All Decisions Fall 2011 Speakers

Sandor Schellenberg is the owner and founder of friendlyITsolutions, which mainly focuses on Microsoft Dynamics CRM and related software in the Microsoft stack. He is a Senior Microsoft Dynamics CRM Consultant/Solution Architect and is specialized in data migration & integration. In autumn 2009 his work was recognised and rewarded with an invitation to Scribe Software MVP Program.

His roots in Microsoft-based Internet technologies go back more than fourteen years, and since 2005 he has specialized in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Starting with his first guest post on the blog of Menno te Koppele, he decided to start his own blog, Friendly Microsoft CRM Monster, a blog with a wink. The blog is widely read in the Dynamics CRM community and focused mainly on Microsoft Dynamics CRM technical and integration/migration topics.

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.

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.

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.

Dick Wenning has studied Computer Science in the Netherlands. Since completing his education he has developed software for the medical, local government and telecom industries. Dick started working in 2001 for Navision Netherlands where he was giving technical trainings and managing escalations at partner support. He became member of the localization team of Dynamics AX when Navision became part of Microsoft. His career continued for a short period at Watermark before he began working for Crimsonwing Promentum where he’s now part of skilled team responsible for ramping up Partners on Dynamics AX. Dick specializes on performance and integration with Dynamics AX and he’s asked frequently to consult with partners and also Microsoft in Europe.
Dick is also member of the AX 6 Beta program.

In his spare time, Dick is running his blog axstart.spaces.live.com and is a frequent speaker on technical seminars in Western Europe. This commitment has been recognized and rewarded by Microsoft with the MVP award. Dick is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) for Dynamics AX development and installation.

Beside these activities on AX, Dick is married with Inge and has 2 kids, Marleen and Ruben. Dick is also a regular chess and tennis player, and you can challenge him on playchess.com.

Guy Riddle is a CRM Solution Architect for eSavvy (www.esavvy.com.au). Before joining eSavvy, Guy led the CRM product strategy for Praxa Limited (the Australian subsidiary of CDC Software) and prior to that founded Snapdragon Consulting, one of the first Microsoft CRM Consulting practices in Australia.

Guy has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, including more than 12 years in CRM. He has been working with Microsoft CRM since October 2002. He established and runs the Microsoft CRM User Group in Sydney. He is a Microsoft CRM Certified Professional, a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and was awarded the prestigious CRM MVP status 5 years in a row.

Guy has worked on many Microsoft CRM projects and regularly works with Microsoft directly to assist with sales and technical training for both Microsoft personnel and partners.

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.

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).

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.”

Anne Stanton is a long time advocate and passionate supporter of Microsoft Dynamics CRM. She has worn the hat of SMB CRM Consultant, Dynamics CRM Partner and Enterprise user and has experience working with Microsoft Dynamics CRM since 2004, starting with Microsoft Dynamics CRM v1.2.

Anne has twenty years of business and technology experience always focused on leveraging the latest applications for the highest efficiencies in business. She has an under graduate degree from University of Illinois in Computer Science and a graduate degree in Business Administration and Accounting from University of Phoenix mixing technology, finance and business best practices.

Anne has been a speaker at numerous conferences and is the author of numerous articles and two blogs, the CRM Lady blog at http://www.crmlady.com and the Intermingling Outlooks on Technology and Business blog at http://executiveblogging.blogs.com/

Andrew Snook is the President of Fastpath Solutions, a leader in compliance solutions for mid-market companies. Andrew has been working with Dynamics since 1999, and has assisted with compliance projects at over 100 companies that use Dynamics. Andrew is certified in Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SAP, and has been a speaker at several conferences including Microsoft Convergence. Prior to his work at Fastpath, Andrew was a GP implementation consultant and worked on the management consulting team at Ernst & Young. Andrew graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Economics and Computer Applications.

Alex started programming when he was 10 years old on a Commodore 64, and then on an Amiga 500. Prior to joining PowerObjects as CIO, Alex spent 10 years with Fortune 500 Corporation General Mills where he held various IT management and leadership positions. With a wealth of knowledge and skills in application and infrastructure architecture and design, Alex’s primary role is to provide the day to day technical direction and leadership for PowerObjects development, cloud infrastructure and support teams. Alex also has a high interested in infrastructure security and has both a CISSP and CISA certification. Alex was awarded MVP for Dynamics CRM in 2010.

Rick McCutcheon is the creator of the Full Contact Selling System. He is a much sought after speaker, consultant and writer on the subject of Managing Customer, Prospect and Partner Relationships. Rick has been involved with the CRM Industry since 1990 as a Company Founder, Senior Executive, Reseller, Board Member, Educator, Consultant and Professional Speaker.

He draws on his 18 years of real world experience working on CRM Projects with clients ranging from the SMB Marketplace to Major International Corporations. His stories are “real-world.” His style is “uniquely appealing” and “tremendously credible”.

Presently:

• Leads a Sales Productivity and CRM Consultancy Practice based on his Full Contact Selling (FCS) Methodology. FCS is the only program that fully integrates the three key areas of sales productivity: 1) proven business processes; 2) development of people skills and 3) the best practice use of CRM and Social Networking Technologies.
• Facilitates Sales and CRM Best Practices workshops and webinars for leading Corporations and Associations including Microsoft Corporation, the Dynamics CRM User Group, University of Toronto Rotman Centre for CRM Excellence.
• Chairman of the Canadian Chapter of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM User Group.
• Keynote Speaker and Thought Leader on the subject of Sales Productivity and CRM. Represented by several leading Professional Speaking Agencies.
• Contributed to the book - Sales Gurus Speak Out - with the chapter titled "Power Up Your Sales with Technology"

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.

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.

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.

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

As Vice President of Sales, Lou is responsible for leading the company’s global sales efforts; including the execution of Scribe’s direct and indirect channel sales initiatives, as well as Scribe’s cloud platform sales strategies.

Prior to joining Scribe in 2005, Antonucci served for over 25 years in leadership positions in channel development, channel sales, and direct sales, with Avnet/Hall-Mark, Hewlett-Packard, and most recently ManagedOps and Surebridge, who were acquired by NaviSite. In his director of channels role at ManagedOps, his leadership resulted in Microsoft ASP of the Year and Microsoft ASP Excellence Awards. As director of North American channel sales at NaviSite, his extensive channel sales experience resulted in the development of a robust sales channel, and triple-digit sales performance for NaviSite’s Microsoft Dynamics Channel Sales team.

A veteran Dynamics AX and NAV implementer, Christian has over 100 implementations under his belt, including his first at the age of 14. As the Director in Charge of ColumbusRetail, Columbus’ Retail practice, Christian works with clients to understand their challenges and goals so that he can provide solutions tailored to meet each client’s unique requirements.

Originally from Denmark, and now based out of Columbus' Costa Mesa office, Christian, has been an avid soccer player and fan for 30 years. He enjoys coaching his son’s team and spending time with his family in his spare time.

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.

Reuben Krippner has been working in the CRM software industry for over 12 years. He has been involved with Microsoft Dynamics CRM since the 1.2 release. He joined Microsoft in December 2004 as the first Microsoft consultant for Dynamics CRM in the UK (although he is a proud Australian!). In 2006 he took on responsibility for sales and technical readiness for the UK partner channel. In 2008 he relocated to Redmond to work on the Microsoft Dynamics CRM product team as a senior product planning manager. Reuben works with the CRM research & development organization to shape the future of Microsoft Dynamics CRM.