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| Garth Jones is the founder of the Ottawa Windows Server User Group (OWSUG) and its associated study group. He is an MVP for System Center Configuration Manager, is member of the myITforum Community Council. Garth is Chief Architect of Enhansoft, an Ottawa company that develops products and services to extend the value of System Center Configuration Manager 2007, SMS 2003, Operation Manager, MOM and Virtual Server. He started working with Systems Management Server when it was a v1.1 (1996). He can be found in Microsoft newsgroups, on a few web forums, OWSUG.ca, SMSug.ca, FAQshop.com and myITForum.com and on the mailing list of myITforum.com. Garth has presented numerous times to OWSUG, created webcast for both SMSUG.ca & myITForum.com and has presented at Microsoft Management Summit, EnergizeIT and Techdays. Since June 2002, Garth has written over 60 articles for www.myitforum.com. |
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| Islam Gomaa is a IT infrastructure manager at e-academy. He has over nine years of experience in IT in a Windows Server environment. Additionally, he has 4 years of experience deploying and implementing System Center Data Protection Manager in several sites. Islam is a member of the Ottawa Windows Server User Group executive committee and the Team Lead of the SharePoint study group. |
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| Todd is a Systems Administrator for the County of Lennox & Addington, Information Services Department. Supporting the Information Technology needs of the Libraries and Museum throughout their 12 points of service, he is responsible for managing and maintaining the entire IT infrastructure from server to desktops. With over 10 years’ experience, Todd has a vast depth of knowledge with Microsoft technologies. Todd is a Windows Desktop Experience MVP, and is involved in the Ottawa IT community through the Ottawa Windows Server User Group (OWSUG) and its associated certification study group and the OttawaSQL.net Pass Chapter. |
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| Kirk Munro, the worlds first self-proclaimed Poshoholic, is a Microsoft MVP and PowerShell Solutions Architect who has worked in the IT industry for more than 13 years. He has spent the majority of that time working with IT administrators, creating and developing software solutions to facilitate Systems Management. At Quest Software, Kirk works on PowerShell solutions, most notably PowerGUI, where he is responsible for the architecture of new PowerGUI features and the management and development of the PowerPacks used to extend the PowerGUI administrative console. |
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| Brad is a lead technical consultant and MCT certified trainer based in Ottawa, ON. 2-time recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for 2010 in the Virtual Machine domain and Management Infrastructure in 2009. He is also a member of the Windows Springboard Technical Expert Panel (STEP) for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 having delivered STEP presentations as an evangelist in Quebec City, QC and St-Johns, Newfoundland. Brad is a writer for Tech Republic and contributes monthly to the Network Administration and IT Security weblogs. Brad has authored Microsoft partner training courses for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 which have been delivered around the world. Brad also authored some webcasts on Data Protection Manager 2007 including 300 level “Protecting Applications with DPM2007” and 400 level “Advanced Features and Capabilities of DPM2007” also used in Microsoft partner training. Brad is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer having delivered courses in Security+, AD, AD Security, SCOM, SCCM, DPM, VMM, and Microsoft Desktop Optimization Platform. Brad actively consults to large organizations helping them architect, implement, configure and customize System Center technologies integrating them into their business processes. He is also an active consultant, and contributor to the support community. Brad presented in both the Architecture and Virtualization Tracks for TechDays 2009 and 2008 in both Montreal and Ottawa as well as at the 2009 Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas. He was the Systems Management and Security track co-lead Microsoft Canada representative for TechDays 2009 in Canada. He was a representative for Canada at TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles, CA. Brad maintains a weblog “Rantings of an IT Pirate” at http://owsug.ca/blogs/brad/default.aspx where content is replicated to the popular MyITForum and “The Lazy Admin” websites. He has extensive experience with Active Directory Services, Anti-intrusion detection and prevention and Forensics, Computer Security, and Microsoft System Center and Virtualization technologies in the enterprise. |
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| I have been in IT for almost 12 years. I am a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist in Business Intelligence (MCTS-BI). For about the last 9 years, I have been involved as a consultant in ETL/BI projects. My ETL projects were done using various ETL tools as well as using plain code with various RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server). I am currently working on my fourth SSIS implementation in 2 years. |
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| Edwin Sarmiento works as a SQL Server DBA/Systems Engineer for The Pythian Group in Ottawa, ON in Canada. Prior to joining Pythian, he was a senior systems engineer/DBA for Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd in Singapore. He is very passionate about technology but has interests in music, professional and organizational development, leadership and management matters when not working with databases. He lives up to his primary mission statement - "To help people grow and develop their full potential as God has planned for them." He wants the whole world to know that the FILIPINO is a world-class citizen and brings JESUS CHRIST to the world. |
