2007 Conference Presentations

Jim brings 20 years of product development and marketing experience - focused on network and service management products for enterprise, telecom and government organizations to his role as vice president of marketing at NetScout. Previously, Jim was VP of strategic marketing at Micromuse. Prior to that, his roles included director of worldwide product marketing at Agilent Technologies, and manager of Cabletron?s SPECTRUM service provider products group. Jim has spoken at numerous events worldwide on network performance, service level management, OSS, VoIP, and IP QoS. He holds an MSc. degree in Computer and Information Sciences from RPI.

Mark Urban is the Director of Product Marketing at Packeteer. For almost five years, Mark has worked closely with major enterprise and service provider customers to identify issues with application delivery & performance over the WAN & Internet. He has spoken at industry events including Interop, Network World's IT Roadmap, IP 2006, Convergence Conference, Camp IT and numerous education events worldwide. Prior to Packeteer, Mark worked at FORE Systems/Marconi, working with the first 'application aware' Gigabit switch and a network processor spinout. Mark started life as an investment and market analyst for a private equity fund in Milwaukee, WI, and plunged into tech by taking on a 'second job' as IT manager. He learned IT management hands on and transitioned the business infrastructure to networked and internetworked systems, including networked file servers, Internet, firewalls, remote access, SecurID, etc...and never looked back.

Dr. Steve Fulton is responsible for building technology partnerships for NetQoS as well as managing the company?s long-term partnership with Cisco Systems. Previously, Steve was Director of Product Management for the company, where he managed the definition and delivery of the NetQoS Performance Center, a Web-based management platform that integrates data from NetQoS? end-to-end performance, traffic analysis, and device performance products to enable organizations to manage their network for application performance. During his six-year tenure with NetQoS, Steve also helped establish the NetQoS ReporterAnalyzer? traffic analysis product as the premier Cisco IOS® NetFlow and IPFIX reporting solution on the market. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Texas, and an MBA from the University of Texas, Austin.

David Danto has spent 29 years as the person you go to to provide problem solving leadership and innovation in media technology. David is finishing his sixth year as the Vice President of Global Multimedia Engineering for Lehman Brothers. He is in-charge of the design, implementation and operation of video and audio conferencing facilities and television and audio/visual facilities worldwide. These responsibilities would be just as likely to find him at a construction site in Hong Kong as they would reviewing the control room for the largest HD videowall in the world in Times Square. He was asked to join the firm shortly after they purchased the new Rockefeller Center building he helped design for Morgan Stanley. Prior to that, David served as the Global Director of Engineering for Bloomberg Television and Radio. It was there that he designed the systems required to produce the revolutionary Bloomberg multi-screen television format. David also designed the facilities that enabled the Charlie Rose Show to move from PBS's WNET studios to the Bloomberg offices on Park Avenue. In addition, he helped Bloomberg LP develop pioneering systems that allow broadcast television production to be completed with fewer personnel and more automation. In the early 1990?s David served as New York University?s Director of Television and Media Services. While there he designed and built America's first urban, self contained, multi-building university cable television system using microwave links to cross public rights of way. David has designed TV and Audio Visual facilities for many organizations, including AT&T, Financial News Network, MTV Networks, NBC, Rutgers University, and many more. He has also acted as Engineer in Charge for countless commercial and industrial productions. David was recently appointed as the Director of Emerging Technologies for the Interactive Multimedia & Collaborative Communications Alliance (IMCCA.org)

John P. Pironti is the Chief Information Risk Strategist at Getronics. He has designed and implemented enterprise wide electronic business solutions, information security programs, and threat and vulnerability management solutions for key customers in a range of industries, including financial services, government, hospitality, aerospace and information technology. Mr. Pironti has a number of industry certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Information Systems Security Architecture Professional and (ISSAP) and a Information Systems Security Management Professional (ISSMP). He is also a published author and writer, and a frequent speaker on electronic business and security topics at domestic and international industry conferences.

