Infrastructure Architect // Unisys

Deji Akomolafe specializes in Windows infrastructure design, implementation and restructure. A presenter at DEC 2005, an MCT and MVP, Deji represents Unisys in various capacities presenting complex technical subject matters, conducting assessments, evaluating and critiquing proposals and introducing emerging technologies and best practices to clients. Deji is a frequent and visible contributor on various technical discussions, mailing lists and newsgroups.

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Senior Infrastructure Consultant // LogicaCMG

Jorge is a Senior Infrastructure Consultant within LogicaCMG and is based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Jorge has been active in IT since 1997. He worked for CMG since 1999 and now for LogicaCMG after the merger between Logica and CMG at the end of 2002. Jorge has worked with Windows infrastructures since 1997, and he specializes in Windows Server and Active Directory. With the technical background he has developed, he has proven hands-on experience with Windows Server and Active Directory in areas like analysis, designing, implementations, migrations, troubleshooting and recovery. Jorge is MCSE certified and enjoys writing articles about Windows Server and/or Active Directory. He is also a frequent contributors and active member of the ActiveDir forum/mailing list and Microsoft Active Directory newsgroups on the internet. His blog can be found at: http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/default.aspx.

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Software Architect // BMC Software

Pick up photo from dEC 07 Spring Jeff Bohren is a Software Architect in the Identity Management Business Unit at BMC Software. He has a MS and BS in Aerospace Engineering and has nearly 20 years of software product development experience. Jeff is the chair of the OASIS PS TC (SPML).

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Director // Oxford Computer Group

James Booth has more than 18 years of experience as a system architect and designer, almost exclusively involved with directory services and identity management, though with some messaging and line of business software development thrown in for good measure. He has a deep technical understanding of directory and identity management technologies, particularly Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 (MIIS). James has developed a number of tools and components to accelerate MIIS 2003 solutions delivery. Prior to joining Oxford Computer Group, James was Group Program Manager on the MIIS team at Microsoft; he led the program management team responsible for the design and specification of MIIS 2003, Microsoft’s flagship identity management product. James joined Microsoft as a result of the acquisition of ZOOMIT Corporation, makers of the world’s first metadirectory product, where he was Director of Professional Services & Product Support. Prior to that James enjoyed a successful career as a directory services architect in the telecommunications industry.

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Senior Consultant // Oxford Computer Group

Chris Calderon is a Senior Consultant at Oxford Computer Group North America. Chris specializes in the delivery of Microsoft based technologies and enterprise solutions around identity management and directory services. He has extensive experience in designing and implementing technologies involving ILM (MIIS), ADFS, and Infrastructure Security around the Windows platform.

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Program Manager, Windows Server // Microsoft

Robert DeLuca is a Program Manager in the Windows Server group at Microsoft. He acts as a customer liaison for the product group, providing design and deployment guidance to Microsoft's largest directory services customers. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2000, DeLuca was an infrastructure consultant for a Microsoft partner and has been working with Active Directory since 1998.

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Consultant // Nulli Secundus

Pamela Dingle is a consultant with Nulli Secundus (http://www.nulli.com), and has worked with various directory, web access management, provisioning, and identity management products and other LDAP-enabled technologies since 1999. Pamela has a UNIX system administration background, but owns no birkenstock sandals. She has recently been seen wearing Microsoft tshirts around the office, and is rumored to have dabbled with the 'dark' side of the force.

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Windows Server Networking Technical Specialist // Microsoft

Mark Foust is a Directory and Identity Management TechnicalSpecialist for the Greater Southeast District of Microsoft. Mark came from Novell, where he was a consultant and project manager. In his six years at Microsoft, he has written or contributed to three technical books around Directory Services and Server Administration as well as worked in consulting, support and pre-sales technical roles. He is a frequent speaker at events and has more than a decade of enterprise architecture experience.

