Speakers
Allen Allison
Allen Allison joined MTM Technologies in November 1998. During his tenure at MTM Technologies, Allen has been the lead architect on the largest VPN Network Infrastructure in North America; the chief engineer and leader of MTM's Managed Services, Security Operations Center; and has lead the Information Security Practice team to develop a nationally recognized and industry leading Information Security Practice. Allen has 18 years of experience in the field of systems programming, network infrastructure design and deployment, and information security. He holds the highest industry certifications including CCIE #6358, CCSP, CISSP, MCSE, CCSE, INFOSEC Professional, and the NSA CNSS 4013. He also has earned his Bachelor's Degree in Economics with an emphasis in business and finance from the University of California, Irvine.
At MTM Technologies, Allen manages the information security practice and is responsible for the architecture of security solutions for MTM Technologies' clients; developing security assessment, design, and management methodologies; and evaluating security solutions and vendors for the security practice. He also has been asked to speak at numerous network and security related events, including educational security seminars and adjunct professorships at Southern California community colleges.
Michael Campbell
Michael K. Campbell is the president of OverAchiever Productions, a consultancy dedicated to technical evangelism, mentoring, and quality solutions. Michael specializes in SQL Server, ASP.NET, IIS, .NET and related technologies. He has been a professional developer, web master, and a DBA for server well-known companies. He enjoys learning, problem-solving, and teaching. Michael is an ASPInsider, and has written articles for a variety of magazines and web sites including SQL Server Magazine and the ASPAlliance.com. He is active on the SQLAdvice.com newsgroups and enjoys helping others. Michael lives in picturesque Sandpoint, Idaho with his wife and four children. He can be contacted through any of his sites listed at http://overachiever.net.
Derek Hatchard
Derek Hatchard is a software consultant, trainer/mentor, and founder of the Church Radius project. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft MVP, author, and speaker. He blogs at ardentdev.com and derekhat.com. He also hosts a developer podcast at devcasting.com.
Christopher Huffman
Christopher B. Huffman (MCSE, CCEA, CISSP, SCTA, NSCA, PMP, ACA, VSP) oversees the Sales and Service operations for MTM Technologies, Inc. and is currently the Regional Area Director in the Chicago, IL area covering 5 states in the northern Central Region. He has been working the IT industry for nearly 20 years as an senior infrastructure architect and thought leader. Christopher has been working primarily with Microsoft, Citrix, Terminal Services, Security and Virtualization technologies for the past 12 years. Christopher has authored many published books and works in the areas of application access with Terminal Services and Citrix, application development for Terminal Services environments and Multi-User Environment Application Tuning and Testing. Christopher has been a member of many advisory councils such as the IEEE and the Chicago Executives Club to name a few. Christopher speaks regularly on a national basis at IT conferences and seminars and was awarded a Key Business Member award by INC 500 and holds numerous letters of commendation from enterprise clients for technical leadership. Many of the largest enterprise clients in the Fortune 50 space have been architected, designed and deployed by or under the direction of Christopher. Christopher’s main focus is to help clients understand complex IT architectures while also providing a roadmap that covers the business and technical impacts of a given solution. Christopher can be contacted at chuffman@mtm.com or christopher@thehuff.net.
Anthony "Andy" Jones
Anthony "Andy" Jones (CCIA, CCEA, CCI, MCSE+I, MCT, MCIW) is an industry expert in Access Infrastructure and technologies surrounding and supporting the solution. Andy is the Vice President of Professional Services for MTM Technologies, the premier Citrix Platinum reseller in North America, and manages the professional services group for the Central United States. MTM provides comprehensive solutions focused on Citrix and Microsoft technologies for clients ranging from 50 to 50,000 users, focusing mainly on architecting and deploying Access Infrastructure solutions for enterprise customers. One of Andy's primary focuses is in developing best practices, processes and methodologies surrounding Access Infrastructure that take into consideration and integrates with virtually every part of a customer's infrastructure.
Andy is also a writer and has co-authored Deploying Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server 3.0 with Windows Server 2003 Terminal Services (Syngress), and Citrix MetaFrame Access Suite Advanced Concepts: The Official Guide Second Edition (McGraw-Hill). Andy was a contributing author on Virtualization with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 (Syngress) and a Technical Editor on Scripting VMware: Power Tools for Automating Virtual Infrastructure Administration (Syngress). Andy also contributes to MSTerminalServices.ORG, the Internet destination for Terminal Services and Access Infrastructure content. Andy is currently based in Cincinnati, OH, where he lives with his wife and children. He enjoys flying when his schedule permits.
Marc Mangus
Marc Mangus is Vice President, Practice Development for MTM Technologies, Inc., where he leads the national team delivering Access Solutions to their customers. Marc is a published author and noted thought leader in the IT industry in the areas of Application Delivery infrastructure, Identity & Access Management, and Desktop and Server Virtualization. Marc has 20 years of experience and has been on both sides of the table; leading IT organizations as well as providing solutions to those same companies. He has created the vision and strategy for efficient IT operation for some notable Fortune 1000 companies and has been recognized and quoted in numerous industry publications, including Computer Reseller News, Network World, InfoWorld, CIO Magazine, ComputerWorld, RSA Vantage Magazine, and Dell PowerSolutions Magazine. Marc is the co-author of "Citrix MetaFrame for Windows Terminal Services: The Official Guide," and member for four years running of the Citrix Partner Technical Expert (PTEC) counsel, an invitation-only technical advisory panel. One of Marc's projects won Wired Magazine's Top 100 Network Projects, 1995. Marc holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management from Saint Mary's College of California.
Michael Otey
Michael Otey, technical director for Windows IT Proand SQL Server Magazine,is president of TECA, a software-development and consulting company in Portland, Oregon, and coauthor of SQL Server 2005 Developer's Guide(Osborne/McGraw-Hill). Michael has covered the topic of virtualization extensively for Windows IT Promagazine, having written several features articles showing how to take advantage of virtualization in the enterprise as well as reviewing all of the major virtualization products.
Alessandro Perilli
Alessandro Perilli is a recognized IT security and virtualization technology analyst. He holds a CISSP certification, in addition to many other certifications for different technologies and products including Check Point, Cisco, Citrix, CompTIA, Microsoft, Prosoft. In 2006, he received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for security technologies.
A pioneer in modern virtualization evangelism, Alessandro's name has been recognized on the international scene since 2003 thanks to the blog virtualization.info.
Steve Schofield
Steve has been in the IT field for more than 10 years, starting in June of 1999 when he started ASPFree.com to provide content and examples using Classic ASP. In January of 2005, he joined ORCSWeb.com, which hosts such Microsoft sites as 'channel9.msdn.com,' 'blogs.msdn.com,' 'blogs.technet.com,' 'asp.net.' He has also been involved with other technologies, including Active Directory 2003, SMS 2003, and Anti-virus infrastructures.
