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Andy Zhang |
Andy Zhang is founder of the Capital Area Cloud Computing User Group. He has over 15 years experience in software development and management. He has successfully created many enterprise systems for several Fortune 500 companies. Andy is a technology evangelist, lead application architect, group leader, writer, and speaker. He enjoys helping organizations and individuals accomplish more with a better understanding of software development and IT management. |
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Anton Staykov |
Anton Staykov has over 10 years of solid experience in developing dynamic software solutions (corporate web portals, rich media sites, e-commerce sites, internal software solutions covering specific business needs), using the latest technologies, including Microsoft .NET, MS SQL Server, PHP, MySQL. He is a founder and user group lead for Windows Azure User Group Bulgaria. He’s been technical consultant for the first Balkan’s company to use Windows Azure, adopting the technology since its first public CTP.
You can find his blog at: http://blogs.staykov.net/ |
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Bill Wilder |
Bill Wilder is a Microsoft MVP for Windows Azure and leads the Boston Azure User Group |
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Cheng Zhang |
Cheng Zhang is the Microsoft MVP in WDE since 2008. He graduated from Shanghai Ocean University with bachelor's degree and lives in Shanghai now. He is the specialist in IT infrastructure and masters Windows Server、Directory Service and Virtualization, so he is the lecturer for Microsoft CPLS and always teaches Microsoft course. He is a technique writer too and gets the column in the Chinese famous Microsoft Technology Blog ITECN(blogs.itecn.net), he has published 3 books about Windows and Windows application yet. Besides that, Cheng Zhang is enthusiastic in community, so he is the co-found of Shanghai MCSE ITPro Club(www.mcse.org.cn) and the moderator in Microsoft China Forum(social.microsoft.com/Forums/zh-CN). Now he is the leader of Shanghai MCSE ITPro Club, which is also the organization in GITCA. By his effort, lots of China MVP and MCT give the technique lecture course in livemeeting weekly. Cheng Zhang is also focuses on the Green IT in China now. |
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Corro'll Driskell |
Corro’ll Driskell is Senior Solution Engineer at KnowledgeLake living in the Atlanta Georgia surrounding area. Corro’ll is a recognized thought leader and innovator in the field of Knowledge Management and Collaboration. In his capacity as an, off-book, Presenter and Principal Consultant, Corro’ll leverages his many years of experience to train hundreds of people, in both private and public organizations, on architecting solutions based on various technologies. Corro’ll hold a number of certifications, such as, MCT, MODL, various MCTS, MCTIP: SharePoint 2010, AIIM SharePoint Specialist, AIIM IOA Specialist and AIIM ERM Practitioner. In his current position he focuses on helping organizations improve how they capture and find information using technology and processes. |
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Dana Epp |
Dana Epp researches software security and focuses on strong authentication and identity assurance solutions at Scorpion Software Corp. As a computer security software architect, Dana has spent the last 15 years focusing on software development with a particular emphasis on security engineering.
Dana has been an instructor in the Computer Information Systems department at the University of the Fraser Valley and British Columbia Institute of Technology, teaching students about computer programming and information security. He has brought to market various computer security products including secure operating systems, firewalls, VPNs, authentication devices and intrusion prevention systems (IPS). His latest research has been on identity and access control for Windows environments, focusing on strong authentication for small and midsized business.
Since 2006, Mr. Epp has been honored with the award and distinction as a “Microsoft Windows Security MVP” by Microsoft for his work and expertise in computer and software security. Mr. Epp is the author of “Computer Security Concepts: Managing Business Threats in a Wired World”, a book written to explain at an executive level how to handle the threats of online risk as companies move to the new digital economy, and is the author of the popular security blog “Dana Epp’s Rambling at the Sanctuary”. |
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Charlie Russel |
A chemist by education, an electrician by trade, a UNIX sysadmin and Oracle DBA because he raised his hand when he should have known better, an IT Director and consultant by default, and a writer by choice, Charlie is a STEP speaker and the author of more than 2 dozen computer books on operating systems and enterprise environments. His recent books include Windows Small Business Server 2011 Administrator's Companion(MS Press), Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Administrator's Companion(MS Press), Windows Small Business Server 2008 Administrator's Companion(MS Press), Introducing Windows Server 2008 R2(MS Press), Microsoft Windows XP Resource Kit, 3rd Edition(MS Press), and Oracle DBA Scripting Quick Reference(Prentice-Hall PTR). He has also written numerous white papers and case studies on Microsoft.com. |
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Dave O'Leary |
Dave O’Leary I.S.P., ITCP/IP3P
As an educator Dave led development of innovative programming such as the Aboriginal Financial Management program and the Network Specialist Program at Capilano College where he also taught business and developed the department’s Cooperative Education program. In 2002 he was awarded the Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) National Leadership Excellence Award. He is past president of the Association for Cooperative Education for British Columbia and the Yukon. Dave is currently the CIO and Dean of Computer and Business Technology at Northwest Community College in British Columbia.
