As general manager for Lotus Software and WebSphere Portal, Bob Picciano has oversight for an extensive portfolio that includes IBM assets involving messaging, portals, document sharing, social software and unified communications as well as many emerging technologies. Since joining IBM in 1987 as a software developer, Mr. Picciano has served in a variety of technical, management, executive and leadership roles, including Director of Channels and Services Development, Vice President of Development and Support as well as Vice President of Worldwide Sales. He has a passion to ensure IBM has a strong ecosystem of partners that come together to deliver maximum value for IBM clients.

Chris Miller is Director of Messaging and Collaboration at Connectria in St. Louis, Missouri. Connectria (www.connectria.com) provides IT infrastructure solutions to large and mid-sized organizations worldwide. Chris has been working with Domino administration since 1994, has spoken at numerous Lotuspheres, and is a highly rated VIEW speaker. Lotus and IBM certifications back to version 3 including: IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Advanced Security Administrator, IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Advanced System Administrator, IBM Websphere Portal 6.1 Administrator, IBM Lotus Sametime System Administrator, IBM Lotus Quickr System Administrator. He is also the author of one of the top ranked Lotus blogs and podcasts, IdoNotes found at http://www.IdoNotes.com.

Rob Axelrod is Vice President of Technotics, Inc. (http://www.technotics.com/) located in Narberth, Pennsylvania. Technotics offers custom Lotus Notes and Domino consulting and service plans. Rob is a technical architect for administration, security, application development, and infrastructure design for collaborative and messaging environments. His contact with Notes began in 1993, when he became one of the first instructors in the country to be certified by Lotus Development to train Lotus Notes V2. Since then, he has trained thousands of administrators and developers in best practices for Lotus Notes and Domino. Rob is a highly rated VIEW speaker, whose certifications include Principal Certified Lotus Professional, Certified Lotus Instructor, and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Andy Pedisich is President and Principal Technical Consultant at Technotics, Inc. (http://www.technotics.com/) located in Narberth, Pennsylvania. Technotics offers custom Lotus Notes and Domino consulting and service plans. Andy’s recent projects have included upgrades from Releases 6.x and 7.x to Release 8 and migrations from MS Exchange. He has also implemented customized solutions for server monitoring and automated cluster management. Working in the IT industry for 23 years, Andy has designed and managed Notes upgrade projects for major corporations for every version of Notes/ Domino since v2.1. He is proven as a highly rated speaker and instructor, and contributes to LotusUserGroup.org. Andy is an IBM Certified System Administrator and a Microsoft Certified Professional. You can read his blog at http://www.andypedisich.com.

Susan Bulloch has worked for IBM Lotus Software for 9 years in support and development positions. Susan currently works in the ISV Business Partner Technical Enablement group. She has worked with Lotus Notes and Domino since 1992 as an administrator, instructor, developer, and architect in banking and utility industries. Susan has a degree in engineering, holds certifications in all current product releases, and is actively involved in Beta versions of new IBM products. Susan is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, including Lotusphere and various conferences by the VIEW.

Paul Mooney is Senior Architect at BlueWave Technology (http://www.bluewave.ie) in Dublin, Ireland. Bluewave provides e-business solutions to organizations accross Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Paul has been involved in IBM technologies for 11 years and is regarded as a world-class administration consultant and trouble-shooter. He has spoken at many technical conferences, including Lotusphere, DNUG , and VIEW events; contributes technical articles to LotusUserGroup.org; and is the founding member of the very successful Irish Lotus User Group. He maintains a blog (http://www.pmooney.net) that provides Domino and WebSphere administration tips, as well as reviews of various technologies, mobile devices, and gadgets. He is a Certified Lotus Instructor with additional certifications in Notes R3-ND8, WebSphere, Portal Server, and DB2.

Franziska Tanner is a Principal Consultant at MartinScott Consulting (Francie.Tanner@MartinScott.com) in Washington DC, but lives and works in Anguilla, British West Indies. Born and raised in Switzerland, Franziska has been a passionate technologist, administrator, instructor, and speaker for over ten years, improving systems, processes, and teams through best-practice knowledge transfer. She is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, including Lotusphere and multiple VIEW events. Franziska is a certified instructor and consultant, and works with all Lotus and WebSphere brand products.

Mary Beth Raven is the chief designer for Lotus products, focusing on consistency across the end-user facing portions of the user experience. She’s also the team lead for the Lotus Notes design team. She started working on Notes with release 8. Prior to that she worked on 5 versions of Sametime. She’s been with IBM over 10 years, and before joining IBM she designed at FTP software, Inc. and Digital Equipment Corporation. She is an avid blogger (www.marybethraven.com) and Twitterer (MaryBethRaven).

Jon Champlin has been with the IBM’s Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software division (formerly Iris Associates) for nine years and is currently a member of the Domino Database development team. For the past year, he has been assigned to the IBM Notes and Domino 8.5 deployment, helping to resolve discovered issues. You can reach Jon at Jon_Champlin@notesdev.ibm.com.

Bill Malchisky Jr. is Managing Partner and Chief Technical Architect at Effective Software Solutions, LLC (ESS) (www.effectivesoftware.com) in Fairfield, CT. ESS provides Lotus consulting to large enterprises and CTO services to small-established firms--particularly regulated verticals and specialty Lotus projects. Bill has worked with Lotus Notes since 1993 on v3.0c, as a developer, administrator, instructor, and architect, plus co-authored two versions of the IBM Redbook, entitled, The Linux Handbook: A Guide to IBM Linux Solutions and Resources. Recently, Bill is focused on upgrading firms to Notes Domino 8. He has trained end-users and admins for numerous companies internationally and migrated Wintel Domino to Linux/Unix. Bill holds multiple Lotus certifications in administration and development, plus is a Red Hat Certified Technician.