About the Authors
Eric Overfield is a leading expert in SharePoint branding and user interface design. Eric, President and co-founder of PixelMill, has over 13 years of experience with web design best practices and techniques, and over 8 years of experience with SharePoint branding. Besides his in-depth knowledge of SharePoint’s branding capabilities, his expertise includes general SharePoint technology, design, and architecture along with custom-coded web parts, solutions, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3. An active speaker and organizer of User Groups and SharePoint events as well as an active blogger (ericoverfield.com), he discusses all things SharePoint branding and UI design at @ericoverfield as well.
Rita Zhang is a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services in Northern California. She specializes in Information Worker Solutions and Custom Application Development Technologies. She has extensive experience in working with enterprise customers to deliver end-to-end SharePoint solutions and customdeveloped applications from architecture, design, and development, to deployment and production. Rita has acted as an extension to the Microsoft product group to provide proactive help to large customers to unblock deployment issues and ensure fast and smooth implementation of SharePoint technologies. Rita is the Founder and Senior Architect of SP.me, the first mobile social app for SharePoint that allows companies to enable their employees to stay connected with their team on the go. You can learn more at spmobile.me and facebook.com/spmobile.me. Rita has an active blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ritazh/.
Oscar Medina is a seasoned technology consultant with over 17 years of software development experience. He runs SharePointAce Consulting Group, a boutique SharePoint consulting firm based in Northern California. His SharePoint specific experience dates back to the SharePoint Portal Server 2001. Oscar was previously at Microsoft Consulting Services, helping Fortune 1000 companies reap the benefits of the entire platform and related technologies. He has a diverse technical expertise on multiple platforms, including web development and design, n-tier app development and mobile app development on Windows Phone and the iPhone platforms. Oscar is the Founder, Senior Architect, and Creative Director of SP.me, the first mobile social app for SharePoint that allows companies to enable their employees to stay connected with their team on the go (spmobile.me). You can stay in touch with him via his blog sharepointoscar.com and @SharePointOscar.
Kanwal Khipple is a leading user experience expert within the SharePoint industry, with experience in building solutions for large intranets, extranets, and Internets all based on the Microsoft SharePoint platform. As Vice President of Consulting for BrightStarr, a digital design agency, he continues to push for user experience innovation when redesigning intranets for some of the largest brands in the world. He continues to preach about the importance of designing with usability as the primary focus. Because of his passion and his involvement in many community-driven events, including launching successful user groups in Canada and the United States, Kanwal has been recognized as a SharePoint MVP by Microsoft for the past four years (2009–2013). He also manages @sharepointbuzz, a popular SharePoint-focused Twitter account.