MacTech BootCamp III: Washington, D.C. – June 25, 2014

June 25, 2014
Location
Four Points by Sheraton Washington D.C. Downtown
1201 K Street N.W.
Washington, District of Columbia 20005
Special Hotel Rate

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Will O’Neal, Mid-Atlantic Computer Solutions

Will has been around small business IT for his 23 years in the “real world” career. He’s been dealing with Macs for more than 20 years, and he worked for a couple of other small Mac shops before starting Mid-Atlantic Computer Solutions in late 2002. Many of his customers date back to the late 90’s as they have followed him from place to place.

Paul Suh, ps Enable, Inc.

Paul Suh has been a Macintosh developer, systems administrator, and trainer since 1985, specializing in Mac OS X security and development of complex, dynamic web sites using WebObjects. He started ps Enable, Inc. in 2006, after working for seven years at Apple Computer in various positions. Prior to that, he worked as an economist at LECG and at Deloitte & Touche, analyzing markets and businesses.

Neil Ticktin, MacTech Magazine

Neil not only emcees the event, but oversees the session chairs and content for each MacTech event. Neil has been the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of MacTech Magazine since 1992. With both a technical and business background, Neil has authored hundreds of articles including most of MacTech’s well known benchmarking articles on productivity applications, virtualization, and performance products.

Paul Suh, ps Enable, Inc.

Paul Suh has been a Macintosh developer, systems administrator, and trainer since 1985, specializing in Mac OS X security and development of complex, dynamic web sites using WebObjects. He started ps Enable, Inc. in 2006, after working for seven years at Apple Computer in various positions. Prior to that, he worked as an economist at LECG and at Deloitte & Touche, analyzing markets and businesses.

LeRoy Dennison, Dennison Consulting

LeRoy is the principal with Dennison Consulting, offering Mac OS X & iOS consulting and training, Instructional Systems Design, and Organizational Management consulting. Previously, he was the Director of the Apple and Mobility Practice, at PCM, spent roughly twelve years with Apple, and is a retired Coast Guard Master Chief (E-9).

Allen Hancock, Watchman Monitoring

Allen Hancock received his Bachelor’s in Early Childhood Education at the University of Missouri – Columbia. This background in education keeps him coming back to MacTech. In 2000, Allen started the Mac Consulting Group, Inc: an Apple Specialist and Authorized Training Center based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. There, he found his thrill in helping clients make the most of their computing experiences. In 2012, Allen sold the Mac Consulting Group to The Orchard, where he continues to do what he loves most: help make happy customers. Over the course of his career, he met too many people as they suffered a failing hard drive without a current backup. As a means of preventing such loss, Allen founded Watchman Monitoring, Inc. Its namesake product is a Software as a Service tool which allows service providers to address such problems before it’s too late.

Sean Costello, Background Backup

Sean Costello has been supporting Macs in business since 1993. Based in Ottawa, ON, Sean sits on the Board of the ASMC (Apple Specialists Marketing Co.) and has previously represented the Canadian perspective on the Advisory Councils of both the Apple Consultants’ Network and Apple Authorized Service Providers communities. When not actively coaching or supporting resellers and consultants he is loves to dive into and study complex events, accidents and work environments, drawing key lessons for business and life.

Tim Hassett, Appogee

Tim Hassett is the Co Founder of Appogee, a firm whose focus is on delivering an Apple strategy to medium and large organizations. He has over 14 years of experience in serving enterprise clients from an Apple perspective, and collaborating with Apple to do this. More recently, Appogee has grown tremendously with its unique approach to serving corporate BYOD needs. Tim grew up in Annapolis, MD, holds a Computer Information Systems degree from High Point University, and lives in Orlando FL with his wife, identical twin baby girls, and son.

Tom Bridge, Technolutionary

Tom Bridge is a founding partner at Technolutionary LLC, based in Washington DC. Technolutionary supports 400 users from small business to medium enterprise in a mix of Mac and PC, with a dash of Linux and a healthy serving of iOS devices. He lives in Brookland, DC, with his wife, Tiffany, their son Charlie, and their cats, Macro and Bokeh.

Dave Bainum, RiteTech

Dave Bainum (PMP). Dave is the co-founder of RiteTech LLC (www.RiteTech.net), an IT Consultancy focusing on IT Services, Internet Social Media/Videos, and Project Management for Small to Medium-Sized organizations in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area. RiteTech is a member of the ACN, and is also a long time Microsoft, Office365, and Dell PC & SonicWall Firewall Partner. He has spoken or presented at several other IT industry events, including SMBNation, ITExpo, Microsoft’s “Partners Training Partners” Webinar(s), and also as a Constant Contact Authorized Local Expert (“ALE”). In his past professional lives, Dave’s worked in several senior technical and technical leadership roles for organizations of different sizes and types, including for two telephone companies, a few technology companies and consulting companies, financial services, a public utility company, as a government contractor(s), an IT Security Administrator, etc.. His IT project experience includes deployments of new hardware, software, and infrastructure of PCs, Macs, VoIP phones/telecommunications, WiFi, and various other IT devices, both for existing facilities as well as in new construction or renovation scenarios (e.g. for residential apartment or condo buildings). When he’s not working to pay the bills, Dave greatly enjoys using his Apple gear for creative purposes, such as for creating semi-professional videos and cartoons (see www.HOAsGoneWild.com and www.ModernHOA.com). His other interests include music, travel, writing, and retro-arcade games.

