Warpstock 2015 Presenters

John Edwards

John is a retired educator who has been involved with personal computers since 1980. He has used OS/2 since version 2 and has been an OS/2 advocate ever since. He has been actively involved with the Kitchener-Waterloo OS/2 Users Group for a number of years and is the current President of Warpstock Corporation.

Lewis Rosenthal

Lewis has been active professionally in the IT field since 1987. His experience with OS/2 dates back to version 2.0, which became the first OS/2 workstation OS rolled out in his accounting & systems integration firm of Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC.

One of Rosenthal & Rosenthal's subsidiary companies, Hautspot, LLC, designs, deploys, and manages wireless hotspots and hotzones. Hautspot has been active in the managed Wi-Fi arena since 2004. Rosenthal & Rosenthal also hosts the OS/2 Wireless Users mailing list. Lewis holds multiple professional certifications from Novell and CWNP, and serves as Treasurer on the Board of Warpstock Corporation. As Managing Member of Arca Noae, LLC, Lewis directs the premier OS/2-focused development and marketing company in the United States.

Neil Waldhauer

Neil is an OS/2 and eComStation consultant and an eCS reseller. He lives in Santa Cruz, California, and uses OS/2 and eComStation computers in the home office. He first programmed OS/2 version 1.2 on an IBM PS/2 model 80.

Roderick Klein

Roderick Klein has worked at Mensys B.V. on OS/2 from 2001 until 2014. He started using OS/2 when the Warp 3 beta from IBM came out. Working on further improving the IT infrastructure of Mensys and providing support internally and to customers, he also worked on eComStation development, support, research and new projects. He was president and liaison officer of VOICE, and member of the Dutch HCC OS/2 gg and its helpdesk. He is now President of the OS/2 VOICE foundation.

Steven Levine

Steven H. Levine has been active in the computing industry for something like forty years.

He has held a variety of positions emphasizing custom product development and support in both engineering and commercial environments. Currently, he is President and Chief Technical Officer of Steven Levine and Associates, Inc.

Steven became aware of OS/2 back in the 1.2 days when he worked with some of the early OS/2 based industrial automation system and has continued to use it regularly since then.

Steven is active in a variety of eComStation and OS/2 projects including eCS product development. He a member of the fm/2 file manager development team and supports the ports of a number of applications including rsync, mtools and tesseract.

Paul Smedley

Born in the UK, live in Adelaide, South Australia
Married to Julie, proud owner of two Golden Retrievers
Chemical Engineer by qualification
Currently Quality Manager Holden Vehicle Operations at GM Holden
No formal qualifications in programming
BBC Micro in high school, and some pascal
Some C in 1st year Engineering
Started using OS/2 when OS/2 2.1 for Windows was released – 1993?

Andy Willis

TBA

David Azarewicz

David is a hardware designer and software developer. He has been a user of and advocate for OS/2 since the beginning. He uses OS/2 and eComStation computers for all of his development work, in his business, and for his personal use. David is one of the principals of Arca Noae and currently works on various projects such as ACPI, MultiMac, USB, Uniaud, JFS, and various other drivers.

Martin Iturbide

Martín Itúrbide is the OS2World.com NewsMaster since the year 2000. He obtained a B.S. in Computer Science from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador at 1999. He is currently living in Quito, Ecuador (South America) and he has been using OS/2 since 1995. His interest is on open source software and collaborative participation for the OS/2-eCS platform. When he is not "Dreaming in Technicolor" about a full OS/2 open source clone, he works offering SOA integration solutions and process automation (BPM) implementations in Ecuador.

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