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Speaker Biographies
September 12-14, 2005, Bethesda North Marriott
Hotel & Conference Center, North Bethesda, Maryland
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Alan
Atkinson, CEO, WysDM Software Inc.
Alan has 17 years experience dealing with issues that surround data protection.
Alan began his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, before joining Goldman
Sachs in 1992. As an Information Technology Vice President, he founded the
Storage and Capacity Management group and was responsible for the firm's
storage infrastructure throughout the globe. In 2000, Alan left Goldman
to join StorageNetworks (the first Storage Service Provider) as VP of Engineering.
During Alan's tenure at StorageNetworks, customers such as Microsoft, Sun
Microsystems and Network Appliance trusted their backups to the company.
After a successful Initial Public Offering and being promoted to SVP, Alan
left StorageNetworks to co-found WysDM Software. WysDM Software is devoted
to solving the data protection management challenges companies face today.
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Frank
Baitman, Director, Institute of the Future
Frank has been intrigued at how new technologies are developed and adopted
throughout his career. Indeed, it's been a thread that has connected Frank's
careers in international relations, medical devices, information technology,
venture capital, and now research with IFTF.
Frank began his career in arms control and nuclear nonproliferation policy,
working with the U.S. government. His work on arms control verification
technologies took him to the so-called weapons research labs (Sandia, Los
Alamos, and Lawrence Livermore), and kindled his interest in technology.
Frank's interests in both national security and emerging technology led
him to work on a wide range of projects from physical and information security
for the Departments of Energy and Defense, to commercializing government-developed
technology from federal research labs. Working with USAID, Frank advised
Indian start-ups on partnering and marketing their commercial technology
in the United States.
Frank took his experience in commercializing technology to the private sector,
where he had the opportunity to work at one of the leading corporate research
labs, IBM's TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. There, he
led a marketing group to commercialize "disruptive" technologies,
and to evaluate emerging market requirements for select industry verticals.
Frank was also Director of Corporate Strategy for IBM where he was responsible
for identifying new growth opportunities for IBM globally. In this position,
he helped to launch IBM's Life Sciences solutions unit which provides core
technology, solutions, and services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology
industries.
Frank is also a venture advisor to Baltimore, Maryland-based venture fund,
Nobska Ventures. The fund's focus is on early stage investments in information
security, homeland security, and health care informatics.
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Jerry Bartlett, Vice President, Application Development, Ameritrade
Jerry Bartlett oversees the Company's software development and quality assurance functions, including the design, development and validation of all Ameritrade applications. Prior to joining Ameritrade in 1999, Bartlett held various management positions at the St. Paul Company and has 16 years of experience leading application development groups in the financial, insurance and healthcare industries. Bartlett was recently recognized as one of Computerworld's 2005 Premier 100 IT Leaders. He holds a B.S. in technology and management from the University of Maryland.
Ameritrade Holding Corporation has a 29-year history of providing investment services to self-directed individuals through its brokerage subsidiaries. Ameritrade develops and provides innovative products and services tailored to meet the varying investing and portfolio management needs of individual investors and institutional distribution partners. A brokerage industry leader, Ameritrade, Inc., a subsidiary of Ameritrade Holding Corporation, was the first financial services organization recognized by J.D. Power and Associates as a Certified Call Center. |
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Ron
Bonig, Executive Director of Operations, The George Washington University
Ron Bonig has over thirty-plus years of IT experience in a variety of positions
and organizations in several sectors. Ron led Administrative Applications
Development for a major Federal agency and also for one of the top dozen
metropolitan governments. In the private sector Ron managed a major outsourcing
contract and consulted in the Higher Education market on strategic planning
and technology operations. In his current position as Executive Director
for Technology Operations for The George Washington University, he manages
the IT infrastructure for a top 100 University including data and voice
services for 120 buildings on three campuses and two major data centers.
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Richard Brooks, Principal Systems Architect, ISO New England
Dick joined ISO New England as Principal Systems Architect in October, 2004. He is responsible for ISO New England's Enterprise Architecture and led the design effort for the "Two Degrees of Separation" Model for logging and monitoring being presented at Enterprise Management World.
Dick is an internationally known B2B and cybersecurity expert. He has participated in the design and development of B2B and cybersecurity standards including: ebXML, SOAP - ebXML Integration (as ebXML's liaison to the World Wide Web Consortium), ETF EDIINT AS2, NAESB EDM and NAESB technical representative to NERC CIPAG.
Dick is an entrepreneur who has successfully started two software companies, one of which remains the leading provider of B2B software for the deregulated energy industry. He is a highly regarded software engineering professional with over 25 years experience in software product development and customer system integration projects. He has ten years integrating B2B and Web portal solutions with legacy applications within energy and healthcare and has a proven track record designing, developing and implementing cybersecurity programs within critical infrastructure areas.
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John
Bryer, VP, Information Technology, GMH Communities Trust
Mr. Bryer is responsible for enterprise technology and information
services at GMH Communities Trust. He has more than 20 years of
experience in technology and joined GMH in 2004. Prior to joining GMH,
Mr. Bryer was the VP and CIO of the Parkway Corporation, in Philadelphia,
PA where for five years he pioneered industry-leading applications of
technology. Parkway is engaged in parking related real estate development
and parking operations in more than 100 locations from Florida to Toronto.
Mr. Bryer was also responsible for Loss Prevention and Operational Reporting.
Prior to Parkway, Mr. Bryer was AVP of Technology Resources at Intracorp
- a subsidiary of Cigna HealthCare – and held technology positions
at Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory, General Electric Space
Systems Division, and the University of Maine. He has published widely
in academic and trade periodicals. Mr. Bryer has earned two B.S.
degrees from the University of Idaho and an M.S. degree from the University
of Maine, where he conducted original research in forest engineering and
optimization. Mr. Bryer also completed a Research Fellowship at the Norwegian
Forest Research Institute in Aas, Norway.
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Winston Bumpus, Director, Systems Management Architecture and Standards,
Dell Inc. and President, DMTF
Winston Bumpus serves as the
Director of Systems Management Architecture and Standards at Dell, Inc.
In this role, he is responsible for driving Dell's standards based systems
management architecture across Dell’s entire product line. In addition,
he is responsible for Dell’s overall standards strategy across the
80+ organizations to which Dell belongs. Winston has had over 30 years
of experience in the computer industry. He is currently the President
of the DMTF. He is also the Co-Chair of the OASIS Web Services Distributed
Management (WSDM) Technical Committee. He participated in the DMTF’s
Common Information Model (CIM) development and was chair of its Application
Management Working Group. Prior to joining Dell, Winston was Director
of Open Technologies and Standards for Novell, Inc. He was also a founder
of Annatek Systems with was focused on distributed systems management.
Winston is co-author of the recently released books “Common Information
Model” and “The Foundations of Application Management”.
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Mark
Carlson, Senior Architect, Sun Microsystems
Mark A. Carlson, Senior Architect at Sun Microsystems' Network
Storage division, has more than 25 years of experience with Networking and
Storage development and more than ten year's experience with Java technology.
He has spoken at numerous industry forums and events. He is a co-chair of
the SNIA Policy working group, chairs the DMTF Policy working group, serves
as vice chair on the SNIA Technical Council, and represents Sun Microsystems
on the DMTF Technical Committee as well as the DMTF Board of Directors where
he serves as VP of Alliances. Mark was one of the original developers at
Redcape Policy Software, Inc., a small, Boulder, CO, startup that was acquired
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Bob
Carroll, Chief Information Officer, Apollo Group (The University of Phoenix)
Mr. Carroll is currently the Chief Information Officer at Apollo
Group, Inc. in Phoenix, Arizona. Apollo Group (NASDAQ:APOL) is one of
the largest providers of higher education programs for working adults
in the United States through its subsidiaries including the University
of Phoenix and University of Phoenix Online. In his role as CIO, he is
responsible for the enterprise-wide planning and delivery of information
technology for 250,000 students, 30,000 faculty and 15,000 employees.
Bob's background in software sales and customer service are the foundation
for his vision in delivering high quality IT products and services to
Apollo's broad user-base. Prior to joining Apollo Group, Mr. Carroll
was the Director of Systems Engineering for North America Sales at Informix
Software, Inc. (purchased by IBM), a leading provider of relational database
management software. He spent over five years consulting with a wide-range
of companies regarding software development and database design. Mr. Carroll
spent his previous five years as Vice President over sales and development
for a software product with Golden Coast Environmental Services in Irvine,
CA. Bob received his bachelor's degree in Information and Computer
Science from the University of California, Irvine and his Masters of Business
Administration from the University of Phoenix.