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Senior Consultant // Hewlett Packard

Guido Grillenmeier is a Master Technologist within the Advanced Technology Group at Hewlett Packard. Based in Germany, Guido deals primarily with global Windows infrastructure deployments and migrations, designing and implementing efficient Active Directory security and delegation models for HP's customers. His current focus is helping HP customers to make a smooth transition to 64-bit Windows. Guido has been a speaker at various conferences such as Microsoft Exchange, IT-Forum, Windows Connections and the Directory Experts Conference (DEC). He was one of five developers and tutors for HP's Windows Server 2003 Academies and is currently leading the development of the Windows Server 2008 Academies. Guido has been a Microsoft MVP for Directory Services since 2004 and is a Microsoft Certified Architect. He is the co-author of "Microsoft Windows Security Fundamentals" (Digital Press).

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Directory Services Architect // Cisco

David Jones has worked in the field formally known as Directory Services for the past 17 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.

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Director of Projects and Services // SAPIEN Technologies

Don Jones is a nationally recognized author, instructor, speaker, and consultant, with more than a decade of experience in the Information Technology industry. Don is the author of nearly two dozen published works on IT subjects, is a regular speaker at national conferences like Windows Connections, Microsoft TechEd, and TechMentor, and is a regular columnist for Microsoft TechNet Magazine. He is a multiple-year recipient of Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award.

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Application Architect // Accenture

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 in Active Directory Federation Services. He is the co-author of The .NET Developer's Guide to DirectoryServices Programming (Addison-Wesley, 2006). Joe can be found online at www.directoryprogramming.net and www.joekaplan.net.

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Senior Consultant // Oxford Computer Group

Dmitry Kazantsev began his career in the identity management arena with a large Midwest healthcare provider. In his position with Oxford Computer Group, he is the architect and technical lead on multiple projects. His experience includes designing and coding several Extensible Management Agents for MIIS, Such as IBM 360 DB2, Native SQL Server User MA, IBM UniData MA, etc.

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Chief Technology Officer // FullArmor Corporation

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

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Chief Technology Officer // NetPro

Gil Kirkpatrick, NetPro's Chief Technical Officer, is an expert in the design and development of large-scale distributed software for enterprise networks. Kirkpatrick is the recipient of a 2005 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award and has more than 26 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 NetPro's Director of Engineering, Kirkpatrick was responsible for the development of NetPro's directory management products and served as the architect and lead engineer for the Company's flagship product, DirectoryAnalyzer. Kirkpatrick joined NetPro in 1994 when his company, High Technology Systems, was acquired by NetPro. Kirkpatrick is the author of Active Directory Programming, published by MacMillan USA.

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Directory Services Architect // Hewlett Packard

Wook Lee is a Directory Service Architect within Hewlett-Packard Company’s Managed Services Division. Formerly an architect with Compaq Computer Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation, he is a veteran of two major merger/acquisition-related directory integration efforts, the first involving the Exchange 5.5 global address list integration during the Compaq-Digital acquisition and the most recent involving Active Directory during the HP-Compaq acquisition. A graduate of Harvard College, he was a high school math teacher in a former life. After spending decades in Massachusetts and Michigan, he now enjoys the milder climate of San Diego with his wife and three children.

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Vice President, Operations // Oxford Computer Group

David Lundell, MIIS MVP, has trained employees from over 20 different organizations on how to implement MIIS teaching both Oxford's 2731 and A-504. David earned an MBA and a BS in Computer Engineering both from the University of Arizona, where he was a National Merit Scholar. David certifications include: MCSE, MCITP: Database Administrator, MCITP: Database Developer, MCITP: Business Intelligence Developer, MCSD, CCNA, CNA, MCDBA and is an author. In his current role as VP of Operations for Oxford Computer Group, David has been architect on several recent projects including run profile optimizing, automating provisioning, and web portal development for onboarding new users.

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President and Chief Technology Officer // SDM Software, Inc.

