President Microsoft Business Division
Jeff Raikes joined Microsoft in 1981 as Manager of Product Marketing. He was instrumental in driving Microsoft's applications marketing strategy. Promoted to Director of Applications Marketing in 1984, he was the chief strategist behind Microsoft's success in graphical applications for the Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows. He drove the product strategy and design of Microsoft Office, the industry's leading application productivity suite. Raikes was then promoted to Vice President of Office Systems, where he was responsible for development and marketing of word processing, workgroup applications, and pen computing. In 1996, upon being named Group Vice President, Sales and Marketing, he joined Microsoft's Executive Committee.
Richard Wolf is General Manager of Microsoft Office Graphics, where he is responsible for the PowerPoint and Visio applications as well as the Office Art shared graphics capability in Word, Excel, and other members of the Office System. He has been with Microsoft for 11 years, serving most recently as Director of Program Management for InfoPath, an information gathering application that is new member of the Office System.
He began his career with Microsoft in 1993 as a founding member of the Office program management team, where he helped bring Internet capabilities and Visual Basic for Applications to the Office System. Prior to joining Microsoft Richard was Systems Architect at Lotus Development Corp. in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he served in a variety of key design positions, including leading the design of Lotus's first GUI spreadsheet and directing cross product interoperability efforts. Prior to Lotus he was a Member of the Technical Staff at Xerox in Palo Alto, California, where he worked on design and advanced development for the Xerox Star workstation, the pioneering graphical user interface.
Richard holds nine patents covering various software innovations. He has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts. He lives in Seattle with his wife Sally and his 14 year old daughter Lucy, where his interests include bicycling, opera, and boating.
Program Manager, Microsoft Office Visio
Dan is a program manager focused on general application user interface, drawing surface and tools, and internationalization. He has worked on Visio since release 2.0 in early 1994. He has a degree in Russian from Middlebury College and also studied in Moscow, Russia.
Program Manager, Microsoft Office Visio
Philippe-Joseph, a computer engineering graduate of McGill University, has worked for the Visio team for 3.5 years focusing primarily on features relating to deployment, programmability & Visio’s reach. Philippe always looks forward to discussing Visio solution ideas, challenges and successes.
Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Corporate Finance, Accounting and Compliance
Chris has been with Microsoft for 9 years and has spent the majority of his Microsoft career in the Corporate Accounting and Compliance group. He is currently an internal product manager responsible for applications related to Sarbanes Oxley compliance. The Corporate Accounting and Compliance IT group has worked with the Visio team to create an Add In that allows Visio process flows to link to the Microsoft internal Sarbanes Oxley 404 compliance application.
Chris Castillo is an Application Development Consultant with Microsoft Partner Services focusing on Visio solution development.
Vijit Chhabra manages the Microsoft business for Wipro Technologies for the western region of US and also started the Information Worker Practice for Wipro in 2003, a practice which has since grown by leaps and bounds. Well known within Microsoft circles as a SharePoint guru, Vijit has been a guest speaker at multiple Microsoft conferences.
Chris is the leading application developer for Vermont Electric Power Company. He has over twenty years of application design and development experience. Currently Chris develops composite applications for MOSS 2007 using Visio as the primary process model tool. Chris has a special interest in BPM systems on the .NET platform, switching from the traditional code based solution to a composite process model driven architecture.
Program Manager, Microsoft Office Visio
Tim is a Program Manager on Visio and has been with the team since Visio 5.0. He has worked on a variety of areas in the product and is currently focused primarily on user interface, formatting, and ease of use features.
William A “Will” Golding is Director of Product Management for Visio a role he has held for the last 3 and ½ years. Before moving to the Visio business Will was Director of Marketing Communications for Office responsible for the Office 2003 launch. Prior to joining Microsoft five years ago, Will helped lead a number of Seattle based internet start-ups including serving as CEO of Netreflector. The first 20 years of his career were in various roles at Leo Burnett Advertising including Managing Director of Leo Burnett Portugal and CEO of LB Belgium.
