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Macworld Conference & Expo - Boston 2004 & User Group Leadership Conference Planning Team
This team of Macintosh User Group leaders and enthusiasts are responsible for both the User Group Leadership Conference and all the user group events at Macworld Conference & Expo.
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P.A.M. Borys
Washington Apple Pi
P.A.M., the Founding President of the MacWoburn User Group and president of Step by Step Training is a long-time Boston-area Mac consultant and user group volunteer. P.A.M. has coauthored several computer books and is an active member of the Apple Consultants Network. Offline activities include fencing, historical sword, horseback riding, skiing, and trying to maintain sanity in a busy family.
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Pat Fauquet
Washington Apple Pi
Pat Fauquet is serving in her second term as President of the Washington Apple Pi Macintosh User Group in the Washington DC metro area. She also serves as their Tutorial Coordinator. When not at the Pi, she does Macintosh consulting and training for small companies, individuals and schools. She specializes in working with senior citizens and helping people move to OS X in addition to her work in digital photography and video. Her license plate reads Mac Mom 5. The five represents her five children, and these days, the number of grandchildren she loves to talk about, not the number of older Macs in the back of her car on the way to the Pi Reclamation Project.
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Sandy Foderick
User Group Advisory Board
Sandy is a founding officer and current president of AOL's original user group, past board member of the User Group Network and former Chancellor of AOL's User Group Learning Center, where she met and worked with user groups across the United States. She is a member of Mini'App'Les in Minnesota and serves on Apple's User Group Advisory Board. When not busy with user groups, Sandy is a professor of Humanities and a mom of four.
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Sarah Friedlander
Rochester Institute of Technology Macintosh User Group (MacRIT)
Sarah is a sophmore at Rochester Institute of Technology majoring in New Media Publishing. Her involvement in User Groups prior to college includes membership in the Long Island PDA/Handheld Users Group, the Long Island Mac Users Group and the New York City Final Cut Pro Users Group. She is currently serving her second term as MacRIT's Vice President. When not sitting at her computer, Sarah enjoys photography, watching sunsets and eating sushi.
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Trish Huffman
Triangle Macintosh Users Group
Trish left her career in the medical field to stay at home with her ever-expanding family -- both the two-legged and four-legged variety. She is MUG Producer at World Without Borders and works to bring MUG events to WWBChat's Apple Community Connection. She currently serves Triangle Macintosh Users Group, based in the Research Triangle area of North Carolina, as their Apple Ambassador and vendor liaison. Trish has been a member of the Apple User Group Advisory Board since January 2002.
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Chris Kiltz
Josephene County Macintosh Users Group
Chris is a professional web designer in real life, and has been president of the JoMacs (Josephine County Mac User Group) in Grants Pass, Oregon since 2002, and is also currently the AUG Regional Liaison for the northwest. She had her first Mac encounter in 1999, fell in love and got involved in the local user group. Her main focus in her "Mac" world is to help others "catch the Mac Fire". Her favorite place to be (if not with her Mac) is on the wilderness trails of Southern Oregon, relaxing with her hubby and enjoying the incredible scenery.
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Chuck Joiner
Hershey Apple Core
Chuck is active advocate of the Macintosh User Group community. He has served as the chairman of the Apple User Group Advisory Board since its creation in January, 2000, and is the president of his local group, the Hershey Apple Core of Hershey, PA. Chuck is the editor-in-chief of The MUG Center, the resource site for Macintosh User Groups, and produces and hosts "The User Group Report," an Internet radio show that focuses on Macintosh User Group personalities, news and information. Outside his user group activities, Chuck is vice president of Operations for the Insurance Alliance of Central PA.
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Rick Ortiz
Maui Apple User Society
Rick Ortiz has served as President of the Maui Apple User Society (MAUS) since 2000. Moving to Maui in 1997, he quickly made his Macintosh presence known, assisting in the rebuilding of the group from 30 members to over 170. Rick currently works in the non-profit sector of Maui and also owns a Multimedia / Mac Consulting business. With his non-profit work, and Mac experience, Rick created a program called iKids, in which the User Group rebuilds donated Macs and puts them into the homes of low-income youth.
