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Mary Matthews Senior Systems Engineer, * Calvin College Consulting Engineer * Exceed Consulting VP and Past-President, West Michigan 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 them 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 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 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.
Steve Whitehouse
Steve Whitehouse is currently the systems architect for 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 GroupWise engineering product management and engineering teams in reviewing and deploying products for use 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 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, Master CNE Certified Linux Specialist
In the IT industry for 20 years working with Unix, and Microsoft Technologies. 14+ Years of experience with Novell's core operating system and eDirectory as well as WorkGroup Applications Like GroupWise. Currently focused on Major account pre-sales solutions in the WorkGroup space. Assigned as part of 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,
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,
Durwin Hannig has worked with GroupWise throughout his 13-year career, beginning with the first Windows version (Word Perfect Office version 4) to the product's latest release, GroupWise 7. Prior to joining them, 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.
