Joel is a senior product manager and SharePoint evangelist at Quest where he is responsible for product direction and strategy. He is well known in the SharePoint community as an enthusiastic trainer, evangelist and architect and he maintains a popular blog. Joel is a frequent speaker at popular technical conferences, such as Microsoft TechEd, and often presents to local SharePoint user groups. Prior to Quest, Joel worked at Microsoft and was a part of the first Microsoft global deployment of SharePoint. During his Microsoft tenure Joel helped various customers achieve the critical governance they needed to upgrade and achieve scale with SharePoint 2007. He would later design the extranet and hosted SharePoint deployments.

Before Joel joined Microsoft, he worked for a large telecom organization where he architected multi-tiered web applications and multi-staged extranet deployments. He also managed the internal web development and test environments for Slate.com, a political webzine.

Blog: www.sharepointjoel.com

In between searching the planet high and low for the best skiing conditions, deepest powder and crazy ‘steeps’, Eric Harlan spends most of his time in the technology field.

Eric Harlan has been in the I.T. industry for ten years, and heavily involved with SharePoint for six years.  Starting from a developer role, Eric has moved on to a more architectural role with a focus on configuration and server implementation

Never forgetting his developer roots, he still jumps in when needed to pick up the slack on custom dev needs. As Principle Architect for Sogeti Baltimore Eric is the first on the ground to plan and initiate SharePoint engagements and guide them to fruition.

Eric is involved with many volunteer organizations from the Maryland Elder technology Outreach, SharePoint Saturdays, and educational code camps to President and Co-Founder of the Baltimore SharePoint Users group (Maryland USA).

Eric also does many speaking events revolving around SharePoint. Topics range from InfoPath development tricks and gotcha’s to basic SharePoint sessions for the end user.