The Experts Conference

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.

Conrad Bayer is the General Manager for Identity and Access with Microsoft. Most recently, Bayer was the Partner Product Unit Manager responsible for Federation Technologies. Prior to this role at Microsoft, he was a vice president with Avaleris Inc., as well as a Group Program Manager with Microsoft. He has more than 15 years of product/services experience. Before joining Microsoft, he was a co-founder of Alacris. He holds an Honors Bachelor of Science in computing and Information Science from Queen’s University.

Alex Weinert left the Web hosting provider he started to join Microsoft in 1995. Leveraging his enthusiasm for distributed systems, he helped build MSN 1.0, MCIS, Site Server, and MSN Communities in a variety of development roles. In 2001 Alex joined the Windows Communication Foundation team, and was responsible for delivering the IT Pro experience for WCF. In 2006 he became the Group Program Manager for the Identity Management Team, which is responsible for delivering Identity Management Solutions including MIIS 2003, ILM 2007, and ILM.

Femi Aladesulu is a Senior Systems Engineer on the Microsoft IT Identity and Access Management team. He is the lead engineer for the MSIT deployment of Active Directory Federation Services.

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 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 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.

Chris Calderon, Senior Consultant at Ensynch Inc., specializes in the delivery of Microsoft-based technologies and enterprise solutions around Identity and Access Management and Directory Services. Chris has extensive experience in designing and implementing technologies involving Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM), Active Directory Federation Services, and infrastructure security around the Windows platform.

Fred Delombaerde is the Group Program Manager for Forefront Identity Manager at Microsoft Corporation. He leads the Program Management team working on the FIM core platform.

Robert DeLuca joined Microsoft in 2000, and is currently a Senior Program Manager on the Windows Server Customer Engineering Team. He provides architecture, design, and deployment guidance on identity technologies to Microsoft’s largest and most strategic customers, and uses these customer experiences to ensure requirements are being addressed in future versions of Windows. Prior to joining the Windows Server group, Robert specialized in Active Directory and Exchange Server as an infrastructure consultant in Microsoft’s Federal Government consulting practice.

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, a Senior Enterprise Solutions Strategist with Advaiya, Inc., has 25 years’ experience in enterprise IT. He spent over a decade running Texas Instruments’ IBM VM systems – the first virtualized operating system – then designed, deployed, and supported TI’s first Windows NT 3.5 worldwide infrastructure. He also spent 10 years with Intel Corporation, where he was the design engineer of the core directory services team and one of the architects of Intel’s corporate Active Directory forest. As a writer, Deuby wrote one of the Windows 2000 books that focused on explaining its Active Directory, and he has been a Contributing Editor for Windows IT Pro Magazine for 10 years. Deuby is a regular and highly rated speaker at Tech Ed and Windows Connections conferences, and has presented in locations from Norway to Indonesia. Microsoft has awarded Deuby the MVP (Most Valuable Professional) distinction for directory services every year since 2004.

Pamela Dingle is a Senior Technical Architect within the Office of the CTO at Ping Identity. Pamela has a long history with Identity Management, focusing on implementation, architecture and strategy over 10 years of evolution of systems such as directories, application servers, web access management systems, provisioning, and now federation. Pamela serves on the board of directors of both the Information Card Foundation and the OpenID Foundation, is active in OSIS and Kantara Initiative Interoperability efforts and runs the Pamela Project, an open source project for Information Card relying parties.

Dmitri Gavrilov is a development lead in Exchange, responsible for mailbox migration. Previously, he worked as a developer in Active Directory group. He was responsible for various code components of AD, including Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM), currently known as “AD LDS”. He was the lead for AD UI in Windows Server 2008 release. He joined Microsoft in 2000. Some exciting projects that he has participated in are AD on SQL prototype and ADAM. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked as a software developer at Axia Multimedia Corp, Calgary, Canada. He also worked as a Computational Scientist at MACI (Multimedia Advanced Computing Infrastructure), an HPC lab at the University of Calgary, Canada. Gavrilov holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Moscow State University, Russia, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada. In his spare time, he enjoys sailing and spending time with his wife and two sons.

