Roberta Bragg

Roberta Bragg, CISSP, MCSE, and the original Security Evangelist, is a veteran of more than 25 years in IT. Her technical experience ranges from programming to systems administration and Windows network security design. She is an internationally acclaimed author and lecturer on Windows security.

Roberta Bragg

Roberta Bragg, CISSP, MCSE, MCT, is a veteran of more than 20 years of information system experience, and currently specializes in Windows NT and Windows 2000 security issues. She is a columnist (Security Advisor) and contributing editor for Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine and a frequent contributor of security-related articles for popular industry magazines and e-zines. She can be found consulting, teaching, and speaking at conferences, training centers, and private companies.

James Clark, MCSE, MCT, CCNA, CCDA, is the author of the Instructor Resource Manual for Windows 2000 Directory Services Design (New Riders Publishing, 2001). Jim is a Senior Consultant for Quilogy, Inc., an Internet services and training company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Jim has delivered Windows 2000 MOC courses since their inception, and he has helped develop many Windows NT and Windows 2000 design and deployment strategies. Jim can be reached at jclark@quilogy.com.

Jim Cooper has worked in the information technology field for more than 12 years and holds numerous certifications, including MCSE+I and MCT. Jim joined Microsoft in 1997 as a Technical Account Manager working with Fortune 500 financial businesses, assisting them with network design and implementation and Microsoft product support. He is currently working for iReadyWorld as a Senior Systems Engineer in charge of deploying an Active Directory and Exchange 2000 Application Service Provider architecture. He has contributed chapters to numerous other books for Pearson Technology Group.

Dennis Maione is the Owner and Principal Consultant at IKTHUSE Consulting Inc. He has a bachelor of science degree in computer science and has been mucking about with this stuff for more than 25 years. He is a Microsoft Systems Engineer and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He is also a Certified Lotus Professional (Principal) in Application Development and System Administration and a Certified Lotus Instructor. He is certified in web languages (JavaScript, Java, Perl, PHP, and ASP) with Prosoft and an instructor of the same.

Dennis has myriad certification books to his credit, all published by New Riders; some of which have earned the distinction of being relegated to the bargain shelves at your local book store. The hot seller is currently Windows 2000 Server, which you should go out now and buy.

He loves to make music, spend time outside stinking up the landscape with smelly cigars, do TaeKwonDo, and scuba dive. He wants to run a marathon by the time he is 40¿only a few more years to train for that one!

He has stopped looking for a band to let him sing lead but Creed and Jars of Clay are still high on his list. So, if you hear anything, let him know. Check out the IKTHUSE site at https://www.ikthuse.com and email him at books@ikthuse.com.

Ed Tittel

Dan Balter is the Chief Technology Officer for InfoTechnology Partners, Inc., a Microsoft Certified Partner company. He works as an IT consultant and trainer for both corporate and government clients and has worked with several different network operating systems throughout his 20-year career. Dan takes pride in turning complex, technical topics into easy-to-understand concepts. Dan is a Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST), a Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA) on Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, and a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003. He specializes in Microsoft networking technologies, firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs), and other security solutions in addition to designing and implementing messaging and business solutions for large and small organizations.

Dan is the author of Exam Cram 2: Managing and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Environment and a co-author for the best-selling books Exam Cram 2: Windows XP Professional and Exam Cram 2: Windows 2000 Professional, all published by Que Publishing. Dan frequently speaks at conferences across North America, including Advisor DevCon conferences and Windows & .NET Magazine Connections conferences. A graduate of USC's School of Business in 1983, Dan has authored more than 300 video-based and CD-ROMߢased computer training courses, including instructional titles on installing, configuring, and administering Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. He is also a featured video trainer for courses on Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Outlook, and Intuit's QuickBooks small business accounting software. Dan is the video trainer for ExamBlastߗindows XP Professional and for the QuickBooks Pro training series on video and CD-ROM from BlastThroughLearning.com.

Dan and his family live in the Santa Rosa Valley area in Southern California, near the city of Camarillo. Dan lives with his lovely wife, Alison; their 8-year-old daughter, Alexis; their 5-year-old son, Brendan; and their golden retriever, Brandy. When he's not writing, researching, or consulting, Dan enjoys traveling with his family, swimming, playing racquetball and basketball, rooting for the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team and the L.A. Lakers, going for long walks, listening to music, and exploring new age spirituality. Dan can be contacted via email at Dan@TechPartners.info.

Philip Wiest is a nationally known professional technical trainer who has presented more than 1,200 Cisco and Microsoft seminars to more than 37,000 students throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia since 1989 for Skillpath Seminars, CompuMaster Seminars, Prime Learning International, and Dun & Bradstreet. He has earned several prominent certifications, including the MCSE; CCNP; CCDA; Network+; Server+; Security+; A+; and, most recently, the new MCDST designation.

He delights audiences by crashing (often with little effort) and then resurrecting (often with much effort) unsuspecting software programs and network applications. His unique, irreverent, solutions-oriented style is at once humorous and insightful.

Philip's clients include The Walt Disney Company, the FBI, American Express, the National Association of Recording Merchandisers, ARCO, Bank of America, KPMG, Sony, EMI Records Group N.A., the National Association of Realtors, Warner Bros., and on and on.

Since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, he has published more than 200 newspaper and magazine articles, received dozens of national training awards, and completed 15 marathons. He resides in Santa Monica, California, never more than a stone's throw from a keyboard or a microphone.

Ed Tittel

Ed Tittel is a 30-year-plus veteran of the computing industry who has worked as a programmer, a technical manager, a classroom instructor, a network consultant, and a technical evangelist for companies that include Burroughs, Schlumberger, Novell, IBM/Tivoli, and NetQoS. He has written and blogged for numerous publications, including Tom's IT Pro, PearsonITCertification, and GoCertify; and is an author on more than 100 computing books with a special emphasis on information security, Web markup languages and development tools, and Windows operating systems.