About
Collaborative Innovations
Collaborative Innovations is a Micro ISV (independent software vendor) founded by Eric Legault, a
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Office Systems: Outlook.
For the past
16 years of my career, I have worked exclusively with Microsoft
technologies as a software developer, consultant, speaker, author,
community leader, marketer and technical evangelist either independently
or for various Microsoft Certified Partners. I have also been an MVP for
Outlook since 2003.
My primary focus is with Microsoft Messaging
and Collaboration solutions. I have been involved in numerous projects
delivering business process integration applications as well as
document, content and knowledge management solutions utilizing products
and tools such as the Microsoft Office system (particularly Outlook),
Visual Studio, SharePoint, Exchange Server and SQL Server. As a
developer, I have significant expertise building messaging and
collaboration solutions using Visual Studio, especially with the VSTO
(Visual Studio Tools for Office) and Add-In Express frameworks and have
completed dozens of Outlook COM Add-Ins and other Outlook/Exchange
integration applications for clients around the world. Furthermore, I
have been extensively involved with SharePoint (since the beta release
of SharePoint Portal Server 2001), with the completion of numerous
enterprise projects covering planning and architecture,
upgrade/migration, deployment, administration, training, branding/design
and development for SharePoint Portal Server 2003/WSS 2.0, MOSS 2007/WSS
3.0 and SharePoint 2010.
As a long time MVP I have maintained a
highly visible and respected role as a subject matter expert and
community influencer by sharing my expertise through conference
presentations, published materials, technical newsgroups and forums,
social networking, webinars and my blog. I’ve also spoken at conferences
around the world, am a co-founder of the
Winnipeg
SharePoint User Group, and I have written articles for
MSDN,
Microsoft Office Online,
Windows IT Pro magazine, various technology e-newsletters and have
edited books on Outlook, SharePoint and Access.
For
more details, please see my profile on
LinkedIn.
Specialties
Consultant
and software developer for Microsoft Messaging and Collaboration
technologies/software: Outlook and Exchange Server, SharePoint Portal
Server, Microsoft Office, InfoPath and SQL Server. Expertise with
related development tools including Visual Studio Tools for Office,
Add-In Express and Redemption, as well as VB.NET and C# programming with
all Visual Studio editions.
