David Allen has worked in the IT industry for over ten years, starting as a first line support analyst and working up to his current role as a Principal Consultant for Infront Consulting Group. David actively consults to large organizations helping them architect, implement, configure and customize System Center technologies integrating them into their business processes. David has spoken on System Center topics at industry events such as MMS and TechEd. David enjoys developing training material on the applications that he consults on and regularly delivers this training around the world for large enterprise customers. David is currently an Operations Manager MVP and has been for the last 3 years, and actively posts at http://www.scdpmonline.org. David is also a co-author of the System Center Opalis 6.3 book which is due for release in mid-2011.
Islam Gomaa is a Data Protection Manager MVP from Ottawa, Canada, specializing in System Center Products, disaster recovery and system infrastructures running on the Microsoft server technology stack. Islam brings over 12 years of expertise in helping organizations align their business goals using Microsoft technology and deploying Microsoft-based solutions for the private and public sector. 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 Ottawa, Edmonton and Calgary. Islam authored some webcasts on Data Protection Manager 2007 and 2010 including 300 level "Protecting Applications with DPM2007" and 400 level "DPM and Opalis Automation for Disaster Recovery". Islam presented at TechDays 2010 in Winnipeg Canada and he is always invited to present for both OWSUG in Ottawa and MITPRO in Montreal.
Islam has a B.Sc. in computer science from Montreal University, and holds several Microsoft technical designations, and he is an active member of the IT community.
Islam is currently an IT Manager. He enjoys sharing his adventures and ideas about system administration through his blog at http://owsug.ca/blogs/islamGomaa and http://www.IslamGomaa.com. Islam is married and a proud father of his boy Yassine.
Robert Hedblom is a MVP for DPM and Senior Security Consultant who works at the Office IT-Partner Borås in Sweden. During his years as a focused DPM specialist and senior security consultant he gathered in-depth knowledge about DPM and the function of the technology. Robert Hedblom has written the official DPM 2010 training program for Cornerstone in Sweden and also tech DPM at Cornerstone. Robert is often seen as a speaker at Microsoft events and other technically focused conferences. Robert also runs the DPM blog Robert and DPM (http://robertanddpm.blogspot.com).