J. Peter Bruzzese
Over the past 10 years Mr. Bruzzese has worked for everyone from Goldman Sachs to Microsoft. He specializes in corporate training and has had the privilege of working with some of the top names in the business of Computer Education. During the 90's, Peter focused specifically on Certification Training (holding at the time certifications from Microsoft as an MCSE for 4.0 and an MCT, as well as A+, Network+, iNet+ from Comptia, and CNA from Novell and CCNA from Cisco). With the introduction of Windows 2000, he became one of the foremost speakers on the subject of Active Directory and Exchange. He wrote several articles for a variety of magazines and has co-authored upwards of 10 different titles ranging from Directory Services to Enterprise Storage Solutions. He has spoken on the Techmentor Conference circuit, as well. Currently an MCSE for 2003, he is working on Office 2007 titles that will soon be on the bookshelves and just completed the book Tricks of the Vista Masters".

Jeff Hicks
Jeffery Hicks, MCSE,MCSA,MCT, is a Scripting Guru for SAPIEN Technologies. He is the co-author of Advanced VBScript for Microsoft Windows Administrators (Microsoft Press 2006), Windows PowerShell:TFM (SAPIEN Press 2006) as well as several training videos on administrative scripting. He is currently a columnist for Redmond magazine and MCPMag.com. Jeff is a frequent contributor to several online IT community web sites as well as an invited speaker at computer conferences and seminars. He is currently a Contributing Editor for ScriptingAnswers.com. He welcomes email at jhicks@SAPIEN.com or visit his blog at http://jdhitsolutions.blogspot.com.

D. Britton Johnston
D. Britton Johnston, Product Unit Manager, Data Programmability Tools, Microsoft Corporation

Britt is responsible for defining the data access strategy for the Microsoft Windows platform primarily through the SQL Server product line, the .NET Framework and Visual Studio.  Britt is responsible for the ADO.NET, XML Tools and data access technologies that support SQL Server such as ODBC, OLEDB and JDBC.  Prior to joining Microsoft, Britt was CTO at Progress Software Corporation and was General Manager of the PeerDirect Distributed Enterprise product line that pioneered Occasionally Connected Computing (OCC) through the use of Database replication integrated with p2p networks.  Johnston co-founded NuSphere Corporation, a pioneer in the open source database marketplace with MySQL and PHP, creating the first commercially supported LAMP stack for Windows in the late 90’s.  Johnston was Director of Database Development at Progress Software Corporation in the 90’s where he redesigned the storage engine for the Progress RDBMS.  In the 80’s Johnston worked on Rdb database cluster technology and RdbStar which pioneered portable database and distributed query technology at Digital Equipment Corporation.

Don Jones
Don Jones is the owner of ScriptingAnswers.com, a contributing editor to Redmond magazine, and a columnist on CertCities.com and MCPMag.com. Don has written more than a dozen information technology books, including "Managing Windows with VBScript and WMI" (Addison-Wesley). Don is also an independent technology consultant, with a focus on security and automation in Microsoft-centric environments.

Rhonda Layfield
Rhonda Layfield began her network support career in 1982 serving in the US Navy, where she worked for 7 years in communications with a top secret clearance. Since then, she has spent her time alternating between consulting (including a network support role at Microsoft in PSS Networking) and training (currently teaching MCSE bootcamps). Some of her clients include Dow Jones, the US Airforce, the US Army, IBM, Bank of America, Duke Energy, Wachovia, Bell Atlantic, and EDS. She is currently an NT/ 2000/2003 MCSE, MCSE:Security, and MCT.

Todd Logan
Todd Logan, MCSE, MCSA, MCDST, CWNA, Security+, is a Windows Server Technology Specialist for Microsoft. Todd was a technical trainer for ten years prior to joining Microsoft. He is a published author on topics relating to Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, and wireless technologies. He also created a series of certification videos for CBT Nuggets, Inc.

David Lowe
David Lowe is Senior Product Manager for Windows Server with Microsoft Corporation. In this role, he manages worldwide evaluation and deployment programs for Windows Server 2008. David has been with Microsoft since 2001, and in this time he has also been Senior Product Manager for Security and IT Professional portfolios with Microsoft Learning. Prior to joining Microsoft, David was Senior Lecturer in Internet Technologies at the Centre for Advanced Technology Training in Dublin, Ireland, where he specialized in Web development and XML. David holds a Bachelor of Science degree from University College, Dublin, and he is the author of "BizTalk Server: The Complete Reference", published by Osborne-McGraw Hill.

