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Jeffrey Apa
Jeffrey Apa is the Manager
of Data Center and Services at Loyola University. He is
a technical manager that is responsible for a ten member
systems engineering team that supports multiple
platforms and technologies across several independent
business units, each of whom have unique and diverse
needs. Jeffrey has an
IT background of infrastructure management (systems,
networks, telephony, web-hosting) and engineering work.
His specialties include: 1) Track record of increasing
responsibility in systems and IT management, 2)
Demonstrated ability to design and implement solutions,
built for both high availability and scalability, 3)
Advanced experience with Microsoft solutions, including
Windows, IIS, Exchange and Active Directory, and 4) Advanced
experience with EMC’s CLARiiON line of storage solutions. Jeffrey received
a BA in History from the University of Illinois at
Chicago.
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Dean
Campbell
Dean D.
Campbell is one of Hitachi Data Systems' 3 Principal Global Consultants
and covers the areas of economics, resiliency, virtualization and
strategy. His most recent Masters Thesis was "The Economic
Quantification of Operation Risk, History and Trends" in 2006.
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Harry
Katch
Harry
Katch has been involved with x86-based Technology for more than 20
years, going back to 8086 Processors. He has done every level of work
from building early desktops and servers from commodity components to
designing and implementing networks that encompass tens of thousands of
desktops, thousands of servers and more than a petabyte of data.
Currently, he is responsible for x86/x64 Technology at GE Healthcare to
include Windows Server Operating Systems, VMware ESX, Red Hat Enterprise
Linux, and Wintel Server Standards. Harry was the lead architect to
bring VMware ESX to GE Healthcare growing from the ground up to more
than a 100 ESX Hosts worldwide and over 1400 Virtual Machines. Harry
holds a variety of training classes and certifications including from
Microsoft, VMware, Brocade and Network Appliance. Harry lives in
Cambridge, Wisconsin with his wife and 4 daughters.
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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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Shane O'Donnell
Shane
O'Donnell is VP of Engineering for BlueStripe Software. O'Donnell brings
nearly two decades of engineering excellence, strategic vision and execution in
both network design and management. He held leadership positions with
Cisco Systems,
including software strategist & architect where he was responsible for the use
of open source technologies in embedded systems and management products. Prior
to Cisco, O'Donnell served as CTO at Oculan Corporation, where he led the design
and development of OpenNMS and Oculan's award-winning suite of products. At
BlueStripe, O'Donnell oversees all product engineering and research efforts.
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Mark
Riddle
Mark has over twenty-five years of software industry experience,
including ten years in SaaS and six in virtualization. His
background includes Development and Data Center Operations, as
well as Product Management/Marketing, Sales, Account Management,
and Customer Support. Mark ran the Critical Situations and
Global Response Teams at Tivoli Systems/IBM, was Director of
Sales Engineering at 2ndWave, and held various consulting and
technical positions at NCR and AT&T.
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Jim
Sim
Jim Sim has lead IT
Operations teams in such global organizations as Siemens and Stericycle
Inc. before arriving at Nippon Express as the Data Center Solutions
Manager. He is responsible for planning and implementing infrastructure
solutions that will support Nippon Express business requirements while
utilizing technologies that provide maximum return on investment and
reduce the cost of operations. Jim is MSCE (Microsoft Certified
Systems Engineer) and CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) certified and has
been in the IT industry since 1998.
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Steve
Susina
 Steve
Susina has more than 20 years of engineering and marketing experience in the
telecommunications and IT industries and currently serves as Director of
Marketing for Laurus Technologies, a business consulting and IT solutions
provider based in Itasca, IL. Previously, he was Senior Product Manager for
UTStarcom's fixed/mobile convergence product line, and has also held various
sales, marketing and engineering roles at Tellabs and AT&T. His speaking
experience includes technology conferences around the world on such topics
as IT & business strategy, optical networking, compliance and identity
management and mobile communications. Susina holds a BS in Electrical
Engineering from Marquette University and an MBA from the University of
Pittsburgh.
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