The Experts Conference

Patrick Rouse is an Enterprise Solutions Architect and a member of Quest Software’s Desktop Virtualization Product Strategy Group. He has 15 years ofd experience in IT and is a seven time recipient of Microsoft’s MVP Award for Remote Desktop Services.  Rouse is a subject matter expert for Microsoft Virtualization technologies including Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager and is certified in MDOP and System Center Configuration Manager.  He also has deep expertise in T-SQL, Exchange, AD Group Policies and Windows System Hardening, Scalability, Application Compatibility and Performance Optimization. Previous to joining Quest’s Desktop Virtualization Group in 1998, Rouse led his own Citrix consultancy and was a Citrix Technology Professional Awardee. He started his technology career in the early 90s while working as a Ground Radio Repairer in the United States Marine Corps. You can follow him on Twitter @MsftVirt and read his blog at http://sessionzero.wordpress.com.

Dmitry Sotnikov is director of Cloud Solutions at Quest Software. Sotnikov has more than 10 years of experience working in the Windows management area, and is a Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Dmitry.Sotnikov, author of multiple whitepapers, a regular blogger, and a presenter at numerous trade shows, including Microsoft Management Summit, WinHEC, VMworld, Re-MIX, IT Forum, Platforma, and TechEd. He currently is leading Quest into the era of cloud computing – heading the company’s IT Management as a Service offerings (Quest OnDemand) and coordinating expansion of Quest products to management of cloud systems such as Microsoft BPOS, Google Apps and SQL Azure. He joined Quest with the Aelita Software acquisition, and has held various managerial positions in technical communications, customer support and product management.

Mattias Sundling is a Virtualization Evangelist at Quest Software. He joined Quest with the acquisition of Vizioncore, and has more than 10 years of experience in IT. Prior to joining Vizioncore in 2008, he worked as a consultant assisting organizations with server virtualization and monitoring. Sundling is known for his deep technical expertise in server virtualization which he regularly share in different formats such as blogposts, whitepapers and speaks at trade shows.

Christa Anderson is somewhat shocked to realize that she has been working with Windows Server since 1993 and server-based computing since 1996. A Terminal Services MVP 2003-2007, she’s been a regular presenter at a number of trade shows including iForum. COMDEX, CeBIT, Pubforum, and BriForum, and is the author of hundreds of articles in Windows IT Pro Magazine and TechTarget on Terminal Services, Citrix products, VBScript, and PowerShell. After a while, she decided she’d rather fix issue than tell people how to work around them, and got into the industry, working for ISVs triCerat and visionapp before joining Microsoft in 2007. She is now a program manager on the Remote Desktop Virtualization team and thinks that building software is fun. Even though she has a day job, Anderson can’t stop writing. Her most recent book is the Windows Server 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services Resource Kit (O’Reilly, 2010), co-authored with RDS MVP Kristin Griffin.

Bill Baer is a Technical Product Manager and Microsoft Certified Master for SharePoint 2007 in the SharePoint product group in Redmond, WA. Previously, Baer was a Hewlett-Packard Technology Solutions Group MVP with a background in infrastructure engineering and enterprise deployments of SharePoint Products and Technologies. Baer is active in the SharePoint community through evangelism http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer, fellowship engagements, and events such as TechEd, TechReady, SharePoint & Office Developer Conferences.

Jerry Camel has more than 18 years in Information Technology and has demonstrated expertise in bridging the gap between infrastructure and development solutions by providing leadership in both areas. Jerry’s rare perspective and development background has led to several innovative solutions involving technologies like Windows Workflow Foundation and Identity Lifecycle Manager. Jerry and his wife, Leigh, reside in muggy Florida where they are enduring a self-imposed exile from the southwest. He blogs at digitalcamel.blogspot.com on topics including .NET development, Identity Management, and the general lack of minutes in the day.

