2010 Niagara Summit
Session Speakers
Session Speakers
The 2010 Niagara Summit is pleased to present some of the most knowledgable and experienced Niagara practioners in the industry.
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Adrian Adams
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Coming from a background of successful international product development career for some of the world’s best known and most innovative products companies, Adrian now brings this wealth of knowledge and experience to bear upon the new NiagaraAX DALI® lighting automation products being created by CNS. | |||||||||
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Robert Adams
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Robert Adams is a software engineer with Tridium’s driver group. He has been with Tridium for 12 yrs. He worked with the development of the Niagara driver framework and has developed several Niagara drivers including the Lonworks driver. Robert has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from NCSU and M.C.E. from Loyola University Maryland. |
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Femi Aderounmu
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Femi Aderounmu is a Microsoft.Net software consultant in the Baltimore area. He has worked on numerous software projects focused on the .Net architecture. Femi is a specialist in.Net code generation tools. Femi enjoys devleoping simple .Net utility tools that facilitate data communication and manupulation from Niagara devices. | ||||||||||
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Dan Anderson
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Dan, a Professional Engineer with a BSEE from Virginia Tech, started with Tridium in 1999 with seven years hardware design experience. Dan designed or co-designed every embedded Jace platform. He also designed and implemented our modular pluggable hardware approach which saves installation cost and enables the use of custom modules. |
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Gaylen Atkinson
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Greg Barnes
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Greg Barnes is Vice-President of Activelogix, LLC. Greg was previously Director of Corporate Sales at Tridium, Inc and has 24 years of experience with companies in the Energy, Maintenance and Automation fields. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Auburn University. |
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Darryl Benson
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Darryl Benson is the Global Solution Development Manager for Panduit’s Connected Building Solutions, and has been in the control systems and equipment manufacturing industry for 20 years. He has been invited to speak at international events on subjects ranging from Industrial Networking to his current focus of Converged Building Networks, with audiences including a range of professionals from engineers to CxO’s. Current responsible for leading the core team creating and managing Panduit’s global strategy for Connected Building Market which includes strategic marketing and product development, channel and service development | |||||||||
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Jason Briggs
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Jason Briggs has been a leader in developing Building Automation Software Tools since 2002. As the founder and CEO of two startups, ControlWorks and J2 Innovative Concepts, his companies have raised the bar in the BAS Industry with applications that empower users to generate big savings while automating and dramatically reducing the workload. | |||||||||
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Zane Brown
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Zane Brown is the Systems Engineer and Product Designer for AIC Wireless. Zane is also a Principal and Lead Product Developer for Pervasive Devices, LLC, a software and hardware company developing cutting edge products based on the Sedona Framework ™. Zane has designed cutting edge products currently being used worldwide for wireless controls for building automation, energy management and remote monitoring/metering. Pervasive Devices, LLC is positioning itself as the leading developer of convergent devices to access and manage remote assets globally. |
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Bryant Butler
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Gordon Chan, President of Infocon holdings and Co founder of EasyIO corporation, well known for its easy to use Niagara AX ™ drivers and timely support. Now introducing EasyIO Sedona Frameworks ™ controllers. With over 20 years in industrial and building controls industry, Gordon has always believe in Open DDC technology where programming tools should come Free of Charge and should be part of the purchase make for the controllers. With determination, Gordon as a co-founder of EasyIO Corporation have come out with the rugged and easy to use EasyIO controllers in 2005. Now comes with Sedona Framework ™ . | ||||||||||
Noshad Chaudhry
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Noshad Chaudhry has been with Tridium for 5 years and has served multiple roles; running the customer service, sales support and technical support departments. He also led a company wide project and successfully deployed SAP across Tridium. Noshad is currently the product manager for Energy solutions at Tridium. His chief responsibilities include assessing opportunities and developing Niagara based products to cater to the emerging Energy market. |
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Luke Dininger
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Nigel Ebdon
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Nigel is the EMEA Sales Manager for eSight Energy Ltd based in Cambridge, UK. He has been with the company since 2008 and in his role oversees both direct and indirect sales and marketing activities across the EMEA region. Nigel has worked in a variety of commercial and business development roles within the metering industry for over 20 years, both in Europe and Africa having gained a Masters Degree in Business Administration. |
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Tom Echols
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Paul Ehrlich, PE
