2005 Network Professional Association Awards for Professionalism

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2005 Network Professional Association Awards
for Professionalism
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A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors
INTEROP LAS VEGAS

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What is the NPA

• The decade-old NPA is the non-profit association
  for professionals in Network Computing. The NPA
  sets itself apart by adherence to a Code Of
  Ethics,  self-regulation, and vendor neutrality.
  The NPA focus is to promote professionalism by
  supporting and building the individual and our
  profession.

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Please welcome Chris Henley, Microsoft
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Judges
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Dirk A. D. Smith

• Mr. Smith is President and Founder of Alexander
  LAN, Inc. (founded 1991) which specializes in
  automated system management and recovery software
  for servers and desktops. He is also a founding
  partner in Cyber SPK, LLC, a US Air Force defense
  contractor developing Cyber Defense technology.

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Tyler Wang

• Eustace Tyler Wang, President and founder of
  Computer Network Synoptic, has extensive
  experience in Network Communication
  and Information Security industry.  He has
  traveled well over 108 cities across U.S. and
  overseas training users on LAN / WAN connectivity
  and Information Security.  Prior to founding
  Computer Network Synoptic, He Consults for Xerox,
  EDS, Hughes Aircraft, and Lucent Technologies. 
  He has recently performed Network
  Vulnerability Assessment for MGM-Mirage
  Corporation in Las Vegas and The Las Vegas Metro
  Police Department.  Eustace Tyler Wang
  is a Certified System Engineer for Microsoft,
  Novell, CheckPoint Firewalls and Sonicwall
  Firewall.   

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Dan Lewis

• Dan Lewis has worked for Avaya and it's former
  entities,  Lucent Technologies ATT, for almost
  10 years.  His roles have included Territory
  Manager, New Business Development Manager, and
  Account Executive.  Prior to working in the
  Communications industry,  he worked for a Novell
  distributor in Carlsbad (Vitek/GBC Technologies),
  providing Novell networking solutions training
  to integrators throughout Northern California. 
  He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from
  Virginia Tech in Decision Support Systems and
  currently resides in San Diego California.

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Teri Sanders

• Teri Sanders has worked as a storage consultant
  in the Information Technology industry for 9
  years, providing data backup and storage
  solutions to IT professionals through a value
  added reseller organization. She is currently
  employed with Stonefly Networks in San Diego
  marketing cost-effective data protection and
  management solutions based on IP SANs for
  departments, workgroups and mid-tier
  organizations through the StoneFly Business
  Advantage solutions suite.

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Ross Chevalier

• Mr. Chevalier is Chief Technology Officer and CIO
  of Novell Canada Ltd. Mr. Chevalier has been in
  the networking and professional services
  industries for over twenty years in a variety of
  positions. Prior to joining Novell, Mr.
  Chevalier worked with large scale systems
  integrators in various senior management roles.
  Mr. Chevalier is an oft quoted industry authority
  on a variety of information services topics
  including Identity Management, Linux and Open
  Source and Operational Effectiveness. Mr.
  Chevalier writes a regular public column entitled
  "What I See - a CTO's Rant". In his private
  life, Mr. Chevalier enjoys motorcycling, teaching
  and collecting guitars.

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Awards For Professionalism
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• The Network Professional Association has chosen
  this venue to recognize individuals for their
  contributions to the industry. All of these
  winners live the vision of the NPA daily They
  are Advocates for the International Network
  Computing Professional

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Best Network Professional Career Achievement Award
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• This award reflects an individuals
  professionalism and work ethics in the network
  computing community.

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Nominees
Scott Bostic Steve Carter Brice Clark Paul
Congdon Rand Morimoto Ted Thompson Stephen
Walther Daniel Wygant
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Scott Bostic

• President of the Dayton Area NPA more than 15
  years of dedicated service to the community and
  industry providing mentoring and continuing
  leadership Senior contributor to Brown-Macaulay.

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Steve Carter

• 2003 Novell Distinguished Engineer Led the
  development of the award-winning WordPerfect
  InForms product Chaired the DOD E2300 Electronic
  Forms Industry Steering Group past CTO of the
  Collaboration Division influencing IETF
  specifications and coauthored RFC 2518 (WebDAV)
  Lead architect of all Volera products, SIM
  architect for the Nsure product team Holder of
  13 patents with several pending.

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Brice Clark

• Global director of strategy and business planning
  for ProCurve Networking by HP 33 year veteran
  Originated the concept of Ethernet on unshielded
  twisted pair (UTP) Member of WINForum for
  wireless communications Founder of EIA TR 41.8
  Founder of the SNIA IP Storage Forum Early
  leader in establishing the 100Mbps Fast Ethernet
  standard.

