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Dick Benton
In his role at
GlassHouse, Dick helps clients to understand the concepts
driving the Service Provider Model; he conducts capability
maturity assessments and risk assessments of storage management
practices, and develops infrastructure and governance
strategies. Dick focuses on governance issues such as COBIT key
performance indicators, ITIL based policy and procedure, and the
capability maturity rankings required to transition an
organization to the full service provider model. Dick has
completed many assignments developing Disaster Recovery
Strategies, Storage Strategies, and Email archiving and
electronic records management strategies. Prior to joining
GlassHouse, Dick worked as Director of Consulting services for
CNT, and as Consulting Services Manager for Avnet Computer; Dick
also held the position of CIO with worldwide responsibilities
for GenRad, Inc., Shipley Company, and Prime Computer
International. Dick immigrated to the
USA some 22 years ago and is now a US Citizen. He came to the
USA with Prime Computer where
he ran the International IT function across Asia Pacific and Western Europe for some 5 years. Dick has had numerous
articles published in Storage Magazine, InfoStor, DR Journal,
and other magazines as well as in on line publications such as
SearchDisasterRecovery.com.
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Mike
DeVito
Michael
DeVito joined LSI Corporation in 2008. Mike has extensive experience in
the computer industry with 29 years providing total software, hardware
and services solutions for business, education and government entities.
Most recently, he was worked on disk arrays, remote replication and
mirroring, disaster recovery, business continuance, data migration,
virtualization and complete data life-cycle management. Prior to joining
LSI, Mike held positions with Silicon Graphics (SGI), CA, IBM, Hyperion,
Computer Tec and Micro Database Systems. Mike graduated from St.
Joseph's College, 1980, where he earned a B.S. in Business
Administration. Mike is a certified Martial Arts Instructor in Hapkido,
a Korean Martial Art and he trains and practices in Chicago's southwest
suburbs.
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Thomas F.
Janssen
Thomas manages the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
efforts for Horace Mann Corporation headquartered in
Springfield, Illinois.
Horace Mann is the largest multiline
insurance company focusing on the nation's educators and
their families. The company's overarching strategy and
business purpose is to provide lifelong financial well-being
for educators and their families through personalized
service, advice, and a full range of tailored insurance and
financial products.
Thomas manages a team of Mainframe engineers, Open Systems
engineers, Capacity Planning and Performance Monitoring, and
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR). He has
been active in Information Technology (private sector,
public sector, and consulting), for the past 23 years.
Focusing on the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
program at Horace Mann for the past 6 years, Thomas is
responsible for overseeing the management of the Corporate
Emergency Management Plan, as well as 35 individual Business
Resumption Plans. His recent accomplishments include the
complete buildout of a new 4,600 square foot Data Center,
Network Operations Center (NOC), and Print / Copy Center.
Thomas is also liaison between the corporate office and the
remote site where hardware resides to support the
synchronous data replication model presently employed.
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David Kluger
David Kluger is StorCOM's principal
technology architect. StorCOM's primary focus is aiding the clientele through a
consultative approach on such topics as; overall data protection, management of
data and disaster recovery strategies. Having worked in the IT industry for over
20 years he has gained an extremely wide range of experience. Additionally,
David has public sector experience in consulting and providing leadership to an
array of projects, managing and deploying data protection, as well as disaster
recovery solutions for such organizations as; US Department of Defense, Lockheed
Martin Corporation and Fireman's Fund Insurance. David also spent many years
working as a senior consultant and systems architect at Microsoft, XIOtech and
NetApp. David attended Arizona State University, where he also acquired his
Masters Degree.
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Eric Ledyard
Eric Ledyard steers Ahead’s technology
vision and is responsible for defining the company's evolving technology
strategy. Eric works directly with Ahead customers to understand their
current environment and assist in designing solutions that address
current needs while keeping an eye on future requirements. Prior to
joining Ahead, Eric was the Sr. Systems Engineer for the Business
Continuance and Disaster Recovery team, managing 20 states in the
Midwest. Eric was a key member of the technical competitive analysis
team at EMC providing expert insight on Hitachi Data Systems and IBM
virtualization products. Prior to working at EMC he held engineering
roles for Sun Microsystems as storage specialist as well as two
technology resellers specializing in storage solutions as well as
high-performance systems architecture. Prior to transitioning into a
pre-sales architecture, Eric has significant end user experience where
he was hands utilizing the technology and managing data center
environments, this experience provides him with a profound understanding
of all aspects of the value chain. Eric attended the Purdue School of
Engineering with focus on Computer Engineering and Electrical
Engineering Technology.
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Mike
Peebles
Mike Peebles is the
Product Marketing Manager at Hewlett-Packard responsible for the
Information Management suite of products in the America’s region. This
includes solutions for business continuity and availability, governance
and ediscovery as well as document workflow transformation. He has
extensive experience in architecting storage and data protection
solutions. Since joining HP in
1997, Mike has held technical and management positions within HP’s
storage and software businesses focusing on current as well as future
storage issues. Mike has applied his expertise within the Americas as
well as Europe. Prior to joining HP
Mike held hardware design engineering and engineering management
positions focused on HP-IB and SCSI storage device development.
Mike was also the Manager for Technology Assessment and Acceptance
during which he identified new storage solution business opportunities.
Mike has an MBA and a B.S. of Electrical Engineering from Colorado State University.
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Deborah
Shotts
Ms. Shotts holds a Master’s Degree
in Management Information Systems from the University of
Illinois Springfield as well as several professional
certifications. Ms. Shotts is certified as an Information
Systems Auditor (CISA), Information Systems Security
Professional (CISSP), and as a Business Continuity Planer (CBCP).
During her 30 plus years in IT, she has worked as a programmer,
analyst, internal auditor, college-level instructor, security
professional, and disaster recovery coordinator. She currently
works as a subject matter expert in the Security and Compliance
Solutions division within the Illinois Department of Central
Management Services Bureau of Communications and Computer
Services (CMS/BCCS). CMS/BCCS operates as the state’s
telecommunication, Internet, and information processing service
provider. The CMS/BCCS supported voice and digital network
serves more than 800 cities in all 102 Illinois counties,
providing 24x7x365 on-demand bandwidth to state and local
governmental agencies serving the public safety, human services,
employment, and economic needs of Illinois citizens. The
central computing facility processes thousands of transactions
daily to support over 80 agencies, boards, and commissions under
the jurisdiction of the Governor of Illinois.
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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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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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