Microsoft Dynamics NAV Speakers

Cindy Jutras Mint Jutras, Principal

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.

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Vjekoslav Babic Consultant, Author

Vjekoslav Babić is an independent Microsoft Dynamics NAV consultant, trainer, author and blogger, with 8 years of experience in NAV and close to 15 years of experience in IT.

As a solutions architect and a project manager with a leading Microsoft Dynamics President’s Club service provider company, as a Microsoft Dynamics NAV consultant with Microsoft Services, and as an independent consultant, he has been working on Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementations ranging from tiny one-man-bands to international mega-corporations, delivering services and trainings all over the world.

In 2008, Vjekoslav co-authored the acclaimed book Implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009. Vjekoslav runs an active blog about NAV implementation, project management and development best practices at NavigateIntoSuccess.com, acts as a columnist and editorial advisory board member at MSDynamicsWorld.com, and as a columnist in a number of other web or printed periodicals in Croatia and worldwide. Vjekoslav is also a frequent conference speaker at Microsoft or Microsoft Dynamics conferences.

Since spring 2010, Vjekoslav has been awarded the prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

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Jörg A. Stryk STRYK System Improvement, Principal

Jörg A. Stryk has worked with Microsoft Dynamics NAV since 1997, version 1.20.

Being project-manager, consultant, administrator, developer or supporter on Microsoft partner-sites and NAV customer-sites, he has thoroughly explored nearly all areas of the application and its technology.

Since 2003 he is focusing on "Dynamics NAV & SQL Server Performance Optimization and Troubleshooting", founding his company "STRYK System Improvement" in 2006. As a freelance consultant, he is supporting Microsoft Dynamics partners and customers with their NAV/SQL projects worldwide.

His book "The NAV/SQL Performance Field Guide" (ISBN 978-3-8370-1442-6) is published in Europe, the United Kingdom and North America.

In recognition of his valuable participation in various NAV communities, he received the Microsoft award "Most Valuable Professional" (MVP) for MS Dynamics NAV in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Visit Jörg Stryk at www.stryk.info or his BLOG http://dynamicsuser.net/blogs/stryk/

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Mike Ehrenberg Microsoft, Technical Fellow

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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Eric Wauters iFacto Business Solutions, Partner

Eric is one of the founding partners of iFacto Business Solutions (www.ifacto.be). With his 10 years of technical expertise, he is an everyday inspiration to its development team. As development manager he continually acts upon iFacto’s technical readiness and guarantees that he and iFacto are always on top of the latest Microsoft Dynamics NAV developments.

Apart from that, Eric is also very active in Microsoft Dynamics NAV community-life where he tries to solve technical issues and thrives to share his knowledge with other Dynamics NAV enthusiasts. Surely, a lot amongst you will have read some of Eric’s posts on Mibuso.com, Dynamicsusers.net or his own blog (www.waldo.be), which he invariably signs with “waldo”. A few years ago, he co-founded the Belgian Dynamics Community, a platform for all Belgian Dynamics NAV users, consultants and partners, enabling knowledge sharing and networking. His proven track record entitled him to be awarded since 2007 as MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional).

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Rene Gayer MBS-TRAINING, Founder

Theory or Practice? This was the question Rene Gayer faced after finishing school. He decided for the practical side of things and completed a commercial education before he finally entered the world of ERP. Since 1998 his main interest has been Microsoft Dynamics® NAV ERP solution, formerly known as Navision.

Rene’s experience in this area led to the founding of his own company, MBS-TRAINING which has become the prime partner for IT-companies in Austria and Switzerland ready for Microsoft Dynamics®. As a Promoter and MVP, he also regularly delivers speeches about Microsoft and works as a lecturer at various universities of applied sciences.

In 2007, 2008, 2009 and again 2010 Rene Gayer was awarded MVP Most Valuable Professional (MVP) recognition by Microsoft® for his extensive knowledge about Microsoft® products. Active in both Online- and Offline-Communities Rene offers his expertise and competence to other Microsoft customers.

Publications/Author: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 5.0 Technical Inside incl. Reporting Service, NAV 2009 Inside, Publisher: MBST Books

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Mark Brummel BrummelDS, Dynamics NAV Consultant

Mark Brummel is an all-round Microsoft Dynamics NAV specialist.

Mark is the author of the book Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Application Design.

He started in 1997 as an end user but quickly moved to the other side of the table. During ten years he has worked for resellers where designing and maintaining add-on systems was his specialization. Some of these add-on systems exceed the standard product where it comes to size and complexity. Also coaching colleagues and troubleshooting ‘impossible' problems where passion is part of day-to-day work.

