Speakers
speakers are subject to change without notice
Microsoft Speakers:
David Chow (keynote)
David Chow is the Director of Product Management for Office 365. He is responsible for driving Microsoft's business productivity cloud offering. David has over 15 years of experience in the technology product space in various technical product management roles. Before joining Microsoft, David was at Deloitte Consulting and was responsible for a number of large scale information technology transformation projects. David holds a MBA from Kellogg's School of Management and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles.
Richard Ruiz (st105)
Richard Ruiz is an author and virtualization specialist at Microsoft. His primary focus currently is in desktop virtualization technologies such as Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with Hyper-V, Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (MED-V), and Microsoft Application Virtualization. His greatest interest is helping customers understand the how to manage these new enabling technologies and scaling them up to global enterprise deployments. Richard's latest publication is the Sybex book Mastering Microsoft Virtualization.
Brian Prince (cld103)
Expect Brian to get (in his own words) "super excited" whenever he talks about technology, especially cloud computing, patterns, and practices. That's a good thing, given that his job is to help customers strategically leverage Microsoft technologies and take their architecture to new heights. Before joining Microsoft in March 2008, Brian was senior director of technology strategy for a major Midwest partner and has over 13 years of expertise in information technology management. His consulting experience includes e-commerce, extranets and business technology for numerous industries, including real estate, financial services, health care, retail, and state government institutions. Brian's the co-founder of the non-profit organization CodeMash (www.codemash.org), runs the global Windows Azure Boot Camp program, and speaks at various regional and international technology events. Brian is the co-author of "Azure in Action", published by Manning Press.
Patrick O'Horo (off103)
Patrick O'Horo is a Senior Technical Specialist for Office 365 at Microsoft. Patrick is responsible for supporting Microsoft's customers and partners adopt, develop, and deploy solutions based on Office 365 by providing strategic technical leadership in the Desert/Rocky Mountain district. While at Microsoft, Patrick previous held the role of Enterprise Identity Management and Messaging Architect in Microsoft Services. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2007, Patrick was the Chief Technical Architect and Director of Identity Management and Unified Communications for an Award-Winning Microsoft Gold partner based in Tempe, Arizona. Patrick is a veteran of the U.S. Navy and has over 13 years of experience in technology architecture.
Ricardo Villalobos (pre102)
Ricardo is a seasoned software architect, with over 15 years of experience designing and creating applications for companies in the Supply Chain Management industry, particularly wholesale distributors and manufacturers. In the early years of his career, acting as the MIS for one of the largest auto-part distributors in Latin America, he coordinated the technology efforts to successfully manage a revenue increase of almost 800% in less than one year, as well as the implementation of a cost-effective nationwide ERP system, taking advantage of Internet and Intranet platforms that were barely known at the time. He continued to introduce these concepts to different companies as an external consultant, designing and coordinating the deployment one of the first e-commerce websites for the largest transportation company in central Mexico. Eventually, his efforts and technical skills took him to lead the eBusiness and architecture development teams of different software companies in the United States, including the third largest ERP vendor in the world. Before joining Microsoft, he held a position as the Manager of Software Architecture for Accellos, Inc., a supply chain management software company recently considered a visionary in the Gartner "magic quadrant", thanks to the use of a rich and flexible user interface platform based on Microsoft Silverlight, as well as a layered architecture fully compatible with on-premise and cloud computing deployment models, including Windows Azure.
Toni Bollinger, Microsoft (st104)
Toni Bollinger is the Windows Intune Business Development manager for the West Region. She has been with Microsoft for 6 years and has held positions in the mobile solutions segment for Microsoft and Hewlett Packard previously. With the advent of cloud computing and the exciting opportunities offerings like Intune, Azure and Office 365 offer – the move to Intune has proven to be an exciting time for her partners and customers.
John Sanderson, Microsoft (cld101)
John Sanderson joined Microsoft in 2005 and has worked in Developer & Platform Evangelism as a Visual Studio Developer Tools Specialist and currently as the Windows Azure Cloud Solution Specialist covering the Southwest. John has been a featured speaker at a variety of industry events and has become a fairly common presenter in the hotel and hospitality field, known for his "Demystifying the Cloud" discussions. Before joining Microsoft, John was the founder of TechServices, an advanced technology training & consulting business in Indiana. Today, John and his family live in Granby, Colorado, two hours northeast of Denver, near the Winter Park ski resort.