Mr. Roshan is a co-founder and Sr. Director of marketing for Agito Networks, an early stage, venture backed start up in the enterprise mobility space. Prior to founding Agito Networks, Mr. Roshan was a product line manager in Cisco Systems Wireless Networking Business Unit, responsible for software, security, voice and WLAN management. Roshan joined WNBU just after the acquisition of Aironet in 2000, helping drive Cisco's WLAN product lines into its market leadership position. Prior to his role in the Wireless Networking Business Unit, Mr. Roshan was a lead network architect for Cisco?s internal network in San Jose. Mr. Roshan and his team designed and deployed Cisco?s internal network, showcasing many industry leading Cisco technologies. Mr. Roshan?s accomplishments and extensive track record over the past 8 years include participation in the IEEE 802.11 task groups responsible for security (802.11i) and QoS (802.11e), authoring the Cisco Press book "802.11 Wireless LAN Fundamentals", and numerous wireless security and wireless voice white papers. Pejman holds a B.S. in Business Administration from California Polytechnic University.

Ms. Johnson currently serves as the Key Business Executive for the Business Support Services Department of the City of Charlotte, a position held since April 1997. As the executive, she is responsible for enterprise information technology, communications, fleet and asset management for the City, as well as procurement services for the City and the County of Mecklenburg. Prior to her employment with the City of Charlotte, Ms. Johnson served for eight years as the Information Services Director for the City of Raleigh. Her twelve years of private sector experience includes Management Information Services and Manufacturing Engineering for Data General Corporation and Industrial Engineering for General Motors Corporation. She holds a Masters in Business Administration from Wake Forest University and a Bachelors of Art in Economics and Business Management from North Carolina State University.

David Bryan is a leading expert in the area of P2PSIP. He serves as chair for the IETF P2PSIP working group and has published numerous IETF drafts, academic papers and industry trade articles on the subject. David is active in the SIP community, including heading up p2psip.org, the leading community site for P2PSIP, and is involved with SIPFoundry, the reSIProcate project, and Vovida.org. Before SIPeerior, David was co-founder and CTO of Jasomi Networks, a pioneer in the SIP Session Border Controller (SBC) market. Jasomi was sold to Ditech Communications (Nasdaq: DITC) in 2005. David previously worked for Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) and Vovida Networks. David holds bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Physics from Richard Stockton College in NJ, as well as a master's degree in Computer Science from The College of William and Mary, where he is completing his Ph.D.

Issy Ben-Shaul is a CTO in the Application Delivery Business unit. Issy joined Cisco in 2004 via the acquisition of Actona Technologies, where he was a co-founder, CTO and Vice President of Engineering. Prior to founding Actona, Dr. Ben-Shaul was a faculty member at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, where he conducted applied research on Wide-Area Distributed Systems. Prior to the Technion, he was a staff member at the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, where he developed algorithms and software for the then emerging Web-based information-retrieval and application services. Issy has published over 40 papers and holds several patents in the area of distributed software systems and engineering. He holds a B.Sc from Tel Aviv University in Mathematics and Computer Science, and M.Sc and Ph.D from Columbia University in Computer Science.

Dr. Raghu Ranganathan currently serves as Technology Director within the Office of the CTO at Ciena Corporation, where he is focused on developing solutions to help carriers and enterprises evolve their networks. In his nine years at Ciena, Dr. Ranganathan has worked extensively with the Company's research and development team, and also serves as Ciena's representative to the Metro Ethernet Forum.

