Ashwin Kini
Michael Jenkin
Choirul Amri
Raymond Chou
Padman De Silva
Satoru Kitabata
Di Lu
Dennis Chung
Ashwin works as Technical Consultant CNC on JD Edwards / PeopleSoft ERP with M/s Systime Computer Systems Ltd., Mumbai; a division of CMS Ltd. He holds Masters in Computer Applications, Bachelors in Computer Applications, and Diploma in Mechanical Engineering. Awarded as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Windows Server Customer Experience: Networking. He is also a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and an active member of IT Professionals communities and volunteers as President of Mumbai IT Professionals User Group (MumbaiITPro) in Mumbai, India. He has motivated users from as far as Maldives to set up technology User Group and to collaborate globally. He is very good at organizing offline events and conferences / conducting hands on labs and is very passionate about latest technologies and believes in sharing with the community and adding creativity to it. His expertise is the areas of Windows Networking and Virtualization. When in leisure, he enjoys listening to music, watching cricket / WWE and interests in photography. He blogs at: http://www.ashwinkini.com/blog.
MVP 2004-2008, MCP, MCPS, MCNPS, Small Business Specialist
Michael started working in IT in 1990. His interest was piqued whilst studying for a Bachelor of Engineering at University and he left his degree to follow IT. He has worked in computer retail, support, wholesale and finally professional services over the many years. He has dabbled as a programmer, written articles for magazines, hosted talkback radio programs with regards to IT problems and volunteered in the community, supporting any IT related cause. Michael is the Director of Business Technology Partners in South Australia. He runs a community based website (www.mickyj.com) where he blogs about IT issues and provides access to advice and links to anti-Malware tools. In his time he has held many vendor credentials with AMD, Intel, Trend Micro, Symantec and Microsoft. He has been a member of the Australian Reseller Panel, a Microsoft OEM Partner, Microsoft Preinstallation Specialist, and most recently, retired as a Microsoft MVP (as of January 1, 2009). Michael was the Specialist Technical Reviewer and Expert Critique for the publication "Pro Windows Small Business Server 2003". He helped build an IT network to support 12,000 scouts for the national Australian Scout Jamboree and assisted as a volunteer with many other large group functions. Through his community work he has been awarded the premiers award in South Australia, presented by the Governor General (representing the Queen of England). When Michael finds time, he presents for the local IT PRO user groups including the Small Business Server Users Group. He also works with other user groups and community groups including Rotary and Business Groups. This has included presenting for Microsoft and travelling overseas. Michael's previous connection with Culminis was on the MVP advisory team. It is because of the potential he observed there that he desired to be a member of the regional board.
Choirul is Principal Consultant Trainer at Avantus Training Singapore, teaching and evangelizing various Microsoft development technologies. His specialties are ASP.NET, SharePoint, SQL Server, and business intelligence. He had various experiences as a network administrator, DBA, and developer. Choirul Amri was a Co-founder of IlmuKomputer.Com, which is the largest elearning portal in Indonesia. Actively writes tutorials, articles, books, and speaking on various seminars and community workshops. He manages SQL Server user group in Indonesia (sqlserver-indo@yahoogroups.com) a PASS Chapter and Culminis member. Received Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in ASP.NET (2005-2007) and SQL (2008). He was also named as an IT Hero on Microsoft Partner Summit Singapore, together with the Windows Server 2008 Launch Wave. He writes a technical blog at http://choirulamri.org.
Raymond Chou is the Principal Consultant for Redynamics Asia Sdn Bhd, a dynamic, future-driven company that focuses on providing IT Training and Systems Management Solutions to corporate companies mainly around the Asia region. He is a seasoned trainer and consultant and has been in the information technology industry ever since the days of Windows 3.1. Raymond has developed and delivered sessions at Tech Ed SEA, partner trainings and is actively involved in customizing workshops for customers especially on newer technologies. His focus is on the System Center product line and the solutions team does consulting and deployment exercises all over the region on Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, Data Protection Manager, Virtual Machine Manager and SoftGrid. He is a current MVP in Operations Manager and the President of the System Center User Group of Malaysia. Raymond is also the founder of the Microsoft Certified Trainers’ Club of Malaysia.
Padman De Silva is one of the most reputed Microsoft Technology consultants in Sri Lanka with over 14 years of industry experience. Padman has been working with Microsoft technologies since 1996 and has been designing and developing large-scale infrastructure and messaging / collaboration systems on the Microsoft platform since early 2000, including network infrastructure solutions, directory services and identity management solutions as well as distributed / high available messaging solutions. Being a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), Padman has also contributed to the Microsoft Official Curriculum and Certification Examinations on Microsoft Exchange Server in addition to countless mentoring and educational activities he has practiced in Sri Lanka for the benefit of the Sri Lankan ICT Community. His experience spans a wide breadth of industrial sectors including apparel, manufacturing, retail, finance and government working with clients in various parts of the world through North America, Middle East to South & South East Asia.
Satoru Kitabata has been in the IT Training profession for almost 8 years as a MCT, training enterprise IT professionals. He is a Microsoft MVP for Windows SharePoint Services - Communications & Collaboration, a regular speaker at Tech ED and other Microsoft events on topics such as collaboration, Security and Windows Networking, and has been associated with Developer communities and IT Professional communities in Japan & helped them to build strong organizational structure.
Five years working experience in foreign enterprises of China, Microsoft MVP, System Analyst (Ranked within top 50 in China), Senior Engineer. Di Lu has four years experience in ASP.NET development as a member of DNN China Team, skilled in DNN module development, skin development, DNN website construction and is familiar with DNN Internet resources. He is proficient in software and graphic design, skilled in writing software with C++ or C#, and familiar with various rapid development tools; Adept in website construction and paper graphic works with various graphic design software, greatly interest in creating beautiful graphics by combining art and techniques, and concerned about various graphic design theories; agile logical thinking, strong sense of aesthetics and broad interests. Chinese Blog (focus on DNN): http://DotNetNuke.cnblogs.com English personal Web site: http://www.aboutdnn.com
Dennis works as an IT Pro Evangelist in the Developers and Platform Evangelism Group, Microsoft Singapore. He never stops advocating the best of what an environment can get, helping IT Pros reap the most of their IT environments and investments, both as a company and as an individual. Dennis holds numerous Microsoft certifications, including Microsoft Certified Trainer. He is also awarded MVP for Windows Server: Setup and Deployment. With close to 10 years of experience, he is conversant with a wide range of technologies, designing and deploying them from small scale to large enterprise environments. Dennis was also a professional developer in his past life, that gives him the advantage of knowing the best of both worlds, IT Pros and Devs. Dennis is a very active speaker and maintains a blog at i-dchung@microsoft.com. Be sure to have an attractive subject header. He holds a BSc (HONS) in Computer Science, loves Formal Languages, Neural Networks and Artificial Intelligence. In his free time, he spends time with his family and loves to read and write.