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Josh Cohen, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Josh does Technical Evangelism in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft. He leads the standards engagements for WS-Management and is also a co-author of the WS-Management specification. Prior to this role, he has been a Program Manager, Developer and Administrator working on various Web infrastructure products, Standards and systems. Josh holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Lehigh University.
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Michael
Crisafulli, Vice President, Core Services, AOL Systems Operations
Michael Crisafulli is the Vice President of Core Services Operations, America
Online, Inc. He began his career at America Online in 1998 as a Technical
Manager. His responsibilities encompass design, management, monitoring,
and maintenance of the AOL core infrastructure across multiple brands/services,
to include AOL, Netscape, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), ICQ and AOL.com.
Michael has over 10 years experience in design, management and monitoring
of large scale production environments and infrastructure in multiple Datacenters
across the globe. His specialties include partnering and relationship building,
migration of applications and platforms to low cost open source solutions,
and capital cost reduction. Michael is a graduate of George Mason University
School of Business with a B.S. in Management Information Systems. |
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Guy
John Daley, Director Data Center Product Management, Cisco NMTG
Guy is responsible for data center management strategy for the Network Management
Technology Group in Cisco Systems, Inc. Guy has held senior leadership positions
in large and startup software companies over his 25 years in the IT industry.
Prior to founding CatchFIRE Systems Guy served as Vice President of Business
Development of the Network Management Division of Sterling Software where
he directed business and technology strategy, and acquisition initiatives.
He has held positions in international marketing & business development,
general and technical management, and has lived and worked on four continents.
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Jim
Davis, CEO & CTO, WBEM Solutions
Jim Davis has over 12 years experience in systems and network management.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Distributed Management Task
Force (DMTF), a member of the DMTF Technical Committee, chair of the DMTF
Interop Working Group, chair of the Storage Network Industry Association
(SNIA) Management Protocol Technical Working Group. Jim also acts as the
Specification lead for the Java Specification Request (JSR) 48, the WBEM
Services Specification, and is involved in many other management standards
and open source initiatives. Just recently, he was appointed to the Advisory
Board of the Storage World Conference. Jim Davis has been one of the key
architects of CIM and WBEM. Jim also has been an expert speaker of numerous
CIM and WBEM conferences, including the DMTF Developers Conference, JavaOne,
The Open Group, CA World,and Solaris Developers Conference to name a few.
Prior to co-founding WBEM Solutions, Jim spent nine years with Sun Microsystems,
Inc. as a Senior Architect responsible for various system and network management
technologies and products, including Java WBEM Services and Solaris WBEM
Services. Prior to joining Sun in 1993, Jim worked in the Research &
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Matt
Eastwood, Program Vice President, Worldwide Server Research, IDC
Matthew Eastwood, Program Vice President of IDC’s Global Enterprise
Server Solutions Research, leads a team of analysts responsible for identifying
and analyzing technology and market trends affecting the server market worldwide.
In this role, he is responsible for managing market analysis and consulting
for volume, midrange-enterprise and high-end enterprise servers through
IDC’s Enterprise Server Fundamentals and Modular Server Solutions
research programs. In addition, Mr. Eastwood is responsible for managing
the taxonomy used by IDC to size and forecast the server market worldwide.
Mr. Eastwood provides in-depth market analysis, research, and consulting
on key aspects of the server marketplace to both buyers and suppliers of
technology. Also through his role, Mr. Eastwood has engaged clients, media
and trade press through speaking events in the United States, Europe and
Asia. During his tenure at IDC, Mr. Eastwood has led IDC primary research
focused on emerging trends in the enterprise systems market. In particular,
this primary research allows IDC to make continual assessments regarding
how enterprise customers are deploying server hardware in their data centers.
Recent topics covered in Mr. Eastwood’s research include: Server and
Storage Workloads, Server Platform Migration, Server and Storage Consolidation,
Server Virtualization and Server Clustering.
Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Eastwood worked as a senior project manager and
consultant at Camp Dresser & McKee (CDM) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Mr. Eastwood was responsible for managing the planning and design of large
environmental infrastructure projects including wastewater collection and
treatment facilities. In addition, Mr. Eastwood served as Operations Manager
of the firm’s New England practice. In this capacity, he was responsible
for monitoring financial performance, resource planning, and compensation
on a regional basis.
Mr. Eastwood received a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Northeastern
University in Boston and earned his M.S. in Engineering Project Management
from WPI in Worcester, MA. |
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Joshua
S. Freeman, Director of Information Technology, The New York Botanical Garden
The New York Botanical Garden (http://www.nybg.org/) is one of the most
important (and most beautiful) cultural, conservation, educational and scientific
research institutions in New York City. As Director of IT, Joshua Freeman
is responsible for all aspects of data and voice technologies at the Garden.
He is a 'hands-on' technology generalist, team lead and project manager.
Prior to joining The Garden, Joshua was the Assistant Director of IT at
The American Museum of Natural History in charge of application development
and systems administration.
A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Joshua Freeman got his start in
IT while living in Budapest, Hungary, setting up the office network for
Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide's Hungary offices. Returning to the States
just as the World Wide Web gained traction, he built and maintained the
first commercial, database-backed website built using only open source technology
for NewMassMedia, Inc. in Hatfield, Massachusetts. From there Joshua went
on to work for US Web and some other high-profile technology firms including
ScanSoft, Inc., and VA Linux Systems.
Although a firm believer in using the right tool for the right job even
if it's proprietary, Joshua is a long-time user and advocate of open source
technology, and an active member of the New York City BSD User's Group (http://www.nycbug.org),
the New York City Linux User's Group (http://www.nylug.org) and the New
York City PHP User's Group (http://www.nyphp.org).
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Reuben Fischman, Senior Systems Engineer, General Dynamics C4 Systems
Reuben Fischman is a Systems Engineer with General Dynamics C4 Systems. He has worked with the GDC4S Advanced Technology/Programs Group developing network operations (NETOPS) systems in support of the US Army's Future Force programs as well as the DoD Transformational Programs. Reuben's areas of interest are in policy based management and end to end root cause analysis. His work focuses primarily on using existing commercial off the shelf (COTS) products and industry standards such as the DMTF CIM and extending them to meet the unique needs of the warfighter. His educational credentials include a Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems Engineering from Boston University, and he is currently pursuing a Masters of Science in Technology Systems Management from the University of Maryland University College. Reuben, in collaboration with other coworkers, has had papers that discuss his work in NETOPS published at the MILCOM 2001 and 2003 conferences.
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Chris
Gahagan, Senior Vice President, EMC Software
Chris Gahagan is Senior Vice
President of Storage Management Software at EMC, the world leader in information
storage systems, software, networks and services, with 2004 revenues of
$8.23 billion and more than 20,000 employees worldwide. EMC has dedicated
itself to information lifecycle management (ILM): helping customers get
the maximum value from their information, at the lowest overall cost,
at every point in the information lifecycle.
Within the last year Gahagan has expanded the mission of Storage Management
Software to address a broader set of management issues within ILM. This
has been accomplished through architectural innovation to existing products
and the acquisition of new technologies and companies. Storage Management
Software is positioned under Gahagan to deliver high quality and scalable
solutions focused not only on the storage infrastructure underpinning
ILM, but encompassing the connected networking and data center environment.
This holistic strategy has been driven by EMC’s commitment to deliver
an unsurpassed Total Customer Experience.
Prior to joining EMC, Gahagan spent two years with Houston-based BMC Software,
where he was Vice President and General Manager of the Enterprise Systems
Management business unit. The majority of his tenure at the Houston-based
software provider was focused on incorporating storage and recovery management
functionality into BMC’s existing systems management technologies.
This included strategic technology direction, marketing, product positioning
and business development. Prior to BMC, Gahagan spent eight years at Sterling
Software/Spectra Logic in a number of roles, including Vice President
and Chief Technology Officer.
Gahagan is located at EMC’s headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
He holds a B.S. in computer science from Colorado State University.