Dave Chennault is a Certified Information Systems Auditor, a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist in SharePoint and is a Microsoft Certified Professional with 25 years of experience as a software developer and architect. He is an expert in governance for IT systems and the co-author of the book “SharePoint Deployment and Governance using CobiT 4.1 : A Practical Approach” published by ISACA in 2010. He is the co-founder of SkyLite Systems, a Microsoft Partner focused on the development of solutions that are based upon SharePoint 2010 online and Office 365. He has worked extensively with architecting and building SharePoint 2010 solutions that will run “in the cloud” use sandboxed solutions, custom workflow activities and innovative interface techniques allowing applications to be run across many platforms including the iPAD. Prior to co-founding SkyLite Systems (www.skylitesystems.com), he led a multimillion-dollar SharePoint consulting practice for one of the top 25 Microsoft National System Integrators. Chennault was a senior manager at Deloitte Consulting and a manager at Coopers & Lybrand and Grant Thornton—specializing in building and leading software development engagements for large, multinational corporations in the US and Europe. He has led large software development initiatives for federal, state and local governments in the US and worked on the Space Station project for McDonnell Douglas as a senior software developer. He received his MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and has a double undergraduate degree in economics/mathematics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Joseph Dadzie is Microsoft’s Principal Group Program Manager with 15 years experience in software development and program management. Has been responsible for significant features in Windows starting with Windows NT 4. Current responsibilities include the Windows Intune cloud service for desktop management, the Asset Inventory Service (AIS), Group Policy and a next generation policy platform for Windows.

Anil Desai is an independent consultant based in Austin, TX. He specializes in evaluating, implementing, and managing IT solutions. He has worked extensively with IT management, development, and database technology. Anil holds many certifications and is a Microsoft MVP (Windows Server – Virtualization). Anil is the author of numerous technical books focusing on the Windows Server platform, virtualization, databases, and IT management best practices. He is also a frequent contributor to numerous IT publications and conferences. For more information, please see http://AnilDesai.net, or e-mail Anil@AnilDesai.net.

John Engates is the chief technology officer at Rackspace Hosting and has been with the company for more than 10 years. Engates frequently speaks with customers, at conferences, and to the press and analyst community on the topic of cloud computing and Rackspace’s role in the future of IT. He lives in San Antonio with his wife and two daughters.

Guido Grillenmeier is a Chief Engineer within the Enterprise Services Group at Hewlett Packard. Based in Germany, he deals primarily with global Windows infrastructure deployments for large enterprise customers.  He has helped various HP customers to secure their Active Directory, make the move to 64-Bit Windows, and to utilize Hyper-V at scale even before Windows Server 2008 R2 was released. Grillenmeier has often spoken at the Directory Experts Conference (DEC), now The Experts Conference (TEC), and is also a speaker at various other Microsoft-technology related conferences, such as Microsoft Tech-ED, IT Forum or Windows Connections. He has led the development and delivery for HP’s Windows Server 2008 Academies to HP’s own Services division and has been a Microsoft MVP for Directory Services for the past six years. Besides writing articles for technical magazines, Grillenmeier is also the co-author of Microsoft Windows Security Fundamentals (Digital Press).

Dung K Hoang is a Principal Engineer in the Solutions Engineering group at HP. He is the architect of the HP Cloud Foundation for Hyper-V solutions and is working on SQL appliances and Exchange appliances.

He has known Windows for decades and spent most of his time working with customers in designing and implementing Active Directory, Exchange, Virtual Server. He was a tutor of several HP Academies trainings on Windows 2000/2008, Exchange 2000/2003, Windows Security and was well known for his challenging labs.  He also presented at external conferences including Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft Management Summit, the Directory Experts Conference (DEC) on various topics around AD, Exchange, and system management. Recently, he delivered a series of Hyper-V workshop to customers and  partners with his “DataCenter in the box”, a portable rack with ProLiant Blade Servers and SAN storage.

