Speakers - By Company

Sean Burgess (ASND LLC)

An IBM Lotus Certified Advanced Developer and Systems Administrator, I have been working with Lotus Notes/Domino for over 12 years. During that time, I have worked for a number of Fortune 500 companies including Marriott International, Hewlett Packard, and The Coca-cola Company. I currently live in Laurel, Maryland USA with my wife and 4 children, all boys.

Thomas Bahn (assono)

Thomas Bahn (dual-PCLP) got addicted to Notes/Domino in 1999 after he had graduated from Hannover University with a Diploma in mathematics and had been certified as Oracle administrator. Since these dark ages he builds custom solutions for his customers primarily using the Notes/Domino platform. He likes to develop user-friendly Notes applications as much as to create interactive Domino Web apps and to integrate them with other systems like DB2, Oracle or SAP R/3. Then he lost his heart for object-oriented programming in Notes/Domino. Together with his fellow workers at assono GmbH, an IT consulting company in Germany, he has created a LotusScript framework using sound object-oriented principles and design patterns, he learned from his "other side", as he codes in Java since version 1.0. For some unknown reasons, he has been allowed (and paid) to write 3 articles for THE VIEW and has spoken at 8 technical Notes/Domino conferences so far. He is co-author of assonos blog: http://www.assono.de/blog/

Warren Elsmore (BE Systems)

Warren Elsmore is a senior architecture consultant with BE Systems Ltd.

He is an IBM Certified Advanced Systems Administrator (PCLP) and an IBM Certified Associate System Administrator – Lotus Collaborative Solutions (Quickplace & Sametime).

He has worked in the Lotus arena for 10 years and has worked at a high level on technical architecture, consultancy and technical advice to a range of large and small customers. This has been on a variety of projects from mobility solutions to web-enabled portals and from upgrades for 5000+ seat sites to database solutions to manage specific business procedures.

He has numerous industry contacts both in the UK and internationally and has spoken at many Lotus events including Lotusphere, the UK Admin Conference and both the Irish and UK User Groups. He also helps to run the UK Lotus User Group

Bob Balaban (Binary Tree, Inc. | )

Bob Balaban has been a prominent developer, article/book-writer, consultant and conference-speaker in the area of collaboration technology for many years. He worked at Lotus/Iris as a development engineer on Notes (and other, less well known products) for 10 years, had his own consulting/development company (Looseleaf Software) for 8 years, focusing on Domino, Sametime and J2EE technologies (and he wrote a book too, but you can only buy used copies now). He pioneered technology roadshows/seminars for Notes/Domino audiences, and returned to IBM in 2005, where he once more did development work on Notes and Domino. He left IBM (again!) in early 2008 to join Binary Tree as Vice President of R&D. Bob's esoteric, yet somehow engaging, whimsical and educational blog can be found at http://www.bobzblog.com. He has been known to swear like a sailor in private, though (so far, at least until ILUG) never in public. We'll see.

Paul Mooney (Bluewave Technology)

Paul Mooney is senior architect for Blue Wave Technology based in Ireland. He has been involved in IBM technologies for 11 years and hold certifications in Notes R3-ND7, not to mention Websphere, Portal Server and DB2. Paul is regarded as a world-class Administration Consultant and trouble-shooter, as well as a certified instructor. Paul has spoken at Lotusphere, DNUG, and many other events over the past two years. In addition, he contributes technical articles for LotusUserGroup.org and is the founder member of the very successful Irish Lotus User Group. Paul?s blog (www.pmooney.net) provides Domino and Websphere administration tips, as well as reviews of various technologies, mobile devices and gadgets.

Chris Miller (Connectria)

Chris Miller is the Director of Messaging and Collaboration at Connectria (a 3-time Lotus Award winner) in St. Louis, Missouri. A Domino CLI and PCLP in ND7, ND6, R5, R4 and Collaboration, Lotus Workplace certifications and recently Domino 7 Security Administrator.

Chris has been working with Domino administration since 1994, and has developed extensive experience in architecting, designing and installing all size implementations of Domino, Sametime and Workplace infrastructures. Chris' role has him continuously working with customers on new installations and upgrades globally.

He is an advisory board member for LotusUserGroup.org and a frequent author and speaker at numerous conferences including Lotusphere and THE VIEW conferences. Some say he spends all his time behind a computer, but you can also find him with his family and on the soccer field — playing or coaching.