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Andrew
Gallo, Senior Information Systems Engineer, The George Washington University
Andrew Gallo is a Senior Information Systems Engineer responsible
for design and implementation of the campus network for the George Washington
University, serving approximately 15,000 users. Areas of focus include
the University's wide area connections, including a 150 kilometer DWDM
ring, designing a multicampus routing policy, and business continuity
planning for two online datacenters. Andrew is also responsible
for the University's voice over ATM installation, and designing an emerging
voice over IP system. Additionally, he works with the Storage Area
Network administrators in designing a 79 terabyte mirrored SAN.
Andrew is also a member of the Mid Atlantic Crossroads Core Engineering
team. The MAX is a regional gigapop serving the high performance
networking needs of the capital region's many universities and research
institutions. Andrew started in the technology field after completing
a Master of Arts in 1997. His first role in the field was installing
and terminating optical fiber used in the University's fiber to the desk
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Frank Gens, Senior Vice President, Research, IDC
As IDC's Senior Vice President - Research, Frank Gens guides IDC's research into broad IT industry trends, particularly the strategic adoption of technology by Global 2000 businesses and the industries in which they compete. Mr. Gens is the author of IDC Executive Insights, IDC's monthly executive brief on the state and future of the IT industry, and is a frequent speaker at executive forums around the world. He is the author of IDC Predictions, the company's annual forecast of major changes in the global development and use of technology. Mr. Gens is a member of IDC's worldwide management team, a lead developer of IDC's global research architecture, and a member of IDC's Research Quality Board. Mr. Gens is a 23 year veteran of the IT research and advisory services business, including 15 years at IDC in a variety of senior roles, including leading IDC's end-user research business and developing IDC's global Internet research capabilities. He is well known for his provocative and accurate forecasts of IT industry change, and the impact of those changes on business and industry. In addition to research management roles, Mr. Gens' career includes senior positions in new product development and introduction, product management, marketing, business development, corporate development, and regional operations management. Prior to IDC, Mr. Gens held management positions at International Data Group (IDG), AMR Research and The Yankee Group.
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Lynn
Grande, Principal Software Engineer, General Dynamics C4 Systems
Lynn Grande has worked in the field of communications software
for 21 years. For the past 17 years, she's been employed by General Dynamics
C4 Systems where she has worked on various projects that have provided
communication solutions to the US Army. As the principal data architect
and a member of the Army Interface Control Working Group (ICWG), Lynn
is responsible for coordinating the data transfer between tactical programs
such as Warfighter Information Network - Tactical (WIN-T), Future Combat
Systems (FCS) and the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) using the DMTF
CIM model. Her educational credentials include a Masters of Science in
Computer Systems Engineering from Boston University, an MBA from Bryant
University and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Western
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Gary
T. Greenwald, Vice President of Application Engineering & Operations,
Ameritrade
Gary Greenwald oversees the application infrastructure engineering
and technology operations at Ameritrade. In his tenure with the Company,
he has held various senior management positions within the technology
organization. Most recently Greenwald led the Office of the CIO, responsible
for technology finance and strategic sourcing. He led the Datek integration
and account conversion efforts, while overseeing all strategic application
development. Greenwald joined Ameritrade from Forensic Technology Inc.,
a leader in legal consulting, where he led the overall technology strategy.
Prior to that, he was the Director of Infrastructure Services for the
St. Paul Company and implemented technologies to support the first on-line
policy application and claims processing. With nearly 24 years in technology
services, Greenwald has extensive experience within the government services,
banking and consulting industries. |
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Tim
Grieser, Program Vice President, System Software, IDC
Tim Grieser, Program Vice President, Enterprise System Management
Software, is responsible for system management software research in IDC's
Enterprise Systems Management Software program. His coverage includes
software for managing systems and applications across a wide variety of
platforms. A key focus area is e-business and distributed applications
performance and availability, especially Web applications response time
from the end-user perspective.
Tim has also served as Research Director, Performance and Availability
Management Software research, and head of Management Service Providers
research which focuses on the market for Systems Management facilities
delivered through the hosted, subscription-based MSP model. Tim has published
IDC research in a number of areas including market sizing, market forecasting,
technological trends, vendor strategies and IT user needs and priorities.
Tim comes to IDC with 20 years of experience in the development and marketing
of performance and availability management software. He was a product
manager, R&D director, vice president of Product Marketing and finally
vice president of North American Marketing at BGS Systems of Waltham.
When that company was acquired by BMC Software of Houston, Dr. Grieser
assumed a management position in performance product strategy and planning.
Tim has Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, specializing in
computer performance analysis. His areas include performance monitoring,
performance analysis, modeling and simulation, resource utilization and
service-level management and reporting. He brings a new dimension to IDC's
research in application performance and availability management, combining
in-depth technical knowledge with broad experience in software industry
business practices.
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Vinay
Gupta, Manageability Architect, HP
Vinay Gupta is the Manageability Architect for the NonStop Enterprise
Division (NED) at HP. His job responsibility is to ensure that the HP
NonStop systems are manageable and serviceable while retaining their highly
available and scalable architecture. He works across the various groups
within the NED to ensure the consistency and interoperability in the manageability
interfaces and applications. Vinay also participates in the cross-organizational
manageability forums across HP to ensure that the NonStop platform fits
into the manageability architecture of the whole HP. Vinay joined the
Tandem Computers Incorporated (later acquired by Compaq Computer Corporation,
and then, Hewlett Packard) in 1994 after graduating from the Indian Institute
of Technology. He worked in the Kernel group to design and implement low-level
debuggers for the NonStop ServerNet platform. After a year, he changed
his group to start working on the new generation manageability solutions.
Vinay architected, designed and implemented numerous manageability and
serviceability solutions for the NonStop division. Vinay worked heavily
on researching the interoperable manageability solutions for NonStop and
decided towards DMTF CIM. Vinay has been the architect and the main designer
for the NonStop Open System Management (OSM) product, which is the DMTF
CIM based serviceability solution for the NonStop platform. In his current
position as the NonStop Manageability Architect, Vinay strives to use
DMTF CIM as the basic manageability solution for the NonStop platform
for integrating NonStop into the heterogeneous computing environments.
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Steve
Hand, Senior Principal Engineer, CTO Office, Symantec
Steve Hand is an author of the
SMI-S storage management standard. Steve is the chair of the Health and
Fault Management subgroup of the Management Application working group
in SNIA, actively participants in many SNIA and DMTF working groups, and
is a member of the technical council in DMTF. Steve is well known in the
storage industry for this work. Steve has been developing custom and sometimes
distributed information systems for his eighteen years working in the
computer industry. These systems encompassed distributed processing and
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John
Harker, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Hitachi Data Systems
John Harker is a Senior Product
Marketing Manager responsible for Storage Area Management products at
Hitachi Data Systems. Prior to joining HDS, he worked in Product Management
and Engineering for SCO covering UNIX operating system, storage and networking
products and in Systems Engineering at Tandem where he gained a deep understanding
of multi-CPU and clustered fault-tolerant systems. He has also participated
in open-standards projects with the Open Group and Blade Systems Alliance.
John has published and spoken widely at industry forums on subjects including
storage technologies, modular computing, and distributed systems management.
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George
Heaslip, Sales Manager – Network and Systems Management Solutions,
Raritan
George Heaslip is the Sales Manager – Systems and Network
Management Solutions for Raritan. He supports Raritan’s integrated
infrastructure management and security solutions recently acquired from
Oculan Systems where he was Director of Channel Sales. Prior to Oculan
he was a National Account Executive for Microsoft responsible for financial
services companies. He grew two software development companies and led
the development and deployment of a mission-critical distributed solution
for a healthcare company. George attended New College of University of
South Florida on an academic scholarship.
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Jeff Hilland, Senior Architect, CTO Office, Industry Standard Service, Hewlett-Packard
Jeff Hilland is Senior Architect in the CTO's office for Hewlett Packard's Industry Standard Server business unit. Jeff's over 20 year career in the computing industry includes systems and server management, distributed systems architecture, system software integration, automated deployment & configuration tool development, device driver and services architecture & development and high speed intercommunications protocol development & standardization including InfiniBand, RDMA and VI. Jeff is a co-chair of the DMTF Server Management Working group, as well as the RDMA Consortium.
