| Abu Sayed Mohammad Ismail |  | Abu Sayed Mohammad Ismail is a Software Consultant. Abu started his professional career in 1999 through ‘Professional Practice’ for GNIIT Course in IBP Company Limited as an IT Trainee. He has worked in various capacities in the fields of Software Technology, as Systems Engineer, Programmer, and Systems Consultancy. Currently, he is based as Senior System Consultant and Project Manager in Microsoft Technologies Division at Indus Net Technologies in Kolkata, India.
He is the founder and maintains KolkataNet (http://www.KolkataNet.com) and KolkataSQL (http://groups.msn.com/KolkataSQL), Net Club for IT Solutions, which features articles and source codes, tips and tricks on various technologies, including a resource center for Microsoft Technologies and Enterprise Level Solutions. http://www.KolkataNet.CelestialGlobal.com, is another web site where Abu keeps his unique experiences. He takes keen interest in Enterprise Solution architecture definition, and the design and creation of platforms for development through reusable and simple OOPs techniques.
Specific work responsibilities do not preclude Abu Ismail from pursuing his hobbies. These include his deep interest in the conceptual and contextual understanding of the evolution of computer technology, its impact on domestic and international economics and politics, and the interface of computer technology and society, law and psychology. He enjoys music and musicology, literature, sociology and history. You can reach him at kolkatanet@hotmail.com/abu.ismail@gmail.com | | |  | | |
| Ajay Pathak (Windows Desktop Experience) |  | Ajay is a Computer Science graduate from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology. He started his professional career in the year 2007 currently working as software developer in Indore. Ajay has a keen interest in latest technology trends, operating systems and web security.
In the year 2005-06 Ajay's project got selected among the top 20 projects in Microsoft India’s Academic Program. During his graduation he made some real good project like - his college web site (http://manit.ac.in) and a small ERP management system for National Fertilizers India LTD.
Ajay runs the technology blogs – www.readerszone.com and www.allaboutasp.net, and also one personal blog - www.ajaypathak.com | | | | | |
| Allen Bailochan Tuladhar |  | Allen Bailochan Tuladhar has over 14 years of experience in the field of local language computing in Nepal having developed the first True Type Font for Windows 3.1 in 1991 for Nepali language. Allen also has a number of firsts: The first Nepali language typing tutor in 1997, the first Nepali language spellchecker for Microsoft Word 6.0 in 1998, the first Open Type Font in 2000 and is also localizing Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Officer 2003 and Proofing Tools 2003 into Nepali language. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Unlimited NuMedia Pvt Ltd (http://www.unlimit.com) which handles software development and IT enabled services for the US and Europe from Nepal. Allen is also very active with the local community. He has been the first elected General Secretary of Computer Association of Nepal (http://www.caninfo.org.np) and has further been re-elected for a second term. This is the apex association of all the sectors of Information and Communication Technology in Nepal. Allen is also the moderator for the community glossary project of technical terms in Nepali language (http://members.microsoft.com/wincg/home.aspx?langid=1121) and is also the moderator for the discussion group on Computers in Nepal (http://groups.msn.com/nepaliincomputers). Similarly, Allen serves voluntarily as a service to the country as the Member Secretary of Nepali Language in Information Technology, Steering Committee under the High Level Commission for Information of His Majesty’s Government of Nepal. (http://www.hlcit.gov.np). | | | | | |
| Alok Gupta (Visual C++) |  | Alok is a 23 yr old naughty soul from Haridwar, Currently living/Working in Gurgaon, India. He is very fond of Toffee, TV and Computer games (RTS specifically). He some times blogs at http://blogs.wdevs.com/thatsalok or can be contacted at thatsalok@thatsalok.com | | | | | |
| Amarnath Solai (Windows Server System - SQL Server) |  | Amarnath Solai holds a Mechanical Engineering degree. His second home is Mumbai, first home being Tamil Nadu. His first foray into technology was with GWBASIC & MS DOS when he was 17 years and since then did not look back. He is working with Wipro Ltd. in Business Intelligence and Data warehousing division.
Earlier he was working with Patni Computers, Mumbai a SEI-CMM Level5 company. At Patni he introduced MS Reporting Services and persuaded the management to use SSRS, conducted training for it and helped them use the technology. He has been awarded with Knowledge – Star (K- Star) in SQL SEerver. Amarnath has worked extensively on SSRS, SSAS, SSIS and vertical experience of Logistics and SCM. He is the founder of astracks.com, an on-off line tracking system.
He has been accredited as a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in SQL SERVER 2005. He has interest towards Software Architecture & Design along with Management.
He is passionate about Cars, Racing and Computers. He spends free time watching Formula 1, WRC and things related to cars and Travel. As a Libran, he has a perfect balance between his passion and family (wife and lovely daughter).
You can reach Amarnath Solai at You can reach Amarnath Solai at | | | | | |
| Amit Agarwal (Windows - Shell/User) |  | Amit Agarwal holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from IIT Roorkee. He is the only professional blogger in India writing for Digital Inspiration http://labnol.blogspot.com where he covers technology news, internet, software reviews and tips for the 'not-so-geeky' crowd.
Amit is frequently quoted in print and online media. Though his blog, Amit tries to assist web users in taking maximum advantage of the software tools and technologies at their disposal . So they spend more time doing things that really love.
Visit Amit at http://labnol.blogspot.com/ or send him an email at a.p.agarwal@gmail.com | | | | | |
| Amit Bansal (Windows Server System - SQL Server) |  | Amit is the first and the only MCT in India to be invited by Microsoft to proctor 27 sessions on SQL Server & BI at TechEd 2007, Orlando, USA. He is a sought after Trainer Consultant, speaker & writer on SQL Server & Business Intelligence. Visit www.amitbansal.net to know all about Amit.
Peopleware India (corporate training unit of eDominer Systems) is spearheaded by Amit, a Microsoft Certified Trainer since the last six years and holds a couple of Microsoft credentials, including an Early Achiever in Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for Microsoft.NET.Peopleware India is a leading corporate training & learning solutions provider. Amit has trained more than 3000 IT professionals from leading blue chip companies including Microsoft, Infosys, HP, Siemens, Wipro, Capgemini, Lexmark, Accenture, IBM, US Technology, Bosch and many other ISVs.
Amit also contributes as Solutions strategist with his parent company, eDominer Systems that develops web based ERP solutions built on Microsoft.Net platform.
He is closely associated with Microsoft India and conducts frequent 'Train the Trainer' programs for Microsoft Learning. Amit also conducts TechNet events for Microsoft where he imparts high level technical skills to customers and partners of Microsoft across India. Amit is a regular speaker at TechNet and MSDN sessions of Microsoft
When it comes to community, Amit has left no stone unturned. He is the manager of community forums like http://groups.msn.com/kolkatanet,http://groups.msn.com/PeoplewareIndia and http://groups.msn.com/TrainTheTrainer which comprises of more than 2200 members. These technical community forums allow Amit to keep in touch with all the attendees of his workshops and seminars and interact with thousands of IT professionals’ worldwide. He tries to answer technical questions asked by members on the forums as well as contributes by writing articles. Amit has now initiated an instructional and presentation skills improvement program for trainers along with Microsoft India and will be online shortly at http://groups.msn.com/TrainTheTrainer. Amit blogs at http://ABwrites.blogspot.com. Alternatively, you can reach him at amit.bansal@peoplewareindia.com. | | | | | |
| Amit Tank (Windows Server System - Exchange Server) |  | Amit Tank is working works as an Exchange Server Specialist for Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India. He has an industry experience of over 5 years. His areas of interest and expertise include various technologies like Exchange Server, Active Directory & Windows Server. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering (IT).
He is very enthusiastic about blogging on Exchange Server and has been blogging on it since over an year now. You can read his blogs at - http://www.exchangeshare.wordpress.com
In his spare time he likes to participate in online technical communities. | | | | | |
| Anand Khanse (Windows - Shell/User) |  | Having graduated in MBA (Finance), Anand C Khanse worked in the Corporate Sector for a couple of years, in Systems & Merchant Banking, before deciding to set-up his own business. He is engaged in the business of Outdoor Advertising. He has been a Rotarian and is a Member of the Pune Festival Committee. He is also a member of The Poona Club Ltd.
