The Transformation of Dell-Driving Business and IT Solutions

Matt Sedlacek, Executive Director, Large Enterprise Solutions, Dell Computers

Matt has been with Dell for 11 years and has held several sales and management positions during this time. His career started as an Account Executive in New Business Development in Dell's Healthcare vertical and then moved into various business development AE roles in both healthcare and Dell's corporate business verticals. From there, Matt assumed Regional Sales Director responsibility covering the Midwest/Great Lakes Regions for Dell's Corporate business group. In 2006, Matt became the Area Vice President of Sales for the US Central Area Commercial Business Unit. In 2010, Matt completed an assignment as the Country Manager for Dell's commercial business in Canada. Most recently, Matt moved into the role of Executive Director for Large Enterprise Solutions which focuses on go to market field readiness for Dell's server, storage and networking solutions in the Americas.


Social Networking in the Corporate Environment--Risk vs Opportunity

  • What tools are available, what are their major features and where do I begin.
  • My company blocks facebook, twitter, and similar sites, how may people still interact? 
  • Risks:  Indiscretions, broken privacy and identity theft, viruses, spyware.
  • How do I sell this to my boss? 
  • How do I protect the business but still promote the business.
  • Acceptable Use Policies, secure the network, Monitoring, teach/remind protect privacy.

Chuck Tomasi is a Sr. Solutions Consultant with ServiceNow, makers of award winning cloud IT service management software. Social media is nothing new to Chuck; he has been leveraging the Internet for information for 25 years. From his early days of Usenet on his local dial-up bulletin board, to today's Twitter/Facebook/Google+, his game is the same - be more effective with the help of subject matter experts. Chuck is also the host of several podcasts and co-author of "Podcasting for Dummies" and "Teach Yourself WordPress in 10 Minutes". http://www.chucktomasi.com

Dana VanDen Heuvel is the founder of the marketing consulting firm, The MarketingSavant Group. An award-winning marketing blogger, Dana is also the author of the American Marketing Association's "Marketech Guide to Marketing Technology" and  their "Guide to Social Network Marketing" and the creator of the AMA's TechnoMarketing training series, Advanced Social Media training series and B2B Social Media training series.
Dana is a widely recognized expert on thought leadership marketing, social media, blogging, podcasting, RSS, Internet communities and interactive marketing trends and best practices and speaks at over 50 events each year on these and other marketing topics at industry and private client events.
Dana is also an adjunct professor at St. Norbert College and teaches a course on social media and thought leadership marketing.  You can learn more about Dana at:  www.marketingsavant.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/danavandenheuvel

Scott Cummings is a Director in the Mobility Application Consulting organization within AT&T.  Scott's organization works with companies to leverage mobile technologies, including Social Media, to make their existing business processes more efficient and to realize new areas of opportunity.  Serving on multiple AT&T advisory boards and committees where his contributions include guiding the direction of AT&T's internal use of Social Networking technologies, Scott is also an active member of AT&T's Social Networking ecosystem, helping to leverage various Social Media outlets.  He is frequently requested to record Podcasts at AT&T for internal and external use as training supplements and to augment and differentiate sales and marketing efforts.  An avid user of many Social Networking technologies, Scott believes that Social Media has a premier position in any company's internal communications and external marketing strategies and has developed an organization with a goal to both leverage these technologies and present them to others.

Cheryl Detrick, President, De Pere Chamber.   Cheryl's 15+ years of experience began with the Reno/Sparks (Nevada) Chamber.  Cheryl and her family moved to the Green Bay/De Pere area 8 years ago as a staff member for the Green Bay Area Chamber for several years. Since her appointment in January 2008 as President, Cheryl has worked diligently to establish the De Pere Area Chamber as a strong organization providing support to the business community.
A self-described "political nerd," "techno-geek" and unabashed compassionate - and passionate - community developer educated as a political scientist, she enjoys the interplay between all things governmental (especially from an elected perspective) and the communities in which we live and work.  The four things most often said about her are: "she's enthusiastic, incredibly tenacious, highly motivated and WOW does she talk fast!"  She promises to *try* to keep her rate of speech below warp speed and to pause to give you time to laugh at any jokes while doing her level best to keep you interested while answering any questions on your mind!


