December 2, 2022

Ready, Set, Code!

Aakash Basavaraj / Anders Öberg / Bob Cornelissen / Bruce Cullen / Harold Dyck / Nathan Foreman / Scott Moss / Shawn Williams / Stoyan Chalakov

HackaSCOM 2022 – Day 1

During this webinar, the SCOM community vote on the final monitoring mission we set our experts. Our experts then share their initial thoughts on their challenge and we start the timer! Giving our pros a mere 24-hours to complete their build.

Meet the author

Author

Aakash Basavaraj

Program Manager for SCOM @ Microsoft

Aakash is Program Manager at Microsoft's System Center Team. He has been with Microsoft for over 10 years now, and has had immense customer facing experience in different industries. His passion for technology, hunger for trying new things and for being part of product designing lead him to Program Management.

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.

Harold Dyck

President and CEO Silect Software INC

Harold founded in Silect in 2003 with a mission of helping companies extract more value from their investments in Microsoft management technologies. Prior to Silect, Harold founded several other successful technology companies, worked as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence in the Canadian venture capital industry and also worked at Microsoft and IBM.

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.

Scott Moss

Senior Storage and Computer Engineer

I've deployed and maintained SCOM at the following companies: Cingular Wireless, at&t, Blackberry, Boston Consulting Group, AmFam Insurance, JP Morgan Chase, Rackspace. I was a 7-year Microsoft MVP in System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management from 2010 to 2017. I like playing Texas Holdem Poker, target shooting, and seeing loud bands play live music.

Shawn Williams

Technical Evangelist @ SquaredUp

Shawn is a 23 year veteran from the "Infrastructure Wars" in the Education sector. Programmer, scripter, and a firm believer in getting things done. Loves playing with data, visualisations and reporting; anything data related. Sometimes brutally, but unintentionally honest. Sarcasm is how he hugs.

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.