Bill Huckabee is the Secretary of the West Sound Technology Association (WSTA) was part of a three member panel/presentation on things to consider when deploying a content management solution (CMS) at the ITEC 2009 Conference in Seattle. Bill brings to the table his professional experience with Envisioneering, Inc., a engineering assessment and advanced technology solution company doing work with the U.S. armed forces to the membership of the WSTA. Huckabee spoke with Bryce Read from Varvid.com
Damien Bowersock, Technical Sales Manager at GreenBytes storage solutions spoke with Bryce Reed of Varvid at the ITEC 2009 Conference in Seattle. GreenBytes has developed easy-to-use, energy-efficient storage appliances that bring the benefits of data deduplication to a broader storage market and felt ITEC Conferences were a good fit to meet new and existing systems integrator and VAR partners.
Charles Keating, VP of the West Sound Technology Association (WSTA) was a featured speaker at the ITEC 2009 Conference in Seattle. Here he shares a little background of this unique group that focuses on IT professionals doing business on the west side of Puget Sound in Washington State with Varvid.com. WSTA was formed “to increase public awareness of the availability and quality of local technology professionals, and to serve technology professionals both at a general level of interest and in specialized technology fields” on the West Side of Puget Sound, including the Olympic Peninsula.
Keating said even though the peninsula is separated by Seattle by relatively short ferry rides, the logistical challenges posed by transportation makes their members and members’ clients look to a more convenient, local organization to engage with rather than trying to ‘commute’ by ferry to the big city. Keating’s ‘day job’ is President of Keating Consulting Service (KCS), an IT consulting firm he founded in Illinois in 1983 and moved to Bremerton WA several years ago. Charles holds several Microsoft MCP certifications and KCS has clients in all industries/sectors, Business, Government, Educational and ranging in size from Fortune100 to SMB.
Tom Henderson, Managing Director of ExtremeLabs Inc. speaks with Bryce Read of Varvid.com at the ITEC Seattle 2009 Conference about his experience at the show and touches on a few of the subjects he spoke on at the conference. Tom’s firm ExtremeLabs has performed technical analysis, product testing, investor technical due-diligence, and research in the enterprise computing/infrastructure field for over twenty-five years. This real world perspective made his observations both interesting and relevant during the Keynote Presentation on “The Top 10 Challenges Facing CIOs and IT Management Today.” Interesting points he made include increasing regional/national/international data security standards and the increasing use of SANs by organizations large and small. Later in the day he gave a second presentation on “The Four Flavors of Virtualization And How To Use Them” –noting that virtualization is really starting to take hold at all levels of business computing.
Varvid speaks with Mark Bowles of Network Computing Group in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia, who was impressed with Verne Harnish’s speech at the ConnectWise Partner Summit and is looking forward to putting some of the things gleaned from the speech to work for his company. Calling customers personally to see how they can be better served, and implementing more ‘small huddles’ with team members will improve consistency and quality of the services Network Computing Group provides.
Varvid speaks with Wade DeVore, NetVision Consulting of Arlington Texas who was impressed with the Blueprinting and Process Automation aspects of Connectwise that were demonstrated at the Partner Summit. Wade has also committed to personally calling five customers per week, as suggested by Verne Harnish’s talk given on Friday morning at the 2009 ConnectWise Partner Summit in Orlando.
Chris Bates, The Computer Hut of Little Rock, AR appreciated Keynote Speaker Verne Harnish’s message of focusing on the customer’s needs for loss avoidance.
Key in this is emphasizing cross-department, full-team communication and meetings to ensure all hands know what’s going on, in general terms, with the company week to week.
Verne Harnish is founder and CEO of Gazelles, Inc., an outsourced corporate university for mid-size firms, and has published the book “Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Fast-Growth Firm”
Chris was speaking with Pat Dolan of Varvid.com at the ConnectWise Partner Summit held this past week in Orlando.
Pat Dolan of Varvid.com speaks with Ed Laprade of Adnet Technologies Inc. of Windsor Connecticut, a CPLS authorized Microsoft Training Center at the ConnectWise Partner Summit in Orlando.
Adnet utilizes Quosal, a quote/proposal generation application that integrates with ConnectWise, and Laprade really appreciates the seemlessness and productivity this affords Adnet.
Christy Sacco, Director of Operations for HTG Peer Groups speaks with Pat Dolan of Varvid.com about the Q Forums HTG presented to members during the ConnectWise Partner Summit in Orlando Florida.
Over 300 HTG members representing 220 member companies, over 25% of the total attendees were at the Summit this year.
Gregg runs Integral Systems in San Diego CA and this is his first ConnectWise Partner Summit. Gregg has rave reviews for the Partner Summit, this is his first ever and says, although he has attended a lot of confereneces in the past 24 months, this is the most professional and most informative/useful one he’s been to in a long time. The quality of the attendees and their collective experience make the ConnectWise Partner Conference worth attending. Gregg spoke with Pat Dolan of Varvid.com