Dave is co-founder (2000) and director of an ISV computer technology business and mentor to a number of successful start-up ventures. He recently completed a term as a National Director of the Canadian Information Processing Society (CIPS), and currently sits as a Director of the British Columbia Board of CIPS. He serves as a task force member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); is a Director of the Board of the Information & Communications Technology Council (ICTC) and chair of the Canadian National Council of Deans of Information Technology serving in an advisory capacity to the ACM and a user group leader for GITCA in this role. Dave has served as a panel member in a number of Microsoft Canada webcasts. In July 2007 he presented an invited paper on the impact of educational technology on management strategies of higher education institutions at the International Conference on Higher Vocational Education in Qingdao, China. |
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Terrie McAloney |
Terrie has been involved in adult education since 1976 - college instructor, assessment coordinator, program administrator, instructor-trainer, online curriculum developer, education technology and collaborative developer of programs and services. Terrie is a recipient of the Support and Service Award, one of the Innovation Awards in Education Technology for the British Columbia, Canada, Public Postsecondary System. As a leader, Terrie was instrumental in creating a collaborative of fourteen institutions from around BC in developing and delivering a totally online program for Applied Business Technology. Using this same model, Terrie,
coordinated four institutions in the development and delivery the Information Computer Technology online diploma. Both programs use Cloud based shared services applications in delivery. Over the last ten years she lead the development of shared services for post-secondary education in BC through BCcampus including learning management systems, web conferencing, and student data exchange. Currently, Terrie is working on the development of two services for students; CoursesBC.ca and MyCreditsBC.ca both delivered in the cloud. |
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David Nudelman |
David Nudelman is a Senior Microsoft Consultant at Ultima Business Solutions, based in Reading, UK. He is a member of the Springboard Series Technical Expert Panel and a Microsoft MVP on the Windows Expert - IT Pro category. David is a international speaker and organized the Springboard Series Tour i2011 in Spain and Portugal. |
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Dr. Doug Terry |
Doug Terry is a Principal Researcher in the Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Lab. His research focuses on the design and implementation of distributed systems with an emphasis on cloud data services, replication, ubiquitous computing, and mobility. He serves on the Council of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and as Chair of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS). Prior to joining Microsoft, Doug was the co-founder and CTO of a start-up company named Cogenia, Chief Scientist of the Computer Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC, and an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Division at U. C. Berkeley, where he regularly teaches a graduate course on distributed systems. Dr. Terry has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from U. C. Berkeley, a B.A. from U. C. San Diego, and is an ACM Fellow. |
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Felipe Zuñiga |
Líder de ITGroup Chile ubicado en La Serena, Chile (2 ½ años), ha logrado dirigir su grupo desde Santiago de Chile por mas de un año y crear eventos de calidad además de estar poniendo en marcha varios grupos de estudio. Comenzó su carrera en TI como hobby, mientras estaba en la Armada de Chile hace 10 años. Hoy da capacitación a pequeñas y medianas empresas. Es activo no solo en su grupo de usuarios, sino también en los grupos locales de Chile. Es uno de los coordinadores de un movimiento en Chile para reactivar los grupos de usuarios de la región que han visto una gran disminución en la participación en el último año. |
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Gonzalo Balladares R. |
Gonzalo Balladares Rivera is Exchange MVP since 2008, has certifications in Exchange 2003, 2007 y 2010, Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V. Works as Technology Manager at Activetrainer.cl and is technical consultant for some Non Profit Organizatioin in his Country, Chile. Is one of the leaders of the G.L.U.E. (Grupo Latinoamericano de Usuarios de Exchange, Latin American User groups of Exchange - www.msglue.org) has taught conferences mostly about MS Exchange and Server Virtualization and right now he divides his time between his family, work and his last year of CS Engineering. |
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Greg Edwards |
I am an multimedia developer for a national health-care management company. I am a Microsoft and CompTIA-certified software instructor with over 15 years experience. I am currently in my second year as Microsoft MVP in Windows Live. I am a technophile, media junkie, and gadget geek who enjoys using technology (especially Microsoft solutions) to enhance and simplify my life. I live in Knoxville, TN, with my wife and two kids. |
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J. Trevor Hughes |
J. Trevor Hughes, CIPP, is the President and CEO of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). In this role, Hughes leads the world’s largest association of privacy professionals.
