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Speakers at the Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity
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Jon Toigo
 Jon
William Toigo is CEO and Managing Partner of Toigo Partners International LLC. Toigo is a 20-year IT
veteran who has worked in corporate information systems departments and as a
senior consultant with two international systems integrators.
Toigo
has published over 1000 articles in the computer trade press for
publications ranging from Computerworld, Network Computing, Scientific
American, and Washington Technology to Enterprise Systems, SearchStorage,
TidalWire, and Network World. Jon has also written thirteen books,
including Disaster Recovery Planning,3rd
Edition: Preparing for the Unthinkable, The Holy Grail of
Data Storage Management, and
The Essential Guide to ASPs.
In
addition to his work in print, Toigo provides consulting and analysis
services to a broad range of international clients, ranging from technology
vendors to corporate end users to consumers. He has
developed disaster recovery plans for 68 organizations and helped to form
one of the first DR user groups in the US, the Disaster Avoidance and
Recovery Information Group (DARING) in the late 1980s. Toigo
holds a Master of Arts from The Catholic University of America in
Washington, DC, and is widely regarded as an expert in the areas of data
storage technology and its management, IT business value assessment, and
disaster recovery planning. He has spoken at professional conferences
around the world and periodically delivers instructional programs within the
MBA and Computer Science Departments of leading colleges and universities.
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Steve Colby
Mr. Colby
joined Grant Thornton in 2005 as the Manager of Disaster
Recovery/Business Continuity services. He is currently responsible for
all Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity services for Grant Thornton’s
US IT Infrastructure. During Mr. Colby’s 20 year career in IT he
has served in numerous roles, including Systems Programmer for Sears
Technology Services, Infrastructure Experienced Manager for Arthur
Andersen LLP, Director of Platforms and Services for Mid-States
Corporate FCU and now Manager of Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
at Grant Thornton LLP.
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Joe Parla
Mr. Parla
joined Grant Thornton in 2006 as the Business Continuity Architect. He is
currently responsible for architecting all Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity
services for Grant Thornton’s US IT Infrastructure.
Mr. Parla
has over 35 years of IT experience including positions with IBM, Time, GTE, the
Federal Reserve System, and Grant Thornton LLP. Mr. Parla
holds the following certificates: Certified Business
Continuity Planner (CBCP), Certified
Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Microsoft Certified
Systems Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified
System Administrator (MCSA)
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Chris Hyrne
 Chris Hyrne is responsible for
product management, product marketing and communications worldwide. He
brings over 20 years experience to Topio in the high technology industry.
Prior to joining Topio Chris served as Vice President at Invio, a
leading provider of software to automate and control enterprise data storage
operations. Prior to Invio, he was responsible for corporate and product
marketing operations at Asera, a provider of business-to-business eCommerce
software. There, he also served as Vice President of the Asera/Accenture
strategic alliance. Before Asera, Chris was Vice President of Marketing for
Prism Solutions, a data warehousing pioneer. He has also held senior
management positions in Sales, Product Marketing, and Business Development
at IBM and Taligent. Mr. Hyrne graduated from Santa Clara University with a
BS in Economics.
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Doug
Chamberlain
 Doug Chamberlain
brings more than six-years storage industry experience and joined
Spectra Logic in 2005 as product manager. He currently oversees the
competitive positioning, development, strategic planning and research
for three Spectra Logic tape and disk product lines. Chamberlain has
nearly a decade in strategic planning and Web-based business development
experience. Prior to joining Spectra Logic, Chamberlain founded The
Strategics Group, LLC, a consulting practice; and co-founded Summit
Internet / 247 Sales, an e-commerce services provider. Chamberlain
previously held positions as vice president of sales and marketing for
Sports Vision Technologies and product manager for Exabyte, Inc.
Chamberlain earned a master’s of business administration from the
University of Colorado at Boulder, and a bachelor’s of arts degree in
economics from California State in San Bernardino.
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Matthew J. Wenzler
Matthew has a strong international background in providing
consulting services for the deployment of secure networks, disaster
recovery solutions and complex managed web hosting environments. He
managed the deployment of the largest European financial fund exchanges
network. Matthew has worked with financial institutions, healthcare,
automotive, and legal organizations to deploy IT environments with a
focus on security and performance. He is often sought after as a subject
matter expert and speaker on IT Disaster Recovery and Risk Mitigation.
He has more than 13 years experience in Technology based fields focusing
on Internet Security Systems, eBusiness Hosting, Disaster Recovery and
Data Networks. Matthew earned a Bachelor of Science degree with high
honors in Marketing from the University of Connecticut. He is a member
of the Beta Gamma Sigma, the Honor Society for Collegiate Schools of
Business. He also attended the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
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Anthony Hopp
Anthony Hopp co-founded
EOS, Inc. in 1995 with the primary purpose of creating a private,
nationwide computer network for bankers.
