Your 2019 Speakers
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Aaron Petry
Consultant for Improving
I'm a computer programmer who's been doing development professionally for 20 years. I'm a generalized geek, specifically interested in development, database design, history, music and games. I'm also a husband and a father.
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Adam Simpson
Technical Director at Sparkbox.
Adam Simpson has a love-hate relationship with Javascript and enjoys experimenting with languages old and new. As Technical Director at Sparkbox (https://seesparkbox.com/), he helps awesome humans solve problems for a wide variety of clients. Adam brings over 8 years of experience in creating software for the web. Find Adam on his blog (https://adamsimpson.net) or check out his retweeted NBA memes on Twitter @a_simpson.
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Andrej Kyselica
Azure Architect at Microsoft
A developer for many years, Andrej is on the Azure Customer Success team at Microsoft. He works with large organizations using the cloud to streamline and transform their business.
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Andrew Fitzgerald
SRE-ish @ Sonatype
Andrew Fitzgerald (Fitz) is a Senior Engineer at Sonatype focused on performance and stability of several core services. He lives in Java land most days, spends a decent amount of time playing with the other JVM languages (especially Kotlin!), and still has a soft spot in his heart for Python. Outside of programming, he is a newish father and enjoys rucking, mauling, and scrummaging (He has played rugby on and off for the past 15 or so years).
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Andrew Harris
Principal Consultant at Workstate
Andrew has been working in software development for eight years, and in the consultant role at Workstate for the past five. A well-rounded full-stack developer (he likes to think so anyway), he has a particular affinity for learning new technologies and likes problem-solving. He also develops and teaches web development courses at Columbus State Community College. To balance the screen time, he also enjoys spending time with his family, cycling, fishing, woodworking, tabletop games, reading Sci-Fi, and playing music.
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Baskar Rao Dandlamudi
Compunnel Software Group
With over 11 years of experience developing software applications and designing solutions , he solves complex problems faced by enterprise applications on a day to day basis. He is a technologist and tries to keep himself updated with latest technology advancements. In his free time, he blogs and speaks at conferences and code camps sharing his experiences with new technologies. He also organizes Vue Columbus meetup group. He is an Auth0 Ambassador whose interest areas include Azure, Kubernetes and NativeScript.
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Ben Miller
DBAduck
Ben has been a member of the SQL Server Community since 1999. He also consults on SQL Server problems. He is a SQL Server MVP a SQL Server MCM, and has spent time in the field using SQL Server since 1997. He has worked at various companies throughout the US, as well as at Microsoft for 7 years. He is passionate about SQL Server and automation and integration and uses SMO and PowerShell regularly. He teaches DBAs how to use PowerShell as well. He is @DBAduck all around the web (Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook)
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Bill Horvath
Principal Consultant @ Improving
Bill is a developer and Agilist, with depth in both software engineering and application implementations. He has decades of professional experience in information technology, startups, industrial psychology, and management consulting, and his most noteworthy industry expertise is in software, digital media, utilities, automotive, healthcare, government, and non-profits. He was the founder of Coders Helping Recruiters and on the organizing committee for Toledo Soup, and volunteers on non-profit boards whenever he gets the chance. In his spare time, he enjoys creating art in various mediums, and mentoring up-and-coming software developers.
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Brendan Enrick
Clean Coder
I try to leave code better than I found it.
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Brian Korzynski
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Brian Korzynski is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at one of Detroit's best companies, United Shore. He has had an extensive career in Microsoft technologies working for a variety of companies both large and small. Working in many industries such as logistics, manufacturing, compliance, and finance has given him a wide variety of knowledge and skills that he wants to share with the world. Currently he is working on a variety of machine learning and artificial intelligence applications to aid in the mortgage process.
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Brian T. Jackett
Microsoft, Sr. Premier Field Engineer, always learning
Brian T. Jackett is a Senior Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft with 14 years in the IT industry. He has lived his life by a quote from Walt Disney: “when you are curious, you finds lots of interesting things to do.” Lately Brian’s curiosity has led him to working with Office 365 development / administration, various aspects of Azure, and Microsoft Graph. When he’s not playing board games you can find Brian giving back to the community through presenting, planning and volunteering at conferences, blogging, and contributing to the Twitterverse.