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Paul Ehrlich, a well-known industry stakeholder and advocate of sustainable and intelligent buildings. In 2004 he formed the Building Intelligence Group LLC an independent consultancy, whose primary purpose is to support and promote the delivery of high performance buildings. Services include systems assessment, master planning, training, and design for intelligent and sustainable building systems with a focus is in the areas of integrated systems, facility operations and enterprise management. Projects have been delivered for owners worldwide including major universities, corporations, and developers. Building Intelligence Group also provides market research and strategic planning services for leading system suppliers and organizations. Prior to forming Building Intelligence Group Paul held a series of corporate roles with Trane and Johnson Controls. Throughout his career, Paul has been actively involved with industry groups focused on the creation of new automation standards and technologies. Previous roles include chairing the ASHRAE Guideline 13 committee on how to specify DDC controls, chairing the BACnet sub-committee on interoperability, and acting as the inaugural chair for the oBIX committee to establish XML standards for building controls. He is currently a member of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) advisory council. At RealComm 2008, Paul was honored with the Digie Digital Impact Award, recognizing a commitment and passion to advance the concept of next generation buildings. Previously he had been awarded the Buildy Vision Award for his perseverance in promoting whole building integration and interoperability through advocacy, promotion, educational and training endeavors. Paul has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of St. Thomas. He is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Wisconsin and lives with his family in White Bear Lake Minnesota. |
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Jim Fletcher
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Jim Fletcher is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, and Chief Architect for the Smarter Datacenter Initiative. In this role, Jim is responsible for the overall technical direction and strategy for Tivoli's Energy Management directions as well as for the area of Service Availability and Performance Management. Jim is involved in numerous Smarter Planet initiatives across IBM in the area of Energy Management. Jim has coauthored several books, and written numerous technical trade journal articles during his career. He holds over 25 patents across a range of disciplines. | |||||||||
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Joe Feuling
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Matthew Giannini
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Matthew is a software engineer at Tridium. He has worked on projects for the NiagaraAX Framework, but these days he primarily works on the Sedona Framework – both the open source, and projects related to integration with Niagara. Matthew holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech. |
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Rod Giltaca
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With over 20 years in the building controls industry, Rod Giltaca has aggregated a wealth of experience in many aspects of the business. It’s this experience that led him and his partners to create YWire Technologies Inc, a Montreal based manufacturer of intelligent devices for the commercial buildings market. Rod has served in sales and business development capacities with several manufacturers, in addition to various project management and technical advisory roles. Mr. Giltaca is currently responsible for YWire Technologies overall business development and oversees product development. | |||||||||
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Dan Giorgis
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Dan Giorgis is a co-founder of Tridium. He leads a team that enables the Niagara Framework on a variety of custom embedded platforms, from the original R2 JACE-501 with VxWorks to the latest AX JACE-6 and Javelina using QNX. Dan hold a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. | |||||||||
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Aaron Hanson
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Aaron Hansen is the Chief Software Architect for CSI Cubed and is responsible for designing applications for the NiagaraAX platform. Aaron was a senior engineer at Tridium responsible for a diverse range of technologies on the NiagaraAX platform including scheduling, cryptography, device drivers and Web services. He was chairman of the OASIS subcommittee that produced Open Building Information eXchange (oBIX) specification as well as the reference implementation on NiagaraAX and R2. | |||||||||
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David Hollick
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David has worked closely with Nigel Barrington since forming 2020 Imaging in 2000 and was responsible for initiating the company's partnership with Sussex University and jointly developing the underlying core technology. His diverse career has been primarily in the field of specialist software development and has embraced a number of senior technical, marketing and financial roles. David is a graduate of the University of London. |
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Lim Hoon Chiat
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Pete Horton
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Pete Horton is Vice President, Market Development at the Watt Stopper/Legrand (Santa Clara, CA) where he is applying his management, service and controls expertise to lead the development of digital lighting control systems for sustainable and intelligent buildings. Pete was recently promoted in March 2008 to lead the deployment of the Watt Stopper brand into developed and emerging markets throughout the world. Prior to joining Watt Stopper in 2000, he was a founder and President of Horton Controls where he managed national sales, engineering, software development, and the service organization for GE’s lighting control division. He has over 30 years experience with integrated design building automation specializing in HVAC and lighting controls. Pete attended Auburn University, Auburn AL studying Mechanical Engineering, and actively presents AIA accredited or non accredited education programs on Lighting Controls, Sustainability and Intelligent Buildings. He is a Member of ASHRAE, IALD, IESNA, CABA and the US Green Building Council. |