Guido Grillenmeier is a Master Technologist within the Advanced Technology Group at Hewlett Packard. Based in Germany, he deals primarily with global Windows infrastructure deployments for large enterprise customers. His current focus is helping HP customers to make a smooth transition to 64-bit Windows and Windows Server 2008. Guido has often spoken at NetPro’s Directory Experts Conference (DEC) and has been a speaker at various other Microsoft-technology related conferences, such as Microsoft Tech-ED, IT Forum or Windows Connections. In the last few months he has been leading the development and delivery for HP’s Windows Server 2008 Academies to HP’s own Services division. He has been a Microsoft MVP for Directory Services since 2004 and is the co-author of “Microsoft Windows Security Fundamentals” (Digital Press).

Jeff Holliday is the Solutions Architect for Ensynch and their SharePoint Consulting Practice. He oversees the technical solution designs for all SharePoint projects and managed Ensynch’s participation in the SharePoint 2010 Partner Technical Preview Program. He currently focuses on architecture design, branding customization, business process automation and web part development. Holliday has designed, built and deployed everything from single server, single site SharePoint installations to multi-continent/multi-farm global infrastructures.

Laura E. Hunter is the Principal Active Directory & Federation Architect at LHA Consulting, Inc., currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A 15-year veteran of the IT Wars, Hunter specializes in Active Directory, AD FS and Identity and Access Management design, implementation and deployment projects. Hunter is a Microsoft Certified Master in Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, and holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Dave Jones has worked in the field formally known as Directory Services for the last 17 years, charting a course through Banyan Vines, Novell NDS, Netscape Directory Server and Active Directory. Jones 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 joining 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.

Kevin Kampman is a senior analyst for Burton Group Identity and Privacy Strategies. He covers identity and role management, directory services, provisioning, and electronic commerce. Prior to joining Burton Group, his duties included systems engineering, engineering management, integration and development, and project management with AT&T, Control Data Systems, Compaq/DEC, NCR, and TRW. From 1998 to 2007, Kampman managed Burton Group’s Identity and Privacy, Security and Risk Management consulting teams in their interactions with enterprise customers. With over 20 years of experience, Kampman was a past chair of the Directory Services and Collaborative Computing Work Groups at the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG), a Michigan-based consortium of over 1,500 manufacturers. This work led him to being named two-time recipient of the AIAG Outstanding Achievement Award for contributions to the industry. He also co-authored All About Network Directories, published by John Wiley and Sons. Kampman is currently engaged with a international community of organizations chartered to develop a shared perspective on identity services.

Joe Kaplan works in Accenture’s internal IT organization, building enterprise applications using the .NET Framework. He specializes in directory services programming, for which he has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valued Professional and Active Directory Federation Services. He is the co-author of The .NET Developer’s Guide to Directory Services Programming (Addison-Wesley, 2006). An industry veteran of 15 years, he has helped build and deploy a variety of applications that support complex identity lifecyle management processes and federated identity scenarios. He also specializes in web application security and application authorization. Kaplan enjoys helping the directory services programming community solve their problems and welcomes the challenge of scenarios he has never considered.

Dmitry Kazantsev is a Senior Program Manager with Schakra Inc., located and based in Redmond Washington. He is responsible for the planning, designing and implementation of Directory Service and Identity Management solutions for Schakra’s Fortune 500 clients and leading educational institutions in the US and around the world. For the past several years, he worked in Microsoft’s IT team as a technical lead responsible for all customizations written for an internal instance of FIM 2010 within Microsoft. In previous years, Kazantsev worked as an IdM consultant 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. As well, he has written and presented on a number of Microsoft Partner Airlifts forums around the world in the past several years.

