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Advanced Techncial Bootcamp Speaker Bios

Speaker Name Speaker Name Speaker Name
Artem Alimarine Brian Allison Paul Anderson
John Andruszkiewicz John Apps Walt Arbo
Juan Astorga-Vergara Akila B Rick Barry
Tom Beaudet Hartmut Becker Richard Bishop
Sheldon Bishov Verell Boaen Larry Bonnette
Jur van der Burg Tony Camuso David Cathey
Paul Cerqua Lee Clark Mark Daniel
Gaitan D'Antoni Leo Demers Mark DeYoung
Bruce Ellis Rob Eulenstein John Ferguson
Burns Fisher William Garrison Ruth Goldenberg
Doug Gordon Kevin Greaney Hein van den Heuvel
Lon Hilde Steve Hoffman Dave Holt
Phil Hudson Melanie Hubbard Paul Jacobi
Mark "Jilly" Jilson Greg Jordan Forrest Kenney
Barry Kierstein Norman J. Lastovica Bart Z. Lederman
Andrew Leigh Steve Lieman John Malmberg
Fred Marsh Brad McCusker Ann McQuaid
Jim Mehlhop Johan Michiels Christian Moser
Ken Moreau Wayne Morrison Paul Mosteika
Matt Muggeridge Jeff Nelson Gary Newsted
Karen Noel Keith Parris Guy Peleg
Ken Randel John Reagan Tom Rogers
Mark Potter Andy Schneider Terry Shores
Thomas Siebold Dick Stockdale David Sullivan
Richard Thomas Nick van der Zweep Meg Watson
Dan Wilder Larry Woodcome  

Artem Alimarine

Artemis a Doctor of IT science and has a track record of more than 12 years in migration and hardware virtualization software. He is the lead software architect at Emulators International, a company that specializes in OpenVMS related software solutions.

Brian Allison

Paul Anderson

Paul has worked with OpenVMS since 1984 and joined Digital three years later. Moving to the Components and Peripherals division in 1993, he supported printers and related software. When Digital sold the printing business to Genicom in 1997, he joined the DCPS engineering team there. Paul "came back" to Compaq in 2000 and continues to be the Project Leader and Engineer responsible for DCPS at HP.

John Andruszkiewicz

John (a.k.a. John AtoZ) is former member of OpenVMS Engineering. During his tenure as the OpenVMS project leader for Volume Shadowing (from 1998 until 2005) several key features, most notably mini copy and mini merge, were delivered.

John Apps

John has been consulting on distributed application design for over 30 years. He has spent time in the recent past analyzing and optimizing Java applications. John consults world-wide with HP customers and has been with digital/Compaq/HP for the last 27 years.

Walt Arbo

Walt has worked in VMS since 1987. He is currently a systems project leader, and was the project leader for porting the linker and other tools that deal with objects or images from VAX to Alpha and from Alpha to Itanium.

Juan Astorga-Vergara

Juan is a LAN engineer who is the Project Leader of the OpenVMS VLAN project.

Akila B

Akila is working with ABS/MDMS products for the last 5 years with GDIC OpenVMS practice. She participated in several VMS trainings conducted within the practice in Basic, Advanced and VMS internals. She was judged as the best participant in "train the trainer" workshop by Rob Eulenstien's and Bruce Ellis's Crash Dump and VMS internals sessions. She has also participated in techcon abstract submission and has written knowledge briefs.

Rick Barry

Rick is the Project Leader for the OpenVMS External Authentication project.

Tom Beaudet

Tom is the TEC manager and relationship manager for Brilliant Systems, LLC whose partnership has brought forth the OpenVMS-based HP Secure Server web-based messaging product.

Hartmut Becker

Hartmut is a member of the OpenVMS Software Group at Hewlett-Packard. He is the project leader for the OpenVMS Object and Images. This project includes the I64 linker and related tools like Analyze. He is also maintaining image relate d code in VMS. Since joining Digital/Compaq/HP in 1986 he worked for several support and engineering groups

Richard Bishop

Richard is project leader for OpenVMS Kernel Tools. As such, Richard is the lead maintainer and developer for System Dump Analyzer (SDA), bugcheck, image dumps, and related projects. Now that these tools have been ported to OpenVMS I6 4, Richard and the Kernel Tools team continue to enhance the tools to support new OpenVMS features, to improve their performance, and to add other features that enhance usability. Richard has a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Imperial College, London, and has spent his entire working life in software engineering, including 20 years in OpenVMS Engineering.