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Scott Hoye
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Scott has worked as a software engineer for Tridium since 2001. He has extensive experience in a range of areas within the Niagara Framework, including core, driver, and enterprise application development. Scott holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia. |
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Geoff Hunter
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Geoff Hunter is a Principal and Vice President of Coleman Systems Inc…. a Systems Integration consulting company operating throughout the State of Ohio. The Company also offers Commissioning services and Energy Services (including Measurement and Verification). Geoff has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University and is a Certified Building Commissioning Professional. |
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John Huston
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Gareth Johnson
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Gareth is a Software Engineer in the Core Engineering Team and Software Architect for Tridium EMEA. Gareth is based in the UK. Prior to working for Tridium, Gareth spent 4 years as a Software Engineer for Trend Control Systems. |
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James Johnson |
James Johnson has been working for Tridium for the last four years as a technical sales engineer for the Vykon channel. In this role he provides support for the sales team and the Vykon channel, including both distributors and integrators. He also frequently assists with TridiumTALK sessions and trade show events. Prior to working for Tridium, James spent 9 years working in the mechanical and controls contracting industry. He also served in the US Navy for 8 years, in the naval nuclear power program. |
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Jeff Kegley
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With over 21 years of experience selling enterprise automation solutions, Jeff Kegley leads Tridium’s Business Development efforts in the Energy Market. He has been with Tridium since 2008. Prior to Tridium he worked a combined 19 years for Rockwell Automation and InfinityQS. |
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Fawaz Khalil
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Fawaz is Director of Services Marketing and Product Management for Gilbarco Veeder-Root. Fawaz’s role encompasses leading the new business development, marketing and product management functions for the Services business unit, which among other products, offers remote device management services and solutions for gas dispensers, point-of-sale systems, fuel/environmental monitoring devices and energy management. These services are designed to deliver higher profits and better control to customers for their fuelling sites by lowering the total cost of ownership, reducing downtime, ensuring environmental compliance, increasing customer loyalty and optimizing energy and fuel usage. Prior to joining Gilbarco Veeder-Root, Fawaz has had diverse experience across North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia working in various functional and management roles for organizations in the manufacturing, technology, private equity and financial sectors. Besides undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science and Finance, Fawaz has also earned an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. |
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Dan Kilker
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Dan have been with Honeywell for 12+ years, touching multiple divisions from Automotive and Aerospace to Building Controls and Tridium. Prior to Honeywell he was with United Technologies Automotive Group for 10+ years. By education Dan has a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters of Science in Program Management. | |||||||||
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Harry Kohal
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Harry joined Eagle Technology in June of 2006 and is currently Vice President of Business Development. Headquartered in Mequon, WI, Eagle Technology has 22 years of experience dedicated to maintenance and facility management solutions for medium to large size organizations. In October of 2006, Eagle acquired Equipsoft, which addresses maintenance needs for small to medium sized companies as well. Harry has worked in the technology sector for retail, insurance, service industries, and manufacturing organizations and has a degree in Business and Marketing from Marian University, and has co-authored a chapter on facility management in the 21st Century for the APWA Public Woks Administration, and is a frequent speaker on facilities management topics. He is currently enrolled in the Masters of Liberal Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. He is a member of CABA, IFMA and PFMA and brings a fresh look to the emerging industry of green intelligent building management | |||||||||
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Nitin Lamba
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Product marketing responsibilities for building automation products, including WEBs-AX products based on Tridium's Niagara framework. Over 7 years of experience at Honeywell, including advanced control application development. Bachelor's and Masters degrees in engineering with an international MBA. | |||||||||
Ugo Landry-Tolszczuk
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Ugo Landry Tolszczuk heads the relationship between Tridium and Distech Controls. He is relatively new to the building automation world having previously worked in the consumer electronics industry. Ugo holds a B.S in computer engineering from the University of Waterloo | ||||||||||
Matt Lane
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Michel Lemieux
