• Scott Sherer - President, NaSPA

Presentations: Welcome Remarks, Vendor Introductions

Mr. Sherer, president and founder of NaSPA, began his career in information technology more than 30 years ago. He formed NaSPA in 1986 to meet the professional needs and offer support to corporate computing technical professionals. Mr. Sherer holds a bachelor’s degree from Southern Illinois University. Aside from NaSPA, Mr. Sherer holds board of director positions for six other associations, foundations and corporations in the industries of business continuity planning, information security, civil engineering, job placement in the academic arena, internet service provision and two educational scholarship foundations.

• Craig Lasseigne - Instructor, DeVry University, Chicago

Presentations: Keynote - Our Networking Evolution Toward A New Age

Craig Lasseigne is an enlivening speaker with a balanced background in business and academia. He draws on the best of both experiences to present a viewpoint that is truly unique. He is constantly up-to-date with what industries are doing in technology, innovation, and quality.

Mr. Lasseigne is currently a fulltime teacher at DeVry University (since March 2002), Chicago campus, in the Network & Communications Management (NCM), Network Systems Adminsitration (NSA), and Business Information Systems (BIS) programs. Also, on a part-time basis he is on the faculty for DeVry’s Keller Graduate School of Management, and has taught in the MBA program at DePaul University, Kellstadt Graduate School of Management, in Chicago. He develops and teaches courses in the areas of quality, technology, innovation, motivation, leadership, change management, competitive intelligence, Internet development, telecommunications, and networking. From May 2003 through December 2004, he was the Chair for the NCM and NSA programs.

In addition to his work and teaching, Craig is involved in numerous professional activities. Often, he is a guest speaker at numerous company executive or professional organization gatherings on topics such as new product development (Japan, America, and Europe perspectives), managing technology and innovation, corporate asset management, competitive intelligence, and quality business practices. He is a member of DePaul Universities' PEN Symposium, a group that reviews entreprenurial proposals looking for venture capital funding as provided by grants from the Coleman foundation. He is consulted about his perspective on current technology topics as a Member of USA Today’s technology panel. Mr. Lasseigne was inducted into Who's Who in America in 1997.

In 1993, while combining his corporate experience with his zest for education, he created and copyrighted Technology Foundation and the Industry Evolution Process: two concepts used by companies to quickly evaluate, select, and deploy new technologies and better understand the trends in their industry so they can quickly command a successful leadership role.

Mr. Lasseigne has an MBA from DePaul University, Kellstadt Graduate School of Management, in Chicago and a BS in Electronic Engineering Technology from the University of Houston.

Background: Prior to joining DeVry, Mr. Lasseigne was the Manager of the Service Development Group for Oak Brook, IL based Lakeview Technology Inc., the leading provider of availability management software solutions for the IBM AS/400.

• Brian Breest - Personal Lines Insurance Agent, Liberty Mutual Insurance

• Michael Mockenhaupt - Identity Theft Specialist, Liberty Mutual Insurance

Presentations: Identity Theft In Today's Online Environment

Brian Breest is a Personal Lines Insurance Agent for Liberty Lines Insurance Agent for Liberty Mutual Insurance out of Brookfield, Wisconsin. He has a BBA in Human Resource Management and is licensed in property, casualty, and life insurance. In his current position, Brian is responsible for presenting educational seminars to a number of employer groups, alumni associations, and professional associations. He is also responsible for consulting with clients on their personal line insurance needs.

Michael Mockenhaupt is the Midwest Regional Special Investigation Unit Claims Manager for Liberty Mutual Insurance and has over 12 years experience in investigation of insurance fraud. He has a BA in Criminal Justice, completed the National Insurance Crime Bureau Special Investigations Academy, National Insurance Crime Bureau Special Investigations Advanced Academy and the John R. Reid Interviewing and Interrogation course. He has held positions as Insurance Fraud Manager, Team Manager, Special Investigator, Field Investigator and Private Investigator. In his current position Michael is responsible for the Special Investigation Unit that investigates suspected property and casualty fraud in both auto and home insurance. Mr. Mockenhaupt is a member of the International Association of Special Investigation Units and has worked with National Insurance Crime Bureau and both State and Federal Law Enforcement in the investigation and prosecution of insurance fraud.