Sheldon Bishov

Sheldon is the Engineering Lead for the Security project in TCP/IP services for OpenVMS.

Verell Boaen

Verell has been the VMScluster Communications Architect since 1982. Verell also leads the OpenVMS BaseOS CLUSTER COMMUNICATIONS engineering team. His expertise areas include VMScluster Communications, SCA, NISCA, SCACP, Disaster Tolerant clusters, & FastPath.

Larry Bonnette

Larry is a senior member of Hewlett-Packards OpenVMS engineering group.

Jur van der Burg

After graduating as an electronics hardware engineer I started in 1975 developing electronic test equipment for a medical research laboratory. At that place I had my first encounter with computers (PDP8/PDP11/6502). In 1977 I moved to an oil company developing seismic test equipment connected to a PDP11, and started to write device drivers for RSX11M. They were then converted to a VAX and VMS. Later on I moved inside the company to the computer centre doing the helpdesk for a year, followed by system management of the biggest VAXcluster in the country. In 1987 I joined DEC in the VMS country support group in the Netherlands giving support to customers. Around 2000 I started to work part time for VMS engineering in the sustaining engineering group to support the VMS exec and the scsi drivers, which then became a full time job.

Tony Camuso

Tony joined DEC in 1988 developing software for field test. He later joined the firmware group in the Mill and wrote SROM, PAL, and boot firmware for Alpha systems. In 1995, he joined the systems group in OpenVMS, where he works as an IO subsystem specialist for Alpha and Itanium based platforms.

David Cathey

David is an independent consultant from Plano Texas. He has presented at DECUS and Encompass Symposia for several years on OpenVMS topics. As a hobby, he provides technical support for the OpenVMS Hobbyist Program.

Paul Cerqua

Paul is the Technical Lead for the OpenVMS C Run-Time Library and the Project Leader for the OpenVMS symbolic links and POSIX pathname processing project. A software engineer for over 20 years, he has been an OpenVMS developer since 1987. As part of the UNIX Portability program, Paul is also active in providing technical assistance to partners and customers porting UNIX applications to OpenVMS.

Lee Clark

After joining DEC in 1984, Lee worked primarily on VMS-centric applications, including the DECalc and DECdecision spreadsheets, and content-based retrieval software. Since returning from a sabbatical spent working on the TeamLinks for Macintosh email client, he has been working in the system management tools group in OpenVMS Engineering.

Mark Daniel

Mark is a senior software engineer within the Defense Science and Technology Organization (DSTO), part of Australia's Department of Defense. DSTO's role is to ensure the expert, impartial and innovative application of science and technology to the defense of Australia and its national interests. He began professional work with VMS in 1988 with systems administration and systems software development, continuing in these roles until 2002. He is still called-on frequently as the VMS village elder. He is currently involved in the development of HF radar systems and now has to maintain his association with VMS in his own time, through the continued development and support of the WASD web services and associated packages. Mark has previously spoken at Australian DECUS Symposia and has taught tertiary IT courses part-time for the last decade. He claims to have a BEd(Science) degree earned last century when computing machines still contained discrete flop-flops.

Gaitan D'Antoni

Gaitan is the OpenVMS Technical Director. He has 15 years of experience in software engineering with a focus on networking and client/server products. He is responsible for providing high-end tactical and broad strategic direction a cross the OpenVMS Organization. In addition to these duties, Gaitan is a member of the eBusiness engineering team, works with various Engineering groups to ensure the Integrity Server deliverables for compilers, development tools, and layered products are met, and delivers the Integrity Server messages to customers and partners. Gaitan is a key member of the team responsible for the planning of the port of OpenVMS and Layered Products to the Itanium™ Product Family.

Leo Demers

Leo is the Business Manager for the LAN projects in OpenVMS.

Mark DeYoung

Mark has been working in the OpenVMS Performance Group since 1996. He is an expert at simulator design and development for test & analysis of systems, software, firmware and hardware. He is also an expert at large scale test plan design, automation, execution, data logging, data reduction and report generation for investigation, characterization and qualification of systems, hardware, firmware and software.

