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Volker Smid - President, Novell EMEA
Volker Smid serves as president, Novell EMEA. He is responsible for the full range of Novell's sales and consulting business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Smid was named general manager for Central Europe for Novell in May 2005, responsible for Novell's overall business in Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining Novell, Smid was senior vice president, EMEA and Asia Pacific, at PTC, where he was responsible for the product life cycle and enterprise content management company's mid-market business. Smid also served as vice president for North America at POET AG, a platform provider for B2B eCommerce and supplier relationship management, and CEO of Prompt Medizinische Informationssysteme, a German software vendor.
He has an MSc in Computer Science - "Diplom- Informatiker (FH)" - from the University for Applied Sciences, Hamburg-Wedel.
Mark Schouls - ZENworks Product Manager and Evangelist
Mark has been working for Novell for over seven years now, and is a ZENworks Product Manager and Evangelist inside the Systems and Resource Management Business Unit at Novell. Mark works with a team of individuals that assists with setting the strategic direction of the ZENworks product line, and then takes the vision to masses. Prior to joining the Product Management group Mark was the Practice Lead and Principal Architect for Novell Consulting's ZENworks Practice in North America. Mark has designed and implemented some of the largest and most complex ZENworks infrastructures in North America, including some of the first in a pure Microsoft Windows environment. Mark is a regular contributor to the Novell Cool Blogs (www.novell.com/coolblogs), and speaks at many conferences and events across the globe.
Mark's teammates and other colleagues fondly refer to him as "Hollywood"... and he loves them for it.
Sam Tessier - Novell - ZENworks Technology Specialist
Sam has been with Novell for eight years, and is based in the New York City area. His primary focus is spreading the word on ZENworks to clients and partners/integrators and engaging in competitive situations. Prior to his current role, Sam worked with Novell's internal IT group managing server operations for many of Novell's field offices in North and South America.
Marc Conradty - Chief Technical Officer of Inetra Inc. Germany
As CTO, Marc is responsible for team training and all German speaking support for GWAVA and Inetra customers. Marc specializes in working with Antispam Heuristics for squeezing the last false positive email out of the GWAVA and GroupWise Policy monitoring with Redline. Marc has been working in the email industry since 1990, and began with MHS from Novell. Marc has been working since then as a consultant in planning, developing, and deploying networks. Marc is consulting IT departments in deploying and fine tuning GroupWise and GWAVA products. Marc's Background is in NetWare, Linux, eDirectory, ZENworks and BorderManager, as well as TCP/IP and Protocol understanding.
Ron Gardiner
Ron Gardiner currently works as Product Manager of Security Products for GWAVA. He has worked in the IT field for over 25 years and has an MCNE and CNI. A former Novell Canada SE/TSA. Ron has worked with NetWare since v2.0a, and GroupWise since v5.5 and was the GroupWise Subject Matter Expert for Novell Canada. Ron lives in the suburbs of Montreal with his wife and 2 teenage boys, where he enjoys riding his motorcycle as well as refereeing minor hockey.
Vaclav Samsa
Vaclav has been working with Novell Inc and WordPerfect Corporation products since 1987 till today, started with NetWare ELS II and WordPerfect 4.2. Vaclav was programmer in the past, working with Fortran, C, C++, lot of assemblers, TurboPascal, lot of scripting languages. Vaclav's today focus is on GroupWise on PDA, OpenOffice-GroupWise integration, remote GroupWise management, optimizing number of MTA and POA within large WAN networks. Vaclav is founder and co-owner of TDP Ltd, established in 1989 as Trade Mark for software developing and exists from 1992 as Ltd company.
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