Anand Khanse is passionate about this new-found 'hobby' called Windows! He loves Vista and XP Trouble-Shooting & Optimization; and is knowledgeable about Malware Removal Methods & 3rd Party Application Support. Participating in online Forum activities & Sharing, is his way of giving back what he has learnt! Website: www.winvistaclub.com | | | | | |
| Anand Narayanaswamy |  | Anand Narayanaswamy works as an independent consultant from Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala State and runs NetAns Technologies (www.netans.com) which provides affordable web hosting services. Anand also runs LearnXpress.com (www.learnXpress.com), Dotnetalbum.com (www.dotnetalbum.com) and CsharpFAQ.com (www.csharpfaq.com). LearnXpress.com is a featured site at the MSDN's Visual C# .NET communities section. Anand also works as an editor for ASPAlliance where he publishes book and product reviews in addition to articles. He is also a moderator for Windows MarketPlace Newsgroups. He maintains a blog at http://www.msmvps.com/anandn. You can reach him at anandnswamy@gmail.com | | | | | |
| Aneesh Retnakaran (Windows Server System - SQL Server) |  | I came from Attingal, Kerala the Southern part of India. I have been closely working on the SQL server platform for the past 7 years. Right from my college days, my interest had been inclined mostly towards DB technologies.
After completing my B.Tech. from Kerala University I did my M.Tech. from M.S. University Tirunelveli and currently working as Senior Database Developer at Authoria India Development Centre in Bangalore.
I love to spend most of my time for Online Community Activities and am a regular contributor to www.experts-exchange.com, for which I have been awarded 'SQL Server Genius' and 'Database guru' by them. You can browse my profile at http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_1354672.html. And I've been chosen as the 'Expert of the Month' many times over.
I am also a moderator for www.sqlknowledge.com, where you would be able to find many of articles posted. And the msn newsgroups that intersts me are, http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sqlcon/ and http://www.t-mug.org/.
My hobbies include drawing pictures using 'SQL server', if it interests you, please take a look at my blog http://www.sequelserver.blogspot.com/.
that's all folks... keep coding... | | | | | |
| Arijit Basu (Microsoft Dynamics AX) |  | Arijit Basu is currently working as a Consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, India. Arijit is from Kolkata, the city of joy. He is a Mechanical Engineer and a MBA in Systems & Marketing. His first foray into technology was with GW BASIC & MS DOS in 1992 and since then there's no looking back. Presently he works with Microsoft Dynamics AX.
He loves painting, reading books (Science nonfiction), listening to music and is a gadget freak.
He blogs at http://daxguy.blogspot.com/
He can be reached at arijitbasu@hotmail.com | | | | | |
| Arpit Ninan Jacob (Windows Desktop Experience) |  | Arpit is a Web Developer and Interaction Designer. He runs Clazh, a technology, web development and interaction design blog. The blog aims to build a community around which people can grow and learn from each other.
He is a self taught Web developer and designer and has been developing websites since the age of 16. His interests are in the area of interaction design, usability and development with a focus on the use of Web standards. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology.
He likes to meet new people, travel to new places, and treks a lot. He is also in a small band in which he is the lead vocalist and plays the guitar. He currently blogs at http://www.clazh.com | | | | | |
| Ashish Mathur |  | I am Ashish Mathur from Noida - Uttar Pradesh. I am basically an end user software enthusiast and more specifically an Excel enthusiast. I have been an Excel MVP since 2003 and continually try to contribute to the Excel community by participating in Newsgroups and writing articles. I have recently commissioned my own website (www.ashishmathur.com). Please feel free to browse through my website and offer your comments for any suggestions/improvements you may have. It will be my pleasure to assist you with solving any of your Excel related queries. | | | | | |
| Atul Gupta |  | Atul Gupta is a MS in Software Systems from BITS, Pilani. He had earlier done B.Tech in Chemical Engg from IIT Powai. He is currently working with Infosys Technologies Limited as a Technical Architect.
He has close to 9 years of work experience on Microsoft technology projects across business domains. The technology experience is spread across VC++, MFC, COM/DCOM, SQL, .NET, ASP.NET, C#, ADO.NET, BizTalk Server, Commerce Server and the role played is spread across architecture definition, design, development & testing. | | | | | |
| Baalendu Sharma (Windows - Shell/User) |  | Balendu Sharma (Dadhich) is among the few who started their career in a non-IT field but eventually made a mark in Information Technology. An MCA and MBA by qualification, Balendu served major newspaper groups such as Indian Express, Hindustan Times, Sahara and Rajasthan Patrika in various editorial and reporting positions before taking a plunge as a full-time IT professional in 1999. He has a unique distinction of having worked in all four types of mass media, i.e. print, television, radio and web.
He was amazed to see the unlimited power, potential, reach and spread of information technology which touched almost every world citizen's life in one way or the other. As a writer and journalist, creativity came naturally to him and when this 'adventurous professional and constant learner' decided to join IT; it was because he didn't consider IT as an insipid form of science and engineering. Beyond the astounding power of digits, he viewed IT as a means of creativity, expression and service to the society. An IT conceptualizer and visualizer as he likes to be known as, Balendu Sharma believes any product or service that is imaginable can become a reality by proper application of information technology and this is why his dream projects include development of an 'entire newspaper system run by a single professional.' He says, 'I will be really happy with the progress made by IT when a Chennai based Kannadiga would be talking to a Tokyo based Japanese without none of them knowing each other's languages.'
Presently working as Managing Editor cum technical head of popular Hindi portal www.prabhasakshi.com, he switches between both responsibilities with equal comfort. He started coding in Java but later shifted to Visual Basic. His relationship with Microsoft .Net technologies dates back in 2002 when he developed his first .Net based fully functional CMS and web portal using the beta version. XML is another preferred technology for him. Balendu is an ardent supporter of localization of IT products and has produced many desktop solutions and web applications in English as well as Indian languages. Most popular among his creations is 'Madhyam', a simple Inscript based free Hindi word processor whose 25000 copies have already been downloaded by Hindi users. InstantPortal.net (Unicode CMS), WebSamarth (desktop web development platform for Indian languages) and NewsGrabber (news management system) are other successful solutions he has developed. He is also writing books on technological and business aspects of localization; and is running a campaign to create awareness on Unicode, through his contributions to mainstream Hindi-English media and workshops. Balendu hosts a few interesting blogs including Localisation Labs, Locals strike back and Wah media. He is also active in many technical communities including Bhashaindia, Microsoftweftuserscommunity and SitePoint. More details can be found at his webhome. | | | | | |
| Chaitra Nagaraj (Visual Developer ASP/ASP.NET) |  | Chaitra works for Intel Technologies, Bangalore. She has graduated with Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Science from VTU. Chaitra started her career 5 years back with Infosys Technologies, Bangalore. She was working with the Microsoft Solution group of Infosys.
Chaitra is actively involved with BDOTNET. She is one of the Assistant Managers of BDOTNET. She has conducted many sessions in BDOTNET. She has organized many Events in BDOTNET. Chaitra has conducted many sessions in Intel technical forums.
Chaitra mainly works on ASP.Net, WebServices, Microsoft AJAX and Visual Studio Team System. She is interested in learning new technologies. She has given sessions on .Net Framework 3.5 and LINQ. Chaitra can be contacted at chaitra.nagaraj@gmail.com | | | | | |
| Danasekarane Arunachalam (Visual Basic .NET) |  | Danasekarane works as a Software Engineer with Solid Solutions, Chennai. Prior to this he was working with Integra Software Service, Pondicherry. He has been working on Microsoft .Net Technologies like - C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, .NET Framework, VB and SQL Server since the last 3 years.
He is a contributor and member at www.dotnetspider.com and www.vbforums.com. Danasekarane loves to participate in online communities, discussion groups and blogs. He is active almost every day in technical forums. He loves to help his friends and other people when they need technical help. He likes learning about latest technologies and experimenting | | | | | |
| Dax Pandhi (Visual Developer - Client Application Development) |  | Dax Pandhi is the Founder and CEO of Nukeation Studios, an award winning technology/design studio. He has over a decade of experience with graphics and software technologies.
Dax has been recognized by the International Association of Web Masters and Developers for excellence in web design. As a UX specialist, he is currently dedicated to leveraging the new .NET 3.0 technologies - especially Windows Presentation Foundation - to help clients create the next generation of applications. He is very passionate about WPF and believes it will open up the way to visualizations that used to be only dreams and science fiction.
Dax's blog is http://www.nAesthetic.com. | | | | | |
| Deepak Kumar Vasudevan (ASP.NET) |  | Vasudevan Deepak Kumar is an Architect. Deepak started his programming career in 1994 even during his tender school days. He had his Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science from Vellore Engineering College in 1999 and currently pursuing his MBA in Systems from Alagappa University, Karaikudi.
He has been working in various capacities in the IT field, ranging from web portal applications to enterprise web applications in ASP, SQL Server 2000. Currently, he is working as an Architect in Verizon Data Services India Private Limited, Chennai, India. With an experience to the tune of five plus years in IT field in cutting edge technologies and real time enterprise solutions. Deepak has learnt the art of untangling the most complex enterprise problem into a most adorable and amicable business solution. You can reach him at deepak.vasudevan@inbox.com | | | | | |
| Deepak Rangarajan (SQL Server) |  | Deepak Rangarajan graduated with a Bachelors degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering, in June 2006. He is presently employed as SQL Server Database Administrator at GlobalScholar, Chennai, India.
