Joel Oleson

Current

• Sr. Product Architect, Evangelist at Quest Software

Past

• SharePoint Trainer and Speaker at Ted Pattison Group
• Sr. Product Manager - (Technical Evangelist) Consultant at Nintex
• Sr. Technical Product Manager at Microsoft

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Joel Oleson’s Summary

Joel is a SharePoint evangelist. At Quest Software he is guiding the strategy of the SharePoint group and is working on new designs for tools to help IT administrators.

Joel previously worked at Microsoft as a senior technical product manager for IT professionals around SharePoint. He designed the first Microsoft Intranet global deployment of SharePoint, as well as the extranet collaboration and hosted SharePoint deployments at Microsoft. Leading up through the release of SharePoint 2007, Joel helped guide analysts and various customers get the guidance, critical governance information and best practices they needed to upgrade and achieve scale.

Before his 7 years working for Microsoft, Joel was a senior web engineer at a large telecom organization where he architected multi-tiered web applications and multi-staged publishing environments. While a contractor at Microsoft he managed the development and test environments for Slate.com a pioneering political webzine.

Joel’s well-read blog, sharepointjoel.com is one of the top IT blogs and is the number one SharePoint IT blog. It is consumed daily in over 102 countries.

Joel Oleson’s Specialties:

SharePoint, Engineering, Technologist, IIS, SQL Server, Web Administration, Product Management, Project Management, WSS, MOSS, 2001, 2003, 2007, 14

Joel Oleson’s Experience

• Sr. Product Architect, Evangelist

  Quest Software

  (Public Company; QSFT; Computer Software industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  SharePoint product strategy vision and solutions management... From design to evangelism and technical sales leadership, I drive product designs to help solve customer issues and address requirements at a global level.

Additional Information

Joel Oleson’s Groups:

International Professional SharePoint Association

•    Brigham Young University Alumni
•    CLUB MOSS 2007 FRANCE
•    Microsoft Office SharePoint Server - 2007, 2010, ...
•    Eagle's Nest--Eagle Scout Award Recipients
•    SharePoint Experts
•    SharePoint 2007 - 2010
•    SharePoint Users Group
•    SharePointPeople
•    MOSSPIT
•    SharePoint - Enterprise Solutions Architects
•    XO Communications Alumni Group
•    Microsoft - Current and Former Employees
•    SharePoint Nation
•    SharePoint Magazine User Group
•    Information Management Professionals
•    Best Practices Conference
•    The Official Brigham Young University Alumni Network
•    SharePoint Contractor & FTE Jobs
•    SharePoint Ninjas
•    SharePoint 2010 Network