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Bob
Hodges, Chief Software Architect, Advanced Technology Center, Space Systems
Company, A Division of Lockheed Martin
Mr. Bob Hodges is the service based architecture expert for Space Systems
Company, providing advanced software techniques of integration guidance
on major programs. He has 30 years of advanced information technology and
business experience, which includes several years in start-ups. Mr. Hodges
is a principle investigator on critical advanced software technologies,
participating at the corporate level on the Chief IT Architects Board where
he advises the corporate staff on IT issues. He is a member of the Technology
Transfer Institute Vanguard Group, a unique forum for senior exectuives
that links startegic technology planning to business success. He has written
articles and experienced the boom and bust of Silicon Valley firsthand.
Mr. Hodges supports a number of key information architecture efforts
at Lockheed Martin including satellite systems,large information integration
systems, and sensor networks. He has been a fellow at Carnegie Mellon West
University for the past three years where he teaches the Master’s
Software Engineering capstone course. He holds a MBA and BSEE. |
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Graham
Holt, Director, Research and Innovation, Cyclades Corporation
With 18 years of experience in software and systems technology,
Graham Holt manages market trend research, advises the research and development
teams and promotes product development in emerging areas. He joined Cyclades
in 2001, as the country manager for the UK, and then later transferred
to corporate headquarters to work in product marketing and product management.
Previous to Cyclades, Mr. Holt worked in software and systems engineering
for 13 years, delivering optimization, production and process control
systems for the metals recycling industry. Mr. Holt has also taught classes
on technology and has co-written white papers and articles on remote IT
administration. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree, with honors,
from Leeds Metropolitan University School of Electrical & Electronic
Engineering, Computer Science, U.K. |
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Cindy S. Hughes, Chief Information Officer and Director of IT, Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund (MAIF)
With over 25 years of experience in IT, Cindy has worked in a
variety of business organizations that range from large global companies,
such as Lockheed Martin, to small entrepreneurial start-ups. Her background
includes software development, network systems, and web design, mostly
for insurance companies. She has held senior management positions for
several years and is currently the Chief Information Officer and Director
of IT at Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund. Cindy has directed the implementation
of technologies new to her organizations, and she has managed the migration
of mission critical applications from legacy, mainframe, and procedural
processing to dynamic, real-time e-business solutions. Her contributions
include 22% productivity gains in a single fiscal year, along with 12%
gains in revenue directly attributable to automation proficiencies.
In her current role at MAIF, she introduced imaging solutions that realized
cost savings, increased productivity throughout the enterprise, and significantly
reduced paper handling. Under her direction, the company's data center
has been modernized to include SAN and NAS, wireless infrastructure and
a completely overhauled telecommunication installation. Cindy holds a
Master's degree in Executive Business Administration from George Mason
University in Virginia and undergraduate degrees from the University of
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Steffen
Hulegaard, Director of Engineering, Avocent
Steffen brings over 20 years of software industry experience
to OSA Technologies. Steffen's technical expertise covers software design/architecture,
software engineering, high performance algorithms, federated systems interoperability,
protocol and language design, quality assurance and product line development.
In the systems management software (SMS) space, Steffen contributes to
the evolving design of the Distributed Management Task Force's (DMTF)
Web Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Common Information Model (CIM).
Prior to joining OSA, Steffen was the Director of Product Development
at Advent Software, Inc, specializing in financial applications of real-time,
main-memory, object-oriented databases. Before that, Steffen gained an
intimate understanding of mission critical computing at Oracle. For over
5 years at Oracle, Steffen simultaneously held both senior technical positions
and product development management positions. Steffen holds three B.A.
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Jim Hull, Vice President, Engineering Services, MasterCard International
Jim Hull joined MasterCard International's Global Technology
and Operations division in April, 1999, where he currently serves as the
Vice President, Engineering Services. Mr. Hull and his staff of more than
250 professional and technical are responsible for all aspects of engineering
support for enterprise storage, network, mainframe, servers, and mobile
computing systems for MasterCard globally. Examples of responsibilities
include budget execution, planning, design, acquisition, installation,
capacity management and performance, and tuning. The systems and networks
Jim and his staff support include multiple data centers and a network
which spans over 210 countries. Prior to joining MasterCard, Jim served
in the United States Marine Corps, retiring as a Colonel. The majority
of his assignments in the Marine Corps were staff and command positions
in communications and information systems at locations throughout the
world. Jim also deployed to Saudi Arabia during Operations Desert Shield
and Desert Storm where he served as the principal communications/information
systems officer (G-6) for a 12,000 person command.
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Steve
Jerman, Technology Strategist, Cisco
Steve Jerman is a Technical Leader at Cisco Systems within the
Network Management Technical Group CTO office where he is a member of
the core CIM modeling group, specializing in tools and infrastructure
for modeling support and adoption across Cisco. Prior to joining Cisco
in March 2005, Steve worked for Hewlett Packard for 16 years where he
was a Distinguished Technologist and lead architect for storage management
software within the Network Storage Solutions division of HP. He has been
involved with the development of CIM/WBEM as a storage management interface
since 1998. He was one of the primary authors of the Storage Management
Initiative Specification, and led many of the early plug fests and demonstrations
of the technology at industry events such as Storage Networking World.
In 2003 SNIA honored Steve with the award of SMI Distinguished Engineer.
He has been an active participant in both the Distributed Management Task
Force (DMTF) and the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). Steve
is vice-chair of the Technical Committee at the DMTF and past chair of
the DMTF’s System and Devices Working Group. He has is also a past
chair of SNIA's Disk Resource Management Technical Working Group. Steve
holds an Honors Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Liverpool
University in the UK. He is also a member of the UK's Institute of Electrical
Engineers and is a Chartered Engineer.Dr. Arun Kumar is a Systems Architect
for Enterprise Data Services at Cingular Wireless in Dallas. He was chosen
for the “IEEE Outstanding Young Engineer” award in 2005. He
has more than a decade of experience in Oracle technologies and multiple
relational database systems, including multidimensional, decision support
systems, and ERP software. He has worked on a wide variety of projects
and environments ranging from client-server, E-Business to managed services
across multiple relational database systems in telecommunications, retail
and health care industries. Arun has a Ph.D. in Business Administration
and his research was focused on IT management challenges in E-Business
for specialty retailers. He did his M.S. majoring in Computer Science.
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Greg
Johnson, Vice President, IT Application Development and Support, RGA Reinsurance
Company
Greg has been leading the Application Development and Support
area since 1997, the year he joined RGA. During his tenure at RGA, Greg’s
area of responsibility has consistently expanded and now includes IT compliance
and audit functions. Over this same period, the company has seen substantial
growth and technology has become a critical component of the business.
Greg is responsible for serving clients in 15 RGA offices in North America,
Europe, Asia and South Africa. Prior to joining RGA, Greg spent 15 years
at McDonnell Douglas developing IT systems for manufacturing.
Combining IT knowledge with a solid understanding of the reinsurance business,
Greg leads the Application Development and Support organization in delivering
mature, stable and cost-effective systems which enhance RGA’s reputation
as a technology leader in the life insurance industry.
Greg earned his B.S. in mathematics statistics and computer science from
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
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Julia
King, Executive Editor, Events and National Correspondent, Computerworld
Julia King is Executive Editor, Events and National Correspondent at Computerworld.
Ms. King is an award-winning business and technology journalist whose
coverage has spanned a wide range of beats, from technology management
and labor issues to electronic commerce, IT return on investment issues
and offshore outsourcing. Ms. King was the founding executive editor of
the award-winning Computerworld ROI magazine and spearheaded Computerworld's
coverage of information economics. Prior to joining Computerworld in 1994,
Ms. King worked for nearly a decade as a reporter and writer for national
business and technology magazines. She also worked for five years as a
daily newspaper reporter and later, as a features writer and editor. Her
IT reporting has earned her several awards form the American Society of
Business Press Editors and she is a frequent presenter and panel moderator
at industry conferences. She is editor of a book titled Executives' Guide
To The Wireless Workforce, which was published by John Wiley & Sons
in July, 2003. Ms. King holds a Master's Degree in International Relations
and a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, both from University of
Pittsburgh. She is based in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania.
