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Speakers at the Disaster Recovery - Business Continuity -
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Marcin Budzik
Over the last year, in the new role as the Company’s IT
Security & Compliance Officer, at Fort Dearborn Company, who faces new
challenges, including Data Security, Risk Management and Disaster
Recovery. During the tenure with Fort Dearborn, Marcin instigated a
number of programs and initiatives including rigid Problem and Change
Management, Risk Management and Systems Monitoring. Lead company’s first
Disaster Recovery program which resulted a first comprehensive DR Plan
and an off-site DR location. Current challenges include moving to a new
DR site and re-evaluating DR requirements from a risk based and business
impact analysis perspectives. Between 1994 and 1998 worked for
non-for-profit and telecommunication sectors in technical roles
including infrastructure consulting, UNIX and Networking. Through out
his career, Marcin has been a holder of key industry certifications,
including CNE, MSCE, ITIL and most recently CISSP. He is member of
Association of Computing Machinery, IT Infrastructure Association, and
ISC square. He also holds a BA in Computer Science Northeaster
University and graduate degree in Information Systems Management from
Roosevelt University. In spare time, Marcin spends time with his family,
but also he is not a stranger to scuba and wind surfing. He is also an
aspiring marathoner.
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David Chapa
David has invested over 20
years in the computer industry focusing specifically on data
availability, data disaster recovery and business resumption practices.
He has held several senior level technical positions with companies such
as Cheyenne Software, Unisys, OpenVision, NSI Software,
Quantum (formerly ADIC) and now
with NetApp. David is currently
Director, Backup/Recovery Solutions with NetApp. Prior
to NetApp, David served as managing partner and Executive
Director of a thriving consulting organization in the Chicago, IL area
focused in backup storage management and data availability. David was
chief architect of several backup solutions for medium and large sized
companies based on his own philosophical approach to data recovery
planning. Mr. Chapa is an energetic,
dynamic speaker who brings a great deal of experiential knowledge, humor
and keen insights to his audience. He has been a featured speaker at
VERITAS Vision, CA World, Storage World and Chicago Software
Association, served as panelist on various discussions related to
disaster recovery, compliance and the use of disk and tape for backup
and backup/recovery strategies. David is the co-author of “Implementing
Backup and Recovery: The Readiness Guide for the Enterprise” published
by Wiley Technology Publishing and is recognized worldwide as an
authority on the subject of Backup/Recovery and Disaster
Recovery and Business Resumption practices.
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George
Crump
George
Crump is founder of Storage Switzerland. He has been a successful
Senior Sales and Engineering Manager with twenty years of experience
designing storage solutions for IT decision makers across the US. A
proven track record of not only personal sales success but also
developing successful sales people, engineers, product management and
channels. From January 1996 through April 2007,
while working at SANZ, he has held the following positions:
Vice
President and General Manager, SANZ Storage Business, Vice President
SANZ Commercial Division, Vice President of Technology
Regional Manager, Gulf
Coast, and Account Executive.
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John M. Ferenzi
John spent seven of his ten years
with Motorola’s Mobile Devices Business Unit as a Disaster
Recovery Specialist. While at Motorola John has collaborated
with the IT Global Functional Areas and customers in order to
facilitate Global Disaster Recovery Programs and Projects for
his business unit to comply with the Motorola Corporate Security
requirements and standards policies. John has 10 years in
the information technology area as a Disaster Recovery
Specialist, Quality Assurance, Software Development Process and
Information Security. John also has 10 years in the Internal
Audit area. Prior to joining Motorola, John worked for Kemper
Insurance, Capital Bank in
Florida and a
banking holding company for Beverly Bank as an IT Auditor. John
is a Certified Information Systems Auditor and is in the process
of completing his certification as a Certified Business
Continuity Professional.