• Ed Anthony - Director, NaSPA

Presentations: 1. Your Personal Finances - Where Has All the Money Gone. 2. The Seven Practices of Effective Speakers

Dr. Ed Anthony, affectionately known as "Dr. Ed", has over 20 years of teaching, speaking, and training experience. His domains of expertise include information technology, organizational management, and personal development. He has held positions in operating systems programming, application programming, database administration, networking, senior IT management, consulting, and IT education, among others. Dr. Ed has earned four degrees including B.S. and M.S. degrees from Southern Connecticut State University, and a MBA in Computer & Information Sciences and Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) degree in Management Systems from the University of New Haven. His doctoral work emphasized the role of organizational mission and its relationship to customer satisfaction. He has been involved in IT training at major corporations throughout the U.S., university teaching, conference speaking, and biblical teaching at local churches. Dr. Ed is also an award-winning speaker and is a past recipient of a best of conference award for his presentation on The Seven Practices of Highly Effective Speakers. He joined the Trevecca Nazarene University Faculty in Fall, 2002 and founded the Trevecca Institute of Computer Information Technology within the Business Administration Department in January, 2003 and is its current director. His work outside of information technology emphasizes personal and organizational growth and renewal. He is also a member of the National Speakers Association. Dr. Ed owns his own company DestinysLink International that offers corporate and church teaching, consulting, and training as well as the selling and leasing of materials and curriculum that he has developed. Dr. Ed is also a member of many conference, journal, and organizational editorial boards and is the author of two books and many articles. He recognizes personal and organizational destiny are greatly influenced by others character and experience and seeks to make a difference in the organizations and lives he comes in contact with.

• Kathy Bornheimer - Owner of K.B. & Associates

Presentation: Resume review and Job Strategy

Kathy Bornheimer has over 20 years of experience in recruitment and career coaching. She spent several years recruiting in engineering before migrating to IT professionals.

Having her own business K.B. & Associates since 1992 Kathy knows what it’s like to be in continual search for new business (jobs). Her sales presentations are comparable to interviewing and marketing materials are her resumes.

As a recruiter Kathy was repeatedly involved in the hiring process with the employer and the candidate. She could be that proverbial “fly on the wall” and was privy to both sides of the issue. She witnessed the successes and failures (again from both sides) in the process.

As the Director of Career Services at Bryant & Stratton College (Milwaukee) Kathy successfully transformed that department from a traditional administrative function in Academia to a staffing agency model. Good matches between the recent graduates and students were made for the Milwaukee areas hiring needs. In 2004 Kathy transferred out of the Career Services department on the degree side of the college to the continuing education division (Professional Skills Center). During her brief tenure there she developed and implemented the Internship program for Clinical Coding and taught “Retooling for Your New Career” in course and workshop formats.

She is now putting all efforts into her business K.B. & Associates and will continue to address employment issues affecting today’s workforce and the workforce of the future. Kathy is also the author of “The Street Smart Approach to Job Search” and is the co-author of a second book that is currently in progress. Kathy continues to provide programs, seminars and workshops that are related to employment issues.

• Bill Thompson - Mainline Services, Inc.

Presentation: Front End Processor conversions to TCP/IP networking

Will has 30 years of practical experience ranging from a Computer Systems Programmer to a Data Center Director. The last 20 years have been focused in the networking/communications (LAN/WAN) arena. He is experienced in many areas concerning the technical and managerial aspects of diverse computer facilities, especially in the areas of OS/390 and various downstream platforms. An emphasis had been put on the integration of diverse network software, hardware and associated inter-platform system dependencies.

• Gary Ernst - Mainline Services, Inc.

Presentation: Cross Platform Linux

Gary A Ernst began his career in IS/IT as a console operator on MVS and VM systems. He has continued his training as the industry has evolved, first as VM system programmer and then as a MVS OS/390 systems programmer. As the Client/Server environment began to take hold, he continued his training and experience in UNIX and Ms windows. Gary's focus on the Client/Server platforms has been on Linux. First Intel, and most recently, IBM S/390 (Main Frame).

In his current position with Mainline Information Systems, Gary supports MainLine sales Staff during pre and post sales activities. He also does setup of Z/VM and Zlinux environments for MainLine software vendor Business partners. This included but is not limited to Install of Z/VM and Z/Linux, Design and implement Private IP network with firewall and NAT functions, Configure Virtual networks (Virtual OSA and Hipersockets) DNS. Postfix, Samba etc. Gary also supports MainLine Software installers in the field and MainLine Customers running Z/VM and Z/Linux.

• Sam Knutson - Curator of OS/390 CBT Shareware Archive

Presentation: OS/390 Fully Wired MVS Free Software Tools and Tips Update Reloaded

Sam Knutson is a Senior Software Engineer at ASG focused on TMON for MVS. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from DeVry Institute of Technology and has worked in IBM data processing for the last 16 years although he has enjoyed working with computers his whole life. Sam strongly believes that computer user groups and free software are essential to the continued growth of computer professionals and is active with SHARE, CMG, and the CBT Tape free software project. Sam is one of the principal volunteers with the CBT MVS Utilities Tape and runs the CBT web site, available from the NaSPA website, which is the CBT Tape Home page.