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Michel has held a number of titles throughtout his 16 year career at Viconics including; Strategic OEM Sales Manager, Systems Engineer and Engineering Project Manager. This put him in a leadership role for the design and architecture of the Viconics product lines. In his current position Michel is deeply involved in strategic sales planning and product roll out. Viconics has been a manufacturer of innovative temperaure and humidity controls since 1981. Our current development focus is on communicating, wall mounted ASC’s with imbeded configuration utilities primarily for terminal unit control and locally configurable system solutions. |
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John Leslie
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John came to Las Vegas from a long tenure with some of the largest universities in the country including Notre Dame and Western Michigan University, working in environmental controls and energy management. He started his career in 1972 in the steam and chiller plants at CAT, Inc in East Peoria, IL as a mechanical engineer apprentice. He quickly moved from steam turbine repairman, chiller repairman to controls specialist. After he left Cat in 1988, he worked throughout the Midwest automating large hospitals HVAC and Steam/chiller plant control systems. John Leslie has been the energy manager with MGM/Mirage for the last 4 years. He has optimized energy consumption in the central plants of the MGM/Mirage’s 14 Las Vegas properties and 2 properties in other states. He has recently returned from a 2 month stay at the MGM Grand Macau property where he has implemented rigid plant operations procedures including the installation of a “state of the art” Tridium platform BMS system in the central plant. He has been given the enormous task of assisting in the reduction of the corporation’s $ 400,000 a day energy costs. His success in energy reductions in central plants across the properties has generated international attention. MGM Grand Macau has seen a $ 3.1 million dollar reduction of energy costs in just 10 months with several Tridium platform technologies John has brought to the property. |
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Bennet Levine
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Bennet Levine is the Research and Development Manager at Contemporary Controls and for over 20 years has been involved in developing a wide variety of controls and communication products. | |||||||||
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Steve Lucas
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Preceding his time at Tridium, Steve gained extensive experience in the security industry through a variety of senior systems engineering and program management positions with Johnson Controls Security Systems. Steve received a B.S. in electrical engineering with distinction from the Virginia Military Institute.
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Brian Lynaugh
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Brian Lynaugh has 30 years of experience with controls industry. Brian was with Honeywell for 20 years and held positions as engineering, programming, performance contacting, energy auditing, technician resource manager and sales. Currently Brian is the System Integration Sales Engineer for Direct Digital Controls in Sacramento, a firm focused upon Tridium system integration of Johnson Controls, Honeywell, TAC, ALC, Liebert and ModBus systems. He also serves as the NORCal local chapter president for the Association of Energy Engineers. His is a member of the ASHRAE and Data Centers User Group (DCUG). |
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Nigel MacKenzie
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Nigel MacKenzie is the Chief Technical Officer for Pacific Control Systems, LLC in Dubai, UAE. His responsibilities include identifying new business opportunities organizing customer presentations and exhibitions and managing new products introduction to the market and to the sales forces. Pacific Controls’ use of state-of-the-art technologies include M2M-based Enterprise-level automation solutions for large commercial projects such as the Dubai International Airport, Command Control Centre for construction/real estate developers, Homeland Security projects and large infrastructure projects, all of which demand sophisticated automated solutions using the latest wireless technologies for operations and management. |
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Russ Marcks
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Professor Marcks has developed and taught on-line classes including Statics, Strength of Materials, and Industrial Refrigeration. He provides digital enhancements for traditional classes through the Sinclair on-line course delivery system, and has been a principal investigator in two NSF grants. |
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Jim McGlone
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Jack McGowan |
Jack McGowan is CEO of Energy Control Inc. and is Chairman of the U.S. Department of Energy GridWise Architecture Council. He is an author with 5 published books and over 125 articles. Mc Gowan is an internationally known energy, buildings and technology expert, and was chosen by his peers as 2006 Visionary at the Builconn Intelligent Buildings event. The Association of Energy Engineers admitted him to the “International Energy Managers Hall of Fame” in 2003 and named him “International Energy Professional of the Year” in 1997. He also sits on Technical Advisory Boards and is a Contributing Editor with several magazines including Engineered Systems, Green Intelligent Buildings Today and www.automatedbuildings.com . | |||||||||
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Andy McMahon
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With over 15 years experience in the automation industry, Andy McMahon has worked for some of the leading automation software suppliers in various management roles including sales, product marketing and promotional marketing. During his tenure at Tridium Corporation, he was responsible for managing North American sales and helping create the current distribution sales channel for the Vykon product line. Prior to that, Andy was at Wonderware Corporation, a leading industrial automation software company. He played a key role in the co-creation and release of the first internet product for the industrial automation market, and managed their number one product line, InTouch. Currently, he is tasked with managing a sales and distribution territory for Controlco, and helping design leading edge automation technology projects for large end-users. He also heads up the Sales and Marketing efforts for CSI3, a Controlco Company. |
