All Decisions 2010 Speakers

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.

Cindy Colonna is the President and Cofounder of Team Technology, Inc. Team Technology, Inc., founded in 1997, has been providing recruiting, staffing and consulting services specializing in Information Technology to Charlotte, NC and surrounding areas, as well as providing implementation, customization and support services for Supply Chain, Distribution, Manufacturing Business Software for over 8 years.

Cindy is an information technology professional with over 20 years experience in the computer industry. Cindy is responsible for the management of Team Technology’s technical resources, for project management, and for tactical and strategic planning for the company.

Cindy has served on a US Congressional Appropriation “Strategies for Success” Advisory Committee, a joint venture between the University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) and Johnson C. Smith University(JCSU). She has served on various committees for the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce in a volunteer capacity over the past 10 years, and has worked closely with Microsoft in creating Charlotte’s first .NET Users group.

Prior to the creation of Team Technology, Cindy held a long career with Sealand Shipping, a 5 billion dollar International Shipping Company. Her responsibilities included managing a 1.2 million dollar budget for the Corporate Sales & Marketing systems, full project life cycle on a Sales Force Automation project including implementation on over 250 laptops worldwide, and support, maintenance and enhancement of the company’s McCormick & Dodge accounting system."

Scott Priestley is the President and founder of Lionshare Software, Inc., an ERP and CRM consulting practice based near Raleigh, NC. With more than 20 years experience in Information Technology, Mr. Priestley is an active member of the Society for Information Management and Project Management International.

Mr. Priestley’s background includes extensive ERP software selection, ERP consulting and ERP implementation project management with such companies as Microsoft, Toyoda and Chrysler. He has called upon his more than 20 years experience to develop Lionshare’s proprietary methodologies and tools for streamlining and improving ERP and CRM product selection, vendor evaluation and project management.

A diverse set of skills and experiences allow him to be successful in a variety of markets and cultures. Communication skills, both written and verbal, are excellent and Mr. Priestley is frequently called upon to deliver presentations at user groups and annual conferences across the United States.

Doug Haynie is subject matter expert and a former Microsoft employee with 100s of successful implementations in almost every industry. He is certified in FRx, Forecaster and PerformancePoint Server. The holds a degree in Accounting, an MBA and is Certified Management Accountant (CMA). He has taught and presented on BI and CPM topics to a wide variety of audiences.

Matthew Wittemann is the Chief Operating Officer of North Carolina (USA) based C5 Insight, a CRM and SharePoint consultancy that has been helping companies improve their use of technology in sales, marketing and service since 2001. A four-time Microsoft MVP award recipient, Matthew is a frequent contributor to CRM industry publications and user communities. He is the author of the ICU-MSCRM blog, a website dedicated to Microsoft Dynamics CRM, for which he was recently ranked 22nd among the top 100 most influential figures in the Microsoft Dynamics industry. With a diverse background in web technologies, he has led the development of numerous complex and award-winning CRM deployments, and has recently turned much of his focus towards using Microsoft CRM and SharePoint technologies as a rapid application development platform.

Bojan leads the IT department of Delta Sport, an international company focusing on retail and wholesale in sports (three times best distributor by Nike), fashion and HoReCa. He and his team earned three ICT awards in the last three years (Serbian Software Engineers Plaque and 2x Discobulos ICT Award).

He is very passionate about Dynamics AX, on which his magistrate thesis was about, and is now writing his PhD. Delta Sport is a Dynamics AX pioneer in Serbia and was one of first to perform upgrade from Axapta 3 to Dynamics AX 2009 which Microsoft acknowledged as one of best projects in 37 countries in CEE and made a video case study about it.
Bojan is a strong proponent of agile software development. He is the founder of Scrum User Group – Serbia and has trained more than 120 people in Scrum. He is a Microsoft MVP for Dynamics AX and in the past earned certificates in Dynamics AX, .NET and Scrum.

