General Manager, Connected Identity and Directory // Microsoft

Joe Long is the General Manager of the Connected Identity and Directory team, driving Microsoft’s strategy in the Identity and Access space, including both the business of Identity and the platform. Long joined Microsoft in 1991 after graduating from Reed College with a degree in Physics. He started in product support, moving from there to Developer Relations, where he worked as vertical evangelist driving technology adoption in the insurance and financial services industries. In 1995, Long transitioned to the product teams, working on Microsoft Transaction Server. Prior to assuming his current position in 2005, Long managed much of the Microsoft middleware stack including COM+, MS-DTC, MSMQ, RPC, and half of the Windows Communication Foundation.

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Director, Program Management for Identity and Access // Microsoft

Stuart Kwan joined Microsoft in 1996 after completing a BASC in Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario. He has been involved with Active Directory since its inception and has contributed to several related distributed systems technologies. Prior to joining full time, he interned at Microsoft on four separate occasions, contributing to the Active Directory Service Interface (ADSI) project.

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Infrastructure Architect // Unisys

Deji Akomolafe specializes in Windows infrastructure design, implementation and restructure. A presenter at DEC 2005, an MCT and MVP, Deji represents Unisys in various capacities presenting complex technical subject matters, conducting assessments, evaluating and critiquing proposals and introducing emerging technologies and best practices to clients. Deji is a frequent and visible contributor on various technical discussions, mailing lists and newsgroups.

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Senior Infrastructure Consultant // LogicaCMG

Jorge is a Senior Infrastructure Consultant within LogicaCMG and is based in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Jorge has been active in IT since 1997. He worked for CMG since 1999 and now for LogicaCMG after the merger between Logica and CMG at the end of 2002. Jorge has worked with Windows infrastructures since 1997, and he specializes in Windows Server and Active Directory. With the technical background he has developed, he has proven hands-on experience with Windows Server and Active Directory in areas like analysis, designing, implementations, migrations, troubleshooting and recovery. Jorge is MCSE certified and enjoys writing articles about Windows Server and/or Active Directory. He is also a frequent contributors and active member of the ActiveDir forum/mailing list and Microsoft Active Directory newsgroups on the internet. His blog can be found at: http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/default.aspx.

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Robert Auch has been working with Microsoft products for over 10 years with a focus on migration and upgrade projects. He is the Senior Systems Architect with Empire Today, LLC., in Chicago.

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Managing Partner // Optimal IdM

Michael Brengs has more than 16 years of information technology experience and joined Optimal IdM as a Managing Partner in March 2006. he earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Management Information Systems from the University of South Florida. Brengs has a broad background in the Information Technology field having worked as a software engineer, software architect, and project manager. He has designed, developed and managed the deployment of many million-user applications for Fortune 500 companies. He is also a Microsoft Certified Professional holding the following certifications: Microsoft Certified Professional 2003, Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator 2003 and Security+.

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Senior Consultant // Oxford Computer Group

Chris Calderon is a senior consultant at Oxford Computer Group North America. Chris specializes in the delivery of Microsoft-based technologies and enterprise solutions around identity management and directory services. He has extensive experience in designing and implementing technologies involving ILM (MIIS), ADFS, and infrastructure security around the Windows platform.

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Ensynch

Jerry Camel has over fifteen years in Information Technology and has demonstrated expertise in bridging the gap between infrastructure and development solutions by providing leadership in both areas. Jerry’s rare perspective and development background has led to several innovative solutions involving technologies like Windows Workflow Foundation and Identity Lifecycle Manager. Jerry blogs at digitalcamel.blogspot.com on topics including .NET development, Identity Management, SQL Server Bits and Pieces.

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Program Manager, Windows Server // Microsoft

Robert DeLuca is a Program Manager in the Windows Server group at Microsoft. He acts as a customer liaison for the product group, providing design and deployment guidance to Microsoft's largest directory services customers. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2000, DeLuca was an infrastructure consultant for a Microsoft partner and has been working with Active Directory since 1998.

