devopsdays Columbus - Contact

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Our local team

Ben Blanquera

Organizer

David Laulusa

Organizer

David has worked at Bell Labs, SAP and whole slew of companies in between. Three years ago when he started working at SAP, his boss handed him The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim and Continuous Delivery by Jez Humble and said, ‘Read these and figure out this DevOps thing.’ And he hasn’t stopped learning since.

David has been a member of the DevOpsDays Ohio organizing committee since it's inception. He's also Co-Organizer of the DevOps Columbus Meetup.

  

J.D. Santen

Organizer

J.D. Santen is a developer who has been working in the telecommunications industry for over 18 years. In that time, he’s seen network growth explode and the requirements to support it become more complicated. J.D. has had a hand in building IT systems that are as resilient as the network they support.

 

John Lusk

Organizer

Kyle Jenkins

Organizer

Improving

Kyle Jenkins is a full stack developer and consultant with Improving, a software development consulting and training company in Columbus, Ohio. He assists with organizing the DevOpsDays Columbus conference. While working directly with clients to accomplish projects, he always strives to improve the quality of code and life for the team. In his spare time, you may find him at a variety of user groups around town, or online playing video games with friends.

   

Michael Ducy

Organizer

Michael Swartzbaugh

Organizer

Renee Weldy

Organizer

Renee’s been working in some part or another of IT for 27 years now. She’s been a technical writer, a software instructor, a web application developer, a Remedy administrator, a business/system analyst, and a project manager – not necessarily in that order. She’s fairly new to DevOps, but attending the 2016 DevOpsDays Ohio conference showed her that this is a culture she definitely wants to help promote and grow!

 

Sherry Stebens

Organizer

Sherry is an accomplished management professional positioned in the information technology field with a solid reputation as a strong leader. Proven ability to improve processes to gain efficiencies, drive for results and build solid relationships throughout all levels of an organization. Strong leader with the ability to create and execute new and/or improved processes. Consistently practice and educate the use of Six Sigma techniques and Agile methodologies to problem solve and implement solutions for the betterment of an organization.

Sherry has been a member of the DevOpsDays Columbus organizing committee since 2016.

Warner Moore

Organizer

Warner Moore is a driven technology leader and architect with a background in web operations and information security. He has focused his career in working with high growth organizations where technology is their business and product. Within these organizations, Warner has an accomplished record of building successful security programs and high performing technology teams.

As an international speaker, Warner has been invited to present to university students, technology professionals, and business leaders in a classroom setting as well as at conferences such as Startup Week, CloudDevelop, Path to Agility, InfoSec Summit, CodeMash, Security BSides, and DevOpsDays.

Warner is passionate about culture, innovation, and community. His passion reflects in his volunteer work leading organizations such as [Ohio LinuxFest] (https://ohiolinux.org/), [LOPSA] (http://lopsacbus.org/), [DevOpsDays] (https://www.devopsdays.org/events/2016-ohio/welcome/), and [Toastmasters] (http://2checkout.easy-speak.org/).

 

Historic

  • Bill Schwanitz
  • Dan Greenleaf
  • Dan Sajner
  • Faye Thompson
  • Mark Goodmanson
  • Matt Stratton
  • Michael Ducy
  • Rob Kinyon

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