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Kevin Bradley

Vice President / COO

iCooper

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David Brown

Western Regional Sales Director

Red Condor Secure

With the emergence of a local CLEC in Santa Rosa, CA, in 1999, David Brown entered into the Telecom industry with Advanced Telecom Communications (ATG). Following the acquisition of ATG by GE, he transitioned over to their wireless division that had been purchased by a local company and spent two more years as VP of Sales developing and expanding the Vista Communications wireless footprint throughout Northern California.

David Brown began at Red Condor in January 2006 to begin the global expansion of Red Condor?s next generation hosted Anti Spam and Anti Virus services. Today Red Condor?s next generation products service customers around the world with hosted services and their enterprise MAG Spam Firewall appliances that were introduced in late 2006. Red Condor filters over a one billion emails each week.

Red Condor, Inc. is located at 1300 Valley House Drive in Rohnert Park, CA. with 48 employees serving our customer and reseller base.

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Cameron Byers

Cameron Byers

Customer Support Manager

Astaro

At Astaro Corporation Cameron leads customer and partner technical support as the Support Engineering Manager for North and South America. Cameron currently holds diplomas in Electronics, Network and Telecommunications engineering. A career in the Canadian military, prior to joining the Astaro engineering team gives Cameron a firm understanding on the importance of infrastructure and data security for today's networks.

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Diane Childs

Identity Theft Program Outreach Coordinator

Dept. of Consumer and Business Services, Oregon State Government

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Michael Clark

Principal

Pacific Intermedia

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Chris Cox

Chris Cox

Director of Sales

Zones

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Scott Eilers

Scott Eilers

VP of Sales & Marketing

NetXposure

Scott has been with NetXposure since 2002 and brings a wealth of experience in sales and a digital content marketing. Before joining NetXposure he was a co-founder of Katabak, a publisher of online sports & lifestyle communities that included MountainZone.com, BroadbandSports.com, OutdoorNewswire.com, SingleandActive.com, WetDawg.com, Dirtworld.com, and PowderWorld.com. Prior to that he worked in corporate sales for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association. He holds an MBA from the University of Oregon.

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Melanie Feeney

Melanie Feeney

Work Group Product Manager

Novell

Melanie Feeney is a Work Group Product Manager for Novell. She specializes in bringing the best technology solutions possible for small business.

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James Gaskin

James Gaskin

Author and Columnist

James Gaskin has been solving computer and network problems for businesses small and large since 1984. He also writes books, articles, and jokes about technology AND real life. In 16 books and hundreds of articles, network consultant Gaskin tells people faster, cheaper, newer, and smarter ways to connect to each other and the world. A founding member of the Network World Lab Alliance, Gaskin focuses on small office issues and product testing. He is the leading voice for the small business market through his long-running Small Business Technology newsletter distributed by Network World. As a speaker, Gaskin travels the country in Hawaiian shirts helping people laugh at their IT pain while teaching them new ways to put technology to work. In venues such as Network World Technology Tours and seminars at leading industry conventions such as Networld + InterOp, Gaskin delivers objective information stripped of marketing hype in his trademark "unbiased and unboring" style. When avoiding computers, Gaskin plays classical chamber music on the violin and tennis (but not at the same time) in the Dallas area.

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Randy Hopkins

Data Domain

Randy Hopkins has been in the IT sector for 20 years as a software engineer and developer, systems engineer and SAN Architect.

He has spent 7 years at EMC and Dell focusing on designing disaster recovery solutions and architecting Fiber Channel, iSCSI, and NAS environments for high availability and disaster recovery projects for customers in the west coast.

2 years ago, he joined Data Domain to focus on COS ? Capacity Optimized Storage. Since then he has designed and implemented over 100+ Data Domain systems throughout the USA.

He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Calif. State University, Fresno.

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Don Johnson

Don Johnson

Sales Application Engineer

Eaton/Powerware

Don Johnson is a Sales Applications Engineer with Eaton Electrical, Inc. In this role, Don deals with all aspects of providing details on Eaton power quality solutions to the NW region, including product information, solution design builds, and solution application.