Hughes is an experienced attorney in privacy, technology and marketing law. He has provided testimony before the U.S. Congress Commerce Committee, the Senate Commerce Committee, the Federal Trade Commission, the Home Affairs Committee of the British Parliament and the EU Parliament on issues of privacy, surveillance, spam and privacy-sensitive technologies. He is a member of the first class of Certified Information Privacy Professionals (CIPP) and recently completed, with co-author Reed Freeman, Privacy Law in Marketing, published by CCH.
Hughes has previously served as the executive director of the Network Advertising Initiative, a leading online privacy trade association, and the Email Sender and Provider Coalition, a trade association working on e-mail policy and practices. Prior to these roles, Hughes was director of privacy and corporate counsel for Engage, a leading online media and software company. Before that, Hughes worked as corporate counsel for UnumProvident, where he focused on legal issues associated with advertising and online insurance transactions.
Hughes is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Maine School of Law and has lectured on privacy at Harvard, MIT, the London School of Economics, Boston College Law School, Georgetown University and Northeastern University. He is a frequent speaker on privacy issues at conferences around the world. Hughes has been featured on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition”, the PBS “Nightly Business Report”, BBC Radio, and in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, PCWorld, Washington Post, Boston Globe and Business Week.
Hughes also has significant experience as a media official at the 1994 World Cup, 1996 Olympics and the 1999 Women's World Cup. A native of Canada, Hughes holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Massachusetts and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Maine School of Law. |
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Jayson Ferron |
Jayson Ferron
CEHI, CWSP, CISSP, MCP, MCDBA, MCITP, MCSE, MCT, NSA-IAM,
Security Practice Lead -Global Knowledge. Jay’s work includes E-commerce, VPN work, security audit, workflow process, training, windows and Linux enterprise designs. Jay works on various projects that include training, Windows, Linux and UNIX security designs, network infrastructures, enterprise designs and installations. Jay's specializes in operating systems, deployment, Virtualization, Security and high performance computing
As a speaker Jay has presented at many user groups, APCUG events, Comdex, ISPCON, TechEd, WPC and Web 2.0. Jay is a Board member of GITICA. |
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Jesús Enrique Gonzales Azcarate |
Currently I've been working in Licencias On Line Peru how Microsoft Technical Specialist Platform, I have the certifications MCT, MCITP, MCTS. Member of Microsoft Influencer in Peru and a speaker at Microsoft events for ITPRO's and Microsoft TechNet Latinoamerica. |
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Jim Reavis |
For many years, Jim Reavis has worked in the information security industry as an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, technologist and business strategist. Jim's innovative thinking about emerging security trends have been published and presented widely throughout the industry and have influenced many. Jim is helping shape the future of information security as co-founder, executive director and driving force of the Cloud Security Alliance. Jim was recently named as one of the Top 10 cloud computing leaders by SearchCloudComputing.com.
Jim is the President of Reavis Consulting Group, LLC, where he advises security companies, large enterprises and other organizations on the implications of new trends such as Cloud and how to take advantage of them.
Jim has previously been an international board member of the ISSA, a global not for profit association of information security professionals and formerly served as the association's Executive Director. Jim was a co-founder of the Alliance for Enterprise Security Risk Management, a partnership between the ISSA, ISACA and ASIS, formed to address the enterprise risk issues associated with the convergence of logical and traditional security. Jim currently serves in an advisory capacity for many of the industry's most successful companies. Jim is also a partner with the MetroSITE Group.
Jim founded SecurityPortal in 1998 and has been an advisor on the launch of many industry ventures. Jim is widely quoted in the press and has worked with hundreds of corporations on their information security strategy and technology roadmap. Jim has a background in networking technologies, marketing, product management and systems integration. Jim received a B.A. in Business Administration / Computer Science from Western Washington University in 1987 and serves on WWU's alumni board. |
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Karl W. Palachuk |
Karl W. Palachuk owns a technology consulting firm in Sacramento, California. He is also the host of the "Cloud Services Roundtable" podcast series. He is author of eight books, including The Network Migration Workbook and Service Agreements for SMB Consultants. He has been a Microsoft Hands-On Lab instructor and is a popular speaker at technical events.
His very popular "Small Biz Thoughts" blog provides advice for Small Business owners and managers in the SMB space. His book Managed Services in a Month was the number one hit for Managed Services on Amazon for all of 2010.
Karl’s companies have been operating 100% in the cloud for more than 18 months and 90% in the cloud for four years. In addition to managed services, Karl is developing new cloud-based services for clients all over the United States.
