Nathan Lasnoski

• MVP awarded for Virtual Machine (Hyper-V)
• There are only 56 MVP’s listed in this specialty
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• Infrastructure Team Lead and now 3 time recipient of the award

Shannon Fritz

• MVP awarded for Forefront (UAG DirectAccess)
• There are only 29 MVP’s listed in this specialty
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• First time recipient, one of only 144 new MVP’s in the world this year.

Being my first time, I am particularly excited and want to thank my wife who puts up with me pouring so much time into my work, those who liked my involvement enough to nominate me, as well as the my employer who really gave me the opportunities and encouragement to pursue the things I am interested in.

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As a technology consulting firm focused on improving business productivity, Concurrency works with Midwest companies to maximize the return on their IT investments. Concurrency is the Wisconsin leader in transitioning companies’ IT systems to Microsoft’s cloud services for increased efficiencies, pay-as-you-go cost benefits, and better data security.

James Savage said, “We’re proud to be recognized for our work helping local companies innovate in a new era of IT possibilities. In the 1990s, email and the Internet were revolutionary. Now, in the 2010s, cloud computing is just as revolutionary. You can expect greater efficiency and more entrepreneurial thinking from both large and small companies as IT dollars are freed up to focus on improving business processes.” He also noted Milwaukee’s distinctive history in cloud computing: “For forty years Milwaukee has been an epicenter in outsourced bank data processing, which is actually an early example of cloud computing.”

James Savage said, “It used to be 70% of corporate IT dollars were spent just to keep the lights on. Now, with Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud services, it’s possible to slash that ‘maintenance’ percentage and use IT dollars to genuinely boost business productivity — which includes serving customers better.”

Microsoft chose Concurrency for the award from an extensive field of other Microsoft partners for their delivery of market-leading customer solutions. The Partner of the Year honor goes to the partner that has exemplified overall “best in class” characteristics tied to revenue, marketing ROI, customer satisfaction, loyalty and innovation. Concurrency offers clients access to the full Microsoft on-premises product set, and the new Office 365 cloud services offerings, which were recently introduced and are considered revolutionary.

Concurrency provides expert advice and consulting to companies as they transition “to the cloud.” Concurrency has also created one of the only “Microsoft Experience Centers” in the Midwest, an immersive, interactive lab environment where corporate executives can envision and experiment with the business process improvements made possible with these new cutting-edge technologies. Concurrency is an authority on enterprise content management, customer relationship management, business intelligence, application development, and network infrastructure.

About Concurrency

Concurrency, Inc., is an information technology solution company founded 1989. Its customers are among the most successful communication, construction, financial, insurance, professional services, logistics, and manufacturing companies in the Midwest. Concurrency is the Midwest’s authority on the Microsoft platform. As a Gold-Certified Partner, the company deploys solutions in SharePoint & Collaboration, Application Development, Core Infrastructure, Unified Communications, CRM and Microsoft Online Services. For over twenty-two years Concurrency’s consultants have helped companies in Milwaukee, Madison, and Chicago improve business efficiencies and worker productivity. Visit www.concurrency.com for more information.

• Monday, May 16th: 10:30 – 2:00
• Tuesday, May 17th: 10:30 – 3:30
• Wednesday, May 18th: 10:30 – 1:00
• Wednesday, May 18th: 3:00 – 5:00

Bring your best questions about Hyper-V, VDI, and integration with System Center products!! Also, be sure to check out these awesome items this year at Tech Ed 2011:

• VMM 2012 and Azure (Private / Public Cloud Management)
• VMM 2012 and Fabric Deployment
• VMM 2012 and bare-metal Hyper-V deployment
• Office365 and integration with AD-FS

More to come!  See you all there!

Nathan Lasnoski

If you’re confused about Agile, you’ll leave this session with an understanding of Agile concepts and knowledge to start applying Agile to your projects.

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Concurrency Senior Project Manager, Jay Steinke, will be speaking at PMI’s Professional Development Day during the track entitled Stepping Into an Agile World. The full day seminar will be held at the Country Springs Conference Center in Pewaukee, WI.

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Concurrency’s Senior Project Manager, Jay Steinke, will be the featured presenter at PMI’s November Chapter Meeting. Participants who attend his Successful Tips on being an Agile Project Manager presentation will be awarded One (1) Professional Development Unit (PDU). The meeting will take place at PANOS in Brookfield, WI.

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Speaker Bio

Jay Steinke, PMP, is a project manager whose more than 12 years experience includes managing software development projects, corporate initiatives, and PMO implementations in the securities brokerage, banking, and insurance industry’s. Jay has also implemented numerous Agile methodologies and process improvements into organizations which increase efficiencies and improve project performance. Jay has written papers, mentored and trained project managers of all maturities, and presented his ideas to broad audiences.

His philosophy encompasses improving project and organizational results through a foundation of low-effort, high-value tools and techniques that can be used on any project or in any organization. Jay also teaches complex concepts, such as earned value, in a simple and straight-forward method that is easy to understand. His expertise includes managing complex software development projects, offshore/onshore initiatives, PMO implementations, acquisitions, Microsoft Project Server 2007 best practices, budgets, programs, and strategic initiatives.

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