Founder and Chairman
Dave Gray serves as XPLANE's founder and chairman, having started the global consulting and design firm in 1993. His role is to build client relationships across the world – through teaching, blogging, learning and networking, training and educating staff.
Before founding XPLANE, Gray's journalism career spanned several newspapers, including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He also taught business and visual communication at Washington University in St. Louis.
Gray earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
Program Manager, Microsoft Office Visio
John has been a program manager on the Visio team since 2004, and has been a Visio user since the late 1990s. Prior to joining Microsoft, he developed high-performance, realistic rending software and worked on firmware for programmable logic devices. John has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a M.Eng. in Engineering Management from Cornell University.
Dr. Gabriele Herold is working for Siemens since 1986. Since this time she is responsible for the development of
offer and order tools for switchgears. In 1998 she introduced a client server solution based on a Oracle database
for medium voltage switchgear types called NXTools which is still in use all over the world in Siemens
Medium Voltage departments. In 2006 she started a new IT project developing NXTools+ based on a standard CRM
software package. First version of this IT tool was introduced same year using Visio for grafical offer and order
document generation.
Vincent Hildebrandt is working in the IT business since 1998. Being one of the MD’s of maguro DataAssist in Germany, he started working with avocado new media GmbH (1999) as senior developer, he went on to work with the wegewerk Medienlabor GmbH in 2001 as technical project leader. From there he was working on different projects for different enterprise customers, forming the maguro:agentur in 2005.
Andreas Kottmann is the Consulting Sales Manager of SAP Germany´s Utilities Consulting Unit. Andreas graduated from Johann-Wolfgang von Goethe University, Frankfurt/Germany with a Master Degree in Economics. Andreas received an executive MBA from a British University. He started his career as an Assistant QA Manager at Heraeus Materials Technology Division at the Chandler Facility in Chandler, AZ. After leaving he became a Consulting and Sales Expert at IDS Scheer AG using ARIS Toolset to implement Business Process Management Projects within the Utilities and the Banking Sector. In 2004 Andreas joined SAP´s Consulting Division as a Business Development Manager. Since 2005, he is the regional Consulting Sales Manger Germany.
Senaj Lelic is working in the IT business since 1991. Being one of the MD’s of maguro DataAssist in Germany, he started working with BORLAND (1994) , he went on to work with the Visio Corporation in 1996 as one of the first partners in Europe. From there he was working on different visualization solutions and consulting services for different enterprise customers, also building up the NetDoc products line in 2002.
In 2000 when Visio was acquired by Microsoft his focus shifted to contain Microsoft.NET as a programming platform and also since last year the Sharepoint technology. Since 2001 he is the active Visio MVP in the german speaking part of Europe.
Christine Lukasik currently looks after outbound marketing for Microsoft Online Services including demand generation, relationship marketing, brand management and a variety of other fun initiatives. Having been with Microsoft since 2004, this is her second shift at the company after starting 10 years ago as a contract web developer. In-between she traveled the world promoting streaming media as the Evangelist at RealNetworks & also directed new media initiatives in the Chairman’s Think Tank at The Coca-Cola Company. Her free time is joyfully spent doing as much outdoor/ athletic activity as possible – hiking in the desert or mountains, yoga, pilates, etc!
Bill Morein is a Lead Program Manager on the Visio Team. He holds a BA in Philosophy and Economics from Colgate University and a MS in Computer Science from Columbia University, both in New York.
Parimal Nagtode is a Project Coordinator for the Visio Connectors developed by TCS team. I have 7 years of Software development mostly in Microsoft Technologies including ASP.NET, C#,AJAX, VB.NET, SQL Server. I have worked mainly on UI and MiddleLayer, Web Services with role of Developer and Development lead. My previous assignment in Microsoft was designing and developing “Resource Access Manager” tool which is one of the widely used tool in Microsoft for getting access to secured resources.
Program Manager , Microsoft Finance IT.
Executive Director, Meister Corporation
As Executive Director and founding member of Meister Corporation, he is engaged in the planning and designing of Facility Management Systems and Data Visualization Systems using Visio with SVG. Previously he designed and developed a CAFM System for construction and office furniture manufacturers.
