| |
Keynote Speakers
|
Ken Muir
Novell – The Director of Engineering for GroupWise
Ken Muir is the Director of Engineering at Novell for GroupWise. Ken joined Novell in 1995 after graduating with honors from the University of Utah with degrees in both Electrical and Computer Engineering. As an Engineer, Ken worked on AppWare, NWAdmin, ConsoleOne and other various eDir management utilities. In 1997 he joined the ZENworks team where he became a lead engineer on the ZENworks for Servers product. In 2001 Ken joined the ZENworks management team running the ZENworks for Servers product and then as a Senior Manager working with additional components of ZENworks including leading the release of ZENworks Linux Management 7. In July of 2005, Ken was thrilled to have the opportunity to work with the GroupWise team as the new Director of Engineering. His responsibilities include all areas of development, testing and maintenance of GroupWise. |
 |
|
Richard Bliss
GWAVA-Vice President, Marketing USA
Richard Bliss has been actively involved in the messaging industry since 1989. Prior to joining GWAVA, Richard was the Director of Marketing for Novell GroupWise, a position in which he was responsible for communicating Novell's vision for its GroupWise and collaboration products. He has been the VP of Marketing for companies such as Allegro (mail.com)-a leading U.S. provider of corporate e-mail management solutions-and Sigaba, an email security company. He has written numerous articles and spoken at a host of seminars, conferences and conventions on messaging, outsourcing and e-mail security. He has also appeared in numerous magazine interviews as well as appearing on CNN. |
 |
|
Jesse Boudreau
Vice President of BlackBerry Software
Jesse Boudreau is Vice-President of BlackBerry Software with Research In Motion (RIM) Limited, operating out of the company's Ottawa, Canada office. His development team is responsible for RIM's BlackBerry Enterprise Server for GroupWise, the BlackBerry Connect program as well all software for RIM's new BlackBerry Maps application. Jesse joined RIM in 2004 after the company acquired technology from his firm MobileStash, a publisher of mobile messaging software supporting GroupWise. |
 |
|
Aaron Stuart
Product Manager at Research In Motion (RIM)
Aaron Stuart is a Product Manager at Research In Motion (RIM), a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the mobile communications market. RIM provides solutions for secure, seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, calendar, instant messaging, and applications. Aaron holds degrees in computer science, business admin and a masters of business admin. He joined RIM in 2004 where he's currently responsible for planning and bringing to market server-based products for the BlackBerry-based corporate mobile enterprise solutions. Prior to joining RIM, Aaron worked in high tech for over 5 years, holding lead positions in software development with key companies leading the telecommunications industry. |
 |
|
Novell Speakers
|
Mary Matthews
Senior Systems Engineer, Novell * Calvin College
Consulting Engineer * Exceed Consulting
VP and Past-President, West Michigan Novell Users Group (WMNUG)
Having started very young, Mary has been working in IT for more than 30 years starting as a programmer and crossing over into networks with Novell way back in 1985. In addition to her MCNE, she holds a variety of vendor certifications and a BSIS from California State Polytechnic University at Pomona.. Her role at Calvin College is the daily oversight and future planning for all things "Novell " and is the primary administrator for the GroupWise domain. She also works part time as a consultant for Exceed Consulting to continue to meet the needs of clients from her former consulting engagements. Mary has worked across all industries, in a variety of IT functions, specializing in health care, education, and non-profit organizations. She is very active with the local NUI group, which is small but well known for doing "big things", and continues to be the driving force behind the group's annual big event. |
 |
|
Dan Bulkley
Dan Bulkley is the IS&T Manager for Novell's internal Messaging and ZENworks services. He started out his IT career with WordPerfect in 1988. Dan has been a IT manager 17 years and has worked with the GroupWise engineering and product management teams since these products were first released. He started the "Eat your own dog food " campaign at WordPerfect in 1993 and has kept with this effort going at Novell. |
 |
|
Steve Whitehouse
Steve Whitehouse is currently the systems architect for Novell's IS&T Messaging Services Team. He has worked on the IS&T Messaging Services Team for the last nine years. Steve works closely with the Novell GroupWise engineering product management and engineering teams in reviewing and deploying products for use at Novell and giving feedback on product requirements and design. Steve has been a regular presenter at Brainshare, presenting sessions for the last six years. He first started working with GroupWise in 1993 in the International Product Development group at WordPerfect, working on Office 4.0 localization. He worked in WordPerfect and Novell Technical Services at the customer support center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands from 1995 through 1997 supporting GroupWise and NetWare product lines to English and French-speaking customers. |