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Paulette Hradnansky
Paulette
is the Director of Information Security Operations at Motorola, where she
has been involved in establishing, building, implementing and directing
various information security efforts across the enterprise for the last 15
years. In her current role, she has global responsibilities for providing
security services which include the vulnerability remediation program, cyber
emergency response program, computer forensics and electronic discovery
programs, threat analysis, detection and security monitoring programs,
external business partner connectivity program and global disaster recovery
and response. Paulette has more than 25 years in the information
technology area. Prior to joining Motorola, Paulette worked for Comdisco,
Washington National Insurance Company and Carl Fischer, Inc. in various
capacities.
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Kevin
Jablonski
Kevin Jablonski is Vice President of Technology for Anue
Systems. Mr. Jablonski has 20+ years of experience during which he
developed invaluable methods for understanding how complex technologies can
benefit critical business initiatives in the Service Provider, NEM,
Enterprise and Government markets. He began his career with the United
States Marine Corp where he held a secret clearance. He gained strong
leadership and conflict-resolution skills during many missions that involved
deploying early warning surveillance equipment around the globe. After
returning to civilian life, he focused on the performance of business
applications over evolving Microwave, Satellite, TDM, ATM, and
Routed/Switched Networks. He held positions with Hewlett Packard, Hughes
Communications, Ascom Timeplex, FORE Systems, and Juniper Networks. He also
manages his own successful consulting practice.
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Tim
Lund
Tim Lund is the Storage Executive at Dell responsible for
the Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana region. Tim has specialized in the
storage and virtualization field for Dell over the past 3 ½ years
developing expertise within multiple sectors. Besides his storage
expertise, Tim’s tenure at Dell also includes 5 years as a systems
consultant, interacting with both the technical and business aspects of
an organization. Prior to Dell, Tim was the Network Support Manager for
a multi-bank holding company and also worked for IBM for 7 years in
various customer facing positions.
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Daniel Marchik
Dan is the Disaster Recovery
Coordinator at Centegra Health System in McHenry, IL. He has been in
the disaster recovery field for 9 years, working in the financial and
healthcare sectors. In the past, he has done disaster recovery work at
ABN AMRO Bank, Fidelity Information Services, and Deloitte. Dan has
worked both in the technical and business sides of disaster recovery,
managing and providing technical support for hotsites, as well as
conducting business impact analyses, and coordinating recovery tests.
He has helped clients relocate to recovery sites in the wake of Florida
hurricanes and the LaSalle Bank Building fire in 2004.
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Gregg Revak
Gregg
Revak is Vice President of IT Operations and Technical Support for FirstGroup
America (formerly Laidlaw), the largest private contractor of student
transportation services in North America. FirstGroup transports over 2.9 million
students to and from school every day with its fleet of over 62,000 buses and
over 68,000 employees and also provides metropolitan transit services and
maintenance. Gregg is responsible for FirstGroup’s North American IT operations
and technical support including the company’s enterprise data centers in Chicago
and Cincinnati and over 1,000 field locations across the US and Canada. Gregg
has over 20 years of Information Technology industry experience starting in the
late 1970s as a programmer. He has held IT leadership positions as Director, IT
Operations at ServiceMaster, VP of IT at Business Logic, Director of IT at AANA
and programmer and IT manager at Siemens-Elema. He has presented internet,
security and IT topics at conferences in Chicago, Washington, DC and Boston.
Gregg holds a CCP designation and attended Cornell College, in Mt. Vernon.
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Troy Winskowicz
As the
Director of MessageOne’s Notification Services Practice, Troy Winskowicz
supports global deployments of emergency notification services across
millions of customers in many industries. For almost 10 years, Mr.
Winskowicz has helped to shape the notification industry – by
developing, specifying, managing, and deploying emergency notification
tools. He has traveled around the world presenting at conferences and
seminars on best practices of automated crisis communications. Mr.
Winskowicz has authored many papers and articles on automated crisis
communications that can be found in publications such as CPM Global
Assurance and Disaster Recovery Journal.
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