He is an active participant and moderator in MSDN SQL Server forum and SQL Server Central website. He is a regular columnist in sql-articles.com. Deepak is an MCTS certified professional and has been awarded with Level 3 and Level 4 certifications by Japanese Language Proficiency Test JLPT.
He blogs at http://deepakrangarajan.blogspot.com | | | | | |
| Dhaval Faria |  | Dhaval Faria is from Mumbai, he is Founder and Managing Directory for Hirdhav Software Pvt. Ltd., Prior to working in his company, he worked as a freelancer. He started his career with HTML and Visual Basic, and then he never stopped exploring more languages like x86 Assembly, BASIC, Java, .NET, etc… He has been in software industry for more then 7yrs as a non-professional and professional. He has executed projects in various languages like VB, Java, .NET, x86 Assembly, COBOL, LISP, JSP, Perl, PHP, CGI-BIN, C/C++, Foxpro, etc… and platforms like DOS, Windows, Linux, Third party Platforms.
His main interest involves doing research and development on various new technologies, and exploring all Microsoft technologies which includes DirectX, GDI+, SAPI, TAPI, XNA, and many more… apart from programming field he also has interest in robotics, electronics, science, history, and many more things.
He is not too active online in the usergroups and newsgroups, but he is active on them offline, arranging user group meets, taking sessions and many other things.
When he is not on his computer you can find him watching TV, Reading, Eating, Sleeping, Hanging out with Friends, etc… and also he knows to skates and play piano, he has taken professional training for 3yrs in playing Piano.
You can read his blog at http://www.dhavalfaria.com/. And you can reach him at dhavalf@hirdhav.com. | | | | | |
| G Gnana Arun Ganesh |  | G. Gnana Arun Ganesh, a Microsoft XML Web Services MVP is a .NET Developer, Author, Editor and Reviewer, who believes Microsoft .NET technology, is the ultimate solution to real world software problems.
G. Gnana Arun Ganesh is currently with Accenture (Accenture-Microsoft Engagement, Hyderabad). He has been working with Microsoft .NET Technologies since its initial beta version. As a .NET author, he has published more than 60 articles on .NET technology in various top .NET Web sites, such as eXPerienceDotNet, MSDNAA (MSDN Academic Alliance), Developersdex, etc and conducted various .NET sessions in colleges. He is the Co-author of the Prentice Hall PTR book, .NET Security and Cryptography, part of The Integrated .NET Series from Object Innovations. Being an active member of Prentice Hall’s technical review panel, he has performed many technical reviews, beginning with C# How to Program, written by Harvey and Paul Deitel. He is one of the Managers of MUGH (Microsoft User Group, Hyd). Arun is also one of the authors of ObjectInnovations.com, which offers training course materials in fundamental software technologies. He was the author and site personality of .NET Reference Guide, hosting by InformIT. As the administrator of Arun Micro Systems (2001 - 2003), he had provided online .NET guidance all over the world.
.NET Web Site: Arun Micro Systems - www.arunmicrosystems.netfirms.com. He can be reached at ggarung@rediffmail.com. | | | | | |
| Geetesh Bajaj |  | Geetesh Bajaj has been designing PowerPoint presentations and templates for over a decade now. He heads Indezine, a presentation design studio based out of Hyderabad, India.
Geetesh believes that any PowerPoint presentation is a sum of its elements-these elements include abstract elements like concept, color, interactivity, and navigation- and also slide elements like shapes, graphics, charts, text, sound, video, and animation. He explains how these elements work together in his best-selling book Cutting Edge PowerPoint for Dummies- the book has several five-star ratings on Amazon.com
His indezine.com site attracts nearly a million page views each month and has hundreds of free PowerPoint templates and other goodies for visitors to download. In addition, Geetesh also issues a bi-weekly PowerPoint newsletter on indezine.com that has thousands of subscribers. Geetesh runs another PowerPoint related site at ppted.com - this site provides designer PowerPoint templates.
He has authored content for the Microsoft, Presentations.com, Presenters University, TechTrax, Infocomm and other web sites, undertakes training and consultancy for PowerPoint, creates custom PowerPoint presentations and templates and is a featured speaker on presentation technologies. In addition, Geetesh has also been part of the PowerPoint Live industry event since its conception and a contributing editor to Presentations magazine for whom he has authored several Creative Techniques columns. | | | | | |
| HimaBindu Vejella (ASP.NET) |  | HimaBindu Vejella is BTech Graduate, Microsoft Certified Professional in ASP.Net and SqlServer 2000. She has been Working on .Net Technologies since past 3 years. She is also trainer, project guide in Dotnet. She started her carrier with VB and migrated to Dotnet. Currently she is working as Senior Developer in SEI CMMI level 5 company. She has been presented 5 National level papers on various technical topics like Artificial Intelligence, Speech Recognition, Speech Processing and UML. She is awarded as the Most Valuable member of www.dotnetspider.com She is Moderator and founder of Dotnet group for freshers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dotnetforfreshers
Her areas of intrests includes reading techincal books, conducting training programs, participating in technical communities, writing technical articles and exploring latest technologies.
She blogs at www.himabinduvejella.blogspot.com. She can be reached at himabvejella@gmail.com.Visit her home page: http://spaces.msn.com/himams | | | | | |
| Jacob Sebastian (SQL Server) |  | Jacob Sebastian is co-founder and CTO of Excellence Infonet, Ahmedabad, an Indian unit of a US based software firm. He has been into software development for almost 12 years. Being the CTO of the company, Jacob contributes as Solution Architect and spends most of his time with SQL Server.
He is a moderator at MSDN forums and a regular columnist at SqlServerCentral. He blogs at www.sqlserverandxml.com and conducts regular training sessions on Microsoft Technologies. He worked as the Principal Designer of the Web 2.0 .NET Class Libraries featured at www.web20tools.net. Before shifting his focus to SQL Server, his area of expertise was VC++ and did quite a lot of work with VC++/MFC/ATL/COM | | | | | |
| Jay Kinker (Windows Server System - BizTalk Server) |  | Jay got into the world of computers in 1997 when his father gifted him a computer during his college days. What drew him to computers initially was animations and designing. It was fun working with them and seeing what one could create using those applications. He also had to learn programming languages for his college assignments; that’s where he started learning C, C++, GWBASIC and FoxPro. Very soon he realized that coding is even more fun.
Professionally, he started working with VB – ASP and then progressively moved on to VC++, .Net (ASP.Net, C#), SharePoint and BizTalk Server.
What motivates him the most is technology and how it can be harnessed within various problem spaces. His exposure to a wide technology set has helped him in providing solutions to a fairly large variety of problems. Many a times, while finding a solution is not an issue, the real challenge lies in finding an optimal solution.
He is currently working with eXant Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Pune as Managing Director.
When it comes to community; he participate in Microsoft Newsgroups primarily in BizTalk Server and BizTalk’s Financial Accelerator for SWIFT. He has been a BETA tester for BizTalk Server and A4SWIFT products. He conduct seminars, Hands-on workshop/training for BizTalk Server 2004/2006 across locations in India. He is a contributor at Pune User Group (PUG) and run LinkedIn group for MVPs worldwide.
He maintain his blogs at http://geekswithblogs.net/JayKinker | | | | | |
| Joydip Kanjilal (Visual Developer - ASP/ASP.NET) |  | Joydip Kanjilal belongs to Kolkata, West Bengal and started his career as a software faculty. He has an industry experience of over 10 years and has worked extensibly in Microsoft Technologies. He has been working in ASP.NET and C# for over 5 years now. His skills include C, C++, C#,Visual Basic, Visual C++,ASP.NET,XML,UML,Design Patterns, etc. He is currently working as a Technical Architect in a reputed MNC in Hyderabad, India. Joydip has authored a lot of articles on Microsoft.NET and its related technologies at ASPALLIANCE, DEVX, ASPTODAY, ASPNETPRO, CODERSOURCE, SQL-SERVER-PERFORMANCE.COM, SSWUG, etc. Some of these articles have been selected at www.asp.net , Microsoft's official site for ASP.NET. Joydip's hobbies include, reading books, watching cricket and soccer. He maintains his blog at: http://aspadvice.com/blogs/joydip/ He can be reached at: joydipkanjilal@yahoo.com | | | | | |
| Karthik Bhat (MS Excel) |  | Karthik is a member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and currently works for a Global Investment Bank in its Finance function. He has been working on Excel for more than nine years and is ever eager to expand his knowledge of the same.
Though not a programmer by training, he picked up VBA skills solely through the internet and self learning. He enjoys dabbling in Excel, making customized tools, UDFs & Add-ins.
He has conducted Advanced Excel training sessions in all the organizations he has worked for. He owns the MS XL to Excel community on Orkut and an Excel Group on Google Groups where he answers Excel related queries. He evangelizes on excelling in Excel through his blog - http://excel2xl.blogspot.com
He firmly believes that a good understanding of how spreadsheets work enables people to focus on analysis rather than the mundane task of number crunching. He loves to share his knowledge and expertise on Excel with people around him and through internet forums.
