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New Chapter & SIG Leadership - April 2012
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Chris Powers
Senior Tools Engineer
Fiserv
SIG Leader
Network Automation SIG - Join Now

Chris is currently a Senior Tools Engineer for a provider of technology solutions to the financial world including: banks, credit unions, and securities processing organizations. He provides a wide range of services to the clients, as well as other support groups such as the Network Operations Center and Network Engineering. He has worked with clients in a variety of industries, mostly related to Wide Area Networks and Network Management functions. Chris is interested in Wide Area Network performance as well as SNMP scripting. He was able to utilize all of these skills as a Network Engineer at Zvolve where he provided configuration guidance to developers on a MPLS software solution. Then at SunTrust, he was exposed to HP Network Automation and fell in love. Now at Fiserv, he is able to take the next step and architect, deploy and support HP Network and Operations Orchestration.

Chris serves the HP Software community as a founder and co-leader of the Vivit Network Automation Special Interest Group (NA SIG).


Wendy Wheeler
Content Manager
HP
SIG Supporter
Network Automation SIG - Join Now

Wendy has been working in the network tools and operations space since 1996.Currently, she works for HP Software as the Content Manager for HP NA, NNMi, and ISPi. She is also an HP Eco Advocate; she serves as an environmental speaker at conferences, plans HP environmental volunteer activities, and participates in various corporate environmental activities.

Wendy serves the HP Software community as a founder and co-leader of the Vivit Network Automation Special Interest Group (NA SIG).

New Chapter and Leader:



Michal Zarzycki
Quality Assurance & Test Engineer
Volvo
Chapter Leader
Poland - Join Now

Michal is a Quality Assurance and Test Engineer, since October 2005, for Volvo. He acts as a Tester (Functional, Functional Automation and Performance). Michael is responsible for HP test tools: HP Quality Center, HP Quick Test Professional and HP Performance Center.

Michal has a degree in Computer Engineering from Academy of Management and Finance in Poland and a Master of Science degree from Wroclaw University of Economics specializing in Computer Science in Management. He has additional skill training in Better Business Communication, Team Work and Coaching. Additionally, he has technical training in ISTQB, Certified tester, Foundation Level, Certified Test Manager, HP Fundamentals of LoadRunner 9.0, HP VuGen 9.0 Scripting for Web, HP Performance Center 9.0, MS Visual Studio Team System, Rational Functional Tester, HP QTP; SAP TAO; HP Quality Center, and ISTQB Advanced Level - Technical Test Analyst.

He serves the HP Software User community as a founder and leader of the new Poland Vivit chapter.


New Leaders:


Mihai Grigorescu
Test Process Manager
Standard Bank Group
Chapter Leader
South Africa - Join Now


Mihai Grigorescu has a BSc in International Economics and has furthered his studies in Business Communications. He has been in testing for the last five years and is currently in the role of Test Process Manager at one of the major financial institutions in South Africa. He has a passion for testing in general and business as well as technical processes. He is an avid fan of making optimal use of available tools which assist the test effort (testing tool-smith). He is also currently a board member of the SIGiST committee and an active speaker in national and international events.

Mihai serves the HP Software community as a co-leader of the Vivit South Africa chapter.


Evan Hamilton
President & Managing Director
Cravetek, LLC
Chapter Leader
Colorado  - Join Now

 

Evan is the President & Managing Director at Cravetek, LLC - a HP Software integration partner that wasfounded in 2007.  He started Cravetek after spending his first 10 years in the IT business working primarily in sales and management rolesin the ISP / datacom and OEM fields. He got his start in the HP software world working as a regional sales manager for VIP Consulting (a legacy Mercury Interactive partner). Cravetek's businessisfocused on ESM / Enterprise Systems Management, Monitoring,and Application Performance Management (BAC, DDM, BSM, uCMDB, Sitecope, Service Manager, RC, Opsware, NNM, OV, etc.). Cravetek works directly with many fortune500 enterprise clients, providing strategic HPS /BTO software project consulting services. Additionally, Cravetek works closely with many of the other HPS partners,along with traditional consulting firms (Accenture, CSC, Tata, Adecco, etc.); and Cravetek has worked with clients and partnersinternationally in both EMEA and LATAM.

Evan serves the Vivit&HP Software community as a co-leader for the Configuration Management SIG and also the Colorado chapter of Vivit.

 


Sandeep Jain
CEO
OpsHub, Inc.
Chapter Leader
Silicon Valley/San Jose - Join Now

 

Sandeep Jain is the CEO and founder of OpsHub, Inc. and is passionate about building winning products and great teams. Prior to founding OpsHub, he was the Head of the Device Management group at Openwave Systems with responsibilities for product management, engineering and sales support for the Openwave Mobile Device Manager product line. Prior to Openwave, he was the founder & CEO of Viquity Corporation. Viquity was a startup focusing on improving the efficiency of the intercompany direct material supply chain. At Viquity, he developed the initial business plan and raised three rounds of venture financing from Hummer Winblad, Atlas Ventures and JK&B Capital. Prior to Viquity, he was a nine-year veteran at Oracle Corporation. He held management positions at Oracle's Server Technology Division and Application Server Division. While at Oracle, Sandeep conceptualized and created the replication product line extension to Oracle Database Server.

Besides OpsHub, he is passionate about mentoring and entrepreneurship. He is on the advisory board of Astia, an innovative global not-for-profit organization that propels women's full participation as entrepreneurs and leaders in high-growth businesses, fueling innovation and driving economic growth. He is also leads the mentorship program for PAN IIT, an alumni organization for the alumni of Indian Institutes of Technology.

He received his B.Tech. in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, M.S. in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from Santa Clara University. He also holds several patents in the distributed systems area.

Sandeep serves the HP Software community as a co-leader of the Vivit Silicon Valley/San Jose chapter.

 Vivit now has 60 local chapters spanning 22 countries. Join a Chapter near you.
Vivit has 13 worldwide SIGs. View our complete list of SIGs.


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