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Heather
Kreger, IBM
Heather Kreger is the lead architect for Web Services and Management
in the Emerging Technologies area. She is currently co-lead of the OASIS
Web Services Distributed Management Technical Committee, member of several
related DMTF Work Groups, as well as IBM’s representative to the
W3C Web Services Architecture Working Group. Heather was co-lead of JSR109
that specifies web services deployment in J2EE environments and a contributor
to the Java Management Extensions (JMX) specification, Heather is also
the author of: numerous articles on Web services and management in the
IBM Systems Journal, Communications of ACM, Web Services Journal; public
technical work including the “Web Services Conceptual Architecture”,
“WS-Manageability”; and her own book “Java and JMX,
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Arun
Kumar, Systems Architect, Enterprise Data Services, Cingular Wireless
Dr. Arun Kumar is a Systems Architect for Enterprise Data Services
at Cingular Wireless in Dallas. He was chosen for the “IEEE Outstanding
Young Engineer” award in 2005. He has more than a decade of experience
in Oracle technologies and multiple relational database systems, including
multidimensional, decision support systems, and ERP software. He has worked
on a wide variety of projects and environments ranging from client-server,
E-Business to managed services across multiple relational database systems
in telecommunications, retail and health care industries. Arun has a Ph.D.
in Business Administration and his research was focused on IT management
challenges in E-Business for specialty retailers. He did his M.S. majoring
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Subramanya
Kumar, Customer Product Architect N1 Integrated Systems, Sun Microsystems
Inc.
Subramanya has been involved with management infrastructure,
products and solutions for over 8 years. As a member of the core engineering
team for development of JIRO(tm) technology at Sun, he was responsible
for several important extensions to the core platform. Later he transitioned
into a product focused role and made several key contributions to the
CIM based Enterprise Storage Management product from Sun. He also worked
for several Advanced Development Teams in Network Storage at Sun where
he drove key initiatives around cross product integration, product portfolio
consolidation and due diligence efforts for acquisitions and partnerships.
Currently, Subramanya is driving the customer adoption of N1 System Manager
as well as working with Sun customers and partners to gather Critical
to Quality Requirements and use them to influence future product roadmaps.
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Dan
Kusnetzky, Vice President, Enterprise System Management Software, IDC
Daniel Kusnetzky, Vice President of IDC's System Software research,
is responsible for research and analysis on the worldwide market for operating
environments and the fabric of distributed computing software known as
the virtual environment which is the foundation of Dynamic IT for the
Dynamic Enterprise. The operating environments include Windows, Unix,
Linux, and other single user and multiuser operating environments. Virtual
environment software includes virtual user interface software, virtual
application environment software, virtual processing software and virtual
storage software. He examines emerging technology trends, vendor strategies,
research and development issues, and end-user integration requirements.
Mr. Kusnetzky regularly advises end users, independent trade organizations,
the trade press, and vendors on relevant issues. He has spoken at forums
such as Comdex, Internet World Expo, Internet Commerce Expo, Linux World
Expo, Linux Business Expo, UniForum, Unix Expo, PC Expo, DECworld, NetWorld,
and specific vendor oriented user group conferences, as well as internal
vendor-specific events such as marketing and sales meetings, field training,
and partner recruitment. His opinions have been published in publications
such as Boston Globe, Byte, ComputerWorld, Communications Week, Information
Week, InfoWorld, Investor’s Business Daily, Network World, New York
Times, PC Week, PC World, San Jose Mercury News, Wall Street Journal,
and others. He has also appeared on BBC, CNN, CNNfn, CNBC, MSNBC and on
both NPR's All Things Considered and Marketplace.
Mr. Kusnetzky's experience offers him working knowledge of the different
stages of the life cycle for new products ranging from research and development
to market development. Prior to joining IDC, Mr. Kusnetzky worked for
more than 17 years in the industry. Nearly 15 of those years were with
Digital Equipment Corporation. Mr. Kusnetzky was responsible for program
management, product management, and marketing in the areas of client software,
server software, clustered systems, and networked systems. He was also
a software consultant delivering custom projects based upon database,
personal computer and office automation software.
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James
Lancaster, Vice President - Network Services, Fifth third Bank
With over 15 years of transaction processing experience, James Lancaster
currently manages Fifth Third Bank’s Network Management and Data
Network Services areas. Mr. Lancaster joined Fifth Third’s Information
Technology division in 1990 and began work as a mainframe developer for
the bank’s electronic payment transaction processing system. In
1995 Mr. Lancaster moved into the Network Services area as the leader
of the Mainframe Communications group. In 2002 Mr. Lancaster saw the need
for better proactive monitoring of the data and voice networks and led
the creation of Fifth Third Bank’s Network Management group. He
has led that group since it’s inception and has grown it into a
world class monitoring environment that detects, determines root cause,
and tracks issues related to the bank’s nearly 14,000 ATM, 1,100
branches, and 40,000 node LAN/WAN. Using his earlier background in the
transaction processing area, Mr. Lancaster has worked a great deal on
bridging the gap between transaction processing monitoring and network
monitoring and utilizing common interfaces for each. Mr. Lancaster holds
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Galen
(Rick) Larson, Director of Technical Services and Operations, Select Comfort
I have been in the IT industry for over 25 years with last 19
years in a management capacity. The last 5+ years I have held the position
as the Director of Technical Services for Select Comfort. Select Comfort
is the nation's largest bedding retailer and creator of the Sleep Number
bed. Select Comfort has 379 retail stores, 2 manufacturing plants, 2 distribution
centers, 114 wholesale doors with our corporate campus in Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
Prior to Select Comfort I worked for 14 years in IT management with architecture
and program/project management responsibilities for a defense contractor,
network and system outsourcer and in production programming environments.
I have sat on a number of IT oversight committees during my tenure in
the defense industry and remain active in technically focused organizations
with focus on ITIL, Integration, technology and technology trends. I have
been married many happy years to my wife Kelly and have 4 grown children
and one grandson.
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Jay
Litkey, Vice President, Technology, Symbium Corporation
Jay founded venture capital backed Symbium Corporation in 2002,
and is the current Vice President of Technology and a member of the Board
of Directors. He is responsible for setting the strategic direction of
Symbium's products and building thought leadership in the market. Symbium
has applied proven Telecommunications and Autonomic Computing principles
to develop a product targeting Information Technology (IT) systems. Through
automated self-managing features, the product enables significant increases
in availability, manageability and security of IT services. Prior to Symbium,
Jay was the founder and CEO of BlackholeVDN, an Internet technology company
focused on high availability video content distribution which he grew
to 45 employees from concept to revenue generation. Before that, Jay was
at Bell Northern Research / Nortel Networks where he worked in the design
and development of telecommunications fault management systems.
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Eugene Litvinov, Director of Business Architecture and Technology, ISO New England
Eugene Litvinov is a Director of Business Architecture and Technology in the ISO New England. He has more than 30 years experience in the field of power system analysis and control and information technology. He has been involved in electricity markets related modeling and design research and development since 1996. Mr. Litvinov's responsibilities in the ISO New England include development of mathematical models for market clearing and pricing, power system analysis and control, technology and system architecture. He holds MS in Electrical Engineering and PhD in Power System Control. |
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Jeff Lynch, Senior Technical Staff Member, eServer xSeries Architecture and Technology, IBM
Jeff Lynch is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM's eServer xSeries Architecture and Technology organization. He is an active participant in the DMTF and co-chair of the DMTF Server Management Working Group. He has broad experience in emerging high bandwidth communication and server management-related issues. His background includes both hardware and software system design and architecture. Jeff is a Senior Member of IEEE and currently holds 14 U.S. patents. |
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Fred
Maciel, Hitachi
Dr. Maciel is Hitachi's main contributor to the Global Grid Forum
(GGF),leading the work on resource management on GGF's Open Grid Services
Architecture working group (OGSA-WG). He also participates in the Web
Services Distributed Management technical committee (WSDM-TC) of OASIS
and on the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). Earlier he was Hitachi's
representative in InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) working groups,
while proposing strategy, technology, and a venture capital investment
on InfiniBand at Hitachi. He also did pioneering work on networking, storage
networking, and high-performance computing. His output in Hitachi is reflected
in several papers and patent submissions. Maciel earned his doctorate
at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan.
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Doug McClure, Senior Manager, Service and Technology Monitoring, EarthLink Operations
Doug McClure has been with EarthLink for over three years and currently leads the Service and Technology Monitoring group. His responsibilities include infrastructure, application, and business/customer service monitoring activities. His main focus areas include creating true end-to-end service management across all layers of EarthLink's infrastructure and ensuring that the service and technology management infrastructure is capable of supporting EarthLink's future directions for becoming a Total Communications Provider. His team provides real time insight into EarthLink's business and process performance and customer experience via real time testing, monitoring and dashboard presentations. In January 2004, Doug founded the Atlanta Network and System Management Technical User Group where local Fortune 500 companies such as Bell South, The Home Depot, Delta Airlines and Cox Communications meet monthly to learn about ways to continuously improve service and technology management within their environments.