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Consultant // Nulli Secundus

Pamela Dingle is a consultant with Nulli Secundus (http://www.nulli.com), and has worked with various directory, web access management, provisioning, and identity management products and other LDAP-enabled technologies since 1999. Pamela has a UNIX system administration background, but owns no birkenstock sandals. She has recently been seen wearing Microsoft tshirts around the office, and is rumored to have dabbled with the 'dark' side of the force.

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Windows Server Networking Technical Specialist // Microsoft

Mark Foust is a Windows Server Networking Technical Specialist for the Greater Southeast District of Microsoft covering the Top Enterprise Accounts. Before Microsoft, Mark worked for Novell where he helped architect and consult some of the largest NDS customers in the world. In his 7+ years at Microsoft he’s written or contributed to 3 technical books around Directory Services and Server Administration as well as served in consulting, support and pre-sales technical roles. He’s a frequent speaker at events and has more than a decade of enterprise architecture expertise in server and directory service platforms. His certifications include MCSE, MCNE & CISSP.

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Directory Services Program Manager // Microsoft

Dushyant is a part of the Active Directory design team at Microsoft. Other than AD (which he’s completely in love with) – he’s into PowerShell nowadays and working on the v.next of AD Command Line management experience

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Senior Consultant // Booz Allen Hamilton

Donald "Trey" Henderson is a Senior Consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton on the Identity and Access Management team. Donald has worked as the primary architect for integrating the RadiantOne Virtual Directory with multiple data sources including ADAM for the Air Force Directory Services. In addition to virtualization, Donald also has extensive background with Oracle and provisioning technology. He holds a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from DeVry University and M.S. in Management Information Systems from Auburn University.

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Directory Services Architect // Cisco

David Jones has worked in the field formally known as Directory Services for the past 17 years charting, a course through Banyan Vines, Novell NDS, Netscape Directory Server and Active Directory. He is now the Identity Services architect at Cisco and is responsible for all the Identity Management infrastructure architecture to programmatically maintain the lifecycle of digital identities representing people and computers.

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Director of Projects and Services // SAPIEN Technologies

Don Jones is a nationally recognized author, instructor, speaker, and consultant, with more than a decade of experience in the Information Technology industry. Don is the author of nearly two dozen published works on IT subjects, is a regular speaker at national conferences like Windows Connections, Microsoft TechEd, and TechMentor, and is a regular columnist for Microsoft TechNet Magazine. He is a multiple-year recipient of Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award.

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Application Architect // Accenture

Joe Kaplan works in Accenture’s internal IT organization, building enterprise applications using the .NET Framework.  He specializes in directory services programming, for which he has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valued Professional in Active Directory Federation Services. He is the co-author of The .NET Developer's Guide to DirectoryServices Programming (Addison-Wesley, 2006). Joe can be found online at www.directoryprogramming.net and www.joekaplan.net.

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Senior Consultant // Oxford Computer Group

Dmitry Kazantsev began his career in the identity management arena with a large healthcare provider. As a senior consultant with Oxford Computer Group, Dmitry serves as the architect and technical lead on numerous identity management implementations for large enterprises. His experience includes designing and coding several Extensible Management Agents for ILM 2007 (MIIS), such as IBM 360 DB2, Native SQL Server User MA, and IBM UniData MA.

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Chief Technology Officer // FullArmor Corporation

Danny Kim is a Microsoft MVP and recognized industry expert on Windows Group Policy, Active Directory and PowerShell. He has helped more than 30 Fortune 100 companies, including Bank of America, Boeing, and Wal-Mart, design and deploy their Group Policy infrastructures. He also architected and developed several leading Windows policy management products which have been licensed by Microsoft, NetIQ, Compaq, Sony, Toshiba and others. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Cornell University.

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Chief Technology Officer // NetPro

Gil Kirkpatrick, NetPro's Chief Technical Officer, is an expert in the design and development of large-scale distributed software for enterprise networks. Kirkpatrick is the recipient of a 2005 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award and has more than 26 years of software development expertise. He is a recognized authority and renowned speaker on commercial network directories, including Banyan StreetTalk, Novell eDirectory and Microsoft Active Directory. In his previous position as NetPro's Director of Engineering, Kirkpatrick was responsible for the development of NetPro's directory management products and served as the architect and lead engineer for the Company's flagship product, DirectoryAnalyzer. Kirkpatrick joined NetPro in 1994 when his company, High Technology Systems, was acquired by NetPro. Kirkpatrick is the author of Active Directory Programming, published by MacMillan USA.

