Asif is a SharePoint Trainer and Consultant. He is a SharePoint Server MVP and a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). He is the author of the publications “SharePoint 2013 First Look for Power Users“, “Beginning SharePoint Designer 2010”, “Real World SharePoint 2010” and “Professional SharePoint Designer 2007.“ Over the years, Asif has provided SharePoint consulting and training to many large clients including: Department of Defense, NASA, Hersheys, Toshiba, State Farm, Federal Home Loan Bank, US Army and many more. Asif is the author of the 4 day SharePoint Designer 2010 course that he teaches with Critical Path Training.

Asif has been a speaker at several conferences including:

Microsoft’s SharePoint Conference
Microsoft’s TechEd Conference
SharePoint Connections
Best Practices Conference
SPTechCon Conference

Asif has contributed videos to Microsoft TechNet and Office.com. Also articles to Microsoft MSDN. He is also very active in the Chicago SharePoint community and is the co-founder and an active leader of the Chicago SharePoint User Group.

• Microsoft Official Learning Products – E-Learning Series 3376: Implementing Enterprise Search
• SharePoint Technologies McGraw-Hill Publishing – “MCSE: All-in-One” exam prep book for Windows Server 2003
• Contributing Editor for HP internal technical documentation and technical newsletter

Author of the following publications:

• Microsoft: Internal Windows Server 2003 protocol documentation for EU regulatory compliance.
• The Training Camp: Proprietary SQL Server 2005 bootcamp course.
• New Horizons: Custom SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services course ; Custom MOSS course
• Contributing ghostwriter on various QUE Publishing and Sybex Publishing technical books.

He is the author of multiple SharePoint training courses, and has worked for, consulted, programmed, and taught technical and end users in businesses ranging from 50 to 130,000 employees. Eric is certified as an MCSE, an MCTS for both Administration and Application Development, an MCP for SQL, and has worked as a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He enjoys looking at the big picture and creating low overhead solutions that accomplish amazing results using primarily power user tools. He is also adept at architecting portable and re-usable solutions requiring custom code and knowing the difference between the two.

Before entering consulting, Richard worked as a software architect for corporate stalwarts including Texas Instruments, Raytheon and JC Penney. He wrote his first internet application in 1994. Richard holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri and originally planned to design nuclear power plants. Richard is married with three sons and runs a 45 Terabyte data center from his kitchen. In his spare time, he enjoys gardening and spending time with family.

He has experience with all types of vertical businesses/industries, such as legal, retail, pharma, energy and information technology. He has developed content strategies and taxonomies for Microsoft, Del Monte, NASA-JSC, Expedia, UW Medicine, Sterling Savings Bank, First Mutual Bank, KCLS, Nike, Philip Morris, VISA, Washington Mutual and many others. Mike also teaches graduate courses in knowledge management, information management and taxonomy development at the University of Washington Information School.