 |
|
Norman Toro
Novell WorkGroup Technical Specialist
Novell North East Region
Employed at Novell for 14 years,
Novell Master CNE Novell Certified Linux Specialist
In the IT industry for 20 years working with Unix, Novell and Microsoft Technologies. 14+ Years of experience with Novell's core operating system and eDirectory as well as Novell WorkGroup Applications Like GroupWise. Currently focused on Major account pre-sales solutions in the Novell WorkGroup space. Assigned as part of Novell's Global Accounts program working with International Pharmacology Companies. Current business objective to help Novell customer ease the migration of their GroupWise services to a SuSe linux Enterprise 10 hosted environment. |
 |
|
Scott Brown
Senior Software Engineer, Novell
Initially hired to work on GroupWise installs, Scott joined the GroupWise team in 2000. Since then he has been involved in many aspects of GroupWise development including the Windows Client, Linux Client, Client side APIs, and the overall GroupWise build structure. He is currently working on Windows Client features and APIs to support the Linux Client. Scott holds both an MBA and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University. |
 |
|
Durwin Hannig
GroupWise Critical Problem Resolution (CPR) Engineer, Novell
Durwin Hannig has worked with Novell GroupWise throughout his 13-year career at Novell, beginning with the first Windows version (Word Perfect Office version 4) to the product's latest release, GroupWise 7. Prior to joining Novell, Durwin served in the US Air Force where he was responsible for communication and software programming. Durwin holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Hawaii Pacific University as well as an Associates degree in Information Systems from the University of Maryland. Durwin also holds both CNA and CNE certifications for GroupWise and NetWare. |
 |
|
Patti Brooks
Novell - GroupWise Quality Assurance Engineer
Patti has worked with Novell GroupWise and its predecessor, WordPerfect Office, for 15 years. She is on the Novell GroupWise testing team, specializing in the Post Office Agent. Patti holds a Bachelor s degree in Computer Science from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. |
 |
|
John Dragoon
Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer
John Dragoon serves as Novell's Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. Mr. Dragoon brings over 22 years of high technology operations experience to his role, and is responsible for all aspects of Novell's marketing strategy and activities worldwide, including corporate marketing, field marketing, partner and channel marketing, industry marketing and marketing operations functions. He was most recently vice president of worldwide field marketing for Novell. Mr. Dragoon is a member of Novell's Worldwide Management Committee. Prior to joining Novell, Dragoon was the senior vice president of marketing and product management at Art Technology Group where he was responsible for all aspects of ATG's product plans and strategy, product marketing, and corporate marketing. Before ATG, Dragoon spent more than 16 years at IBM, where he held a number of marketing and sales positions, including director of marketing, IBM Supply Chain Management Solutions. After IBM, Dragoon served as vice president, operations, Internet Capital Group, where he was on the board of nine partner companies providing guidance on strategy, marketing, business development, financing, and product development. Dragoon holds an MBA from Cornell University and a bachelor of science in computer science and economics from Union College. |
 |
|
Alan Hall
Product Marketing Manager Workgroup Product Marketing, Novell
Alan Hall has been with Novell for five years and is the Product Marketing Manager for Novell Open Enterpriser Server and Novell Open Workgroup Suite. Prior to Novell, Mr. Hall served as Marketing Director for Active Trading at online broker, Ameritrade, Inc. He has also held marketing positions for various high-tech companies and has over 12 years experience in high-tech marketing, international marketing and sales. Mr. Hall has a BS in International Marketing from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Utah State University. |
 |
|
Phil Karren
Novell - GroupWise Product Manager
Phil Karren currently works as GroupWise Product Manager for Novell. My background on a short form is that I've worked for 21 years in IT marketing and development, for Novell, IBM, CacheFlow as an employee, and for several clients as a freelancer, including Linux Networx, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Church and Family History Department, Cisco, Novell and others. |
 |
|
Gregory Webb
Novell, Product Marketing Manager
Gregory Webb has been with Novell for four years and is the Product Marketing Manager for Novell GroupWise and other collaboration products. Prior to this position, Gregory worked in Novell corporate marketing and was responsible for Novell Workgroup and Identity products and solutions on www.novell.com. Gregory holds a doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in languages and literature. |
 |
|
GroupWise Industry Expert Speakers
|
Marvin Huffaker
President, Marvin Huffaker Consulting, Inc.