With more than 15 years of IT experience, Don Jones is one of the world’s leading experts on the Microsoft business technology platform. He’s the author of more than 35 books, including Windows PowerShell: TFM, Windows Administrator’s Scripting Toolkit, VBScript WMI and ADSI Unleashed, PHP-Nuke Garage, Special Edition Using Commerce Server 2002, Definitive Guide to SQL Server Performance Optimization, and many more. Jones is a top-rated and in-demand speaker at conferences such as Microsoft TechEd, Windows Connections, and TechMentor, and is an accomplished IT journalist with features and monthly columns in Microsoft TechNet Magazine, Redmond Magazine, and on Web sites such as TechTarget and MCPMag.com. He is also a multiple-year recipient of Microsoft’s prestigious Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award, and is the Editor-in-Chief for Realtime Publishers.

Mike Kostersitz is a 17+ year veteran in Microsoft. He started at Microsoft Austria in 1994 and worked in MCS Austria on architecting and deploying hosting solutions until 2002. He moved to Redmond with his family to work at Microsoft Headquarters on products like Exchange, HMC and Microsoft Online until 2008 when he returned to Austria. Currently he is working as a Principal Architect in the BPOS Center Of Excellence team in Microsoft Services EMEA.

Christopher Kusek has more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry.  For the past 16 years he has worked as a consultant providing solutions to thousands of companies.  He is known for innovative ideas and community dedication which led him to found the Chicago Windows Users Group.  CWUG, now in its ninth year, is a technical community serving over 2,400 individuals with Kusek as vice-chair, frequent presenter, and keynote speaker.    He continually looks for ways to contribute back to the community through public speaking, blogging, mentorship, and continuing education in technology.    He has received many awards and technical certifications including: CISSP, MCT, vExpert, MCSE, MCITP, and EMCTA Expert.

Karthik Lakshminarayanan is the Group Program Manager for RemoteFX at Microsoft. RemoteFX is an exciting new desktop virtualization technology which resulted from an acquisition that Microsoft made in early 2008 and includes GPU virtualization, intelligent capture and a revolutionary new CODEC that is optimized for desktop content. He is accountable for the planning, specifications, customer validation and engineering execution, as well as working closely with partners to deliver a hardware and software ecosystem around RemoteFX. He has been in Microsoft for 13 years and has previously also worked on the High Availability Clustering and Network Load Balancing teams.

Eve Maler is a principal analyst serving Security & Risk professionals. She is an expert on emerging identity and security solutions, identity federation, consumer-facing identity and web access management, distributed authorization, privacy enhancement, and web services security. Maler helps clients manage risk and utilize business opportunities through identity and access management business and technology strategy. Prior to joining Forrester, Maler was an identity solutions architect with PayPal, developing business and technical strategies for new consumer identity services offerings. Previously, she managed Sun Microsystems’ technical collaborations with Microsoft on web services and federated identity interoperability, and she made major leadership, technical, and education contributions to the development of the SAML standard for federated identity. Maler holds a B.A. in linguistics from Brandeis University. She is based in Seattle.

Rob Mallicoat is an Enterprise Solutions Architect and a member of Quest Software’s Desktop Virtualization Product Strategy Group. He has 16 years of experience with the past seven working across Quest’s monitoring and windows management groups in a presales/technical role as well as being the on campus technical resource in Redmond. Mallicoat is a subject matter expert for Microsoft Virtualization technologies including Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager and is certified in MDOP and System Center Configuration Manager. He also has deep expertise in network and system performance monitoring, Active Directory, network security and clustering. Prior to joining Quest Software in 2004, Mallicoat worked at BMC Software for seven years and delivered new product release technical training to field consultants while supporting BMC’s network performance monitoring and distributed systems product lines in a pre-sales technical position. Before being a geek, Mallicoat spent 10 years playing professional baseball in the Houston Astros organization. Mallicoat pitched in 58 games over a 2+ year span while in the Major Leagues.