As Vice President and General Manager of Avaya Global Managed Services, Mike Massey is responsible for defining and delivering the Avaya portfolio of value-added managed services around the world. Our lines of business offer companies of all sizes a continuum of managed services to drive business results for our customers by achieving maximum availability, reliability and optimal performance of an IP communications solution: from simple out-tasking of managed applications to ?Avaya On Demand? (a fully hosted and managed model) to complete outsourcing of a customers? communications environment. With more than 14 years of experience in the field of outsourcing and services, Mike has consulted with many clients to improve and innovate their vital business processes. He joined Avaya from Xerox Corporation, where he ran and scaled several businesses as a Vice President/General Manager. He has also held leadership positions in Sales, Marketing, Operations, Offer Development, and Quality. Mike earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University and a Masters of Business Administration from Indiana University

Joshua Corman serves as the host protection architect for IBM Internet Security Systems. With more than nine years of experience in security and networking software development, Corman is responsible for the technical vision and direction of host protection solutions and is regarded as the expert on technical subject matter for IBM Internet Security Systems? host protection solutions. He is currently leading an industry charge to evolve defenses against the latest generations and innovations of malicious code. Corman is also charged with strategy for Data Security and End-Point Admission Control solutions. Corman has spoken at leading industry events, including Interop New York, and has been published in journals such as Virus Bulletin. He is a coveted speaker and has presented at dozens of regional security events. Striving to educate the industry on the substantial changes to the threat landscape, he architected ISS? popular Evolving Threat education and awareness campaign ? www.iss.net\evolvingthreat\ . Corman received a bachelor?s degree in philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of New Hampshire. Corman was product manager at vCIS Technology, Inc. when IBM Internet Security Systems acquired the company in 2002 for its preemptive behavioral inspection technology.

Devabhaktuni Srikrishna (?Sri?) is founder and Chief Technology Officer of Tropos Networks. Mr. Devabhaktuni designed and developed Tropos Networks? core intellectual property to build the industry?s first wireless mesh architecture for metro-scale networks. Prior to founding Tropos, he led the development of the common network management interface for optical transport and switching products at Sycamore Networks. Areas of expertise include wireless communications, routing in large scale networks, and parallel computer architecture. Mr. Devabhaktuni holds a BS in Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and an MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ryan McCaigue, Sr. Technical Project Manager for EarthLink Municipal Networks, is currently supervising the building of wireless networks networks in Anaheim, San Francisco, and San Diego, California as well as Corpus Christi, Texas. He is personally managing the wireless network deployment for Houston, Texas. Prior to EarthLink, he established the WAZChandler presence as a partner in the WAZAlliance, which was sold to MobilePro in May 2005 and formed Neoreach, Inc. As Director of Engineering for NeoReach, he was responsible for the design, construction and operation of the Tempe, Arizona Network, the first mesh Wi-Fi network to provide border to border coverage in a municipality in the U.S. Prior to joining Neoreach, Ryan served as Dean of the Network and Communication Management and Business for DeVry University. While at DeVry, he implemented a new degree program in Network and Communications Management. He collaborated with senior management from industry leaders including Microsoft, Intel and Cox Communications to determine future technology needs, ensuring parallels between curriculum and corporate objectives. He aslo designed and built telecom infrastructure including; ATM, frame relay, VOIP and wireless technology. Ryan holds a BS in Telecommunications Management and a MA in Education from Northern Arizona University.

Blair Pleasant is President & Principal Analyst of COMMfusion LLC and a co-founder of ucstrategies.com, an industry resource on the growing UC arena. She provides consulting and market research analysis on voice/data convergence markets, applications, and technologies, aimed at helping end-user and vendor clients both strategically and tactically. Prior to COMMfusion, Ms. Pleasant was Director of Communications Analysis for The PELORUS Group, a market research and consulting firm, and President of Lower Falls Consulting. With 20 years experience, her primary areas of focus are convergence applications, including Unified Communications, Unified Messaging, the contact center, computer telephony integration (CTI), and voice processing. Blair has authored many highly acclaimed multi-client market studies and white papers, as well as custom research reports, and provides market research analysis and consulting services to both end user and vendor clients. Ms. Pleasant received a BA degree in Communications from Albany State University, and an MBA in marketing and an MS in Broadcast Administration from Boston University.

