Speaker Bios

Allen Alley

Chairman of the Board, Pixelworks
Over 30 years Allen has built an experience base that spans multiple disciplines from engineering to marketing, venture capital, entrepreneurship and most recently, public service.
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Thomas Amato

Vice President, Technical Services, Certified Security Solutions
Thomas Amato leads technical services for Certified Security Solutions, Inc. (CSS).
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Bruno Aziza

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Bruno Aziza is a recognized authority on Strategy Execution, Business Intelligence and Information Management. He is the co-author of best-selling book, "Drive Business Performance: Enabling a Culture of Intelligent Execution" and a Fellow at the Advanced Performance Institute, a world-leading and independent advisory group specialized in organizational performance.
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Rich Bader

President and Chief Executive Officer, EasyStreet Online Services
Rich and his team at EasyStreet have built Oregon's largest independent Internet and IT services provider by focusing on the needs of local businesses and delivering reliable service day in and day out.
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David Baker

Director of the Office of Web Communications, Oregon State Univerity
David Baker directs the Office of Web Communications at Oregon State University, which manages the OSU home page and top tier family of sites, as well as the overall identity for the university on the Web and on social networks. Baker helped to coordinate the social-media-driven Powered by Orange campaign, which officially launched in September of 2009 and has received industry recognition from Mashable.com, EduStyle and CASE. He previously worked as Web Coordinator at the University of Missouri, and as a New Media Lead at the IT consulting firm Accenture.
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Brent Barton

CTO & Managing Consultant, Solutions IQ
Brent Barton is the CTO and Managing Consultant at Solutions IQ, where he plays a key role in implementing the strategic vision of an Agile organization. He is also highly regarded as a Certified Scrum Trainer and is recognized as an international leader in Agile consulting.
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Benjamin Berry

Chief Information Officer, Information Systems Branch, Oregon Department of Transportation
Ben Berry serves as Oregon Department of Transportation's (ODOT) Chief Information Officer providing overall leadership, planning, development and delivery of information technology services for ODOT and several other non-transportation organizations. As CIO for the second largest state agency in Oregon, Mr. Berry is responsible for systems supporting highways, bridges, rail service, right-of-way determinations, DMV and Motor Carrier commercial trucking inspections and licensing throughout the state.
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Ken Biery Jr.

Professional Services Manager, Verizon Consulting Services, Verizon Business
Ken has 29 years experience in the security industry. He is responsible for providing governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions. These areas include PCI, ISO 27001/2, NERC-CIP, and HITRUST.
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Jason Black

Director, Data Center Optimization Solution Area, MSI Systems Integrators
Jason Black has been in the IT infrastructure consulting business for 13 years. He joined MSI in 1996 as a UNIX and storage consulting engineer. Mr. Black’s current role at MSI is director of the data center optimization solution area. The data center solutions practice is committed to architecture consulting, design, and deployment of best-practices solutions for critical IT facilities.
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Ken Brady

Co-Founder and CEO, Genkii
Ken runs Genkii out of Portland and Tokyo, developing and consulting on mobile applications, 3D virtual worlds, social media, and interactive storytelling.
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Brett Branch

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Intel Corporation
Brett Branch is a senior technical marketing engineer within the Open Source Technology Center (OTC), part of the System Software Division of the Software and Services Group (SSG) of Intel Corporation. Open Source Product Engineering delivers Intel's Linux-based system software products, including MeeGo. Brett has been with Intel for 20 years, and prior to joining the OTC was active in Intel's development of connected media products and DLNA activities as well as many other projects. Brett is an automotive enthusiast and also holds a BS in Business Administration from Warner Pacific College. Brett works in Intel's Hillsboro, Oregon office.
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Tom Brim

Smart Grid Program Manager, Bonneville Power Administration

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Paul Brody

Global Lead, IBM Electronics Industry Strategy Practice, IBM Global Business Services

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Michael Brown

National Practice Director, Business Productivity Solutions, Slalom Consulting
Michael Brown is a national practice director for Slalom Consulting, focused on business productivity solutions. In this role, Michael helps clients understand how various technology trends will affect their businesses, and is responsible for the operational infrastructure of Slalom's cloud computing team.
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Ryan Buchanan