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Paul Congdon

• HP Fellow and Chief Technical Officer for
  ProCurve Networking by HP 20 year veteran
  Holder of seven patents related to networking
  Vice Chairman of the IEEE 802.1 committee and
  Technical Advisor for the IETF Radius Extensions
  Working Group Co-inventor of the commonly used
  TCP checksum offload engines for high-speed
  network interfaces.

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Rand Morimoto

• President and CEO of Convergent Computing Best
  selling author 25 year industry veteran
  Advisor to the White House on Cyber-Security and
  Cyber-Terrorism Vice-Chairman of the Board for
  the NASA and Smithsonian Institute affiliate
  Chabot Space and Science Center Board member for
  the IIE/Fulbright Scholars organization.

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Ted Thompson

• Response Technology Manager, American Red Cross,
  San Diego/Imperial Counties Chapter 10-year
  veteran of San Diego Sheriffs Department
  Underwater Search and Recovery (USAR) Dive Team
  US Army veteran Former programmer/developer for
  Washington Inventory Service.

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Stephen Walther

• Principal behind AspWorkshops.com Best selling
  author Microsoft MVP INETA Speakers Bureau
  member Microsoft Software Legend Lead developer
  of the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit.

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Daniel Wygant

• Senior Software Consultant with Trideum who is a
  founding Board Member of Culminis.com and was
  awarded MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable
  Professional) status for Windows Customer
  Experience for the third year in a row for work
  with Microsoft and the local Windows community.

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The Winner Is

• Rand Morimoto

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Professional Excellence and Innovation Awards

• Corporate Fortune X
• Corporate Small Business
• Education
• Independent Network Contractor

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• There are five categories in which five leaders
  are recognized on their involvement and
  performance in a project, which benefited the
  networking technology industry, and took place
  within the past 12 months.

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Nominees

• Sean Curry Corporate Fortune X
• Manager, Infrastructure Engineering, Calpine
  Corporation
• Monica Sagrario Corporate Fortune X
• Project Manager, Iditarod Systems
• Bob Kraus Corporate Small Business
• Network Services/PC Repair Supervisor, Washington
  Inventory Service (WIS), San Diego California.
• Kenneth A Poorman Education
• Campus College Chair, Information Systems and
  Technology, University of Phoenix San Diego
  Campus
• Laura Chappell Independent Network Contractor
• Founder, Sr. Protocol Analyst, Protocol Analysis
  Institute, LLC

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The Corporate Fortune X Winner is

• Sean Curry

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Sean Curry

• Manager, Infrastructure Engineering, Calpine
  Corporation
• Answering the corporate challenge to reduce
  expenses, Calpines Communication Engineering
  team developed and implemented a Wide Area
  Network (WAN) Optimization project that slashed
  operating costs by 75, saving several million
  dollars per year. This communication network is
  used 24x7x365 to help Calpine generate, deliver
  and liquidate its megawatts of electricity.
  Therefore, the cost reductions could not
  compromise network performance, availability or
  reliability. Using forethought, creativity, and
  innovation, the team was not only successful in
  doing this, but they boosted network performance
  by 250!

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The Corporate Small Business Winner is

• Bob Kraus

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Bob Kraus

• Bob was nominated for the successful planning,
  organization and implementation of a roll out of
  Windows XP to the WIS  proprietary inventory PCs.
   This was accomplished with minimum disruption to
  our critical core business.  It included
  implementation of an integrated PC software
  recovery process using the Ghost product this
  program allows the field in place recovery of the
  current PC build.  This saves shipping and repair
  time formerly used to fix software only problems.
   Bob coordinated this effort with the over 130
  WIS field offices with over 700 inventory
  machines.  

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The Education Winner is

• Kenneth A Poorman

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Kenneth A Poorman

• Kenneth A Poorman is the Head of the College of
  Information Science and Technology for the San
  Diego Campus of the University of Phoenix. As
  such he is responsible for the quality in the
  classroom. He maintains the high level of
  quality by the hiring and selection of additions
  to the faculty, continual review of faculty
  performance and when necessary additional
  training and or motivation to current faculty to
  remain outstanding.

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The Independent Network Contractor Winner is

• Laura A. Chappell

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Laura A. Chappell

• In 2005, Ms. Chappell announced and presented the
  first train-the-leader course on Internet Safety
  for Children. Through this program, PAI hopes to
  raise awareness of internet-based threats,
  predator tactics and protective steps to
  audiences who will deliver the provided
  information on a local and regional basis. For
  additional information on the Internet Safety for
  Children Program, visit http//www.packet-level.co
  m/kids or contact Brenda Czech bczech_at_packet-level
  .com.

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Thank You for Attending the Network Professional
Association Awards for Professionalism