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Cassandra Faris
Tech Community Advocate
Cassandra Faris is passionate about the human side of technology. Her career has focused on supporting tech professionals through training, community outreach, hiring, mentoring, and employee engagement. She is an international speaker who specializes in teaching people how to be more effective team members and advance their careers. She is also the President Emeritus of the Microsoft and open source conference, DogFoodCon, and a Per Scholas Advisory Board member. She has an MBA in Organizational Leadership. When she’s not busy with the tech community, she is avid tabletop gamer, runner, and soccer fan who travels as much as possible
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Chad Green
Director of Software Development at ScholarRx
Chad Green is a manager, software developer, architect, community leader, and most importantly a father and husband. Chad woks as the Director of Software Development for ScholarRx developing an affordable, lifelong digital-learning platform for medical students and physicians everywhere. Over his career, Chad has managed groups from 3 to 63 people and worked on projects in a wide range of markets including healthcare, military, government, workforce management, financial services, chemical research, and electronic commerce. Being a big believer in giving back and wanting to ensure that there are cool events for others, Chad founded and chairs the annual Code PaLOUsa conference, organizes the Louisville .NET Meetup user group and the Monthly Tech Leader Coffee and Discussion, and has helped with other groups like the Louisville Tech Ladies and events like Cincy Day of Agile.
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Christopher Judd
Trusted Technical Adviser and Talent Developer
Christopher Judd is CTO and partner at Manifest Solutions (http://www.manifestcorp.com), an international speaker, Java Champion, an open source evangelist, and the Central Ohio Java Users Group (http://www.cojug.org) leader. He is an accomplished writer having co-authored Beginning Groovy and Grails (Apress, 2008), Enterprise Java Development on a Budget (Apress, 2003) and Pro Eclipse JST (Apress, 2005) as well as the author of the children’s book “Bearable Moments”. Based in Columbus Ohio, he has spent over 20 years architecting and developing software for organizations ranging from Fortune 500 to start-ups across various industries including insurance, health care, education, retail, government, manufacturing, service, and transportation. Mr. Judd spends most of his time consulting while continuing to focus on mentoring and training in Java, mobile and related technologies.
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Christopher Lee
Principal Consultant - Improving Enterprises
Chris has been working with the Microsoft cloud platform since it was originally referred to as BPOS over 10 years ago. Chris has extensive consulting experience planning and deploying Microsoft solutions for international enterprises down to the local "mom and pop shops". He focuses mostly these days on Microsoft 365, specifically leveraging Enterprise Mobility + Security features and capabilities.
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Chuck Strain
DynTek Services - National Microsoft Alliance Director
As the Director of Sales and National Microsoft Alliance Director
at DynTek, Steven Sanchez is responsible for the partnership
management, program development and sales support for
DynTek’s Microsoft solutions practice.
With over 25 years of experience and over 18 years with DynTek,
Sanchez has a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry in sales, business development and technical roles. He is skilled in Microsoft Enterprise Solutions, Government, Sales, Enterprise Software, IT Security and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Sanchez holds a bachelor’s degree focused in Political Science and Government from Seton Hall University. -
Dan King
Identity and Data Protection Technical Solutions Pro
Helping customers make the transition to modern identity.
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David Hoerster
Common Sense Evangelist
David Hoerster, a former 6-time .NET MVP, is a recovering corporate financial analyst and has been working with the Microsoft.NET Framework since the early 1.0 betas. He is currently a Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft. David is the former president of the Pittsburgh .NET User’s Group (PGHDOTNET) and co-founder of Pittsburgh TechFest (http://www.pghtechfest.com/), and is also a regular speaker at Pittsburgh and regional user group and community conference events. David can be found rarely blogging at http://blog.agileways.com and rarely tweets at @DavidHoerster.
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David Knighton
Scrum Master
Scrum Master in Cincinnati, OH. 6 years experience in Scrum and Scaled Scrum environments. Agile enthusiast and advocate of team autonomy.
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Delbert Murphy
Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect, Data Scientist, Quantum Computing Comunity Lead
Delbert Murphy is a Cloud Solution Architect and Data Scientist at Microsoft and leads Microsoft's Quantum computing community. Delbert began programming computers at the Highway Safety Research Institute, at the University of Michigan, in 1969 and has been involved in computing ever since. He is an IASA Certified Information Technology Architect – Professional; a Microsoft Certified Solutions Architect; and Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for Java EE Technologies. Delbert has been a developer, designer, and architect for software which runs mainframe security systems, large-scale eCommerce sites, personal computers, hand-held devices, automobiles, toll booths, medical instruments, tax authorities, and nuclear power plants.
