in Malaysia, Beijing and Singapore. Currently working with the Malaysia Software Economy team of Microsoft Malaysia, Patrick is tasked to drive the adoption of Microsoft application platform primarily on Office and SharePoint.

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Poh Sze Lim

Windows Mobile Specialist
Microsoft Malaysia


For the first 2 years in Microsoft, Poh Sze was a Technology Advisor who works closely with ISV community in Technology Adoption. Now she is a product specialist for Windows Mobile.  She focuses on providing training, supporting and managing all Windows Mobile related technical inquiries.

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Prasanna Amirthalingam

Software Architect/Team Lead

Prasanna Amirthalingam is a Software Engineer, Trainer and Technical Author. He has more than 8 years of experience and works as a consultant on projects that use Microsoft technologies. His passion is working with bleeding edge technologies.

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Rajeev Natarajan

Enterprise Technology Strategist
Microsoft


Raj Natarajan has spent over 10 years with Microsoft and currently holds the position of an Enterprise Technology Strategist with a focus on business solutions around Unified Communications and Collaboration based on the Microsoft platform. Based out of Singapore, Raj works for the Customer Advocacy team covering the Asia region.

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Ralf M. Schnell

Technical Evangelist
Microsoft Deutschland GmbH


Ralf M. Schnell is the technical advisor for new technologies, pianist, ITIL Service Manager, and has been with Microsoft since 1998. Areas of expertise are Windows Server 2008, Virtualization, and processes (ITIL, MOF, ISO).

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Raymond Chou

Director
Redynamics Asia Sdn Bhd


Raymond Chou is the Principal Technical Consultant of Redynamics Asia, an accomplished trainer and presenter with 10 years of experience in the IT industry. Of those years, 6 were spent on specializing in the systems and operations management space. He is a current MVP in System Center Operations Manager and Essentials and uses his knowledge and skills to help large enterprise companies, SMEs and Microsoft Partners implement the various System Center suite of technologies. Raymond also actively maintains a blog on all his findings and experiences with System Center and develops courses and hands-on labs used at multiple Microsoft workshops.

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Richard Taylor

NEUDESIC

Richard is a SharePoint architect and has assisted numerous large companies in their implementations. He is a published author, co-author, and contributing author including the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Administrator’s Companion by MS Press. He enjoys playing chess, participating in triathlons and active in the Boy Scouts of America.

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Rohan Thomas

Web Platform and UX Technology Advisor
Microsoft Malaysia


Rohan Thomas, a Web Platform and UX Technology Advisor with Microsoft, is currently focused on the Web Platform, UX and Windows Live in Malaysia. Not only does Rohan work with Microsoft’s partners and customers, he also works with local universities, design communities and various companies to promote innovation in the Web Platform and User Experience technologies space.

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Ronald Beekelaar

Microsoft MVP

Ronald Beekelaar is an independent consultant with extensive experience in Windows Server security, network infrastructure design, and virtual machine technology. He is a frequent presenter in international industry events including Microsoft Tech·Ed covering topics such as IPSec, NAP, ISA Server, Forefront and Windows Server virtualization (Hyper-V). Ronald is a MCSE, MCT, and MVP in both Windows Security and Virtual Machine technology. This year is the sixth time Ronald presents at Tech·Ed in Malaysia.

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Sarbjit Singh Gill

MVP

Sarbjit Singh Gill has 19 years worth of experience in the IT world. He is currently with BT in Singapore as a Unified Communications and Collaborations Specialist. Sarbjit has consulted in many projects involving various Microsoft technologies. He provided specialist services and advice to Microsoft and their Partners, System Integrators, ISV and customers who seek specialist advice and consulting on Microsoft Technologies. He had presented at Technical Workshops and Microsoft events like Tech·Ed USA, Tech·Ed Asia and Tech·Ed South East Asia, TechNet, MSDN Connection and even pre-sales technical presentations for Microsoft directly for their customers. He is currently also a Microsoft MVP, a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and holds most of the major Microsoft technology certifications. His core expertise includes SQL Server, Windows Management, Messaging, Collaboration and Communication.

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Sheng Sin Chia

Premier Field Engineer
Microsoft Malaysia


Sheng Sin works as a Premier Field Engineer in Microsoft, in which he focuses on Office Platform products while being deeply in love with Data Platform technologies. He and his teammates take care of critical production issues and conduct IT environment health check for Microsoft premier customers in this region. He is actively involved in a number of local IT communities such as SPAN, MIND etc.

