10-28-2010 TechExecs Seattle IT Leadership Forums

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Technology Expo & IT Leadership Forums
Thursday, October 28, 2010
11:30 am - 1:30 pm 

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Thursday, October 28, 2010
from 11:30 am ~ 1:30 pm

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The Columbia Tower Club
Columbia Center, 701 5th Avenue - Suite 7600
Seattle, WA 98104
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AGENDA   

    Time:     11:30am ~ 1:30pm

11:30am ~ 11:45am   --  Check-In  |  Executives Networking  |  Lunch is Served

11:45am ~ 11:50am  --  Chapter Chairs Welcome

11:50am ~ 12:05pm  --  "Latency is the Achilles Heel of Cloud Computing"
                                            Featured Presenter:  Amar Khan, Vice President, Product Management, Internap

12:05pm ~ 12:20pm  --  "CIO Update: Thinking Beyond Virtual"
                                            Physical Security Information Management
                                            Featured Presenter: David Fowler, SVP, VidSys

12:20pm ~ 12:35pm  --  "Virtualizing your WLAN infrastructure and why you should consider it"
                                            Featured Presenter: Barbara Stuter, Bluesocket

12:35pm ~ 1:25pm    --  CIO Panel - Topic: "What's Impacting the CIOs Office: Social, Cloud, Mobile"

      Thought Leadership Panel:

          Moderator:   John Poli, Sr. VP & CIO, Washington Dental

          Joseph Wolfgram, IT Director | Overlake Hospital

          David Wu, CIO |  Point B

          Ernie Hood, Former VP of IT at Group Health Cooperative

          Katy Hewitson, the Community Manager | Yelp.com

         
 1:25pm ~                    -- Drawings| Conclusion | Feedback Forum | More Executives Networking

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

PANELISTS


Joseph Wolfgram, IT Director
Overlake Hospital

Joseph is the Technology Director for Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue, WA. Joseph’s tenure in IT dates back to the mid-1980’s working such roles as Programmer Analyst, System Architect, Network Engineer, Program Manager, Help Desk Director, and CIO. Joseph also has 12 years of service within Higher Education, including 6 years as IT Director for the University of Washington School of Medicine. Other career highlights include founding a software company in 1991, as well as establishing and directing the IT organization for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a $35B charitable organization based in Seattle. Most recently Joseph has led healthcare projects in network infrastructure replacement, constructing and virtualizing medical-grade data centers, and integration of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for clinical workflow improvements.

Ernie Hood, Former VP of IT
Group Health Cooperative

Ernie Hood former VP of IT at Group Health Cooperative, one of the nation’s largest consumer-governed health care systems. He has worked in information services for 30 years and the health care industry for 19 years.  In his role as CIO, he successfully implemented leading-edge technology solutions that increased the quality of care, improved patient outcomes, and lowered costs. His focus has been to seamlessly integrate information technology with the work and goals of the organization. Group Health is well known for one shining example of this approach, its leading-edge patient portal, MyGroupHealth, which was one of the first to enable patients to email their doctor and get their lab results online. Patients also use this website to order their prescriptions, make appointments, and even view their medical records. Connecting these features to the normal practice of medicine helped Group Health to earn a JD Powers Award in 2008 and 2010 and to become one of the most highly rated health plans in the country.

As a consumer governed organization, Group Health has eagerly embraced the Lean movement in Health Care. Hood, seeing this as a perfect fit with his strategy to seamlessly integrate technology in the processes of the organization, was among the first to apply these techniques to information services.

In 2010, Hood took on a new mission to encourage the effective use and integration of information technology throughout the Health Care industry. To that end he has taken on new roles in the Washington State Health Care community to enable the adaption of electronic medical records and the exchange of health information so that medical records can be available wherever the patient seeks care. He plans to apply the same concept of seamless technology and process integration in his new roles with WIREC, the lead organization for enabling the adoption of electronic medical records in Washington and Idaho and with OneHealthPort, the organization designated by the State to enable health information exchange.

Education has been a passion for Hood who has been a lecturer in the Health Information Management Program at Bellevue College since 2009 and has supported education and knowledge sharing through the Washington chapter of the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Hood has served on the Board of HIMSS Washington since 2005 and was elected president in 2010.

He is a graduate of the University of California and holds an M.B.A from the University of Houston.

David Wu, CIO
Point B

David currently serves in the Chief Information Officer role at Point B, where he has Firmwide responsibility for strategy, implementation and operations in the Information Technology and Facilities areas. David joined Point B in 1997 as a Senior Associate and has served clients in the healthcare, telecommunications, high-tech and distribution industries. His projects have included web program management, interim IT leadership, knowledge management, portal and collaboration solutions and IT infrastructure. Prior to joining Point B, David spent several years at Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting). He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. David enjoys spending his free time with his family and playing in local volleyball leagues. 