Jennifer began her tenure with Bottomline in 2005, first joining the corporate payments team as a regional sales executive. Since then she has won progressive sales leadership roles with the company, culminating in her current position leading both the direct and channel sales teams for Bottomline’s Corporate Solutions Group including the company’s payments, documents and invoice automation portfolio of products. Jennifer’s growing base of knowledge in the Document Process Automation (DPA) market specifically has supported significant growth in the Microsoft Dynamics market, today including more than 60 successful customer implementations and more than 25 strategic ISV partners. In addition to her sales and partner development tasks, Jen continues to serve as a key resource for customer solutions consultancy, business development, and training. Prior to joining Bottomline, Jennifer served as a hardware and software sales manager with PC Connection, as well as a regional sales manager at Apogent Technologies (now ThermoFisher) for three of their subsidiaries. Jennifer has been a frequent and highly-rated presenter at Dynamics-focused conferences, educational forums and Web events, including the annual AXUG Summit, NAVUG Forum, Microsoft Convergence and numerous regional AX user groups.

Mike Gillis is Senior Vice President of Hitachi Consulting’s Microsoft Global Alliance. In this role Mike is responsible for overall client satisfaction, employee development, and welfare for all Microsoft Global Projects. Mike has worked with Microsoft and its technologies and people for 20 years during which Mike enjoyed success founding and developing several successful Microsoft technology-based companies. Mike is a tireless advocate of the client value created by Hitachi’s partnership with Microsoft. Delivering unparalleled value with end-to-end industry solutions based on Microsoft technologies that includes industry focus, software industry domain expertise, and proven tier-one people.

Mike and his fellow founding partners Greg Carter, Gary Peterson, and Mark Veronda joined Hitachi Consulting in 2007 as part of the acquisition of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Iteration2. - Iteration2 was well-recognized as the fastest growing and most successful Microsoft Dynamics Partner with credentials that include being 2-time Microsoft U.S. Partner of the Year, Microsoft’s Global Dynamics AX Partner of the Year and winning dozens of Microsoft Regional Partner Awards. Mike serves on several Microsoft Partner advisory councils, including the Microsoft Dynamics US Partner Advisory Council, the Microsoft Convergence Partner Advisory Council, and the Microsoft ISV Partner Advisory Council.

Last year in New Orleans Mike was honored by Microsoft with the Eagle Award and was the initial inductee into the Microsoft Dynamics Partner Advisory Council Hall of Fame, which recognizes an individual’s outstanding contributions to the Microsoft Dynamics partner channel.

Since joining Hitachi Consulting, Mike and all key management from Iteration2 continue to succeed and flourish with Hitachi. A testament both to Mike’s leadership and to Hitachi’s expertise in acquiring and integrating companies. Mike lives and works in Irvine, California with his wife Maribeth and their two daughters Madison and Hailey.

Dan Griffin, Director of Professional Services, Gulf States, CustomerEffective.com, a Microsoft Dynamics CRM partner.

Mr. Griffin has wide-ranging experience with account management, team management, best practices consulting, and project management for companies of varying sizes to include small businesses to large enterprise companies such as IBM, Disney, Time Warner, Harland Financial Solutions and Taylor Bean and Whitaker. He is responsible for providing discipline and process improvement for the business consultants of his delivery team as well as managing their professional development growth. His strengths include: extensive project management, engagement leadership, sales and operations support, system design and implementation, requirements analysis, business process re-engineering, strong oral and written communication skills. He is able to put ideas into actions, motivate diverse workgroups, and consistently drive projects to completion.

Mr. Griffin is a senior consultant with over 10 years experience in technology consulting focusing on CRM technologies and CRM business strategies. His application experience includes Microsoft CRM, Siebel, Salesforce.com, Clarify and many boutique applications.

Julie Yack is a Microsoft Dynamics CRM MVP, CRM Certified Professional, Microsoft Small Business Specialist and a Certified Scrum Master. Additionally Julie has earned both her Bachelors of Science in Business Management and Master of Business Administration degrees. Julie has served as system administrator, project manager, customizer and trainer for several Microsoft Dynamics CRM implementations. Additionally, Julie has a strong background in requirements gathering, a deep understanding of the users’ needs and writing help documentation. She has written and edited several whitepapers on Dynamics CRM.

As a speaker at Microsoft’s Convergence 2010 event, Julie’s sessions were among the highest attended CRM sessions and received outstanding scores from attendee evaluations. She has played an instrumental role in developing Microsoft’s content for ISV training on Dynamics CRM 2011.

Julie has been a vital part of several large scale publications. She served as Editor and Publisher for (X)CRM as a Rapid Development Platform, Silverlight 3 Jumpstart and Silverlight 4 Jumpstart. She was a contributing Author for Voices for Change: Women's Words to Politicians. Julie was the Technical Editor for Wiley's The IT Girls Guide to Becoming an Excel Diva. She is honored to have been named by WEMagazine as one of the 101 Women Bloggers to Watch in 2009.