Tim Mangan runs TMurgent Technologies LLP, a company providing Consulting, Training, and Software revolving around Microsoft App-V. Prior to launching TMurgent, Tim was with many software and/or hardware companies including Softricity (where he built Softgrid, the original name for App-V), Sync Research, Tylink, Avanti Communications, Memotec, Teleglobe, Infinet, and ComputerVision.  Somewhere in between he also did consulting work for the WAN side of a major US bank.  At one point he was the President of the Frame Relay Forum, an international consortium of Communication Carriers, Vendors, and Users. Tim speaks at many conferences and has been awarded by Microsoft as a “Most Valuable Professional for Terminal Services” in 2007 and MVP for Application Virtualization in 2008-2011.  He also was awarded the “Citrix Technology Professional” designation in 2010.

Check out his blogs:
http://www.brianmadden.com/Blogs/TimMangan/default.aspx
http://www.tmurgent.com/TmBlog/index.php

Matt McSpirit, Partner Technology Advisor, an MCITP: Virtualisation Administrator, and a VMware Certified Professional, has worked at Microsoft since January 2006. McSpirit’s role aims to ensure Microsoft Partners understand the “Art of the Possible” when it comes to Microsoft technologies, and how to build solutions around the platform. His role has taken him across products, from Client to Server, through to Virtualisation & Management. He has delivered a number of high-profile events, including IT Forum in Barcelona, the Partner and Customer UK Launches of Windows Server 2008, and the UK Virtualisation Launch. You can find him at: http://blogs.technet.com/mattmcspirit/ or follow him Twitter @mattmcspirit

Michael Michael is a Principal Program Manager on the Virtualization & Data Center Management team at Microsoft, working on the development and future direction of System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Michael is primarily focused on partner interactions and ensuring that a healthy ecosystem exists for virtualization products. He joined Microsoft Corporation in August 2002 as a software design engineer and has since worked on management products in the Windows Server division. Such products include previous releases of Virtual Machine Manager, Virtual Server 2005 R2, Windows Storage Server, and Data Protection Manager. During this time, he held various senior roles including senior software design engineer, senior development lead and software architect, and was focused on the research, design, and development of new features and functionality. For the past four years, Michael has been telecommuting from Houston, Texas.

Arno Mihm is a Senior Program Manager in the Microsoft Windows Server organization based at the company headquarters in Redmond Washington.  Prior to joining Microsoft in 2006, Mihm filled various positions in the areas of driver and OS development, system management software and standardization within the DMTF as well as program management responsibility for server high availability of standard high volume servers at one of the top 5 server OEMs. In his current role Mihm focuses on working with Microsoft partners to develop new and exciting Hyper-V based solutions for next datacenter generation including private clouds.

Kirk Munro is a Microsoft MVP and product manager who has worked in the IT industry for more than 14 years. He has spent the majority of that time creating and developing software solutions in the Windows Management space. At Quest, Munro works on PowerShell solutions, most notably PowerGUI Pro and PowerGUI, where he is responsible for driving the direction of the two products, as well as the PowerPacks and add-on modules that extend them. When he’s not working on PowerGUI, Munro spends time working with PowerShell in the community, presenting at conferences, launch events and user group events whenever he gets the opportunity. He also helps users learn PowerShell through his blog, as well as through the PowerGUI forums. It is through this community work that Munro received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award recognizing his passion and expertise in Windows PowerShell.

Dr. Einar Mykletun is the Security and Compliance Architect at Quest Software. He serves as the R&D in-house security expert, advising on a variety of issues ranging from risk analysis of product architectures and cryptographic solutions, to providing code samples and producing both internal and customer-facing security documentation. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, with a focus on Applied Cryptography, from the University of California, Irvine.

