Instructors

  • Bruce Johnson Bruce Johnson Microsoft MVP, Trainer

    Bruce Johnson is a Founder and Principal Consultant with ObjectSharp and a 30-year veteran of the computer industry. While he includes UNIX in his long distant past, the past 15+ years have been spent on projects at the leading edge of Windows technology, including using .NET since the introduction of version 1.0.
    His experience includes the creation of commercial web applications using AJAX, the implementation of numerous service-based architectures and the building of various Windows-based applications for software vendors. He is a seasoned MCT instructor and mentor in software development best practices focusing primarily on MS technologies including SharePoint, .Net, WPF, Silverlight, etc…
    As well as his experience in system design and development, he has written a bi-monthly technology column (for six years), has been published in a wide variety of technology periodicals, has given over 200 presentations at user conferences all over North America and has co-authored five books for Microsoft Press and Wrox.

  • Donovan Follette Donovan Follette Sr. Technical Evangelist

    Donovan Follette is a Sr. Technical Evangelist for Microsoft with over 25 years of experience developing enterprise business applications on a variety of platforms. He currently specializes in helping to enable developers in building integrated line-of-business (LOB) solutions with Microsoft Office and SharePoint.

  • Kirk Evans Kirk Evans Principal Premier Field Engineer

    Kirk Evans is a Principal Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft Corporation and a Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2010.  He specializes in helping customers around the world realize what is possible with SharePoint.  Kirk is one of the Worldwide Ignite Tour trainers and has trained developers worldwide on the new SharePoint 2013 app model.

  • Mark Michaelis Mark Michaelis Microsoft MVP, Trainer

    Mark Michaelis is the founder of IntelliTect and serves as the Chief Technical Architect and Trainer. Since 1996, he has been a Microsoft MVP for C#, Visual Studio, and the Windows SDK and in 2007, he was recognized as a Microsoft Regional Director. He also serves on several Microsoft software design review teams, including C#, the Connected Systems Division, and Visual Studio ALM in addition to his participation in programs such as the SharePoint/Office 2013 TAP. Mark speaks at developer conferences and has written numerous articles and books - Essential C# 5.0 is his most recent. Mark holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Illinois and a Masters in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology. When not bonding with his computer, Mark is busy with his family or training for another Ironman.

  • Michael Stokesbary Michael Stokesbary SharePoint Development Architect, Trainer

    Michael Stokesbary is a SharePoint Development Architect and Trainer for IntelliTect. Michael has been involved in computers since he was about 10 with his first computer being a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A that he programmed BASIC on and saved his programs on ordinary audio cassette tapes. Since then, Michael has learned various programming languages and primarily focuses on .NET technologies including C#, WCF, WPF, WF, SharePoint, and ASP.NET. In addition to training/speaking Michael manages the Internet and intranet SharePoint environments at companies like Itron.

  • Senaj Lelic Senaj Lelic Microsoft MVP, Trainer

    Senaj Lelic is working in the IT business since 1991, also studying economy at the university of Munich (special studies: strategic management and software based Business Process management). Starting with BORLAND, he went on to work with the Visio Corporation in 1996. There he was working on different visualization solutions for different customers. In 2000 when Visio was acquired by Microsoft his focus shifted to contain Microsoft.NET as a programming platform and also since 2003 the technology SharePoint extending also to supporting technologies such as SQL Server and the System Center products. Since 2007 the Unified Communications Technologies and especially their programming integration into custom solutions is one of his additional interests. One long-term activity is also the creation and planning/architecture of BPM solutions and technologies - always using Visio as the graphical engine, but extending the scenario with SQL Server and also SharePoint to create powerful but easy to use BPM solutions.