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Achinta Chatterjee

Achinta Chatterjee, Trusted Source Pte Ltd.

Achinta Chatterjee is a Sr.Consultant with a System Integrator based in Singapore. He is a MCSE/MCSA and holds a Bachelors Degree in Electronics Engineering with specialization in Digital Signal Processing. Achinta is a co-founder and community leader of Singapore MessagingTalk User Group, where folks interested in Microsoft Messaging Technologies gather for learning and networking. Currently he is working on deployment and migration of various MS Exchange 2007/2010 projects for various companies in Singapore.

Achinta can be reached at achinta_chatterjee@yahoo.com

Andre John Cruz

Application Developer

Barclays Capital

Andre started life as a professional software developer for UNIX-like operating systems until he fell in love with Microsoft's .NET Platform. He is a proponent of open source technologies in .NET and test-driven development. Andre is currently a software developer for Barclays Capital in Singapore.

Justin Lee

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional - Visual C#

Justin Lee recently returned from Canada to setup hackerspace.SG Singapore's first kiasu-free zone in November 2009, prior to this he was a software consultant for a Canadian based, ObjectSharp Consulting. His interests lie mainly with languages, operating systems, software architecture processes and best practices, and low-level hardware architecture. Justin is an MCSD.NET, a Microsoft C# MVP, and the founder of the 1st .NET user group in Singapore. He is open to discussion about Open-Source, Linux, Mono, and other alternatives to Microsoft and .NET. He is proficient in C#, C++, Java, F#, Python, Ruby and various other languages. He has been doing freelancing for a few years now, and is currently branching out into other areas including training, consultancy, business and marketing. He speaks at various conferences like DevTeach, TechEd SEA, and various communities around the world. His blog is a brain dump for all his experiences during work and playing with new technologies.

He is actively involved in the following community projects: CodeAndroid, LinuxNUS Core Team, Tech65.org & Research in Cell Broadband Engine

See his current MVP Profile here.

Lim Boon Tiong

ASP.NET MVP

Boon-Tiong Lim is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP - 7 years) for ASP .NET, and also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) specialising in professional quality training on the latest Microsoft technologies. He holds multiple Microsoft certifications including MCITP: Database Administrator and Database Developer (SQL Server 2008), MCPD : Web Developer, Windows Developer, Enterprise Application Developer and MCT - a certification which he has maintained for the past 12 years.
He most enjoys training developers on .NET both locally and globally and also a regular speaker at numerous Microsoft and Singapore local .NET user group events.
During his leisure time, he leads a healthy lifestyle playing tennis and working out at the gym. :)

Loke Kit Kai

MVP - Sharepoint Server

I am an avid .NET developer living and working in the sunny land of Singapore. I work as a senior consultant in a large MNC. My role is to drive the SharePoint competency, propose and architect solutions and be up-to-date with Microsoft products and other vendor products.

I've worked on SharePoint since 2003 Beta 2, and have successfully implemented numerous projects, some of them overcoming SharePoint's limitations. Some of these achievements includes security trimmed UI in wss v2, and the first in the world to customise Wiki.

Being a passionate developer with a warm heart, I contribute actively to the community projects, activities and user forum of SgDotNet, a Singapore based .NET professionals user group (http://www.sgdotnet.org)

I also actively contribute code back to the community via my blog (http://community.sgdotnet.org/blogs/kitkai), and via community projects like CKS:EWE, Enhanced Email Enabled Document Library

Matthew Hardman

Windows Client BG Lead

Microsoft Singapore

A techie at heart, Matthew Hardman began his IT career as a developer in Australia. He joined Microsoft in 2000 to promote Microsoft development technologies and spent 6 years evangelizing .NET to the wider community of dveelopers around Asia Pacific. His current role as Windows Client Business Group Lead has Matthew running the business of the Windows Client operating system in Singapore .

Maung Maung Phyo

Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, Developer Security: Architecture

Maung Maung Phyo currently works as a Developer Tools Technical Specialist in Developer & Platform Evangelism team, Microsoft Singapore. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked for NCS Pte Ltd where he architected and implemented numerous business solutions using .NET tools 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. You can catch Maung Maung at the various Microsoft events, such as MSDN TechTalk, TechEd SEA, MEDC, TechFest, Mix-it-up, and also at the community events.

Read his blog - http://community.sgdotnet.org/blogs/MaungMaung

Pom Figueroa

MVP - SQL Server

Pom Figueroa is a SQL MVP. Pom has been in the IT industry for more than 9 years now. He started his career as a programmer, then become an infrastructure engineer, then a consultant, then a project manager, a trainer, a sales person and others. With this, he has a solid background on how each component operates and how he can join various products and technology to come up with a complete end-to-end solution. Pom also loves problem solving. He is known for solving (or at least, providing workarounds) to the most complex problems ever presented to him. Incidentally, Pom is also one of the four worldwide IT Heroes selected from Singapore. On his spare time, he likes to share his knowledge on the IT industry.