Bruce Elgort (Elguji Software)

Bruce Elgort is the president of Elguji Software, the creators of the hugely popular IdeaJam collaboration site for the Lotus Community. His other megahits include co-founding the Lotus Notes open source community OpenNTF.org and hosting the Taking Notes Podcast with the famed Julian Robichaux. He has been working with Lotus Notes and Domino since 1993 and has consulted to some of the worlds largest Notes and Domino customers. Bruce is an exceptionally engaging and energetic speaker who has spoken at Lotusphere, Advisor Devcons, Lotusphere Comes to You and is also a frequent guest at Notes user groups across the USA. He even has a dog named Domino Designer and also loves to play and teach percussion in his spare time.

Mark Myers (Exhilarate Ltd)

A 3rd Line Support Geek poorly disguised as a Notes Developer, Mark ran into Lotus notes 11 years ago, and much to his disgust has been making his living from it ever since, normally to be found in his preferred habitat of large corporations (GE, British American Tobacco, Bank of New York, Allianz) endeavoring to deliver the fabulous to the unreasonable with the time scales of the insane, In his effort to understand all of Lotus Notes he now has graying hair, a stutter and a habit of drinking anything that is colored in an unnatural way.

Matt White (Fynn Consulting Ltd)

Matt White is an independent Domino and Java developer with over 12 years of experience in the financial services industry. Over the last year he has also been involved in the development on IdeaJam. Matt writes on his blog at 11tmr.com

Bill Buchan (HADSL)

Bill Buchan is a dual-PCLP in Domino v3, v4, v5, v6 and ND7. He's still attempting the nd8 exams. Catch up on his blog at BillBuchan.com

His company - HADSL - specialise in the Automation and Delegation of Domino, Blackberry and Active Directory Administration for Enterprise customers.

Darren Adams (IBM)

Heidi Votaw (IBM)

Heidi was part of the team that was responsible for providing the first social software offering from IBM. She currently runs the team that is responsible for the overall Lotus Connections business which includes a mixture of Product Management, Offerings Management and Program Management that is part of the Lotus Software Group within IBM. Her team provides the strategy and direction for the emerging area of Social Software. She is responsible for setting the product requirements for the technology, contributing to the overall efforts in marketing the product, being an advocate for customers / partners / ISVs, and setting future directions, to name a few. In addition to assisting customers with social software directions and solutions, she also works to help drive usage and adoption throughout the IBM Corporation. Heidi has held numerous positions at IBM from Support, Marketing and Product Management. Before leading the Social Software she was the lead Product Manager responsible for the Notes client. She was responsible for contributing to the efforts of the revamped Lotus Notes 8 client. Prior to that, she managed the entire client portfolio for Domino (iNotes Access for Microsoft Outlook, Domino Off-Line Services, Domino Web Access), setting the strategy for the initial Workplace Messaging / Workplace Client Technology / IBM Symphony offerings as well as products such as Lotus SmartSuite and Lotus FastSite. She continues to present product strategies and plans to both internal and external audiences worldwide. She has also held a variety of roles in her tenure at Lotus Development Corporation since joining the company in 1991. Heidi received her bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Regis College, Westin, Massachusetts and her master's degree in Marketing from Rivier College, Nashua, New Hampshire.

Mary Beth Raven (IBM)

Mary Beth Raven is on a mission. Her goal is to make the end users of Lotus Notes as passionate as the Notes application developers and Domino administrators are. She's on the way to accomplishing this mission with Lotus Notes 8. But she won't stop there.

Previous experience that helped her with this mission: She designed the first 5 versions of Lotus Sametime, before that managed a group of designers, and worked at several other hi-tech firms.

She's got a Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York.

Mike Roche (IBM)

Mike is chief architect for the Lotus development team in Dublin which numbers 250 developers working on Connections, Sametime, Quickr, Notes&Domino and Bluehouse. He has been with Lotus since 1989, hired by Kevin Cavanaugh as the first developer in Dublin and has worked on Notes development since release 2. He is currently leading the Connections and Quickr development teams in the lab where we have 50 developers creating the iWidget based Connections Homepage, the new Social Search features and the future of Feed Readers and Wikis for IBM products. Mike is also leading IBM's involvement in several Social Software research projects with SFI, IRCSET, UCD, NUIG, & DERI and IBM's technical partnering with other Social Software vendors. In a previous life Mike has also worked for Microsoft and Vault corp in Redmond, California and Dublin.

