Richard Knudson -- instructor, consultant, CEO
Richard is the president and founder of IMG, and plays a lead role in IMG's SharePoint and Dynamics CRM practices. He has been consulting and instructing on SharePoint since the first release, and has spent the last year authoring IMG's SharePoint 2007 curriculum, delivering WSS 3 and MOSS 2007 training sessions, and helping clients plan and deploy SharePoint-based solutions.
He is a frequent presenter at industry conferences, and was recently a featured speaker at the Microsoft Office 2007 Launch event in Chicago. His combination of technical knowledge, business experience and communication skills are unique, and make him a great choice for manager and executive presentations.
His areas of product expertise include SharePoint 2007 and Dynamics CRM. His areas of functional expertise includes MOSS 2007 search, enterprise content management, business process and workflow, sales process automation, and business intelligence.
Recently, Richard has been the lead instructor for IMG's Dynamics CRM 4.0 Blended Learning Bootcamps. This program, offered to the demanding Microsoft Partner community by Microsoft's US Partner Readiness team, featuresm a blend of live online, accelerated classroom, and self-paced online sessions, with the goal of training and certifying Microsoft partners on Dynamics CRM 4.0.
Originally from Seattle, he moved to Chicago to attend grad school at the University of Chicago, and currently lives in Winnetka, IL with his family. Richard is an avid skiier and a Sox fan, and you can read and post to his blog at http://www.imginc.com/blogs/default.aspx.