David J Parker, MD of bVisual, has been regularly awarded Most Valued Professional status by Microsoft for his Visio community work, and is author of “Visualizing Information with Microsoft Office Visio 2007” (McGraw-Hill 2007). David has been a Visio partner since 1996, and has presented at three previous Visio Conferences. He wrote WBS Modeler for Microsoft, and provides Visio consultancy, training and services to a number of international clients from his base in the UK.
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Office Visio
Mark has been designing and developing Visio solutions since Visio 2.0. He has been with the Visio product team for 10 years, working initially as a software developer and currently as a program manager. Mark has a background in Mechanical Engineering and Computer Aided Design and previously developed software for the electric power industry.
Chris Roth started his Visio Life back in 1992 when he started making Smart Shapes for Visio 1.0 as an intern for ShapeWare Corp. Since then he has continued to be fascinated by smart graphics, linking data to pictures, and bringing a visual face to numbers and text.
Chris has been a Microsoft Visio MVP for over four years, actively answering user questions in the Microsoft newsgroups, and has recently started the Visio Guy web site, which features Visio-related developer tips, content and articles.
After four years in Munich, Germany, and a year spent traveling through Australia and New Zealand, he is proud to return to the great Pacific Northwest to present a developer session at the 2008 Visio Conference.
Heinz-Jürgen is the Executive Manager of BPM-X GmbH/Germany. He is graduated with a Master Degree in Civil Engineering at the Technical University Kaiserslautern/Germany, specialized for Computer Science and Numerical Methods. After his studies he worked at the Institute of Engineering Computer Aided Methods researching and developing subject areas like CAD or Graphical Software Interfaces. In 1992 he founded TransWare Software Solutions AG, first developing software translators for automatic program code translation between many different programming languages. In 2005, he co-founded BPM-X. BPM-X has the mission to exchange seamless business process models between tools and methodologies, in which Visio has the communication part to connect peoples business desktop with the leading model repositories.
Program Manager, Microsoft Office Visio
Suneet Shah recently joined the Visio Team after earning a degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently involved in the process management area for new Visio features. He is also excited to see how customers and MVPs use Visio and to speak about some of the ways they can get creative with Visio data graphics.
Jesse Shiah is the co-founder and CEO of Ascentn, the recipient of the 2007 Gartner Cool Vendor for Business Process Management (BPM) and 2005 Microsoft Partner of the Year in Technology Innovation. Ascentn pioneered .NET based modern BPMS, AgilePoint, that enables both IT and business to rapidly create, deploy, share, and modify process based, SOA-aligned composite applications within an IT controlled ecosystem. Prior to founding Ascentn, Shiah has held management positions at various institutions, delivering process-centric business solutions to Global 2000s. He holds a MS degree in computer science and a MBA. His BPM vision is shaped by his 15+ years combined experience in both IT and Business.
Kapil is a Senior Product Manager with the Visio team. He is primarily responsible for the IT Pro and Developer community World Wide. Kapil is a 15 year IT Pro veteran and has been with Microsoft for the past 8 years. Prior to his current role Kapil was a Lead Manager with Events team leading the IT efforts for network security management at Events as well as responsible for the application development both internal and external for Microsoft Events. He lead the implementation of the Seibel deployment for Help Desk solutions prior to the Events role.
Senior Program Manager Lead, Microsoft Office Visio
Hessan is a program manager on the Visio team, focusing primarily on improvements to the user interface and ease of use. He has worked on Visio for the past year and has been with Microsoft for 9 years.
Program Manager, Microsoft Office Visio
Po-Yan has been with the Visio team for three years since graduating from the University of Waterloo in Canada, where she earned a Masters degree in Systems Design Engineering. She is excited to be speaking about Visio shapes at the conference, and discuss all things Visio with partners and customers alike. She has worked on the data connectivity area for Visio 2007 and is currently involved in the process management and Visio Services areas for the upcoming release. |
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