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Lynn Poos
Silicon Mountain Macintosh User Group
Currently the Secretary-Treasurer of the largest active MUG in the State of Colorado, Lynn has been involved with the Mac since the late 1980's. Lynn has also been involved with Apple Computer on several promotional ventures and consulting. In the spring of 2001, Lynn was appointed to the Regional Liaison Team. He was reappointed in 2003 and named the Regional Liaison for the South West United States. He holds a Master's Degree in Public Administration and a Bachelor's Degree in Police Science and Administration. Retiring in 1993 after thirty-four years with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Lynn moved to Colorado and was appointed by the City Council to serve on the Colorado Springs Liquor and Beer Licensing Board. In 1998, he was appointed by the Governor of Colorado to chair the Colorado Juvenile Parole Board, a position he currently holds. In 2002 this Board was recently featured in an hour-long special on A & E1s Investigative Reports, where Lynn prominently displayed his Macintosh PowerBook on camera.
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Carmela Robertson
All By Myself
Carmela Zamora (CZ) Robertson has been working with Apple user groups since 1989. She worked in Apple's User Group Department for four years and continued to work with user groups when Apple spun out the department as an outside entity, User Group Connection. In 1997 she became an independent meeting professional working with various corporations and non-profit groups within Silicon Valley, which still gave her the opportunity to work with user groups. She currently launched a new company with a couple of ex-Apple cohorts producing instructional children's videos. The company is called All By Myself, Inc. They introduced their first video "Getting Dressed" in May 2002, editing it all by themselves using Apple technology (iMovie and a Titanium G4).
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David Roemer
David, a member of the Apple User Group Advisory Board, is one of the driving forces behind Ideas United, the company that is producing the Apple hardware and software-based CampusMovieFest events at various colleges and universities. David founded the Apple Student Core @ Emory University in Atlanta, GA, a group that has pioneered several campus events such as iMovieFest that get students excited about doing more with technology.
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Lorene Romero
North Coast Macintosh Users Group
Since January 2000, Lorene S Romero has been the Apple User Group Advisory board’s vendor relation magician (known to the MUG community as vendorqueen)! Lorene continues to work diligently with various vendors in order to provide MUG members with the opportunity to receive great monthly “special product deals.” Lorene is known as a "go getter", never sitting back on the job. As President of North Coast Mac Users Group in California, she chairs their annual Mac Computer Expo and coordinates the NCMUG booth hosted at Macworld Expo in San Francisco.
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Lesa Snider
Cowtown Macintosh User Group
Lesa is the owner of Flying Fingers, a Fort Worth, Texas, creative new media firm specializing in web development, usability and search engine optimization. She is also a consultant for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, travels with the Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour and is a certified Palm OS trainer for Supra. Lesa1s publishing credits include technical editor of "Mac OS X Conversion Kit" by Scott Kelby (Peachpit Press, 2003) and contributions to Mac Design Magazine. She is a member of the Apple User Group Advisory Board and a three-time User Group University instructor. Lesa has held various leadership positions in the Cowtown Macintosh Users Group and is currently serving as president.
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Elsa Travisano
MUG ONE
Elsa has been a guiding force for MUG ONE (Macintosh User Group of Oneonta, New York) for 19 years. She currently serves as president, webmaster, and editor of MUG ONE's award-winning newsletter, Newsbreak. She is also a member of Apple's User Group Advisory Board.
Elsa comes from a Mac family. Her father, Philip Thompson, was founding president of Princeton's PMUG, her husband is a former MUG ONE president and her son and daughter are both avid Mac users. She works as a Macintosh consultant and is a member of the Apple Consultants Network.
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Warren Williams
AppleWorks User Group
Warren is the President of the AppleWorks Users Group, the largest user group in the world, and is a member of Apple's User Group Advisory Board. Professionally, Warren is a Professor Emeritus of Educational Technology at Eastern Michigan University. Dr. Williams has written more than 500 articles published in psychological journals and technology magazines and newsletters.
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