Kevin Lim (Industry Expert), Malaysia
- Kevin Lim has 12 years of experience in IT field. He is a frequent speaker and demonstrator at Microsoft events. He has extensive project experience on assessment, design, implementation and training. He holds an active Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), MCITP Enterprise Administrator, MCTS Virtualization Administrator, Citrix Certified Administrator (CCA), Authorized Symantec Consultant, Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certifications and a Bachelor Degree in Management Information System (MIS). He is currently working for RefineNetworks Sdn Bhd’s as an Enterprise Consultant. Kevin has been an Authorized Principal Technical Consultant with Symantec Corporation since 2008 and is responsible for deliver consulting services on emerging products to customers in the South East Asian region. He has extensive knowledge in virtualization (server and desktop), and one of the virtualization project have been selected by Microsoft as case study. He is based in Malaysia and he travels widely to various countries in Asia for projects and seminars.
Tim Chew (Industry Expert), Malaysia
- Having been in the computing software industry for over fifteen years, Tim has been involved in a variety of industry areas including computing solutions systems for airports, manufacturing, white/yellow pages publishing, hotel management systems, medical and security services, and application platform systems for mobile devices. With roots in software research and development, Tim has, over the years, diversified into consulting, software development management, and is a PRINCE2 Practitioner certified project manager. He has also shared his knowledge via lectures, presentations and instructional courses to software companies, and also at community, Microsoft and MDeC (Multimedia Development Corporation) events.
Darren Sim, MVP (ASP.NET/IIS), Singapore
- Darren Sim is an entrepreneur, consultant and public speaker in the area of technology, online marketing and presentation skills for over 5 years, providing services and solutions to MNCs, NGOs, government-linked organizations and enterprises in the Asia Pacific and Americas regions. A firm believer of active learning, Darren believes that one has to constantly learn, unlearn & re-learn in order to enrich one’s self and the society. In his efforts to give back to society, Darren can be constantly found speaking at conferences, sharing on topics such as Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Project Management, Game Development, Electronic Marketing and Presentation skills, where he is frequently ranked among the top 25% speakers of each session. In recognition for his efforts, Darren received numerous awards including the Oracle Corporate Singapore Prize, AVAYA Singapore Prize, Frontline Technologies Prize, IDA Singapore Course Silver Medal, Golden Web Awards, Microsoft’s Top Student Champion (FY06) and the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for 4 years in a row, placing him in the MVP Hall-of-Fame. Most recently, Darren was also an invited member of the UN Expert Group Meeting on Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and MDGs implementation, held in Geneva, Switzerland. Darren is currently director of several companies in the high-tech and education sector, committee member of several non-profit organizations and member of ACM and IEEE.
Kok Chiann, MVP (Expression Blend), Malaysia
- Kok Chiann is a highly skilled UX ninja, experienced and well versed in the arts of UX design. As many ninjas nowadays, he lives and breathes everything related to UX. Living in the bleeding edge of the technology world, he constantly strives to acquire more knowledge of the latest tools and technologies and is one of the leading specialists in designing Silverlight LOB applications. Well equipped with a wide range of skillets in planning, design, prototyping and implementation, he has fought countless battles (projects), some big, some small, but all were defeated in the end thanks to his trusty weapons, the deadly duo - Expression Blend and Photoshop. He is also blessed by the Microsoft Gods with the title of MVP in Expression Blend for 3 years and is an active member of the MIND community, speaking in many local events such as Tech.Ed and Barcamp. He eats business requirements for breakfast.
Phua Chiu Kiang, MVP (SQL Server), Malaysia
- Chiu Kiang is the principal of PCK Consulting, a provider for Microsoft .NET consulting and training services. He has worked on a variety of technologies that cover application development/architecture, databases, business intelligence and enterprise application integration. He works with customers and partners to implement best practices in developing enterprise IT solutions and strategies.
Chan Ming Man, MVP (Visual C#), Malaysia
- Ming Man is a senior manager for a development company. With 20 years of experience in the IT field, he has developed system using Clipper, COBOL, VB5, VB6, VB.NET, Java and C #. He is familiar with the N-Tier design of business application and is also an expert with database experience in MS SQL, Oracle and AS 400.
Patrick Yong, MVP (SharePoint), Malaysia
- Patrick has about 10 years experience as software architect in the Asia Pacific
region. He has done projects in China, Singapore and Malaysia. With keen interest
in programming since high school days he started programming on MS Basic and Turbo
Pascal and had gotten his hands dirty on COM+, J2EE, .NET and PHP.