Don is no stranger to Power Quaility Solutions, having spent over 10 years in the UPS industry and over 20 year in electronics industry.

Don is a qualified electrician and Application Engineer, and holds a WA State Certification and an Associates in Applied Science (AAS).

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Kim Johnson

Business Development Manager

LearnKey

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Shelah Johnson

CMO

Techchex

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Scott Jones

President

Inflow Systems

Scott Jones has been providing IT consulting solutions in the areas of VoIP, programming and network infrastructure for over 15 years. Currently the owner and president of Inflow Systems Inc., he oversees daily operations and ensures that Inflow Systems offers products and services with the best ROI available. Scott?s 15 years of experience also includes other top-level positions in business management and a diverse IT background in programming, networking, and database architecture. Of his many accomplishments, he is most proud of Inflow Systems achieving top scores in ShoreTel?s nationally ranked customer satisfaction survey for several years running. Scott is also an acknowledged expert in the field of unified communications and is frequently recognized as an industry leader through giving speeches and seminars in unified communications.

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Brad Kincaid

Brad Kincaid

Vice President

ezWireless

Brad Kincaid is Vice President & General Manager of ezWireless. He also has the distinction of having employee badge #1 at ezWireless. Founded in 2002, ezWireless designed and built the first of its kind, wide scale broadband wireless emergency management communications system. Brad, who has a computer science degree from Oregon State University, was hired as the project manager for the engineering, business planning and deployment of this unique project. The wireless network created a 700 sq. mile WiFi cloud to provide first responders with critical communications capabilities in the event of a nerve gas or chemical warfare materials leak. It also includes a 450 sq mile surveillance camera network providing (additional sets of eyes) for emergency management and law enforcement in the area. The project included more than 40 agencies, 7 cities, three counties and two states.

Since 2004, he has lead ezWireless rapid growth and positioning as one of the leading broadband wireless, point-to-point engineering and design companies in the country. He has been featured as a speaker on Wireless Applications for Public Safety; a Sony Corporation award winner, and he holds several accreditations and technical certifications.

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Lance Liden

Lance Liden

Director

Competive Programs for the Americas from IBM

Lance is the Director of Competitive Programs at IBM and a 26-year IBM veteran. His background includes project management, product development, in both sales and marketing management. Lance travels the globe speaking to anyone who will listen about IBM?s Green Initiatives where Lance tells audiences both large and small about how to run your IT infrastructure in an Earth friendly way that is not only the right thing to do, but a great way to save huge amounts of money on power consumption.

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Brad Lyons

Principal

Pacific Intermedia

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Ben McKinley

Ben McKinley

President

Cascade Web Development

As the founder of two Internet development and media design companies, Ben is a lifelong entrepreneur who understands the sales and marketing needs of a growing business. Steeped in both traditional and interactive marketing strategy, Ben combines his easygoing, consultative style with a tested team of web and traditional media subject matter experts to support his clients' varied and ever changing needs.

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Robert McMillen

Robert McMillen

President

All Tech 1

Robert is the President and founder of All Tech 1, LLC., a Portland, OR. based network consulting company and host of the All Tech Radio Show heard in Portland on KUIK and in Seattle on KOL. Robert has over ten years experience in network engineering and over 35 technical certifications from companies like Microsoft, Novell, IBM, Cisco, and more. Some of his higher profile jobs have been restoring email for the government to prosecute Enron executives, train the network vulnerability assessment team for the U.S. Army, and perform wireless security auditing for the State of Washington.

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Peter McNaull

Sales Engineer

WatchGuard

Peter began his career at WatchGuard in 1999 in Technical Support and now serves as the Sales Engineer for the Northwest.

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Ron Miller

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T.J. O'Connor

T.J. O'Connor

Systems Consultant

CrossTech Partners

TJ O'Connor is a pioneer in the field of interactive web sites, with a focus on the convergence of Rich Internet Applications in the corporate marketplace. He is a recognized expert in the area of Web 2.0, and as a principal consultant with CrossTech Partners he has recently been involved with the development of cutting-edge web applications, integration of social media tools, and implementation of content management solutions.