The Efficient Enterprise--Managing Costs Out of the Data Center

Manny Amiri, Regional Director Solutions, Dell

Manny Amiri has over 25 years' experience in management and delivery of strategic IT infrastructure solutions, including 15 years in Strategic sales & Solutions management for Sun Microsystems as well as sales and delivery management with Novell Inc., Keane and Dell Inc. He is currently responsible for "Next Generation Data Center solutions Sales" at Dell.
Some of his Key clients include Motorola, McDonald's, VW, Sears,  WW. Grainger, Walgreens, Deere, State Farm.
 Manny has built and managed Solutions teams, specific to the following technology domains: 

  • Infrastructure IT Strategy, Optimization & Transformation, Software as Services (SaaS) & cloud Computing
  • Managed Infrastructure Services & Solutions
  • Strategy development, planning & execution of  Service driven IT Infrastructure  
  • Integrated Enterprise Infrastructure solutions including IT portfolio Analysis, BPR, Platform Rationalization, Virtualization, Consolidation & Process Optimization
  • Enterprise Governance, Identity & Information security Software
  • Enterprise Servers, Storage Hardware, Unix, Linux, Windows, VMware, Storage area Networks (SAN), Enterprise IT Management (EITM)
  •  Remote Infrastructure Management & Off-Shoring.

Customer Relationship Management for the Mobile Salesforce, the Analytical Executive, and the Untrainable User

Doug Fissell, Cofounder and Vice President of Sales

As Cofounder and Vice President of Sales, Doug is responsible for Sales and Account Management at Ledgeview.Doug brings 20 years of experience in IT consulting and business leadership to Ledgeview Partners.  Doug holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.  He is PMP certified through the Project Management Institute and is a Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Professional for Dynamics CRM.   He is also a veteran having served his country honorably in the Army.


Enabling Work at Home for Business Continuity

Linda Jacobi and Kevin Brandt, Northwestern Mutual Life
Paul Molchany, Commercial Sales Manager, Time Warner Cable Business Class

How Northwestern Mutual utilized customized broadband services to create a work at home program to mitigate the risks of pandemics, weather events, Internet "storms" and office closures.

Linda is a Business Continuity Consultant within the Enterprise BCP division at Northwestern Mutual, has been with the company for 10 years with 7 years of Business Continuity experience, 5 years of audit experience and 7 years of Project Management. She is responsible for the day to day management of the Work at Home Program. Kevin is a Business Continuity Consultant within the Enterprise BCP division at Northwestern Mutual, has been with the company for over five years, holds a CBCP certification from DRII and has 15 years of industry experience in programming, systems, disaster recovery and business continuity.


Business Etiquette-New Rules in a Digital Age

KIMBERLY BEAN, Metro Market Manager, Robert Half Technology

Kimberly Bean is the metro market manager for Robert Half Technology, a leading specialized staffing firm providing information technology (IT) professionals on a project and full-time basis.  In this role, she oversees operations in Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Kimberly has an extensive background in the staffing industry, with more than ten years of experience. She joined Robert Half International in 2003 as a division director and was quickly promoted to branch manager before moving into her current role as a metro market manager.
Kimberly is also involved in several local professional organizations including the Madison Chapter of the Help Desk Institute (HDI) and the local .Net Users Group.
With more than 100 locations in North America and Europe, Robert Half Technology is a leading provider of technology professionals for initiatives ranging from web development and multiplatform systems integration to network engineering and technical support.  Robert Half Technology is a division of Robert Half International, and offers online job search services at www.rht.com.


Harnessing the Power of the Cloud

TIM MAUCK, Director - Product Management, Tushaus

Guard your applications, network and data, and ensure business continuity in the process.

Tim Mauck is the Director - Product Management for Tushaus Computer Services. He joined Tushaus in June, 2010, and has responsibility for developing Tushaus-specific products and services that differentiate the company from other network resellers and system integrators.  In this position, Mauck combines Tushaus' Cloud Hosting Center Services, Managed Services, Technical Services and Application Development teams with products from primary business partners to create defined offers that serve the needs of Tushaus clients.  Mauck is also the primary interface between Tushaus and business partners that include HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Dell, Apple and others.
Mauck came to Tushaus with more than 25 years of experience in sales, sales management, marketing and product management.  After 14 years working in the healthcare field with Eastman Kodak and Johnson and Johnson, Mauck moved to Milwaukee and moved to the Information Technology field.  He was the Director of OEM Partnerships for RF Technologies in Brookfield, as well as a Wisconsin-area Manager for Data Processing Sciences.   Mauck was the Director of Product Management at Norlight Telecommunications and ARI Network Services before joining Tushaus.
Mauck is a graduate of Miami University with a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Business, majoring in Marketing. He has been a Certified Trainer for Miller-Heiman's Strategic Selling courses, is a Certified Professional with Pragmatic Marketing, and completed the Strategic Leadership Series at the University Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  Mauck is also one of ten representatives nationwide who serves on the Cloud Computing Partner Advisory Council for Microsoft.


