Rafael Bernardes is the founder of CooperaTI, one of the most recognized IT portals in Brazil. He is well-known personality and holds recognitions by Microsoft with the MVP, MiVP, and TechNet IT Hero titles.
Rafael also holds an MCSE (Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert) certification in Private Cloud as well as the most recent cloud and virtualization certifications.
Leandro Carvalho is a well-known virtualization specialist, who writes and presents sessions on virtualization and cloud computing. He works as a system engineer on Microsoft solutions, such as Windows Server, Hyper-V, App-V, VDI, System Center, Exchange, Lync Server, SharePoint, Project Server, security, and client systems. He also helps the community frequently with articles, forums, videos, and lectures about his passion—Microsoft virtualization. Leandro has the certifications of Certified Ethical Hacker, MCP, MCSA+M+S, MCSE+S, MCTS, MCITP, MCT, and MVP. In 2009, he received the Trainer of the Year award from MCT Awards, Latin America. He has won the Microsoft MVP award as a virtualization specialist every year since 2010. He has also worked on Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Cookbook.
Leandro can be contacted at http://leandroesc.wordpress.com, and his Twitter handle is @LeandroEduardo.
Tomas Dabasinskas started his career in the IT field during his days at the university, where he was studying software engineering. He started working as a developer, but a few years later, he moved into the IT Pro field. For a few years, Tomas worked on implementing and deploying a number of different solutions based on Microsoft technologies, including SharePoint, Exchange, and Hyper-V. Now, he is working as a lead for a Windows support team in a large enterprise organization. He also has to deal with virtualization technologies (both VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V).
David Luu is a quality assurance engineer, software developer, and technical writer. His professional experience and interests include working with technologies such as virtualization, networking, Microsoft Windows, .NET, cloud computing, and more. He primarily tests software products and services, occasionally workin on software development, documentation review, and technical writing/editing.
David also contributes to open source software and has released a .NET library to facilitate the management of Hyper-V virtual machines programmatically. It is available at http://code.google.com/p/robotframework-hypervlibrary/.
James Murray-Curtis has a BSc (Hons) degree in computing and information systems from London Metropolitan University. Through the course of his continual professional development, he has acquired numerous Cisco and Microsoft certifications. He has worked in the IT field for the last 10 years and has been involved in multiple projects for large organizations as a systems engineer. James is currently employed as an IP network engineer for a leading on-demand mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE). When he is not supporting, fixing, and maintaining core network infrastructure, he works as an MCT for a local training academy. This is of great benefit to his students, as he uses not only his academic knowledge but also his practical experience in high-availability systems in production environments and core networks. James has experience in teaching Windows Server, Exchange Server, and virtualization.
Federico Tonelli was born on June 3, 1985. He lives in Livorno (Leghorn in English), Tuscany, Italy, and he also studied there up to high school. Then, he studied information technology at the University of Pisa and obtained his bachelor's degree in 2009, with a thesis on security of P2P networks through virtual machines. Then, he studied security information at La Spezia, a wing of the University of Pisa, where he obtained his master's degree (110 cum laude) in 2012. After gaining his master's degree, he was a scholarship holder, and his research was about vulnerability analysis in SCADA systems, funded by Enel Engineering and Services. Finally, he got a call for becoming a PhD student and secured the first place, with a score of 99/100.
Federico's main research interests in the computer security field are formal approaches to risk assessment and management of complex ICT infrastructures. He has been involved in risk assessment and management of several systems, and he has worked on industrial control systems with SCADA components. He has authored several papers on ICT security. Federico is currently developing a suite of tools, named Haruspex, to automatize risk assessment and management of any ICT infrastructure.