He is an ardent fan of solving puzzles, and loves playing basketball and tennis.
Swimming and traveling are other pursuits that he is passionate about. | | | | | |
| Kaushal Parik (ASP.NET) |  | Kaushal is from Ahmedabad, Gujarat. He started his professional career working with Amtel Security Inc. as an IT Trainee in 2004. Currently he is working as a Senior Software Engineer in Gateway Technolabs Pvt. Ltd. He has done PG DCA (Diploma in Computer Application) and MCA (Master of Computer Application) with shining marks.
He works on technologies like ASP.NET / XML / AJAX / C#-VB.NET and .NET (Web + Desktop). He has 4+ years of hands-on experience on .NET Technologies and has developed projects based on .NET and Microsoft server technologies like Commerce Server and BizTalk Server. Though his expertise lies in Microsoft platform, he is comfortable in Core Java, Data Structure and C/C++. He is passionate about Project Management and Software Architecture Theories.
He spends a lot of time helping the communities on Microsoft technologies. When it comes to community, Kaushal has left no stone unturned. He blogs at http://dotnetslackers.com/community/blogs/kaushalparik/.
About hobbies, he loves to see funny sitcoms, Disney and Discovery programs. | | | | | |
| Kashinath Rangappa |  | Kashi holds a Post-Graduate Degree in Information Technology and works for Intel Technologies, Bangalore. Prior to joining Intel, he worked for Wipro Technologies, First american corporation and Texas networks. He has been speaking on .NET and related technologies in the B.NET user group. Kashi is Co-founder / Active Member/ Presenter of B.NET. Kashi is also a Microsoft MVP since 2002. | | | | | |
| Krishnan Rajagopal (Xbox) |  | Krishnan is an avid technology enthusiast and a fanatic gamer. He writes and manages -www.theangrypixel.com, along with his equally passionate associates. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and works as an Enterprise Software Team Lead. He spends every free moment alternating between his twin passions – writing lengthy posts and gaming on the Xbox 360, the PC and the PSP. That is, when he is not sleeping, gorging on junk food and watching reruns of The Simpsons and Futurama for the billionth time. | | | | | |
| Madhur Verma (Consumer Security) |  | Madhur has over 13 years of experience in the IT Industry as a System Administration and Security Analyst , which includes over 3 years of exclusive experience in the IT Security domain. He has done many Microsoft Certifications and is a Certified CIW Security Analyst. Working as an Incident Handler in Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), he reviews and provides advice / inputs to strategic initiatives on security policies and guidelines to various organizations. Madhur conduct lectures, demonstrations, hands-on labs and table-top sessions on computer security issues at different national and international conferences, seminars and workshops.
His areas of interest include Windows security, network behaviour analysis, packet analysis. He also likes a lot to design, development & implement Threat Assessment Solutions. He is passionate about new technology adoption and finds great pleasure in solving problems. | | | | | |
| Manmeet Chaudhari (Microsoft Office Projects) |  | Manmeet is the Lead Consultant - Business Productivity at MaxOffice Services Pvt Ltd. Her area of interest and expertise is Enterprise Project Management based on Microsoft platform. She has trained over 7,000 professionals across the APAC region. Manmeet is a Microsoft Certified Master Trainer (Office) and Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (Project).
She works closely with Microsoft teams across the Asia Pacific region. Maneet has helped many companies in Engineering, BFSI, IT Services, Telecom sectors in implementing EPM. She is a frequent contributor to online forums like EPM Newsgroups, Community Clips and Merawindows. | | | | | |
| Mangal Pardeshi (SQL Server) |  | Mangal is an E&TC Engineer from Pune University. He started his career as an ERP Technical Consultant in 2007. Currently he works as a BI Developer + SQL Server DBA in Business Insights Consulting, Pune. His core areas of expertise are Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. He also possesses expertise in Database Administration, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS and T-SQL. He is an active participant and moderator in MSDN SQL Server forum. He is also one of the top answerer in MSDN SQL Server Forums | | | | | |
| Mahesh Patil (Visual Developer - Visual C++) |  | Mahesh is from Pune. Mahesh is programming since 1993. He is having around 8+ Years of overall IT experience with 4+ years of core system software design and development experience in Microsoft technologies using VC++/ATL/COM. He is currently working for a USA based company to design and develop defect analysis and inspection software solutions.
Mahesh loves to participate in online communities, discussion groups, technical articles and blogs. He is almost daily active in technical forums. He always loves to help his friends and other peoples for their technical difficulties. He likes to be getting familiar with latest technologies and always love to perform new experiments.
Along with online stuff he also likes to read various technical handbooks and magazines. In his spare time he likes painting, reading, traveling, listening to music, eating and hanging out with friends.
He can be reached at mahesh14@gmail.com or maheshsp@hotmail.com | | | | | |
| Naresh Nichani |  | Naresh Nichani manages a software consulting company ‘GL Infotech’ based in Chennai. He develops and manages projects in Visual Basic (VB.Net and VB 6.0) and MS SQL Server. He also does VBA programming in MS-Access, MS-Excel and MS Visio.
He has completed his MBA (Finance) from University of Massachusetts, Lowell and had worked for Village Software (www.villagesoft.com) for a year. Village Software is a key developer of spreadsheet applications (the free templates in MS-Office 97 and MS-Office 2000 are from Village Software).
He enjoys programming with Microsoft technologies as they are fairly easy to use and developers can build fairly complex solutions for customers with visually appealing interfaces quickly. He is currently working on a DHTML Interface, which encapsulates the Web Browser control to create a “web” like interface in a Windows Form Application.
In his spare time he likes to play shuttle, swim and watch movies.
Naresh can be reached at nareshnichani@hotmail.com | | | | | |
| Nibu Thomas (Visual Developer - VC++) |  | Nibu has been programming for 5 years now. He loves programming; not a geek but trying to be one. Nibu loves playing guitar and piano in his spare time (Right now terribly short on practice). Nibu loves his mother a lot. In fact has been spoiled by her as his father says. He loves to spent time with his family.
Nibu is passionate about leading a good Christian life. He dedicates all his success to Jesus. In fact this is what he says 'I am whatever I am by the grace of Jesus'.
He has got a programming tips and tricks site. You could help him improve with your suggestions. He can be contacted through is blog at:http://nibuthomas.wordpress.com | | | | | |
| Niraj G Bhatt (Technical Architect) | | Niraj is an Information Science Graduate from VTU, Bangalore. Bitten by entrepreneurship bug he started a company called Ardent Collaborations right after passing out from college. Currently his company is into software consulting & development work, though he believes that he will achieve a major breakthrough some day. He has been mentoring diverse audiences on cutting edge Microsoft technologies for companies like IBM, Infosys, Wipro, Satyam, Accenture, HP etc. He believes in community involvement & enjoys the all round growth it brings to one’s personality. He is a frequent speaker at BDOTNET (http://bdotnet.in) & can be reached at niraj@indiamvps.net . He currently consults a CMM Level 5 company as Technical Architect. His areas of focus include architecture, performance, code quality & productivity | | | | | |
| Nirmal TV (Windows Desktop Experience) |  | Nirmal works as a Software Engineer with Infosys, Mangalore. He has been working on Microsoft .Net Technologies since the last 3 years. He has worked on C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, .NET Framework, Java Scripts, Oracle and SQL Server.
Blogging has been his passion since over an year now. He blogs about latest technologies, Windows tips & tricks, tutorials and softwares at Life Rocks 2.0 (www.nirmaltv.com). He has been a great fan of Microsoft Technologies ever since he started using them. Nirmal holds a Masters degree in Civil Engineering.
His hobbies include listening to music, watching cricket and driving. | | | | | |
| Pinal Dave (SQL Server) |  | Pinal Dave is the author of several hundreds SQL Server articles posted on the site - http://www.SQLAuthority.com. He has five years experience as a Principal Database Administrator and Web Application Architecture Developer using MS SQL Server 2005 and .NET. He has a Masters degree in Science (Computer Networks), along with MCDBA, MCAD(.NET) and many other certifications.
Pinal Dave is working as a Principal Database Administrator in the field of Automotive Industry in Gandhi Nagar, India. Database Programming is his hobby and passion. He likes to read technical books and write tech stuff in his blog. He is also regular column writer in SQL Server magazine. | | | | | |
| Nirmal |  | Nirmal (26 years older) is a great fan of NT-Line technology. He has been involved in Microsoft Technologies since 1994 and followed the progression of Microsoft Operating System and software. He concentrates more on Active Directory and Windows Server products. When required he develops small networking tools (Client/Server) in Visual FoxPro. He is also involved in scripting - Windows Shell Programming, VBScript and ADSI. He started his computer related stuffs when he was in 10th standard.
