Microsoft Dynamics GP Speakers
Cindy Jutras is a widely recognized expert in analyzing the impact of enterprise applications on business performance. Utilizing over 35 years of corporate experience and specific expertise in manufacturing, supply chain, customer service and business performance management, Cindy has spent the past 5 years benchmarking the performance of software solutions in the context of the business benefits oftechnology.
Prior to founding Mint Jutras, Cindy was Vice President, Research Fellow and Group Director for the Aberdeen Group where she conducted survey-based research on ERP, suite-based enterprise applications and business performance management. During her tenure with Aberdeen she directly managed a variety of research practices including Enterprise Applications and ERP, Manufacturing, Product Innovation and Engineering, GRC and Financial Management, Strategic Service Management and Human Capital Management. In addition, she played a leadership role in developing Aberdeen research staff, methodologies and best practices.
Prior to joining AberdeenGroup, Cindy was a Senior Director at SSA Global, where she built partnerships for the purpose of collaborative business development and had been responsible for formulating and executing Pricing and Licensing strategies across eight product families and more than twenty product lines. Prior to this she was Vice President of Product Strategy for interBiz, a division of Computer Associates, where she led product direction and market planning, anticipating business requirements of manufacturing companies as economic, political and technological environments evolved worldwide. Her previous experience includes 10 years leading regional manufacturing consulting with the ASK Group, and an additional 10 years with a variety of manufacturing, consulting and software companies where she held a diversity of positions in software design and development, project and general management.
Cindy has traveled the world speaking at executive conferences on her original supply chain concept, Virtually Vertical Manufacturing. She is the author of the book ERP Optimization as well as numerous magazine articles and published white papers.
Cindy holds a Masters of Applied Science from Boston University and a BA from Merrimack College in mathematics, with concentration in physics and computer science.
Mark Polino is a Microsoft MVP for Dynamics GP and a Senior Consultant with I.B.I.S., Inc. Prior to his work with I.B.I.S., Mark was the Chief Financial Officer for Transit Television Network, Mark has been working with Dynamics GP and its predecessors since 1999. He is a Florida licensed CPA and holds an MBA from Rollins College.
Mr. Gomez is the Executive Vice-president of Middle Market Solutions at IntellPartners, LLC., a strategic management and technology consulting firm in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. Mr. Gomez is a technology professional with over 15 years of experience delivering ERP implementations and multiplatform systems integrations around Microsoft technologies for organizations across the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East in a wide variety of industries. He holds a MIS/Technology Admin from University of Phoenix, Project Management Professional (PMP), Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), BS/ Systems Engineering from Universidad Antonio Nariño.
Frank Hamelly, founder and CEO of East Coast Dynamics, is a Microsoft Certified Business Professional - GP, Microsoft Certified Trainer and Microsoft MVP. Hamelly holds certifications in Financials, Distribution, Report Writer and FRx and has over 10 years experience in Financials, Distribution, Sales Order Processing, Manufacturing, Project Accounting, Field Service and the Payroll and Human Resources series of GP. He also has project management and implementation experience with SAP, Baan, Fourth Shift, and MAS90/200.
Prior to his entry into software consulting, Hamelly held a broad range of accounting and finance positions from cost accountant to CFO in a variety of industries.
A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in Business Administration with Accounting concentration, his 20+ years industry experience includes manufacturing, aerospace, telecommunications, utilities, and professional services organizations.
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Mike Ehrenberg is a Technical Fellow working on business application architecture for the Dynamics team within the Business Division at Microsoft. He leads the work on long term product roadmap, and on driving the relationships between Dynamics and the system, platform and tools teams across Microsoft.
Ehrenberg joined Microsoft in 2003, after 25 years of business application development across banking and brokerage transaction systems, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for process manufacturing, and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) solutions. At Olivetti, he led the development of one of the first commercial banking systems for Windows. As CTO at Marcam, Ehrenberg drove the development of the first ERP product for Windows NT, deeply architected for the Microsoft platform. At Frictionless Commerce, he led the development of one of the first complete SRM solutions deployable by design either on-premise or as a service.
Ehrenberg and his family live in Seattle, and love spending time cycling, skiing, watching and playing soccer, and enjoying the world champion Boston Red Sox and their distinguished golden retriever, Lucy.
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Jivtesh Singh is a Microsoft Dynamics GP MVP, and a Microsoft Dynamics Certified Technology Specialist for GP 2010. Through his blog, which is widely read in the Dynamics GP community – he covers Dynamics GP Tips and tricks, news and walkthroughs of doing common and not so common tasks. The blog covers and highlights resources from other Microsoft Dynamics GP MVPs and experts for various GP related topics. Jivtesh has recently setup a custom search engine for Dynamics GP Blog at www.gpwindow.com to help with easier access of Dynamics GP resources for the GP Community.
Jivtesh’s Blog on Dynamics GP – www.jivtesh.com
Jivtesh’s Custom Search Engine for GP Blogs – www.gpwindow.com
Jivtesh recently built a Kinect interface to control the Microsoft Dynamics GP 2010 R2 Business Analyzer with gestures. This was covered at Channel 9, ZDNet, MSDynamicsWorld, Official GP Blog and more - Using Gestures with Business Analyzer for Dynamics GP.
