Speaker Bios

Gil Kirkpatrick–Directory & Identity Conference Facilitator

Expert-in-Residence, Quest Software

Gil Kirkpatrick is a well-known expert in the design and development of large-scale distributed software for enterprise networks. He is Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and has more than 27 years of software development expertise. He is a recognized authority and renowned speaker on commercial network directories, including Banyan StreetTalk, Novell eDirectory, and Microsoft Active Directory. In his previous position as Director of Engineering, Kirkpatrick was responsible for the development of directory management products for NetPro and served as the architect and lead engineer for its flagship product, DirectoryAnalyzer. Kirkpatrick joined NetPro in 1994 when the company acquired his previous employer, High Technology Systems. He is the author of Active Directory Programming, published by MacMillan USA.

Rob Allen

Partner, Active Identity Management

Rob Allen is one of the core partners at Active Identity Management, Inc., a recognized industry expert in directory and identity management technologies. He has developed several tools and directory “widgets” focused on Identity deployments centered around Microsoft’s Identity offerings.  Allen has provided Identity architecture and design for clients in the Financial, Health Care, Federal, and commercial space. He has more than 15 years experience in the IT industry. Prior to partnering with ActiveIDM, he founded a successful Identity and Directory Services company, worked in the HealthCare industry, and worked in the software development space.

Jorge de Almeida Pinto

Senior Technical Consultant, Oxford Computer Group

Jorge de Almeida Pinto is a Senior Consultant within Oxford Computer Group and is based in The Netherlands. He has been active in ICT since 1997. He has worked with Windows infrastructures since 1997, and he specializes in Windows Server, Active Directory and ILM/FIM. Besides that de Almeida Pinto has a very large interest in other Microsoft Identity and Access Management technologies like Certificate Services (CS) and Unified Access Gateway (UAG). He is MCSE certified and enjoys writing articles in a Dutch technical magazine (NetOpus). He is also a frequent contributor and active member of several forums/mailinglists/newsgroups on the internet. His blog can be found at: http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/default.aspx.

Bob Bradley

Senior Solutions Architect, UNIFY Solutions

Bob Bradley is one of UNIFY’s senior Solutions Architects and leads the Microsoft Platform Practice. Prior to joining UNIFY in 2004, Bradley worked as a systems integrator with Microsoft platforms for the previous17 years and, in particular, with Identity and Access Management since early 2001. He offers a wealth of Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager, SQL Server, SharePoint, Password Management and Business Intelligence expertise. He has been a key contributor to the UNIFY development teams, specifically with respect to the development of .Net connectors and custom management agents for FIM, and for requirements for UNIFY Event Broker. Bradley is a sought-after lead consultant who has delivered key Microsoft identity management references throughout the region.

Michael Brengs

Managing Partner, IdM

Michael Brengs is a Managing Partner with Optimal IdM, L.L.C. and has more than 18 years of experience in the software industry. Brengs has been deploying identity management solutions since joining OpenNetwork Technologies in 2000 (acquired by BMC Software), and later with Oblix (acquired by Oracle). He is a recognized identity management expert and is a frequent speaker at events and conferences. He has been a guest speaker at Oracle Open World 2006, Digital ID World 2008, the Directory Experts Conference 2008 and The Experts Conferences 2009 and 2010. He is a Microsoft Certified Professional holding the following certifications: Microsoft Certified Professional 2003, Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator 2003 and Security+.

Brian Desmond

Senior Consultant, Moran Technology Consulting

Brian Desmond is senior consultant with Moran Technologies. He has been a Microsoft MVP for Directory Services since 2003 and is the author of Active Directory, 4th Edition from O’Reilly. Desmond is an Active Directory (and sometimes Exchange) focused consultant leading and delivering on projects primarily for large enterprise (40K – 500K seat) customers. His website can be found at: www.briandesmond.com.

Sean Deuby

Technical Director for Windows IT Pro

Sean Deuby, Technical Director for Windows IT Pro, has more than 25 years’ experience in enterprise IT. He began his IT career working on Texas Instruments’ IBM VM systems, then helped design, deploy, and support TI’s first Windows NT 3.5 worldwide infrastructure. He spent 10 years with Intel Corporation, where he was one of the architects of Intel’s corporate Active Directory forest and the design engineer of the directory services team. A longtime Contributing Editor before joining Windows IT Pro, Sean has written over 50 articles, a monthly column, and a book on Active Directory and identity-related topics, and speaks at conferences around the world. Sean is a nine-time Directory Services MVP, and is proud of the fact he’s been a team member on three different TEC Wook Lee Memorial Pro-Am Challenges.

Guido Grillenmeier

Chief Engineer, Enterprise Services Group, HP

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).

Laura E. Hunter

Identity Architect, Microsoft

Laura E. Hunter is a Principal Technology Architect for Microsoft IT’s Identity & Access Management team, responsible for determining architecture and strategy for Microsoft deployments of products and services across the IAM suite. In previous lives she has been an Identity Management consultant, the Active Directory architect for a global engineering firm, IT Project Leader for the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of Computer Services for a regional headquarters of the Salvation Army. Hunter has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of the Active Directory Cookbook, 2nd & 3rd Editions, from O’Reilly Publishing, is an unrepentant ADFS technology zealot, and likes to talk about herself in the third person when providing auto-biographical information. She blogs at www.shutuplaura.com, and Twitters (tweets? She’s not cool enough to know the verb form of Twitter) @adfskitteh.

Eihab Isaac

Identity Management Consultant

Eihab Isaac is a senior Identity Management (IDM) Consultant who works with Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010. He has a BS in Computer Science and more than four years of applied experience. He is working on a Master’s in Information Systems at George Mason University. He is MCTS, MCPD and MCITP. Isaac has extensive experience working with FIM 2010 and has been working with FIM 2010 since it was in Beta. He delivered a wide variety of IdM solutions using FIM2010. His work was recognized by Microsoft in case study#4000008785 published in 2011.