In his spare time he likes to participate at technical communities. You can find him posting at www.experts-exchange.com and Microsoft communities - ID: SystmProg. If he finds anything new in Active Directory or Windows Server, he doesn't forget to put at his web site.
You can catch him at nratawa@gmail.com
Nirmal is currently employed with CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation). | | | | | |
| Dr. Nitin Paranjape |  | Dr Nitin Paranjape has a base qualification in Gynaecology. However, he has established his credibility and expertise as a well known IT consultant and developer over a period of last 12 years.
He is a prolific writer, trainer and orator. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor. He has written over 750 articles in popular weekly column called ‘TechForum’ for 'Express Computers' magazine. He has been writing in various magazines in India for last 9 years that includes Living Computers, Express Computers, MSDN magazine ( India edition). He has to his credit several certifications and awards and includes Best Trainer Award by Microsoft in 1999 and Enterprise Solutions Award by Microsoft in 2003
He has conducted more than 500 knowledge transfer sessions covering 6000+ professionals on various technical and medical topics.
He is currently best known for his sessions on highlighting the real value of Office Productivity. He has conducted a large number of sessions across Asia Pacific for CEOs, Top Management, Partners, Information Workers and Developers to highlight the benefits of Office. 'Role based customization of Office' is an innovative methodology developed by him and his team to unearth maximum value from Office and related products.
He is currently CMD of Maestros Mediline Systems Ltd, a multifaceted company that is active in areas of IT services and Medical Embedded Systems. His areas of interest and expertise include IT productivity, Databases, Development Tools, User Interface Design, eBusiness and other web technologies.
He can be reached at nitin@maestros.net | | | | | |
| Omar Al Zabir (Visual C#) |  | Omar is from Bangladesh, who works day and night to make Microsoft technologies popular in his country which is currently dominated by LAMP guys. He started programming when he has 10, winning the Best Competitor Award in a Nation-wide programming contest. Since then, his computer career has been a roller coaster ride, working for companies in Bangladesh, UK, Australia, Germany and US. He has been involved in projects for HP, GlobalATM, Bank of America, US Federal Reserve Bank, CitiBank etc. His love and passion for Microsoft technologies can be seen in his one of a kind website: www.oazabir.com | | | | | |
| Praveen Kumar (ASP/ASP.NET) |  | Praveen is a Keralite but born and brought up in Madhya Pradesh. He has done Masters Computer Science and Applications from University Institute of Computer Science and Application (UICSA), Rani Durgavati University (RDVV), Jabalpur and Bachelors Degree in Mathematics.
He is currently working as Project Manager for MCN Solutions, Noida. He has over 10 years of IT industry experience with Microsoft technologies. He is mainly into product development and also responsible for managing the content as the editor of www.c-sharpcorner.com. He is very fond of playing badminton and likes to spend time with family. | | | | | |
| Praveen Nair (Visual Developer - ASP/ASP.NET) |  | Praveen.V.Nair - aka NinethSense - is a person with passion for technology. He is playing with electronics from the age of 10 and computers when he was 14. He started his tech-life by writing programs in Microsoft GW-BASIC. Now he has over 8 years experience in various technologies and he is working as a Project Manager. He is very passionate in Programming and Teaching.
He lives at Trivandrum (Kerala) and work for PIT Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Technopark.
He usually blogs at http://blog.ninethsense.com/. You can reach him at ninethsense@hotmail.com | | | | | |
| Purna Chandra Rao Duggirala (Microsoft Excel) |  | Purnachandra is an MBA from IIM Indore and a Computer Science Graduate. He is passionate about data analysis & visualization. Purnachandra blogs regularly at http://chandoo.org/wp. His blog, named Pointy Haired Dilbert, provides lots of Excel tips, tutorials, tweaks and downloads to help new Excel users as well as Experts to learn and share | | | | | |
| Radhakrishna M.V. (ASP/ASP.NET) | | Radhakrishna Manda (or Anil as he likes to be called) works at Applabs, Hyderabad and has been associated with the Microsoft User Group, Hyderabad (MUGH) since its inception. He enjoys working with Microsoft tools & technologies and believes that the Web validates his existence. He blogs his little discoveries and Web development tips, tricks and trivia quite regularly at http://mvark.blogspot.com. | | | | | |
| Rahul Nathan (Windows - Networking) |  | In the year 2000 I decided to transition from the Hospitality Industry to hard core Information Technology, which was always my strength and desire. Now as a Systems Administrator I do just that … I manage the IT infrastructure at SunGard Solutions, Bangalore. I have done 6 Microsoft Certifications after my BHM degree. I am a Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator 2003 early achiever and a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer 2000. I devote my free time to the technology communities. Bangalore IT Pro User Group started in 2005 and I lead the group. I believe knowledge grows by sharing and I love to share my knowledge by offering IT infrastructure solutions to all. I also provide career tips and mentor and support young brains who want to make a mark in the IT Industry. My recent achievements include supporting Janaagraha's (www.Janaagraha.org , an NGO) IT infrastructure and web migrations, which has been appreciated by them. I was recognised as Microsoft India Dev Star in September 2006 and as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional - Windows Networking in October 2006. Be it networking, computers or people, I just love it all. I believe it is important to be passionate and really enjoy whatever you do.
My association with Technology Communities saw a mention in The Smart Techie Magazine in October 2006. I invite one and all to participate in Technology Communities. There is a myth that what is free is not good and what is good does not come free. I can show you how Technology Communities prove this misconception to be wrong. And it is wrong to think that Technology Communities are only for Technology Geeks.
Feel free to email me at tram100@gmail.com. I blog at http://rahulnathan.blogspot.com occasionally but prefer to reach out to Technology Communities directly at http://groups.msn.com/BangaloreITPro and Microsoft newsgroups. | | | | | |
| Raj Pillai |  | Raj Pillai is a B.Com graduate with GNIIT certification, currently based in Mumbai, India. He has varied experience ranging from Accounting & Finance to Software Development using VB 6.0 and VBA in (Word, Excel and Outlook). He has been writing articles related to synchronization issues on http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/raj. He is a moderator on the http://forums.pocketpcfaq.com/ forum as well. He has worked on most of the Windows CE versions since the Palm-size PC form factor. Raj is very passionate about Mobile Devices and the potential they hold and often refers to his Pocket PC as - 'My Baby'. | | | | | |
| Rajkumar Beniwal(Client Application Development) |  | Rajkumar works as a Senior Software Engineer. He has been working on Microsoft Technologies since over 4 Years now. Rajkumar holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science and is currently working with C# Corner (www.c-sharpcorner.com). His favourite sports are Cricket, Volleyball, Badminton and snooker. | | | | | |
| Rajesh R. Subramanian (Visual C++) |  | Rajesh started programming in his school days with C, and then learnt FORTRAN, followed by C++. He started his profession with Visual C++, and ever since then, is into Windows Programming. He has also worked a little on embedded devices (ARM) using C and Embedded Visual C++.
MFC still remains to be his favorite application framework, given the fact that he has worked on a few other open source frameworks. He has worked on AIX and on a few flavors of UNIX, while his favorite platform for development is Microsoft Windows.
He hold a Masters in Computer Applications from the University of Mumbai. At present, he is working for PSI Data Systems (Aditya Birla group). He loves spending time at The Code Project forums, but he does it as and when his work schedule permits. | | | | | |
| Ramesh Kumar (Windows - Shell/User) |  | Ramesh Kumar loves to play with Windows. Sometimes his friends refer him as an unofficial Microsoft Spy...but NEVER MIND IT..!
I has been devoted to Windows and it has been his luck that he has been enjoying Windows Operating Systems since Windows 95, moved on to Win98, Win 2000, Windows XP and now on Windows Vista. When the Windows Vista Preview was released he received a copy from Microsoft and it changed his views from Windows End-User to Windows Shell-User.
He moderates www.MeraWindows.com, he also joined various Microsoft product based Discussion Boards or Forum sites and has been involved into help or troubleshooting other members’ technical problems.
Recently he has been awarded as Microsoft MVP in Windows Desktop Experience (formally known as Windows: Shell\User). He says it was the happiest day of his life.
He is keen to learn new things and interested in Microsoft Technologies. He can be reached at ramesh.kumar@indiamvps.net | | | | | |
| Ravi Kanth Koppala (.Net) |  | Ravi holds a Masters Degree in Computer Applications from Madras University, earlier he had completed his Bachelor’s Degree from Sri Krishnadevaraya University.
He has a working experience of over 9 Years and has been working on many technologies ranging from Visual Basic, ASP to latest technologies like Commerce Server, BizTalk, Silverlight and MOSS etc.
Ravi belongs to the Groundnut City of Andhra Pradesh – Anantapur. He is currently working as a Technical Architect at Accenture, India. He is a part of the Technology Group and has completed various certifications like MCSD .Net, MCPDEA, MCTS (WSS & MOSS), CSQA and PMP.