www.redjuju.com
Marvin is a Novell Master CNE and has been working in the industry for 12 years. His consulting firm specializes in messaging and collaboration, file storage and management, enterprise level printing, and policy based resource management. The core of their solution ecosystems include GroupWise, Open Enterprise Server, and ZENworks. Marvin has developed and streamlined methodologies that allow for highly efficient and precision execution of NetWare and GroupWise upgrades, migrations, and consolidations. He has built a reputation throughout the United States for his technical expertise, business ethics, and customer satisfaction. Many people refer to Marvin Huffaker Consulting as 'REDJUJU' which is the name of the magazine cover that is featured on the company website. |
 |
|
Chris Clark
President and Chairman of SwitchDesk, Inc.
Chris founded SwitchDesk as a Linux migration services company with the focus of helping companies switch to Linux. Chris has been training executives, management and staff from all industrial sectors since 1997. Chris' clients include NASA, Ford Motor Company, Bank of New York, Citigroup, City of Los Angeles and many more. Chris has continued to receive awards as the world's highest rated trainer and SwitchDesk was recognized as a Linux Center of Excellence by Novell in 2006. Chris continues to manage migration projects and train IT professionals all across the world. SwithDesk is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee where Chris lives with his wife, two daughters and a flock of penguins. |
 |
|
Marco Smeja
Cryptovision
Marco Smeja, born 1973; the business data processing specialist started his career at Novell. He held several positions in marketing, sales and business development. He completed several trainings and has comprehensive management experiences in national and international sales teams. Equipped with profound market knowledge and extraordinary sales- and marketing expertise, Mr. Smeja is now in charge as Director for Marketing and Sales at cryptovision. Moreover, he is responsible for the establishment of an internationally operating sales team and the attendance of the key customers of cryptovision. |
 |
|
Jared Lord
GroupLink Corporation
Mr. Lord has been at GroupLink for seven years; in this time he has become an expert in ITIL and help desk. He has developed a passion for helping GroupLink's customers provide the best IT support and service possible. Mr. Lord lives in Syracuse, UT with his wife and 3 boys. |
 |
|
Gregory Bell
CEO of Advansys
Gregory Bell is CEO of Advansys, a firm he launched in 1989. Previously he worked at Hewlett-Packard and NEC Information Systems in senior technical roles, training in both the U.S. and Japan. Gregory has a degree in electrical engineering and is involved in all key technical and business aspects of running Advansys. He speaks regularly at key industry events including Novell BrainShare. |
 |
|
Michael Bell, VP of R&D
Sr. Engineer Michael Bell in addition to being VP of Research and Development, also fulfills the role of Senior Engineer at GWAVA. Michael developed, Guinevere, the first Anti-Virus/Anti-Spam solution for GroupWise and has been the Co-Developer for GWAVA. Michael is a long time Netware Administrator and has been a member of the Novell Sysop Team since May, 1998. He also maintains the Win32 HOWTO for Spam Assassin www.openhandhome.com |
 |
|
Aldo Zanoni
The founder of Omni Technology Solutions Inc. (Omni).
Since 1999, Omni has focused on creating and marketing software products that provide real, tangible and valuable benefits to companies that use Novell GroupWise solutions. Omni is focused on delivering customer pain relief in the areas of Mobile Messaging (Omni Mobility Suite), Web-based, ZERO Rights User Management for GroupWise, eDirectory, Active Directory and Exchange (eControl), Email Security (GEE Whiz) and Novell Linux Desktop (Desktop Multiplier). |
 |
|
Judy Crum
Managing Consultant for Collaboration, The Harding Group, Inc.