Read his blog – http://pomski.spaces.live.com/
MVP Profile - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=30AD03F7-4581-4A2B-825E-81623C6D47B3

Randy Williams

Synergy

Randy has 20 years of eclectic IT experience. He has an extensive development background with the last 13 years focused on architecting and developing Microsoft-based web and database solutions. He is a senior consultant and trainer for Synergy Corporate Technologies and teaches the popular MOSS 2007 Development and MOSS 2007 Architecture and Administration courses.

Randy writes for SharePoint Magazine and Windows IT Pro magazine, in addition to his blog. He has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a master's in Information Systems. Randy also has picked up a few Microsoft Certifications such as MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA, MCT and MCTS (WSS and MOSS Development). For 2009, he was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in SharePoint Server.

Randy is now based in Singapore and runs the SE Asian branch of Synergy. Randy is also a frequent speaker at various conferences and is involved with the SharePointPROs.SG user group.

See his current MVP Profile here.

Sainath K.E.V

Sainath K.E.V - Solutions Architect, BT Frontline, Directory Services MVP

Sainath has 8 years of IT experience. He has experience in windows debugging , Driver Development and Architecting windows solutions. His primary job requires to design heterogeneous system envirnoment and providing the best and feasible solutions.He received Microsoft MVP award in Directory Services and he is the active Moderator in Technet Forums for Windows Server 2008 , Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Networking forums. In addition to this he blogs in OSROnline community and he is a Senior member in Sysinternals forum.

His primary interests are Windows Operating System Debugging, Solutioning .

Sanjeev Kumar

Solutions Architect, BT Frontline Pte Ltd

I am working as Solution Architect in BT Frontline Pte Ltd, Singapore and have 7 plus years of experience in IT field. Out of these 7 years, I spent around 4 years in Microsoft and I am in love with it. I started my career with Support for Windows and currently I am designing and architecting solutions for Windows. Exchange, OCS, Virtualization for Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix and Cloud Computing. Currently I have completed MCSE, MCSA, MCTS, MCITP, MCP, VTSP. I design solutions for Enterprise customers in various domains from Education, Telecom, Investment, pharmaceuticals, Government etc. I have delivered lots of trainings and presentations for Windows 2008, R2 and few on Windows 7. Improvements and enhancements in Microsoft products make me feel great and it drives me to learn and explore them more. I love talking about Microsoft products however I do welcome and encourage other technologies as well.

You can reach me at Sanjeev.microsoft@gmail.com

Sarbjit Singh Gill

Director – UnifySquare Asia, UnifySquare Inc and Microsoft MVP

Sarbjit Singh Gill is a SharePoint Server MVP. He has been in the IT field since 1989, starting with HP3000 MPE-XL mini computer as a sys ops and RPG programming. I progressed to VAX/VMS, Unix, AS400, NetWare, Java and eventually Microsoft's range products and services. I have worked in the manufacturing, financial, IT Services and Training industries. Started on certifications when using NetWare and became a Master CNE and CNI (Certified Novell Instructor). From 1994, I progressed to Microsoft Technologies and became a MCT in 1998 and now I am a MCSE, MCSA, MCDBA. MCSD.Net. and MCTS. I have spent the last 10 years in consulting, technical pre-sales, design and system training. Currently I spend most of my time in Microsoft Technologies such as Unified Communication and Collaboration which include Exchange, SharePoint, OCS and Partners which integrate with Microsoft UC/UCC technologies. As much as he is a system infrastructure person, his software development and design experience include ASP.Net, VB.Net, C#, Web Services, Distributed Applications, SQLXML and going into the future with Framework 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5. He regularly speaks at Microsoft events (TechEd, TechNet, Partner Readiness, Workshop, AirLift events, Technical Pre-Sales Presentation for Microsoft and Partners) and running the Microsoft Learning training for CPLSs in the region.

Read his blog – http://gill-itpro.blogspot.com/

MVP Profile - https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Gill

Shaji Firoz

Shaji Firoz, Trusted Source Pte Ltd.

Shaji Firoz is a Microsoft Exchange MVP & MCSE. Shaji works as Messaging Consultant with an IT System Integrator in Singapore. Shaji's primary responsibility is to plan & design messaging infrastrucure for enteprise organizations. In addition to this, he writes for MessagingTalk.org, advisor to digwin.com, a Social media for Microsoft Technical communities and lead the Singapore MessagingTalk User Group (SG-MTUG). In recognition of his knowledge of Windows & Exchange Servers and his willingness to share the information and help others, Microsoft recognised him with MVP in Exchange Server for the 4th time in a row since Year 2006.

Triston Wan

Triston Wan, Trusted Source Pte Ltd.

Wan Ziyang (Triston) is Sr.Consultant with a System Integrator based in Singapore. He is MCSE since year 2005 and MVP in Exchange Server. Triston leads Singapore MessagingTalk User Group activities where folks interested in Microsoft Messaging Technologies gather for learning and networking. He has done several implementation on various versions of Exchange Servers. He has been one of the 1st to deploy Exchange 2010 in production environment. He is also Redhat Certified Engineer on EL4.

Community Technology Update 2009 II