Harold Wong, Microsoft (pri104, pri105)
Harold Wong has been with Microsoft for over 12 years. Harold started as a pre-sales Systems Engineer focused on Exchange Server but has been an IT Pro Evangelist since July of 2004. Although Harold is a generalist across most Microsoft Infrastructure Servers, he has been focused on the Unified Communications area (Exchange Server and Office Communications Server / Lync Server) for quite some time. Another focus area for Harold has been “Cloud” computing and helping IT Pros better understand the role of Cloud Computing. Outside of work, Harold enjoys spending time with his family, finding and eating great sushi and playing Xbox Live (Halo Reach mostly).
Andy Tremba, Microsoft (lab103, lab104)
Andy Tremba is the Productivity Solutions Specialist for the CAM segment in the Desert Mountain area of the Microsoft Southwest District. He is responsible for approximately $60M in revenue from the Corporate Account market segment and interacts with customers in a variety of markets including; healthcare/life sciences, manufacturing, and financial services. Tremba is responsible for products in the Microsoft Business Productivity stack, including Office, Sharepoint, Lync, and Exchange. He works with customers across 4 main geographies, Denver, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Salt Lake City. He spends time understanding his customers' business challenges and needs and helps create technology solutions that will solve them.
Dominic Aguilar, Microsoft (lab103, lab104)
Dominic Aguilar has worked for Microsoft going on 6 years, but Dom has worked in the industry for over 30 years and has worked for small companies and fortune 100 Companies. Dom is a Partner Technology Advisor for Microsoft's mid-market group in the Desert-Mountain area. He and his team are devoted to enabling small and mid-size businesses to compete and succeed through the use of Microsoft software.
Bernardo Zamora, Microsoft (st102)
Bernardo Zamora is Group Product Manager in SQL Server Marketing. He has worked for more than 20 years in enterprise technology, and has worked in Microsoft as a compete lead, business manager, SAP partner SQL Server lead, and currently is driving the product planning for SQL Server Appliances. Previous to joining Microsoft, he was the IT director for a $2B dollar conglomerate in Latin America, founded an internet consulting firm, and worked for Booz Allen & Hamilton for 8 years in the information technology practice. He holds a Systems Engineering degree from ITESM, graduating summa cum laude, as well as an MBA from Stanford University. Mr. Zamora enjoys hiking in the pacific northwest, traveling to remote places, photography, and Indian dinners with his family.
Marcus Hass, Microsoft (lab105)
Marcus is a Principal Service Engineer for the Office 365 Deployment Solutions Group. He works with MCS, partners and customers to help ensure the Deployment Issues regarding Office 365 are identified early in the sales cycle so that customers know what it will take to get to the cloud. Marcus has been with Microsoft since 2000 when he joined the Microsoft Telecom Practice as a Consultant. He was in Microsoft Consulting Services for 11 years and has worked with customers such as American Airlines, Weatherford, Comcast, Deutsche Telekom, Xbox Live, Qwest, Verizon Business, Charter Communications, Echostar and Dish Network. In May 2011 he moved to the Office Product team focusing on Office 365 deployments. Marcus Lives in the Denver, Colorado area with his wife and 2 kids. He holds several certifications such as Novell CNA, Citrix Administrator, ITIL Foundations, and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.
Invited Cloud Speakers:
Dux Raymond Sy, MVP PMP (off104)
With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management, Dux has earned a reputation as among the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), he is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, a Microsoft Gold Partner focused on leading, inspiring and being the catalyst of organizational transformation that enables clients to achieve tangible business result. As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, he is the author of "SharePoint for Project Management" published by O’Reilly Media. A sought after speaker, Dux has presented in various Microsoft and Project Management Institute (PMI) events worldwide. He regularly blogs on topics related to project management, SharePoint and globalization at MeetDux.com.