As the Director of Membership for INETA North America, Julie oversees hundreds .NET focused user groups in North America. She is the co-founder and leader of xRMVirtual, the largest developer-focused CRM user group. Additionally, Julie is one of the founders of SouthColorado.NET, a user group focused on improving the knowledge base of .NET developers.

Julie attends many events and conferences for the technology and business leaders’ arena. She is a key advisor to several Colorado schools, from high schools to entire districts and universities and helps to guide them in their technology in education decisions to help prepare the next generation of technologists.

You can follow Julie on her blog at www.julieyack.com .

Holding a degree in quantum physics and an MBA, Leon's passion is "solving business problems through intelligent use of technology". Leon has worked with various CRM systems for over 12 years including Dynamics CRM since it was released as a beta version.

Leon is a Microsoft CRM MVP, one of four in Australia and 40 in the world and is part of the Technology Adopter Program (TAP) for the next version of Dynamics CRM, CRM 2011.

Guy Weismantel is a global marketing director with Microsoft Corp. in the Microsoft Dynamics ERP Division, where he is responsible for the company’s product marketing and messaging and the positioning of its enterprise resource planning portfolio of products.

Before joining Microsoft, Weismantel was a senior director of Corporate Marketing with Business Objects, where he was responsible for the company’s performance management marketing operations. He has also held leadership positions at Manugistics Inc.; The Vista Technology Group, a leading provider of CRM solutions to the retail and consumer package goods markets; and Baxter Healthcare Corp. and its subsequent spinoff of Caremark International Inc., where he was the manager of Corporate Finance in the company’s internal audit department.

Weismantel is a member of the American Marketing Association, and is a CPA in the state of Illinois. He has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Eric is one of the founding partners of iFacto Business Solutions. 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. What started out as a personal knowledge base became one of the most popular blogs in the Microsoft Dynamics NAV communities: www.waldo.be.

Doug Bertram is a Regional Manager with Metafile Information Systems, Inc. Bertram is responsible for identifying opportunities to improve operational efficiencies for clients in the Midwest and Western regions. Chief among Metafile’s solutions is its signature MetaViewer document management solution, which automates workflow and boosts transparency, accountability and visibility in accounts payable, accounts receivable and human resources departments.

Bertram has 15 years experience in the document management space in his current position at Metafile and as the owner of a regional document solutions provider. Bertram holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Carlson School of Management.

Henrik has worked in the IT services industry since 1994 for both service providers as well as end user customers. His career has focused on ERP solutions, primarily with Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft XAL (formerly CONCORDE XAL), progressing from systems development towards business consulting and management related tasks. In 2004 Henrik became a Dynamics AX product manager for Logica where he worked mainly with product strategy, presales, solution architecture and developed an expertise with Microsoft server products and data warehouse design. In 2008 he became the Vice President of IT at Fritz Hansen before returning to Logica in 2010 where he is now responsible for their European Microsoft presales team.

Henrik has numerous MS Dynamics certifications including MCP, Trade and Logistics, MS Dynamics AX 4.0; MCP, Finance, MS Dynamics AX 4.0; MS Dynamics AX 3.0 Installation and Configuration Master; MS Dynamics AX 4.0 Application Master; MCP, Installation and Configuration, MS Dynamics AX 3.0; and MCP, Projects, MS Dynamics AX 3.0.

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 almost 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.”

Michael D. Johnson II co-founded Straight Arrow Consulting, Inc., a Microsoft Dynamics Consultancy, in 2009 after spending more than 5 years as the Chief Information Officer and Vice President of International Operations at Gibson Guitar Corp. in Nashville, TN. Michael has been implementing Dynamics GP and its predecessor solutions since 1997 as a consultant and corporate IT executive. His specialties include Supply Chain Management, Warehousing/Distribution, and Field Service Management. He holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Accounting from the University of Kentucky and a MBA from Vanderbilt University.

Tony is North American Vice President for Zap, a BI vendor that won Microsoft’s 2009 Independent Software Vendor/Software Solutions Innovation Partner of the Year award for its out-of-the-box BI solutions that are Certified for Microsoft Dynamics. Tony has worked with many Dynamics customers and partners on BI projects and has seen the pros and cons of different approaches.