President & CEO, eROI
Ryan Buchanan, founder and CEO of eROI, started the company in November 2002. He has eight years of email marketing, web and e-commerce experience and frequently speaks about email marketing, social networking, and web marketing-related issues. He has also been featured in notable industry publications such as the Wall Street Journal, TheStreet.com, iMedia Connection, DM News, and eMarketer. He has led the growth of eROI from a couple employees at inception to a full team of e-marketing experts, creatives, technical, account, and sales teams.
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Mark Campillo

VP & CTO, Knowledge Universe Technologies

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Amber Case

Cyborg Anthropologist & Corporate Consultant, -
Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and corporate consultant currently living in Portland, Oregon. After writing for Discovery Channel, she worked on digital strategy for Air New Zealand, Old Spice, Levi's, and EA Games. Last year, she worked at Wieden+Kennedy, a global advertising agency based in Portland, Oregon.
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Michael Clark

Vice President, Pacific Intermedia

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Peter Coffee

Director, Platform Research, Salesforce.com
Peter Coffee joined salesforce.com in January of 2007, after spending 18 years as an analyst and columnist at the enterprise technology journal eWEEK (including time under its former title PC Week). Based in the Los Angeles area, he currently works with corporate and commercial application developers to build a community based on Force.com: the salesforce.com Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
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Joe Corella

National Technology Director, Microsoft Corporation
Joe Corella is the National Technology Director for Core Infrastructure Sales for the United States Subsidiary for Microsoft. A 17 year Microsoft veteran of various field and leadership roles, he is now responsible for leading the sales, technology and support efforts for the Windows Client, Server and Management products in the US Enterprise market.
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Aaron J. Cronan, Esq.

, e-Discovery & Information Governance Consulting
Aaron Cronan gained a unique mix of litigation, information security and electronic discovery experience over the last 10 years.
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Christi Day

Online Spokesperson & Emerging Media Specialist, Southwest Airlines
Christi Day serves as an online Spokesperson for Southwest Airlines, the nation's largest airline in terms of domestic Customers boarded. Christi specializes in Emerging Media and web 2.0.
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John Dickson, CISSP

Principal, Denim Group Ltd.
John Dickson, CISSP, has over 15 years in the information security field including experience with application security, IDS, and telephony security.
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Ken Efta

Cofounder & Principal Consultant, Allyis, Inc.
Ken Efta is cofounder and principal consultant of Allyis, Inc., a consultancy focused on the development and adoption of 2.0 technologies and practices within the Enterprise.
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Lars Ewe

Chief Technology Officer & VP of Engineering, Cenzic
Lars Ewe is a technology executive with broad background in (web) application development and security, middleware infrastructure, software development and application/system manageability technologies.
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David Fischer

Director, Internet and Inside Sales, Moonstruck Chocolate Company
For over 15 years, David has been working with leading retailers and manufacturers in developing e-commerce sales strategies. He joined Moonstruck Chocolate in 2009 and is responsible for direct to consumer sales as well as leading the inside sales team in selling to specialty retailers. Before joining Moonstruck Chocolate, David held key leadership roles with companies including Rite Aid, Egghead.com, Babcock & Jenkins, Made In Oregon, and Nautilus, Inc.
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Dawn Foster

MeeGo Community Manager, Intel
Dawn Foster is the MeeGo Community Manager for Intel with experience and a passion for bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events. She is a co-founder and board member of Legion of Tech, a non-profit chartered with organizing free events for the Portland, Oregon technology community. As part of her work with Legion of Tech, Dawn is an organizer for Portland BarCamp, Ignite Portland and other events. Dawn holds an MBA from Ashland University and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Kent State University. She has worked in positions ranging from Unix system administrator to market researcher to community manager to open source strategist. Dawn regularly blogs about online communities as the author of the Fast Wonder Blog, and she is the author of the book, Companies and Communities: Participating without being sleazy.
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Barbara Frederiksen-Cross

Senior Managing Consultant, Johnson-Laird, Inc., FBI - Cyber Crime Division
Barb Frederiksen-Cross is the Senior Managing Consultant for Johnson-Laird, Inc., in Portland, Oregon. Barb is a forensic software analyst specializing in the analysis of computer-based evidence for copyright, patent, and trade secret litigation.
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Giovanni Gallucci