Since 1978, he has worked in operating systems, networking, storage, C3I, telemetry data processing, simulation modeling, real time programming, tools development, digital imaging, e-mail and data bases.

Bruce Ellis

Bruce is President of BRUDEN Corporation.

Bruce has provided OpenVMS training and software engineering for over 25 years. He is author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to VMS" and has written numerous articles on the topics of OpenVMS Internal ls, System Programming, and Performance. He has taught OpenVMS Internals and Crash Dump Analysis to Digital/Compaq/HP Engineers and Support personnel worldwide.

Rob Eulenstein

Rob joined Digital Equipment Corporation in March 1987. He has spent his entire tenure with Digital/Compaq/HP supporting OpenVMS from the Customer Support Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His areas of expertise include: crash dump analysis, internals, clusters, performance, shadowing, RMS, and the file system.

Rob is a member of the OpenVMS Ambassadors organization which provides a highly demanded pre-sales support function as well as an extremely important interface between customers and OpenVMS engineering.

Rob holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and lives in Colorado with his wife and four children.

John Ferguson

John is the HP OpenVMS Business Manager for System Management and for e-Business and Integration technologies. He has over 30 years experience in the computer industry in software engineering management, business/product management, systems programming, and consulting.

Burns Fisher

Since joining VMS Engineering in 1985, Burns Fisher has worked in many engineering and project leading roles. These include leading the port of DECwindows from VAX to Alpha, technical leadership of the Extended File Specifications project and working in the VMS exec in the areas of process scheduling and non-paged pool allocation. More recently, he designed and wrote SoftWare Interrupt Services (SWIS) as part of porting VMS to the Itanium Processor Family, and designed and implemented VMS scheduler changes to support hyperthreads.

William Garrison

Bill is a Staff Analyst at Shell Pipeline Company LP in Houston, Texas. He is a former DEC support engineer and software contractor. He has specialized in the Oil and Gas Industry for the past 18 years and was a member of the team that consolidated Shell Pipeline's control system from distributed minicomputers to a redundant central system.

His current responsibilities include interfacing to external systems including SQL servers, historical archives, hydraulic models, and operator workstations.

Ruth Goldenberg

Ruth has been at Digital/Compaq/HP over 30 years, most of them involved with OpenVMS, as backup support, teacher, author, and developer.

Recent projects include clusterwide logical names, OpenVMS Alpha Memory Management Internals book, porting cluster code to Itanium, system service logging, and OpenVMS I64 system service interception.

Doug Gordon

Kevin Greaney

Kevin, is the OpenVMS Engineering Project Leader for SSL for OpenVMS a port of the popular OpenSSL software.

Hein van den Heuvel

Hein started working 27 years ago for Digital Holland working on several RMS-11 projects. Hein has supported VMS, RMS and databases at the European level. He joined VMS Engineering doing RMS in 1991 for 3 years. This was followed by Systems Engineering for an Applications Performance group, performing Oracle and RMS projects. Hein has given numerous DECUS presentations over the years, and is a regular contributor to comp.os.vms and the HP ITRC forum for RMS questions and performance questions. While his real work over the last decade focused around large commercial applications using Oracle on UNIX platforms he still helped out with critical RMS based application perfomance problems. Since leaving HP late 2005 Hein has been consulting on RMS related performance issues for major OpenVMS application.

Lon Hilde

Lon, joined Digital full time in 1984 as a hardware engineer. He, for example, helped designed the VAX 8800 ALU. Later he specialized in state machine design and implementation and contributed (named as co-inventor, patented) to "System and Method for Dynamic Avoidance of Simultaneous Switching Output Limitation of an Integrated Circuit Chip". In 1990 he switched to software engineering and joined the OpenVMS Debug team. He has contributed or led enhancements to software development tools, most notably OpenVMS Debug, Trace, and SCD (System Code Debug). That included ports to Alpha, ports to I64, new Debug pthread support, Debug multi process support overhaul, analyze process dump rewrite, and more. He also led the port of DCPI to OpenVMS Alpha. In his spare time Lon is an avid fisherman.