Joachim Nässlander has almost 15 years experience working with Microsoft infrastructure as a consultant. In his position as a Senior Solution Architect at Dell, he’s responsible for designing solutions within both infrastructure and end user computing for both private companies and the public sector in Sweden. He mostly works with Cluster, Hyper-V, SCCM and SCVMM, and has a strange interest in Server Core. He has co-authored a whitepaper on remote administration of Server Core and is currently writing a book about Server Core. He regularly speaks on various topics for both Microsoft and others. He is a member of Microsoft Extended Expert Team (MEET) and a Microsoft MVP in Cluster / High Availability.

Robert Nottoli is a System Architect with Microsoft. He has been with Microsoft for more than 10 years focused on Windows Server and Active Directory technologies. During his 10 years with Microsoft, he has worked with the large accounts in the Chicagoland area. Before joining Microsoft, Nottoli was employed with EDS as a System Engineer, helping design large scale enterprise IT projects.

Andrew Page is Director of Cloud and Data Center Evangelism with Microsoft Technology Centers, and has been focused on Microsoft infrastructure for over 20 years. He is responsible for helping customers understand Microsoft approach to cloud services, and how businesses can leverage solutions for both on-premise and cloud based infrastructures, virtualization, operational practices, and data center management.

Pat Patterson is a principal developer evangelist for Salesforce.com. Patterson has been working on Internet security and identity management since 1997, joining Sun Microsystems in 2000 as an engineering manager in the Trustbase secure Web services team. After serving a four-year sentence in product management, he returned to engineering early in 2005, focusing first on federation and identity-enabled Web services, then on the OpenSSO project and its community. He moved to Huawei Technologies in 2009 to work on cloud storage infrastructure before joining the developer evangelism team at Salesforce.com in late 2010. Describing himself as an ‘articulate techie’, Patterson hacks all manner of code from Ruby web apps down to Linux kernel drivers, writing it all up on the Force.com blog, his own blog Superpatterns, and, of course, Twitter.

Steve Riley is Technical Leader in the Office of the CTO at Riverbed Technology, an innovator in wide-area networking and storage optimization. Riley actively works to raise awareness of the technical and business benefits of Riverbed’s solutions, particularly as they relate to accelerating the enterprise adoption of cloud computing. His specialties include information security, compliance, privacy, and policy. He has spoken at hundreds of events around the world, including RSA, SANS, Black Hat Windows, InfoSec US, (ISC)2, SIIA, IANS, TechEd, DevConnections, Cloud Expo, Cloud Connect, CloudCamp, and Interop. He co-authored a book about Windows network security, contributed a chapter to a book on auditing cloud computing, has published numerous articles, and conducted technical reviews of several data networking and telecommunications books. Before Riley joined Riverbed, he was the cloud security evangelist for Amazon Web Services. Born with an Ethernet cable attached to his belly button, he grew up in networking and telecommunications. Besides lurking in the Internet’s dark alleys and secret passages, he enjoys freely sharing his opinions about the intersection of technology and culture. Contact him at steve.riley@riverbed.com and on Skype as stvrly; check out his occasional writings at http://blog.riverbed.com.

Jarrod Roark is the Advanced Infrastructure Practice Director and a Principal Consultant at Bennett Adelson. Roark has consulting, implementation, and project management experiences for Identity, Security and Active Directory Management products in environments ranging in size from 5,000 to over 100,000 users across a diverse number of organizations and industries. He has a deep understanding of directory services architecture and has written white papers and best practice documents on various topics in the identity management and migration space. He has designed and architected migration and management approaches for cloud based collaboration solutions and is responsible for successfully managing one of the largest BPOS-S deployments to date. Prior to joining Bennett Adelson, Roark was the Solutions Architect Manager at Quest Software. In previous roles, he managed and supported design teams for domain and exchange migrations, as well as identity management and Active Directory provisioning solutions.

