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Speakers at the Enterprise Disaster Recovery / Business
Continuity - Designing the Resilient Framework
Conference
March 18,
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Kent Anderson
is the Manager of Disaster Recovery and BT BCP
at Discover Financial. Kent has been in IT over
the past 20 years and has worked within notiable
organizations like United Airlines, Galileo
International, Qwest Communications and Discover
Financial. He has a broad knowledge of
mainframe, distributed and networking systems
focused on high availability. He is a graduate
of Northeastern Illinois University.
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Philip Bierdz
Philip Bierdz is the
Manager of
Infrastructure at Riverside Medical Center. Phil
has over 16 years of expertise in infrastructure design and management with
overall responsibility for enterprise network and server systems, including
email. In his last year, Phil led a complete replacement of the college’s
network systems, architected and contracted a campus-wide wireless system, and
was the driving force behind adopting an email archiving solution for Moraine
Valley Community College. Phil has served for three
years as President of the Illinois Community College Technology Commission,
President of the Illinois Council of Community College Administrators, and as a
full member of the Illinois Advanced Engineering Taskforce. Philip earned his
bachelor in science in computer science from Northern Illinois University, his MBA from the University of Phoenix, and has eight hours towards a
doctorate in management and leadership studies. When not in front of his
computer, he can be found fishing or bike riding with his wife and two children.
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David B.
Guilinger
David B. Guilinger
is the Director of Information Services with
Gateway Health Plan®.
David has over 20 years of Information
Technology and Risk Management experience within
a number of verticals including finance,
healthcare, large law firm and manufacturing.
David began his career managing mass tort
litigation and quickly moved into managing
information technology management. David has led
a number of successful large application,
infrastructure and voice initiatives. David
earned his Bachelor of Science in Accounting and
Finance from Robert Morris University and is an
avid runner and swimmer.
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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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John Nootens
Mr.
John Nootens is the Director of Networking at
the American
Medical Association.
Mr. Nootens has worked on the
systems and support end of IT his whole career. From mainframes
and their SNA network of controllers and terminals, through the
first PCs and island LANs, on thru bridged/brouted/routed local
area networks and WANs. With significant concentration in
Networking, Security, Operations, Network and Application
Performance and Capacity Planning, John has become and expert in
High Availability, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.
With a unique ability to understand and explain highly technical
concepts in order to achieve efficient, effective decisions on
the use of that technology. John has been able to help major
corporations see the big picture in the use of technology to
solve their business needs.
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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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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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Steve
Susina
 Steve
Susina has more than 20 years of engineering and marketing experience in the
telecommunications and IT industries and currently serves as Director of
Marketing for Laurus Technologies, a business consulting and IT solutions
provider based in Itasca, IL. Previously, he was Senior Product Manager for
UTStarcom's fixed/mobile convergence product line, and has also held various
sales, marketing and engineering roles at Tellabs and AT&T. His speaking
experience includes technology conferences around the world on such topics
as IT & business strategy, optical networking, compliance and identity
management and mobile communications. Susina holds a BS in Electrical
Engineering from Marquette University and an MBA from the University of
Pittsburgh.
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Deepak
Verma
Deepak
Verma is Solutions Architect at Hitachi specializing in Business Continuity and
Data Replication strategies and technologies. He has been with Hitachi for 5
years. During this time he has architected a number of resilient recovery
architectures for customers, in the Americas, that helped meet their business
SLAs. While his current role demands deep technical capabilities, prior to
Hitachi, he worked in New York City for a big-5 consulting firm focusing on
delivering Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategies to technologies.
He was involved in post 9/11 disaster recovery efforts for a few Wall Street
financial institutions.
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