Judy Crum manages the Collaboration group for The Harding Group, a Novell Platinum Partner and winner of eight consecutive Service Excellence Awards from Novell for excellence in customer service. Judy has extensive experience as an integrator, messaging architecture consultant and project manager. With over 11 years experience working with GroupWise, beginning with WordPerfect Office 3.1, she has performed over 200 installations/upgrades/migrations for clients. She is also a CNI and is certified to teach the GroupWise 7 Administration course. |
 |
|
Derek Adams
Derek Adams is currently with BrainStorm, Inc., Novell's Authorized End-user Training Partner and one of the oldest GroupWise Partners. Derek oversees technology initiatives and evaluation for BrainStorm. With 10 years experience in the industry, his main focus has been on design, development, and implementation of collaborative documentation solutions. |
 |
|
Joe Bertnick
GWAVA - Vice President, Products
Mr. Bertnick manages the development of new products for GWAVA. Mr. Bertnick brings 15 years of networking, security and software experience to GWAVA. He has extensive experience in information security, hacker defense and in helping global organizations develop and implement policies and technology to secure their corporate infrastructures. Mr. Bertnick is a perennial speaker at many industry events, such as Novell's BrainShare, Blackhat, Infosec, MISTI and others. He specializes in topics focusing on developing real world solutions to secure corporate information systems. |
 |
|
Taylor Cochrane
GWAVA - Product Manager
Taylor Cochrane has been working in the GroupWise space for more than five years, and has been based out of GWAVA's Montreal home office since January of 2004. Originally from Nova Scotia, Taylor started his IT career as a Software Programmer and Network Specialist. Taylor currently serves as a GWAVA software technical resource and represents GWAVA all over North America, working with customers and partners. He has a CNA6 and is currently working towards his Novell CLP. |
 |
|
Lillith Calbridge
Dallas Community College - GroupWise Administrator
"An almost life long resident of the Dallas area, Lilith holds a bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Texas at Austin. Her interest in computers came with the advent of video games, which induced her to build her first S-100 system from a kit. This led to her being asked to head up the newly developing computer department of the small tooling reseller for whom she worked at the time.
She's now in her 19th year at Dallas County Community College District where she started out doing end user support before getting in on the ground floor of their local area network. When the Internet started to impact all facets of business and education she became the defacto email administrator, inheriting it from the local email system that had been running on a Data General mini and was migrated to WordPefect Office 3.0 and eventually grew into GroupWise." |
 |
|
Eric Farr
President of BrainStorm, Inc.
Eric Farr is a Principal of BrainStorm, Inc., where he leads the sales and marketing initiatives. An entrepreneur at heart, Eric has started and run several companies and thrives in the fast-paced startup world. Before joining BrainStorm, Eric was President and CEO of EvolveMed, which specializes in documentation solutions for hospital networks and healthcare professionals. Prior to joining EvolveMed, Eric founded Dental Management Systems, which marketed and sold practice and clinical management technology systems to dental practitioners. There, Eric was responsible for all marketing and sales efforts until the business was sold. In 1995, Eric founded C. Erickson Properties, which continues to invest in commercial real estate. Eric earned his bachelor's degree in Economics from Brigham Young University and his MBA with an emphasis in Marketing from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. |
 |
|
Tay Kratzer
GWAVA - Developer of Reload, Director of Linux Professional Services, and Author of the Novell Press GroupWise 7 Administrator's Solution Guide.
