October 19, 2022

Meet this year’s HackaSCOM judges

Bob Cornelissen / / /

Find out who’ll be judging HackaSCOM 2022, what they thought of last year’s event, and what they are expecting to see from our contenders this year!

Meet the author

Author

Bob Cornelissen

Microsoft MVP & managing consultant @TOPQORE

Bob (AKA SCOM Bob) is a Managing Consultant at TopQore, a highly specialized Cloud and Datacenter Management consultancy from the Netherlands and operating world-wide. Bob is an 11 x MVP, blogs, wrote a book, presents at events in person or virtually world wide, and loves anything community related.

Bruce Cullen

Director of Engineering @ SquaredUp, Founding Member @ Cookdown

Bruce is a Director of Engineering at SquaredUp & a founding member of Cookdown. He is Product Manager for SquaredUp's Dashboard Server products, SquaredUp Cloud Datasources & Cookdown products as well as leading the engineering team building these things. He spent 10 years at Citrix, initially as a software tester but then he release managed XenApp and XenDesktop (aka CVAD) cloud and OnPrem, he also release managed the Citrix SCOM Management Packs through their journey from acquisition. Bruce started his career in IT support and is happy to be among IT Pros building awesome software.

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.

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.