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Matt Garvin
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Matt Garvin is an Event Coordinator and brings five years of event support and logistics experience to Tech Field Day for Gestalt IT. When not at work, Matt is probably playing some sort of game: most commonly board games, video games, or sports. Matt is also a Dad of 3, Cleveland sports enthusiast, and wannabe movie buff. Check out his super boring twitter at @MrMattGarvin.
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Phil is currently the senior network security engineer at a pharmaceutical company in upstate New York. Before working in internal IT, he worked for Cisco partners where he honed his skills and developed a love for continuing education. Phil also teaches Cisco networking and Windows Server courses at a local community college and has a passion for helping others become better engineers. Follow him on Twitter @network_phil and read his blog at www.networkphil.com
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Data networking professional since 1999, Jason Gintert started in the dial-up ISP world and spent time in the telecommunications service provider space for many of those years. Jason is Co-founder & CTO ofย WAN Dynamics, a managed and professional services firm focused on assisting companies to adapt to modern cloud connectivity models, and is also Co-founder & President of theย Ohio Networking User Groupย and Technical Steering & Marketing Committee member of theย Ohio IX.ย
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I am a full-time Sr. Network Solutions Architect for a leading Value Added Reseller in Austin, TX. My career in the IT industry has been on the customer side stretching over 20 years primarily in the enterprise space; financial, biomedical, and high tech sectors. Working at a VAR has been a wonderful experience as I get to work with the great people, help customers resolve their network issues, and prepare them for exciting new technologies.
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Vice President and Practice Lead, Semiconductors for Futurum Group
Thom Greene
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Thom Greene is a cloud architect with over 14 years of experience designing and operating enterprise solutions. He specializes in assisting customers solve complex problems around workload migration, performance optimization, and capacity planning. His experience spans from Small Businesses to Fortune 50 corporations. Thom is a frequent contributor to vBrownbag as host and presenter and believes in training the next generation of technicians and contributors through mentorship. He has been recognized as a VMware vExpert and holds many vendor certifications from VMware, Microsoft, and Amazon. Thom blogs about technology at ThomTalksTech.com
Dave Greenfield
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Chris Grundemann is a passionate, creative technologist and a strong believer in technology's power to aid in the betterment of humankind. In his current role as Managing Director at Grundemann Technology Solutions he is expressing that passion by helping technology businesses grow and by helping any business grow with technology. Chris has been using technology, marketing, and strategy to build businesses and non-profit organizations for two decades. He holds 8 patents in network technology and is the author of two books, an IETF RFC, a personal weblog, and various other industry papers, articles, and posts. Chris is the lead research analyst for all networking and security topics at GigaOm and co-host of Utilizing AI the Enterprise AI podcast. He is also a co-founder and Vice President of IX-Denver and Chair of the Open-IX Marketing committee. Chris often speaks at conferences, NOGs, and NOFs the world over. Chris is currently based in West Texas and can be reached via Twitter at @ChrisGrundemann
