Uptime University: Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Planning is key to recovery. Lessons learned in business continuity and disaster recovery.

SDN Communications' education series, SDN Uptime University, brings you an industry expert who experienced a disaster. Gary Duncan offers insight on how a business continuity and disaster recovery plan can save your business from the unknown.

Join us for a FREE lunch and learn event Wednesday, May 28

10:30 a.m. -- Registration
11:00 a.m. -- Program, Q & A, Panel Discussion and Door Prizes
1:00 p.m. -- Program concludes & our industry experts will be on hand to answer questions

Presenters:

Gary Duncan, FACHE
Duncan Consulting / Joplin, MO

During Gary Duncan’s 15 years as President and CEO, Freeman Health Systems grew to become the dominant health care provider in the Joplin, MO, region. Perhaps the most challenging time came in his last year, 2011, when Joplin experienced a paralyzing blizzard, and then a devastating EF-5 tornado, which left a 13-mile long path of destruction. Overnight, Freeman became the only functioning hospital in Joplin. After treating over 1,000 storm victims, Duncan and his team added much-needed inpatient capacity for critical care, trauma, psychiatric, and medical/surgical services.

Duncan will share the numerous lessons learned in and after the May 22, 2011, tornado at this special lunch and learn.

Panelists:

Amos Aesoph
Technical Sales Engineer / SDN Communications

Amos began his career as the IT administrator for SDN, a position he held for nine years. When an opportunity arose to join the new Managed Services division, Amos was part of the team that researched, developed, and engineered the Managed Firewall solution. He has since moved to a Technical Sales Engineer role for this and other managed offerings provided by SDN.

Cassie Baldwin
Contact Center Manager / SDN Communications

Cassie is a certified continuity manager who heads up continuity and recovery planning at SDN Communications in Sioux Falls. Baldwin is also the contact center manager, which gives her experience helping other companies protect their electronic assets.

Kevin Dohrmann
Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder / Cosentry

Kevin Dohrmann is responsible for the overall technology direction at Cosentry. He focuses his time on internal projects as well as strategic client engagement. His key area of expertise centralizes around Cosentry’s cloud and IaaS offers. He previously served as Cosentry’s VP of Operations and has over 25 years of experience in the technology industry including support and managed services, international technology support, operations management and Internet telephony.

Nathan Hammes
Sr. Systems Engineer; VCAP-DCD / Veeam

Nate joined Veeam in 2012 as a senior systems engineer and has over 15 years’ experience in IT with a focus around virtualization, storage, MSFT Infrastructures and virtualized datacenter design. Prior to joining Veeam, Nate worked as a lead systems engineer for a channel VAR focusing on VMware, NetApp and MSFT technologies and solutions. Nate holds many industry certifications including the VCAP-DCD (#323).

Curtis Stewart
Sr. Sales Engineer / Nimble Storage

Curtis has over 15 years of experience in the storage and IT industry. Prior to joining Nimble Storage, he was a Systems Engineer at StorageTek, Sun Microsystems and CommVault growing the data protection market in Minnesota. Before transitioning into an IT guru, he spent nine years serving in the United States Air Force.

Mike Tradewell
Senior Account Manager / Nimble Storage

Mike Tradewell has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry and worked in the Dakotas and Minnesota markets for Nimble Storage for two years. Mike was previously a member of the Backup and Recovery Division of EMC and also spent 12 years building the Minnesota business with NetApp.

SDN Communications is proud to partner with CoSentry, Nimble Storage and Veeam.

Hotel website: Hilton Garden Inn Downtown

Parking: Park in the hotel's main lot or in the underground parking. The entrance is to the left of the building.

Transportation: We are not offering transportation to the event. Use the Sioux Area Metro's orange Hilltop Route if that's helpful.

Dress code: Business casuall to business attire

ID: You will not be required to show an ID but please print your ticket to help with check-in

Have other questions?

Call Nikki Gronli at SDN, 605.978.1085