Social Media Ninja, giovanni gallucci, llc
Giovanni Gallucci (is a recovering .NET programmer turned tech evangelist and social media consultant.
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Steve Gehlen

Founder of the Internet Strategy Forum and General Manager of eCommerce, Icebreaker Nature Clothing
Steve Gehlen, founder of the non-profit Internet Strategy Forum, is an Internet strategy professional and has been the top Internet executive at companies such as Nike, Digimarc, Hollywood Entertainment Corp. (dba Hollywood Video) and Oregon Health & Science University. He is currently the General Manager of eCommerce at Icebreaker, an activewear company.
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Cory Grant

Data Security Manager Pacific Northwest, Check Point Software

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Aaron Gray

Principal and Owner, Greater Returns
Aaron Gray, Principal and Owner of Greater Returns, helps companies use web measurement and optimization tools and processes to drive measurable improvements in marketing and business performance. A veteran in the space, Aaron has held key roles at multiple analytics software companies, including Coremetrics and Webtrends, driving measurement and optimization efforts for organizations like AT&T, Bank of America, Alltel, Mastercard, Fujitsu, HSBC, Logitech, Orbitz, American Eagle Outfitters, ThomsonReuters, Internet Broadcasting, Kmart, SkyMall, and more.
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Jason Grigsby

Mobile Specialist, Co-Founder, Cloud Four
Jason Grigsby was one of the project leads on the Obama iPhone
Application and helped design the user inferface for the Wall Street
Journal's Blackberry application. He founded and organizes Mobile
Portland, a local mobile development user group.
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Noora Guldemond

Head Sales & Marketing, metaio, Inc.
Noora Guldemond is the Head Sales & Marketing at Metaio Inc. Noora joined metaio GmbH in 2007, after which she was involved in the development of metaio’s sales within Europe and has been extensively involved with the company's pioneering outreach in the space. Today Noora serves as Head of Sales & Marketing at the San Francisco office of metaio, Inc. where she is responsible for North America. She has been a leader in the evangelism of augmented reality for three years, speaking at Inside Mobile, Interactive Advertising Bureau's MIXX Con, Podi Digital Printing Initiative, The Economist Media Convergence Forum, and chaired the workshop "Manufacturing the Future: Use of Mixed and Augmented Reality in Design and Manufacturing" at ISMAR 2009.
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Jon Haas

Director, Eco-Technologies Programs Office, Digital Enterprise Group, Intel Corporation
Jon is a director in Intel's Eco-Technologies Programs Office, part of the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel Corporation. DEG creates Intel architecture server workstation and client products and technologies. In support of that mission, Jon manages technical and marketing teams that work with the industry's key technical forums and vendors on Energy Efficient computing. Jon is a 23-year Intel veteran spending most of his career working on server and I/O technologies. Jon participates in the Green Grid as the Vice Chair of the Technical Committee, Chair of the Data Center Design Guide Workgroup and on the Board of Directors
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Lee Hall

Smart Grid Program Manager, Bonneville Power Administration
Lee Hall is the Smart Grid Program Manager at Bonneville Power Administration, and also leads the Demand Response program in BPA’s Energy Efficiency group. Lee helped create the successful Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project proposal led by Battelle Memorial Institute, which was approved by the Department of Energy in November, 2009. He has been at BPA for 6 years, and has held leadership positions in Information Technology, IT Project Management, and Power Services. A native of Stayton, Oregon, Lee also served in the US Navy as a submarine officer. He has a BS in physics from the US Naval Academy, an MS in engineering science and an MBA. He is a former Project Management Professional, and served as president of the Portland Chapter of the Project Management Institute
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Michael Hamilton

CISO, City of Seattle
Michael Hamilton is the Chief Information Security Officer for the City of Seattle, with more than twenty years experience as an information security professional.
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Jason Harris

Technology Writer and Community Manager, Techcraver.com
Jason is a technology writer at Techcraver.com and CMSWire.com. Additionally, Jason is the Community Manager for the mobile search engine Taptu. Jason is active in the mobile and social media communities in Portland, Oregon.
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Scott Hendison

CEO, Search Commander, Inc.
Scott Hendison is the CEO of Search Commander, Inc. and the founder of SEO Automatic and Get WordPressed.
He’s a former Portland computer & software retailer that built a Portland computer repair business from 1997 to 2002 with search engine optimization and PPC marketing.
In 2008, he launched Get Wordpressed, a service to SEO firms needing reliable WordPress theme matching for clients. Later that year, SEO Automatic was released, and in 2009, the entire suite of white label / brandable WordPress tools & SEO reports was made available.
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Robert Herman