Brandon Shell has been in the IT industry since 1994. He spent his early years as a PC technician and general fix-it guy for numerous companies. In 1999, Shell started a consulting company focused on building, designing and supporting networks built around a Microsoft Windows infrastructure. As a natural segue, Shell also offered training on the solutions and products he provided. In 2000, he joined Microsoft as contractor for the Directory Services team and later joined Microsoft in 2002 as a full time rapid response engineer focusing on Directory Service support for the larger customers in the North East. In 2004, Shell left Microsoft and took a position that allowed him to build on his Active Directory experience and incorporate new technologies, such as Citrix’s XenApp and XenDesktop products, . Today, he maintains his love of all-things Active Directory but has adjusted his focus on another newer passion, PowerShell. In 2007, he joined the PowerShell-MVP ranks and has spent the past several years building his PowerShell skillset and assisting/persuading others in building theirs.

David Smith joined Microsoft Consulting Services in 2000, specializing in Security, Active Directory and High Availability. He served as an IT strategy advisor for both financial and private sector customers for almost 7.5 years.  As a strategy advisor he contributed to numerous online e-commerce and banking solutions based upon Microsoft stack, including building an online AD with 17.6 million users. Later he served as the West Region Security Lead.  Currently Smith is a member of the Americas Services Office of the CTO, where he founded the Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) Special Interest Group (SIG) in Sept 2009. Since February 2010, he has been the lead Architect for the US Online Services Community which the SIG ultimately grew into.  In this role he manages a community of almost 400 individuals focused upon BPOS and Office 365. Most of his days are spent aligning, analyzing and advising (AAA) customers who desire to move to Microsoft’s cloud based Online Services. He also spends a fair amount of time internally focused developing solution strategies and readiness materials so that others may do the same. In his spare time he likes to snow ski in the winter, ride Harley’s in the sun and go camping in an RV.

Joey Snow is a Technical Evangelist for the worldwide Developer and Platform Evangelism team at Microsoft focusing the IT Professional audience for Windows Server, IIS and Windows Azure. Based in Redmond, WA, Snow works closely with relevant MS Product Teams to evangelize new technology and products to the IT Pro community at large. He shares his knowledge and expertise online – via TechNet Edge and his blog- and is a frequent speaker at various Microsoft and industry-sponsored events. He has been with Microsoft for 3 years. Prior to joining Microsoft, Snow worked for more than 12 years as an IT Professional at a Fortune 500 company, serving in various IT roles ranging from the helpdesk to IT architecture and management. Outside of work you can find him spending time with his wife and two children and actively feeding his sports and music addictions.

Edwin Yuen is a Director for Virtualization Strategy in the Server and Cloud Platform team. Yuen came to Microsoft with the July 2006 acquisition of Softricity. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was one of the Services Engagement Managers of Softricity for six years, leading most of the initial Softricity implementations. He has 14 years of technical consulting experience in both the commercial and federal space, and holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University.

Justin Zarb is a Senior Premier Field Engineer within Microsoft EMEA and a technical lead in the PFE Virtualization arena and in particular work with Application Virtualization (App-V). Zarb is widely recognized expert in the field of Application Virtualization and has helped create technical documentation, training and service offerings used inside and outside of Microsoft. He spends his time 1:1 with customers and helps them with real world implementations, best practices and depth troubleshooting when deploying Microsoft Application Virtualization. He writes an active blog on application virtualization http://blogs.technet.com/virtualworld or http://appvguy.com and also contributes to the App-V Product Team Blog http://blogs.technet.com/appv . He is a true infrastructure person that loves talking real world deployments with real world people. Zarb has worked for Microsoft since 2006 and has been in the Enterprise space for over 10 years with a background in third party virtualization solutions and infrastructure deployments. His certifications include MCTS, MCIT, MCSE (Security and Messaging), MSCA, MCP. Apart from the Technical Stuff, Zarb is passionate about playing and watching Rugby, but gains an injury regardless whether on or off the pitch. He is looking forward to beating the B3 challenge in Vegas and is an expecting father.