Alan Lepofsky (IBM Lotus)

My career in the collaboration software industry has encompassed a variety of positions on both the technical and marketing sides. I began working at IBM Canada in 1994 in Toronto, Ontario, and in 2000 relocated to Lotus headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

For over a decade I've been speaking at conferences helping educate people on the virtues of Lotus Software. My current role is part of the Lotus Strategy and Business Development team. In addition to working closely with customers and IBM Business Partners,

I also blog about Lotus Notes Hints and Tips at http://www.alanlepofsky.net

Gregory Engels (Kompurity)

Gregory Engels is the founder and CEO of Kompurity, an IBM Business Partner in Frankfurt, Germany. He has more then 13 years of experience in solution design and architecture, as well as in system consulting and integration, with a main focus on Lotus Notes infrastructure and migration projects since 1998.

Gregory is IBM Advanced Certified System Administrator and Application Developer for Lotus Notes R5-R7, is a coauthor o the new IBM Redbook "Migrating from Microsoft Exchange 2000/2003 to Lotus Notes and Domino 7" and is fluent in German, English, and Russian.

Ed Brill (Lotus)

Ed Brill is Business Unit Executive, Worldwide Lotus Notes/Domino Sales, IBM Software Group. In this position, Brill and his team are responsible for the continued worldwide success of Lotus Notes and Domino, market-leading collaborative software products. Brill works with the IBM sales organization, IBM business partners, and customers to provide insight into the Lotus strategy, product direction, and market successes. Brill leverages this in-market experience to provide counsel and direction to the Notes/Domino product and marketing organizations, ensuring constant improvement and responsiveness. During Brill's time in this role, the Lotus Notes/Domino business posted revenue growth for twelve consecutive quarters, and gained hundreds of new customers.

Kevin Pettitt (LotusGuru Consulting)

Kevin Pettitt fancies himself a senior Notes/Domino Developer and Administrator, and is an independent consultant headquartered in Washington D.C. He has been working with Lotus technologies since stumbling upon Notes 3 over 12 years ago. Prior to this happy event he spent several years in various business consulting roles, including stints in London, Dublin, and Toronto. His consulting experience has spanned a broad range of industry sectors including management consulting, accounting, investment banking, media, publishing, telecommunications, manufacturing, and government. Kevin is also an enthusiastic promoter of the Domino open source movement through his Lotus Guru blog and his work on well-regarded OpenNTF projects such as SuperNTF and Blogsphere. He has spoken at a number of technical conferences, including Lotusphere, the VIEW, and previously at ILUG.

Jamie Magee (MartinScott Consulting)

Jamie is a consultant, developer, and speaker who has been designing Notes and web apps for 14 years. His first Notes app was so slow that he spent the next 12 years learning how to make slow stuff run faster. He went from a huge consulting firm, to a small one, to starting his own ten years ago. He's the creator of the NoteMan Toolbar, WirelessMail for Domino, and one of the guys who runs MartinScott Consulting. On the side, Jamie coaches kids sports and is a captain of a national championship adult kickball team.

Nick Shelness (nick@old-mill.net )

Nick Shelness is an Independent Technology Consultant, who also serves as a Mentor at Stroma (stroma.eu), as a Senior Analyst at Ferris Research (ferris.com), and as an Associate Director of 2in10 (2in10.com). His interests spread across the entire IT and communications spectrum, with particular depth in the operating systems, data communication, messaging and collaboration field s . He has been professionally involved with these technologies since the 1970s . From 1994-2001 , Nick held a number of technical positions at Lotus Development Corp. (post its acquisition in 1995 -- an IBM company), culminating (1998-2001) as VP and CTO . From 1984 through Lotus' acquisition of Soft · Switch in 1994, Nick held a number of technical and managerial positions at Soft · Switch Inc., culminating (1991-1994) as Chief Scientist. From 1980-1984, he held a number of technical and managerial positions at the British National Oil Corporation/BritOil plc, culminating as manager of systems integration. From 1970-1980 he held a number of research and teaching positions in the University of Edinburgh, culminating as a tenured Lecturer (US equivalent Associate Professor) in the Department of Computer Science. In addition to his professional activities, Nick counts gardening as one of his major pastimes. He lives in Perthshire, Scotland with his wife Dr. Maggi Allan and a menagerie of dogs, cats, and chickens .