, Polycom

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Erin Hope

Energy Efficiency Engineer, Bonneville Power Administration(BPA)
Erin Hope is an Energy Efficiency Engineer for the Bonneville Power Administration(BPA). He has been employed by BPA for over 5 years as a field engineer working on a variety of Commercial, Industrial, and Agricultural projects; although recently he became the Energy Smart Industrial program's east region engineer. Erin graduated from Washington State University with a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, is a Certified Measurement and Verification Professional, and a licesenced Professional Engineer. Previously, he worked as a Process Manager for a large steel company and in the US Navy as a submarine nuclear mechanic.
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Benjamin Jacobsen

Co-Founder, Mobspot
Benjamin Jacobsen, a mobile industry expert, is Co-founder of Mobspot, the leader in cross-platform discovery of mobile applications. Prior to starting Mobspot he was Director of Global Marketing at Opera Software, where he led record-setting product launches of Opera Mini, Opera desktop browser, and Opera for the Nintendo Wii. Opera Mini is the most downloaded mobile application in the world. He has a BA from the University of Washington and an MBA from Copenhagen Business School.
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Brian Jaminson

Co-Founder and CEO, Open Sourcery
Brian is a seasoned entrepreneur with many technology-related companies to his credit. He has worked with Linux, open source, and the Internet professionally since 1995. Brian serves on the board of the Software Association of Oregon (SAO) and as President of the Portland Open Source Software Entrepreneurs (POSSE).
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Hallie Janssen

Vice President, Anvil Media, Inc.
Janssen currently manages overall client strategy and oversight of the team of search engine marketing (SEM) professionals at Anvil Media, Inc. Janssen has strategized online marketing with hundreds of clients since starting her career in this space in 1998
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Gregory Jenner

Partner, Stoel Rives

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Gregory F. Jenner

Partner, Stoel Rives, LLP
Gregory F. Jenner is a partner in the Tax practice group. Greg has broad experience in virtually all Federal tax matters, with particular focus on planning and implementing complex tax-related transactions, partnerships and joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions.
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Shilpa Karnik

Principal and Dynamics AX Practice Leader, Strategic Solutions NW

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Scott Kveton

CEO, Urban Airship
A native of the Mid-West I moved out to Oregon in 1980 with my family and never looked back. Graduated from Beaverton High School in 1992 and Oregon State University in 1997 (once a Beaver, always a Beaver I suppose). I worked for a couple of dot com's (amazon.com, rulespace.com, pdaverticals.com) and returned to OSU to start the Open Source Lab.
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Justin Label

Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
Justin is a Partner in BVP's Menlo Park office, focusing on Cleantech investments. He has been with the firm since 2001.
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Cindy Lay Hahn, CIPP

Regulatory Affairs, The Regence Group
Cindy Hahn holds a BBA in Management Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin and a JD from the University of Denver.
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Chad Layman

President,

Corban Lester

Program Development, Lockheed Martin

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Kent Lewis

President, Anvil Media, Inc.
As President of Anvil Media, Inc., Kent Lewis is responsible for managing operations, marketing and business development to achieve the search engine marketing agency's mission: to be one of the most respected search engine marketing agencies in the world.
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Patrick Lightbody

CEO, BrowserMob
Patrick is an avid open source contributor, having founded OpenQA, created Selenium Remote Control, and co-created Struts 2.
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Heather Lloyd-Martin

President & CEO, SuccessWorks Search Marketing, Inc.
Described as a fast-talking, fiery redhead, Heather Lloyd-Martin is a 20-year marketing veteran, a recognized author and considered the pioneer of SEO copywriting. Recognized worldwide as a first-generation search marketing expert, her life is split between watching the search engines dance and pinpointing the exact direct response copywriting strategies that make people buy.
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Ben Lloyd

President, Amplify Interactive
Ben Lloyd's SEM career got a start in 1999 while working in the music industry, which quickly brought him back to his home town and the SEM hot bed of Portland Oregon. Amplify Interactive was formed in 2003 after Ben spent a few years working in and leading agency teams while honing his skills at improving Web site visibility and generating sales for his clients. Amplify Interactive is a boutique firm focused on search engine & social media marketing with clients ranging from the high-tech B2B sector to lifestyle & consumer goods companies. Ben is also a co-founder & the current President of SEMpdx.
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Jay Lyman

Analyst, Enterprise Software and Open Source, The 451 Group
Jay covers open source software for The 451 Group, focusing on Linux operating systems and distributors, virtualization, cloud computing and other free and open source software created by communities and used by enterprise organizations.