Phil Wicklund, Author (pre101, off105)
Phil Wicklund is the author of Deploying Cloud-based Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Solutions by Microsoft Press, as well as SharePoint 2010 Workflows in Action by Manning Publications. He has over 7 years of SharePoint experience and is a frequent blogger, speaker, and author around SharePoint products and technologies. He started working with SharePoint back in 2003 and has since architected and administered many dozens of corporate SharePoint environments. He started as a SharePoint development instructor and has since moved into consulting with RBA Consulting, where he shares real-world insights and in-depth best practices with his clients.
Juan Larios, MVP (azr103)
Juan is the SharePoint Architect with Brightstarr– A Microsoft SharePoint MVP, Juan is an experienced SharePoint developer and educator. Development skills range from Developing State Machine and Sequential Workflows , Web Parts, asp.net pages , Master Pages, CSS, Event Receivers, Custom Site Definitions, WCF Services, Web services and many more. His experience and skill set are an advantage to any team and project. Juan has worked with a diverse set of technologies that in same way or another tie into SharePoint. Juan has a passion for Design, Architecture, Software Engineering Principles and Methodologies. He frequently serves as a strategic advisor, architect and mentor on key client projects. Juan is also a co-founder of the Winnipeg SharePoint User Group.
@juan_larios
Brett Hill, MVP (off101)
Brett Hill, an Office 365 MVP, develops high-impact, relevant, actionable training on Office 365 for end users, professionals, companies, and Microsoft Partners. Brett currently is authoring a book on Office 365 for Microsoft Press, scheduled for availability August 2011. His blog, Office365Answers.com, is quickly becoming a trusted resource for Office 365 advice and guidance.
Sponsor Speakers and Subject Matter Experts:
Jason Carolan, ViaWest (cld102)
Jason Carolan is Vice President of Product Development at ViaWest Inc. Prior to joining ViaWest, Jason was Director of Cloud Solution Engineering at VMware where he was responsible for reference architectures for cloud data center solutions in service provider and hybrid cloud markets. Jason spent 11 years at Sun Microsystems, where he was a Distinguished Engineer in network and systems architecture and Director of Technical Initiatives for Global Sales and Services. He led Sun's field community of experts (COE) in cloud computing and a team of cross-functional experts in data center architectures. He was a lead author or contributor to several recent publications, including "Sun's Data Center Design Guide", several cloud architecture whitepapers, and one of the first books highlighting the combined use of virtualization and automation, "Building N1 Grid Solutions" in 2004. He's also held several startup, financial services, and healthcare technology roles. Jason speaks at many industry events including Interop, Technology Services World, JavaONE, and others. Jason has several patents (some pending) in networking, data center resource management, virtualization, and security. He also contributes to various open source projects in cloud and virtualization management. Jason lives in Denver, Colorado with his family and is an avid cyclist and runner when time and life permits. His blog is http://archmatters.wordpress.com.
Jim Surlow, ViaWest (st100)
Jim Surlow is a Principal Storage Architect for Viawest. He has been doing system or storage architecture for the last 8 years of his 25 years of IT experience. In the architecture role, he has been involved with disaster recovery planning for 6 of those years. He also recently completed his MBA with an emphasis in Finance from the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado.
Sean McNeill, Catapult Systems (off102)
Sean McNeill is a Managing Consultant with Catapult Systems. Sean has over 15 years of professional experience with the last 11 in Microsoft Infrastructure technologies. His primary areas of expertise are Windows Server, Microsoft Active Directory, DNS, Exchange 2007/2010, PowerShell and virtualization with Hyper-V. Sean is also the Office 365 Technical Evangelist for Catapult Systems; in this role he is responsible for all things Office 365. Sean has done numerous Microsoft Infrastructure assessments, Active Directory domain consolidations and migrations and Exchange 200x to Exchange 2010 migrations. He has worked with Microsoft Online services over the past three years with BPOS and now Office 365. Clients that Sean has worked with range from small 50 seat organizations to large companies with over 10,000 seats worldwide. Sean currently holds two MCITP certifications and six MCTS certifications.
Jake Horn, Pariveda Solutions (st101)
Jake Horn has 13 years of technology and management experience spanning industries such as financial, insurance, construction, internet, manufacturing, distribution, and energy. He is experienced in enterprise CRM solution implementation, business analysis, project management, team leadership. He is also capable at designing, developing, and implementing custom software solutions. Jake is specialized in enterprise-level CRM implementation and possesses knowledge and experience in all stages of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). He currently leads the global CRM consulting practice at Pariveda Solutions and has given multiple talks on Microsoft CRM and CRM implementation.
