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Speakers at the Enterprise Disaster Recovery - Business
Continuity - Designing the Resilient Framework
Conference
March 10,
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Norman A. Alesi
 Norman
is a Partner and Executive VP, of the Vieo Consulting Group (A Laurus Company).
He is a co-founder of Laurus and is responsible for the overall development and
direction of the Vieo Consulting Group. In addition, Norm is currently
performing an interim role serving an internal planning function as well as
corporate operations function for Laurus. Norm has 20 successful years of
experience in building professional service organizations, with a core
competence in strategy and operations management. He has also managed and
performed business consulting activities for numerous middle market companies in
both process and discrete manufacturing environments throughout his career. Most
recently, Norm served as President of a discrete manufacturer, doubling the size
of this business and quadrupling its EBITDA over a 4-year term. Norm holds a BS
degree in Civil Engineering from Purdue University, 1987, and an MBA from the
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, 1995. Norm is past president and
board member of the Entrepreneur's Organization, has served on several other
boards, and enjoys teaching on the subjects of business strategy and
entrepreneurship.
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Cynthia Berry
Cynthia, manager of Business Continuity and Security at DeVry Inc.,
oversees the business development of global COOP and enterprise-wide BC
plans while developing security initiatives, organizing awareness
training as well as assisting with IT DR strategic planning. She is
involved in the enhancement of security policies to protect students and
employees against threats and violence, while developing robust threat assessment teams (TAT)
consisting of law enforcement, crisis consultants, psychologists and
other respected professionals. This also includes assisting in the
management of an international team of emergency response coordinators
and first responders. A published author, Cynthia has presented at
conferences and seminars on Leadership, Change Management, and Disaster
Recovery. Cynthia is a graduate from Northwestern University in
Evanston, IL and holds advanced degrees in Psychology and Counseling.
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Jamie Cerra
As a
Senior Systems Engineer, he travels throughout the US meeting with customers to
assist them with piloting technology, live installations, support and training
for Persystent Suite, the world’s fastest automated PC recovery solution.
In the past, he has served as network administrator, senior instructor and
telecommunications consultant. He believes he could become a pretty good
golfer . . . if only he had more free time.
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Paulette Hradnansky
Paulette is a
Senior IT Director in the Home and Networks Mobility business for
Motorola. In her current role, she is responsible for the service
delivery and availability of end to end global IT services to the business
Prior to that role, she served as the Supply Chain IT Operations Director
for 18 months, and the Director of Information Security
Operations at Motorola, where
she was involved in establishing,
building, implementing and directing various information security efforts
across the enterprise for approximately 15
years. In that role, she had global responsibilities for providing security services which included
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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David
Klauser
David is now part of
the executive team at Transcendent Technologies, LLC providing executive
level sales and marketing leadership, focusing on Business Applications,
Infrastructure Solutions and I.T. Strategy. Before joining
Transcendent, David was with Atrato (data storage start up) and was also
with Insight Investments for several years running sales for the East
United States. David was the Founder and CEO of PRISM
Technologies, where David and his team built a $20M data storage
solutions integrator within three years. Prior to launching PRISM, David
was a VP at Xiotech with management at all levels of direct, channel and
alliance leadership. David was one of the original employees at Xiotech
during start up mode, exceeding quota at all levels of individual and
team performance, while also gaining M&A experience over a ten year
tenure through two separate M&A's, both by Seagate for $360M in 1999 and
again by Oak Investments in 2002. Prior to joining Xiotech Corporation,
David worked for financial services organizations, including founding a
financial trading company which focused on options trading in the
technology sector. David graduated from The University of Minnesota
with a BA in Economics, a minor in international finance, and also holds
an AA and an AS degree. David is married with five children.
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Rob
Peglar
Rob
Peglar is Vice President, Technology for Xiotech
Corporation. A 31-year industry veteran and
published author, he leads
the shaping of strategic vision, emerging technologies,
defining future offering portfolios including business and
technology requirements, product planning and
industry/customer liaison. He is a member of the SNIA Board
of Directors, serves as Chair of the
SNIA Tutorials, as a Board member of the Green Storage
Initiative, and as Secretary/Treasurer of the Blade Systems
Alliance. He has extensive experience in storage
virtualization, the architecture of large heterogeneous SANs,
replication and archiving strategy, disaster avoidance and
compliance, information risk management, distributed cluster
storage architectures and is a sought-after speaker and
panelist at leading storage and networking-related seminars
and conferences worldwide. Prior to joining Xiotech in
August 2000, Mr. Peglar held key technology specialist and
engineering management positions over a nine-year period at
StorageTek and at their networking subsidiary, Network
Systems Corporation. Prior to StorageTek, he held
engineering development and product management positions at
Control Data Corporation and its supercomputer division, ETA
Systems. Mr. Peglar holds the B.S. degree in Computer
Science from Washington University, St. Louis Missouri, and
performed graduate work at Washington University’s Sever
Institute of Engineering. His research background includes
I/O performance analysis, queuing theory, parallel systems
architecture and OS design, storage networking protocols,
clustering algorithms and virtual systems optimization.
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Jerry Reick
Jerry A. Reick, Vice
President & Business Continuity Manager, Robert W. Baird & Co., manages the
enterprise-wide business continuity and disaster recovery programs, and has a
lead role in crisis management operations. Robert W. Baird is an international
financial services company with its headquarters in Milwaukee, WI. Reick has
over 25 years combined experience in software development, IT audit,
internal controls, and business continuity management. His industry knowledge
spans the healthcare, electronic funds transfer, financial services, and
manufacturing sectors. This unique blend of professional experience and
industry knowledge provides Reick with an interesting and refreshing perspective
on the challenges and opportunities of the business continuity process. Reick holds a
Bachelors degree in Business Administration, a Masters degree in Management from
Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, WI. and the following professional
certifications; Certified Business Continuity Planner (CBCP), Certified Internal
Auditor (CIA) and Certified Information systems Auditor (CISA). He is also a
retired Command Sergeant Major with over 26 years service in the US Army and
Army Reserve, including a tour in Afghanistan in 2003-2004.
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Jeff Roseman
Jeff Roseman is Director of IS
Infrastructure for Patterson Medical Holdings, Inc. the world’s leading
distributor of rehabilitative medical supplies and non-wheelchair assistive
products. He is a seasoned IT executive with over two decades of experience in
both technology management and consulting roles. With past experience in
marketing, sales, business process re-engineering, and as an IT Director, CIO
and Consultant, he has worked both sides of the technology world. Mr. Roseman
possesses an extensive background working with regional, national, and
international businesses in a variety of industries including healthcare,
manufacturing, legal, real estate, construction, non-profit and professional
services. Focused primarily on IT infrastructure, he has a broad knowledge of
strategy, networking, telecommunications, training & development, systems
integration, mergers and acquisitions, facility relocation, and business
continuity planning. Mr. Roseman continues to be successful moving IT teams from
a crises management mentality to predictive, proactive, disciplined
organization. He has previously lectured on network connectivity, customer
relationship management, endpoint security, and disaster recovery planning. He
previously served as Vice President - Chicago Chapter of International
Association of Microsoft Certified Partners. Mr. Roseman has a bachelors degree
and an MBA in Information Systems and Marketing from The University of Iowa. He
is a member of The University of Iowa Tippie School of Management Advisory
Committee (SoMAC).
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