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Rob McCormick, Chairman and CEO, SAVVIS
Rob McCormick has served as the Chairman and CEO of SAVVIS since 1999. Under his leadership, SAVVIS has grown from a start-up into one of the top IT services firms in the world with more than 5,000 enterprise customers, $600 million in revenue, and operations in 47 countries. Prior to joining SAVVIS, Rob was the CTO of Bridge Information Systems, a $1 billion financial information company that delivered real-time market data to over 200,000 trading terminals around the world. The global IT infrastructure and automated management software that Mr. McCormick developed for Bridge became the foundation for SAVVIS.
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Aaron Merkin, Advisory Engineer, eServer and Blade Systems Management Development, IBM Corporation
Aaron is an Advisory Engineer in eServer and Blade Systems Management Development. His job focus is on developing industry standard interfaces for systems management. He received an B.S in Mathematics from Florida Atlantic University in 1997 and an M.S in Computer Science from North Carolina State University in 2000. Aaron has been developing Systems Management software since joining IBM in 1998. |
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Joshua
Moss, Marketing Programs Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Intel Corporation
Joshua Moss is a Marketing Programs Manager in the Digital Office initiative
for Intel Corporation’s Digital Enterprise Group. Josh’s area
of focus is on the education and promotion of Intel® Active Management
Technology. (Intel® AMT) He is working with industry leading ISV’s,
who support Intel AMT in 2005, on various co-marketing and pilot activities.
He is also engaging and defining enablement activities with ISVs who will
support Intel AMT in the future. In addition, Josh has spent the last
three years managing Desktop and Server networking products for Intel. |
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Michael
Mullaley, Director of Enterprise Marketing, Data Networking, Ciena
Michael Mullaley is Director
of Enterprise Marketing at Ciena in the Data Networking Group. For over
20 years, Michael has conceived and launched many networking, server and
biometric products. Prior to Ciena, he introduced the world’s first
fault-tolerant Wintel server for Stratus Computer and a line of multi-protocol
routers for Motorola. Working with MITRE and the US Air Force, he pioneered
the deployment of IP routers at NATO air bases in the 1980’s. Michael
holds a BSEE from Rice University and an MBA from Northeastern University.
Michael is an active speaker in his industry. He has presented on a variety
of topics at top industry events, including Wall Street & Technology
Association’s Compliance, Security & BC/DR Challenges and Solutions
conference.
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Nitin
Naik, Ph.D., Associate Chief Technology Officer, NASA
Dr. Nitin Naik serves as Associate
Chief Technology Officer for NASA. Dr. Naik is responsible for NASA’s
Web services, Enterprise Data Management and Knowledge Management. Dr.
Naik has received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from India. He
has completed post-graduate studies at Louisiana State University, Baton
Rouge receiving a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
a Master of Science in Systems Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Science.
Dr. Naik has worked in information management, enterprise networks, data
center operations, web-based delivery systems and software development
for the last 20 years.
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Barbara
Nelson, CEO and Chairman, NeoScale Systems
Barbara is CEO and chairman of NeoScale Systems, establishing the company
as the leader in enterprise storage security. Barbara brings more than
25 years of extensive industry experience. She was formerly EVP at Quantum
for corporate strategy, marketing and IT, consolidating Quantum's acquisitions
into a unified strategy, brand and operational platform. As president
of Quantum's DLTtape group, the market leader, she led the launch of new
technology platforms, added high growth product categories and drove significant
operational improvements. As gm of Quantum's $3B desktop hard drive business,
Barbara maintained its #1 market position and launched a new consumer
business for the nascent DVR market.
During her 13 year tenure at Intel, Barbara held senior leadership positions
in general management, marketing, engineering and manufacturing. She developed
Intel's private label business from its inception, to a profitable, several
hundred million dollar business, in two years. She also held executive
positions at Maxtor, Weitek and Lumina. Barbara holds a B.S. in Electrical
Engineering from Stanford University. She is a director for Support Network
for Battered Women, a non-profit agency.
Karin
Ondricek, Senior Product Marketing Manager, EMC Software Group
Karin Ondricek is a Senior Product Marketing Manager with EMC’s
Software Group and oversees all marketing and planning activities for
the Records Management product line. She is also a member of ARMA International
(Association of Records Managers and Administrators) and has published
and spoken at multiple industry forums on the current trends and best
practices in records management.
Prior to joining EMC, Karin was a Product Manager at Avid Technology where
she managed the leading Digital Asset Management system for broadcast
news, film and television. Her contributions include achieving and sustaining
a 75% Compound Annual Growth Rate within her product line and leading
a strategic initiative to extend Avid’s asset management capabilities
into long-term archives which included partnering and integrating with
multiple archive storage vendors.
Karin also has a background in corporate strategy. As part of the Strategic
Planning group at Turner Broadcasting, Karin helped develop strategy plans
for expansion into the Latin American and the domestic Education marketplaces.
While working at Harvard Business School, Karin co-authored a number of
business case studies on the economics of aligning business strategy with
internal operations.
As a Luce Scholar, Karin spent a year working in Taiwan performing benchmarking
studies on national R&D practices in wireless handset development.
Karin holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from Wellesley College
and a Masters of Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of
Management.
Rob
Peglar, Vice President, Technology Marketing, Xiotech Corporation
Rob Peglar is Vice President,
Technology Marketing for Xiotech Corporation. A 28-year industry veteran
and published author, he has global responsibility for the shaping and
delivery of emerging technologies, defining Xiotech’s product and
solution portfolio including business and technology requirements, planning,
execution, technology futures, strategic direction, and industry/customer
liaison. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Blade Systems Alliance
and is the co-author and track chair of the SNIA Virtualization Tutorial.
He has extensive experience in the architecture, design, implementation
and operation of large heterogeneous SANs, distributed clustered virtual
storage architectures, data management, disaster avoidance and compliance,
and is a sought-after speaker and panelist at leading storage and networking-related
seminars and conferences worldwide.
Prior to joining Xiotech in August 2000, Mr. Peglar held key technology
specialist and engineering management positions over a nine-year period
at StorageTek and at their networking subsidiary, Network Systems Corporation.
Prior to StorageTek, he held engineering and product management positions
at Control Data Corporation and its supercomputer division, ETA Systems.
Mr. Peglar holds the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Washington University,
St. Louis Missouri, and performed graduate work at Washington University’s
Sever Institute of Engineering. His research background includes I/O performance
analysis, queuing theory, parallel systems architecture and OS design,
storage networking protocols, and virtual systems optimization.
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Jeff
Pelot, Chief Technology Officer, Denver Health Hospital and Medical Center
Jeff Pelot is the Chief Technology Officer for Denver Health Hospital
and Medical Center, where he provides the leadership, vision, and direction
for the use of technology to ensure support of the company's business
objectives. Jeff has over 25 years managerial experience primarily with
Denver Health and the US Army, including extensive program management
experience in the areas of technology and systems deployment, implementation
of business processes and process improvement for technical infrastructure
systems. Jeff possesses a Masters degree from the Regis University in
Computing Systems Management. Notably his Denver Health Technical team
is the recipient of the Health and Hospitals Network Top 100 Most Wired
Hospitals for 2003 and 2005. Jeff also sits on the Board of Directors
for the Denver Children’s Advocacy Center.
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Carlos
M. Recalde, Managing Director, Successful Technology, LLC
Carlos Recalde is currently the Managing Director of Successful Technology,
LLC. Until recently, he was the Executive Director of Technology for the
Americas Region at KPMG, LLP, one of the top four global accounting and
professional service organizations.
He has over twenty years of diverse business experience in technology,
marketing, and business strategy, including eight years in the packaged
software business and nineteen as the founder of four separate professional
service companies. He is an accomplished and well respected leader with
a stellar track record for recruiting and developing outstanding technical
and management talent, defining and implementing strategic information
technology, developing strategic alliances, and managing the top and bottom
lines of competitive, high-value organizations. Carlos was named by Computerworld
as a Premier 100 IT Leader in 2004.
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Bill
Riechardt, HP
William Reichardt is a Software Architect for Hewlett Packard's Technology
Solution Group. He is a co-founder and committer to the Apache Software
Foundation's Wsdm implementation projects; Muse, WSRF and PubScribe.
