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Dirk Giles - USA Novell - Senior Software Engineer
Dirk Giles joined the GroupWise Engineering team in 1993 after after flying for 8 years in the United States Air Force. His initial projects were to write programmatic test suites and tools for the GroupWise engine; many of which are still in use today. Since then he has been involved with many aspects of GroupWise development, to include replication, address book, and the core engine technologies. He is currently working on the GroupWise Migration Utility for Microsoft Exchange as well as being the development lead for GroupWise Instant Messenger.
Steve Maxwell
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.
Nica Faustino Sales Engineer Manager, Macrovision EMEA
Mr. Faustino has been with InstallShield since December 1997 and has seen the birth and development of technologies like Microsoft Windows Installer, MSI Developer products and the very first versions of what now is the full-featured product FLEXnet AdminStudio. Nica has held many positions at InstallShield/Macrovision, including technical consultant, technical trainer, Sales and Professional Services management roles. Nica and his team continue to work with customers to successfully resolve business challenges associated with Windows Installer and Application Repackaging. As such, his expertise in the Windows Installer arena and extensive experience with large customer-challenges makes Nica a valuable speaker and enjoyable technical resource.
Elizabeth Dorman Walls San Jose, California U.S.
Elizabeth is the Director of International Sales and has been with Notify Technology since 1999 and focused on the Wireless Email and Mobility space since 2000 as a part of the Sales and Marketing Team. Elizabeth received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Davis.
Tim Heywood United Kingdom
Tim has been only been working with GroupWise for the past 10 years or so and as a SysOp spends far too much of his time of his copious spare time in the GroupWise forums. It has been reported that he has been seen walking the streets of Utah in a skirt (kilt) every spring. A regular speaker at BrainShare and UK technical events Tim enjoys practising what he preaches with all of Novell's products. Tim specialises in GroupWise and Novell Cluster Services while in addition providing directional consultancy on ZENworks. The more traditional NetWare and BorderManager products complete the armoury. In his spare time, Tim acts as the product manager for GWMigrate, a tool that upgrades an Exchange Server to a real mail system, and has been directly involved in the conversion of over 15,000 users from Exchange. Tim is the CTO for NDS8, a Novell Platinum Partner based in Edinburgh and he works with clients throughout the UK, Europe and the World.
Sascha M. Wester
Sascha Wester is Regional Sales Manager at Cryptovision, where he is part of the international sales team. Prior to joining cryptovision, Mr. Wester worked with a number of IT companies in every area of PC industry`s value chain including Distributors, Partners and also Manufacturers. Frequent interaction with cryptovision clients offers unique insight into the real problems and challenges they face with security issues.