Gina Montgomery, Fpweb.net (spo104)
Gina Montgomery enjoys traveling to speak and blog about Fpweb.net's hosted SharePoint solutions. As a SharePoint Architect, she's responsible for developing and managing new relationships while helping her customers envision and architect SharePoint farm deployments. By captivating audiences with engaging material related to their SharePoint interests, Gina shares key takeaways and actionable items to challenge each participant to put their new knowledge to work.
Mike Erickson, Neudesic (azr105)
Mike Erickson has worked professionally in the technology industry for the past 21 years. He has worked on many different platforms and with many programming languages. He has focused mostly on Microsoft tools and technologies for the past 14 years and holds several Microsoft certifications. He has worked as a consultant, architect and trainer for the past 12 years. He has worked in various industries for clients both throughout the United States and internationally. Mike started the Salt Lake City Azure User Group in January 2009 and continues to lead the group today. He currently works for Neudesic as a Principal Consultant.
David Pallmann, MVP Neudesic (azr101, st103)
David Pallmann is a Windows Azure MVP and author of the upcoming book, The Azure Handbook. He is GM of the App Dev practice at Neudesic, a national Microsoft SI partner, where he leads technical readiness, IP development, and business development for the Windows Azure platform.
Shawn Beeson, RBA Consulting (spo101)
Shawn Beeson is the Principal Consultant in the Portals and Collaboration practice with RBA Consulting in Denver and has expertise in all facets of SharePoint with a strong emphasis on architecting and delivering highly customized, highly usable solutions built on the SharePoint platform. Shawn has worked in IT for the past 12 years and as an IT consultant for the last 6. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer in ASP.NET and SharePoint 2010 Development, a Certified Technical Specialist in SharePoint 2010, MOSS and WSS Configuration and also a Certified Scrum Master. Most recently, Shawn worked as a member of the Patterns & Practices team at Microsoft developing the Version 3.0 of the SharePoint Guidance.
Faraz Khan, RBA Consulting (spo103)
Faraz Khan is a Senior Consultant in the Portals and Collaboration practice with RBA Consulting in Denver. Faraz has been working on SharePoint since the 2003 release and has been an integral part of several enterprise (intranet, extranet, internet) implementations of SharePoint and has experience with the complete feature set. Faraz has worked in IT for the past 7 years and has been consulting since 2008. He is a Certified Technical Specialist in SharePoint 2010 configuration and a Virtual TS. Faraz was on the advisory board of the Patterns and Practices group at Microsoft, which has been developing new versions of the SharePoint guidance for developers every few months. Faraz has also been a speaker at the last two SharePoint Fest conferences in Denver, Colorado. Most recently, Faraz co-authored a book on Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Deploying Cloud-Based Solutions.
Adam Grocholski, MVP RBA Consulting (azr104)
Adam Grocholski is a National Solutions Lead at RBA Consulting where he focuses on the Windows Azure and Windows Phone platforms. In 2011 Adam worked in cooperation with Microsoft to deliver 12 two day Windows Azure Boot Camps across the country. In 2010 he was selected as a Microsoft MVP for his contributions to the development community including speaking at local .NET and Silverlight user groups along with code camps and a number local, regional, and national conferences. Put simply, Adam is committed to building a great community of well-educated Microsoft developers. When not working he enjoys spending time with his three awesome daughters and amazing wife. You can catch up with his latest projects and thoughts on technology at http://thinkfirstcodelater.com.
Seth Crichton, RBA Consulting (spo103)
Seth Crichton is the Principal Consultant in the Application Development practice with RBA Consulting in Denver. Seth has been developing and architecting enterprise applications for 15 years, and has worked with the Azure platform since its inception in 2009. Seth is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer and Virtual Technical Specialist, and is one of the founding members of the Denver Azure User Group.