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Jaime
Sguerra, Second Vice President/Chief Architect and Senior Business Systems
Officer, Corporate Marketing, Guardian Life
Jaime Sguerra joined Guardian Life Insurance in 2001 to lead
the IT Enterprise Architecture initiative as Chief Architect of the Information
Technology Division. In his current role as head of the Technology Office,
Second Vice President/Chief Architect and Senior Business Systems Officer
for Corporate Marketing, Jaime is responsible for ongoing enhancements
to the enterprise architecture, development of all cross-profit center
applications, Research and Development, Document and Process Solutions,
and coordination and integration of IT activities in support of Corporate
Marketing. He has additional responsibility for a major cross-platform
initiative for policy underwriting. Jaime led the deployment of
Guardian's Enterprise Architecture, and even before its completion in
early 2004, the multi-million dollar enterprise architecture resulted
in a 30% reduction in application development costs, as well as a reduction
in development time through the leveraging of reusable components of the
architecture. Jaime's 20-year track record as corporate officer, accomplished
technologist, IT leader, and change agent includes affiliations with KPMG
Consulting and AIG, and management consulting engagements with Chase Manhattan
Bank, U.S. Trust Company of New York, UPS, and IBM. Jaime received the
Guardian Life CEO Special Recognition Award for 2002. He was appointed
to, and completed, the Guardian Life High Potential Officers Program,
Class of 2004. In 2005, Jaime was selected as one of IDG's Computerworld‘s
“Premier 100 IT Leaders,” selected from among 600 nominees.
Jaime has also helped to lead Guardian IT in achieving industry-wide recognition
and accolades, such as CIO Magazine's “Agile 100 Award,” Computerworld's
award for “Best Practices in Enterprise Management for Security
and Risk Management,” and CIO Insight Magazine's special recognition
of Guardian IT for teamwork and alignment between business strategy and
technology. Jaime holds a Systems Engineering degree from Universidad
Piloto de Colombia and course work in advanced technology studies at New
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Jaime
Sguerra, Second Vice President/Chief Architect and Senior Business Systems
Officer, Corporate Marketing, Guardian Life
Jaime Sguerra joined Guardian Life Insurance in 2001 to lead
the IT Enterprise Architecture initiative as Chief Architect of the Information
Technology Division. In his current role as head of the Technology Office,
Second Vice President/Chief Architect and Senior Business Systems Officer
for Corporate Marketing, Jaime is responsible for ongoing enhancements
to the enterprise architecture, development of all cross-profit center
applications, Research and Development, Document and Process Solutions,
and coordination and integration of IT activities in support of Corporate
Marketing. He has additional responsibility for a major cross-platform
initiative for policy underwriting. Jaime led the deployment of
Guardian's Enterprise Architecture, and even before its completion in
early 2004, the multi-million dollar enterprise architecture resulted
in a 30% reduction in application development costs, as well as a reduction
in development time through the leveraging of reusable components of the
architecture. Jaime's 20-year track record as corporate officer, accomplished
technologist, IT leader, and change agent includes affiliations with KPMG
Consulting and AIG, and management consulting engagements with Chase Manhattan
Bank, U.S. Trust Company of New York, UPS, and IBM. Jaime received the
Guardian Life CEO Special Recognition Award for 2002. He was appointed
to, and completed, the Guardian Life High Potential Officers Program,
Class of 2004. In 2005, Jaime was selected as one of IDG's Computerworld‘s
“Premier 100 IT Leaders,” selected from among 600 nominees.
Jaime has also helped to lead Guardian IT in achieving industry-wide recognition
and accolades, such as CIO Magazine's “Agile 100 Award,” Computerworld's
award for “Best Practices in Enterprise Management for Security
and Risk Management,” and CIO Insight Magazine's special recognition
of Guardian IT for teamwork and alignment between business strategy and
technology. Jaime holds a Systems Engineering degree from Universidad
Piloto de Colombia and course work in advanced technology studies at New
York University. |
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Christina Shaw, Software Architect, Chief Technical Office, Industry Standards Server Division, Hewlett-Packard
Christina Shaw is a Software Architect in the Chief Technical Office of Hewlett-Packard's Industry Standard Servers division. Her chief responsibilities include management architecture for ISS' next generation modular systems and integrated HP company management vision, strategy, planning and implementation. Christina has made significant contributions to industry standards in distributed systems management over the last 15 years. Some of her accomplishments include key contributions to the X/Open Event Management System architecture, the DMTF Event Specification V1.0, and most recently, the DMTF Server Management Specification. As a member of the DMTF Server Management Working Group, Christina is the editor of the Server Management Instance Addressing specification. |
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Ariel
Silverstone, Director, Office of the CTO, Symantec
Ariel Silverstone, a Director for the Office of the CTO at Symantec and
formerly the Chief Information Security for Temple University, is a frequently
requested speaker and avid writer. He has been involved in the computer
industry for over 17 years, contributed to over 30 published books and has
consulted nationally and internationally for Fortune 1000 firms on the implementation
of management information systems and networking systems. Over the years,
he has designed and set up hundreds of networks , including using all versions
of Windows, Netware and many flavors of Unix. |
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Hank Simon, Web Services Technology Strategist, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Dr. Hank Simon is the Web Services Technology Strategist for Lockheed Martin providing Service Oriented Architecture guidance by leading a 130 person cross line-of-business team known as the Lockheed Martin Web Services Technical Advisory Group (WebTAG). He has 25 years of advanced information technology and business experience, which includes 15 years experience at Lockheed Martin. He supports the information architecture efforts for the $200B Joint Strike Fighter Program. He is currently leading an advanced effort to build an enterprise SOA based on international open standards. Dr. Simon participates in the annual Lockheed Martin Corporate IT Strategic planning process. He is a member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Organization for the advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). He has written and published 100 articles and 6 books on various aspects of business-based enterprise architectures and technology applications. Dr. Simon has a Ph.D. with an information technology focus from Texas A&M University.
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James
T. Smith, Enterprise Performance Specialist, TeamQuest Corporation
Jim has been an Enterprise Performance Specialist for four years
at TeamQuest Corporation and has previous consultant work experience in
performance monitoring, capacity planning for integrated network solutions
and systems administration. He has been a Certified Advanced Technical
Expert from IBM since 1999. Prior to TeamQuest, Jim provided third level
support to the hospital industry’s computerized labs while at Cerner
and was a Logicon DOD Contractor in the Battle Command Training Program
in systems administration and development before Cerner.
Jim holds a BSEE from the University of Kansas and an Assoc. EET from
Johnson County Community College. He has served in the U.S. Army as a
31V30 Radio Repairman & in Field Artillery Digital Computer Repair.
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Paul
Strong, Systems Architect, Sun Microsystems & Technical Steering Committee
Chair, Enterprise Grid Alliance
Paul Strong is a systems architect at Sun Microsystems where
he focuses on grid standards and the N1 product set. He has worked at
Sun for eight years, was part of the original N1 team more than four years
ago, and has co-authored the book Building N1 Grid Solutions (Prentice
Hall, 2004). Mr. Strong is chair of the Enterprise Grid Alliance technical
steering committee and its reference model working group, where he edited/co-authored
the EGA Reference Model. He holds a B.Sc. in physics from the University
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David
C. Stuart – VP Marketing, Optinuity, Inc.
David Stuart has a 20+ year career in marketing and product management
within high technology companies. Prior to Optinuity, Stuart served as
Director of Product Management for VeriSign Inc.’s Network and Directory
Services business unit in Dulles, Virginia. At VeriSign, Stuart was responsible
for the DNS hosting product line which provides services for thousands
of businesses and large enterprises worldwide. The registry service transacts
over 10 billion lookups daily and is deemed critical Internet infrastructure
by the US Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security. VeriSign’s
registry comprises 16 network operating centers worldwide.
Prior to VeriSign, Stuart served as Director of Business Development and
Strategy for PricewaterhouseCoopers’ beTRUSTed business unit (now
a unit of One Equity Partners, a private equity arm of JPMorganChase),
a hosted identity management and security services provider, where he
led new market initiatives in the financial services and healthcare sectors.
beTRUSTed is now the world’s largest privately-held information
security company. beTRUSTed has security operating centers in several
locations in the US and UK.