He is also one of the founders of SPUG, an independent body of SharePoint developers in Malaysia. During free time he blogs about technologies at http://patrickyong.net
Ervin Loh, MVP (Visual Studio ALM), Malaysia
- Ervin Loh is currently the CTO at K365Labs Sdn Bhd. He owns more than 10 years experience in the IT industry where he obtained professional certifications from IBM, Microsoft and Sun. He works on a variety of Application Lifecycle Management, Software Configuration Management, and Lab Management products such as CollabNet Subversion, Rational ClearCase, Rational Team Concert, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, CollabNet TeamForge, CollabNet Lab Management, and Visual Studio Lab Management. He is also active in the IT community space by contributing contents to Microsoft Malaysia's START.NET and Ultimate program workshops and talks in conferences, events and user groups such as TechEd, SOFTEC, Tech Insights, ALMUC, and myVSTS.
Thean Keong Kwan, MVP (System Center Operations Manager), Malaysia
- Kwan is a Systems Management consultant for Redynamics Asia and has been working on Systems Management since 2005 primarily focusing on System Center technologies & Microsoft Virtualization Technology. He also focus on IT Service Management best practices frameworks such as Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) & ITIL.
Walter Wong, MVP (Developer Security), Malaysia
- Walter is a technical lead for Gain Secure based in Malaysia. The company specialized for providing secure application development and user experience (UX) consultation services to customers. Walter is a Microsoft MVP for developer security. Research on application development security is Walter's personal interest. He also successfully discovered many websites vulnerabilities including some high traffic websites over the past few years. Walter often speaks at technical conferences such as Visual Studio 2010 Launch, TechEd SEA, Security Symposium, TechNet/MSDN, Tech Insights and more.
Raymond Chou, MVP (System Center Operations Manager), Malaysia
- Raymond Chou is the Principal Consultant for Redynamics Asia Sdn Bhd, a dynamic, future-driven company that focuses on providing Systems Managment and Virtualization consulting, implementation and training companies mainly around the Asia region. He is a seasoned trainer and consultant and has been in the information technology industry for more than 10 years ever since the days of Windows 3.1.
Lee Daqing, MVP (Expression Blend), Malaysia
- Daqing is Technical Marketing Manager of a Malaysian ISV where he works on product development and marketing. His focus has always been in encouraging next-generation UX application development for the web as well as desktop based applications. His area of interest are on Rich Internet Application (RIA), web & client application development, SharePoint customization & development, usability and web accessibility. He has always been enthusiastically evangelize the importance of designer & developer collaboration (devigner). Besides, he is still actively served as a presenting speaker and/or conducted workshop sessions in various technology events around the country.
Teh Wei King, MVP (System Center Configuration Manager), Malaysia
- Wei King is a Senior Consultant that specializes in Microsoft's System Center suite of products. With his many years of experience in the IT industry specifically with Microsoft Technology he now delivers consultancy services as well as trainings to partners and customers alike.
Esmaeil Sarabadani (Industry Expert), Malaysia
- Esmaeil is a technology professional working with Microsoft technologies for several years. He specializes in networking and security and has several years of working experience with different companies as a consultant mostly giving consultation on security solutions for enterprises. Being certified as an MCT, he has been giving training and also talks on topics mostly related to security areas for years.
Dinesh Priyankara, MVP (SQL Server), Sri Lanka
- Dinesh Priyankara (MSc IT) is a SQL Server MVP in Sri Lanka with 13 years experience in various aspects of database technologies. Currently he is stationed as a Business Intelligence Architect at CAMManagement Solutions; a market leader in performance management and business intelligence solutions. He teaches, consults and runs training programs for various institutes/companies in Sri Lanka and he is one of founders of www.sqlserveruniverse.com. Dinesh maintains his technical blog at http://dinesql.blogspot.com.
Lai Yoong Seng, MVP (Virtualization), Malaysia
- Lai is a Virtual Machine MVP and also Virtualization Consultant for Redynamics Asia from Malaysia which actively involved on Virtualization and System Center products. He has been actively speaking on events such as Virtualization Day, TechInsight and SCUG events.
Joy Rathnayake, MVP (SharePoint), Sri Lanka
- Joy Rathnayake works as a Senior Architect (Principal Architect) for the SharePoint Practice at Virtusa Pvt. Ltd. Joy has been developing application using Microsoft .NET technologies since 2002 and has been working with SharePoint Products and Technologies since 2006, including architecting, designing, implementing and developing portal solutions using SharePoint Products and Technologies. His experience spans a wide breath of industrial sectors including Airline, Training and Telecom. He is a product of NIIT and he has been working as a Consultant Trainer for the past 9 years and he has trained a lot of corporates within the region. Joy has been recognized as both Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and has great experience in the area of content development as well. Joy has contributed a lot to the community by presenting at various technology focus events such as Tech-Ed Europe, Tech-Ed SEA, Tech-Ed Sri Lanka, Tech-Ed India, SEA SharePoint Conference and SharePoint Saturday. Joy is very passionate on presenting as well as writing and you can follow him through his Web: http://www.SharePoint24x7.com and Blog: http://www.joyr.ws.