Danny Kim is a Microsoft MVP and recognized industry expert on Windows Group Policy, Active Directory, and PowerShell. Kim has helped more than 30 Fortune 100 companies, including Bank of America, Boeing, and Wal-Mart, design and deploy their Group Policy and DataCenter infrastructure. He has also architected and developed several leading Windows policy management products which have been licensed by Microsoft, NetIQ, Compaq, Sony, Toshiba and others. Kim holds a BS in Computer Science from Cornell University.

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.

Cricket Liu is an authority on the Domain Name System and the co-author of all of O’Reilly & Associates’ Nutshell Handbooks on DNS, including the classic DNS and BIND. He helps guide the development of Infoblox’s product strategy and service offerings, and serves as a liaison between Infoblox and the technical community. He worked for Hewlett-Packard for nearly ten years, where he ran hp.com, one of the largest corporate domains in the world, and helped found HP’s Internet consulting business. Liu later co-founded his own Internet consulting and training company, Acme Byte & Wire. After Network Solutions acquired Acme Byte & Wire, he became Director of DNS Product Management.

David Lundell, ILM MVP (3 years running), is in his 4th year speaking at TEC, has delivered multiple preconference workshops, including “Identity All Up” which covered ILM 2, CLM, AD RMS, and AD FS. 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 and is also an author. As the Identity Management Practice Director for Ensynch he has designed and led several recent Identity Mangement projects including a full blown production implementation of FIM 2010, and is developing add-on reporting capabilities for FIM, and has also served as the SQL expert on several SharePoint implementations.

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.

Einar Mykletun, Ph.D., is the Security and Compliance Architect within R&D 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 product security documentation. He also supports Quest Public Sector in conjunction with government customers’ security and certification concerns, and acts as a bridge between Public Sector and R&D for security and compliance related matters. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, with a focus on Applied Cryptography, from the University of California, Irvine.

Antonio Navarro joined Symlabs as a partner in May 2001. He now serves as president and chief executive officer. His responsibilities include setting strategic direction for the company and asserting its leadership in directory infrastructure and identity management software.Mr. Navarro brings with him extensive experience and expertise from Sun Microsystems as well as a previous role as the Internet architect of Vizzavi, the Internet portal collaboration of Vodafone and Vivendi. In his professional service experience, Mr. Navarro was actively involved in the migration, modification and setup of network architectures for portals and Internet services for telecommunications operators, Internet service providers, insurance companies and online banking services. He designed the system architecture for an Internet portal consisting of more than 800 servers, implemented an LDAP directory, designed standard rack-based network components and automatic installation processes.Mr. Navarro has a master’s degree in telecommunications from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and completed his thesis on “Automatically Deallocated Distributed Shared Memory” at the Technical University of Denmark.

Dave is a the OCG US Practice Manager and Senior Architect at Oxford Computer Group where he runs the US consulting practice but also still keeps his hand in designing and delivering complex identity and access management solutions. Dave has vast experience with identity management principles and technology and directory services, and has hands-on experience with Microsoft Identity Management solutions from Zoomit to FIM. Long ago, Dave was editor and chief correspondent of The DIM Report, an identity management newsletter and website (no longer published).

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.

Jeremy Palenchar is 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 for Avanade’s Fortune 500 clients. 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.

John Policelli (Microsoft MVP for Directory Services, MCTS, MCSA, ITSM, iNet+, Network+, and A+) is a solutions-focused IT consultant with over a decade of combined success in architecture, security, strategic planning, and disaster recovery planning. Policelli has designed and implemented dozens of complex directory service, e-Messaging, web, networking, and security enterprise solutions. He has spent the past 10 years focused on Identity and Access Management and providing thought leadership for some of the largest installations of Active Directory in Canada. He has been involved as an author, technical reviewer, and subject matter expert for over 50 training, exam writing, press, and whitepaper projects related to Windows Server 2008 Identity and Access Management, networking, and collaboration.