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Robert Mealey
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Bob is a partner in Lynxspring. Bob has an extensive background in sales, marketing and sales management with technology based companies. He worked in the open systems software business prior to moving to controls where he was a founder partner of OSIware Software Inc and held a VP position with Infonet Software Solutions Inc. in sales and marketing roles. In the controls business he held the position of VP Sales with Circon Inc and later held a variety of Director level positions with TAC Inc. Bob is a graduate of the University of Minnesota. | |||||||||
Steve Michals
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Steve Michals has been a Software Engineer for Johnson Controls for over 28 years and has been creating really cool extensions to the NiagaraAX Framework since 2005. | ||||||||||
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Don Millstein
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Don Millstein is President and CEO of E-Mon, LLC of Langhorne, PA, a leading manufacturer of electric submetering equipment, energy management software and services. Don was a very active participant in E-MON's deregulation efforts and sat on several utility deregulation committees in California, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. He is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council, Alliance to Save Energy (ASE) and the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) Task Force. Don has been a member of the Department of Energy (DOE) Committee on Energy Efficiency, Commerce and Trade, and a U.S. Delegate to the hemispheric energy symposium hosted by Hazel O’Leary, former U.S. Secretary of Energy. Don was also a member of the U.S. delegation to the Western Hemispheric Trade & Commerce Forum hosted by the late Ron Brown, Secretary of Commerce. Mr. Millstein’s career with E-Mon culminated with the orchestration of the sale of E-Mon in 2002 to Hunt Power, a multi-billion dollar private company, where he remained with the company as President until the end of 2004. He is a well-recognized speaker in the energy industry and has been published in over 30 trade magazines. Mr. Millstein holds an MBA from Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ. | |||||||||
Marshall Nesgoda
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Ron Pepin
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Daniel Perez
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Daniel Perez, vice president of technology of Energy Curtailment Specialists, has more than 15 years experience in the automation and communications engineering field. He has worked with various building automation manufactures as a communications engineer, and has held various engineering degrees throughout his carrier. Over the past several years Dan has emerged as a leader in the field of building automation, energy management systems and data access. While working with mechanical engineering firms, Dan has assisted in designing and developing energy efficient specifications and standards for large commercial facility development. He actively works with current ECS clients and prospects across the USA and Canada upgrading their capabilities in reference to enabling technologies and automated response. Additionally, Dan is responsible for the measurement and verification aspect of the ECS demand response portfolio. He is also the architect of the analytical system at the core of ECS OpNet Center and leads the technology research and development departments. He holds a degree in Computer Science and a Network Engineering degree. He also works closely with ASHRAE and USGBC local chapters to discover new and improved standards for energy efficiency and protocols. |
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Marc Petock
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Marc heads marketing, brand management and communications for Tridium. Prior to joining Tridium, Marc served as Vice President at Patrick Marketing Group where he developed marketing and communication initiatives for a variety of global technology companies. Preceding his time at Patrick Marketing Group, Marc held the position of Vice President at Connected Brands where he was responsible for the company’s Technology and Telecommunications Practice. Marc serves as a business advisory board member to M2M Magazine and has been recognized by the Realcomm organization as one of the top 35 People to Watch in 2008, 2009 and 2010. He also serves as a member of the Realcomm Technology Advisory Council. |
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Bryan Pike
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Bryan Pike is Co-Founder and Vice-President of AIC Wireless, one of the leading wireless innovation companies in the building automation industry. Bryan has a Bachelor of Science Degree from North Georgia College, a leading Senior Military College. Bryan is also Co-Founder of Pervasive Devices, LLC, a software and hardware company developing cutting edge products based on the Sedona Framework ™. Bryan has been involved in many large government contracts involving energy management and remote monitoring. Pervasive Devices, LLC is positioning itself as the leading developer of convergent devices to access and manage remote assets globally. |
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Dilip Rahulan
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Mr. Dilip Rahulan is the founder, and the Chairman & CEO of Pacific Control Systems, a global automation solutions company based in
Mr. Rahulan has more than 30 years of experience as a business person who has developed the Pacific Group of companies in seven countries worldwide. His entrepreneurial skills drove him to set up his first engineering business in 1982, North Atlantic Engineering Consultants, which is today one of the largest consulting engineering firms in
In 1984, Mr. Rahulan established Pacific Control Systems in
Mr. Rahulan is a Chartered Engineer, and a member of the Association of Energy Engineers; Institution of Engineers in