Justin Rummel, Stony River Technologies

As Director of Operations, Justin’s 14+ years of IT knowledge and experience is a valuable client asset in this “Heterogeneous Post PC World”. Justin’s responsibilities include Account Management and Project Management of key clients of Apple, JAMF, CENTRIFY, and Aerohive; along with staff development, certification and delivery of high value engagements. Graduating from Ball State University with a BA in Music Engineering and a Masters in Information Communication Sciences, Justin joined SRT in 2012 as a Director of Operations with the past experience of working on Commercial and Government clients. For the past five years Justin has been contributing back to the Apple community by presenting at several conferences: MacWorld/MacIT, MacTech, and JAMF National User Conference.

Kyle Van Son, Microsoft

Kyle Van Son is a Senior Trainer for Microsoft who has also been involved in the Apple community since 2010. With a passion for communicating ideas, Kyle loves to discuss technology and to inspire users to make the most out of it.

Sessions are 30-50 minutes long, with most sessions at about 40 minutes. There are nine sessions in the 2014 curriculum.

Topics Covered

The topics covered will include:

• PKI, encryption, certificates and you.


• The World of Apple IDs.


• Profiles.


• WiFi: Best Practices.


• Deployment.


• Backups and Storage.


• Office for Mac: Collaboration Tools.


• Security: Keeping Them Out.


• Security: Letting Them In.


• and more…

Read on for more details.

Keynote:
How Do the Key Building Blocks for Today’s Consultant Fit Together

What does today’s Apple consultant need to know to be effective in serving everyone from small business to Enterprise, support personnel, or even home users and networks.

PKI, encryption, certificates and you.

Secure encryption of data influences how we all use technology, and the assumptions we make about the privacy of our data both on our devices and when our data leaves our devices in email, in the cloud, when we shop, and in countless other ways that extend further into our private lives with every new technology we adopt. Learn about the technology that underlies our false sense of security, how it works and what you can do as a consultant to manage that security for your clients.

The World of Apple IDs

Apple is continually changing the rules for Apple IDs, iTunes accounts, and more. Learn the latest rules, how devices are treated, migrating to new hardware, dealing with multiple IDs, and iCloud. Find out how iTunes Match works, how Mac App Store differs from iTunes, and the right way for working with deployment and imaging. Learn the restrictions for merging Apple IDs and how to combine them.

Profiles

We work on Apple technology in a privileged time. We have the ability to enroll our Macs and our iOS devices into device management. We have the ability to nearly magically send instructions over the air almost instantly to enrolled devices from a server. We can send special profiles that users cannot remove from applications like Apple Configurator to devices connected over a USB connection. So many management opportunities exist today, one can hardly fit all of the options into a single 40 minute talk, but in this Profiles session, we will do our very best.

WiFi. Best practices.

Wi-Fi has rapidly become the network connection of choice. This choice means the Wi-Fi network must be reliable at all times. Wi-Fi is no longer a “nice to have” – downtime or poor performance is not an option. This session presents factors that affect Wi-Fi performance and how to use them as part of your Wi-Fi design, deployment and troubleshooting.

Deployment

Deployment was once a question of how to get the same software and configuration on a bunch of computers. Today it can mean so much more to you and your customers. Does it mean handing out iPads that are already configured and ready to go? Does it mean building a “perfect” computer and replicating it to dozens, hundreds or thousands of others? Does it mean building a clever array of installers, scripts and preference files to install in sequence to create a lightweight and flexible computer customization system? Today deployment means all of the above, and the well prepared consultant needs to understand them all.

Backups and Storage

Let’s face it people don’t back up their stuff. The fact is that is probably not your fault. The problem is if you don’t find a way to make it your problem eventually someone is going to blame you when they lose their stuff. This session is all about you saving the day. You will learn the tools, the techniques, and the tricks to make sure your customers are backing up their data, and that you can get their data back when disaster strikes.

Office for Mac: Collaboration Tools

You have options for collaboration productivity tools. What are the pros and cons of each? Do you know how to use web apps vs. applications effectively? Microsoft Office is at the core of how people work, yet many people don’t know what Office for Mac can do, let alone take advantage of it. Did you know that Office includes collaborative editing features both through the web and the cloud? Learn from Microsoft experts how you can not only make the most of Office for yourself, but those that you support.

Security. Keeping them out.

With the significant increase in cyber threats – particularly in the SMB and mid-market size companies, an understanding of systems security as well as the relevant threat is becoming increasingly essential in the marketplace. With the belief that “OS X is inherently secure,” it is our responsibility to ensure that our network and operations are as secure as anticipated. With a selection of core technologies, we can radically decrease the asymmetric threat.

Security. Letting them in.

So you’ve locked down your business – secured your data and network to eliminate any possible threat. Now the hard part – how do we let in specific users on specific devices to access our data. We must differentiate authorization and authentication to ensure access to specific resources and maintain our data integrity. By identifying the gap between user’s needs and our security requirements, we can ensure the data security while allowing real work to get done.

MacTech selects key vendors to be a part of the event. Sponsors will be speaking and attending the event, and can talk to you about the solutions they offer. It’s a unique opportunity to make contacts within these companies and get your questions answered. Interested in sponsoring a MacTech event? See our sponsorship page.

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Note: All information is approximate and projected, but it does evolve. All sessions, speakers and descriptions are subject to change at any time without notice.