Ben Poole (Notable Consulting Ltd.)

Ben has been working with Lotus Notes & Domino for 13 years, and started his full-time coder life in 1998. Since the heady days of Notes formula he has branched out into advanced Lotusscript, Java, Javascript, all sorts. He started knocking together web pages (with Lynx as his test browser) way back in 1993, the nerd. Ben worked for a major global firm of accountants up until 2007, when he decided to venture out on his own. So far this seems to be working—who knew? Ben has a wife and three young boys, is blond, and likes beer.

Julian Robichaux (nsftools)

Julian Robichaux is a mad skillz Notes hax0r -- not quite as l33t as Buchan, but not nearly as llama as some of the kiddies out there. He's been kickin' down hot code on nsftools.com since 2002, and he pops out the Taking Notes podcasts with belgort. He's also shown lots of love the past few years throwing sessions at Lotusphere and View conferences, talking phat dev topics from lotusscript and java to web services.

John D. Head (PSC Group, LLC)

John D. Head is the Frameworks Manager with PSC Group, LLC, a Chicago IBM Premier Business Partner and winner of the 2005 Lotus Award for Best Competitive Win and 2007 for Best People Centric SOA Solution.

John has worked with Lotus Technologies since 1992 and specializes in desktop automation of Lotus Notes and Domino with external applications. John has spoken at Lotusphere since 1995 and other conferences on integration of Notes & Domino with Office and OpenOffice.org.

John is also a supporter of OpenNTF.org, hosting their server and Project Chef of multiple integration projects.

Thomas 'Duffbert' Duff (Regence)

Tom Duff, also known as "Duffbert", is a IBM Lotus Notes/Domino developer who started down that path back in 1995 (and was working in IT long before that... punch cards, anyone?). Along the way, he's picked up a few certifications, written a few articles, and shown up on a stage or two telling people about things related to Notes. When not creating some Notes/Domino application for work, he's usually got his nose stuck in a book or writing a review about a book he just finished over on his blog. Wife, two kids, two cats, etc., etc., etc...

Rob Novak (SNAPPS)

Rob is President of SNAPPS, whose claim to fame over the past ten years changes every time he sits down to think about it. The firm serves large global enterprises, helping out with their high-end Domino, Sametime and Quick-whatever deployments. That's business-speak for "they're not cheap". For a couple years now, the company has been the IBM Design Partner for QuickPlace and Quickr 8.0, and was engaged by IBM to develop all the templates that shipped with Quickr 8.0 in June 2007. As if being knee-deep in customers wasn't enough, Rob produces Collaboration University -- a proud sponsor of ILUG this year. So seriously, he's not very talented at all when it comes to code. He tries to make up for it with an uncanny ability to explain it on stage in real people terms...so give him a break and have a laugh. When he's not delivering speeches, he likes to travel with his lovely wife, enough anyway to come to your beautiful country for nine days so as to work for an hour and write it off! Oh and the picture...imagine a beard, really.

Rocky Oliver (TeamStudio)

Rocky Oliver is a Vice President at cool tools company Teamstudio. Before that, he was a Senior Software Engineer in product development for Lotus Software at IBM. Rocky began his "geek" life in 1992 in Lotus' Word Processing Division (WPD).

Rocky left Lotus in 1995 to work for large national consultancies, pre-IPO startups, and even founded his own company. Rocky co-authored Notes and Domino 6 Programming Bible (Wiley, 2003), Teach Yourself... LotusScript for Notes/Domino 4.6 (MIS Press, 1997) and was a contributing author for Special Edition - Using Lotus Notes and Domino R5 (Que/MacMillan Publishing, 1999).

Rocky regularly speaks on Lotus technologies at various conferences in the US and Europe.

Gabriella Davis (The Turtle Partnership)

Gabriella is Technical Director at The Turtle Partnership, an IBM BP for 12 years. Her role is high level administration and consultancy on Lotus and Blackberry products supporting customers with over 60 domains, 400 servers and 30,000 plus users. She is a IBM Advanced Administrator and Developer for v7, certified for v8 and a CLI. She has been a speaker at Lotusphere and other technical conferences in the US and Europe. When she can, she lives in London in a house stocked with 5000+ books, 14 ip addresses and 1 neglected television.