Steve Hoffman

Steve is a consulting software engineer within HP OpenVMS Engineering, responsible for various odd corners of the operating system itself and for parts of the engineering development environment. You may well have seen an occasional newsgroup postings, a web forum or a notes conference entry at various sites, the OpenVMS Freeware, a book or two, one of my previous presentations, or other such materials. These boot camp sessions will be extensions of several of these postings and materials, and with updates and details you haven't seen before.

Dave Holt

Dave has been a Product/Business Manager with OpenVMS for seven years, starting with Digital in 1989. Amongst other things he manages the OpenVMS Virtualization program, mail & messaging products and 3rd Party VMS emulation products. He has an MBA and a degree in Aeronautical Engineering.

Phil Hudson

Melanie Hubbard

Melanie works in OpenVMS as a liaison between Oracle Support and Oracle Development and OpenVMS Sustaining Engineering. She assists with Oracle related customer issues; helps setup Oracle test systems for the engineers and responds to a variety of Oracle related questions. Before starting with HP (then Compaq) over 5 years ago, she had been an OpenVMS System and Networks Manager, worked for an internet startup company and been a Sr. Technical Support Engineer for a variety of software applications running on OpenVMS and several UNIX platforms.

Paul Jacobi

Paul is the engineer responsible for memory disk boot.

Mark "Jilly" Jilson

Jilly, is a senior Consultant on the OpenVMS PCC Team of the Proprietary Solutions Support Group in the Colorado Customer Support Center. Mark has been delivering OpenVMS support since 1989 in the areas of OpenVMS Internals, Performance & Memory Management and has been with HP since 1979.

Greg Jordan

Greg has worked in OpenVMS Engineering for the last 15 years. He specializes in the OpenVMS Lock Manager and in performance of large SMP systems.

Forrest Kenney

Forrest works in OpenVMS focusing on USB and console support. And in his spare time he likes to sail and make unusual USB devices work on VMS.

Barry Kierstein

Barry is currently the project leader of the Availability Manager product at Hewlett-Packard. Previous to his tenure at Hewlett-Packard in the OpenVMS Engineering group, he was an OpenVMS system manager for the academic computer cluster at a large university for 12 years. Barry has been a presenter at various technical shows and at OpenVMS Boot camp.

Norman J. Lastovica

Norman J. Lastovica is a Principal Engineer within Oracle's Rdb Engineering organization. Mr. Lastovica has over 20 years experience with large OpenVMS systems design and development including several major Oracle Rdb benchmark and prototyping efforts on behalf of Rdb customers. Currently a member of the KODA project team, he shares responsibility for the physical data storage, index, journaling, recovery, row cache, hot standby, and LogMiner components of the Rdb product family along with the port of Oracle Rdb to the OpenVMS Integrity environment. In his free time, he enjoys outdoor sports with his family in the mountains surrounding their home in Colorado.

Bart Z. Lederman

Bart has 30 years of experience in system management, network planning, and application and system performance tuning; 18 of them were in the telecommunications, banking, and consulting industries, and he currently works in the OpenVMS P erformance Group at HP. His many sessions and seminars presented at customer events have been very well received over the years, with emphasis being placed on practical solutions to the problems encountered in real life situations.

Andrew Leigh

Andrew Leigh is a Principal Software Engineer for the OpenVMS TCP/IP Group. He is a member of the kernel team and is responsible for PPP, IPfilter/NAT, BPF/packetfilter, libpcap/tcpdump and TCPtrace. Andrew received a BSc Honors from City University London. He is in his 16th year working for Digital/Compaq/HP. In his first 11 years he worked in services as a Senior Network Support Specialist for VMS and the last 5 years he has worked for TCP/IP engineering.

Steve Lieman

Steve has been involved with the hands-on practical uses of T4 from T4_s early beginnings five years ago. He has actively employed T4, many of its advanced features, and a host of downstream helper tools as essential ingredients of his work within VMS Engineering.

With a MS in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon, Steve has been a member of the OpenVMS Engineering Performance Group for almost 11 years and has more than 30 years of enterprise system performance management experience. Steve has been a regular speaker at the popular OpenVMS Technical updates and he has delivered seminars and hands-on workshops on practical performance management at more than two dozen locations in the U.S, Canada, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. Steve participated on the Transaction Processing Council in its formative years while it was developing and defining the TPC-C benchmark. Steve was a recipient of a best paper award from the Computer Measurement Group for his work on The Performance Audit Litany.