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Marcondes Alexandre |
MCT, MCTIP - Enterprise Support Technician e Database Administrator, MCTS - Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist SQL Server 2005 e 2008 / Windows Vista - Configuration. Board Ineta Br e Board VirtualPASS Br. |
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Martin Schmidt |
Martin has a dream, that one day he will wake up and the whole world will speak in the same language. That language is T-SQL. Martin has extensive experience in regular DBA tasks but making systems run and doing day to day maintanance is just to trivial for a SQL Server rockstar like Martin, thats why he enjoys making things go fast, Martin's specialities includes working with optimizing ETL flows, increasing backup speed and of course statement tuning! Martin works with a wide range of some of the largest coorperations in Denmark with various SQL tasks mostly focused around performance and high availability. |
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Miguel López |
Miguel López, director of Cloud Computing at Solid Quality Mentors Spain & Portugal. With a broad IT expertise of more than 13 years, tied to Microsoft technologies, has been Visual Basic developer, analyst, consultant and trainer in workflow technologies, Registration and Document Management (Documentum EDM Server) for public administration and has led projects R & D of great importance to Spanish companies and organizations. Professor in the UCLM’s Master of Internet Technology since 2003, sharing teaching as a professor of EOI Business School in information technology for the internationalization of enterprises. In the section on communities has created and coordinated the group of users CLMNET in Castilla-La Mancha and is currently Vice President of Marketing of the European association of .NET Professionals, INETA Europe. His wide experience is accompanied by a long list of publications ranging from two books with Anaya Multimedia (Practical Guide to Expression Web as an author and Practical Guide to Windows Server 2008 R2 as a technical reviewer) to publications in specialized magazines (Dintel in the public sector, Cuore of the Oracle User Community and DotNetMania Spain). He has participated as a speaker at user group events in Tech•Ed 2010, and in different Spanish cities with talks about . NET Web services in Spain, Argentina, Chile and Romania; he has participated as well in Microsoft’s National & International events and publish a course with MSDN on Microsoft Expression Web.
Certifications: MCP, MCTS (Web Development .NET Framework 2.0), MCPD (Web Development) |
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Neil Simon |
Neil Simon is a software engineer and computer scientist who was recently picked by Microsoft to partake in the Career Factor reality program. He has significant experience of high performance computing and is rapidly becoming an expert in Windows Azure |
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Razi bin rais |
Razi bin Rais is Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP, MCT, MCPD SharePoint 2010 Developer and MCITP SharePoint Administrator 2010. Razi has extensive experience in designing, implementing and supporting enterprise solutions using Microsoft SharePoint Product & Technologies. Razi has authored numerous articles published online and also worked with Microsoft MSL as a SME on several SharePoint 2010 courses. Razi is also a speaker for INETA and GITCA, and had led many sessions in several industry trade show conferences including the SharePoint Conference SEA 2010, Microsoft TechDays, ISV innovation Days, Community Technology Updates and SharePoint Saturdays. Razi blogs at http://razirais.wordpress.com , tweets @razibinrais and can be reached at razibinrais@live.com |
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Reza Ameri |
Group Leader & Founder of Computer Security Force, which is Microsoft Community that focus on Microsoft Security Technology. Also been involved in Microsoft products such as Microsoft Forefront and Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and 9 |
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Rodrigo Pinto |
With 12 years of experience in Software Engineering & Architecture,Rodrigo Pinto
is the SharePoint Specialist, Evangelist at Indra. Responsible for the
SharePoint area tends to use innovation in creating new solutions and
development strategies. Love the idea by and for the Community . Started the SharePoint Portuguese UserGroup and most recently, received the SharePoint MVP award from Microsoft |
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Seb Matthews |
Seb is an industry veteran with 20 years of hands-on technical experience in the information technology industry.
With experience in the 3 core areas of application delivery; networks, servers and software the evolution of the Cloud has enabled Seb to finally bring all three disciplines together keeping him occupied on a full-time basis.
Currently working solely with Microsoft Technologies, Seb is the Chief Technology Officer of AdeoServe an innovative Cloud Service Provider specialising in delivery of Microsoft SharePoint solutions in cloud and hosted contexts. |
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Swanand Pol |
Has spoken on cloud topics like Windows Azure, Office 365, ASP.NET Migration To Windows Azure, Appfabric, Introduction to BPOS at Microsoft Nashik User Group events. |
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Tomica Kaniski |
Tomica Kaniski is Microsoft MVP for Management Infrastructure, currently working as Tech Lead in Microsoft Innovation Center Varazdin, Croatia. Among other things, he i also IT Pro user group Varazdin/Cakovec Lead, community speaker, and Microsoft Student Partners Lead for Varazdin county. In his free time, he likes to explore the newest Microsoft technologies in his small lab. With all that, he currently holds a „bunch“ of Microsoft certificates. He likes to read a good book from time to time… |
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