Archive for the ‘MVP Global Summit’ tag
Meet Valdis Iljuconoks – Visual C# MVP from Latvia
Tell us who you are?
My name is Valdis Iljuconoks. I come from Latvia – small but promising country in Easter Europe besides Baltic Sea. I’m almost 30 years old and working in software development company – Nexum Insurance Technologies – which is providing software and services for insurance and financial market.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
Currently it’s second time I’m rewarded as a MVP. First nomination was at 2009 January.
What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
I’m actively reading blogs and searching for latest information on IT industry. I do take participation of some internal mailing lists and do have some regular chat with local industry experts as well.
What does being an MVP mean to you?
It’s an honor to me to be an MVP. One thing is that being an MVP it means to access some internals of Microsoft and to be able to get some news and take some participation in stuff that other is going to use after some time. However it also means kind of some status within community and people I talk to.
Meet Valy Greavu – SharePoint Server MVP from Romania
Tell us who you are?
Hi, I’m Valy Greavu, known as Valy Greavu on the community, I am a lecturer professor at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, and also consultant for few companies from Romania, working in complex projects, based on SharePoint Technologies and associated: Active Directory, Security, Office Suite and others. Also I’m technical expert for implementing ISO 27001 standard in SharePoint environment. Since 2005 I was involved in Imagine Cup competition, former competitor, and finalist (2005, 2006) and now co-captain for IT Challenge section.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I awarded as a SharePoint MVP for 2009 and re-awarded for 2010.
What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
Most important for me is direct contact with technology, so I keep me on the last editions of the product, read blogs constantly and other product teams MVP, and most articles that appear on SharePoint. I also consider very important are issues of community users. They help me I create a basis for models of problems and their solving methods.
Meet Mumin CICEK – Exchange Server MVP from Turkey
Tell us who you are?
Mumin CICEK, I was born in Bulgaria in 17.12.1979 but I am living in Turkey, I was graduated from the department of Information Technologies in Mugla University. Moreover, I was graduated from the department of Business Enterprise in Anadolu University. I began my professional business life in 1996. From that date forward, I have been worked as a System & Network expert- as an instructor- as a Project head- as Project coordinator in the companies.
Presently, I am working actively as an IT Manager for Marigold Thermal Hotel and SPA in Bursa / Turkey. And also Project Coordinator and authorized instructor (MCT) in Bursa Akademinet CPLS Company. Besides, I am also serving in the managing part of the CozumPark Portal; and I essays about the Microsoft products are published at the same portal.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I have been an MVP since 2009 . My MVP scope is Exchange Server. During my MVP history I produced a lot of technical articles, webcasts,podcasts and seminars for a CozumPark ITPro community.
Meet Majid Ardforoushan – SharePoint MVP from United Arab Emirates
Tell us who you are?
Hi, I’m Majid Ardforoushan, known as Neo on the community, I am a SharePoint Consultant, providing solutions based on SharePoint since 2001, founder of SharePoint Solutions Persia, a Certified Microsoft Partner. I provided Persian language for SharePoint 2001, 2003, 2007 and now I’m working 247 to support this language for SharePoint 2010, I had many many requests from Middle East, UK and US for this language and I did tons of efforts encouraging Microsoft for supporting this language, but since it’s not possible yet, I started for supporting Farsi by a local community in the Gulf region.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I awarded as a SharePoint MVP for 2009 and re-awarded for 2010.
What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
Being part of community, also I initiated a community for Persian speaking SharePoint experts worldwide, for writing about their experiences or sharing resources, this way we all work together to be on top of this technology.
Meet Luka Manojlovic – Management Infrastructure MVP from Slovenia
Tell us who you are?
My name is Luka Manojlovic and I am an MVP for third year now (renominated 1st of January 2010). I am an technology enthusiast and so I like to help community to get out of problems or better to help the community to make things better / safer.
I am 28 years old and I am actively working in IT field since I was a student so for about 10 years. I am mainly focused on server and networking infrastructure.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded? My MVP history begins on 1st of January 2008 when I was first time nominated as an MVP as I was in 2006 and 2007 involved in community work in my country – Slovenia (http://www.slovenia.info/ ). I was speaking on our local Windows users group events I was running my blog with hints tips and tricks for administrators and some video tutorials. I have started a new blog on 1. January 2008 because the old one was not user-friendly enough so I have started a new blog (http://luka.manojlovic.net/) also with new articles and new organization on the day when I have become an MVP. From that day visits on my blog grow from day to day, from month to month…
What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies? As a speaker I have presentations of new products and tools so I need to keep myself informed about latest technologies. I am spending a lot of time in search and reading information about new stuff that is coming out. I also have a small lab in which I test and then present new technologies. My sessions are very “hands-on” oriented as I have a lot of demos to show my audience the “real thing” I show them solutions that they can later implement in their environments so my sessions are always “jujcy” 