Stuart received his BS Electrical Engineering/Computer Science degree
from the University of Illinois, and MBA degree from Northwestern University
Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Stuart, his wife, and 3 children
reside in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Ric
Telford, Vice President, Architecture & Development, Tivoli Software,
IBM Corporation
Ric Telford's professional business career highlights 22 years
of software development experience and is noted for bringing innovative
approaches to the design and development of key software technologies.
Telford joined IBM in 1983, as a developer for PROFS in their software
lab in Dallas, TX. Prior to the acquisition of Lotus, Telford led much
of the office systems development for IBM, including distributed calendaring
and groupware products. During his tenure at IBM, Telford has played a
number of key roles in various software initiatives for IBM, including
the imaging products unit, networking and security software, and software
mobility products.
Ric tends to be at the forefront of emerging technologies at IBM. He served
as Director of Technology for the IBM CIO, responsible for the development,
implementation and adoption of technologies that hastened the transformation
of IBM into an e-business. Ric was the Director of Technology for Intelligent
Infrastructure, the precursor in IBM to “e-business on demand”.
Most recently, Ric was responsible for defining and delivering software
solutions for the service provider market, also known as "xSPs."
Ric worked across the IBM software group to both leverage IBM's e-business
infrastructure software for service provider needs, as well as to develop
solutions which address the unique requirements of the service provider.
In his current assignment as VP of Architecture and Development, Autonomic
Computing, Ric is responsible for defining and delivering the architecture,
technology and standards for Autonomic Computing." Autonomic Computing
is the set of capabilities required to make a computing system more self-managing,
much like the human autonomic system. Ric works across the IBM Corporation,
including servers, software and storage, to develop an end-to- end, open
architecture solution for self-managing systems. Ric holds a Bachelor
of Science degree in Computer Science from Trinity University in San Antonio,
Texas, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Ric resides in Morrisville,
NC and has two sons. Ric enjoys mountain biking, swimming and golf.
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Whitney
Tidmarsh, VP, Content Management & Solutions Marketing, EMC Corporation
Whitney is responsible for marketing strategy, planning and execution
of EMC's enterprise content management efforts. She also runs content
management and storage management solutions teams for all of EMC Software.
Whitney joined Documentum in 1995 and was previously vice president and
general manager of the company's Enterprise Document Management and Web
Content Management business before the company was acquired by EMC in
2003. In her prior role as VP of product marketing, she was responsible
for the company's global product marketing efforts, including industry
marketing, pricing, business analysis, industry analyst relations, and
competitive intelligence. Before joining Documentum, Whitney spent four
years in a variety of technical roles at Sybase and prior to that, she
held engineering and product management positions at Oracle. Whitney received
her BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Claremont McKenna College
in Claremont, California. She was named one of "40 under 40 Executives"
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Kenneth
Venner, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO), Broadcom
Corporation
Kenneth Venner is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information
Officer (CIO) of Broadcom Corporation. Mr. Venner is responsible for all
business system, computing and telecommunications infrastructure.
Mr. Venner has served as Chief Information Officer since joining Broadcom
in August 2000. In February 2002 he was elected a Vice President. Previously,
Mr. Venner was Vice President of Product Management and Chief Information
Officer of Rockwell Electronic Commerce from 1997 to August 2000. Prior
to that, Mr. Venner held a number of information sciences/information
technology management positions for over 11 years at Lucent Technologies/
AT&T Bell Laboratories. Mr. Venner received a B.E. from the Stevens
Institute of Technology, an M.E. from Carnegie Mellon University and an
M.B.A. from New Hampshire College.
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Perry
G. Vincent, Research Scientist, Manageability Architecture, Intel Corporation
Perry G. Vincent is a Research Scientist in the area of Manageability
Architecture for Intel Corporation’s Digital Enterprise Group Architecture
and Planning. Perry’s area of focus is modular and communication
systems management and he supports the Modular and Telco Server product
line of Intel Enterprise Products and Services Division. Perry is a contributing
member of the DMTF Server Management Working Group and is currently editor
of the Command Line Protocol-to-CIM Mapping Specification and several
CIM profile specifications.
In addition to systems and server management, Perry's career covers many
computing disciplines including communication protocol software, system
software integration, multi-processor and distributed systems architecture,
object-oriented design, data modeling, and customer relationship management
applications.
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Fred Wettling, Technology Strategy Manager, Bechtel Corporation & Chairman, Network Applications Consortium
Fred Wettling manages technology standards and strategies for
Bechtel Corporation, one of the world's premier engineering, construction,
and project management companies. His diverse management background spans
most disciplines within IT including enterprise-level architecture, strategy,
application development, networks, and operations. Fred is active within
and outside of Bechtel promoting standards-based technology interoperability
that support global enterprise business needs. He has been active in the
Network Applications Consortium (NAC) since 1997 and has served as the
NAC's chairman for the past three years. His leadership has expanded of
the NAC's Alliance Partnership to include the Distributed Management Task
Force, Open Group, and Liberty Alliance to ensure the “voice of
the enterprise” is clearly heard by vendors and standards organizations.
Network World selected Fred as #19 of the 50 most powerful people in networking
in 2003 and 2004 . Fred is a senior member of Cisco's Technical
Advisory Board.
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Jeffrey
S. Wheeler, Technical-Lead Architect, CTO Office, Cisco Systems
Jeff Wheeler has filled a wide variety of eclectic roles in his
27-year technical career rooted in the network technology world. His detailed
expertise is on wireless, IPV6, OO modeling and middleware, networking
routing protocols and services designs, control plane protocols, and solutions
from an architectural posture including technical content, product and
services creation and deployment. Jeff is active on the technical conference
speaking circuit. Currently Jeff is filling a position as Technical Lead-Architect
in a CTO Office in NMTG at Cisco Systems. Jeff is an active participant
in several standards bodies covering a wide range of technologies. Jeff’s
previous job titles and roles include, among others, Principal Engineer,
Principal Consultant, Chief Scientist, CTO, and Network Architect. Previous
employers include Motorola, Microsoft, PfN, Bay Networks, Nortel, and
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David
Whitinger, Director of Consulting, International Computer Negotiations,
Inc.
Dave Whitinger, ICN’s Director of Consulting, has more
than 35 years of experience in information systems and technology procurement.
Prior to joining ICN, Dave was a Global Commodity Manager for Thomson,
Inc. — a global provider of technology and services for media and
entertainment companies. As a global commodity manager, Dave had worldwide
responsibility for the sourcing strategy and acquisition of software and
services. While at Thomson, he implemented sourcing processes and controls,
and developed and trained a worldwide team. The Thomson software sourcing
team negotiated and managed many complex global deals with leading software
companies. Prior to joining Thomson, Dave was a senior consultant for
ICN where he assisted Fortune 500 companies in negotiating complex technology
deals. During his tenure with ICN, he supported clients in multi-million
dollar domestic and international procurement projects including: hardware
purchases, leasing transactions, software licensing and development, outsourcing,
telecommunications and consulting services. His previous experience includes
Manager of Planning and Controls for AMAX, Inc. where he was responsible
for AMAX’s technology planning, procurement and information security
functions. During his AMAX tenure, Dave was a key member of a data center
consolidation taskforce. In a massive two-year project, multiple data
centers were consolidated into a single site, achieving large-scale efficiencies
and reducing costs by thirty percent. He was instrumental in developing
a robust technology planning function and implemented a disciplined procurement
process to further leverage the company’s technology procurement
activities. In addition, an equipment leasing program was established
with several large lessors to further leverage cost reduction opportunities.
Dave has authored a number of articles on equipment leasing and other
technology procurement topics. He holds an MBA in Finance from Indiana
University’s Kelley Graduate School of Business. He also earned
accreditation as a Certified Technology Procurement Executive.
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Rebecca
Xiong, Datapower
Rebecca Xiong heads product marketing at Datapower. She has years
of experience in product management, product marketing, and development
for high-performance enterprise-grade hardware and software. Previous
to DataPower she has worked at Akamai, Microsoft, SGI, and Xerox. Rebecca
has a PhD in Computer Science from MIT.
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Enterprise Management
World 2005
September 12-14, 2005
Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center,
Bethesda,
Maryland
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"EMW is a great gathering of high-caliber IT talent. When you attend these conferences, you're guaranteed plenty of detailed, useful information, but without the hype, which helps technology professionals stay ahead of important industry trends. Worth every minute"
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