Vladilslavs Tatarlncevs (TietoEnator ALISE )

Vladislav Tatarincev Domino experience: from 1998, Domino 4.0 Certificates: Lotus DUAL PCLP 5.x, 6.x, 7.x IBM Certified Instructor LD 6.x, 7.x, 8.x Tivoli Certified Professional

Eileen Fitzgerald

Henning Kunz

Involved in Notes/Domino fulltime since 1996. Started with Development (PCLP/Advanced Certifed Developer 4,5,6,7,8) at an IBM Global Service Company. But grew up and became ADMIN very early. Since 1998 I am doing Notes Infrastructure jobs only. Deployments, Merges ,Splits, Migrations, Moves, Coexistence, Consolidation. Touching Systems from 20 to 70000 Users. Mostly Windows based, some Linux based. Other things I did and do, Search Engines, Enterprise Archive Systems. Founded SPI Integration 2002 with 4 Colleagues.

Simon Peek

Andy Porter

Andy Porter is a Senior Technology Advocate who has spent over 21 years working in the computer industry with the past 13 years being at IBM. He currently works in the Lotus Software division where he is a leading expert in Messaging, Collaboration, Unified Communications and Enterprise Social Networking. He has worked with many organisations both in the UK and Worldwide helping them to choose the most appropriate collaboration solutions for their business. He has presented and demonstrated IBM solutions at numerous industry trade shows such as The IBM Software Symposium and Lotusphere. He also regularly presents at Technology Briefings and Roadshows. Andy is a Chartered IT Professional in the British Computer Society and Certified Consulting IT Speciality in the IBM Professions. Outside of work Andy plays guitar in a band called Sideburner. He is married with one daughter and two ungrateful cats.

Charles Robinson

The outspoken, fair and objective Luddite of the crowd. I'm a relative newcomer to Lotus Notes and Domino, having started with R5 in 1999. So far I have worked with Domino on iSeries, Red Hat Linux and Windows, and specialize in custom database integration using LC LSX. All my career has been in the SMB space, and I'm very proud of that. I am an independent consultant living in Charleston, SC.

Daniele Vistalli

Since 1998 I've been in Web Development projects. Initially using the Lotus Domino and Notes Platform. Later on I begun working with other IBM technolgies like WebSphere ad WebSphere Portal in government project in Italy. Working with large scale web projects as architect made me learn to think about design in terms of the overall vision of projects as a kind of complex organism always looking for the most elegant solution that can stand time and needs for evolution. Today at I'm trying to help change the perception of Websphere Portal in the Lotus (Yellow) community. It's an hard task but somebody has to take it ;) So get to ILUG and see what's in store. In Italy I'm part of DominoPoint the Italian Lotus user group and host my own blog ( www.vistalli.it ) discussing about the use of IBM/Lotus technologies and the web in enterprise solutions.

Jennifer L. Ortiz

Jennifer Ortiz is a Global Strategic Technical Account Manager within the Global Sales group of Research In Motion, Ltd. based in the UK ( Slough ). She is responsible for assisting and supporting the high-level technical needs of her strategically named accounts – which tend to be those accounts with very large BlackBerry enterprise deployments. Jennifer supports customers running the 3 primary types of messaging platforms currently supported by RIM (IBM Lotus Domino, Novell GroupWise and Microsoft Exchange), however since the majority of her strategic accounts are running IBM Lotus Domino she often finds herself more involved with the Domino side of things. Prior to joining RIM, Jennifer’s past lives include an Architect position with UNICEF (responsible for the migration, design and overall direction of their collaboration (Domino) environment), a Project Architect/Collaboration Solutions Manager position with Technofast Consulting in both Germany and the UK (responsible for leading and managing all Collaboration Solution based projects) and various other Sr. Consultant, Consultant and Administrative roles supporting and/or working with different types of collaboration and messaging technologies.

Rob McDonagh

Rob McDonagh has been a LotusGeek since Notes 3.2 (on OS/2, baby!) and is very serious about it. That seriousness does not extend to much of anything else, however, and certainly not to Speaker Bios. When he isn't saving entire galactic civilizations, Rob enjoys moonlit walks through a gloomy cemetery, beer of the stout variety, single malts from Islay, and building killer systems with Notes and Domino. Rob has been active in the online Domino community for as long as it has existed. He has written several articles in industry publications, spoke at Lotusphere 2007 and 2008, and was even crazy enough to speak at ILUG 2007. He cheerfully admits to being terrified every time he speaks in public. So there.