Darren Mar-Elia is President and Chief Technology Officer of SDM Software, Inc. - a Group Policy solutions company. He has over 20 years combined experience in information technology and software development. He was Sr. Director of Product Engineering at DesktopStandard (recently acquired by Microsoft)and prior to that, served as Chief Technology Officer for Windows management solutions at Quest Software. He was also a director of distributed systems at Charles Schwab & Co. and helped guide that company's use of Microsoft Windows technologies. Darren has written or contributed to 11 books on Windows management topics and is a Microsoft MVP for Group Policy technology. He also created the popular gpoguy.com website for information and utilities related to Group Policy.

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Director // Oxford Computer Group

Craig Martin has spent more than 10 years in the IT industry following his passion for distributed systems management and development. Five years as an identity management consultant earned him over half a million travelled air miles, and a wealth of customer experience in design, deployments, design reviews and training. A recognized expert in metadirectory, provisioning, and directory integration, Craig was recently nominated for the MVP designation by the Microsoft product group. Prior to joining Oxford Computer Group, Craig was a Senior Consultant for Microsoft.

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Identity & Access Management Sales Solutions Professional // Microsoft

Anthony Morgante is a Microsoft Sales Solutions Professional specializing in Directories and Identities technologies out of New York . Prior to Microsoft he worked for Ernst & Young as a lead architect for its Active Directory Infrastructure, and the firm’s MIIS/ADAM global implementation. Anthony was the technical lead and project manager in deploying a global, centralized identity management solution in order to provide Single Sign-On capabilities.

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Identity Architect // Oxford Computer Group

Dave Nesbitt is an Identity Architect at Oxford Computer Group where he designs, develops, and implements complex Identity Management architectures for Oxford's customers based on MIIS. Dave has many years experience with identity management and directories - from X.500 systems whilst in the Royal Air Force in the mid-90s, the Zoomit metadirectory that became MMS, LDAP-based provisioning systems and now MIIS. Dave used to run the DIM Report, a website and newsletter dedicated to Identity Management.

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Vice President and Research Director // Burton Group, Identity & Privacy Strategies

Mike Neuenschwander is the VP and Research Director of Burton Group’s Identity and Privacy Strategies Service.  His areas of focus are identity management, directory services, meta-directories, access management, federation, privacy and identity theft.  Neuenschwander has 12 years of network industry experience as a writer, product designer, product manager, and industry analyst. His past experience includes working on projects for NDS 8 eDirectory, DirXML, and ZENworks at Novell, Inc. He also pioneered the use of XML and middleware in directories and is a founding member of DSML. In 1998 Neuenschwander received the Novell President's Award.

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Senior Infrastructure Architect // Avanade, Inc.

Jeremy Palenchar is a Senior Infrastructure Architect at Avanade, Inc. where he focuses on Directory Services and Identity Management. Jeremy is responsible for the planning, design, and implementation of Directory Service and Identity Management solutions for Avanade’s Fortune 500 clients.  Jeremy is CISSP and MCSE certified and holds a Batchelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University. He lives and works in sunny, downtown Seattle.

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Security Architect // Progressive Insurance

Brian Picard is a Security Architect responsible for Progressive Insurance’s ILM infrastructure. He has contributed to the ILM Technet Forum, testing of various open source ILM projects and beta testing with ILM 2. He has worked on various aspects of testing and production operations/monitoring for the past 10 years.

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Technology Architect // Microsoft

Brian Puhl is a Technology Architect in the Identity and Access Management team of Microsoft IT, responsible for the internal forests which support Microsoft's 60,000+ employees.  He joined Microsoft just after the release of Windows 2000 and was the primary Active Directory support engineer during the Server 2003 dogfooding and release cycle. He is currently engaged in the internal deployment of Windows Server 2008.

