 Michael
Allgeier oversees the Lower Colorado River Authorityıs network
and telecommunications security, disaster recovery, and security policies
as the data security officer. He also oversees the LCRA Credit Unionıs
security program.Allgeier is an active member of InfraGard, ISSA,
ISACA, and the NERC Cyber Security Standard 1300 Drafting Team, and
holds the CISSP, CISM, and NSA IAM certifications.
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Ian Clarke, director of sales and marketing for Nexant
Inc., has more than 17 yearsı experience in energy system design and
implementation. Prior to joining Nexant, he was with energy trading
systems provider Sakonnet Technology, information provider WeatherMarkets,
and was commodities manager for Bloomberg LP.
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 Dr.
Ongun Alsaı, senior vice president of Nexant Inc., is a 30-year
energy industry veteran and fellow of the IEEE. In 1984 he co-founded
PCA,which became Nexantıs Energy Solutions Division, specializing
in power system software, focusing on network optimization. He has
extensive experience in congestion management, LMPs, and FTRs.
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 Brian
Erickson is the leader for Hitachi Consultingıs National
Utility Practice. He has over 18 years of management and technology
consulting experience in a variety of industries with special emphasis
in utilities.Over the past four years, Erickson has assisted multiple
market participants in preparation for deregulation of the electricity
market in Texas.
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 Ron
Blume, DYONYX Energy Practice director, has over 30 years
of extensive electric utility industry experience in engineering,
information systems, finance, accounting, business process, and organizational
analysis. His prior career experience includes planning electrical
power systems for generation and transmission facilities; involvement
in cost, schedule control, and project management functions for power
generation construction projects; and management of payroll, plant
accounting, and a systems development organization. He founded Business
Systems Engineering Inc. and managed business development activities
and work management projects for Fortune 500 companies and municipal
entities.
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 William
Loftus is the president and CEO of Gestalt LLC. Gestalt is
a technology consulting firm that develops and executes strategies
and specialized applications built upon service oriented architectures.
Gestalt serves the energy, utility, and defense industries and is
a recognized thought leader in system interoperability, modeling,
and simulation. More information about Gestalt can be found on its
web site at www.gestalt-llc.com.
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 Jonathan
Pollet is the lead SCADA/DCS security analyst for DYONYX,
a leading solutions provider headquartered in Houston,Texas.Pollet
is an active member of the IEEE, ISA, and CSIA. He has given several
presentations to and led training sessions on SCADA systems, systems
integration, and SCADA security for the FBI, the Department of Homeland
Security, the Utility Telecom Committee, and many other conferences
and workshops. He is a member of the ISA SP99 standards body for Securing
Manufacturing and Control Systems and is writing an industrial automation
book for ISA entitled How to Turn Turtles into Rabbits.
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 Maureen
Power is the vice president responsible for IBMıs Business
Transformation Outsourcing business in the global Utility & Energy
industry.In this capacity, she works with clients to evaluate how
they can leverage the expertise and scale of IBM in the areas of finance
and accounting, human resources, customer care, procurement, and technology
outsourcing to enable faster,more enduring business transformation
in support of their broader strategic agenda. For more information,
please contact her at mpj@us.ibm.com
or 1-212-745-6670. |
 Edward
J. Sayers heads Patniıs Energies & Utilities practice. Sayers
has over 20 yearsı experience within the regulated and deregulated
energy industry, having held senior management positions with responsibility
for development of enterprise strategic business and IT planning,He
has extensive knowledge of enterprise architectures and operational
deployment for distribution platforms serving electric/gas utilities
and ISO business models.
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Peter Sarsany is a managing director
with BearingPoint Inc., one of the world’s largest business
consulting and systems integration firms, responsible for the company’s
North American CIS practice. BearingPoint provides business and technology
strategy, systems design, architecture, applications implementation,
network infrastructure, systems integration and managed services.
Its global headquarters is in McLean, Virginia. Peter Sarsany can
be contacted directly at psarsany@bearingpoint.net.
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 Claudia
Ward-de Leın has been with Patni Computer Systems for almost
a year. She received a BS in journalism from Southern Connecticut
State University in New Haven, Conn., in 2001. She is a contributing
editor to and writer of Patniıs white papers on subjects such as Six
Sigma, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and business process outsourcing. Ward-de
Leın is also a free-lance writer and a recent transplant to Boston.
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