Elumenotion

Elumenotion, LLC was founded in 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia. The firm is a privately-held corporation and Microsoft Registered Partner. The objective of Elumenotion is to be a premier professional services provider of Microsoft SharePoint.

The vast majority of IT consulting firms have a wide range of capabilities yet they lack any significant depth when it comes to a single service area. As a generation of a generalist consulting firm continues to fade, the age of specialization continues to rise. At Elumenotion, we also believe specialization is integral to the success of properly solving complex business technology engagements. With that, we have a specialized focus in one area: the SharePoint platform.

The primary service offerings of Elumenotion include:

• Training: We offer a large volume of curriculum and courseware on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. World-class training available to everyone including developers, architects and business users.

• Consulting: Do you need serious expertise to ensure the success of your SharePoint project? We know how to implement and customize SharePoint and we can help.

• Staffing: If you don't need the deep expertise of a consultant, but you do need to augment your team's operational capabilities with designers, administrators, or analysts, we can help! On select engagements we offer clients the opportunity to tap into one the most extensive networks of SharePoint talent in the world.

The leadership team at Elumenotion share a common set of beliefs and values. At Elumenotion our mission is clear. Our mission is to passionately connect, serve and grow authentic community to the best of our God given abilities, talents and gifts. Our community includes, but is not limited to, clients, consultants, the technical community, family, friends and those in need.

Our Name

Our Logo

The filament inside of the light bulb is styled to shape into a person sitting down. It's you. You are reading a book. Perhaps as one sitting down in prayer. You are absorbing knowledge and conceiving ideas. And you have ideas you wish to share. And with Elumenotion we can bring your ideas to light.

You are gaining power. Your knowledge is power. You are an Information Worker.

The color red represents our bold passion for authentic community. And the color yellow represents the power of knowledge.

Executive Management

Doug Ware is the Founder of Elumenotion. Serving as Managing Partner, he leads the firm's capabilities in training, consulting, client development, and operations. Doug is a highly regarded speaker and author of several popular Microsoft SharePoint training kits. Backed with over 14 years of experience with Microsoft Products, he possesses extensive knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle including: requirements planning, system design, development, quality assurance, and product implementation. Throughout his career, Doug served as a Practice Lead and later as General Manager for Magenic - a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. During this period the practice gained new Microsoft partner competencies for work with BizTalk, SQL Server Analysis Services, and SharePoint. The firm achieved significant growth in terms of customer base and market penetration. Previous to Magenic, he served as Manager of software development for Digital Insight.

Doug is Chairman of the Atlanta .NET User Group - one of the largest and most successful in the United States. Doug has been the leader and a regular presenter of the Atlanta .NET User Group since 2003. The group currently boasts over 1500 members. Doug has been an MCSD since 2001, was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from 1998 to 2000, and is a regular participant in local Microsoft evangelism.

Doug holds a degree in B.B.A. in Management Information Systems from the University of Georgia. He lives in Suwanee, Georgia with his wife and two children where they are active members of Johns Creek United Methodist Church.

Michael Dal Cerro serves as Managing Partner for Elumenotion. His responsibilities span across recruitment, business development, marketing, and operations. Nicknamed "Michael D" he has over 12 years of experience in the technology and management consulting industry, 11 of which as a recruiting professional for the Microsoft partner community. He is a recognized leader and expert in the industry due to his mastery and extensive experience of corporate full life-cycle recruiting, staff augmentation, employment branding, and affiliate management. Michael D has also spoken at Microsoft technical user groups such as the Atlanta .NET User Group and the Atlanta Microsoft Database Forum. Previously, he founded Dal Cerro Group, LLC; a firm specialized in providing professional recruitment and residential relocation services for the information technology industry.  

Previous to Elumenotion, Michael D was Recruiting Manager for Intellinet for three years where his team hired over 80% of the corporation's employees. An accomplished, high powered recruiting function, the team was awarded Team of the Year. Other notable roles include his contributions as a Senior Recruiter at Spherion Corporation where he sustained the highest production in the world for technical staffing for two consecutive years. As a result, he was awarded Rookie of the Year and Global Recruiter of the Year. Before Spherion, he was a Senior Recruiter at Whittman-Hart where he helped build consulting practices across Microsoft technologies such as Exchange, Visual Basic and SQL Server.

In addition to his career Michael D participates with several community and professional organizations. He is involved with High Tech Ministries as a volunteer. Also, he sits on the Board of Directors for the Habersham Downs Homeowners Association.

With an emphasis in Marketing, Michael D holds a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Georgia State University. He lives in Roswell, Georgia with his wife and sons where they are active members of Fellowship Bible Church.