Jeff Alexander started at Microsoft in August 1987 as a Support Professional focusing on operating systems and desktop applications for Enterprise Customers. Since then he spent 6 years in Microsoft’s internal IT team as a Datacenter manager; one of his biggest projects being a server consolidation of the Sydney site to Singapore. Jeff Alexander now focuses his passion for Infrastructure and management technologies as an IT Pro Evangelist promoting and enabling the community of IT Professionals through vehicles as Technet events; blogging, the TechNet Web Site , User Groups, MVP's, and online webcasts.

Simon Hackett founded and runs both Internode, a broadband services provider, and Agile, a broadband network building company. He helped to put AARNet v1 together many moons ago. He likes making good and cool technical things happen in the broadband space.

Tom is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and system administrator. His books include The Practice of System and Network Administration (Addison-Wesley) and Time Management for System Administrators (O'Reilly). He received the Usenix SAGE 2005 Outstanding Achievement Award. He lives in New Jersey, USA, works at Google in NYC and blogs at http://EverythingSysadmin.com.
His new web site www.TomOnTime.com contains short videos of his time management advice.

Amanda Rollond has over 10 years experience in the IT industry, in roles including System Administration, System Architecture, Training, and Consulting.

Amanda specialises in messaging and infrastructure design, deployment, and support.She has worked around the world in roles ranging from system administration in small companies, through to high level support and migration projects for large multinational corporates. She has also managed an international server support team, and is a firm believer in learning the basics first.

Avi has been working in the Information Systems industry since 1993. He has extensive experience in networking, including server and workstation hardware; network, server and workstation operating systems; and LAN & WAN connectivity. His roles and responsibilities in several projects have included technical project management, network architecture design, network and software integration design, workstation environment development, software deployment and troubleshooting.

Avi has extensive experience as a technical instructor, with trainer qualifications for both Novell and Microsoft-based courseware. He also holds a Certified Technical Trainer status from the Chauncey Group. Avi’s training experience covers both systems training (e.g. NetWare and Windows NT) and development training (e.g. HTML, Visual Basic).

Avi's has worked as an Implementation Specialist and Product Evangelist for Australia's largest Open Source development company. In this position, Avi was responsible for the daily management of all Canberra-based implementations of the company-developed software, including project management, implementation and support.

Currently, Avi works as a Linux and Virtualization Architect for Oracle Corporation. As an architect, my role is to work with the field sales team to establish key Enterprise Linux & Virtualization (Oracle VM) account wins. I am also expected to speak at enterprise conferences, users groups, and other events to evangelize Linux, Oracle’s Open Source contributions, and Oracle VM (virtualization). He also has direct planning and execution responsibility for the Linux & virtualization strategy along with the regional Linux & virtualization business development team.

Baden Hughes has spent over 20 years in various parts of the ICT and information industry including roles in software development, system engineering and administration, network operations, academic teaching and research, industrial R&D and commercialization.

As well as holding a number of patents in the area of making DNS do things it was not really designed for, he also has the project management qualifications that make business people feel happy about him running their IT projects :-).

Ben Short works as a Senior IT Support Officer within the Tasmanian State Service.
Starting out of the IT Support Desk he has progressed through desktop support and now
works in the server section for the Department of Health and Human Services. Outside of
work, Ben is a self confessed geek and gadget junkie which sees him spending much of
his time (and money) tinkering in various technologies. Ben also contributes to the SAGE-
AU Journal with articles about Microsoft Powershell.

Christine Robertson is Ergon Energy’s Community Energy Education Advisor. She has a teaching background but has worked in the Queensland Electricity Industry since 1995. Passionate about the need for sustainable energy use behaviours, in 2007 Christine was the recipient of the Queensland Education Department Peter Doherty Award for Excellence in Science and Science Education and in 2009 received the Science Partnership Award for Ergon Energy’s community energy education programs. The programs provide tailored energy education focussing on renewables and energy conservation to a wide range of communities and stakeholders from urban to rural, remote and indigenous, delivering outcomes focussed on empowerment and environmental knowledge.

Daniel Black is a consultant for OVEE specialising in Linux systems, security
policy and practices. He has previously worked for a government department
managing their email services, writing security policy and undertaking
investigations. Perviously at CAcert he managed their email services and
migrated some services to client certificate based services which is covered in
his talk. Daniel is involved in the IETF DKIM standards process and is a
volunteer developer for the OpenDKIM product.

Daniel Brown is the principal consultant at Archon Gnosis, a Consultancy firm specialising in Microsoft SharePoint, .NET Development, Business Process Analysis and Solidification.

As the founder and lead of the Adelaide SharePoint User Group for over 3 years now, and having been awarded and the rearward the Microsoft Most Valued Professional in SharePoint in Adelaide in 2008 and then again in 2009 for his technical expertise and also Community leadership, Daniel strives to grown the I.T community, not only in South Australia, but globally.

Daniel also holds a position on the board of the Australian Computer Society.

David Jorm is a software engineer and technical writer with over 10 years in the game. He has worked on superannuation fund infrastructure, web-based trivia games, optical character recognition, meteorological synoptic networks, Chinese hotel reservations and mental health education initiatives. He currently works as a technical writer for Red Hat, specializing in virtualization products. In his spare time he studies geography and feeds a serious travel addiction.

