GroupWise Industry Experts Speakers 4

Director of Product Development, GWAVA
Taylor Cochrane is the director of product development at GWAVA. Taylor has worked for GWAVA and its customers for close to 4 years. As a proud GroupWise supporter and enthusiast, Taylor has been working with the GroupWise community for over 7 years and drives the development of GWAVA's suite of GroupWise solutions. Taylor brings many years of technical experience and strong leadership to the GWAVA team and the worldwide GroupWise community.

"Ulrich's first contact with GroupWise was in the days of WordPerfect Office 3.1. He has seen all versions since these days, he has implemented many GroupWise systems and he has been developing to GroupWise since 1998. Ulrich is also a Novell SysOp and works very closely with some engineering groups in Provo. He has written several articles for Novell Appnotes in the past. Ulrich is the brain behind Redline, a Monitoring, Reporting, Alerting solution for GroupWise. He's one of the founders of "GroupWise & Friends", the German GroupWise user Group and is currently in the position as the president of G&F. 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. Besides Hacking he's has the black belt in Karate and is a licensed Karate trainer. If you want to know more about Ulrich you can visit www.myuli.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.