Worldwide Product Manager, Access Control Solutions ProCurve Networking by HP Kevin Porter is a Worldwide Product Manager for ProCurve Networking by HP. He is responsible for defining and marketing infrastructure security solutions with an emphasis on network access control. He is also an active participant of the Trusted Network Connect subgroup of the Trusted Computing Group Consortium. Porter has been with HP for more than 18 years. He has served in various capacities, including marketing manager, R&D project manager and software engineer. He was a principal member of the team that launched network traffic monitoring solutions that formed the basis for sFlow traffic sampling technology used by many network vendors today. Porter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from California State University at Chico. About ProCurve Networking by HP The ProCurve Networking business unit of HP delivers enterprise networking solutions comprising wired and wireless LAN and WAN networking products, services and solutions. Recognizing the necessary migration of intelligence and functionality to the network edge, the ProCurve Adaptive EDGE Architecture strategy is the industry's only comprehensive and inclusive network design strategy that is adaptable, scalable and completely interoperable for achieving command from the center with control to the network edge. ProCurve was positioned in the challenger quadrant in research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc.'s 2004 Magic Quadrant Report for Global Campus LANs. Further information on ProCurve networking solutions and products is available at www.procurve.com.

Ed Horst, Vice President Product Strategy Mr. Horst has more than twenty years of experience in planning, marketing and developing distributed systems, management frameworks and development tools. He was the vice president of Marketing at OnKilter, a strategy execution software vendor, and Provato, an electronic contract management solution provider that was acquired by I-Many. Previously, he was a founding member of the marketing team at Forte and held various engineering and product management positions at Ingres. In addition to his work at leading software companies, Mr. Horst served for several years an IT Director for Atlas Die, a Midwestern manufacturing firm, where he was an early implementer of several early-stage technologies, including CAD applications, relational databases and wide area networking systems. Mr. Horst has participated in several panel discussions and many speaking opportunities, both within the United States and abroad, including several joint seminars with Forrester and Gartner analyst firms; user group meetings for IBM, Oracle, Forte and Sun; and industry exhibitions. Ed has spoken at numerous industry events including the SOA Leader?s Forum, XML Web Services One, Interop New York 2006 and dozens of live webcasts on the subject of SOA. Mr. Horst is currently scheduled to speak at SD West 2007 and STAREAST 2007.

As Director of Enabling Technology for KPMG LLP, Kenneth Shea is responsible for Application architecture; middleware integration services as well middleware platform support services. As a Member of the ITS Standards and Architecture Committee, he aids in technology planning, architecture, and standards. In addition, Mr. Shea represents the US in global matters of application architecture and strategy. Mr. Shea joined KPMG LLP in 2001 as a Director of Technical Architecture before becoming Director of Enabling Technology in 2003. Mr. Shea has more than 20 years of IT management experience in a variety of industries. Before joining KPMG LLP, he was Vice President and CIO for CIT responsible for corporate systems. In addition, he held various IT leadership positions within the software consulting industry. Mr. Shea holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from the Fordham University and a Dual Master of Business Administration from Seton Hall.

Paul Lipton is Senior Architect specializing in SOA and Web services in the Wily Technology Division of CA. He has served in CA?s Office of the CTO as a Technology Strategist, and has been an architect and developer of enterprise systems for over 20 years. Mr. Lipton has also participated in many standards organizations such as OASIS and W3C, is a founding member of the CA Council for Technical Excellence, a Microsoft MVP, and a Sun Java Champion. Paul is a highly sought-after author and speaker, and has shared his knowledge with appreciative audiences around the world covering such topics as Enterprise Architecture, SOA, Web services, management/security, governance, Java, .NET, EAI, and utility computing.