Steve says T4 & Friends have totally transformed his personal productivity for performance projects and he believes you will be amazed at the ways this evolving set of "run the business" practices can enhance your productivity as well

John Malmberg

John is a key member of the UNIX Portability program and a consultant on the HP port of Samba to OpenVMS. He has been programming on OpenVMS systems for 23 years and has been a member of the OpenVMS organization for 5 years. As part of the UNIX Portability program, John is also active in providing technical assistance to partners and customers porting UNIX applications to OpenVMS.

Fred Marsh

Fred spent many years in training and development of OpenVMS courses for Digital Equipment Corporation. He moved into Multivendor Systems Engineering, part of Global Solutions Engineering for Compaq and HP. He continues to be part of the MSE OpenVMS systems support team.

Brad McCusker

Brad McCusker is a senior technical architect in HPs Business Critical Servers, Transition Engineering and Consulting group, focusing on delivering architectural workshops to enterprise customers contemplating transitions to various HP platforms. Prior to this role, Brad was a longtime member of HPs OpenVMS Engineering group where he was the Project Leader for the C Run-Time Library (C RTL), responsible for leading its upgrade to meet Open Group standards and support UNIX/Linux application portability. Brads prior work in the OpenVMS Engineering group included a long history with PATHWORKS and Advanced Server Engineering. Prior to Digital/Compaq/HP, Brad spent eight years in an OpenVMS development environment, primarily for the US Navy in the field of real-time anti-submarine warfare simulation. Brad has a BS in Computer Science from the University of Lowell, and an MS in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. When not consulting with HPs enterprise customers, Brad can be found with his family on the ski slopes of Vermont where he is a member of the National Ski Patrol System.

Ann McQuaid

Ann McQuaid
General Manager, OpenVMS Division
Business Critical Servers
Hewlett-Packard Company

Ann McQuaid is the General Manager for Hewlett Packard's OpenVMS Systems Division, responsible for worldwide engineering, customer satisfaction, quality, and business management of the OpenVMS Systems product portfolio. Ann's team has ported OpenVMS to the new Integrity Servers based on the Itanium chip set and is working with key vertical and horizontal software partners to bring end-to-end solutions to mission critical OpenVMS customers.

Most recently, Ann was the Director of Engineering for the OpenVMS Division, responsible for worldwide engineering of the OpenVMS Systems product portfolio. This portfolio includes the OpenVMS Operating System, OpenVMS Cluster, OpenVMS Network Software, OpenVMS standards integration, and all other associated Hewlett-Packard OpenVMS software products. In addition, Ann managed the technical relationship between OpenVMS Engineering and Oracle Engineering.

Since joining Digital Equipment Corporation in 1981, Ann has held various management positions. Ann was the Operations Manager and Chief of Staff for the OpenVMS Division. Her responsibilities included developing and delivering operational and strategic goals for the OpenVMS organization, Out Source partner management, Oracle Relationship Management, and Executive and Strategic Communications. Prior to her chief of staff role, Ann managed the OpenVMS Product and Business Management group.

Ann has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern New Hampshire.

Jim Mehlhop

Jim has been working with VMS machines since the prototype testing in 1977. Mr. Mehlhop worked for Digital for 15 years, where he developed their Crash Dump Analysis course. He worked for PARSEC Group providing consulting and training for 7 year s. He worked for Process software for 9 years providing VMS support, as related to Multinet and TCPware. He recently rejoined Parsec to continue teaching and supporting VMS. Mr. Mehlhop has delivered many DECUS sessions over the years and the OpenVMS Crash Dump Analysis Seminar by himself and with Ruth Goldenberg.

Johan Michiels

Johan has over 23 years experience on OpenVMS. He is an OpenVMS consultant at HP in Brussels, specialized in systems management and automated operations. Johan initiated the development of CockpitMgr in the early nineties. CockpitMgr is today world-wide available from Emulators International.

Christian Moser

Ken Moreau

Ken has been with the combined HP for 27 years, starting with Digital Equipment in 1979 as an Educational Services developer of Computer Based Instructional software. Ken was with the VAX DEBUG group for 4 years, and transferred to a PreSales Solutions Architect position in 1990. Ken has focused on high availability solutions across the industry for the last 10 years, and has been an OpenVMS Ambassador since 1992.