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Raymond Parpart
Raymond is Chief Architect at Electro-Motive Diesels
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Philip Bruce Waid
 Philip Bruce Waid is Director of Information Systems at Nation
Pizza Products. He has a
BA in Mathematics from
the University of Illinois Chicago in 1973 and an
MS in Information Engineering, also from UIC, in 1981, He
holds an
MCSE/MCSA Windows 2000/2003. Bruce has been an
Instructor at the College of DuPage from 1983 to the present
covering Microsoft
Networking/Security/Exchange. He has been a consultant in the data
processing field from 1974 until 1998. Previously he was
Director of Information Systems at Richelieu Foods from 1998-1999
and
Director of Information Systems and then joined Nation Pizza Products
in 1999.
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Marcos Archilla
 Marcos
Archilla is the Director of Technical Operations for the Catholic
Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Marcos has been with Catholic
Charities for over 10 years. He has worked in the non-profit arena for
over 13 years and in corporate for over 2 years. He received his
Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from DeVry Institute
of Technology in 1994. In his current position he manages the day to
day operations including – Network Operations, Field Operations, Help
Desk Operations and Telco Operations. While in this position he has led
Catholic Charities into the leading edge of Disaster Recovery by
implementing an IP San. He is currently in the midst of rewriting their
DR plan. He is also currently working on phase 2 of the DR plan to
replicate critical data to off site storage. Marcos Archilla was
featured in an article about Catholic Charities deployment of an IP San
on Stonefly Networks website. This article was also published in Byte
and Switch in November 1, 2005. He has been an advisor for other
organizations looking to make the switch to an IP San or Disk 2 Disk 2
Tape option.
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Tim Endisch
Tim Endisch is an
IT Consultant with over twenty-five years of varying capacities in
the industry. With experience in both the technical and
director-level aspects of business continuity, he can speak to the
issues and concerns that arise on both sides. As a technician, Tim
has been involved in everything from architecture and design to
offsite testing exercises. As a project manager, he has coordinated
Business Impact Analyses, been involved with mission critical
application definition and helped design and build D/R requirement
and scope definition documentation. As a Director, Tim has had the
opportunity to work with executive-level management personnel to not
only build a case for the justification of appropriate resources
(critical on both the financial and personal fronts) to build an
effective team, but has also had success in getting the respective
buy-in and support from those same executives. As the MIS
Operations Director at Harnischfeger Corporation (d.b.a. P&H Mining
Equipment) he has also coordinated the assembly of a complete
Business Continuity team for a world-wide multi-million dollar
operation.
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David Edborg
David Edborg is a
Solutions Architect for Topio. Prior to his work at Topio, Mr.
Edborg served as a Solutions Architect for EMC and was the Solution
Design Manager for Comdisco’s Advanced Recovery & Storage Solutions
Division. Mr. Edborg has implemented high availability and internal
recovery solutions for many of Fortune’s top 500 Companies.
Before joining
Comdisco, Mr. Edborg held various positions at Computer Associates
where he gained significant commercial software development
experience in the areas of NCSC approved computer security software
and enterprise management software. As a talented
speaker and author, Mr. Edborg has designed and presented coursework
on topics ranging from the “ABC’s of Disaster Recovery” to “How to
Survive the Big One”. David Edborg has
pursued post-graduate studies in Computer Science at Illinois
Institute of Technology, he holds a masters degree in Mathematics
and Computer Science in Education from Concordia University and a
bachelor’s degree in Information Systems from Purdue University.
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Darren Gourley
Darren Gourley is
a Sr. Product Specialist focused on the storage industry for Sirius
Computer Solutions. Mr. Gourley architects storage related solutions
(Backup/Recovery, Disaster Recovery, Consolidation, Virtualization,
Archiving, ILM) for SMB and Fortune 500 companies.
Prior to his work
at Sirius, Mr. Gourley served as a Sr. Technical Consultant for EMC
architecting storage solutions for SMB companies in the following
verticals: Manufacturing, Financial Services, Retail,
Healthcare/Hospitals, Insurance and Banking. Before joining
EMC, Mr. Gourley held various positions at Silicon Graphics where he
gained experience and knowledge with architecting and implementing
solutions for SMB and Fortune 500 companies within the following
disciplines: HPC, CAD/CAM, graphics, storage. Darren Gourley
holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems from
Ball State University. Mr. Gourley also holds storage certifications
from IBM, Network Appliance, and EMC.
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