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NT/2000/2003 MCSE, MCSE + Security, MCT, Deployment MVP

Rhonda, began her IT career in 1982 serving in the US Navy, where she worked for 7 years in communications with a top secret clearance. Since then, she spends her time consulting, teaching her own Deployment courses and speaking at International conferences and IT Pro users groups. She contributes articles to Redmond and Windows ITPro magazines and is a co-author of Mastering Windows Server 2003, Upgrade Edition for SP1 and R2, and the upcoming Mastering Windows Server 2008 book. Rhonda has created a CBT Nugget training course on Deployment and is 1 of 4 Deployment MVP’s in the country.

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Directory Services Architect // Hewlett Packard

Wook Lee is a Directory Service Architect within Hewlett-Packard Company’s Managed Services Division. Formerly an architect with Compaq Computer Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation, he is a veteran of two major merger/acquisition-related directory integration efforts, the first involving the Exchange 5.5 global address list integration during the Compaq-Digital acquisition and the most recent involving Active Directory during the HP-Compaq acquisition. A graduate of Harvard College, he was a high school math teacher in a former life. After spending decades in Massachusetts and Michigan, he now enjoys the milder climate of San Diego with his wife and three children.

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Senior Program Manager // Microsoft

Alain Lissoir is a senior program manager in the Active Directory group at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. Alain spent 15 years working at Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq, and most recently, HP. He has extensive experience with directories, scripting, automation, and management technologies. Alain is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, and he is the author of Leveraging WMI Scripting (Digital Press, 2003). He has also written several articles and white papers about Active Directory and scripting technologies.

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Vice President, Operations // Oxford Computer Group

David Lundell, Microsoft MIIS MVP, has trained hundreds of employees from organizations worldwide on how to implement ILM 2007 (MIIS). David earned both his MBA and BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona, where he also earned the award of National Merit Scholar. David’s certifications include: MCSE, MCITP: Database Administrator, MCITP: Database Developer, MCITP: Business Intelligence Developer, MCSD, CCNA, CNA, MCDBA and he is also an author. As vice president of operations at Oxford Computer Group, David has been lead architect on several recent projects including run profile optimizing, automating provisioning, and web portal development for onboarding new users.

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President and Chief Technology Officer // SDM Software, Inc.

Darren Mar-Elia is President and Chief Technology Officer of SDM Software, Inc. - a Group Policy solutions company. He has over 20 years combined experience in information technology and software development. He was Sr. Director of Product Engineering at DesktopStandard (recently acquired by Microsoft)and prior to that, served as Chief Technology Officer for Windows management solutions at Quest Software. He was also a director of distributed systems at Charles Schwab & Co. and helped guide that company's use of Microsoft Windows technologies. Darren has written or contributed to 11 books on Windows management topics and is a Microsoft MVP for Group Policy technology. He also created the popular gpoguy.com website for information and utilities related to Group Policy.

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Vice President // Oxford Computer Group

Craig Martin has spent more than ten years in the IT industry following his passion for distributed systems management and development. Five years as an identity management consultant earned him over half a million travelled air miles, and a wealth of customer experience in design, deployments, and training. Craig is a recognized expert in metadirectory, provisioning, and directory integration. Prior to joining Oxford Computer Group, Craig was a Senior Consultant for Microsoft.

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Identity & Access Management Sales Solutions Professional // Microsoft

Anthony Morgante is a Microsoft Sales Solutions Professional specializing in Directories and Identities technologies out of New York . Prior to Microsoft he worked for Ernst & Young as a lead architect for its Active Directory Infrastructure, and the firm’s MIIS/ADAM global implementation. Anthony was the technical lead and project manager in deploying a global, centralized identity management solution in order to provide Single Sign-On capabilities.

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Senior Infrastructure Architect // Avanade, Inc.

