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I'm a native Oklahoman. I've lived in Tulsa for the last 25 years. I'm married, have two children (13 and 16, both boys). My wife is an attorney with a firm here in Tulsa, and is also a native Oklahoman. My hobbies include: playing the guitar, listening to music, woodworking, electronics (audio, and digital), homebrewing, reading and anything that includes being in the mountains.
I've worked in IT for 16 years. The last 10-1/2 as an IT consultant with Stonebridge. My experience and expertise in consulting has been primarily in custom application development, integration and workflow. I've worked on projects in several different industries: oil and gas exploration/trading/pipeline scheduling, gas utilities, hotel management, casino management, manufacturing, telecommunication, and medical.  Oddly enough I even worked on a floral order processing application for Teleflora when I first started at Stonebridge. I've worked on various workflow-related projects over the last seven years (primarily using Tibco InConcert). I love consulting and especially love the opportunity to learn and apply new technologies.

I am a consultant for Clarity Consulting, a Chicago-based consulting firm specializing in custom application development on Microsoft platforms.I have 10years of experience in both Microsoft and Oracle technologies, and I am currently trying to carve a niche for myself as Clarity’s workflow automation specialist.

Sergio is the Business Process Automation practice lead at Dynamic Management Solutions. He brings more than 15 years of hands-on experience as a technical and business solutions architect and has led business process automation engagements of all sizes. Sergio has acted as a trusted advisor for multiple clients, providing guidance and leadership on successful process-driven and integration solutions.

When not at work, Sergio can be found riding, running and hiking around the local mountains and spending time with his family.

Eric's primary focus is ASP.NET/C# development and most of his work typically involves some K2 components. Eric works for the K2 Partner, Guidewire Solutions based in Atlanta, GA. He has been working with K2 blackpearl since its beta days and has enjoyed watching (and participating in) its evolution into the leader in BPM on the Microsoft stack. Guidewire is a software reseller and consulting services organization focused exclusively on workflow, business process management, and enterprise content management solutions for the Microsoft platform. They partner with industry leading vendors such as K2 and Bluethread to offer their customers best of breed process driven solutions that are cost effective to buy, deploy quickly, and easily adopted by both business and technical users.

Tim Knechtel is a Principal Technologist with Caprivi Solutions. Caprivi Solutions is a K2 Value Added Resller working with customers and partners to help automate their business processes. From 2004-2009 Tim worked at K2 as a Technical Specialist in the Toronto area. Prior to working for K2 Tim worked at Microsoft for 9 years as a Technical Specialist focusing on SharePoint, Project Server and Exchange. With over 15 years of industry experience as a infrastructure specialist and software developer Tim enjoys getting software to work as the users would expect it to. In his free time Tim enjoys spending time with his family, playing hockey and running.

I am the Business Process Automation Practice Lead for i3solutions, Inc., based in Sterling, VA, and lead the effort to support our three main areas of expertise: Portals and Collaboration, Business Process and Business Intelligence. This focus allows us to provide end-to-end solutions for clients in all verticals.

Using K2 as the primary tool for success, I have adopted agile methods to provide BPM solutions quickly, accurately and to have a high level of extensibility. With over 25 years of experience in the IT industry and 10 years of experience in business process automation, my focus is to provide integration and automation to maximize the efficiency and usability of end-user experience.

A formal Naval Officer, government employee and government contractor, I have been involved with all aspects of government and private sector IT support. I was also the chief architect on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Licensing Support Network which resulted in a system that still supports the licensing hearings for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility.

A former K2 employee, I've been involved with K2 in all its flavours since January 2005. I'm a big fan of K2.net 2003, a bigger fan of K2 blackpearl. I've seen firsthand how K2 has changed hundreds of businesses and allowed them to be more efficient, more compliant and cut operational costs. The key to a successful BPM Application is simple: a) use K2 only for what is designed for, b) architect, plan and manage the BPM Application like you would any other Microsoft development project using accepted best practices and c) get the right people to do the job. I’m currently working with a passionate and dynamic development team at Marketform (a Lloyds Syndicate) in London, UK. I have over 10 years of Microsoft development experience, am a MCP and will kick your ass at Forza Motorsport

Gabriel's an experienced .NET architect and cooperative team player with a strong workflow and content management background. He is a positive, professional and delivery-focused team leader and likes people as much as the tech. Gabriel believes that IT should be a fun and rewarding experience while getting the job done.

He's worked in various industries including aviation, finance, broadcasting and manufacturing. It has taken him around the world, but these days he prefers to be UK-based spending as much time with his family as possible. Hobbies and activities include snowboarding, cycling and diving.

Jey is a K2 Insider located in Melbourne, Australia. With over a decade of IT consulting experience, He founded jEyLaBs in early 2009. jEyLaBs is a K2 service provider partner focused on delivering process driven IT solutions using K2, SharePoint and related technologies. Jey is ex-K2 and has been working with K2 technology since early 2006. During the early years of SharePoint consulting he found K2 to be a great platform to deliver workflow to the masses through SharePoint. Now working through his teams in Australia and SriLanka, jey and jEyLaBs help implement effective solutions to process problems.

I'm an enterprise architect currently working for Datacom New Zealand (Microsoft Gold Partner). With over 14 years experience in the IT industry, I've been involved with both Java and Microsoft technologies. I'm somewhat of a workflow enthusiast with experience across a number of workflow toolsets (WebLogic Integration Server, BizTalk, Windows Workflow Foundation and, of course, K2 blackpearl). I've been using K2 blackpearl for approximately 2 years and I'm currently lead architect for a large online self service portal (utilising ASP.NET and K2 blackpearl). In addition, I have a particular interest in extending the K2 platform and have recently been involved in the development of a number of K2 middleware connectors and an advanced Client Event Wizard.

Director of Innovation at 5th Method a K2 Gold Partner.    We’re focused on Business Process Automation, SharePoint & FAST Search as our core competencies.  We have two offices, one in Atlanta and a new one we’ve just opened in the Pittsburgh area.