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Sean Odom

Sean Odom

Sr. Technical 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 technical certification books for Cisco and Microsoft and an expert in security act compliance regulation both at a federal and local level. He also has held some of the highest certifications for Cisco, is a Globalnet Certified Cisco Instructor, a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer(MCSE) and written over 50 articles for publications and websites nationwide.

A well rounded individual, Sean offers his clients a complete systems integration perspective. He not only can support a customers WAN or LAN but he can create the design, implement the hardware, and provide continuous security and project management. He also has consulted for many fortune 500 companies such as Wells Fargo, UBS Payne Webber, CH2M Hill, Intel and Hollywood Entertainment.

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Chad Prucha

Chad Prucha

FusionWare

At FusionWare, Chad specializes in systems architecture, infrastructure and development. His professional background includes experience with virtualization, telepresence, wireless networking, RFID and open source technology.

Chad is also a cloud computing expert, previously serving as an operations engineer for a pioneering HP cloud project called Rubix, and co-designing a virtualized follow-on project called Tetrix as part of HP's Adaptive Infrastructure initiative. Tetrix was among the first hypervisor-agnostic resource provisioning system that could create an operating environment from bare-metal physical hardware down to the virtualized OS. Tetrix and its spin-offs are now an important part of HP's consolidation, development and QA processes.

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E. Reese

Senior System Engineer

Apple, Inc

Reese came to Apple after serving as a technology manager for a major prepress company in the Bay Area. His experience ranges from working with the early days of postscript imagesetting, to prepress system integration, and most recently the technology manager for a large west coast prepress company where he focused on system administration, production streamlining and automation. Reese's formal education in Psychology and education has proved helpful in his efforts to bring new and emerging technologies to people and businesses.

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Robert Ruddick

Robert Ruddick

Security Systems Engineer, Western Region

Imperva

Robert Ruddick, Security Systems Engineer for Imperva, specializes in Application Data Security and has expertise in activity monitoring, protection and risk management of critical business data and applications with Imperva?s SecureSphere solutions.

Prior to joining Imperva, Robert Ruddick specialized in Security Systems Technology; database audit, application data threat management and protection for notable Security and Technology companies including Teranode Bio informatics, enteo Software, TiGi Corporation and Citrix Systems

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Steven Schroedl

President

Chime Software

Steven Schroedl previously held the position of President and Owner of the Portland, Oregon based ISP PowerTalk. In 1998, Mr. Schroedl sold PowerTalk to Smart Networks and accepted a position with Network Elements Inc., a Beaverton, Oregon company specializing in optical transponders. His role as CEO and Founder of VeriLAN is supported by 18 years of experience in the IT industry with a broad range of skills covering wired and wireless networks, core infrastructure, hardware and software development and personnel management.

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Greg Sents

IT Specialist

IBM

Greg Sents has over 35 years of I/T experience focusing in the area of High End Enterprise Storage and Business Continuity. Greg is an IBM Certified IT Specialist and is the Designated Regional Specialist for the new XIV Storage and IBM High End Enterprise Storage with an emphasis on Business Continuity. Greg provides field technical storage support for IBMs Enterprise storage solutions, insuring that the proposed IBM storage solutions are technically feasible and is responsible to oversee their implementation and success.

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Ryan Speir

Vice President of Sales

ArcMail Technology

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Justin Stevens

Justin Stevens

Principal Architect

Groupware Technology

Justin Stevens is the Principle Architect at Groupware Technology in Portland, Oregon. He graduated with a BS in Computer Science from Pacific University.

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Robert Wong

Senior Product Manager

Hummingbird

Robert Wong is a senior product manager of Hummingbird, the Open Text Connectivity Solutions Group. Robert has been involved in the X Window industry for over 12 years and managed the Hummingbird Exceed product family.

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