Jon Maroney

SVP, Mobile Publishing Platform, Handmark
Jon Maroney is one of the founders of Portland based FreeRange Communications, a leading technology company focused on making Internet content useful for people on mobile phones. The intersection of mobile phones and the Internet created a clear problem in this area, and Jon started FreeRange to solve this problem via a unified Mobile Publishing Platform that is in use today by leading media companies around the world.
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Stephen Marsh

CEO & Founder, Smarsh, Inc
Stephen Marsh founded the hosted email archiving and compliance vendor Smarsh, Inc in 2001, and the organization achieved operating profitability almost immediately with just a handful of clients.
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Brian Massey

Conversion Scientist, Conversion Sciences
With 15 years of online marketing experience, Brian has championed conversion as the key to online marketing success.
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Jason Mauer

Chief Architect, Mighty Code
Jason Mauer is Owner and Chief Architect of Mighty Code, a development shop based in Portland, Oregon focusing on software consulting, training, and development. He has over fifteen years of experience in software development, including a stint with Microsoft from 2001 to 2009 as an application development consultant and developer evangelist. Jason is active in the developer community and frequently presents on technical topics at user groups, Code Camps, and conferences such as DevConnections and OSCON. Jason’s free time is spent making music with his band No Good Jones, cycling all over the place, and enjoying life with his son Zachary. He can be found online at or on Twitter as @jasonmauer.
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Robert McDowell

Vice President, Information Worker Business Value, Microsoft
Mr. McDowell joined Microsoft in 1990 to establish Microsoft Consulting Services...
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Kevin McVicker

Vice President, President, CSG Professional Services

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David Mihm

President & CEO, GetListed.org
David serves as Director of Partnerships for SEMpdx, and consults for companies of all sizes about Local SEO.
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Sean Odom

Senior Network Engineer, 24x7 I.T. Solutions
Sean Odom is a well known technical speaker and instructor who brings 18 years of technical experience to clients throughout Oregon. He is the author of 24 networking, operating systems, and network security books for Cisco and Microsoft.
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Nate Oliver

CIO, Genesis Financial Solutions
Mr. Oliver is an ambitious and passionate technology leader with a BS degree in Computer Information Systems and a Master of Business Administration. Nate began his career in technology as a programmer and excelled in all facets of systems development having roles as a systems analyst, project manager, Project Management Office manager, Director of Systems Development, and CIO.
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David Pallmann

Manager, Custom Application Development practice at Neudesic
David Pallmann manages the Custom Application Development practice at Neudesic, a national Microsoft consulting partner
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Allen Pilgrim

Network Administrator, City of Albany
Allen Pilgrim serves as the Network Administrator for the City of Albany. He is responsible for managing the Laserfiche enterprise content management solution across multiple departments. Pilgrim has led the way in creating a "Digital Image as Original" system that allows the city to maintain digital copies as originals for many of their records, creating a more paperless and green work environment.
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Piyush Prakash

Group Manager, iLink Systems, Inc
Discover how to lower the last hurdles between business users and the data they crave using Office Business Applications (OBAs) and BCS (Business Connectivity Services). Your business users will rave about meaningful real-time access to consolidated data from systems such as Dynamics CRM and SharePoint via user-friendly, intuitive web, Outlook, Word, and Excel interfaces. Your business will enjoy improved collaboration and reduced costs because business users can consume more of the data they need to make better decisions, faster, with fewer interventions from your IT department. Practice Manager Piyush Prakash will share a wealth of tips, techniques, and lessons learned by iLink Systems, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.
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Tony Regier

