Adam Bertram is a technical writer, independent consultant focused on PowerShell and cloud, and 6x Microsoft MVP. Adam specializes in PowerShell and all things IT automation.
Don Jones' broad IT experience comes from 20 years in the business, with a strong focus on Microsoft server technologies. He's the author of more than 45 technology books, including titles on administration and software development, and writes monthly columns for the industry's leading periodicals. He's an in-demand speaker at technical conferences and symposia worldwide, and is widely recognized as one of the top trainers in the Microsoft sector.
Vlad is an Office 365 consultant helping organizations get the most out their Microsoft 365 Digital Workplace. IT Professional at heart, Vlad focuses on helping administrators deploy, manage, automate, and configure governance across services such as SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams.
As an author, Microsoft Certified Trainer and recognized international speaker, Vlad has helped over a million IT Professionals and end-users across the globe to better understand and to ge
... moret the most out of Office 365 and the greater Microsoft 365 platform. Vlad is the author of three SharePoint books published by Apress and over 25 courses on Pluralsight covering Microsoft 365, Azure, and the Power Platform.
Josh Duffney is a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, where he works on the cloud-native team. He is a former Microsoft MVP and ex-SRE at Stack Overflow. Josh has a strong focus on Golang, building DevOps tools, and securing software. As a Pluralsight author, Josh shares his expertise in these areas, helping others develop their skills and achieve their goals.
Jeffery Hicks is a veteran IT Pro with 30 years of experience, much of it spent as an IT infrastructure consultant specializing in Microsoft server technologies with an emphasis in automation and efficiency. He is a multi-year recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award. He works today as an independent author, teacher, and consultant. He has been creating Pluralsight content for over 10 years. Jeff has written for numerous online sites and print publications, and speaks frequently at technology confer
... moreences and user groups. His latest book with Don Jones is "The PowerShell Scripting and Toolmaking Book" http://bit.ly/PSToolmaking
Jeff previously worked at Microsoft for over 8 years in MSIT going through multiple
release cycles of SharePoint, Exchange, Groove, Office and Lync. As an avid fan of
education, he graduated with his Bachelor of Education and began working between his
2 loves of teaching and technology. He has taught at multiple Fortune 500 companies
and government agencies and spoke at numerous tech events.
Robert C. Cain (http://arcanecode.com) is a Microsoft MVP, MCTS Certified
in BI, and is the owner of Arcane Training and Consulting, LLC. He is a
course author for Pluralsight, team member at Linchpin People, and
co-author of 4 books.
A popular speaker, Robert has presented at events such as the SQL PASS
Summit, TechEd, CodeStock, and numerous SQL Saturdays. Robert has over 25
years' experience in the IT industry, working in a variety of fields
including manufacturing, insurance, teleco
... moremmunications, and nuclear power.
Thomas is an IT Industry veteran of over 40 years. He has been involved in Microsoft products since the very beginning of the IBM PC and DOS. Thomas provides consultancy and training around a range of Microsoft products, concentrating recently on PowerShell and Lync Server. Thomas has been a Microsoft MVP for 17 of the past 18 years and runs PowerShell training courses around the world. He has also been heavily involved in LCS/OCS/OCSR2 and Lync training across EMEA and around the world. He has
... morerun OCS and Lync Ignite training on behalf of Microsoft for several years and has been involved in the development and roll out of Microsoft official curriculum courseware. Thomas has been a speaker at conferences across the world over the past decade including Teched US/EMEA/Japan/Australia and is speaking at the PowerShell Deep Dive conference in Frankfurt in October. You can read Thomas's technical blog: Under The Stairs (at http://tfl09.blogspot.com) and his PowerShell Scripts blog (at http://pshscripts.blogspot.com). In his spare time, he lives in a small cottage in the English countryside with his wife Susan and daughter Rebecca, along with a large wine cellar and a great collection of Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia live music.
Once upon a time, I was a good little sysadmin that dutifully automated everything I could get my hands on. My independent spirit served me well in those days. It taught me to get stuff done and guided me to higher paying employment opportunities. That is until the day that it ganged up with my entrepreneurial spirit and they convinced me that I could do much cooler things on my own. I gleefully drank their kool-aid and have since started my own automation consultancy, Howell IT. Besides my care
... moreer's fairy-tale happily so-far after, somehow I also found a woman that not only wanted to marry me but decided I was also sane enough to be a father.