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 Brian Bakstran
Brian Bakstran is currently vice president, worldwide product marketing at CA.
Previous to this position, Brian was senior vice president of North American
field marketing responsible for; organizational operations, branding/marketing
campaigns, communications, Canadian PR, tele-prospecting and business unit
planning. His responsibilities span across all marketing channels which include
direct sales, resellers, distributors, global solution integrators and value
channels. Brian joined the company in 2005. Prior to joining CA, Brian was
director, worldwide corporate marketing for Concord Communications, a global
software company, where he led worldwide campaigns and telesales initiatives. He
also was instrumental in a prior position with Ziplink, Inc. as part of the
senior management team that helped launch the company's successful $50 million
IPO. Bakstran also held senior level marketing positions with Nortel Networks
and Digital Equipment Corporation. Brian served on the board of directors
for The Wellness Cancer Institute of Boston. He earned his bachelor of arts
degree in economics from Framingham State College and studied business
administration with a marketing concentration at Northeastern University.
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 Erik
Dahl
Erik Dahl is the CTO & Co-Founder
of Zenoss. Erik began developing the Zenoss software in
2002 after first hand, and frustrating, experiences with several
of the leading IT management solutions at the time. Since then,
he has built out a world class development organization and
delivered on his vision of a fully integrated and complete IT
management solution. Prior to Zenoss, Erik was a senior
architect at USinternetworking, where he led strategy and
development of USi's global monitoring infrastructure. Erik also
directed product development at Meta4, and managed IT operations
at Cornell University Medical College. Erik is a graduate of the
College of Wooster, and has completed graduate work in computer
music at Brooklyn College and mathematics at Ecole Polytechnique
Federale in Lausanne,
Switzerland. When
he is not in front of the computer, Erik can be found racing
sailboats, making music, or riding his bike.
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 Fred Kwong
Fred Kwong has been in the information technology field for the past 10+
years in consulting, engineering, management, and director level
positions. He currently works at a U.S. Cellular as the Senior
Information Security Manager. He works on all network and security
related activities including project management, access and identity
management, and security architecture. Fred has a passion of combining
IT skills with organization development values. His broad range of IT
skills has allowed him to view IT from many different paradigms and
present them to the business partners in an easy to understand language.
Fred is also an adjunct professor at Roosevelt University teaching
courses in international business and organization behavior. He holds a
Ph.D. from Benedictine University and is a certified project management
professional.
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 Alfred
Landrum
Alfred Landrum manages a global team of
consulting engineers at Riverbed Technology, and has a background in
operating systems development and distributed storage systems. He
spent the first few years at Riverbed helping to develop both
network integration and file optimization components, and is an
inventor on various Riverbed patents. He now leads a team of
consultants that work with Riverbed's largest and most complex
customer deployments, ensuring that they are getting the most
benefit from their IT performance infrastructure.
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 Sevan
Muradian
A
technology professional for over 12 years, with a background in
consulting, customer-side IT leadership, and vendor side sales
engineering, Mr. Muradian brings a vast array of experience across
multiple industries including financial services, telecommunications,
and education. Currently Mr. Muradian is a sales engineer for KACE
Networks, the leader in integrated systems management for multiple
platforms. Mr. Muradian's areas of specialty are information
security and systems management, having deployed best of breed solutions
through enterprise scale framework solutions. Mr. Muradian holds
his MS in Information Systems along with the professional designations
of CISSP and CISA. Additionally he has been adjunct faculty for
Northwestern University since 2001 instructing courses in computer
networking, information security, and IT risk management.
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 Mark Phinick
Mark Phinick
has over 20 years of experience helping clients leverage
innovative technology for overall increased efficiency and cost
saving. In his current position at BigFix, Mark helps to
educate clients on how to reduce spending on software licenses,
infrastructure costs and PC energy
consumption while ensuring continuous endpoint protection
and regulatory compliance. Prior to joining BigFix, Mark held
similar positions at IBM, webMethods,
Forté Software and other companies
delivering ‘breakthrough’ technologies that have since become
mainstream solutions.
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 Annur
Sumar
Annur
Sumar is a Vice President of IT for Duff & Phelps. One of the
world’s leading independent financial advisory firms serving client
needs in the areas of valuation, investment banking and transaction
advice, and dispute consulting. Annur is responsible for planning,
designing, engineering and implementing the underlying technology
infrastructure for Duff & Phelps ranging from the Datacenter to the
Desktop. Prior to joining Duff & Phelps, Annur served as a Senior
Consultant for Unified Synergies, LLC a leading Technology Consulting
firm in the area of Strategic Infrastructure Design and Technology
driven Business Intelligence, positioning and designing strategic
technology driven process improvements for clients by aligning IT
Services, Engineering best practices, Operations Management, and
Helpdesk Support to lower Total Cost of Ownership and raise Return on
Investments. Annur’s most recent accomplishments for Q1 of 2009 at Duff
& Phelps includes the planning, designing and engineering of a Server
Consolidation / Virtualization Architecture and a Unified Infrastructure
Strategy based on the (MOF) Microsoft Operations Framework Model.
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 Kim
Tracy
Kim W.
Tracy was appointed Executive Director of University Computing at Northeastern
Illinois University in 2005. Prior to this, Mr. Tracy held various technology
and management positions in the Bell Labs division of Lucent Technologies and
AT&T, beginning in 1985. Mr. Tracy has taught computer science in various
Chicago-area universities since 1989 and has co-authored a textbook with another
one in draft. Mr. Tracy received dual Bachelor of Science degrees Mathematics
and Computer Science from the University of Missouri—Rolla and his Masters of
Science degree in computer science from Stanford University. He is a senior
member of the IEEE (and formerly editor in chief of IEEE Potentials
magazine) and a member of ACM. The Executive Director of University
Computing provides the leadership and support for all computing, academic
technology, and telecommunications for the University. University Computing
Services includes administrative, student, and faculty systems as well as
support for all computing infrastructure.
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 Scott Warner
Scott Warner
has spent the past 8 years as an information technology consultant providing
networking, hardware and application expertise to clients throughout the Chicago
area. His experience spans the education, financial, pharmaceutical and
manufacturing industries. He is currently employed at Hart, Schaffner and Marx
as the Technical Operations Manager, where he has worked to streamline IT
operations across the enterprise. Scott holds a Bachelors degree in Management
Information Systems.
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 David Wieczorek
David Wieczorek currently serves as Network Manager of Infrastructure Services
and Technologies at Loyola University Chicago. For the past twenty years, David
has directed multiple work groups regarding networking and telecommunications
initiatives, along with serving as the lead on many projects relating to the
design of network infrastructure. In addition, he acts as the institutional
representative to ACUTA, RESNET, Internet 2, and EDUCAUASE. As manager of the
network infrastructure division, David has overseen the expansion of Loyola
University’s network capacity, including wireless, keeping pace with the daily
demand of highly intensive and new applications. Along with his team, David
worked to implement a Network Access Control application that insures network
integrity. Overall, David has managed many departmental moves, remodeling
projects, as well as new building construction initiatives that have raised the
number of network connections at Loyola University to roughly 4,000 phones and
over 20,000 network ports.
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