• Jim Schesvold - Author, Technical Support

Presentation: z/OS Release 4 Migration

Jim Schesvold specializes in OS/390, CICS, DB2, z/OS, and related IBM/ISV products. For the past 12 years, he has been President and owner of Best Customer Solutions, Inc., a mainframe systems consulting firm that provides technical guidance and Migration Starter Kits for the aforementioned products on its website. Jim has 17 years prior experience with IBM, specializing in technical support of database/data communications, and is the z/OS Migration Expert for Search390.com. He is a co-author of CICS Performance Guide and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (MBA from U of Wisconsin-Oshkosh). Please visit http://www.mainframehelp.com for more on Jim’s background, Best Customer Solutions, other technical articles written by Jim, Migration Starter Kits, and descriptions of field-tested Service Offerings.

• Jay Maynard

Presentation: Hercules OS/390 Emulation on PC

Jay Maynard is the project manager for the open source mainframe emulator Hercules, a job even more like herding cats than managing a systems group. He was a mainframe and networking systems programmer for 15 years, and has also worked with a wide range of Unix, AS/400, and other computing systems. He keeps the bills paid as a systems consultant, working with everything but Windows.

• Dan Nassif - VP, zSeries Solutions - Bloomington, MN

Presentation: Server Virtualization Solutions Using Linux on z Series IBM processors

Dan Nassif joined MSI Systems Integrators’ Bloomington, MN office in July 1997 with 19 years of mainframe business and engineering experience. He leads over 18 engineers, specialists and support staff focused on delivering zSeries solutions for MSI clients nationwide. Dan has a hands-on approach and diverse background which brings exceptional value to many of MSI's clients.

Recently, Dan was integral to the “Back to the Mainframe” project at First National Bank of Omaha, working with local teams to migrate critical workloads into the bank’s mainframe environment using the latest virtualization technologies and Linux enablement. He also worked with McKesson Corp.'s recent refresh of their mainframe environment in support of their business continuity and high availability initiatives. Dan holds a bachelor of business administration degree (University of Iowa), is certified in integrated resource management from APICS (American Production and Inventory Control Society) and has passed the CPA exam.

Prior to working with MSI, Dan was a business unit executive, a system engineer (SE), an SE manager, a marketing representative, and a marketing manager for IBM over a 19 year career.

Certifications:
IBM Certified Specialist - IBM eServer zSeries
Novell Certified Linux Salesperson

• Saad Yousuf

Presentation: IBM Advanced Career Education (ACE) Program

• Larry LaBuda

Presentation: Building a Better Product through JCL Automation during Application Migration. Is your Application Migration Process automatically delivering optimized and standardized JCL?

• Joe Sturonas

Presentation: Contingency Access to Encrypted Enterprise Data

Joe Sturonas was previously CTO at Premonition Software, a company focused on artificial intelligence software for decision making in complex environments. Prior to that, he was CTO at Spirian Technologies where he was responsible for technology strategy. Mr. Sturonas holds an B.S., in Systems Analysis, from Miami University and a Master's degree, in Computer Science, from DePaul University. Mr. Sturonas is currently the CTO of PKWARE.

PKWARE is the creator and continuing innovator of the ZIP standard, for data compression and security, and markets its products under the SecureZIP and PKZIP brands. PKWARE extended the ZIP file format to include the ability to add strong authentication and encryption to ZIP archives, making it possible to compress files into a "container" and also secure it through encryption and digital signing.

• Jeff Gettis

Presentation: Identity and Authentication

Jeff Gettis joined Microsoft 18 months ago as a Senior Consultant in Microsoft Consulting Services. He is responsible for helping customers deploy Identity Management and Windows Server Solutions in large Enterprises. He brings a wealth of technical knowledge and project management discipline with him as he joins the elite SPINE server team.

Prior to Microsoft, Jeff worked at Kraft Foods, where he served as Technical Leader for large scale projects. In his tenure with Kraft, he was a key player in their Windows 2000 implementation, responsible for the global integration and implementation of Active Directory. Additionally, he defined best practices around Kraft’s Information Technology Infrastructure Library and their Microsoft Operations Framework. A few of Jeff’s other technical accomplishments include design and deployment of SMS, Security, Siebel, Exchange, Windows Server and SQL Server, while at Grant Thornton, LLP and Entex Information Services, in addition to Kraft.