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President, ACTS Corporation
Bill presents his topics with unique insights to help explain and demystify the technical and business challenges facing today's professional.
Bill has worked in the IT industry since 1973. He is co-founder and president of ACTS. Bill has lectured on IT strategy and industry trends at courses and conferences all over the world. Before founding ACTS, Bill worked for both Intel and IBM, giving him a unique perspective from which to understand the technical and marketing dynamics of the computer industry.
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President, Horison Information Strategies
In 1998, Fred Moore founded Horison Information Strategies, an information strategies consulting firm in Boulder, Colorado, that specializes in strategy and business development for emerging IT and storage networking companies. Fred began his 21-year career at StorageTek as the first systems engineer and concluded as corporate vice president of Strategic Marketing. Fred serves as Editor of Storage for West World Productions. He is a 1989 recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award and a 2002 recipient of the Scholar-in Residence award for Geography at the University of Missouri where he received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a master's degree in computer applications in physical geography. Fred completed the Berkeley Executive Program in 1997. He currently serves on a few select boards in the storage networking industry. Fred is a sought-after motivator and IT speaker worldwide and has published numerous papers and reports for the data-storage industry.
Principle Engineer
John Kirschner is a storage technology specialist and a member of the ACTS advisory board. John has over 35 years experience in IT. He has worked for Lockheed Martin and IBM as a I/T architect, systems engineer, systems programmer, instructor, and as a consultant. He is a certified IT security specialist and helps establish US government security policies in regard to new technologies. John is a certified I/T architect, certified business manager and certified large systems specialist. John is the author of numerous white papers on systems architecture, enterprise alignment, performance, and modernization.
Director, Business Operations and Support Services ( BOSS Organization), Progressive Insurance
David Hines manages so many areas at Progressive that its hard to keep count. That is why sound IT strategy is key to staying productive and keeping the organization responsive and nimble. David has proven himself in managing the diverse and complex IT challenges that his company faces daily. He can provide practical tips on how to look at a situation from all sides, then apply a common sense, get-back-to-the-basics approach to almost any issue.
Dave has been in the computer industry 43 years. Most of those years were on the vendor side of the fence; Control Data Corporation, Amdahl, Fujitsu ICL in various Sales, Marketing, and Services functions. After seeing the light, he crossed over to the light side of the FORCE and became a customer. He has a background in Supercomputing (both Vector and Parallel processing), and has run the gamut of working with systems from PC's to mid-range to mainframes.
Director, Business Operations and Support Services ( BOSS Organization), Progressive Insurance
Gene Myron Amdahl received his B.S. in Engineering Physics from South Dakota State University in 1948, and earned his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1952.
His early professional career was spent at IBM where he worked on simulation studies and machine designs for character recognition; was initial planner for the IBM 709 and 7030; became Manager of Architecture for the IBM System/360 and in 1965 was named an IBM Fellow during which part of this period he was named Director of IBM's Advanced Computing Systems Laboratory in Menlo Park, California. During the 1960's he implemented a milestone in computer technology: the concept of compatibility between systems. Dr. Amdahl left IBM Corporation in the fall of 1970 to create more innovative mainframe computers.
Dr. Amdahl is perhaps best known for founding Amdahl Corporation, one of IBM's main competitors. Amdahl Corporation was the first successful IBM-compatible CPU manufacturer, opening the door for competition to advance technology. The world's first Large-Scale Integrated (LSI) chips were developed and made possible high performance, air-cooled, rather than water-cooled, CPUs. In the first full year of shipments, Amdahl Corporation shipped $96 million of product, the second full year $190 million, and the third year $320 million. In 1979, he became Amdahl's Chairman Emeritus and a consultant to the company. He retired from Amdahl in August 1980.
In 1980, Dr. Amdahl co-founded Trilogy Systems Corporation to produce fault tolerant wafer-scale chips and a high-performance CPU. The concepts were proven but the cost projections were excessive, so Trilogy acquired Elxsi in 1985 for its principal computer system entry.
Andor International, Ltd. was founded by Dr. Amdahl in 1987 to continue innovations in technology. Andor specialized in the design, manufacture, and marketing of unique IBM-compatible products designed to improve the efficiency, performance, access, capacity, and protection of programs and data.
In 1994, Dr. Amdahl co-founded Commercial Data Services, Inc. (CDS), which built a computer with the power and functionality of traditional mainframe at a comparable size and serviceability of smaller personal computers and network servers.