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WorkTamer Conference 2010: Speakers

Please note: we are currently in the process of selecting speakers and sessions for Toronto and Montreal.

Call for Speakers OPEN for Toronto and Montreal

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Brian Moran
	Mr. Moran has 19 years of data management and data architecture experience and has personally helped more than 100 customers design, build and implement highly scalable and performant SQL Server environments. Mr. Moran has been a prominent leader in the Microsoft community since becoming a Microsoft Certified Professional 17 years ago. His community roots start with co-founding the Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group (NOVASQL) in 1994 and serving as its President for 13 years. Mr. Moran served two years on the inaugural PASS Board of Directors. He was one of the world's first SQL Server Most Valuable Professionals, serving for 13 years. Mr. Moran is an editor and columnist for SQL Server Magazine, was the Content Chair for SQL Server Connections for seven years, and is currently the SQL Server Content Chair for the SharePoint and SQL Server Best Practices Conference. Mr. Moran co-founded Solid Quality Mentors (SolidQ) in 2002 and has been proud to see the company grow to include more than 100 of the world's top Microsoft experts delivering solutions and education to more than 1000 customers around the world. His role as Managing Director is an exciting mix of technology, executive leadership, and strategic vision. In addition to other duties, Mr. Moran heads SolidQ's relational database technology business unit within the United States.
Brent Ozar
	Brent is a SQL Server Domain Expert with Quest Software. Brent has a decade of broad IT experience, performing SQL Server database administration, systems administration, SAN administration, virtualization administration, and project management. In his current role, Brent specializes in performance tuning, virtual and cloud-based database servers, and disaster recovery. Previously, Brent spent 2 years at Southern Wine & Spirits, a Miami-based wine & spirits distributor. Brent has experience conducting training sessions, has written several technical articles, and blogs prolifically at http://www.BrentOzar.com.
Craig Borysowich
	Craig Borysowich is currently running his own company that provides consulting and services that enhance the performance of the extended enterprise using Web-based technologies to streamline business processes, reduce costs, improve customer loyalty and accelerate time-to-market in the rapidly growing digital economy. He is focused on the design, implementation and management of solutions for Internet commerce, supply chain management, settlement, client relationship management and many other industry-specific offerings. Craig Borysowich has over 20 years of Technology Consulting experience with both public and private sector clients, including ten years in Project Leadership roles. Craig has extensive background in working with large scale, high-profile systems integration and development projects that span throughout a customer's organization. He has extensive background in designing robust solutions that bring together multiple platforms from Intel to Unix to Mainframe technologies with the Internet.
Denise McInerney
	Denise McInerney has over twelve years experience as a SQL Server DBA. Denise's focus is design and performance tuning of OLTP databases that support web-based applications. In her current role at Intuit she is responsible for the database systems that support one of the company's leading e-commerce sites. Denise is an MCDBA and an MCTS in SQL Server 2005. Denise has been an active volunteer in the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) for over five years. Denise founded the PASS Women in Technology Virtual Chapter and currently serves as its co-chairperson.
Donald Belcham
Picture pending.	Donald Belcham is a senior software developer, independent contractor, and agile development expert who is a strong supporter of fundamental OO patterns and practices. He is co-author of the book, "Brownfield Application Development in .NET" (Manning Press, 2009), and actively shares his expertise with other technical professionals at user groups, code camps and conferences held throughout out the world. Past lectures have covered topics that encompass development practices, quality team leadership, and the intricacies of new and emerging technologies. In addition to acting as a mentor and keynote speaker, Donald has led a wide range of highly successful projects and developed top-performing teams for a variety of companies. Since 2007, he has been awarded the Microsoft MVP Award in C# and is a member of the JetBrains Acadamy. Donald is a founding member and the current president of the Edmonton .NET User Group. You can access Donald Belcham's thoughts on software development, .NET and C# through his various lectures, keynote presentations and at his outspoken technical blog: www.igloocoder.com.
John Johnstone
	John Johnstone is a graduate of Saint Mary's University, Bachelor of Commerce, Corporate Finance and has 10 years of experience with the Federal Government with four departments. During this time John has gain both ground level experience as a Coast Guard Officer and regulatory and policy development experience with Transport Canada. Combining these experiences, Now with Public Works, John is a key contact for small and medium businesses that want to supply goods and services to the federal government. John provides information on how to navigate the federal procurement system through a variety of seminars as well as follow up sessions with individual businesses to help ensure a fair and transparent federal procurement system.
Michael Lato
	Michael Lato has more than 10 years of experience consulting on various database systems with a special focus in the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) field. Michael's roles have included project manager, system designer and trainer. He is currently the senior SQL Server consultant for DataTamer.