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Steve Riley

Senior Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation


Steve Riley is a senior strategist and worldwide security evangelist in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group. Steve specializes in the process of information security, including policies, networks, and hosts. Steve is a frequent and popular speaker at conferences worldwide, working to spread a better understanding of security science. He also spends time with individual customers to learn the security pain they face and show how some of that pain can be eliminated. Having been born with an Ethernet cable attached to his belly button, Steve grew up in networking and telecommunications. Besides lurking in the Internet's dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture.

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Sukhdev Singh

Sales Director – Microsoft Learning
APAC, Microsoft Operations Pte Ltd


Sukhdev joined the Microsoft Learning team in Asia in 2007, bringing 14 years of industry experience. He has been a MCP, MCSE, MCDBA, MCTS, MCITP, MCT, MVP, and he has had played various sales, operational, business development and management roles in the training industry. He also has experience starting up and turning CPLS businesses into profitable entities and at the same time winning the top awards at the local, regional and global level.

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Suresh Thiru

Chief Operation Officer
JobStreet.com


An engineering graduate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Suresh has extensive experience in research and product development from the United States. He was a Research Engineer with Digital Equipment for a high performance optical disk, and a manufacturing engineer with Motorola Malaysia. He then joined Maxis Communications, Malaysia's market leader in mobile telecommunications, where he held several key positions, including Head of Network Operations. At JobStreet.com, Suresh manages regional sales, operations and customer service across 7 countries.

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TK Teh

MVP

TK is an independent solution architect and president of IASA Office. He has 12 years of experience in IT and has been working in various large-scale IT projects in many financial institutions in Malaysia, playing design and development roles. Prior to this, he was the Solution Architect of ING Insurance Bhd. He is responsible in creating strong architecture model, design and governance in various areas including application, integration, information, security in the organization. He was also the Chapter President and Co-Founder of Malaysian Group of IT Architects since 2004. He has been working very closely with architect enthusiasts across the globe building the IASA global brand and advocating the importance of proper architecture practices.

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Tok Wee Hyong

Microsoft MVP (SQL)

Wee Hyong is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SQL. He has been actively sharing his insights on how organizations can tap the immense potential of Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) stack. He is a regular speaker at various events (MSDN TechTalk, MEDC, Mini TechReady) and user groups.

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Tony Krynen

Technology Advisor
Microsoft Netherlands


Tony Krynen is a Technology Advisor in the Microsoft Platform Group in The Netherlands. In this job, he is delivering technical presentations and demonstrations at tradeshows, events and partner sessions.

Tony is 13 years with Microsoft now and has a broad knowledge of the Microsoft Office System, the Microsoft Server System and the Mobility platform. Tony has spoken previously at Tech·Ed SEA and a variety of other conferences including Tech·Ed Europe, Gartner, IDC and Microsoft IT Forum. Tony also co-presents with friend and colleague Daniel van Soest. Both were the virtual host for Tech·Ed IT Forum 2007.

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Walter Wong

MVP (Developer Security)

Walter is an MVP for developer security. Doing research on development security is Walter's personal interest. He also successfully discovered many applications vulnerability including some of the high traffic websites over the past few years. For the past 3 years, Walter has been presenting in many local events such as Tech·Ed, Security Symposium, TechNet/MSDN, Local INETA Presentation and Academic events.

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William Lim

Lead Architect
Entellium Technologies Sdn. Bhd.


William is the lead architect for Entellium, a SaaS Customer Relationship Management / Sales Force Automation solution provider. He has been involved in architecting the Entellium development framework and its suite of products. His latest project is Entellium RAVE, a WPF/WCF smart client application which is highlighted in Microsoft Tech·Ed North America 2008 keynotes. In addition, he also holds professional certification for MCSD.NET, MCTS and MCITP.

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Willie Lim

Technology & Solutions Marketing Manager
Fuji Xerox Singapore Pte Ltd


Willie Lim has worked in the field of Information Processing for over 15 years and is currently the Technology and Solutions Marketing Manager for Fuji Xerox Singapore. He is a seasoned speaker in the region and has conducted numerous workshops and seminars on Knowledge Management, Document and Content management, Document Capture, Business Process Management and other ECM related subjects. He has extensive experience in Document Technology, providing document consulting on numerous document processing and process improvements projects. Willie currently manages a team of consultants, software developers, trainers and technical support staff.

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Y-Mi Wong

MVP (SharePoint Server)

Wong Y-Mi is a Chief Technology Officer and an MVP in SharePoint Server. He has over 14 years of experience in the IT industry, 10 years of which he spent as Chief Technology Officer in two different companies. He has specialist skills in the FSI industry, specifically in payment and security technologies. He is also a board member of IASA.

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