Eric Siegel, a Senior Analyst at the Burton Group, covers web and network performance optimization, measurement, management, service level agreements, and QoS. He has been a member of the Internet community since 1978 and is the author of "Designing Quality of Service Solutions for the Enterprise" (John Wiley & Sons) and "Practical Service Level Management: Delivering High-Quality Web-Based Services" (John McConnell with Eric Siegel; Cisco Press). He also teaches Internet performance measurement and management at major industry conferences. Before joining Burton Group, Mr. Siegel was the Principal Internet Consultant at Keynote Systems, "the Internet Performance Authority," and he was a Senior Network Analyst at NetReference, Inc., where he specialized in network architectural design for Fortune 100 companies. Previously, he was a Senior Network Architect with Tandem Computers and was the technical leader and coordinator for all of Tandem's data communications specialists worldwide. Mr. Siegel also worked for Network Strategies, Inc. and for the MITRE Corporation, specializing in computer network design and performance evaluation. Mr. Siegel received his B.S. and M.Engr. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and was elected to the Electrical Engineering honor society.

Eric A. Latalladi, CISSP, ISSMP, ISSAP, CHS-3 Eric Latalladi has been at J.B.Hanauer & Co. since 2000, and currently serves as Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, as well as acting Chief Information Security Officer. Eric began his career in technology at the helm of various startups during the ?90s tech boom, followed by holding several CXO positions at network services and development companies. In 1998, he acquired a permanent position at General Motors, where he served as Vice President, Senior Network Architect. His current responsibilities include directing the helpdesk, telecommunications, data communications, desktop infrastructure, server infrastructure, budgeting and corporate information security teams. Mr. Latalladi has appeared in numerous articles and publications related to corporate information security, cost reduction, network attached storage and server and desktop consolidation and infrastructure. His speaking engagements include panels on email security, virus management, security outsourcing, storage consolidation, business continuity, infrastructure standardization, e-voting, regulation, and managed security services. He has shared panels with companies such as HP, Compaq, APC, Dell, EMC, Thomson, Internet Security Systems, Yankee Group, Gartner, Frost and Sullivan, and most recently presented to the exclusive CIO Forum Cruise regarding SB1386 regulation. Mr. Latalladi also serves on the board of directors for the Wall Street Technology Association. J.B. Hanauer is a seventy-five year old independent brokerage firm with over $10 billion in assets, catering to high net worth investors. In addition to wealth management, J.B. Hanauer offers bonds, mutual funds, and insurance to their clients. JBH is headquartered in Parsippany, NJ, with branch offices in Philadelphia, West Palm Beach, Tampa, and Hallandale Beach, FL.

Manfred Arndt is the Convergence Architect and a Distinguished Technologist for ProCurve Networking by HP. He is responsible for specifying and architecting IP telephony and multimedia capabilities in ProCurve?s network equipment and network management applications. He also participates in the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and IEEE subcommittees, helping defining networking and telecommunications standards and is a co-author of the ANSI/TIA-1057 (LLDP-MED) specification.

Jeff Abramowitz is the vice president of marketing for Azimuth Systems. Jeff has 20 years of experience in the wireless industry; the last 11 years have been marketing Wi-Fi systems and semiconductors. Jeff joined Azimuth from Broadcom where he was the senior director of marketing responsible for their Wi-Fi marketing and business. Jeff also served in senior marketing positions at Intersil, No Wires Needed (acquired by Intersil) and 3Com. In 1996, Jeff founded the Wireless LAN Association (WLANA) and served as its first president. He also helped found the Wi-Fi Alliance.

Mr. Barr is responsible for the development and implementation of networking solutions including Storage Extension offers targeted to large and medium enterprises. Stephen has worked 18 years in the Storage, Data and Telecom industries. His experiences have offered a unique blend of knowledge relevant to solving today?s challenges in transporting large amounts of data over distance while ensuring high security and application performance. Stephen previously held positions at Ciena as Director of Carrier Partner Business Development, Senior Manager of Solutions Marketing and Optical Networks Product Marketing. Prior to joining Ciena, Stephen was responsible for the development and marketing of several Nortel Data and Optical solutions including Optical Ethernet, RPR over SONET, VDSL, FTTX and telecom switching. Mr. Barr holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.