Wayne Morrison

Wayne is the Kerberos and CDSA project Leader for OpenVMS and has led the effort to bring Secure Delivery to market.

Paul Mosteika

Paul is the OpenVMS Engineering Encryption Project Leader

Matt Muggeridge

Matt works with the TCP/IP for OpenVMS Engineering team, where he leads the development of high availability solutions (e.g. failSAFE IP) and network performance projects. Matt has authored two OpenVMS technical journal articles and presented on network related topics to customers and field support around the world. He has worked in network engineering since 1990 in both Australia and USA. His network experience covers TCP/IP, Routing Protocols, X.25, LLC2, LAPB, HDLC, ATM, Device Drivers, and more. Matt is especially interested in high-availability networks and network performance. He has also been involved with Web services and Service Oriented Architecture on OpenVMS. Matt holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Computer Systems, from the University of Queensland, and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Physics, from Queensland University of Technology

Jeff Nelson

Jeff is a project leader of the Kernel Tools Group within OpenVMS Engineering. He is responsible for the OpenVMS debugger, traceback utility, System Code Debugger, DELTA and XDELTA debuggers, and calling standard stack walk routines. Jeff has 10 years of experience with debugging technologies, is co-inventor of a patent on debugging and is co-author of a research article on debugging optimized code. Jeff has been a presenter at Boot Camp every time it has been offered and has helped numerous customers port applications to OpenVMS I64

Gary Newsted

Karen Noel

Karen is an engineer in the OpenVMS Kernel Group. She has been working on OpenVMS since 1990 and was part of the porting effort of OpenVMS to Alpha and to IPF. She also worked on 64-bit virtual addressing, very large memory support and OpenVMS Galaxy. Karen is now focused on partitioning and virtualization on IPF.

Keith Parris

Keith is a Systems/Software Engineer for HP in the Multivendor Systems Engineering group within HP Services, doing fly-and-fix work and consulting for HP customer sites with mission-critical computing needs. He has worked with OpenVMS since 1983, with OpenVMS Clusters since 1986, and is a frequent speaker at HP user group conferences. He provided telephone support at the Customer Support Center in Colorado, worked as an engineer in the VAXcluster Systems Engineering group, worked on OpenVMS Cluster code as a developer within OpenVMS Engineering, worked on RAID software within StorageWorks Engineering, and also worked for 6 years as an independent consultant, designing, implementing, and operating disaster-tolerant clusters during that time.

Guy Peleg

Guy is an engineer in the OpenVMS Utilities Group. He has been working on OpenVMS since 1997 and was part of the porting effort of OpenVMS to IPF. He also worked on LMF on IPF and EDCL. Guy is now focused on virtualization on IPF. Prior to these efforts he was an OpenVMS Ambassador focused on customer needs and communicating those needs to engineering.

Ken Randell

Ken Randell works as a contractor in the USPS Engineering Automation Support group in Merrifield, VA. He has been working with OpenVMS for about 25 years in various roles as an applications developer, systems programmer, and systems manager. He has also done development work on Novell Netware, Windows, and IBM MVS systems.

John Reagan

John is the project leader for the Macro-32, Pascal, and COBOL compilers. In addition, John is the project leader for the GNV opensource project. John has been working on OpenVMS compilers since 1983 when he joined the Pascal project. His first task was to answer one of the Pascal SPRs that he submitted as a customer.

Tom Rogers

Tom Rogers is a level 3 support engineer in the StorageWorks division at HP where he specializes in EVA performance and disaster tolerant solutions (Continuous Access EVA). Tom is a frequent presenter and workshop facilitator at HP events.

Mark Potter

Mark Potter BIO As a Vice President in the Industry-Standard Server (ISS) Business Unit at Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Mark Potter is responsible for the ISS Blades business. The ISS Blades business includes the award winning BladeSystem family of products and options. The ISS Business Unit develops and markets the industry leading ProLiant Servers, BladeSystem, and options to meet the needs of enterprise and corporate data centers, corporate remote office, service providers, and small/medium businesses.

Previously, as Director of Platform Software R&D for ISS, Potter led software strategy and R&D for the ProLiant and Blade programs for HP's highly successful industry standard server business. Since joining HP in January of 1989, Potter has been responsible for increasing ProLiant Servers leadership to support enterprise level computing in the area of systems management, high availability, fault management, and operating systems.