David Ross is a Chartered Professional Engineer, Payment Card Industry Qualified Security
Assessor, IT security consultant, manager, part-time university lecturer, semi-retired
infantry soldier, private aircraft pilot, husband and father of five. He is the Security Practice
Manager for Bridge Point Communications, who provide the current venue for the Brisbane
SAGE-AU meetings, and is also the Brisbane Branch Exec for the Australian Information
Security Association. Dr Ross recently completed a PhD in wireless network security, with
the Information Security Institute at the Queensland University of Technology. He has
worked in the computer industry for 20 years and specifically in IT security for over half of
that. He also undertakes casual teaching with the University of Queensland and the
Queensland University of Technology from time to time. His consulting roles typically
involve security infrastructure development and review, enterprise architecture and
information security policy development for the finance, resources and government sectors,
as well as consulting in specialist areas of government and enterprise PKI, 802.1X and
802.11 networking security.

Geoff Halprin has over 30 years experience in the IT industry, in roles including developer, system administrator, system architect, consultant, Director of Network Operations, and CIO.

Geoff specialises in systems management disciplines, and in the evaluation and improvement of system management practices. He has contributed several large bodies of work to the profession, including Geoff Halprin's Operational Support Toolkit (GHOST), The System Administration Body of Knowledge (SA-BOK), and Test-Driven System Administration (TDSA).

Geoff has also served on the boards of SAGE, SAGE-AU, USENIX and LOPSA.

James McPherson is a Senior Software Engineer and OpenSolaris core kernel gatekeeper who also works on Solaris kernel drivers for Oracle. With Sun Microsystems since late 1999, he worked in technical support before moving to work on Fibre Channel, Multipathing and Serial-Attached SCSI drivers. Prior to joining Sun, he worked for Macquarie University and the University of Queensland Libraries as a system administrator. James is a keen cyclist, enjoys cooking, is married and has one child.

Julius is a strong believer that end-user satisfaction is best achieved by creating robust, easy to support IT environments with minimum complexity and high functionality for end users. He is happy working with both Windows and UNIX environments, and is a supporter of various open-source initiatives.

Julius has presented at a number of conferences and user group meetings including LinuxConf and SAGE-AU. When not solving system problems, he can be found gardening and spending time with his family in Hobart.

Kelvin Rundle has over 11 years of IT Security experience specializing in the area of Secure Application Delivery and Cybersecurity and has been fortunate enough to work on security architecture projects in the areas of Financial Services and Insurance, Telco & MSSP, Government, Retail, Utilities, Construction & Building Services, and Aviation. Kelvin's interest is in making sure that IT Security projects map into and support core business requirements by ensuring that that IT security helps not hinders the business.

Mike has been producing and editing technical documentation since he naively agreed to write application manuals for his first employer in the early 1980s. His first UNIX System Administration role was on a network of Sun workstations in 1991, where he built his first firewall.

Since that time, Mike has made a point of actively promoting documentation and security as fundamental aspects of System Administration. He has been a technical editor for MacMillan Press, has lectured in Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne (his alma mater), and has provided expert testimony in a number of computer security cases.

In his ever-diminishing spare time, Mike is a caffeine addict and photographer. He is a board member of SAGE-AU.

Nathan is a Unix nut who worked first as a Systems Administrator for one Australia's leading banks, then moved to Sun Microsystems, where he spent 8 years working as an Instructor, Tier 3/4 technical support specialist and in a presales role. He is currently a Senior Solutions Architect working heavily in the SPARC/Solaris space.

Nathan runs the Melbourne OpenSolaris Users group (MSOSUG) and is a huge fan of running Solaris wherever possible.

Pete Calvert is a trainer and consultant specialising in IT infrastructure architecture, Active Directory and information security with a knack for explaining complex concepts in a simple and entertaining manner.

He has been working in IT for almost 20 years in a variety of roles stretching from systems administration and training through to strategic planning and managing a national team of technical architects. He is a regular presenter at events ranging from user groups through to international conferences and is equally comfortable in the middle of a datacentre or the middle of an executive boardroom.

Outside of IT Pete enjoys a regular hit of tennis, playing guitar and running quiz nights, though not all at the same time.

Phil is one of the founders of CQR Consulting, and independent
information security consulting company. As the founding technical guy
he is also the IT Manager, CTO and part time sysadmin. He has just
about enough time available for IT to find interesting things that
should be done, but doesn't have the dedicated time to research doing
them exactly right. He's been a SAGE-AU member since 1993 and has
served on both Regional and National Executives.

Rob is currently a security systems admin at one of Australia's larger financial institutions. He has been adminning Unix systems since the mid-90's and still finds himself learning something new about Unix every week. He has been running Postfix in large corporate environments for most of the last decade, and finds that the ease and grace with which it handles millions of messages a day makes life just a little bit easier.

He feels that a classics major is an entirely appropriate academic preparation for Systems Admin, as knowing lots of mythological characters is a key skill in naming servers". In his copious free time he can be found playing with his kids or singing along tunelessly to Italian pop songs.

Shane Hoey has a strong background in System and Network Administration, and more recently has become a PowerShell advocate. Much of his time has been spent specializing in Windows Server Technologies, in particular with Active Directory, Exchange Server, Threat Management Gateway 2010, and of course PowerShell. Shane’s primary interest with PowerShell is automating day-to-day system administration tasks. Shane is very active in the PowerShell Community, where he currently runs the Brisbane PowerShell User's Group and helps other Windows sysadmins get started with PowerShell.