GWAVACon: The international GroupWise Technology Conference

GroupWise Industry Expert Speakers

Marvin Huffaker President, Marvin Huffaker Consulting, Inc. www.redjuju.com

Marvin Huffaker

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 Clark

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

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

Jared Lord

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

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

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