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| Lynda Rab is an IT professional with over 15 years of technical experience and has been working with SQL Server since version 4.2. After working for 8 years as a DBA, she is now focusing her efforts on Data Warehousing working for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. Technical areas of expertise include Database Administration, Dimensional Modeling, Enterprise Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. Lynda is the Program Director for the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS, www.sqlpass.org ) and in that role she is responsible for the Program Delivery for the 2009 PASS Summit (168 Sessions, http://summit2009.sqlpass.org/) . She has been an elected member of the PASS Board of Directors since 2007 and has been volunteering for them since 2002. Lynda is also a member of the OttawaSQL.net local chapter (www.OttawaSQL.net) executive team. Recently, she has been speaking at the OttawaSQL.net chapter and was a member of the Women in Technology – Strategies for Success Panel at the 2008 PASS Summit in Seattle, WA. Lynda lives in Ottawa, Ontario with her husband and young son. |
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| Joël Hébert [ASP.NET MVP] is the Director and Chief Architect at Opulent ASP Development Inc. where he works as a consultant specializing in ASP.NET Enterprise Architecture/Development. He has developed large-scale web applications and Computer Aided Audit Tools for CaseWare-IDEA and is currently working on federal government projects. Joel is a long standing member of the Ottawa .Net Community’s steering committee and has been involved in many of its projects including; the “The Developers” TV show, Inter-User Group Challenges, and a number of MCAD/MCTS study groups. Joel is also responsible for introducing & hosting the Product Discovery Showcases at the events. |
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| Charles Wiebe is a Microsoft .NET software architect/designer, for Windows Forms and ASP.NET solutions. Charles specializes in the application layer – Web Parts and other ways of building GUI’s. Currently, Charles is responsible for the User Interface components used in COR and Jetfire. |
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| John Hansen is a Microsoft .NET software architect/designer. John specializes in high capacity object oriented systems and connectivity. Currently John is developing Jetfire, an open source, persistent, multiuser, workflow domain specific language designed for use by power users. TrackerRealm provides .net consulting services and is currently expanding the Jetfire product line. John and Charles are co-developers of Jetfire – a .net open source, multiuser, application domain specific language (DSL) with syntax heavily based on C# and Java. The goal of Jetfire is to allow power users to quickly and easily develop and deploy applications, in much the same way as Excel allows powers users to quickly develop spread sheets. |
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| Vincent have over eleven years of experience in the software developement field and I've been using .NET in enterprise projects for almost 7 years now. I was involved in many enterprise projects for large corporations like Desjardins, Domtar, Cascades and Alcoa but I was also part of a few projects for various government branches. I like to learn new technologies related to .NET, use the new tools that are designed for .NET and I love to share it all with my peers. Yes, I'm a confessed .NET addict and I'm currently working at DMR, a Fujitsu company, as a Senior Consultant. |
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| Wes MacDonald is a Visual Studio Team System MVP, MCTS and a Principal Consultant for LIKE 10 INC., a SharePoint Server and Team Foundation Server Consulting Firm with offices in Ottawa. As a Senior Developer/Architect with over 10 years of experience has been responsible for all aspects of software development and provides technical leadership to his clients and the .NET developer community. He also gives regular presentations on SharePoint and Team Foundation Server at the local user groups. |
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| Peter Ritchie is a software development consultant. Peter is president of Peter Ritchie Inc. Software Consulting Co., a software consulting company in Canada's National Capital Region specialyzing in Windows-based software development management, process, and implementation consulting. Peter has worked with such cliets as Mitel, Nortel, Passport Canada, Innvapost from mentoring to architecture to implementation. Peter's range of experience ranges from designing and implement simple stand-alone applications to architecting n-tier applications spanning dozens of computers; from C++ to C#. |
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| Colin Melia is the Principal Architect for DreamDigital, the CTO of Imparta and a committee member for the three main Ottawa user groups. He has been a hands-on Architect for over 17 years having led the creation of award-winning desktop-based immersive business simulation technology, online learning portals and workflow-driven performance tracking BI systems as well as creating the first streaming video community site with Windows Media. He has worked in the finance, telecoms, e-learning, Internet communications and gaming industries, with his latest business solutions currently in use by thousands of users world-wide in corporations like GE, HP, O2, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft & Reuters. |
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| Sylvain Boucher is a Software Engineer with Privasoft based in Ottawa. Primarily working with C# and the VB6 on a day to day basis. Now looking forward to WPF/SL the new Microsoft Mobile 7 platform as the way to go. |
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| Louis-Philippe Pinsonneault is a senior .NET developer and trainer at Runatserver Consulting. He has over 9 years of experience with . NET technology. He is a certified Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) and a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist .NET Framework 3.5 ASP.NET Application. He also teaches ASP.NET at Technologia, Montréal. |
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| Peter Henry is a C# code-head who likes to talk, uh, share technical knowledge. During the day, he’s a C# developer with Privasoft and at night, googles esoteric .NET APIs, t-sql functions and other cool material for his blog to try to help other likeminded C# geeks. Peter has helped out with Four ODNC study groups helping other deveopers obtain their Microsoft certifications as well as presented before at the ODNC and OCC/Ott IT Days. |
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