Evgueni Zabourdaev

Nikolas Charlebois-Laprade is a Senior Technical Advisor working in Gatineau, Canada. His background as a Software Engineer and as a Technical Program Manager makes him a well-rounded web technologies expert. Having worked with several government departments and agencies, he has worked on various large scale SharePoint deployments. Nik is the founder and president of IgniteSoft, a consulting company specializing in small and medium SharePoint deployments for regional businesses. 

Proud French Montrealer Daniel Brunet has been highly focused in his career on content management. After 10 years at a law firm managing many flavors of ECM, he fell in love with all its challenges when SharePoint 2007 came out. It was only natural for him to join Microsoft and work with this product for the following 10 years. Today, Daniel is still at home coaching customers on content management strategies, of which recovery is a big part. 

Shawn Cathcart has spent 20 years excelling with the architecture, implementation, and operational management of Microsoft technologies. While he has covered a wide array of the Microsoft product stack, his primary focus has been with Universal Communications and Messaging. That mix of operational management and project implementation experience gives Shawn a very honest and practical approach to the utilization of Microsoft technologies. Shawn has been a Microsoft Premier Field Engineer since 2014 and prior to that worked for a Microsoft Gold Partner for 10 years as a consultant. 

Roger Cormier has been working with SharePoint since March of 2004 and has been learning about SharePoint since that day. He enjoys working with people and leveraging technology to deliver business solutions. 

Mike Farran has been in the IT industry for over 20 years. He likes to say his focus is on learning and helping others learn

to improve their skills and knowledge. This pursuit of knowledge has lead Mike through a Help Desk for an Oil & Gas company, various consulting companies, programming, managing a data center and then finding his second love, SharePoint, in 2006. Microsoft boosted his ego six years ago by hiring him as a Premier Field Engineer where his thirst for knowledge never goes unquenched. 

Colin Hughes-Jones started providing support for SharePoint at Microsoft in December 2005 as a contractor. He joined Microsoft in Texas as a Support Escalation Engineer in June 2007. In November 2007, he moved back to Canada and started his role as a Premier Field Engineer. He recently celebrated his 10-year anniversary working with Microsoft. 

Kip Ng has over 20 years of working experience in IT consulting, IT delivery, and IT technical leadership. Kip has strong global exposure. He can speak four languages and has worked with hundreds of organizations world

wide. Kip currently manages and runs the Business Productivity delivery team in Microsoft Canada, focusing on driving digital transformation and leading the cloud strategy and delivery.

Rhoderick Milne is currently a Senior Premier Field Engineer with Microsoft, based out of Mississauga in Ontario, Canada. With over 15 years of IT experience, his specialties are in the realms of Cloud, Messaging, and Virtualization. Prior to moving to Canada, Rhoderick worked in the UK’s largest financial institutions and has a proven track record in consulting and training. Rhoderick is a charter Microsoft Certified Solutions Master (MCSM) in Exchange 2013, and a Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) in Exchange 2007 & 2010 in addition to holding regular MCSE+I and MCITP credentials.

Andrew Stobart is currently a Support Escalation Engineer for Exchange Online and lives with his family in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is a dedicated and passionate professional with

over 20 years of experience in IT consulting, support, and operations. Andrew has expertise and an in-depth technical skill set in Windows client and server, Active Directory, Microsoft SQL, Exchange, Office 365, MySQL, IIS, SCCM, SCOM, Hyper-V, Visual Studio (C#), PowerShell, and many others. Recognized for strong client relationships and exceptional communication abilities with diverse audiences, Andrew has been with Microsoft since 2011.

Since early 2000, Bruce Wilson has been supporting customers with troubleshooting various technical issues. After joining Microsoft in 2007, he has supported each of the mail filtering cloud offerings provided by Microsoft. Over the years, he has developed multiple techniques to identify where breakdowns and failures occur during mail flow.