As part of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Mr. Rahulan has pioneered the concept of ‘Green Building’ in the Middle East, and has contributed to the green initiative by spearheading the design and construction of Pacific Controls’ headquarters as the first Platinum rated Green Building in the Middle East, under the United States Green Building Council’s (USGBC’s) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program. |
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Rod Reese
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Rod currently serves as Director, Business Development and Planning with Diebold, Incorporated, a manufacturer of transaction processing products and a leader in providing integrated delivery, energy management and security systems and services. Founded in 1859, the company employs more than 14,000 associates in some 120 locations worldwide with headquarters in North Canton, Ohio, USA. Diebold’s Security Business Unit designs, manufactures and integrates security systems and facility management systems for financial institutions, retailers, government agencies and commercial buildings. The product portfolio includes: Access Control, Surveillance Systems, Alarms/Devices, Energy Management Solutions, Remote Monitoring and Managed Services. In addition to his responsibilities at Diebold, Reese is a member of the adjunct faculty at Kent State University Tuscarawas Regional Campus in New Philadelphia, Ohio, teaching various upper-level marketing courses. Reese joined Diebold in 1994 as a product manager for pneumatic tube systems, after holding various sales and marketing positions in the capital equipment business and transportation industry throughout the United States and Far East (Singapore). Educational background includes a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing from West Liberty State College, a Master of Business Administration Degree from Kent State University and advanced leadership training at the Kelly School of Business – Indiana University. Reese resides in New Philadelphia, Ohio with his wife (Darlene). They have two adult children. |
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Gil Rockwell
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Gil has been with Tridium since its inception and has over 38 years in the Building Automation field having worked for Robertshaw Controls (now TAC). He has held positions as Field Engineer, Project Manager, Systems Engineer, Marketing Engineer, Product Manager, Marketing Manager, and Manager Systems Products. He is the senior product manager responsible for virtually all of Tridium’s products. Gil attended
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Tommy Russo
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Tommy Russo serves as Chief Technology Office for Akridge, the leading commercial real estate owner and property management company in Washington, DC. He is also a Strategic Advisor at CoR Advisors, providing invaluable direction and consulting services to the company and its clients. Mr. Russo’s experience in commercial development and construction, coupled with his extensive background in information technology (IT), provides a unique understanding of the value of technology in the built environment. Some of his most notable accomplishments include research and deployment of energy conservation methods to reduce the utility costs up to 40% across the Akridge portfolio, as well as installation of advanced lighting solutions, the deployment of the first neutral host in-building wireless system in the U.S., and a wireless web-based camera network, which when linked to project websites for construction monitoring, allowing investors and project managers to observe their asset under construction. |
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William Sandoval
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William Sandoval is Vice President of Product Marketing and Business Development at Tridium. His responsibilities include managing and guiding the company’s product development initiatives in order to drive business expansion into new and existing markets and segments. Prior to joining Tridium, William spent 12 years at Lutron Electronics and Philips Lighting Electronics, Inc. During this time he held different positions in sales, business and product development, and marketing. William holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Minors in Mathematics and Physics from Florida International University . |
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Tom Schircliff
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Tom Shircliff has 20 years experience in consulting, marketing and sales of technology to real estate developers, commercial businesses, government, healthcare and higher education. Tom has been a regional executive for AT&T, Broadriver VoIP and The Price-Davis Company. He is currently Co-founder and Managing Director along with Rob Murchison, of consulting firm Intelligent Buildings, Inc. Intelligent Buildings is a nationally recognized specialist in real estate technology consulting including strategy and standards development, organizational alignment and financial analysis. Intelligent Buildings’ key clients include the U.S. Federal Government General Services Administration (GSA), Duke Energy, Bank of America and Cisco Systems. He has a BA degree in political science from North Carolina State University and also maintains a real estate license. He is on the Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) Intelligent and Integrated Buildings Council, the CABA Intelligent Building North America Market Sizing Steering Committee, the Realcomm Real Estate Solutions Advisory Group, The Board of Directors of the California Smart Buildings Association and a speaker or moderator at multiple conferences and Universities including The Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Architecture and School of Building Construction. Tom also serves on the Board of Directors for the Children and Family Services Center, volunteers on the United Way Technology Committee and teaches Junior Achievement. |
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Chris Schneider