Prior to joining Hewlett-Packard, Potter was in the aerospace industry where he held a variety of positions. Potter earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas A&M University.

Andy Schneider

Andy is a Senior Business Manager in the OpenVMS Systems Group at Hewlett-Packard, responsible for OpenVMS Cluster Software, Storage, Volume Shadowing, Enterprise Backup and File System solutions. With 25 years of experience in the computer industry working for HP, Compaq and Digital Equipment Corp., Andy has also provided Product and Business Management for Oracle and Oracle Rdb products, as well as Engineering Management for 4th Generation Language products such as Datatrieve.

Terry Shores

Thomas Siebold

Thomas works as a technology consultant for the Transition Engineering and Consulting Group within the Business Critical Server Division. He is based in Munich, Germany and provides consulting to customers on a world-wide basis. His areas of expertise include, but are not limited to, migration from VAX to Alpha to Itanium based environments, Alpha and Itanium chip technology, high performance servers, Windows NT clustering and web enabling of OpenVMS application environments. Thomas has been with Hewlett-Packard for 27 years and has held a number of positions within the services organization, engineering and as a sales consultant.

Dick Stockdale

Dick is the OpenVMS LAN engineering teams lead engineer who's extensive knowledge of LAN

David Sullivan

Richard Thomas

Richard Thomas, Attunity, Director of Technical Support

Richard Thomas is a lead technical liaison for pre- and post-sales activities, professional services and technical support.

Mr. Thomas joined Attunity in 1988 as a Consultant in the Professional Services organization. Before that, he worked at NCR on their MRP products.

Mr. Thomas, who earned his BS in Computer Science from the University of Florida, has been supporting data access and integration initiatives in the IT community for over 20 years. Attunity's product line, Corvsion through Attunity Connect, has provided Richard with the chance to work closely with OpenVMS community. Now, he is applying his expertise managing the Attunity support team to use AIS for integration across enterprise.

Nick van der Zweep

As Director of Virtualization and Integrity Server Software for HP, Nick van der Zweep has shaped a number of ground-breaking solutions for enterprises who seek to build a flexible IT infrastructure that can keep pace with rapid business change. Thanks to his work developing HP's first-in-class HP Utility Data Center (UDC) and HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) offerings, Nick spearheads all virtualization efforts on behalf of HP Technology Solutions Group. He is also responsible for software marketing for HP Business Critical Servers, including HP-UX 11i, OpenVMS, High Availability software and the HP Virtual Server Environment.

Mr. van der Zweep draws on his strong technical, sales and marketing knowledge to build innovative solutions to IT challenges. He built the business case for usage-based pricing models, and in September 1999, introduced Instant Capacity, a first-in-class solution. Nick subsequently introduced several related groundbreaking initiatives, including HP's Pay per Use utility pricing program in July 2001 and HP's Temporary Instant Capacity in August 2002.

From 1998-2001, Mr. van der Zweep led HP's IT Consolidation program from its inception to a business generating more than half-a-billion dollars annually. Today, it remains the leading strategic and revenue-generating solution for HP's Technology Solutions Group.

During his 20 years of IT experience, Mr. van der Zweep has focused on data center optimization and on making IT a strategic differentiator for companies. Prior to HP, Nick spent 10 years working as an IT architect and Data Center Manager for the Great-West Life Assurance Company in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Nick has a Bachelors Degree and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the University of Manitoba in Canada.

Meg Watson

Meg is the project leader for Distributed NetBeans. She has been working at Digital/Compaq/HP for 15 years, where she's spent the majority of her time working on compilers and development environments. Prior to that she wrote real-time process control software for Shell Oil Company. In her spare time, she can be found on the golf course, or in the woodshop.

Dan Wilder

Dan works in the sustaining engineering group helping solve customer LAN and Network issues.

Larry Woodcome

Larry is the Hewlett Packard Company OpenVMS Networks Business Manager, responsible for providing product and partner relationship support for the HP OpenVMS network suite of products in Nashua NH. The Hewlett Packard Company is a Fortune 100 company and is a leading global provider of technology and solutions. Larry has over 20 years of experience in the high tech industry with the last 8 years spent in the operating system, system software and middleware software segment of the Hewlett Packard Company.