Boston Area Windows Server User Group

Your Steering Committee

These are the folks who do the heavy lifting to keep our user group moving forward. Each person represents a specific segment of the IT Pro community ranging from large corporations to independent VAR's and consultants.

We encourage you to contact any of the people below to suggest new topics, new presenters or creative events. If you liked a meeting, tell a friend. If you didn't like a meeting, tell us!

Please seek out these steering committee members at a meeting or send an email to the group at board@windowsboston.org.



Clyde Johnson, President

Clyde started out as an electronics technician and became SAD (Systems Administrator by Default) in January of 1996. Since then he has performed many different roles in IT. He is currently working as a Senior Network and Systems Administrator for a manufacturing firm in New Bedford, MA.

He holds the MCSE, MCSA and A+ certifications and has taught A+ certification classes at Newbury College. He also holds a Bachelor of Fluencing from the Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork.

Clyde coordinates future topics and speakers.
Bob Chin, Vice President

Bob is an experienced IT Manager, Manager of Software Development, and Project Manager / Program Manager. With a strong background in systems and processes, Bob is currently working in the Office of the CCIO for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with direct responsibilities for the "big picture" overview and coordination of a portfolio of projects and Project Managers.

Bob has worked in a variety of roles including individual contributor, contractor, general management, and executive management in the insurance industry, financial industry, medical industry, retailer industry, and government/defense industry.

Bob holds degrees in Electrical Engineering [BSEE] and Computer Engineering [MSCE] as well as being a Certified Scrum Master [CSM]. He is also a member of PMI Central Mass and PMI Mass Bay Chapters as well as a leader in the Agile Boston, Nashua Scrum Club, and Agile New England organizations.
Tim Callaghan, Webmaster

Tim is currently the Field Engineer at VoltDB (www.voltdb.com), implementing their next-generation of OLTP RDBMS. Prior to VoltDB, Tim was the CTO and Vice President of Technology & Development at CrunchTime! Information Systems (www.crunchtime.com), a Boston based ISV creating software for the hospitality industry.

His primary focus is in database design, development and implementation, although he is involved in all areas of development, technology, and infrastructure.
Ted Vahey, Vendor Relations

Ted is President and Chief Technical Officer for All Systems Integration.  Since 1989, All Systems Integration has specialized in serving and supporting the integration and workflow requirements of companies connected to a digital infrastructure printers, publishers, corporate marketing communications, advertising agencies, pre-press trade shops and in-plant service bureaus. All Systems Integration is a system integrator that has been in business for over 15 years. Some of ASI's clients are members of the top printers in the world. ASI has serviced over 200 different plants across the US and Canada.

Ted received an undergraduate degree in business management and post graduate degrees in accounting and entrepreneurial studies from Babson College. He has also received post graduate certification in Digital Communication Networks from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Maisy Wong, Treasurer

Maisy is the IT director for the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics. It is one of the agencies for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Prior to the state employment, Maisy worked for Hewlett-Packard Company, Compaq Computer Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation.
  Open Position, Secretary

We are currently looking to fill this position.
Lee Benjamin, Exchange / GITCA Liaison

With over 20 years experience in the messaging industry, Lee Benjamin is an expert on Microsoft Exchange and related technologies, and has in-depth experience in a number of other messaging systems. Since retiring from Microsoft in 1997, he has been a highly sought after consultant (www.exchangeguy.com) for enterprise and medium-sized organizations and software firms. He currently specializes in architecture, migration and upgrade advice. He also evaluates and does product testing and training.

Lee is Chairman of the largest Exchange user group in the world ExchangeServerBoston (www.exchangeserverboston.com), Vice President for BostonUserGroups (www.bostonusergroups.org), an umbrella organization of over 50 user groups in the New England Area, and Director/Secretary for GITCA (www.gitca.org), a world-wide association of over 700 user groups representing 3.7 million IT Professionals.

Lee is a regular speaker at industry seminars, webinars, and conferences including TechEd, Exchange Connections, and TechTarget custom events, on topics such as messaging, data protection, compliance and eDiscovery, messaging security, mobile access and calendaring integration.
Dan Stolts, Microsoft Liaison

Dan has had a long involvement in the user group community and is President of BayState Technology (www.baystatetechnology.com) which specializes in IT system integration for the small and medium sized business markets.

Dan is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) which is a hard-earned and well respected certification within the general business community.

Dan is also president of Boston User Groups (www.bostonusergroups.org).
John J. Ross, Special Projects

Partner of Bluefin Technical Services. Tool and Manufaturing Engineer. Specializing in compression and transfer Mold Systems, Power Press Systems, robotic automation and material handling work cells, automatic assembly equipment, and custom tools.

Bluefin Technical Services are Microsoft System Builders, Networks and Core infrastructure. John is a board member of Boston User Groups, and of Virt-G User Group.
Ron Thibeau, Special Projects

Senior Partner of Bluefin Technical Services. Designers of manufacturing equipment, robotic automation work cells, and of systems for High Current Aerospace Power connectors.

Bluefin Technical Services are Microsoft System Builders, Networks and Core infrastructure. Ron is a board member of Boston User Groups, and of Virt-G User Group.
Jack Daniel, Consiglieri

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