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Deneisha Franklin
Business Intelligence Analyst, The Wendy's Company
Deneisha is an ambitious, young professional who is passionate about planning, creating, and executing strategies and solutions aimed toward incorporating change in corporate environments. She is dedicated to spending her time and energy on activities that positively impact those around her.
Deneisha is an IT Business Analyst on the Enterprise Business Intelligence Team at The Wendy’s Company. In this role, she is responsible for: bridging the gap between IT and non-technical business users by facilitating the development of new applications, supporting cross-functional teams with a focus in the Finance organization, and conducting end-user training sessions. Additionally, Deneisha serves on the leadership teams for the Wendy’s Cultural Diversity Network and WenGen – an employee network aimed at enhancing the experience of young professionals and employees new to Wendy’s. Prior to joining the Wendy’s family, Deneisha helped over 40 technologists begin, or further their careers in her role as an IT recruiter.
Deneisha is an Ohio University Alum and will forever be a Bobcat at heart. She enjoys integrating her Sociological background with the tech industry, which fuels her passion for driving the importance of Diversity and Inclusion in Corporate America. Deneisha is a founding member of the local Columbus organization, #BlackTech614, whose mission is to create an authentic space for Black Tech Professionals to connect, collaborate, and create. The organization offers 2-3 events each month with a focus on professional development, social networking, and learning communities, which allow members to develop tangible skills from industry experts in several areas including: blockchain, data science, design, cyber security, and coding. -
Doug Mair
Improving, It's what we do!
Doug Mair – Doug is a Principal Consultant at Improving Enterprises in Columbus Ohio. He started developing software as a high school freshman on a TRS-80 16K. He loved programming so much that he decided to get a degree in programming from Ohio State University. Since then he has developed software for Graphics Kiosks, Rules Engines, Specialized Hardware and ASP.Net websites. Over the last several years, he has helped grow the Windows Developer Community in Central Ohio. He spends his free time developing Windows applications and Unity games.
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Gregory Deckler
Vice Presisdent of Cloud Services, Microsoft MVP for Data Platform
I Vice President of Cloud Services at Fusion Alliance In addition, I am a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform. As an active member in the Columbus IT community, I founded the Columbus Azure ML and Power BI User Group (CAMLPUG) and have presented at many different conferences and events including Dog Food, SharePoint Saturday, CloudDevelop and M3. I have written numerous trade journal articles on business and technical subjects and the book “Achieving Process Profitability, Building the IT Profit Center” as well as the upcoming book "Learn Power BI".
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Heath Murphy
HMB
Architect, Developer, PM and pumpkin ale expert but not necessarily in that order. Heath works for a pretty kick butt consulting company in Columbus, OH and spends most of his evenings writing code, working on cars or drinking pumpkin ale when it's in season.
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Jacques Guibert de Bruet
Microsoft, PFE
Jacques is a local Senior Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft, specializing in identity and security. He also has extensive experience in Azure technologies and hybrid implementations.
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James Hopkins
Technical Director, Improving
James is currently a Senior Solutions Architect/Principal Consultant in north east Ohio with over 20 years of information technology consulting experience. His expertise has helped large Fortune 500 enterprises, medium sized corporations, and small business achieve success in the implementation, transition, and integration of a broad range of information technologies. James has filled key leadership and delivery roles in projects involving Office 365 adoption, Azure deployment, Microsoft Active Directory design and transition, and e-mail and collaboration infrastructure.
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Jamie Wright
I am the one who knocks
Jamie Wright is a maker of internet things with a love/hate relationship for Redbull™, standing desks, and paintball guns. He has a love only relationship with teaching, learning, and building bots. Jamie runs Tatsu, a software bot that helps teams save time by performing standup meetings over Slack.
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Jeff McKenzie
Practice Manager, Insight Digital Innovation (formerly Cardinal Solutions)
Jeff McKenzie has worked in software development for nearly twenty years, in both freelance and full-time capacities, as a developer and team leader. He enjoys helping others solve problems through technology, whether it's the small business getting on the web for the first time, or a Fortune 500 company expanding its enterprise. Although he started his career using BASIC on an Atari 800, he took a big detour, getting Biology and English degrees before rediscovering programming, with a new thing called the World Wide Web. He is currently a Practice Manager at Insight Digital Innovation (formerly Cardinal Solutions) in Columbus Ohio.