Mark has trained most of the experienced NAV developers for the NAV 2009 product in The Netherlands and Belgium. Today he is working freelance, is hired by almost every NAV reseller in the Benelux area and also frequently asked to help out in escalated implementations by end users. Mark is an associate in the Liberty Grove Software network and a freelance consultant at SQL Perform Benelux. Mark was the first world wide to use the NAV 2009 (CTP3) product in a production system feeding back valuable information to Microsoft.

When time is left, Mark maintains his blog on www.brummelds.com. This blog contains a wide range of articles about both the Microsoft Dynamics NAV and SQL Server product. He is also a frequent speaker at Microsoft events.

In 2006 Mark was rewarded by Microsoft with the Most Valuable Professional award for his contribution to the online and offline communities. In 2007 he also reviewed Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

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Greg Kaupp ArcherPoint, Principal

Greg has been implementing Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft Dynamics CRM for the better part of his career. Greg first began implementing business solutions in 1997 and hasn't looked back.

After graduating from the University of Texax at Austin, Greg spent the early part of his career in the "Big Six." After becoming a CPA, Greg left Public Accounting to become the controller of a public company. Upon the succesful completion of that first implementation in 1997, Greg decided to make a career of implementing business solutions and now he can't imagine doing anything else.

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Matt Traxinger ArcherPoint, Developer

Matt Traxinger graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005 with a B.S. in Computer Science, specializing in Human Computer Interaction and Cognitive Science. After college he took a job as an add-on developer using a language he was unfamiliar with for a product he had never heard of: Navision. It turned out to be a great decision.

In the years following Matt learned all areas of the product and earned Microsoft Certified Business Solutions Professional certifications in both technical and functional areas of NAV. He continues to stay current with new releases of the product and is certified in multiple functional and technical areas for versions 4.0, 5.0, and 2009.

Matt authored the Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 Programming Cookbook in October 2010 in an effort to teach NAV beginners the basics of the C/AL programming language and expand the .NET knowledge of more senior NAV developers. In his spare time you can find him on the online communities Mibuso.com and DynamicsUser.net under the name MattTrax, helping others learn more about the Dynamics NAV software, and contributing development solutions at www.ILoveNAV.com.

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Noah C. Moseley MSX Group, Managing Partner and Senior Consultant

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.

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Steven Renders think about IT, Trainer | Consultant | Author

Steven Renders is a Microsoft Certified Trainer with skills spanning business and technical domains. During the latest years he specialized in Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Microsoft SQL Server.

He has more than 15 years of business and technical experience. He provides training and consultancy focused on Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft SQL Server, Business Intelligence Solutions, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Database Performance Tuning.

Furthermore he is also an expert in Microsoft Dynamics 2009 on which he has already delivered many training sessions. Steven was an author of some of the official training materials on Dynamics NAV Reporting, SQL Server performance tuning and development.

Steven is the author of the book: Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009: Professional Reporting and was also a reviewer of the book: Programming Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009.

Steven has also presented at various Microsoft MSDN and TechNet evenings, conferences, communities, events and the MCT Summit.

Recently Steven started his own company, “think about IT”, which is specialized in training and consultancy, helping companies learn, implement, understand and solve complex business requirements related to IT, in Belgium and abroad.

Specialties:

  • Microsoft Dynamics NAV
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Business Intelligence & Reporting

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Thure Svane-Dupont Columbus, Senior Business Consultant and Functional Solution Architect

Thure Svane-Dupont has extensive experience in project management, general management and ERP (AX) implementations. He started working as Project Administrator for international development projects in 1988. In the 90’s he was Assistant Director in a distribution company in Denmark, and he has worked as ERP manager in a major Danish recycling company. The last 10 years he has worked for Columbus as Senior Business Consultant and Functional Solution Architect.

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Tom Totten Columbus

Tom recently joined Columbus to pioneer the BI Solutions Team. Tom and his team are devoted to helping companies find the right business intelligence solution to help your business whether it is large or small. Tom has been working with Business Intelligence for 5 years and has over 30 Business Intelligence installs.

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Sanjay Soni Microsoft, Data and BI Platform Technology Solution Professional for Greater Southeast District (FL)

Sanjay Soni is a Data and BI Platform Technology Solution Professional for Greater Southeast District (FL). He worked as the BI Platforms Evangelist in the Microsoft IT BI Engineering for 6+ years and was responsible for enabling BI to the masses at Microsoft. He is an MCDBA, MCTS and specializes in Business Intelligence using MS technologies including SSAS, SharePoint, SSRS, PerformancePoint, etc. Sanjay has presented at Tech-Ed, PASS, SQL Connections, TDWI and other events.

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