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Chris has a Diploma of IT from the University of New England (QLD) and a Bachelors Degree in IT from the Queensland University of Technology. After Completing this has work for Bar-Tech Automation Developing their strategies for going to market with the Tridium product in Queensland. Since then Bar-Tech has been involved in a Join Ventures with Dalkia on Building Queensland's biggest Data Centre which was full integrated in to the Tridium product with over 25,000 connected points and growing. Bar-Tech has also worked on integrating all services in side the Cairns Airport to allow one monitoring system for all facets of the complex from Landing lights to Sliding doors to integration with flight plans. Chris's current position is Engineering Manager and has been in this position for 3 years. |
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Anno Scholten
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Anno Scholten has more than 25 years experience in the energy, controls and building automation industries. Mr. Scholten is currently an energy consultant specializing in enterprise energy integration with building automation systems. In this capacity, he has been working for Constellation NewEnergy in the design, development and deployment of VirtuWatt EnergyManager. Previously, Mr. Scholten was CTO at NovusEdge and Plexus Technologies, both of which developed technologies to integrate building systems. Prior to that, he was VP of Engineering for CSI Control Systems (now TAC), a worldwide building automation system manufacturer. As an innovator and thought leader in the industry, Mr. Scholten has also served on many key industry standards committees and holds patents in energy management systems. |
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Brenton Scott
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Peggy Smedley
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Peggy Smedley is an internationally known and highly respected personality in both the media world and the business side of the M2M, construction, and manufacturing industries. An outspoken advocate and supporter of connected devices and machine-to-machine technology, Peggy serves as the host of The Peggy Smedley Show, the editorial director of Connected World magazine and its sister publication Constructech, as well as the president of Specialty Publishing Co. Based in the Chicago area, Peggy is a renowned author and an award-winning editor having earned numerous honors for editorial excellence. She has also been a guest on television business and news programs and has been a voice on many national commercially syndicated radio shows |
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Tim Spear
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As Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Spear is responsible for developing and managing the technology vision for company. Prior to co-founding Tangible in 1998, Mr. Spear was a consultant to Teoco where he designed, built, and managed the architecture for the Telecommunications product line. The product line provided carrier access billing, management, verification, reconciliation, and dispute management to Federal and Commercial clients. He was also the co-founder and Director of Ventera Corporation, a technology solutions company serving large telecommunications and wireless firms such as Nextel, LCI, LCC, and Cable & Wireless. Throughout the course of his career, Mr. Spear has worked as a consultant to major corporations focusing on technology solutions to improve business operations in emerging markets. He is also the author of several books on software development. | |||||||||
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John Sublett
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John Sublett is a co-founder of Tridium and a software architect for the Niagara Framework. He is currently the lead engineer for Niagara Central, the online portal for the Niagara community. His work on the Framework has included design and implemention of the historical data collection subsystem for Niagara and the Baja Query Language (BQL). He also led the development team for the Vykon Energy Suite (VES). John received an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Virginia | |||||||||
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Steve Taylor
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Steve is the Sales and Technical Director at Controlworks Pty Ltd located in Sydney Australia. Controlworks is one of Australia’s premier Vykon System Integrators specializing in design and construct projects and utilizes multiple vendor’s technologies to provide interoperability across projects. Steve is also a principal in Controlworks having joined them from Invensys Building Systems Australia where he was Managing Director. Prior to Invensys, Steve was a State Manager with Environ Mechanical Services, Service Manager with Satchwell Controls Australia and held various technical and supervisory roles with Honeywell. Having started as an electrical apprentice in 1975, during the course of his career he has gained qualifications in electrical engineering and his degree in business and management however he has never strayed far from his passion for controls and automation. |
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Reiner Tuinzing
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Brian Turner
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Mr. Turner is broadly recognized as a leading expert in the Smart Building and System Integration industry. His clients have included Fortune 100 corporations, major school districts, university systems, airports and ports, national government agencies, large private and public hospitals, technology companies, and developers. He provides many years of hand on experience to architects, engineers, and building owners assisting with the design and implementation of integrated building systems. He believes that the future of buildings and our environment are full of connected intelligent devices and unified data highways allowing humans and devices to interact seamlessly to make better decisions. Mr. Turner currently heads the Professional Services team at Controlco including the OEM partner channel and CSI Cubed. Mr. Turner's educational credits include a B.S. in Human Factors Psychology from California State University, East Bay and a M.B.A. with specialization in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix. He is also an Accredited LEED Professional. Mr. Turner supports education and continued growth in the smart buildings industry by serving as an advisor to the education curriculum for Laney College's Environmental Control Technology Program. Mr. Turner has spoken on numerous occasions at conferences and seminars focusing on integration and technology issues, including Builconn, Realcomm, and the Niagara Summit. |