He loves watching TV and movies, listens to music. His favorite device on earth is his laptop. You can read his blogs at - http://techblog.ravikanth.net | | | | | |
| Ravi Patel (ASP.NET) |  | Hi, I am Ravi Patel working for Infosys Technologies Pvt Ltd, Pune as a Programmer Analyst. I am basically from Gujarat. I have completed my M.Sc in Information Science from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar. Working on .Net is a passion for me. I strongly believe that knowledge increases by sharing. I am managing a usergroup named dotnetchaps based in Gujarat and it is a INETA member usergroup.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dotnetchaps. I regularly contribute to the group by submitting articles and taking workshops and presentations on .Net both Framework 1.1 and Framework 2.0. I have also worked on web services and windows services. You can find my articles on C#, ASP.Net , windows service, web services on my blog http://360.yahoo.com/ravikpatel. I am also a member Microsoft user groups like, Mumbai .Net User group, Indore .Net Usergroup, Pune .NetUser group, Microsoft_VisualMinds usergroup.Currently I am working on ASP.Net with Sql Server 2000 as backend. Apart from that music and dancing are also my hobbies. You can reach me at iolravip@hotmail.com for any of your queries, doubts related to ASP.Net. | | | | | |
| Satish Kumar Jakkula (.Net) |  | Satish has a Master’s Degree in Computer Applications. His technical skills include - .NET, C# and Web + Windows programming. He also works on a Mobile Technology called Dexterra.
He is an active member of www.dotnetspider.com online technical community. In his leisure time he likes to listen to music. | | | | | |
| Saurav Basu (Windows - Shell/User) |  | Saurav is known for his passion for learning, which eventually led him to the world of endless possibilities, the world of IT.
He can be found hovering in many Tech. / IT Pro communities, forums and discussion boards, learning and sharing his expertise with others. He is always known to be a person who likes to learn, but more than that he loves to share his knowledge.
He can be found at -http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum,http://www.chip-india.com/,http://www.techenclave.com/forums/,
http://www.vinuthomas.com,http://www.chotocheeta.com/,http://www.techsupportforum.com/,http://www.neowin.net/, and many more IT Pro communities. | | | | | |
| Saurav Srivastava (Windows - Shell/User) |  | I am Saurav Srivastava, from Lucknow India. I have completed my Graduation in Commerce stream this year, & also my PIM Diploma from Arena Multimedia.
I am mostly into designing, I work in 3D Max mainly, & the area of my interest is Software User interface designing, because I believe it is second most important aspect of a good software other then efficient programming. I design icons in my free time, & also help my friends in making UI for their academic software. Other then this I like to make skins for many applications or mod existing ones, but icons is still my first passion. The color scheme can make or break an application or the whole Operating System user interface, so I like to make it consistent to maximum extent.
I plan to work in a movie studio someday as a Visual effects designer & 3d animator, right now I am working on this path | | | | | |
| Selvaraj Kaliyan |  | S.KALIYAN son of R.Selvaraj, born in Kattupaiyur, Thirukovilur Taluk, Villupuram Dist., TamilNadu, India. Now settled in Bangalore, India. He is currently working as a Systems Manager with M/s.Login Infotech Pvt Ltd., Bangalore, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. He holds a certificate in Diploma in Computer Technology, pursued Graduation in Computer Applications from IGNOU of New Delhi. He is also a Microsoft Certified Small Business Specialist.
S.Kaliyan is Co-founder & Manger of BangaloreITPro User Group. He also serves as an ITPro Group Leader at Culminis. Kaliyan is also administrator & Moderator of www.securitynprivacy.com. To capture more events on Information Technology join with him on http://groups.msn.com/bangaloreitpro, which make critical information available to the IT Pro as soon as it becomes available.
Favorites: His favorites are reading the Technology Books, doing R&D on windows operating systems. He loves to talk more about the latest trend in technology and interesting in analyzing & solving the technical problems. His hobbies are answering to newsgroups & online tech forums, He maintains his technical blog at http://spaces.msn.com/members/kaliyans. He cherishes every moment of his married life with Shivaganavalli. He dreams to become the part of Microsoft Corporation, He want to make his village as IT Park.
Offline Mail ID: kaliyan.s@gmail.com
Chat ID: as_kalyan@hotmail.com | | | | | |
| Shailaja Kumar (SharePoint Server) |  | Shailaja started her career as a VC++ programmer, moved on to .NET and then to SharePoint. She has a Master’s degree in Computer Applications, along with MCPD EA and MCTS in Configuring and Application Development of MOSS 2007.
She has been associated with Accenture and the Avanade Account Group as an Analyst Programmer. She played a key role as one of the core members of the Center of Excellence for SharePoint Technology.
She likes adventure sports, travelling, and listening music. Her blog address is http://shailajakumar.blogspot.com | | | | | |
| Shanmuga Sundara Raman Murugan (Microsoft Office System) |  | Sundara Raman @ Shasur started programming in Foxbase and Foxpro way back in 1995. For the last Six years he is associated with Visual Basic Application development involving Microsoft Office. Visual Basic was his favorite programming language and he has extended the use of it to CAD customization too.
His passions include programming, blogging, forums and cricket. He updates his blog on VBA (http://vbadud.blogspot.com) with code snippets and tips on Excel VBA, Word VBA etc. He actively participates in MSDN, Wrox and VBAExpress forums. His wish is to write a ready reckoner kind of book on 2007 Office system. | | | | | |
| Shantanu Kaushik (Windows - Shell/User) |  | Troubleshooting makes Shantanu happy and confident. Locally if anyone has issues with Microsoft technologies they reach him for troubleshooting.
Shantanu did his B. Tech from Delhi University. Since he was studying in 11th Grade he got into Programming & Designing, getting to learn Python Programming with C. He started by making his own site, learned different languages and tried all that he could.
He is very enthusiastic about the upcoming technologies and has a command over .Net. He is self-employed and makes software and programs for organizations. He made up his mind to join public forums about 2 years back when he joined TechNet forums, going forward he joined some more TechNet forums and also started a site a few years back. | | | | | |
| Shuja Ali |  | Shuja Ali is from Kashmir and is currently working in Hyderabad as Senior Programmer. He has been programming for over 5 years and has worked on multiple versions of Visual Basic right from 4.0 to 6.0. His latest passion is .NET. Shuja started programming in DBase IV early in his career, moved to MS-Access for sometime and finally ended up programming in Visual Basic 4.0.
Although Shuja's core competency is Visual Basic, he also enjoys programming in C#, ASP.NET and SQL. Currently he is busy exploring .NET 2.0 and waiting for WPF and Vista. Shuja has been working on different Microsoft Technologies in his career and has been interested in learning about new technologies that Microsoft is coming out with. Shuja possesses Microsoft Certified Application Developer and Microsoft Certified Professional certifications in Visual Basic.NET.
When Shuja is not programming he can be found online at http://www.codeguru.com/forums and http://www.vbforums.com. He thinks that Codeguru is one of the best places on the net to learn and share your knowledge. | | | | | |
| Shyamlal T Pushpan (Windows - Shell/User) |  | SHYAMLAL. T .PUSHPAN is an electronic graduate from kerala. He is running a training organization named CORONA Institute of Technology with main office in kottyam and branch office at his home town, Allappuza. He is a Microsoft Certified System Engineer + Internet Expert (MCSE +I) since 1998. He has also secured CompTIA A + and CCNA as part of his work as a trainer and implementer in various networking products. He has 10 + years experience in computer hardware and network industry. In addition to the responsibilities at his office he is also working as a technical writer and columnist in the leading Malayalam computer magazine “Info-kairaly “ and conducting seminars and workshops at various engineering collages for aspirant students. and he directed and presented a video CD demonstration on “ build ur own computer “ that is encouraging a layman to build his dream machine himself.
On his social side of technology he is operating a free tech support over mobile phone to virtually any one who dials in to his no. For the past 4 years and answering more than 100 calls per day . Now from January 2007 onwards he is hosting a tech-support community website that bears his mobile no. itself i.e. www.9847155469.com.
Please be part of this community by being a member.
Apart from computer which is his true passion is loves reading Malayalam literature and poems, listening to rafi and yesudas. You can reach him at shyam_lal@hotmail.com. | | | | | |
| Sivashanmugam M |  | Sivashanmugam holds an Engineering degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore. He started his career with Visual Basic 3.0 and has been with Microsoft technologies since then. Having fallen in love with .NET, he has never lost interest in exploring the enthralling platform. He actively participates in Microsoft .NET public newsgroups too.