Tay Kratzer formerly with Novell Premium Service - Primary Support Engineer for some of Novell's larger customer sites. Tay is the author and co-author of 8 GroupWise-related books. Tay Kratzer has supported Novell GroupWise since 1993 and he is a Novell Master CNE. In the year 2000, Tay was recipient of the highest recognition award from Software Support Professional Association. |
 |
|
Steve Maxwell
Nokia - Novell Global Alliance, Manager
Steve Maxwell is the Novell global alliance manager in Nokia Enterprise Solutions Technology Licensing Group based in Silicon Valley. He has more than 20 years of experience in technology sales, alliance and channel management strategy, operations and training functions at companies including Hewlett-Packard, Octel Communications/Lucent Technologies, BEA Systems and Borland Software. Steve is responsible for maintaining a successful relationship between Novell GroupWise and Nokia Enterprise Solutions teams -- with the shared goal of creating business mobility content, services and programs for enterprises worldwide. |
|
|
Ulrich Neumann - Germany
GWAVA - Redline Lead Developer, two-time winner of the prestigious Novell Developer Excellence Award
Ulrich brings 16 years of Novell development experience to GWAVA, Inc. Ulrich Neumann is a two-time winner of the prestigious Novell Developer Excellence Award. This award is given to a single individual each year in recognition of their contribution to the Novell development community. Ulrich won the award in 2001 and again in 2003. Ulrich has joined GWAVA, the leading GroupWise partner, to begin developing additional solutions for GroupWise customers beyond GWAVA's traditional security offering. Ulrich is also an "open source evangelist" who pushed open source on NetWare very hard; he has been involved in PostgreSQL and MySQL development and ported the first version of Bash to NetWare. On NetWare he has worked a lot on LibC. He's working with Linux since 1994 and is involved in the GNOME Project, especially on GNOME-Network and the Evolution mail client that can connect to GroupWise now. Ulrich has been Speaker at BrainShare in Europe and SLC. In 2001 and 2003 he has got the official "Developer SysOp Excellence Award" from Novell for all his efforts. Beside Hacking he's has the black belt in Karate and is a Licenced Karate Trainer. If you want to know more about Ulrich you can visit www.myuli.com. |
 |
|
David Proulx
Mr. David Proulx is a Senior Consultant with American Integrated Services, Inc. (AIS) in Atlanta, Georgia since 1995. Mr. Proulx interned with the Governmental Audit Division of Milam and Milam, CPA (1988 – 1992) and later served as their Information Technology Manager. American Integrated Services, Inc. coordinated the installation of Digital Indexed Voice Recording for the United States Bankruptcy Court for two years. The installation was performed in record time and approved as official record within 7 days of installation.
Over the past 9 years, AIS has had numerous successful connectivity projects with Georgia Criminal Information Center (GBI) and Criminal Justice Information Services (FBI), with 8 consecutive years of successful security and documentation audits.
David is a member of the International County & Municipal Association (ICMA) where he plans to assist in the forming of a new division addressing the needs for electronic compliancy in government. He is also a member of GwiFi Consortium and the 2006 Governor of Georgia WiFi award winner. Additionally, David serves as a member of Computhink’s Channel Council Committee.
|
 |
|
Matt Ray
MC Consulting - GroupWiseGuru.com
Matt Ray is the owner of MC Consulting, a GroupWise Consulting firm. He has been working with GroupWise since Office days and was on the original WordPerfect SWAT team in '93, a specialized team that helped large WP customers install Office 3.1. He worked as a Premium Support Engineer and Consultant at WordPerfect/Novell for 13 years. He now owns and runs his own company, MC Consulting - GroupWiseGuru.com, that does nothing but GroupWise Consulting for customers around the globe. |
 |
|
Charles Taite
CEO/CTO Co - Founder of GWAVA
Charles Taite steers GWAVA's technology vision. He is the former CTO for Tobit Software of North America where he was instrumental in helping Tobit establish its technology roadmap for entering the North American market. He guides GWAVA's research and product development efforts, while overseeing GWAVA's technical services and support division. His expertise comes from a 15-year career in the networking industry, specializing in secure electronic messaging. He is a Certified Novell Engineer (CNE). |
 |
|
Danita Zanrè
Calidonia - Danita a.k.a. the GroupWise Goddess
GroupWise - Danita a.k.a. the GroupWise Goddess
Danita is a long time GroupWise user (since WordPerfect Office 2.0). She is the owner of Caledonia Network Consulting, which specializes in providing quality GroupWise consulting, documentation and utilities. Find out more about her at http://www.caledonia.net. |
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
