Ashwin U. Kini
Mark Parris
Lee Benjamin
Graham Jones
Stephen Ibaraki
Barry Sellers
Michael Jenkin
Anders Pistaceci
Felipe Zuñiga Zapata
Jay Ferron
Frank V. Tutone
Ashwin U. Kini is an IT Professional from Mumbai and passionate about Networking technologies and works as Sr. Technical Consultant CNC on JD Edwards / PeopleSoft ERP with Systime. He holds Masters in Computer Applications, Bachelors in Computer Applications, and Diploma in Mechanical Engineering. He is also a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.
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Ashwin blogs at http://www.ashwinkini.com/blog
Mark is an Independent consultant from the UK specialising in Active Directory.
When he not consulting Mark runs, The UK Active Directory User Group [ADUG] and The [WSUG] Windows Server User Groups. Mark is a Microsoft Certified Master, Windows Server 2008¦Directory and a Microsoft MVP since 2009 in Directory Services an additionally an MCT; a Member of the Institute of IT Trainers (IITT) and British Computer Society.
With over 20 years experience in the messaging industry, Lee Benjamin is an expert on Microsoft Exchange and has in-depth experience in a number of other messaging systems. Lee is an MVP for Microsoft Exchange.
Since retiring from Microsoft in 1997, he has been a highly sought after consultant for enterprise and medium-sized organizations and software firms. He currently specializes in architecture, migration and upgrade advice. He also evaluates and does product testing and training.
Lee is chairman of one of the largest Exchange user groups in the world Exchange Server Boston, and Vice President for Boston User Groups, an umbrella organization of over 50 user groups in the New England Area.
Lee has been an analyst at Ferris Research, and is a regular speaker at industry conferences on topics such as data protection, compliance and eDiscovery, messaging security, mobile access and calendaring integration.
Graham graduated in Chemical Engineering in the UK over 40 years ago. Over those 40 years he has had a very varied career including process plant design, operation and management; Project, Engineering and IT Management; software and web development and teaching windows desktop and Office.
Taking a pioneering approach to the use of computers in his engineering work he often solved problems that others had been unable to resolve using more traditional methods. For the past 10+ years he has worked in the IT industry. Helping others has always been a constant whether professionally or via volunteer work.
This includes providing free IT services to non-profit organizations such as the Surrey Food Bank , acting as a mentor for S.U.C.C.E.S.S which helps new immigrants to find work in IT in Canada, designing, developing and managing the website for the complex where he lives and acting as President of VANTUG for the past 10 years during which time the user group has grown from 200 to over 1400 members.
He is a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in British Columbia, Canada, has passed the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam and achieved the Microsoft MCSD (pre .NET) designation. He is a guest contributor on the Microsoft Canada IT Managers blog and IT Pro blog.
Stephen started working with technology in 1965 and founded one of the first user groups so very much believes in the power of community connection, helping IT professionals managing change, and supporting their career/skills growth.
Stephen is the founding Chairman of the Global Board for GITCA, serving in 2008 and 2009 and now serves as a director and advisor on the global board as past chair. Please read Stephen’s extensive and valuable work in the community at Stephen Ibaraki Profile.
Barry Sellers has served as a member of the NPA Board of Directors for 9 years for the Network Professional Association (NPA) and most recently as Treasurer/CFO. During his tenure, he has championed, revamped, documented and implemented the NPA Certified Network Professional Certification and is currently working on the Associate Certified Network Professional Certification that focuses on professionalism and ethics, which will be a requirement for the Certified Network Professional Certification. He has held all of the officer positions on the Board of Directors including Chairman over that time. Prior to his time on the Board of Directors, he was the founder and president of the Shreveport Chapter of the Network Professional Association (1993 -1995). He served as the head judge for the Network Professional Association Awards for Professionalism (2002 - 2008). He was awarded the Distinguished Fellow of the Network Professional Association (DFNPA) in 2005. Barry has been an invited member of the Network Computing Magazine editorial advisory board since 2004. He has served as a Judge and Presenter for the Best of Networld + Interop; contest (2005 - 2008).
Barry holds the following certifications:
Certified Network Professional (CNP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Master Certified Netware Engineer (MCNE), Enterprise Certified Netware Engineer (ECNE), Certified Netware Engineer (CNE) Certified Netware Administrator (CNA), IBM Certified Warp Server Instructor (CWSI), IBM Certified Lan Server Instructor (CLSI), IBM Certified Warp Server Engineer (CWSE), IBM Certified Lan Server Engineer (CLSE), ITIL Essentials Certificate (ITIL), IT Project + Certification, Network + Certification and A+ Certification. He has a Master of Science Degree in Computer Systems Technology from Louisiana State University Shreveport and a Bachelor of Science Degree from Louisiana State University. Barry's community involvement has been with the following institutions: St Andrews School - IT committee Member, Architected deployed new infrastructure; St Joseph&rsquo's Villa; upgraded all of the workstations to XP; Big Brothers, Big Sisters - Consulting work on the infrastructure upgrade; Capital One Community Program - Consultant and Volunteer; Greater Richmond YMCA - Consultant and Volunteer; Shreveport Pro Bono Project - Network Consultant and Volunteer; Caddo Magnet High School - Internet and Computer Education Committees; Arthur Circle Elementary School PTA - President, Computer Committee Chairman; Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity (LSU) - Vice-president, Founding Member; LSU Service Council - Founding Member; Eagle Scout. He is currently working at Capital One Financial Services in Richmond Virginia as the Enterprise Infrastructure Architect (1997 - today). Prior to that he was the Network Coordinator for Louisiana State University Medical Center (1992 - 1997).