Mark Turner, Avanade (azr102)
Mark Turner is currently a Senior Director at Avanade and oversees Azure for the Americas. He identifies and shapes cloud opportunities while overseeing onshore and offshore resources for final delivery. Previously he has been the Director of IT for Synovus Financial Corporation (a $32B bank holding company) where he managed Enterprise Architecture, Application Development, Quality Assurance and Configuration Management which covered banking, mortgage, brokerage and trust companies within Synovus. He spent a few years exercising his entrepreneurial spirit starting up medical software and medical manufacturing businesses. Prior to starting the medical companies he lead all customer engagements and sales on the east coast for a small ($300M) boutique Business Intelligence company where he worked closely with the consultant and sales staff. He has many years' experience working his way up from IBM Mainframes to Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) that process millions of transactions a day for mobile technologies. Mark is a graduate of Florida International University in Miami, FL.
Dustin Smith, MVP Slalom Consulting (pri103)
Dustin Smith, is a Practice Area Lead at Slalom Consulting as well as a Microsoft Certified Master for Exchange Server. Dustin has been a long time Exchange Server MVP since 1997 and has over 14 years of experience with Microsoft infrastructure technologies such as Exchange, Office 365, Windows Server, Lync Server, Hyper-V, and System Center. Prior to Slalom Consulting, Dustin was a Global Microsoft Solutions lead for EMC Corporation where he led creation of proven solutions program with EMC storage technologies and Microsoft infrastructure technologies. Dustin has been a frequent speaker at conferences such as EMC World, TechEd, and Windows/Exchange Connections and is also a lead for the Rocky Mountain Microsoft UC Users Group.
Stephen Cawood, MVP Metalogix (spo105)
Stephen Cawood is a former Microsoft Program Manager on the MCMS and SharePoint product teams. Stephen has been with Metalogix for a number of years, and as Chief SharePoint Evangelist, he has played a major role in community activities. He maintains the popular blog Geek Literature, and is a published author of several works, including How to Do Everything: SharePoint 2010, which has been dubbed a “must-have” for SharePoint users. Stephen is a Microsoft SharePoint MVP and is currently the Director of Product Marketing at Metalogix.
Ron Robbins, Quest Software (cld105)
Ron Robbins is a product manager at Quest Software, where he is responsible for guiding the direction of Quest's migration solutions for messaging and Active Directory and provides assistance to Quest's customers and strategic partners. Ron has over 15 years of experience in IT and has authored several white papers and articles covering the topics of Exchange migration and management. Prior to joining Quest Ron provided IT support and consulting services to many different organizations including fortune 500 companies. Ron holds a bachelor's degree from Mount Vernon Nazarene University.
@ron_robbins
Seth Weddon, Statera (cld104)
Based in Denver, Seth is the local practice lead for Statera’s SharePoint Practice with a focus on solution strategy through project delivery. Seth is a SharePoint 2010 MCITP and certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) with over fifteen years of business and information technology consulting experience. He has managed SharePoint projects in multiple industries and disciplines and has worked extensively for numerous Fortune 500 clients.
J.B. Holston, NewsGator (cld104)
J.B. has run a wide range of technology and media enterprises over the last two decades. As President of Ziff Davis International, Holston managed Ziff Davis' operations across more than 100 countries, and launched Yahoo! Europe. He was part of the senior management team that led the successful LBO of ZD by Forstmann, Little, and subsequent sale to Softbank. Since selling his last technology start-up, Holston has helped create a wide range of for-profit and not-for-profit entities. Holston's career has included senior posts with GE, NBC and the Boston Consulting Group. He received his BA and MBA from Stanford University.
Chris Riley, CloudShare (spo102)
Product Manager and Evangelist at CloudShare, Chris Riley is a pure Technologist and recognized industry expert in document recognition, ECM, Cloud Computing, and analytics technologies. Chris lives and breathes technology and has been helping companies buy, use, and optimize advanced technologies given their business process and use case. Chris's focus on market education has helped expose underlying problems in the acquisition and use of advanced technology and has helped both end-users and vendors mitigate the challenges to achieving ultimate success. Riley has 12 year's experience in this arena, owned three software companies, and obtained several technology and business awards. He has degrees in Business Administration, Computer Science, and Mathematics, and holds certifications from the enterprise content management (ECM) trade organization AIIM as "Enterprise Content Management Practitioner (ECMp)", "Information, Organization, and Access Practitioner (IOAp)" and "Capture Practitioner". Mr. Riley is a sought after speaker, and educator throughout the content gathering and delivery space.
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