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Speakers at the Network & Systems Management
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Peter
Beniaris
Peter Beniaris is an
information technology and financial services professional with twenty
years of diversified experience in the computer services, insurance, and
retail industries. Background includes data center management and
consulting, middleware and Internet systems management, middleware
architecture and engineering, managing a corporate desktop computing
environment, managing systems integration projects, managing the design
and implementation of enterprise reporting systems, financial
management, and auditing of financial and operational controls and group
benefits administration. Peter has a Master of Science in Computer
Science, and carries designations as a Certified Internal Auditor and
Certified Information Systems Auditor.
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Kyle Bowerman
Kyle Bowerman is
responsible for both Enterprise
and Carrier IP traffic performance management, and IP OSS integration at
U.S. Cellular®. Coming from a router and ATM background and having a
passion for programming and open source network management tools, this was a
natural evolution for Kyle. He has held positions in broadband access
networking engineering, at Focal Communications, where he deployed DSL
infrastructure across the East coast, and WAN network engineer, at Arthur
Andersen, where he co-developed and supported an international dialer used by
over 40,000 users in 70 countries. Prior to his technical career Kyle was a
fly-fishing guide in Alaska and Montana for five seasons. He holds a Bachelors
of Science in General Engineering from the
University of
Illinois Champaign-Urbana.
Kyle now resides in Downers Grove Illinois with his wife Sophie and two sons
Nolen and Sam.
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John Karabaic
John is a Systems
Engineer with KACE and helps organizations implement systems management
including vulnerability assessment using OVAl as well as patch management and
configuration management.
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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 positions. He
currently works at a large financial institution providing technical consulting for
all network related activities including project management, network
design, implementation, and network architecture. In his various
positions, Fred has designed and implemented wireless solutions for
mid-sized companies, to larger nation-wide organizations. Fred has
experience using HP, Aruba, Trapeze, and Cisco wireless solutions. He
has worked with 802.11x technologies using LEAP/LEAP2, WPA/WPA2, and WEP
security.
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Brian
Shomock
Brian Shomock is Technical BDM at CITTIO, Inc.
He has 15 years in software business starting out in EDI and progressed
to Application Lifecycle Management while spending 5 plus years in the
Automotive/Manufacturing business specializing in Requirements Management
with companies such as GE, GM, TRW, Daimler Chrysler, Siemens, Navistar
International and many others. Focus has been wrapped around improving
quality while decreasing cost to the individual organization.
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Jeff Stecyk
Jeff has been an
IT Professional for 15 years; evolving as an expert in ITSM, BSM,
and CMDB solution sets. Currently a Solutions Architect with
Tideway, Jeff has experience working with a vast array of business
verticals in support of various initiatives to streamline IT with
the Business. Coupling hands-on leading technology with Six Sigma
and ITIL Certifications, he leverages his expertise in these areas
while effectively managing successful implementations for large
enterprise organizations under aggressive timelines. Jeff has
familiarity with all aspects of pre and post sales engineering as
well as commercial software development. He resides in San Francisco
where he is an avid outdoor enthusiast, traveler and photographer.
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Steve Tindall
Steve
Tindall has been in the Telecommunications industry for more than 27 years
holding positions in both the voice and data planning and support arenas. He is
currently the network capacity planner and is also responsible for certifying
applications for use over the Cardinal Health network. He has extensive
experience using protocol analyzers and network management tools from vendors
such as Netscout, Lucent Technologies, Cisco Systems, and EMCOM. Steve has
experience in supporting a wide variety of Cisco networking products including
VPN, routers, switches, and firewalls, in addition to Nortel hubs and various
dial up technologies. He has conducted training sessions on basic Network
General Sniffer use, Token Ring and Ethernet networking, overall data
communications operation, application responsiveness, and other related topics
to both technical and non-technical audiences at Cardinal Health and at industry
trade shows such as the ICA.
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Jeff Trawick
Mr. Jeff Trawick has
over 18 years of experience in network architecture,
implementation, management and troubleshooting. He has been
contracted by many Fortune 500 and public sector clients to
provide expertise in performance optimization, problem
resolution, and IT security assurance. He was one of a very
small group of network engineers summoned by the Pentagon in
the wake of the terrorists attacks of September 11th, and
subsequently served as a primary security consultant for the
DoD. Mr. Trawick has been an invited speaker at industry
events, such as Networld+Interop. Mr. Trawick received a
B.S. degree from the University of Alabama and holds the
following certifications: Certified Information Systems
Security Professional (CISSP) designation, and Certified
Network Expert (CNX).
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Dennis Wenk
Mr. Wenk
is a management consultant and has consulted worldwide with large
Fortune 500 customers. His experience includes developing architectures
and strategies for highly available, resilient and secure
infrastructures in heterogeneous IT environments; virtually anywhere IT
is mission critical to business success. He has performed quantitative
operational risk assessments that were used to justify the significant
investments required to build, transform and maintain resilient
infrastructures in over 20 different countries and developed a number of
risk-based services that increase resiliency and improve continuity
programs. Dennis has written award-winning professional articles and is
a regular speaker at industry conferences world-wide. He has MBA in
Accounting and Finance, BS in Computer Science; is certified in ITIL
Service Management and is a certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA),
Certified Systems Professional (CSP) and Certified Data Processor (CDP).
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