He has more than eight and half years of experience in software development. Very recently, Sivashanmugam joined Cognizant Technology Solutions (www.cognizant.com). He spends his spare time watching TV (esp. news channels) and catching up on his sleep. | | | | | |
| Soumya Sengupta (Windows Desktop Experience) |  | Soumya always called himself the jack of all trades but the master of none. But all that changed on July 1st, 2008 when he received the Microsoft MVP award and he said to himself, ''Wow, I am actually good at something!''. The truth of the matter is that deep down in his heart, he always knew that his love for technology would be recognized someday. Since the time he was a child, he was passionate about technology starting with VCR's, 8 bit video games right to computers and XBOX 360.
Computer is his favorite companion and he has spend most of his time with it since he got his first one back in 2002. He is always keen to learn more and more about the operating system that is inside it, so that he can use his PC to the full potential and customize it according to his needs without compromising on the security. His journey has been an eventful one, and he has shared his knowledge with his friends, relatives and the friends of his friends! He is a troubleshooter and is quite a good one at that. So all the people who were close to him weren't surprised when his name was announced as a Microsoft MVP 2008 on July 1st!
Soumya can be found online in the forums of MeraWindows (www.merawindows.com), ThinkDigit (www.thinkdigit.com) and Neowin (http://www.neowin.net). | | | | | |
| Sreejumon Purayil |  | Sreejumon is currently working with ABB Corporate Research Center (www.abb.com) Bangalore. He has been working with cutting edge Microsoft Technologies for last 4.5 years. Prior to ABB, he was working with US Technology (www.ustri.com). He has been MVP for past two years. He did B-Tech in Electronics & Communication from Kannur Engineering College. He is one of the founder and manager of Trivandrum Microsoft User group (www.t-mug.org). He blogs at http://blog.sreesharp.com and maintains website www.sreesharp.com for Microsoft technologies.
Sreejumon can be reached at Sreejumon@gmail.com | | | | | |
| Sugesh Kumar (SQL Server) |  | Sugesh is from Chennai and holds a Bachelors Degree in Engineering (specializing in computers. He is also a certified on SQL Server 2000 (MCDBA). He has been working as a SQL Server DBA since his graduation and currently works for a Forutne listed company. He has interests in several Microsoft products specially SQL Server and Windows Server Systems.
He has written articles and scripts in SQL Server. He is a constant answerer in SQL Server Central forums, and recognized in the Hall of Fame. Sugesh, with his friends, host a website www.sql-articles.com. The most complex task that he has taken in his professional journey is an infrastructure application that involves the use of ISA 2004.
He is an ardent lover of Tamil literature and poetry, and also has interests in finance and cricket. He blogs at http://sugeshkr.blogspot.com. | | | | | |
| Sundararajan Narasiman (Windows Server - Windows SharePoint Services) |  | Sundararajan Narasiman is a Technology Specialist with Microsoft Center of Excellence of Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai. He has more than 7 years of Industry Experience. Prior to joining cognizant, he worked in Tata Consultancy Services for 6 years. He holds Bachelor’s degree in Instrumentation Engineering from the Madurai Kamaraj University (1996-2000).
Sundararajan is primarily into the Architecture & Technology Consulting on Microsoft space. He has passion for programming and is excited about the latest product releases of Microsoft.
Sundararajan’s entry into Microsoft technologies happened by chance in the year 2003. His career witnessed a remarkable change with the progress of MS Technologies. He’s an active community contributor to MSDN Forums and Newsgroups.
He published a white paper on ‘Powering New Business Process of Insurance Industry by leveraging MOSS 2007’ during beta stage of the MOSS 2007.His paper was awarded with the first prize in the TCS-Microsoft Solution Innovator Contest.
He cherishes every moment of his life with his family, especially with the new born kid swetha. His hobbies include music, travel and pilgrimage.
He blogs at http://dotnetbuzz.spaces.live.com/ and can be reached at sundar.architect@gmail.com | | | | | |
| Sunil Prabhakar (Windows Desktop Experience) |  | Sunil works with a leading national daily in Malayalam. He is a scribe by profession and a techie by instinct. With more than eight years of experience in the Windows family of Operating Systems, he is passionately engaged in the development of portals, tutorials, information resources etc. Sunil has made several successful strides in that sphere.
Apart from his professional responsibilities, Sunil also serves as a consultant cum technical writer of a much popular IT magazine in Malayalam. With a view to popularize the application of information technology, more effectively as a good educational tool among the students of Kerala, Sunil conducts seminars, discussions, live shows and workshops at various educational institutions across the State. He has also contributed extensively for the Windows localization programme.
Always keen on learning new technologies, Sunil is committed to familiarizing them to others through print and web media. He is also a good web designer/programmer and is now working towards a greater objective of building up a good and reliable online resource about Kerala. He lives at Ezhikkara, a beautiful placid village in the suburbs of Cochin in Kerala. | | | | | |
| Suprotim Agarwal (ASP/ASP.NET) |  | Suprotim Agarwal (MCSD, MCAD, MCDBA, MCSE) works as a Technical Architect for Seed Consulting Services and provides consultancy on how to design and develop .NET centric database solutions.
Suprotim has also done Masters in Computer Management. He has been working with .NET Technologies ever since its 1.0 beta release, way back in 2000.
He is the founder and primary contributor to www.dotnetcurry.com. His passion for SQL Server has kept him focused on databases. Apart from ASP.NET, SQL Server has been in his technology basket since quiet some time and he continues to make an effort to try and transfer his SQL Server knowledge through the MSDN community and his technical blog site, http://www.sqlservercurry.com and through the MSDN code site http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SQLExamples
When he is not working (which according to his wife is 'rarely'), he spends his time with his wife watching movies and playing strategic computer games. Suprotim is also a 'Moderator MVP' on the MSDN Forums and a Top Answerer in the ASP.NET forums. | | | | | |
| Suresh M. Chandren (Windows Desktop Experience) |  | Suresh is a customs officer working in the Govt. of India. Despite being in a job not quite related to digital technology, he has a passion for computers and spends most part of his day in front of one. All of his knowledge on computers and technology has been acquired through books, internet and learning from friends. What he learns, he likes to share through his blog Digital Quest. You may want to visit his blog at http://www.dq.winsila.com | | | | | |
| Tony John (Visual Developer - ASP/ASP.NET) |  | Tony John is a software professional with a Masters degree in Computer Applications and graduate degrees in Teacher Education & Physics. He has been doing software development over 10 years.
Tony started his community activities in Chennai (India) to help the poor students by setting up a free .NET training center at his rented apartment. Due to the huge demand from the fresh graduates and students, very soon it became impossible to accommodate the demand for free .NET training at his residence. So he shifted the training service to online and that gave birth to www.dotnetspider.com
Tony is known to the .NET community through his .NET tutorial website www.dotnetspider.com free ASP.NET hosting website www.AspSpider.com and educational portal www.IndiaStudyChannel.com. You can know more about his family and personal life from his website www.TonyJohn.com | | | | | |
| Tushar Kanvinde (Visual Developer - Visual FoxPro) |  | Tushar is B.Tech from IIT, Kanpur and a partner in Softpro based in Goa, India. He has been working as a software developer since the late 1980s. Most of his experience is in developing software on Foxbase, Foxpro and now VFP. He also develops web based software in PHP. | | | | | |
| T.N.C.Venkata Rangan (Solutions Architect) |  | Venkat is a Technocrat Businessman. He is the Founder & Chairman of Vishwak Solutions Pvt. Ltd. India and its two wholly owned subsidiaries in US and UK. Founded in 1997, Vishwak is a pioneer in Web solutions for Media and Newspaper verticals.
Under his leadership, Vishwak has grown into a multi-million dollar software services company. Venkat enjoys playing the dual role of Businessman and Technology expert. He has been the key strategist behind Vishwak's flagship Media Publishing solution - VPF which is powering the online properties of many a leading News and Media companies in India including Hindustan Times Mint, NDTV Convergence, Sakaal Group, Malai Malar and others.
Venkat believes in the power of delegation and follows his signature style of non-confrontational management. He encourages his team to first identify and understand the problem areas of customer before proposing or developing solutions. In today's highly competitive Software Services market, this has ensured that Vishwak gets repeat businesses year on year.
Venkat is an active speaker and has presented in various industry events and conferences. He is the Microsoft Regional Director for Chennai – an honorary title from Microsoft that he holds from 1999. He is also a Microsoft MVP (Most Valued Professional) as a Solutions Architect.
Venkat believes in giving back to the community what he has received, helping him achieve this is the nomination as a Charter Member in TiE Chennai – a Non Profit Organization for Entrepreneurship. One of the areas he is very passionate about is Tamil language computing and he formalizes this by being the Vice-Chairman of International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil (INFITT), a Non-Profit Non-Government organization registered in California, USA.
Apart from Vishwak, Venkat serves as the Director in LIFCO Publishers Pvt. Ltd, a 79 year old book publishing firm in South India.
Venkat has a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from University of Madras. He is married and the couple has a playful 5-year old son. Venkat is a regular globe-trotter and a passionate book-reader.