Katy Hewitson
Community Manager, Seattle
Yelp.com

Katy Hewitson, originally a native of the Bay Area in California, moved to Seattle 4 years ago to work in the marketing department for a local board game company. After graduating from college at Sonoma State University with a degree in Sociology, she found herself working and living in Seattle, almost 1000 miles from home. Not knowing much about the city of Seattle, she found Yelp.com! Reading and writing reviews about her experiences really helped her to familiarize herself with this beautiful city. Before long she was a Yelp Elite member attending all sorts of cool social gatherings and meeting other local people. Although many people think of Yelp as a business review site, it's so much more than that! There'a a strong social networking aspect to the site that allows people to connect with each other both on and offline. An opportunity arose for Katy to apply for the position of Yelp Community Manager in Seattle... and here she is, planning events, working with local media, communicating with business owners, and encouraging online users to meet offline and shop, eat, and buy local!

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Amar Khan
Vice President, Product Management

Amar Khan currently serves as a leader in Internap’s IP Services Business as Vice President of Product Management, a role in which he is responsible for P&L, as well as sustaining and growing the business value proposition for the company’s flagship Performance IP™ and CDN product lines while also leading development of emerging products. 

Khan has an extensive background in technology management at various levels of the telecom industry including previous roles as a Systems Engineer at Nortel Networks and Product Line Manager at JDSU (formerly JDS Uniphase), a global leader in optical communications components where he led the Receiver product line.  Khan was also a product manager for Frame Relay Services at Sprint, where he was a key member of a team supporting an $800M product line.

Khan graduated with honors with a Bachelors degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.  He also graduated with honors while earning his M.B.A. from Emory University.

David Fower
Senior Vice President
VidSys

David Fowler is currently Senior Vice President at VidSys, the leading provider of Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) software that allows organizations to pro-actively resolve business and security situations in real time.  David is a veteran of the software industry, with over 30 years of industry and senior management experience in marketing, product management and development, business development, and sales. Prior to VidSys, he was the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Pragmatech software.  David was also EVP of marketing, products, channels sales, and business development for Groove Networks which was acquired by Microsoft.  David has held other senior management positions at Kana Software, Silknet, Sun Microsystems, FTP Software, Chipcom, Wang Labs and Gradient Technologies.  

David is on the board of the Physical Security Interoperability Alliance (PSIA) and is a frequent speaker on the topic of physical and logical security convergence as well as physical security information management.  He has recently spoken at numerous tradeshows including RSA, ISC West, GovSec and TechSec.  He holds an MBA from New York University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and has been an advisor and board member to a number of early stage companies.

Barbara Stuter
Regional Manager
Bluesocket
Barbra Stuter is currently the Western Regional Manager for Bluesocket Inc., covering the Western US and Canada.  Barbra has a broad range of domestic and international experience in engineering management, multichannel product distribution, sales and marketing in both start-up and growth organizations.  The bulk of her 20+ year career was spent at Hewlett-Packard’s ProCurve Networking Division where she held various engineering management and solutions marketing positions.  On the educational speaking circuit for many years as a networking technology evangelist, she also was instrumental in developing ProCurve’s strategic technology partner program.  Exceptional at building new business, securing customer loyalty and forging strong relationships with external partners, she has also held business development positions at a number of information technology/telecommunication companies like Mitel and VBrick.  Prior to starting her career in networking, she served as a proud member of the United States Marine Corps as a fire-control radar technician in H&MS-13.

TechExecs Network -  Chapter Chairs - Bio  

 
Chapter Chair
John Poli
VP of IT & CIO
Washington Dental Service

John Poli is the Vice President of Information Technology at Washington Dental Service.  John is responsible for all of the Information Technology and Business Intelligence organizations and driving the technology direction of WDS.  Prior to WDS John was a business strategy and data warehouse consultant at Point B Solutions.  Prior to Point B, Mr. Poli was the Global Service Executive for Network Outsourcing at Electronic Data Systems (EDS). John’s responsibilities included developing the global strategy for network services inclusive of technology investments, strategic partners, and managing global telecommunications carriers.  Prior to EDS Mr. Poli was the General Manager for Microsoft’s MSN Internet Access Business.  In that capacity John was responsible for the full lifecycle of development and operations support for over 8 million MSN access subscribers.  His team was also responsible for managing the national supply chain and customer service.  Prior to Microsoft Mr. Poli has been a strategic leader in a number of roles in the telecommunications and information technology industry.  From Engineering to Operations, John has built and managed teams in high growth, technology-driven companies.  These firms include Sprint, Qwest, Net2000, and MediaCenters.  Mr. Poli started his career as an active duty officer in the US Air Force.  He specialized in anti-missile defense, intelligence, and communications.  Mr. Poli has an MBA from Boston University with a concentration in Finance and Marketing.  He earned his BS in Electrical Engineering at Cornell University.