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Ged Tyrrell
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Apprenticed at the UK's leading control manufacturer, Ged later delivered large-scale HVAC integration projects then launched Tyrrell Systems (Tridium SI/AX development partner) to deliver state-of-the art building systems integration solutions. | ||||||||||
Alper Uzmezler
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Alper is a systems and graphics designer specializing in Tridium integration. He has been working in the building automation industry for over 10 years. His expertise in graphics and Tridium programming is not easily matched. Today he runs his own business modeling graphics in Maya and developing Tridium AX- based systems. He is considered a Tridium AX guru by those that know him and have worked with him. He has worked on systems reaching from Guam to New York and all over the United States in between. | ||||||||||
Alberto Vuan
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After finishing Business School Alberto joined the family business of VDA established back in the 1980"s by his father, which entered the hotel room control market in 1991 and has since become the driving force behind its growth, setting up various new business ventures and globalizing the groups activities. | ||||||||||
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Damien Wagner
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Born and raised in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, Damien served in the United States Navy for 4 years. Out of the Navy he studied at the University Of Houston. Upon his return to Pennsylvania, he began doing controls in July 2005 and began working with the Tridium products shortly after. Damien has been certified in AX certified in 2007 and Niagara Enterprise Security 2.0 in 2009. Damien joined Postler & Jaeckle Corporation in May 2007. He has experience in many aspects of controls, counting Johnson, Honeywell, Carrier CCN, Tridium, Delta, Automated Logic, and WIN911 among his projects. His experience includes programming, graphics, CAD, Technical Proposals, and estimating. | |||||||||
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Andy Waibel
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Serving clients by consistently delivering practical solutions that add value is a personal and team mission. As a founding officer of BuildingLogiX with nearly 20 years of industry experience we continue to serve our clients with passion and enthusiasm, and helping them meet the challenges of business growth in these tough economic times. | |||||||||
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Rick Warner
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Richard K. Warner, PE, LEED AP is currently the President/CEO of O&M Engineering, Inc., an industry leader in innovative solutions for the facility automation market. As an electrical engineering graduate student at WVU, he published research in the area of evolutionary algorithms for large-scale power system stabilization. During his career, he has focused on solutions for complex control and automation systems in the Power, Steel, Waste Water, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Research Laboratory, Mission Critical Computing and Facility Energy Management industries. In recent years, he has focused on solutions for large-scale systems integration in the area of real-time information analysis, user interfaces, data visualization and actionable information intelligence. |
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Mike Welch
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Mike Welch is a Co-founder of Control Network Solutions Ltd (CNS) in the UK. CNS has throughout its history created and delivered innovative and ground breaking solutions to the Open standards intelligent controls networking world. CNS now continues this theme as a NiagaraAX Developer by not only creating client specific solutions but now the world’s first entirely web based DALI® lighting solution. Written natively for NiagaraAX this solutions in a single web environment enables a Tridium SI Partner to completely commission, control, manage and maintain DALI lighting networks both new and retro-fit. | |||||||||
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Rick Weisensale
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Rick Weisensale is the Product Director for Niagara Security bringing over 30 years of experience in the security and access control fields,. In this role, he manages the on-going development of the new NiagaraAX security system. Previous to this role, Rick was Director of Technical Support Services Department which provided Product Testing, Technical Support, and Production Engineering. Prior to joining Tridium, Rick was Director of Engineering with responsibility for all management aspects of overall system design at Diversified Control Systems. Rick has also held positions with Diversified Engineering, Inc. and Robertshaw Controls Company. | |||||||||
Doug Woosley
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K M Yin
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Graduated with Bachelor of Electrical & Electronic Engineering in 1992, has more than 18 years of experience in design and manufacturing of Building Automation and Refrigeration related controller products. | ||||||||||
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Jim Young
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Jim is the Co-Founder and Producer of Realcomm, the world’s leading conference on technology, business solutions, the internet and building automation for the Commercial Real Estate Industry. With over 13 years experience in Real Estate and technology Jim has been involved in some of the most important projects in the industry. He has spoken to over 100,000 professionals on the topic and has authored more than 150 articles on the subject of technology, the internet, business solutions and building automation for Commercial Real Estate. | |||||||||
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