Executive Vice President, Storage Solutions Practice, MSI Systems Integrators
Tony Regier is the executive vice president of MSI's Storage Solutions practice. Mr. Regier has over 19 years of technical professional experience within the graphic arts and information technology industries.
In his current position, Mr. Regier has been involved with developing MSI's highly successful Technology Enablement Center and Storage Solutions practice within the United States. He specializes in helping clients define storage strategies, planning for the best of breed technology solution based on the client's requirements, implementing the solution using industry standards, and helping clients manage the solutions as their businesses evolve through continued education and training.
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Jeffrey Reich, CISSP, CHS-III, CTM

Director of Operations, Institute for Cyber Security, University of Texas
Jeff Reich has developed a history of entering situations where little to no security or risk management infrastructure exists, or an existing system needs updating. He is an executive with extensive experience in building and leading high performance teams.
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Lindsey Reynolds

Emerging Media Specialist, Southwest Airlines
Lindsey Reynolds was lucky enough to be hired at Southwest Airlines right out of school. Coming from the University of Texas at Austin, her experience working with the SXSW Interactive Festival is what first interested her in the online world.
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Mark Sauer

Global Vice President of IT and CIO, Merix Corporation

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Kent Schnepp

Vice President, Director of Operations, engineWorks
Since the inception of EngineWorks, Kent Schnepp has been responsible for the design, structure, and improvement of systems to create and deliver world-class search marketing services to online commercial entities and interactive media agencies. EngineWorks is an innovative online search engine marketing (SEM) services and technologies company headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
With almost a decade of Internet marketing experience, Kent possesses extensive search marketing knowledge, and is a recognized expert in Web site optimization and development. In addition to overseeing the company’s Search Strategies Department, Kent continuously focuses on enhancing the quality of processes, infrastructure, and best practices to ensure that the company's services exceed client success metrics.
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Andy Schroder

Director of the Northwest Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory, Hillsboro Police Department
A Lieutenant for the Hillsboro Police Department in Oregon, serving law enforcement since 1978.
Currently assigned as the Director of the Northwest Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory in Portland, Oregon.
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Tim Sears

Software Engineer, Waggener Edstrom
Tim Sears is a software engineer who works for PR firm Waggener Edstrom by day building web applications, by night creating location-based augmented reality experiences for the iPhone.
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Marv Serhan

President, Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), Columbia River Chapter

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Damian Smith

General Manager, Slalom Consulting - Portland
Now known mostly for his expertise in IT strategy and architecture, Damian Smith is also the GM of Slalom Consulting's Portland office, a business leader, and a visionary who is known for inspiring his teams and clients to set, and achieve aggressive goals and breakthrough solutions.
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David Smith

Chief Executive Officer, HBMG Inc.
Mr. David Smith joined the HBMG Inc. team as CEO in early 2008. As CEO of HBMG Inc., Mr. Smith is responsible for the global strategic planning, product development, and business execution leading the organization to double digit growth.
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Gunther Sonnenfeld

SVP, Director of Experience & Applied Technology, Omnicom agency, RAPP Worldwide
Gunther is the SVP, Director of Experience & Applied Technology for Omnicom agency, RAPP Worldwide, serving as a lead strategist and platform architect on the Toyota, Skype and Adobe accounts. Through his own technology outfit, ThinkState, he is also the co-developer of 7 proprietary social platforms.
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David Stauffer

Senior Information Security Architect, DHS Information Security Office
David G. Stauffer, CISSP, CISA, is an IT professional with over 30 years experience in information security, auditing, quality assurance, programming, customer relations. He is currently the Senior Security Architect for the State of Oregon, Department of Human Services. His past experience includes IBM, Tovaris, and the State of Oregon.
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Mark Tarmy

IT Consultant, MSI Systems Integrators
Mark Tarmy is an IT consultant for MSI Systems Integrators. His expertise in the cloud computing journey includes the physical, virtual, and cloud enabled world, providing expertise for cloud business drivers, vendor cloud solutions, service chain, workloads, governance, management, and the due diligence required to ensure cloud solutions are not oversimplified or underestimated.
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Kevin Tate

Founder and Principal, StepChange Group
Kevin Tate is a founder and principal at StepChange Group, now part of Powered - a full-service social media agency. As the head of Sales and Business Development, Kevin works with Powered's clients and agency partners to create social experiences and applications, with a focus on Facebook and mobile programs.
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Mark Teter