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Jeffrey Miller
Technologist, Speaker, Author
Jeffrey Miller is a Senior Consultant with Manifest Solutions in Columbus, Ohio. Jeffrey has over two decades of experience helping organizations bring value to their mission through software. He has presented a variety of programming, data, and team topics at local user groups, regional tech conferences, and a national healthcare conference.
Jeffrey and his wife, Brandy, are newly adoptive parents and have written a fun children’s book called "Skeeters" with proceeds supporting adoption. Learn more about the project at http://skeeterbooks.com/adoption/."; -
Jerren Every
Senior Automation Developer Analyst
Jerren is an Automation Developer supporting customer facing web applications. His scope of work includes: databases, Jenkins, services, desktop applications and web applications. Jerren additionally enjoys teaching others about coding and test-automation. Previously Jerren worked for Sogeti as a QA Analyst.
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Jess Pomfret
SQL Server DBA, from England, living in Ohio.
Jess Pomfret is a SQL Server DBA at Westfield Insurance in Westfield, Ohio. She started working with SQL Server in 2011 and currently works as part of a team administering over 100 instances ranging from 2008R2 to 2017. She enjoys the problem-solving aspects of performance tuning and automating processes with PowerShell.
She also enjoys contributing to dbatools and dbachecks, two open source PowerShell modules that aid DBAs with automating the management of SQL Server instances.
She grew up in the South West of England and outside of her DBA life enjoys Crossfit, cycling and watching proper football. -
Jim Everett
Director of Solution Engineering at HMB
Jim Everett is the Director of Solution Engineering at HMB where he designs custom solutions for clients. He has over 16 years of professional software development experience, working on projects for various levels of government, school districts, and Fortune 50 companies. Jim has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary, and enjoys talking about the all things software with a frosty beverage in hand.
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Joel Lord
Developer Advocate at Red Hat OpenShift
Joel Lord is passionate about web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things but most of all, he likes to share his discoveries. He does so by travelling at various conferences all across the globe.
He graduated from college in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart for a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he was always in the industry.
As a developer advocate at Red Hat OpenShift, he meets with developers to help them make the web a better place.
During his free time, he is usually found stargazing in a camping site somewhere or brewing a batch of beer in his garage. -
John Morehouse
bat whisperer
John Morehouse is currently a Consultant with Denny Cherry & Associates living in Louisville, Kentucky. John lead the Omaha SQL Server user group for 7 years and is now a leader of the Louisville SQL Server/Power BI user group. He is honored to be a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, 2016 Idera Ace, Friend of Red Gate since 2015, Sentry One PAC member & Community Ambassador. He is also a blogger, avid tweeter, and a frequent speaker at SQL Saturday's as well as other conferences. In his spare time, you can usually find John on Twitter (@sqlrus) as well as chasing his two young sons around the house.
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Jon Norstrom
Web Developer / Web Development Teacher
I attended Dev Bootcamp while living in Chicago a while back. Since then I've had the pleasure of freelancing, mentoring and teaching new web developers, and learning all the new things you need to survive in this business. I have a cat.
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Josh Clark
A True Packet Nerd
Josh is a network engineer focused on troubleshooting and performance assurance of distributed systems. When not buried in Wireshark, he is usually working on helpful tools to make troubleshooting easier.
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Keith Elder
The hardest thing about programming is typing.
Keith Elder is the Senior Technology Evangelist at Quicken Loans, the nation’s largest online mortgage lender based in Detroit, MI. He is an experienced technologist, systems administrator, software engineer, speaker, trainer, professional storyteller, and all around geek. He has spoken throughout the United States at major technical conferences on topics ranging from various new technologies, software architectures and soft skills. For over 12 years he lead the Engineering Tools team as the Director of Software Engineering within Quicken Loans and was an eight-time Microsoft MVP award recipient. When not sitting in front of a computer he spends the majority of his time as captain of the vessel Sea Sharp navigating the waters in the Gulf of Mexico in search of giant pelagic fish.
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Lasana Milton
G2O - Java Developer
Back-end Developer
History in "back-end" technologies and database administration. Has a passion for progressive technology and how it can improve the human condition. -
Lisa Fox
Microsoft Data & AI TSP
I was a DBA for over 20 years, supporting multiple Database platforms. I also was a leader of a DBA team for several years in which I helped lead my team in the journey to the cloud. Today I am working for Microsoft as a Data Platform TSP helping other organizations to modernize their data estates.
