MVP Awardees

Emad Abdelaziz - Emad Raghib is an Asp.net senior team leader, author, trainer, and lecturer. Emad has over 7 years of experience in .Net development. He is focusing on rich client Application Development, Windows Presentation Foundation and SilverLight, as well as Microsoft Expression (a suite of design and media applications from Microsoft). He has presented at a number of user groups regularly, writes numerous articles on rich client development on his blog at www.xamllight.com Emad is considered to be one of the primary technical resources and Community leader of XAMLlight user group in KSA www.xamllight.com.

Lawrence Abrams - Having worked as the CTO of a New York City ISP for the past 4 years, Lawrence has seen almost every type of malware pass through his network. This has lead him to become active in many of the malware removal sites on the Internet. Through these sites, Lawrence has dedicated himself to the dissemination of information about new malware and how to remove them. Over the years Lawrence had noted a lack of web sites devoted to teaching beginning computer concepts to the novice user. This led him to develop his web site, BleepingComputer.com, where he teaches the basic concepts of computing, Windows, Internet, and security in an easy to understand manner through tutorials and a support forum. Through this web site he has created an active online community where the majority of users are able to educate themselves in a fun and welcoming environment.

Maximiliano Accotto - Maxi Accotto trabaja en sistemas desde el año 92, se ha desempeñado como consultor independiente en la década del 90 como así también ha gerenciado un área de sistemas en una industria de manufactura por mas de 8 años. Su experiencia en SQLServer arranca en el año 99 con la versión 7.0. Ha desarrollado aplicaciones en distintos lenguajes, desde VB3.0 hasta Visual Studio 2008 en la actualidad. Es orador frecuente de Microsoft y MUG (Club de usuarios Microsoft de Argentina) brindando conferencias de forma habitual sobre distintos temas de SQL Server. Actualmente es socio y consultor en SQL Server de CONDUIT una empresa dedicada a servicios profesionales de IT en todo argentina y Latinoamérica donde ha trabajo en distintos tipos de proyectos (Migraciones – Reporting Service – Tunning de base de datos – Mentoring a desarrolladores y DBA – Replicacion – Visual Studio 2005 - Reingenieria de procesos - Implementacion de Reporting Service, etc) Se lo puede contactar en: Maxi.accotto@gmail.com

Elczar Adame - A real world technologist concentrating in SharePoint Products and Technologies, Elczar P. Adame is the Support Services Manager of ApSmith Solutions Corporation, a former Vice President of Philippine Windows Users Group, a member of International SharePoint Professionals Association, and a contributor in Microsoft Tech-Ed Online. Elczar has authored numerous technical articles, presents at Microsoft TechNet, MSDN, and TechFest events, and publishes a techblog Sharing Points { } at http://elczara.spaces.live.com. He works with several eminent companies helping them get the best out of SharePoint platform. With his profound background on Philosophy and Theology, away from his machine, he loves to explore life in its fullest. He lives in the Philippines.

Israel Aece - Expert in the Microsoft development technologies, he acts as a developer of applications for financial market using the .NET platform. As Microsoft Trainer, he teaches about development of .NET applications. He's speaker in several Microsoft events in Brazil and author of many articles that can be read from his site at http://www.israelaece.com. He has the following credentials: MVP (Connected System Developer), MCP, MCAD, MCTS (Web, Windows, Distributed, ASP.NET 3.5, Windows Forms 3.5, ADO.NET 3.5 and WCF), MCPD (Web, Windows, Enterprise, ASP.NET 3.5, Windows 3.5 and Enterprise 3.5) and MCT.