CTO, Advanced Systems Group
Mark Teter is an internationally recognized authority on information technology. Mark advises IT organizations, vendors and government agencies on a broad range of information management issues.
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Todd Tomlinson

Author and Vice President of Government Solutions, ServerLogic Corporation
Todd is a 34-year veteran of the IT industry and is responsible for ServerLogic’s eGovernment Solutions group. Todd has a long track record of helping public and private sector clients through the process of defining, designing, developing, deploying, and supporting web based solutions and architectures.
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Stas Tregubov

Consultant, CSG Professional Services

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Rick Turoczy

Writer, Silicon Florist
Rick Turoczy has been working in high-tech marketing communications jobs in the Portland area for the past 15 years. Out of pure dumb luck, he happened to sit up in bed at 2 AM one night in August 2007 with the inspiration to start Silicon Florist, a blog about Portland startups in the Web, Mobile, and Open Source scenes. Since then, he’s chatted with The Oregonian a bunch of times, appeared on local television and radio, made a brief appearance on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, garnered bylines in The New York Times, been named to the Portland Business Journal's "40 under 40," launched a startup incubator with the help of Wieden+Kennedy, been selected as a speaker at SXSW, and co-produced a groundbreaking Web-based telethon called 30 hour day.
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David Van't Hof

Adjunct Professor, University of Oregon Law School
David Van't Hof focuses his practice in the areas of sustainability, clean technology, renewable energy, green building and carbon regulation. David draws experience from his many years as a Sustainability Policy Advisor to Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski. In that capacity, he led the state's participation in the Western Climate Initiative and in developing the state's nationally recognized climate change and renewable energy policies.
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Art Vertner

Director of Strategic Developmen, McKinstry
Mr. Vertner is a licensed architect and a graduate of the University of Oregon. In 1985 he co-founded Abacus Engineered Systems which grew to be a national energy services company noted for technical excellence in the delivery of efficiency improvements to complex institutional buildings. Abacus was sold to Schneider Electric in 2004 where Mr. Vertner held the title of Director of Marketing for TAC Americas (then a subsidiary company of SE) until 2007.


At McKinstry, Mr. Vertner is the Director of Strategic Development. Art is located in McKinstry’s Portland office.
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Jim Wasko

, IBM

Brandon Wigfield

Senior Developer, Conxx Inc - Smart Technologies
Brandon Wigfield is member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Senior Developer at Conxx, the network manager for the award winning AllCoNet and Cambria Connected projects. Brandon is a passionate and highly skilled programmer with a special interest in the web stack from presentation layer down to physical transport. Brandon has spent the last 7 years actively developing web enabled network monitoring and management tools for large operational multi-vendor, multi-service networks.
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Lisa Williams

Owner, MEDIA forte marketing
Lisa Williams is a 12-year web marketing veteran. Her clients include Fortune 500 companies as well as small and mid-sized local businesses. She started her business in 1998 with a focus on content development, and website usability. Since 2001, search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) are also central to her business goal of helping her clients increase revenue and grow market share.
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Ted Wiseman

Channel Solutions Consultant, Hitachi Data Systems

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Andrew Wolferts

Pac NW Systems Engineer, Brocade

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Alexa Wriggins

Senior Director, Audience Development & Analytics, PC World Macworld
For 15 years, Alexa has been working with publishers to develop, test and implement audience development strategies that drive inventory and revenue growth. She joined PC World and Macworld in 2005 and is responsible for overseeing audience acquisition programs that are behind year-over-year increases in lead generation, unique visitor, and page view growth. Working closely with sales, editorial, design, and development teams, she leads email marketing, search engine marketing, social media, analytics, and market research initiatives. Before joining PC World and Macworld, Wriggins held product manager positions at CNET and Ask.com.

Ethan Yarbrough

President & Cofounder, Allyis, Inc.
Ethan is president and cofounder of Kirkland, Wash. based Allyis, Inc., a consultancy focused on the development and adoption of 2.0 technologies and practices within the Enterprise.
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Raven Zachary

iPhone Strategy & Product Development, Small Society
Raven Zachary is an iPhone advisor who works with investors, startups, and established companies on iPhone strategy and product development. He has directed the launch of two 'Top 20' iPhone applications - Obama '08 for Obama for America and Nearby for Platial. Raven is the founder of iPhoneDevCamp, a not-for-proft iPhone developer conference.
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