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manish kumar
Consultant at G20
11 years of industry experience in design and development of various commercial applications using JEE based technologies for B2B/B2C consumers.
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Matt Gordon
Architect at Insight Digital Innovation
Matt is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and has worked with SQL Server versions from 2000 up to and including SQL Server 2019. He is the leader of the Lexington, KY chapter of PASS, a frequent SQL Saturday and user group speaker, and speaker at PASS Summit 2017 and 2018. He's also been named an IDERA ACE and 2019 Friend of Redgate. His original data professional role was as a database developer, but that quickly evolved into query tuning work which further evolved into being a full-fledged DBA in the healthcare realm. He has supported critical systems utilizing SQL Server across multiple data centers and managed dozens of 24/7/365 SQL Server implementations. He currently utilizes those years of real world experience as a national Microsoft data platform consultant helping clients design deployment solutions that meet their ever-changing business needs.
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Matthew Groves
Microsoft MVP, Couchbase Developer Advocate
Matthew D. Groves is a guy who loves to code. It doesn't matter if it's C#, jQuery, or PHP: he'll submit pull requests for anything. He has been coding professionally ever since he wrote a QuickBASIC point-of-sale app for his parent's pizza shop back in the 90s. He currently works as a Developer Advocate for Couchbase. His free time is spent with his family, watching the Reds, and getting involved in the developer community. He is the author of AOP in .NET (published by Manning), and is also a Microsoft MVP.
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Megan Boczar
Career Changer Extraordinaire & Co-Founder of Tech-Inclusive
Megan has been a software developer since way back in November 2017. She worked a ton of customer service and admin jobs before finally jumping into a bootcamp at Grand Circus in Detroit. After landing a job as a dev in Ann Arbor, she took on a new passion for accessibility and good front end design. Megan currently works at a Software Engineer at Torrance Learning in Chelsea, Michigan. She’s also the Co-Founder and Executive Director of a non-profit called tech[inclusive], helping to give talented underrepresented folks the resources and encouragement they need to succeed in tech.
When she's not coding, Megan enjoys playing board games, keeping up on Netflix, and attempting to read one book per week. Megan loves all manner of nerdy things Star Wars to Buffy to Dungeons and Dragons. -
Michael Dowden
Entrepreneur. Coder. Gamer. Geek.
Michael Dowden is an Entrepreneur, Product Architect, and Google Developer Expert. For more than 20 years he has been writing code and geeking out over cool technology. He is passionate about keeping things simple and focusing on what provides real value to the end user. Michael enjoys speaking at conferences and helping other developers grow in their career. In 2015 he wrote Programming Languages ABC++ to share programming languages with children.
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Mike Hand
on the web. in the cloud.
Mike has been in software development for over 10 years, working everywhere from top 10 defense contractors, small privately owned companies, freelance, and the world of consulting.
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Mike Sandman
Cloud Practice Director at G2O
Despite his last name, Mike Sandman is an engaging speaker whose insightful content and dynamic delivery is sure to keep you wide awake for his entire presentation. As the Director of the cloud practice at G2O, Mike provides guidance on all of G20’s cloud-related efforts and serves as a mentor for associates involved with the practice.
Mike has been drawn to technology and science his entire life. He decided he wanted to work with computers after attending computer camp at age 12. After that, he spent his summers mowing lawns to save enough money for his very own TRS-80 computer. By the time he was 16, he had already sold a digital record-management system to a local nursing home.
Mike has been involved with starting and running tech startups, helping them to build their Cloud infrastructure and define their best practices. He has significant experience with containerization, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Mesos, and Docker Swarm. -
Monica Rathbun
Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting
Monica lives in Virginia and is a Microsoft MVP for Data Platform. She has over 15 years of experience working with a wide variety of database platforms with a focus on SQL Server. She is a frequent speaker at IT industry conferences on topics including performance tuning and configuration management. She is the Leader of the Hampton Roads SQL Server User Group and a Mid‐Atlantic PASS Regional Mentor. She is passionate about SQL Server and the SQL Server community, doing anything she can to give back. Monica can always be found on Twitter (@sqlespresso) handing out helpful tips.
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Natalie Lukac
Scrum Master
Natalie is a Scrum Master and Agile enthusiasts. She is a consultant with Ingage Partners and an active participant in the Cincinnati Agile community.