Michel Prompt founded Radiant Logic in 1996 with a vision to use innovative technology to address the growing need to aggregate and integrate the disparate silos of information proliferating across the enterprise. Prior to founding Radiant Logic, Prompt served as Senior Vice President of Client/Server Technology at Knowledgeware, now known as Sterling Software. In 1986, Prompt founded Matesys SA in France, a company dedicated to providing services and database support. Prompt founded Matesys Corp. in the U.S. in 1991, becoming one of the pioneer companies in client/server technology. Prompt successfully sold the company to Knowledgeware in 1993. Prior to Matesys, Prompt was a core developer in the database group of the GCOS 7.0 Operating System for Bull Systems. He also served as a consultant to Cap Sogeti Gemini, one of the largest IT service companies in Europe. Prompt received his diploma from Institut Politiques de Paris (Political Sciences Institute of Paris). He has a Masters degree in applied mathematics from Paris Dauphine University and received a diploma of advanced studies in computer science from Paris Dauphine University.

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.

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, he started a consulting company focused on building, designing and supporting networks built around a Microsoft Windows infrastructure. He 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, Shell 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 last several years building his PowerShell skillset and assisting/persuading others in building theirs.

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.

Joel Silver is a System Engineer on the Microsoft IT Identity Management Team where he is responsible for the Microsoft IT implementation and architecture of Forefront Identity Manager. The Microsoft IT Forefront Identity Manager implementation is the primary tool that will be used to manage groups and all AD objects in the future. Joel is also responsible for the FIM system used to sync Active Directory objects and attributes within all internal forests at Microsoft. Joel has been involved in multiple identity management projects that deal with FIM, metrics, Sarbanes-Oxley, and other IT solutions. Joel has extensive experience with IT applications at Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft Joel was a test lead for a Seattle company that specialized in connecting IT systems.

Bob Tucker is an Identity Architect and co-founder of the North American subsidiary of the Oxford Computer Group. Bob has extensive background in Identity and Access Management deployments beginning with MIIS 2003 through to the newest release of Forefront Identity Manager.

Now in is his fourth year as an ILM MVP, Brad Turner is a project-oriented veteran of the Information Technology industry. He has taken a lead technical role in successful projects for large government and education entities, as well as mid-sized and enterprise corporations. His areas of expertise include enterprise, directory, and identity management architecture, systems integration, as well as domain and systems management. Brad’s solutions have won several worldwide partner awards.

Dean Wells has been working in the information technology industry since 1987. His roles and experience have been varied and include software development, training, systems security consulting and enterprise-systems design & implementation. Wells has been training and presenting for about 15 years and has hosted hundreds of technical training courses for end-users and Microsoft technical staff alike. He is also a commonplace speaker at popular industry events such as NetWorld Interop, TechEd and the Directory Experts Conferences. He has been working with Active Directory since its inception, and earlier in various beta releases, since 1999. A few years later, Wells was awarded Microsoft’s MVP designation in Directory Services and Security. Most recently, he joined the Directory Services product group at Microsoft where he now works as a Senior Program Manager.

Ying Xie is a Sr. Manager of Technology Delivery at INgage Networks, a leading provider of enterprise social software solutions to businesses and government agencies. In the past 20 years, Ying has been architecting and building business solutions that have improved people’s personal and professional lives. Ying has extensive experience in developing SSO/IAM solutions and has developed a generic SSO/IAM solution framework for business services companies. Ying is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and Certified Scrum Master. Ying has a MBA from Duke University, Masters in Computer Science from Clemson University and a Bachelor in Mathematics from Wuhan University.

Joe Zamora is a senior consultant in the Identity Management practice at Ensynch. Joe has 10 years experience in development, is the author of the CShark blog: http://c–shark.blogspot.com/, and has published several projects on Codeplex for the FIM 2010 community.