Jeremy Palenchar is a Senior Infrastructure Architect at Avanade, Inc. where he focuses on Directory Services and Identity Management. Jeremy is responsible for the planning, design, and implementation of Directory Service and Identity Management solutions for Avanade’s Fortune 500 clients.  Jeremy is CISSP and MCSE certified and holds a Batchelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University. He lives and works in sunny, downtown Seattle.

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Security Architect // Progressive Insurance

Brian Picard is a Security Architect responsible for Progressive Insurance’s ILM infrastructure. He has contributed to the ILM Technet Forum, testing of various open source ILM projects and beta testing with ILM 2. He has worked on various aspects of testing and production operations/monitoring for the past 10 years.

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Technology Architect // Microsoft

Brian Puhl is a Technology Architect in the Identity and Access Management team of Microsoft IT, responsible for the internal forests which support Microsoft's 60,000+ employees.  He joined Microsoft just after the release of Windows 2000 and was the primary Active Directory support engineer during the Server 2003 dogfooding and release cycle. He is currently engaged in the internal deployment of Windows Server 2008.

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Puryear IT, LLC

Dustin Puryear is the author of Integrate Linux Solutions into Your Windows Network and Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers and he, along with a team of talented experts at Puryear IT, LLC, provides organizations with the design and implementation services needed to solve issues affecting integration and interoperability, Identity and Access Management, and Directory Services.

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Community Lead, Identity Management Team // Microsoft

Alym Rayani is the Community Lead for the Identity Management team and the Feature Program Manager for the Credential Management part of ILM “2”. Prior to joining the Identity Management team, Alym worked on the Active Directory and Windows CardSpace teams. Before joining Microsoft Alym was a Director at The Symbio Group, a software consulting and outsourcing company. Alym holds an MBA from Duke University and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington.

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Technology Specialist // Hewlett-Packard

Joe Richards is a Senior Consultant for HP Messaging Services Delivery working on various Active Directory/Exchange issues to ensure customer environments are running at peak efficiency. He has been a Microsoft MVP in Windows Directory Services, Security, and AD Programming since 2001 and spends inordinate amounts of time trying to figure out new and improved ways to break and then fix Microsoft’s directory service offerings. He also spends time trying to develop new and better ways to manage Enterprise class Windows environments. He is the co-author of the book Active Directory Third Edition from O’Reilly media.

Consultant/Architect // Oxford Computer Group

Patrick Rempel is a consultant/architect with Oxford Computer Group Deutschland, working with global reference implementations of the advanced Practice Code Numbering System (PCNS). Prior to joining Oxford Computer Group, Patrick worked as a consultant with Accenture and held a position with Hannover Re.

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Senior Infrastructure Specialist // WaMU

John Serban has worked for the last five years as a Senior Infrastructure Specialist for Washington Mutual Bank's Directory Services team. John has been focused on the design, planning, and implementation of Very Large Active Directories, boot from SAN servers, and VSS Snapshot technology. John is a 20-year information technology industry veteran. Prior to Joining WaMu, John was Principal Network Engineering Consultant and Program Director for Strategic Technologies and a Programmer/Analyst for Jacksonville University.

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Senior Consultant // Titus International, Inc.

Andy Schan is a Senior Consultant with Titus International, where he has specialized in large-scale RMS deployments. He also has an extensive background in Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange design and deployment. He has co-authored a book on Exchange Server 2007, focusing on the RMS integration and message classification features.

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Technologist // Microsoft

Joel Silver is a Technologist on the Microsoft IT Identity Management Team where he is responsible for the Microsoft IT implementation and architecture of MIIS. The Microsoft IT MIIS implementation is the primary tool used to sync Active Directory objects and attributes within all internal forests at Microsoft. Joel has been involved in multiple identity management projects that deal with MIIS, metrics, Sarbanes-Oxley, and other IT solutions.

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Consultant, Microsoft Platforms // Computacenter AG & Co.

Ulf is a senior consultant with a European provider for infrastructure solutions in Germany. He also is an independent author, consultant, speaker and trainer. He has been repeatedly awarded MVP for Windows Server – Directory Services. Throughout his professional career, Ulf has had many consulting engagements with major European corporations, mostly in the financial sector. His certifications include Microsoft Certified Trainer and Microsoft Certified System Engineer (Security) for all Operating Systems since NT4.