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Ondrej Balas
Infusing business with modern technology
Ondrej is the owner of UseTech Design, a Michigan-based development company that focuses primarily on .NET and other Microsoft technologies. Ondrej is also a Microsoft MVP in Visual Studio and Development Technologies, a writer for Visual Studio Magazine, and is very active in the Michigan software development community. Ondrej works across many industries including finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and logistics. Areas of expertise include similarity and matching across large data sets, algorithm design, distributed architecture, and software development practices.
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Patrick Badley
developer/team lead/soccer player/traveler
Patrick first got interested in software when he learned how to build a text-based basketball game on his TI-83 calculator in 8th grade. In college, he moved on to Visual Basic Atari-type games and the rest was history.
Primarily a .NET developer, Patrick works at HMB, a consulting firm out of Columbus, OH and gets to get his hands dirty working with a variety of technologies, architectures, and teams.
His interests range from building user-centered Web Apps, microservices, effectively managing teams, mentoring, learning, playing sports, and travel. -
Patrick McSweeny
Web Application Developer
Patrick has been developing for the web for over ten years on both the front and back ends. He has been the organizer of the Ann Arbor Ruby Brigade since 2014.
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Patrick Tucker
Principal Consultant
Patrick Tucker is a long-time trainer, speaker and consultant with a background in development and a focus on helping businesses get the most value from their technology. He works on the Collaboration Team as a Principal Consultant, mostly on information architecture, adoption, and training.
Patrick has worked in the IT industry for over 20 years and has been a Microsoft Certified Trainer since 2000, spending most of his time with SharePoint and Office 365. He has spoken at SharePoint Fest, SPTechCon, Code PaLOUsa, numerous SharePoint Saturdays and DogFoodCon. He lives in Oldham County with his beautiful wife, brilliant son, and crazy dogs. -
Paul Kilroy
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Shared Services, Data and Architecture
Paul Kilroy is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Shared Services, Data and Architecture and has been with Huntington Bank since 2017. He is responsible for leading the direction of our core banking, servicing, credit risk and collections technology, supporting the Chief Data Office and is the Chief Architect for Huntington Bank.
Prior to joining Huntington, Paul served as Managing Director at JP Morgan Chase in the Consumer Bank leading Auto Finance, Mortgage Infrastructure and Credit Card Servicing. He began his career in 1996 working for IBM developing software for internet commerce.
Passionate about the community, outdoors and fitness, Paul is involved in Pelotonia, the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Columbus Marathon and the American Heart Association Heart Walk. When Paul is not at work you can find him cycling the backroads of Ohio or backpacking trails in the forest.
Paul earned his bachelor’s in computer science from the University of Kentucky. Paul and his wife Carol have three children and reside in Columbus, Ohio. -
Peter Shore
Future Data Interogator
Peter is a seasoned IT professional with over 20 years experience. He took the accidentally intentional DBA plunge in 2013 and has discovered that he loves to find the stories the data has to tell. Peter is comfortable working with both physical and virtual servers where he tries to apply best practices to attain performance improvements. He is also adept at bridging the gap between technical and business language in order to bring technology solutions to business needs.
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Randy Pagels
Azure Technical Specialist
I am an Azure Technical Specialist with Microsoft, focusing on application development. I connect with customers to help them understand options on how to improve their development practices to Azure and take advantage of new possibilities the cloud offers. I am part of the Great Lakes Region Specialist Team and work with Enterprise and Commercial customers across 5 states to demonstrate and prove our solutions and to eliminate technical barriers of moving to the cloud. I focus on the application development scenarios such as application modernization, API economy and micro services, DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, hybrid architectures, Dev/Test, lift-and-shift, and more. I assist customers to understand the business benefits of moving applications to the cloud and how Azure can enhance performance and provide efficiencies for both hybrid and full cloud environments.
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Ray Ullery
Insight Digital Innovation Cloud Engineer
An experienced tech industry pro, working to deliver the buzzwords! Ray is a Cloud Engineer consulting for Insight Digital Innovation. He helps his clients around the country plan and implement workloads in the cloud and he has gained a vast wealth of experience (and maybe a grey hair or two).
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RICARDO WILKINS
Microsoft Customer Success Manager - Modern Workplace
Ricardo is a Customer Success Manager at Microsoft, helping customers maximize the value of their investment in Modern Workplace solutions (Office 365, EMS, and Windows 10). Previously he spent many years delivering customized solutions and expertise as a professional consultant for Microsoft services, specifically SharePoint and related technologies. He has been an active participant over the years in the Central Ohio technical community, giving many talks and presentations at local events, and serving on the boards for regional groups like the Columbus SharePoint User Group and the Microsoft Dogfood Conference.
