November 23, 2021

HackaSCOM 2021, Day 2 – The Results

Anders Öberg / Bob Cornelissen / Bruce Cullen / Dujon Walsham / Kevin Holman / Nathan Foreman / Ronnie Johansson / Shivam Kumar / Stoyan Chalakov

In this webinar, our experts were center-stage to showcase their work live to our panel of judges, who then critiqued their approach and nominated a winner. This is a great opportunity to get first-hand MP authoring tips and tricks and see how our pros built their custom MPs.

Meet the author

Author

Anders Öberg

System Specialist @ Trafikverket

Anders has an architect/specialist/developer background and started his journey with Unicenter Suite från CA back in the ’90s when he came across SCOM 2012 in 2014. He then started to develop Management Packs in Visual Studio with Authoring Extensions. In the past 6 years, he has focused on SCOM automations and integrations to other internal systems at Swedish Transport Administration.

Bob Cornelissen

Microsoft MVP & managing consultant @TOPQORE

Bob Cornelissen (AKA SCOM Bob) is a Managing Consultant at TopQore, a highly specialized Cloud and Datacenter Management consultancy from the Netherlands and operating worldwide. Bob is a 13 x Microsoft MVP, blogs, wrote a book, presents at events in person or virtually worldwide, and loves anything community-related. Dedicated to Microsoft infrastructures (on-prem – hybrid - cloud), monitoring, manageability, AI, and business advice. Hobbies are playing carom billiards and supporting the House of Tails dog shelter.

Bruce Cullen

Director of Products @ SquaredUp, Founding Member @ Cookdown

Meet Bruce, Product Director at SquaredUp & Founding member of Cookdown. He product manages cloud integrations and on-prem products bringing the worlds tools together under smart dashboards that understand your data. With a decade-long stint at Citrix under his belt, Bruce's journey from software tester to project management maestro saw him spearhead the transition of XenApp and XenDesktop (aka CVAD) from on-premises to cloud. Passionate about observability and sustainable computing, Bruce is your go-to guru for navigating the complexities of both cloud and on-prem software. When he's not orchestrating innovation at the keyboard, you'll find him conquering miles on his bike, pounding the pavement running, or enjoying precious moments with his family.

Dujon Walsham

Founder & Chief Microsoft Technologist @ ProtectOrg & Microsoft MVP

Dujon Walsham is a Microsoft MVP, the Founder/Chief Microsoft Technologist at ProtectOrg, and SME for SCOM, MEM, and Management Pack Development. Dujon is also a published author, with the release of his book “Self-Motivation: Anyone can do IT if I did IT”.

Kevin Holman

Principal Customer Success Engineer @ Microsoft

Kevin is currently a Principal Customer Success Engineer with Microsoft, consulting on System Center and Azure for our largest enterprise clients, and has been in the monitoring and management community for over 20 years.

Nathan Foreman

Solutions Architect of Advanced Products @ Cookdown

Nathan is the Solutions Architect of Advanced Products at Cookdown, with over ten years of experience in enterprise IT and Infrastructure monitoring and management. He designs and develops both on-prem SCOM management packs as well as cloud solutions, with a focus on bring disconnected platforms closer together. Nathan enjoys speaking in the community, you may have seen him at the Midwest Management Summit, ServiceNow’s Knowledge conference or local user groups.

Ronnie Johansson

System Specialist & Developer @ Trafikverket

Ronnie started his journey with SCOM by migrating MOM 2005 environment to SCOM 2007 and deploying the new SCOM 2007 environments. He soon started to develop custom Management Packs in the SCOM 2007 Authoring Console and gladly jumped into Visual Studio when the Authoring Extension was released. In the past 6 years, Ronnie has focused on SCOM automations and integrations to other internal systems at Swedish Transport Administration.

Shivam Kumar

Software Development Engineer @ Microsoft SCOM Product Group

Shivam is a developer in the SCOM Product Group at Microsoft. He has been actively involved in the MP ecosystem, and worked on MPs such as Azure MP. Shivam was crucial in reviving the Workload Debugging Tool, Workflow Analyzer. He’s still a learner at heart and is trying to make sense of and bootstrap the many intuitive and sometimes counterintuitive ways in which Monitoring with SCOM can work.

Stoyan Chalakov

Microsoft MVP and Senior IT Consultant

Stoyan is a Microsoft MVP and works as a Senior IT Consultant at POHN IT-Consulting, a Swiss IT consulting company, where he is responsible for the Cloud and Datacenter Management technologies. His focus lies on private and hybrid Cloud management, involving number of technologies like Microsoft System Center, Hyper-V, Office 365, Microsoft Azure and covering topics like Datacenter monitoring, IT service management, orchestration and automation. Stoyan started his career as Support Engineer for the server platform team at the Microsoft Professional Support, supporting customers from the DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) region. As part of the Microsoft Support he was also involved in providing the highest level technical support to Microsoft Premier customers. In addition to Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter, Stoyan has an expertise in Microsoft Active Directory and the related technologies.