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Steven Murawski (T3) is the Senior Windows System Engineer for Edgenet, a data services company, and a Microsoft MVP in PowerShell. In this role, he supports a dynamic infrastructure that pushes the boundaries of the Windows platform.  Steven blogs at UsePowerShell.com (http://blog.usepowershell.com).  Steven also leads two local user groups, the Greater Milwaukee IT Pro User Community (http://gmitpuc.com) and the Greater Milwaukee Script Club (http://blog.usepowershell.com). He speaks regularly to local user groups and can be found at various conferences.

Mark Burgess (T5, F3) is the founder, chairman, CTO, and principal author of CFEngine. In 2011 he resigned as Professor of Network and System Administration at Oslo University College, where for twenty years he led the way in theory and practice of automation and policy-based management. In the 1990s he underlined the importance of idempotent, autonomous desired state management ("convergence") and formalized cooperative systems in the 2000s ("promise theory"). He is the author of numerous books and papers on network and system administration, including the USENIX Short Topics books A System Engineer's Guide to Host Configuration and Maintenance Using Cfengine, co-authored with Æleen Frisch, and A Sysadmin's Guide to Navigating the Business World,co-authored with Carolyn Rowland. He has won several prizes for his work.

Carolyn Rowland (T5) began working with UNIX in 1986; her professional career as a UNIX system administrator took off in 1991. She currently leads a team of sysadmins at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), driving innovation and supporting research projects for the Engineering Laboratory. She believes we need to increase the visibility of system administration by engaging senior leadership and tying our efforts to the priorities of business. Carolyn is also Secretary of the USENIX Board of Directors and the LISA '12 Program Chair. In 2011–2012 Carolyn began to focus on the community of women in computing, including co-chairing the first-ever USENIX Women in Advanced Computing (WiAC) Summit. Carolyn will continue as co-chair of WiAC in 2013. 

Thomas A. Limoncelli (M5, M10, T9) is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and system administrator. His best-known books include Time Management for System Administrators (O'Reilly) and The Practice of System and Network Administration (Addison-Wesley). He received the SAGE 2005 Outstanding Achievement Award. He works at Google in NYC.

Guido Trotter (T9), a Senior Systems Engineer at Google, has worked as a core Ganeti developer and designer since 2007. He is also a regular conference speaker, having presented at LISA, Fosdem, Linuxcon, Debconf, and other open source and community gatherings. He mostly speaks about Ganeti, virtualization in the open source world, and Linux networking features for virtualized environments.

David N. Blank-Edelman (T11, R2) is the Director of Technology at the Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science and the author of the O'Reilly book Automating System Administration with Perl (the second edition of the Otter book), available at purveyors of fine dead trees everywhere. He has spent the past 25+ years as a system/network administrator in large multi-platform environments, including Brandeis University, Cambridge Technology Group, and the MIT Media Laboratory. He was the program chair of LISA '05 and was one of the LISA '06 Invited Talks co-chairs. David is honored to have been the recipient of the 2009 SAGE Outstanding Achievement Award and to serve on the USENIX Board of Directors.