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Tian-An is currently a Training Portfolio Manager with Avantus Training Pte Ltd, managing product based training sales. With more than 10 years training experience behind him, he speaks frequently on a wide range of Microsoft Office topics at Microsoft seminars and provides consultancy in solving Office problems.
 
With helping others improve personal productivity as  a major life purpose, he’s been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional  (MVP) award for Office Systems for the past 5 years. He also manages the Singapore Office User Group which deals with the wide range of Office servers and client applications.

  
Over 11 years of experience with Core Infrastructure solutions that run on Windows Server and Client technologies. Currently based in Singapore within the Asia Timezone Headquarters working for World-wide Enterprise Competitive Sales covering India, GCR, Japan & APAC areas. Core functions include Sales Strategy development and Competitive Sales escalations management for 1. Private Cloud, 2. Server Virtualization 3. Desktop Virtualizaiton 4. Consumerization of IT technologies for the Asia region.
  
Andrew has been in the IT field for more than 11 years, working as a certified instructor including where his experience covers a wide range like trainer, consultant, administrator, network engineer and public speakers. He also speaks frequently for Microsoft (TechNet events, CTU events, Partner Readiness, Workshop) Andrew is also managing Singapore Windows User Group (SWUG) as well as he is also a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP - 3 years) for Clustering and Management Infrastructure. With numerous years of experience, he has a broad perpective on how the Windows infrastructure can be a very cohesive and easy to manage enviroment.
  
Darren is a consultant at Similton Group, a boutique social-media and web-technology consulting firm, dedicated to helping customers develop and deploy social media initiatives. A Microsoft MVP (ASP.NET/IIS) for the past 6 years, as well as a member of the Microsoft Web Advisory Council, Darren can be found speaking at regional technology and digital marketing conferences. Darren’s area of interests includes Enterprise Architecture, Design Patterns, Web Technologies, Social Media, Information Security and the Internet-of-Things (IOT).
  
Desmond is a Windows Systems Administrator in a US multinational corporation. He manages the global Windows platform infrastructure and also responsible for managing Exchange and all System Center's product on top of his primary role. Prior to his current job, he was a Microsoft Infrastructure Lead Engineer with a Singapore based System Integrator. With various valuable experience gathered from different fields, Desmond share his knowledge and experience with the community through SWUG monthly meet up sessions. Desmond is one of the UG Leads that heads Singapore Windows User Group and he enjoys meeting people in the community to share cutting edge technologies with them.
  
Faizal is working as a Senior Solutions Architect under Chief Architect Office from NCS. He's in the team that takes care of Cloud Competency as part of his daily job.
  
  
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
Senior SharePoint Consultant
  
Mahendra Mane works as a consultant for a MNC in Singapore. A technocrat with Strong design and implementation knowledge of complex Microsoft Exchange environment. He has a core experience in deployment and migration of Exchange and its related services. He Specializes in Exchange 2003/2007/2010, Blackberry, Fenestrae Faxination 6.0 /FCS 2007 and Designing backup solutions for exchange. He is MCP windows 2003 and MCITP Exchange 2007,MCITP Exchange 2010.
  
Richard is the IT Pro Evangelist in Microsoft Singapore DPE Team. He is responsible for driving excitement of Microsoft technologies to technical audiences in Singapore. He works with customers, partners and IT Professionals to understand and explore Microsoft Virtualization and Private Cloud technologies. He delivers training on virtualization, System Center and Private for IT Professionals. He also speaks at events and conferences like TechDays Singapore, Datacenter Dynamics, and Microsoft TechNet Events.
Before joining DPE team, Richard worked in Microsoft IT for 3.5 years, where he gained rich experience on infrastructure, virtualization and system management.   
  
  
Sarbjit Singh Gill leads Unify2's business and operations in the Asia-Pacific region, out of Singapore.
Sarbjit brings 21 years of IT experience spanning consulting and training for Microsoft infrastructure technologies, including Unified Communications, Exchange, SharePoint, SQL, Windows Server and Active Directory, and Management and Operations. Prior to joining Unify2, Sarbjit led the Unified Communications initiative in Asia Pacific for BT Singapore. As the Microsoft Technology consultant for the Asia Pacific region for BT INS, Sarbjit presented BT’s Microsoft UC initiatives to enterprise customers in Singapore, Korea and India. Previously, Sarbjit managed his own IT consulting business and gained a wide variety of technology know-how and end-to-end engagement experience spanning pre-sales, implementation, delivery, and performance troubleshooting and fine tuning.
Sarbjit also speaks at various Microsoft events both locally and regionally such as TechEd, TechNet, MSDN, product launches and customer/partner initiatives. To show recognition for his efforts and commitment, Sarbjit has been presented with the MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award by Microsoft from 2005 to 2011 for Microsoft Operations Manager/SCOM and SharePoint Server.
Sarbjit is also an evangelist in driving the value of Microsoft Certification and was in the Global Marketing Campaign  video from Microsoft Learning.
  
Triston Wan is working for a local establishment that manages an extremely complex infrastructure for it customer that comprises nearly 100,000 user accounts and mailboxes. He manages the operations for the Messaging and Collaboration infrastructure to ensure the stability of the messaging and collaboration related services. On top of that, he is also involved in on-going messaging related projects to ensure the smooth transition from engineering team to operation team. 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 is also RedHat Certified Engineer on EL4.