Chapter Chair
Nathan Church
Vice President & Information Technology Manager
Columbia River Bank

Nathan discovered his fascination with technology at age 9, writing his first programs on a computer received as a Christmas present. Over the next several years of self-study and pre-Internet bulletin board collaboration, he built numerous computers and trained office staff how to use business productivity software before starting his own consulting company in 1994. He joined Columbia River Bank in 1999 and built their core infrastructure into the efficient operation it is today. Nathan led the organization to become an early adopter of Cisco VoIP and partnered with Microsoft on rapid deployment programs. Utilizing storage area networks, virtualization, automated failover technologies and disk-based backup systems, Nathan’s team of IT professionals keeps costs down while meeting enterprise business needs. Nathan chairs the Oregon Bankers Association Technology Committee, has served on the advisory boards of various IT conferences and has been cited in articles in ICBA Independent Banker Magazine and Bank Systems & Technology.

Chapter Vice Chair
Joshua Walker
SafeNet

Chapter Vice Chair
Sara Redler
Manager
Akvelon

TechExecs Network - National Bio

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Founder & CEO
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A well known industry icon, Anthony Huang has been a successful entrepreneur with a solid track record of having started and sold four profitable business ventures along with serving as the CIO for two venture backed healthcare corporations.  Presently, Anthony serves as the CEO of TechExecs Network overseeing national growth activities, maintaining national CIO relationships, serving as the Chief Strategist for TechExecs Social Applications Team, an Angel Investor and Venture Strategist.  Anthony Huang founded Techxans and TechExecs Network back in 2000.  Techxans and TechExecs Network received its worldwide recognition for helping to launch EnronX.org which was the largest Ex-Enron social networking site.  The entity was mentioned on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, CIO Magazine along with over 33 global TV, Radio and News Agencies. Prior to TechExecs Network, Anthony Huang was the CEO of Rexton InterActive, a Premium IBM Business Partner, that led the market in providing strategic web advisory for over 100 major clients across 23 different industries.  Anthony began his career with Apple Computers and Ernst & Young and was a recipient of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1998 by The Greater Houston Partnership.  He has been a speaker at numerous conferences including InformationWeek, Gartner Midsize Enterprise Summit, TiE Venture Forums and Red Herring Venture Forums.  Anthony graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BBA in Management Information Systems, Pursued Innovations Management Training with MIT, and lives in Houston with his wife and two children. 

Rick Kinnard
Events & Sponsorship Manager
TechExecs Network | Senior IT Executives Network
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Prior to working full time at TechExecs National, Rick served as the Dallas TechExecs Chapter Vice Chair for two years. He is presently responsible for managing all national forum and social events along with cultivating relationships with TechExecs Coprorate Sponsors.

Rick begin his technology career at the young age of 16 when he created dithering in 1980 to create millions of colors on an Apple II which was “limited” to only 8 colors 5 years before it came to regular use in software.  His early telecom career allowed him the pleasure of working with American Airlines, ATT, Sprint, US Postal Service, several Republican Party campaigns, various religious organizations and Non-Profits such as Special Olympics. At one point he was managing the accounts for 9 different companies including several insurance companies, US Postal Service and the Nielson Rating surveys.   In 1990 Rick bought out his employer and re-launched the business as Trans-Tech Services Inc.  He quit college to dedicate more time to the business, and applied his knowledge of systems analysis and design to transform the internal processes; from sales to shipping.  He mirrored a Xenix system to Windows and created a CRM program from scratch.  He developed “Collision Vision”; a computerized automotive estimating system.  Within 3 years Trans-Tech had tripled in size to over 17,000 business customers nationwide selling software and systems, and other specialty items.   In 1995 finished 8 years with the United States Navy Reserves

In 1998 he started a web design consultancy RKDIA providing dynamic  web design for various web based retailers and web based auction sites.   Since 2000 he has provided his telecommunications expertise through Time Warner, Cypress, Birch Telecom, Centric Voice, and XO Communications. He has helped hundreds of businesses position their telecommunications resources for efficient and profitable results. He is proud to have helped Dallas Food Bank and Make-a-Wish Foundation as part of his many successful strategies to increase productivity and profitability.  Rick has built a personal network of several hundred business contacts.  Rick has three boys, two are well on their way to becoming Eagle Scouts and one is a Bear Cub scout. They enjoy weekend adventures throughout Texas. 

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