MVP 2004-2008, MCP, MCPS, MCNPS, Small Business Specialist Michael started working in IT in 1990.
His interest was piqued whilst studying for a Bachelor of Engineering at University and he left his degree to follow IT. He has worked in computer retail, support, wholesale and finally professional services over the many years. He has dabbled as a programmer, written articles for magazines, hosted talkback radio programs with regards to IT problems and volunteered in the community, supporting any IT related cause. Michael is the Director of Business Technology Partners in South Australia. He runs a community based website (www.mickyj.com) where he blogs about IT issues and provides access to advice and links to anti-Malware tools.
In his time he has held many vendor credentials with AMD, Intel, Trend Micro, Symantec and Microsoft. He has been a member of the Australian Reseller Panel, a Microsoft OEM Partner, Microsoft Preinstallation Specialist, and most recently, retired as a Microsoft MVP (as of January 1, 2009). Michael was the Specialist Technical Reviewer and Expert Critique for the publication "Pro Windows Small Business Server 2003".
He helped build an IT network to support 12,000 scouts for the national Australian Scout Jamboree and assisted as a volunteer with many other large group functions. Through his community work he has been awarded the premiers award in South Australia, presented by the Governor General (representing the Queen of England). When Michael finds time, he presents for the local IT PRO user groups including the Small Business Server Users Group. He also works with other user groups and community groups including Rotary and Business Groups.
This has included presenting for Microsoft and travelling overseas. Michael's previous connection with Culminis was on the MVP advisory team. It is because of the potential he observed there that he desired to be a member of the regional board.
Andrea Pistaceci has been training and speaking professionally throughout the world since 1999 and has spoken in more than 50 countries. Formerly Self Employed, he is now a member of Guidance the training center of Devoteam Belgium.
In his role at Guidance his primary job involves training and speaking at Microsoft partner events and conferences. He has been a Technical Learning Guide, an MCT ambassador, an ILL guide and has spoken at Microsoft TechEd Europe. His specialty is the Evangelization of Management and Virtualization, especially on the System Center and Hyper-V Products. He has also been involved in Sales and Presales training across Europe to increase awareness of IO and the Dynamics system.
He speaks 4 languages fluently (Italian, French, English, Spanish), and can present a session in any of those. He also enjoys participating in free training for NGOs thru organizations like Nethope. He loves supporting the community with his User Group and as the Chairman of GITCA's EMEA Board of Directors.
Please feel free to contact him for any Conference and Training engagement, and if you want help building a local IT pro community.
Líder de ITGroup Chile ubicado en La Serena, Chile (2 ½ años), ha logrado dirigir su grupo desde Santiago de Chile por mas de un año y crear eventos de calidad además de estar poniendo en marcha varios grupos de estudio.
Comenzó su carrera en TI como hobby, mientras estaba en la Armada de Chile hace 10 años. Hoy da capacitación a pequeñas y medianas empresas. Es activo no solo en su grupo de usuarios, sino también en los grupos locales de Chile.
Es uno de los coordinadores de un movimiento en Chile para reactivar los grupos de usuarios de la región que han visto una gran disminución en la participación en el último año.
Principal for Interactive Security Training, LLC. Responsible for various projects that include implementing, training and designing solutions to meet customer’s requirements including security designs, Network infrastructures, enterprise security solutions and Mobility issues.
Vendor to Microsoft, Hewitt Packard, and other technology companies, acting as a Subject Matter Expert. Act as consultant with customers on uses of new technologies and infrastructure issues.
Develop training and delivered on cutting edge technologies that have included Security, High Performance Clusters, Virtualization and Windows Mobile devices. Customers include Microsoft, Asentus Consulting LLC, Rogers Communications, National Rural Electric Association (NRECA), USMC, Booz Allen Hamilton, and US Air Force. Other customers include banks, government agencies,health agencies and providers.
Frank was the Managing Director-Finance/HR/Technology for Culminis, Inc. Frank was a Systems Engineering Manager, Marketing Programs Manager and IT Professional for IBM for over 28 years. Starting as a Systems Engineer in the New York Retail Branch Office, he managed accounts such as Macy's, Altman's and ADP. He spent 5 years in the Insurance Industry as a Senior Industry Administrator. He later managed a team of Systems Engineers on the Johnson & Johnson account. He was the senior Marketing Field Liaison for a group called Complementary Products which evaluated outside vendor products that complemented IBM products and marketed them through IBM. In some cases, these products became IBM logo products. His last few years with IBM were spent in the Network Systems and Storage Systems Divisions project managing such products as wireless handhelds and NAS and SAN storage network products. He has been a contributing member of the Carolina IT Professional User’s Group (CITPG) for the past six years.