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Rob Carnell
Huntington Enterprise Analytics Director
Rob has been developing in R for 15 years and is the maintainer of 2 packages on CRAN and many more on Github. Rob leads the Enterprise Data & Analytics group at Huntington Bank.
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Rob Keefer
Director of Data Science at Illumination Works
Rob Keefer is the Director of Data Science at Illumination Works, a software development consultancy. His Masters Degree in Human Factors Engineering and PhD in Computer Science give him a great appreciation for interdisciplinary teams working to solve complex problems. When he is not building systems that make people awesome, Rob enjoys distance running and cycling.
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Rob Richardson
@rob_rich
Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, Angular and React. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development. You can find this and other talks on his blog at https://robrich.org/presentations and follow him on twitter at @rob_rich.
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Russell Skaggs
Creative Technologist @ Huntington
Russell is a Creative Technologist within the Huntington Digital UX team. Prior to coming to Huntington, he spent the majority of his career architecting and implementing front-end solutions for digital agencies and their clients. Most recently, he has been focusing on working with Huntington IT to develop and maintain a scalable CSS architecture for our authenticated space. He is prone to spelling misteaks, and spends his free time hitting fellow nerds with foam swords.
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Ryan Jones
King of Jacks
Ryan has 20 years of experience delivering software solutions. Ryan has a keen understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and how to leverage stakeholders, requirements, and status to control the quality, expectations, and deliverables of any software development project or product.
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Scott McCrory
Senior I.T. Architect at Huntington National Bank
Scott comes with 35 years as a developer, system administrator, network engineer, solution delivery manager and architect. On the side, he tinkers with adventure, dirt and trials motorcycles and periodically toys with Raspberry Pis and machine learning toolkits.
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Sean McDonough
CTO for Bitstream Foundry, Microsoft MVP, and lover of all things donut.
Sean is the Chief Technology Officer for Bitstream Foundry, a Cincinnati-based provider of SharePoint solutions, services, and consulting. Microsoft certified MCP, MCTS, and MCPD, Sean has over two decades of experience developing software, building infrastructures, and solving technical problems. Unable to take anything except the deep dive into any role, Sean has acquired a diverse and expansive skill set as consultant, product manager, solution architect, team lead, administrator, and platform evangelist through the years. Some might label his passion for all things tech related as borderline 'obsession', but it is equal only to his desire to share those discoveries and experiences with others as author, blogger, and frequent speaker/instructor at technical conferences, user groups, and similar events all over North America. Sean is also a Microsoft MVP. He can be reached through his blog (http://SharePointInterface.com) or on Twitter (@spmcdonough)
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Shaun Mosher
Improver from Cleveland
Shaun is a Principle Consultant from Improving. He has worked with dozens of customers over twenty years doing business solution design and training.
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Simon Rennocks
Improving, Principle Consultant, TEALS Volunteer
Simon is a Principal Consultant based out of Richfield, OH. Simon is a Microsoft Certified Solution Master: SharePoint -- Simon’s primary focus on SharePoint 2013 and 2016 - Web Content Management, Business Intelligence, Architecture and SharePoint Development. He has over 20 years' experience writing applications in many languages including, Pascal, FORTRAN, BASIC, c, c++, c#.
Simon is also a volunteer in TEALS , helping to teach computer science to 30 students at Bedford High School and is active participant in the Conscious Capitalism movement. He also enjoys running long distance in his spare time having run three marathons (best time 3:33:47) and a one ultra-marathon since turning 45. -
Stacy Deere
Solutions Architect
Stacy Deere-Strole (MVP) is the Owner of Focal Point Solutions LLC, a Cincinnati, OH based company that provides SharePoint Solutions for the Enterprise in the mid-to-large market. Previously, Stacy led a rapidly growing SharePoint practice where she engaged in a wide range of consulting projects across various industries. With nearly 18 years of experience in the IT Industry, Stacy has mainly focused on Collaboration Solutions such as IBM’s Lotus Notes\Domino and Microsoft’s Messaging and Collaboration Solutions including deployments and SharePoint upgrades.
