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ActiveRoles Community User Profiles
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Robert Bobel, Platform Director - Product Management,
Quest Software
Robert Bobel provides strategic direction and product
management for Quest's Identity and Access Management products. Bobel
joined Quest with its acquisition of Aelita Software, where his
responsibilities included customer and partner enablement for Active
Directory, Exchange and Windows migration and management products.
Bobel has consulted and trained customers and partners around the world on best practices in Active Directory management products.
Currently, Bobel's main area of focus is around the ActiveRoles platform that in 2009 surpassed 57 million licenses sold around the world.
Prior to joining Quest, Bobel taught Microsoft technologies at The Ohio State University and was an entrepreneur providing
consulting to commercial and governmental organizations that were standardizing on Microsoft technologies.
Bobel was among the first Windows 1.0 users and among the first to be Microsoft certified on Windows NT when it was launched
in 1993, and shared this knowledge in a variety of Windows infrastructure and networking consulting projects.
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Greg Montoya
I'm Greg Montoya, coming to you from sunny southern California. I
started my IT career in 1996, working mostly in Windows Server environments and have had the fortunate
opportunity in my career to gain rich experience in just about every field and facet of IT.
I started out in the Silicon Valley, the heart and soul of the IT technology
boom. I wanted to try it all, and on a grand scale - networking, sys administration, building data
centers, security, website construction, db administration, scripting , etc, etc ... you
get the hint. It was a lot of work but I had a lot of fun as well, and even today it still
fascinates me to see a successful deployment come together so well when all the players and
technologies jive. But one of the constant pitfalls I saw was the lack of proper translation of
business policies to the IT realm, and that's where my trek down the identity management path
started.
Back when MS SQL2k arrived on the scene with its AD integration it became
apparent that, with some creative coding, a team could create custom, automated provisioning methods
between previously "disparate" systems. I became engrossed in such a project and quickly
took note of all the possibilities and approaches that could spawn off our rudimentary
blueprint.
Unfortunately, Silicon Valley lost its shine with the big bust, and my family
and I went looking for greener (or, in my case, more tropical) pastures. But I knew at that
point that this technology had me completely captivated.
As time has passed, there have been several attempts by software firms to bring
all the pieces of the puzzle together, but in my humble opinion none have come closer to a
"complete, all encompassing" solution like Quest Software. The ActiveRoles Server engine with
its complimentary components is the ultimate tool to have in one's hip pocket, and I
enjoy assisting other users in building their own unique solutions with the product.
If it's part of IT, I've tried it and, thanks to Quest ActiveRoles Server, my fun continues! When I'm not working on some new, exciting project I'm either a beach bum with my daughters or out riding my VROD along PCH with my beautiful wife of 20 years.
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