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Technology Specialist // Hewlett-Packard

Joe Richards is a Senior Consultant for HP Messaging Services Delivery working on various Active Directory/Exchange issues to ensure customer environments are running at peak efficiency. He has been a Microsoft MVP in Windows Directory Services, Security, and AD Programming since 2001 and spends inordinate amounts of time trying to figure out new and improved ways to break and then fix Microsoft’s directory service offerings. He also spends time trying to develop new and better ways to manage Enterprise class Windows environments. He is the co-author of the book Active Directory Third Edition from O’Reilly media.

Consultant / Architect // Oxford Computer Group

Patrick Rempel is a Consultant/Architect with Oxford Computer Group, working with global reference implementations of advanced PCNS. Prior to Oxford, Patrick worked as a consultant with Accenture and held a position with Hannover Re.

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Senior Infrastructure Specialist // WaMU

John Serban has worked for the last five years. John is a 20-year information technology industry veteran. Prior to Joining WaMu, John was Principal Network Engineering Consultant and Program Director for Strategic Technologies and a Programmer/Analyst for Jacksonville University.

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Senior Consultant // Titus International, Inc.

Andy Schan is a Senior Consultant with Titus International, where he has specialized in large-scale RMS deployments. He also has an extensive background in Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange design and deployment. He has co-authored a book on Exchange Server 2007, focusing on the RMS integration and message classification features.

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Technologist // Microsoft

Joel Silver is a Technologist on the Microsoft IT Identity Management Team where he is responsible for the Microsoft IT implementation and architecture of MIIS. The Microsoft IT MIIS implementation is the primary tool 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 MIIS, metrics, Sarbanes-Oxley, and other IT solutions.

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Consultant, Microsoft Platforms // Computacenter AG & Co.

Ulf 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, Ulf 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.

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Identity Management Consultant

Joseph Stepongzi is a Microsoft MVP for MIIS and is the main architect and developer of one of the Top 5 largest MIIS implementations in the world.  He also has worked with the Microsoft Document Team on the MIIS Extensible Connectivity Management Agent Getting Started Documents and is a regular contributor to the MIIS webforums and the Yahoo MIIS newsgroups.

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Architect, Identity & Access // Ensynch

Now in is his second year as an MIIS 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.

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Software Architect // Version3, Inc.

Richard Wakeman is a Microsoft MVP for MIIS and specializes in Identity Management solutions. He is one of the leaders of the Identity Management team at C2 Systems and has designed and created world-class IDM products for the Version3 Simple Sign-On product suite providing SSO solutions that integrate with Microsoft's Active Directory. Richard’s primary focus has been on creating unprecedented-scale and highly-acclaimed MIIS solutions for the largest U.S. K-12 school systems and corporations.

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ILM Group Program Manager // Microsoft

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.

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Director, Technology Solutions // MSEtechnology

Dean Wells has worked in the information technology industry since 1987, providing consulting and training services on a variety of platforms including the original versions of DOS and CPM through Solaris, Novell NetWare, Windows, Linux, VMware ESX Server and the Apple Macintosh. He is the Director of Technology Solutions and co-founder of MSEtechnology, a global consulting/training organization headquartered in South Florida. Dean has presented at a number of technical seminars/shows including NetWorld Interop and TechEd, as well as DEC. Dean is a Microsoft MVP in Directory Services and Security and holds a number of other Microsoft and third-party industry certifications.

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Program Manager, Group Policy // Microsoft

Mark Williams joined Microsoft in 1997, as a Technical Support Manager in the Premier Support organization. Over the next few years - as a TAM and Application Development Consultant - he managed support delivery to various types of organizations, including ISVs, OEMs and enterprise customers. In January 2000 Mark moved into a role as a Support Program Manager for Microsoft TV until his move into the Group Policy team as a Program Manager in 2003. Mark has presented at numerous conferences since then including TechEd, MMS and customer briefings for visitors to Microsoft campus. Outside of work Mark lives in the Seattle area with his wife and two children and enjoys visiting his extended family back in the UK, from which he and his wife hail. He enjoys road cycling, is a keen soccer fan and recently obtained his private pilot's license.

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