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Chief Executive Officer // Oxford Computer Group

Hugh has spent the last twenty five years in IT services companies, serving in technical roles as well as senior management and board levels within both public and private companies. For the last five years, he has been chief executive officer of Oxford Computer Group (OCG), maintaining a keen technical interest in identity and access technologies, with a specific focus on ILM 2007 (MIIS). He has the advantage of being able to draw on the experience of OCG's unparalleled experience in the field, and enjoys incorporating that information into presentations he frequently makes to business and technical audiences worldwide.

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Identity Management Consultant

Joseph Stepongzi is a Microsoft MVP for MIIS and is the main architect and developer of one of the Top 5 largest MIIS implementations in the world.  He also has worked with the Microsoft Document Team on the MIIS Extensible Connectivity Management Agent Getting Started Documents and is a regular contributor to the MIIS webforums and the Yahoo MIIS newsgroups.

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Group Policy Lead Program Manager // Microsoft

As the Lead Program Manager for Group Policy Kevin Sullivan is responsible for driving delivery of the core Group Policy solutions into Windows. Group Policy enables customers to manage the security and general configuration of their environments in a centralized manner. Kevin joins Microsoft from the acquisition of DesktopStandard. At DesktopStandard Kevin was the Director of Product Management and worked extensively with the customers and the market to ensure that developed solutions addressed real world needs. Kevin entered the field in the early 90’s after joining IBM Global Services and has held different positions over the years with small and large organizations doing consulting, training, writing, and product management. Kevin graduated from Berklee College of Music with a degree in music prior to embarking on a career in technology.

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Architect, Identity & Access // Ensynch

Now in is his second year as an MIIS MVP, Brad Turner is a project-oriented veteran of the Information Technology industry. He has taken a lead technical role in successful projects for large government and education entities, as well as mid-sized and enterprise corporations. His areas of expertise include enterprise, directory, and identity management architecture, systems integration, as well as domain and systems management. Brad's solutions have won several worldwide partner awards.

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Technical Content Developer // Microsoft

Markus Vilcinskas is a technical content developer on Microsoft’s Identity and Access Management User Assistance team. After working for several years as technical consultant, he joined Microsoft in 1999. For the past eight years, he has been involved in many directory service and identity-integration related projects. His expertise includes researching and documenting product features and functionality. He also develops and documents solutions for both common customer scenarios and more specialized solutions tailored to customer environments. Markus is a regular contributor to the ILM TechNet forum on Microsoft.com and can be reached through that forum if you want to discuss ILM related identity management issues or solutions.

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Group Program Manager // Microsoft

Peter Waxman is the Group Program Manager for the Information Protection Platform team in the Identity and Directory group in Windows Server. In this role he drives the vision and execution for Microsoft Rights Management Services (RMS), a product he incubated with others at Microsoft beginning in 2000. Prior to this Peter was the Lead Program Manager for messaging and directory in the Exchange Server team where he made significant contributions on the design of Exchange 4.0, 5.0, 5.5, and Exchange 2000. Peter received a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania.

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ILM Group Program Manager // Microsoft

Alex Weinert left the Web hosting provider he started to join Microsoft in 1995. Leveraging his enthusiasm for distributed systems, he helped build MSN 1.0, MCIS, Site Server, and MSN Communities in a variety of development roles. In 2001 Alex joined the Windows Communication Foundation team, and was responsible for delivering the IT Pro experience for WCF. In 2006 he became the Group Program Manager for the Identity Management Team, which is responsible for delivering Identity Management Solutions including MIIS 2003, ILM 2007, and ILM.

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Director, Technology Solutions // MSEtechnology

Dean Wells has worked in the information technology industry since 1987, providing consulting and training services on a variety of platforms including the original versions of DOS and CPM through Solaris, Novell NetWare, Windows, Linux, VMware ESX Server and the Apple Macintosh. He is the Director of Technology Solutions and co-founder of MSEtechnology, a global consulting/training organization headquartered in South Florida. Dean has presented at a number of technical seminars/shows including NetWorld Interop and TechEd, as well as DEC. Dean is a Microsoft MVP in Directory Services and Security and holds a number of other Microsoft and third-party industry certifications.

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