Bruce Mackenzie-Low
Bruce Mackenzie-Low, MCSE/MCSA is a master consultant at HP providing 3rd level worldwide support on Microsoft Windows based products including Clusters and Crash Dump Analysis. With over 18 years of computing experience at Digital, Compaq and HP, Bruce is a well known resource for resolving highly complex problems involving clusters, SAN’s, networking and internals. He has taught extensively throughout his career always leaving his audience energized with his enthusiasm for technology.

Chris McCain
Chris McCain, CEO of the National IT Training and Certification Institute (NITTCI), is a six year veteran of the IT training and consulting field. Chris has worked with a variety of Microsoft feature and products like Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, PKI, and IPSec. His work has helped him develop a specialization in architecting secure Microsoft networks on platforms like Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows Vista. In addition Chris has experience in training and deploying core server products like MSQL Server, Sharepoint, Virtual Server 2005, and VMware Virtual Infrastructre 3. Chris has co-authored national publications, authored content for Microsoft Learning, and been a portion of the brainshare behind the coming www.GetYourNerdOn.com web resource.

Derek Melber
Derek Melber, MCSE, MVP, CISM, is an independent speaker and contractor that specializes in Windows Group Policy, Active Directory, security, and desktop management. As President of BrainCore.Net, Derek provides custom training and consulting on his specializations, as well as for auditing security of Windows networks. Derek has authored over 15 books, including The Group Policy Guide (MSPress) and 4 books on Auditing Windows Security (The IIA). Bring Derek directly to you at derekm@braincore.net.

Dave Mendlen
Dave Mendlen, Director of Visual Studio Product Management, Microsoft Corporation Dave Mendlen is the Director of Visual Studio Product Management and is responsible for the marketing of developer tools at Microsoft. Prior to this role, he served as the speech writer for Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. In his time at Microsoft, he was the Director of Web Services Strategy in the Developer Platform and Evangelism division at Microsoft responsible for driving Web services excitement and standards across the industry. Recently, he was the Director of Windows Product Management responsible for the marketing of Windows XP Home, Pro, Tablet PC and Windows XP Media Center Edition. He started at Microsoft in Developer Division and served as the lead product planner on .NET and Visual Studio .NET driving a team to bring Web services and .NET to millions of developers.

Mark Minasi
Mark Minasi, MCSE is author of Mastering Windows Server 2003 , the latest in a series of books on Microsoft networking that have sold over a million copies. He has been a columnist for several industry magazines. Mark is a frequent conference keynote and breakout speaker and regularly garners those conferences' highest attendee evaluation scores. He recently won CertCities.Com's "Favorite Technical Author" reader poll for the third year running. (www.minasi.com)

Beth Quinlan
Beth Quinlan MCT, MCSE, MCSA, CISSP, is a trainer/consultant who has specialized in Microsoft infrastructure technologies and security design for over 12 years. Beth is currently in her 4th worldwide tour on behalf of Microsoft Product Teams in which she trains internal Microsoft engineers, partners and customers on ISA Server 2004, Antigen, Exchange Hosted Services and RMS. Beth has spoken at events for Microsoft and others, written courseware for a variety of clients, developed hands-on labs for Microsoft and recently authored ISA Server 2006 Reviewer's Guide.

Bruce Rougeau
Bruce Rougeau, MCSE, MCP+I, MCT, Citrix Certified MetaFrame Administrator, began designing and implementing a three-tier architecture for an automated medical record system in April 1998. The most recent thin client implementation was deployed using Citrix's WinFrame utilizing 1,000 Windows-based terminals and fewer than 20 PCs. Currently he works for EDS as an infrastructure architect focusing on networks, Web servers, thin client computing and 32-way Intel Data Center solutions.

Greg Shields
Greg Shields, MCSE: Security, CCEA, is a principal consultant with 3t Systems in Denver, Colorado, www.3tsystems.com.  With more than 10 years of experience in information technology, Greg has developed extensive experience in systems administration, engineering, and architecture. Greg is a contributing editor for both Redmond magazine and MCPmag.com, authoring two regular columns along with numerous feature articles, webcasts, and white papers. He is also the resident editor for Realtime Publishers’ Windows Server Community at www.realtime-windowsserver.com.  Greg is currently finishing his new book Windows 2008:  What’s New, What’s Changed through SAPIEN Press.