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Presenters' Bios
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Gwen
Durrill,
Executive
Vice
President
and
General
Manager,
Starview
Technology
Gwen has
more
than 20
years of
global
product
leadership
experience.
Prior to
joining
Starview,
Gwen was
the Unit
Exec of
WebLogic
Time and
Event
Driven
Products.
Gwen had
overall
responsibility
for
product
development,
go-to-market
strategy,
delivery
and
revenue
generation
for a
family
of
products
developed
for
RealTime
and
Event
Driven
applications.
Before
BEA,
Gwen was
Vice
President,
Business
Development
and
Marketing
for
Orsus
Solutions.
In that
role,
she
developed
the
strategic
alliance
and
partnership
strategy
to grow
channel
opportunities
in the
internet,
portal
and
mobile
applications
markets.
Gwen has
held
various
senior
executive
roles in
business
development,
marketing,
and
engineering
at IBM,
Portal,
and
Amdahl.
Gwen has
a BS in
Math and
Computer
Science
from the
University
of North
Carolina
at
Chapel
Hill and
an MBA
from the
University
of Santa
Clara. |
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Richard
Harris,
Director
and
Chief
Technology
Officer,
DTE
Energy
Rick
Harris
is the
chief
technology
officer
at DTE
Energy,
a
Detroit-based
diversified
energy
company
involved
in the
development
and
management
of
energy-related
businesses
and
services
nationwide.
He
leads
a
progressive
IT
organization
of
approximately
400
people
involved
with
software
engineering,
enterprise
architecture,
advanced
technology
and IT
governance.
His
recent
initiatives
include
business
analytics,
quantitative
process
improvement,
service
orientation,
and
user
experience.
Prior
to DTE
Energy,
Rick
worked
for
GE,
ABB,
Xerox
and GM
in
factory
automation,
product
development
and
information
technology
roles.
At
GM,
Rick
was
the
Director
of
Application
Development
for GM
OnStar
during
the
years
when
OnStar
crossed
the
one-,
two-
and
three-million
customer
milestones.
He
also
led
GM's
North
American
Systems
Development
Factory
during
global
outsourcing
and
process
improvement
initiatives.
As
the
chief
engineer
for
Xerox's
Internet
Business
Group,
Rick
led
architecture,
software
development
and
production
operations
to
define
the
corporation's
online
brand,
user
experience
and
technical
infrastructure.
His
leadership
of a
global
enterprise
application
integration
group
demonstrated
an
ability
to
deliver
business
value
as an
early
adopter
of new
technology.
Rick
has a
Masters
Degree
in
Computer
Science
from
Rochester
Institute
of
Technology
and a
Bachelor
Degree
in
Computer
Aided
Engineering
and
Mechanical
Engineering
from
Michigan
State
University.
He has
guest
lectured
at
Rochester
Institute
of
Technology,
University
of
Rochester
and
University
of
Michigan.
Rick
can be
reached
at
harrisr
at
dteenergy.com. |
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Chris
Beard,
Principal
Consultant,
Logica
plc
Chris
is a
Principal
Consultant
within
the
Energy
Utilities
and
Telecoms
division
of
Logica
plc.
Based
in the
UK,
Chris
has
worked
extensively
within
wholesale
energy
trading,
energy
retail,
transmission,
metering
services
and
settlement
within
the
England
&
Wales,
Scottish,
Irish,
Belgium,
New
Zealand
and US
markets.
For
the
past
three
years,
Chris
has
focused
on
smart
metering
and
the
impact
that
it
will
have
on
energy
retailers,
distributors,
wholesale
traders
and
settlement
bodies.
Author
of the
popular
'Smart
Metering
for
Dummies'
and
'Smart
Grids
for
Dummies',
Chris
is now
Solution
Architect
for
Logica's
UK-focused
smart
propositions. |
Last updated on
August 30, 2010
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