Dave Jones

Identity Architect, Cisco

Dave Jones has worked in the field formally known as Directory Services for the past 19 years, charting a course through Banyan Vines, Novell NDS, Netscape Directory Server and Active Directory. He is now the Identity Services architect at Cisco and is responsible for all the Identity Management infrastructure architecture to programmatically maintain the lifecycle of digital identities representing people and computers. Prior to Cisco, Jones was the Principal for a network management company he founded, Bisant Networks (bisant.net) and has consulted to a large number of Fortune 500 companies with assets in Northern California and Miami.

Dmitry Kazantsev

Senior Consultant, Microsoft

Dmitry Kazantsev is a Senior Consultant in Microsoft Corporation. He is working with Microsoft’s Public Sector key-customers in Americas and is responsible for the delivery of cloud-based solutions. Kazantsev’s background is Identity Management. For the past several years, he has worked in Microsoft’s IT team as a technical  lead responsible for all customizations written for an internal instance of FIM 2010 within Microsoft Corp. In previous years, Kazantsev worked as a project manager and IdM consultant and for many Fortune-500 companies in the US and around the world. His previous projects include development of numerous Extensible Management Agents, SSO products and array of IdM engagements. Kazantsev actively participated in a large number of Microsoft Live@edu engagements.  Additionally, he has written and presented on a number of Microsoft Partner Airlifts forums around the world in the past.

Brian Komar

Komar Consulting

Komar is the president of Komar Consulting Inc. in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Komar has worked in partnership with Microsoft over the past three years as a subject matter expert on network security and Windows 2000 Active Directory design. Over the past year, Komar has spent the majority of his time researching the deployment of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and the various technologies that depend on a PKI to provide authentication and encryption services. Between writing assignments, Komar speaks at industry conferences around the world, such as WinConnections, MCP TechMentor, Microsoft Tech Ed, and the Microsoft Enterprise Conference (MEC). He is known for delivering the “under the hood” sessions that look at the details of technology and reveal how systems really work in a network.

David Lundell

Identity Management Practice Director, Ensych

David Lundell, author of FIM Best Practices Volume 1 and blog.ilmbestpractices.com, has been an MIIS/ILM/FIM MVP and TEC/DEC speaker since 2007. He has trained people from hundreds of organizations worldwide on how to implement FIM/ILM 2, ILM 2007 and SQL Server. Lundell has an MBA and a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona, where he was also a National Merit Scholar. His certifications include: MCSE, MCITP: Database Administrator, MCITP: Database Developer, MCITP: Business Intelligence Developer, MCSD. As the Identity Management Practice Director for Ensynch he has designed and supervised numerous Identity Management projects involving FIM 2010, and others, has also served as the SQL expert on several SharePoint implementations.

Craig Martin

Senior Manager, EdgileGroup

Craig Martin speaks in the third person when writing his own brief biography. He has been sync’ing for longer than he ever thought possible. He has also done work integrating ILM and CLM, spending countless hours weeding out issues in his lab environments learning CLM lessons the hard way in order to beat his chest in triumph and share his scars as lessons in a self-deprecating manner.

Kinnon McDonell

MSIT Engineer, Microsoft

An engineer with Microsoft for the last 14 years, Kinnon McDonell has worked in the Developer Tools Division, the Security Business Unit and is now in Identiy and Access Management in the MS IT department.  He has been working on working on RBAC issues and  provisioning stratigy as Microsoft moves to the cloud.

Lutz Mueller-Hipper

Senior Consultant, Insight

Lutz Mueller-Hipper is a Senior Consultant in the Identity Management Practice at Insight, where he focus on engineering identity management solutions, cloud services,  as well as solutions for data encryption and data leakage protection around Active Directory. He has worked in IT identity and security since mid 1990s, is certified as CISSP and MCTIP, loves LDAP, playing with certificates and always has a plan B. Mueller-Hipper lives with his family in the Greater Phoenix area.

Jeremy Palenchar

Founding Partner, Orcas Consulting

Jeremy Palenchar is a founding partner of Orcas Consulting. Previously, he was a senior manager with EdgileGroup and a director at Avanade, Inc. where he focuses on Directory Services and Identity Management. Palenchar is responsible for the planning, design, and implementation of Directory Service and Identity Management solutions. He is a Microsoft Certified Architect in Directory Services and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University. He lives and works in sunny, downtown Seattle.

Brian Puhl

Technology Architect, Microsoft

Brian Puhl is an Architect on the Microsoft IT Identity and Access Management team. He started with Microsoft in 2001, as an Active Directory engineer, and has recently been delivering solutions around MSIT’s adoption of cloud services.

Carol Wapshere

Identity Management Specialist, UNIFY Solutions

Carol Wapshere is a FIM MVP who sometimes goes by the name of Miss MIIS. After a long sojourn in Europe she is now back in her native Australia, where the accents are Aussie and the hamburgers have beetroot. After years as the lone IdM nut she now gets to play with all the other FIM-obsessives at Unify Solutions, implementing the best FIM-based solutions in the APAC.

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner

Consultant, Microsoft Platforms, Computacenter AG & Co.

Ulf B.Simon-Weidner is a senior consultant with a European provider for infrastructure solutions in Germany. He also is an independent author, consultant, speaker and trainer. He has been repeatedly awarded MVP for Windows Server – Directory Services. Throughout his professional career, Simon-Weidner has had many consulting engagements with major European corporations, mostly in the financial sector. His certifications include Microsoft Certified Trainer and Microsoft Certified System Engineer (Security) for all Operating Systems since NT4.