Being a voracious blogger, Venkat can be easily reached at his popular blog at
www.venkatarangan.com/blog | | | | | |
| Udayakumar Ethirajulu (Windows Server - Windows SharePoint Services) |  | Udayakumar is an Analyst Programmer, currently placed in ACCENTURE and working for the Avanade Account Group. He is a core member of the Enterprise Collaboration Center of Excellence. Programming has been his passion ever since he came to know about computers.
His hobbies are listening to music and sleeping when he gets time. He dedicates all his success to his Mother and God. His blog site is - http://udayakumarethirajulu.blogspot.com.
His Tech. Group can be joined at - http://groups.msn.com/DevGeeks | | | | | |
| Vadivel M (SQL Server) |  | Vadivel Mohanakrishnan hails from Chennai, India and holds Masters degree in computer Applications and is in love with programming for almost 9 years now. As each day passes by, his love and passion towards programming keeps growing manifold. Presently, he models the role of a System Engineer with Verizon Data Services India Pvt. Ltd., Chennai. He has written quite a few technical articles and has won awards and accolades from various web sites that promote Microsoft technologies. He is glad that he received couple of awards named Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Microsoft Community Star from Microsoft in the year 2003, 2004 and 2006.
Vadivel has been committed to Microsoft technologies from the beginning of his career. Today, he breathes .NET technologies and extols their excellence and applicability. He is all set to break the saying ''familiarity breeds contempt'' with Microsoft Technologies and realize his dream to become a technical evangelist for Microsoft.
His favorite hobbies include playing cricket, chess, carom & badminton and his favorite sports personalities include Sachin Tendulkar and Michael Schumacher. He cherishes every moment of his married life with Sailakshmi.
He blogs regularly at http://vadivel.blogspot.com and can be reached at vmvadivel@gmail.com | | | | | |
| Vasudev Gurumurthy |  | Vasudev holds a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering and is committed to Microsoft technologies. He is actively associated with various Microsoft online communities, forums and involved in helping out other members on various technical queries.
He is an active member of PCQuest forum (http://forums.pcquest.com/forum/), merawindows-India Windows Community (http://www.merawindows.com/) and meraoffice-India Office community (http://www.meraoffice.com/). Also regularly visits and participates in MSDN Forums, Microsoft discussion groups, Microsoft Public and Private newsgroups and occasionally on Channel9 Forums. He is also a registered Microsoft Connect user and participates and gives feedbacks on various Microsoft connect programs. Has won prizes for authoring beginners' level tutorials on Windows Vista and MS Office 2007 in contests conducted by India Windows Community and India Office Community.
He is also working on and learning .NET technologies. You can reach him at vasudev@indiamvps.net. He also maintains a blog mainly about Microsoft and other technologies at http://vasudevg.blogspot.com/ | | | | | |
| Venkatesan Prabu Jayakantham (SQL Server) |  | Venkatesan (MCITP, MCTS, and MCAD) has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science & Engineering from GCE, Tirunelveli and works as a SQL DBA and Senior .NET developer in HCL Technologies. He is very passionate about taking training sessions in SQL Server Administration and Programming and has contributed many technical suggestions to standardize the content of MSDN.
During his college days, he participated in several paper presentations and bagged 7 National, 1 State, 1 University and 1 college level prizes. His research papers on Image Processing and Cryptography have also been published at National Level Conferences in India. He has also been awarded as Subject Matter Expert on SQL, Knowledge Champion on SQL, Most Valuable Member of DotNetSpider site for the year 2007. He is one of the Moderator and Founder of SQL Server User Group (http://groups.msn.com/SqlMSUG).
Apart from technology, his interest lies in sports. He plays Table Tennis, Cricket and Tennis and has won 2 district level and 1 division level trophies in Table Tennis.
To know more about him please visit his personal blog @ http://knowaboutvenkat.blogspot.com | | | | | |
| Vidhya Sagar (SQL Server) |  | Vidhya Sagar is a Graduate in Electronics & Communication from SSN College of Engineering, Chennai. He started his career as a DBA with SQL Server two years ago and is currently employed in one of the Fortune listed companies.
During his college days he used to work on computer hardware peripherals and learned a lot out of it. He is an active participant in MSDN forums and has been awarded as an ‘Answerer’. He is also a contributor/writer and moderator at www.sql-articles.com. He is skilled at PHP & MySQL. | | | | | |
| Vijay Raj (Setup & Deployment) |  | Vijay is a Software Engineer, specializing in setup technologies. His major responsibilities at work are in creating the MSI Packages as per the requirement and customize them to be incorporated for desktop applications.
He is a member of MTCP (Microsoft-Technological Community Program) where he conducts knowledge sharing sessions for all Microsoft enthusiasts at Satyam. He is also an Altiris Certified Professional in WPS 6.0. He actively writes articles and tech-tips on Symantec forums (Altiris Juice), and few of his articles were referred by some eminent people in the industry.
He is passionate about singing, basketball and cricket, and addicted to A.R. Rahman’s music. He idolizes A.R. Rahman, Sachin Tendulkar and Bill Gates. He also dreams of being an IT Pro Evangelist at Microsoft. | | | | | |
| Vikram Pendse (ASP/ASP.NET) |  | Vikram is working as a ‘Programmer Analyst’ on Microsoft Technologies in Pune. He started his professional career in 2005, after completing his Masters in Computer Management and Graduation in Electronics. He is also a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist for .NET 2.0 Web Applications.
He is actively involved, both in organizing and as a speaker with - Pune User Group (PUG) and PuneITPro as Asst. Manager, supported by Microsoft and INETA. Web Technologies is his core area of work, especially ASP.NET, AJAX and Silverlight. He has worked on many third-party web controls like DevXpress and Telerik. He has executed large scale Web applications for healthcare which includes product development and things like implementation of HL7 standards.
When he is away from his Computer, he watches TV and movies, biking and hanging around with friends. He loves to play with new technologies and gadgets. | | | | | |
| Vishal Gupta (Windows - Shell/User) | | Vishal is a born troubleshooter, this is what he is referred to as by his friends. He always helps his friends and other people to fine tune their systems,
removing viruses, installing applications etc. He is good at analyzing things by nature. He is an active observer, this is what has enabled him to learn new stuff.
He has done BSc (Mathematics) and Master in Computer Applications (MCA). He likes to learn by talks, debates and discussions.
Vishal likes to dream, his other hobbies are playing with Windows Registry and Windows look-n-feel, reading and driving his bike. He has a license for his bike
as of now and laughs saying that he would like to get licenses for - road rollers, container trailers, JCB and a few others like that.
Sleeping and sitting in front of the computer take most of his time. He can be reached at www.askvg.com | | | | | |
| Vivek T (Visual Developer - ASP/ASP.NET) |  | I am working as a Microsoft Technology Solution Developer for a MNC in India. Primarily work in Microsoft Technology like MOSS 2007, WCF, WPF, WWF, ASP.NET application design and development. | | | | | |
| Vivek Thakur (Visual Developer - ASP/ASP.NET) |  | Vivek Thakur graduated with B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. Vivek is currently working in a self funded New Delhi based firm as Technology Head. He is passionate for Microsoft ASP.NET, C# and VB.NET. Though his expertise lies in Microsoft .NET platform, he is comfortable in J2EE besides C/C++. He has deep interest in programming, Chaos Theory and artificial intelligence. Besides his love for software architecture and design, Vivek also focuses on project management skills and has good experience of managing small to medium sized projects. He is also involved in giving training sessions and tutoring.
He is a strong advocate of Chaos Theory in software systems and management.
Vivek also loves music and is the lead guitar player in his band: TechTonica. He loves song writing and music composition, besides listening to different genres of music. Also, he loves playing football apart working out in the gym.
To know more about him one can visit his personal website at: http://www.vivekthakur.com. He can be reached at: vivekthakur@gmail.com | | | | | |
| Yashavant Kanetkar |  | Yashavant Kanetkar obtained his BE from VJTI, Mumbai and M.Tech. from IIT, Kanpur. Yashavant has a rich experience in Application as well as System software development. Yashavant has a passion for writing and is an author of several books in C, C++, VC++, C#, .NET, DirectX and COM programming. He is a much sought after speaker on various technology subjects and is a regular columnist for Express Computers and Developer 2.0. His best-selling books like 'Let Us C', 'Understanding Pointers In C' have helped create and groom many software careers across the globe over the last 16 years. Yashavant is most recently noted for winning the Microsoft's '.NET Contributor of the Year Award' for his advancements in the field of .NET based web software technology. His brainchild 'SoftSpark' the Industry Institute Interaction Initiative for human resource integration has made top quality engineers and MCAs with sound knowledge of cutting-edge technologies available in abundant numbers. His current affiliations include being CEO of KICIT, a training company and DCube Software Technologies, a software development company. He can be reached at kanetkar@dcubesoft.com. | | | | | |
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