Sharepoint--When to Crawl, Walk , Run

Ray Mitchell, Senior SharePoint Consultant, Avtex

Many of us have seen SharePoint 101 presentations describing features and functionality of SharePoint 2010. What we're missing are the best practices and recommendations for what to implement and when. What are the benefits/risks of choosing to crawl first and then walk or run later? What effort is required to jump ahead and implement the utopia? This presentation will break down key functionality areas within SharePoint and outline the crawl, walk or run maturity models. Once you have an understanding of what it takes to implement and manage these models, you'll be able to develop your platform strategy and make critical choices about where to focus your efforts.

Raymond Mitchell is a Senior SharePoint Consultant at Avtex in Minneapolis, MN. He has over 10 years of IT experience and has worked with every version of SharePoint since its release as SharePoint Team Services. Since 2004 he has helped coordinate and speak at the Minnesota SharePoint User Group and led the effort to offer the user group to online attendees starting in 2009. He has also been a speaker at the Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, and St. Louis SharePoint User Groups, as well as at several SharePoint Camps and SharePoint Saturday events. Raymond wrote a Wrox Blox on Building Dashboards with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 using SharePoint Designer 2007 and contributed two chapters on the BCS to SharePoint 2010 Six-in-One. He also blogs under the alias IWKID on Information Worker technologies including SharePoint and Office development.


Managing Customer Expectations

Heather Gollnow, M.A., Chair, School of Information Technology, ITT Technical Institute  ITT--Green Bay

Heather Gollnow is the Program Chair for the School of IT at ITT Technical Institute in Green Bay, WI.  Drawing on her 12 years of experience in the IT and education industries, Heather supports students in pursuing careers in the IT industry.  Prior to her role as the Program Chair, Heather was a member of the software applications programming faculty at ITT.  She is also working on her PhD in Information Technology, planning to start her dissertation in 2012. In addition to her enthusiasm for IT and education, Heather is also an avid aviatrix and enjoys teaching others how to fly airplanes.  She can be reached at hgollnow@itt-tech.edu


Securing Your Future with Open Source Code

Davvid Zey, Director of Development Services, Zyquest

Back in the 1980's, it used to be catchphrase in corporate America that "you never got fired by buying IBM".  Much the same could be said in the early 2000's, except the company might have been Microsoft or Oracle.  But if you look more closely, even Oracle has now thrown it's hat into the ring by buying MySQL and Java and supports dozens of other Open Source projects, including virtualization and office tools.  So, momentarily laying aside the "Corporate Enterprise" that might have dozens of resources to support all sorts of systems and applications, what about the average companies' IT environment?  Is there a place for Open Source?  Can it indeed fulfill the promise of lowering costs, yet doing so in a secure way?  Listen as David Zey discusses the different areas that have matured in the Open Source realm, from Servers to languages to CMS portals and ecommerce platforms.  Open Source has made inroads into these and many other areas and can be quick and easy to install, relatively simple to support, and, yes, can save you money in a very secure way.  Is Open Source right for you?

David Zey has over 15 years in the IT profession.  Specialties include business analyst, troubleshooter, architect, enterprise service bus, business solutions, technical lead, web services, MCP, project manager.  Complete bio information at:  http://www.linkedin.com/pub/david-zey/3/b95/99


Mitigating the Business Pain and Suffering of Social Media Networking

Michael Gauthier, Chief Technology Officer

Hackers are increasingly targeting social networking services like such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.   Many employees who log on during the day at work might be causing information security risks at their companies.  But banning the technologies may be short-sighted since business requirements from marketing, sales, HR are urging access to such technologies.  Forbid it or not, most I/T Executives know that users will find ways how to use these tools anyway, within the business environment.    The emergence of Web 2.0 technologies has prompted the need for a tools that are able to distinguish between different risks within a website's features and content, and apply policies accordingly that are manageable.  This expert tip discusses the new generation of "application-aware" tools and devices that have emerged to deal with today's application-centric threats.

Michael Gauthier, Chief Technology Officer, of Heartland Business Systems has been architecting data infrastructure and security solutions for private and public sector institutions for over 15 years.  Michael brings a very unique perspective to the market as he holds multiple Cisco CCIE certifications, CISSP, SANS GCIA as well as over a dozen other technical and non-technical certifications.   His broad experience has helped him to quickly assess security issues and develop customer remediation strategies that cross multi-functional boundaries.