Within the SharePoint community, Stacy is a SharePoint MVP and is actively sharing her real world expertise through authoring in the blog http://www.spmindmelt.focalpointsolutions.co, ; and speaking at various SharePoint Saturday's, Collab365, ITUnity, SPTechCon, SharePoint Fest, SharePoint Engage, and User Group events. She also co-authored two books called SharePoint 2013 and 2010 Using Managed Metadata. -
Steve Smith
I Help Teams Deliver Better Software
Steve Smith (@ardalis) is an entrepreneur and software developer with a passion for building quality software as effectively as possible. Steve has published several courses on Pluralsight, covering DDD, SOLID, design patterns, and software architecture. He's a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and Insider, a frequent speaker at developer conferences, an author, and a trainer.
Steve works with companies that want to avoid the trap of technical debt by helping their teams deliver quality software, quickly. Steve and his team have been described by clients as a "force multiplier", amplifying the value of existing development teams. Steve's client list includes Microsoft, Quicken Loans, Celina Insurance, and many other satisfied customers. -
Thomas Haver
Designer Brands
Thomas leads a team of cross functional engineers (QA, operations, and production support) as they validate and deliver software to meet retail business objectives in an Agile environment. The role focuses on using automation expertise in collaboration with business partners in adoption of DevOps practices. The scope is the entirety of the software development lifecycle, with the team helping to uplift DBI's application teams in conception, development, validation, and delivery.
Thomas is a scientist turned baker turned technology professional. He started as a research scientist in fluorescence microscopy & spectroscopy, and has worked at three different R1 research institutes. He has worked as a tester, a developer, a requirements analyst, and finally an application architect. On the weekends, he makes baked goods for a local bakery and hosts gaming events for his non-profit. His passion for reducing the cost of quality through automation and continuous improvement leads him to explore new areas of technology and business management. -
Tim Brown
Cloud Solution Architect
As a Cloud Solution Architect with Microsoft, I work with customers to deliver technical solutions focused in the Data and AI space. I work primarily with IoT, Big Data, and Advanced Analytics technologies. Part of my duties include developing data architectures to create repeatable blueprints that can be governed. I work with Enterprise and Commercial customers across five states and am based out of Columbus Ohio.
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Umang Nahata
Be Curious...
Currently, Umang is a Senior IT Systems Test Engineer with Progressive Insurance. He has more than a decade of experience under his wings. He is passionate about his own development and in sharing his learning with others. He is born-curious and is always on the lookout for new approaches, ideas and ways to make his work/life better. When not working or tinkering with tech, he loves to spend his time with his family…
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Ursula Cottone
Chief Data Officer
Ursula is responsible for leading the strategic direction, and for building and implementing a sustainable data strategy, for all data management activities to drive business results. She also will be a champion for global data management, governance, and quality and data vendor relationships across the enterprise as the liaison between Technology and all the business segments.
Ursula brings to Huntington more than 24 years of experience in technology, 20 of which have been in the banking industry. Most recently, Ursula was at Citizens Bank where she was the Chief Data Officer for the last 3 years. Prior to that, Ursula was at KeyCorp for 17 years where she held various roles including Chief Administrative Officer for Capital Markets, Shared Services Leader and Chief Data Officer.
Ursula received a Bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University and an MBA from Cleveland State University. In addition, she is a graduate of the Stonier Graduate School of Banking and the University of Chicago Strategic Business Leadership program.
Ursula has been active in the Cleveland, Ohio community serving on the boards and/or working committees of the Centers for Families and Children, Junior League of Cleveland, Leadership Cleveland and United Way of Cleveland.
Ursula moved to Columbus in May 2018 and resides in Grandview Heights, Ohio. -
Victor Pudelski
V.P. of Solutions for TSC, LLC
Started my career before achieving a high school diploma. I started at ground zero as the office grunt doing anything I could to learn, prosper and continue to grow in this field we call IT. I have had stops in QA, Tech Support, Development, did some programming consulting services, wrote API manuals and even created and taught programming courses many times for many companies. I am a dotnet programmer by trade, a polyglot by choice and work a lot these days in Electron, Cordova, C# and SQL Server. I play baseball and coach baseball and softball when I am not learning more about programming.
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Zack Kelly
Product Owner, Business Analyst, Scrum Master, and Improviser
Zack Kelly is an entertainer at his core. Professionally, he’s a Business Analyst and Product Owner. His love of improv comedy lends itself well to his professional skills as a listener, connector, and facilitator. His background in mechanical engineering gives him an eye for detail and enhances his problem solving skills. He loves to fuse these skills to help others understand the big picture and solve problems. When he’s not working, Zack’s probably doing improv or something stereotypically nerdy.