Mike Dugan is an IT generalist having a broad range of technical experience over his 14 years working in various IT roles. He currently works as a Principal Technologist in the Office of the CTO at the pioneer and market leader in Converged Infrastructure where his focus is around technical product strategy and innovation involving private/hybrid/public cloud computing and management, virtualization, open source cloud platforms, and next generation applications. Mike's past experience includes Senior Technical Support and Principal Engineer roles at the global leader in Data Storage as well as a Development Infrastructure Administrator role at a leading NY-based Financial corporation.
Mike holds a B.Sc. in Information Systems from Pace University. He is married with two sons, and lives in a suburb of New York City, where he is an active member of the local STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) alliance helping to introduce and cultivate STEM ideas and practices into the local community and school system. Mike loves learning new technologies and the challenges that come with it. He is a die-hard NY Yankees and NY Giants fan and loves watching, playing, and coaching sports with his two boys. He is also a lover of all things craft beer.
Lauren Malhoit has been in the IT field for over 10 years. She's currently a post-sales engineer specializing in virtualization in the data center. She has been writing for over a year for TechRepublic and TechRepublic Pro and also hosts a bi-weekly podcast called AdaptingIT (http://www.adaptingit.com/). She has also participated as a delegate in Tech Field Day events.
Paul Richards has over 18 years of experience in IT and is currently leading the OpenStack practice at World Wide Technology. As a Solutions Architect for WWT, Paul has worked with many clients to design and implement cloud computing solutions. Prior to joining WWT, Paul led the engineering team at SunGard.
He occassionally writes about technology on his blog eprich.com and runs the OpenStack Philly meetup group. Paul enjoys brewing beer and grilling food in his spare time.
Trevor Roberts Jr. is a Senior Corporate Architect for VCE where he helps customers achieve success with Virtualization and Cloud solutions. In his spare time, Trevor enjoys sharing his insights on data center technologies at http://www.VMTrooper.com and via his Twitter handle @VMTrooper
Maish Saidel-Keesing is a Systems Architect working in Israel. He first started playing around with computers when the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum were around, and has been at it ever since. He has been working in IT for the past 15 years with Microsoft infrastructures and specifically with VMware environments for the last 7 years. He co-authored the VMware vSphere Design Book and was awarded the VMware vExpert award 4 consecutive times between 2010-2013, for his contribution to the virtualization community. He holds several certifications from several international vendors such as VMware, Microsoft, IBM, RedHat, and Novell.
He is a member of Server Virtualization Advisory Board of http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com where he provides regular insight and contributions about the virtualization industry. On his popular blog Technodrone, http://technodrone.blogspot.com, he regularly writes about VMware, Architecture, Virtualization, Windows, PowerShell, PowerCLI scripting, and how to go virtual in the physical world. When he has some free time, he likes to listen to music, and spend time with his family and in general spends too much of his time on the computer.
Sean Winn is a cloud architect with more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Originally from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Sean relocated to the San Francisco Bay area of California in 2011 with his family. Sean is an active member of the OpenStack Foundation and works very closely with users and operators with regard to implementing and operating OpenStack based clouds. You can regularly find Sean attending OpenStack (and various other) User Group meetings in Mountain View, Sunnyvale, and San Francisco, California.
Eric Wright is a Systems Architect with a background in virtualization, Business Continuity, PowerShell scripting, and systems automation in many industries including financial services, health services and engineering firms. As the author behind www.DiscoPosse.com, a technology and virtualization blog, Eric is also a regular contributor to community driven technology groups such as the VMUG organization in Toronto, Canada. You can connect with Eric at www.twitter.com/DiscoPosse.
When Eric is not working in technology, you may find him with a guitar in his hand or riding a local bike race or climbing over the obstacles on a Tough Mudder course. Eric also commits time regularly to charity bike rides and running events to help raise awareness and funding for cancer research through a number of organizations.