Jivtesh is a Dynamics GP Consultant and Systems Implementer and has been associated with the Microsoft Technologies since the launch of Microsoft .Net framework. Jivtesh has over 10 years of experience in development and maintenance of enterprise software using coding best practices, refactoring and usage of design patterns, and Test Driven Development.
Leslie Vail is a CPA and has been working as a Microsoft Dynamics GP consultant for 17 years. She began with version 1.0 in 1993. She presents at many partner and customer technical conferences and conducts training classes throughout North America. Leslie serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Microsoft Assessments and Certification Exams (ACE) Team. She is a member of the US MCT Advisory Council and has been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 2007. In 2009 she was listed as one of the Microsoft Dynamics Top 100 Most Influential People by DynamicsWorld.
Leslie is recognized throughout the industry for her product expertise and contributions to the Dynamics community. She is the principal of ASCI, Inc., a consulting firm located in Dallas, TX. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) her training expertise spans the entire Microsoft Dynamics GP product line. She is an experienced trainer and teaches classes in Dexterity, Financials, Distribution, HR/Payroll, Integration Manager, Modifier with VBA, FRx, SQL Server Reporting Services, Report Writer, Crystal Reports, SmartList Builder, Integrated Excel Reports, Extender and System Manager.
Steve Endow is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and a Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Professional. He is the founder of Precipio Services, which provides Microsoft Dynamics GP consulting services, system integrations, customizations, and process automation for Dynamics GP partners and customers. Precipio Services works with Microsoft partners and customers to increase the efficiency of Dynamics GP, reduce costs, and help to produce competitive advantage.
Belinda Allen is originally from Georgia, and started Infoserv Accounting with her husband in 1989, which was primarily a payroll processing and booking department for small businesses in South Carolina, basically being the liaison between the customer and their CPA. In 1991, they became Great Plains Qualified Installers. Once they became a Value Added Reseller in 1992, they closed the accounting side, and focused exclusively on Great Plains. In 1998, they sold their customer base in South Carolina and moved to New York City; renaming their company to Smith & Allen Consulting. With over 20 years of experience, in a variety of businesses up and down the east coast, Belinda has a vast knowledge in GP and how people use it, earning her the nickname “Belinda, the GP CSI.”
Rubal is a Senior Dynamics GP Consultant at Smith and Allen Consulting Inc. Her roots in Microsoft based technologies go back to more than 10 years, and for the past four years she has specialized in Microsoft Dynamics GP.
She loves solving problems, writing code and helping people out. She has created multitude of Dynamics GP customizations for various Dynamics GP customers, which have significantly reduced the amount of time spent in repetitive tasks.
She maintains a popular Dynamics GP Blog at http://www.dynamicsgphelp.com, and you can find her helping people out in the Dynamics GP online communities at http://community.dynamics.com/product/gp/f/32.aspx
Tina is a Dynamics GP Consultant and Developer with Smith and Allen Consulting Inc. She is a contributing editor at www.gpwindow.com, where she covers Dynamics GP Tips, tricks and walkthroughs of customizations for GP using VS Tools, VBA, Macros, Extender and Modifier.
At her role as a GP Consultant, Tina works on Dynamics GP Systems implementations, migrations, integrations and customizations. She specializes in Dynamics GP Report development with FRx, Management Reporter, Report Writer, SRRS, Crystal Reports, Excel and SQL.
Noah Moseley is a founding partner of the MSX Group and specializes in budgeting, financial reporting and analysis software solutions. Noah has an accounting degree from Troy University and years of field experience implementing Microsoft FRx, Microsoft Forecaster and Microsoft Management Reporter for partners and clients as a Microsoft Certified consultant. His years leading consulting implementations have given Noah a broad understanding of budgeting and reporting requirements across a diverse range of industries including advertising, agriculture, aviation, government, legal, manufacturing, medical and non-profits – to list a few.
Noah actively updates users and partners on Forecaster, FRx and Management Reporter online where he manages http://boards.msxgroup.com and also teaches training classes on these same applications both online and in classroom settings. Noah passionately encourages a community-type involvement among partners, clients and application users as a means of broadening each member of the community’s understanding of the products they use in business, how best to implement those products and how to most effectively employ those products in improving their business focus and success.
Rudolf Melik is one of the four original founders of Tenrox. As CEO, he has grown the company from a start-up to a world class cloud-based project management solution provider. As the principal author of the first book written on Professional Services Automation (www.psabook.com) and his second book, The Rise of the Project Workforce, Managing People and Projects in a Flat World (www.projectworkforcebook.com), Rudolf demonstrates his extensive knowledge of project workforce management, project financial reporting and work process automation. He is also a frequent contributor to the talent on target blog which discusses project workforce management challenges.
Rudolf is the recipient of several prestigious awards such as the 2001 Technology Entrepreneur of the Year award. He holds a Bachelor's in Computer Engineering, with a minor in Management from McGill University.
Derek has over 20 years of experience in the fields of accounting, finance and business intelligence software. Prior to becoming a partner and senior consultant with the MSX Group in 2009, Derek spent 11 years consulting at FRx Software and Microsoft where he implemented financial reporting, budgeting, and business intelligence software at over 200 clients world-wide and trained over 5000 end users. In addition, Derek has a MBA education and 6 years of experience as a financial analyst and assistant controller where he gained expertise in financial accounting, GL closes, auditing, budgeting and reporting