Conference Speakers

The Application Service Provider (ASP) delivery model has enabled workforce software to extend well beyond 'applicant tracking'. Now Workforce Software encompasses, more then ever, the full hiring lifecycle process. Web integration enables streamlining additional technology and systems to take advantage of WOTC Tax credits, background checking and skills validation while additionally leveraging corporate Intranet portals, and even extending workforce systems to wireless devices and text messaging -- all through one access point. Human Resource Professionals and IT departments will discover new tools to help navigate through the large inflow of applicants quickly and efficiently, connect their entire organizations hiring processes, and create quick and measurable return on investment.

Laura Butler is the Vice President of Client Services for Recruiting Solutions International (RSI), a privately held; profitable; Denver-based international software company. The Client Services team at RSI is responsible for product development and implementation, including developing communication strategies, enterprise rollout project plans, and business process analysis for new customers.

Ms. Butler has a strong background in technology, recruiting, business management and human resources, and has personally managed the implementations and system rollouts of RSI's human capital management software for over a hundred organizations such as Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, McKesson Medication Management, Liberty Savings Bank, Fiserv, and L-3 Communications.

William J. Husson
Academic Dean of Regis University's School for Professional Studies

William J. Husson currently serves as Vice President and Academic Dean of Regis University's School for Professional Studies, a $40 million dollar educational enterprise serving 13,000 adult students in graduate and undergraduate degree and certificate programs across seven campuses utilizing state-of-the art distance learning formats. Regis University is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States. Its School for Professional Studies has distinguished itself nationally as a leader in adult education, distance learning and corporate education. Through its academic programs and corporate education division, the School meets the continuing professional development needs of large and small businesses, professional associations and individual adult learners. Dr. Husson is widely recognized for his university-business alliances. Corporate partners have included such companies as Sun Microsystems, Bisk Publishing Company, IBM, Coors Brewing Company, and Westnet Technologies.

Prior to his appointment as Academic Dean of the School for Professional Studies, Dr. Husson was Director of Regis University's RECEP program (Regis Career Education Program), an innovative undergraduate degree completion program for working adults. The growth of this program contributed to much of what is the School for Professional Studies today. Specializing in the adult learner, RECEP and the School for Professional Studies have challenged traditional models of learning, with proven success for adults in values-based leadership education. Regis University and its School for Professional Studies have been recognized for innovation in education by the Peter F. Drucker Foundation, Tom Peters, Robert H. Waterman, Jr., and U.S. News and World Report.

Since 1997, Dr. Husson has chaired the Steering Committee of the Jesuit Distance Education Network, a collaborative distance learning effort of 24 of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States. He sits on the Education Provider Advisory Council of Western Governors University. He is a regular speaker on adult learning and corporate partnerships at the College Board and the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. He regularly consults with colleges and universities in the United States, Asia and Europe.

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy and a Master's degree in Theology from St. Thomas College. His doctorate is in Human and Organizational Systems from the Fielding Institute of Santa Barbara, California.

Leroy is the state Chief Information Officer for Colorado. In this capacity, he has responsibility for developing and implementing information technology strategies to enable E-Government capabilities, in support of technology economic development and to improve the efficiency, lower the costs, and improve the service levels of E-Government.

He was previously employed with the State of Colorado as the Chief Information Officer for the Department of Personnel & Administration (DPA). Before that, he directed Qwest’s supply-chain management and procurement Information Technology program. He previously served as Director of E-Business for U S West/Dex, Inc.; Director of Local Market Integration for U S WEST Communications; and Manager of Business Process Integration for U S WEST, Inc. Leroy also served in the U S Army in Germany as a telecommunications specialist and was a Senior Programmer/Analyst with Norwest (Wells Fargo) in the Technical Services Division.

He holds a Masters in Business Administration (General Management) from the University of Denver and received an undergraduate degree in Computer Information Science from Denver Technical College. Leroy serves on the City of Aurora’s Budget Advisory Committee (CABC), Governor’s Commission for Information Management (IMC), Aurora Education Foundation Board (AEF), and the Aurora Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Aurora Board. He previously served on the High-Technology Council of the Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry (CACI).

John Spiers, Founder/CTO
As the Chief Technology Officer and visionary for LeftHand Networks, John sets the company's technology direction and oversees its advanced technology development. He has over 20 years of experience architecting, developing and implementing software & hardware technology solutions in the Storage Industry. He has held multiple engineering development, IT and management positions, starting with the first Winchester Disk Drive maker MiniScribe Corporation. Prior to founding LeftHand Networks, John was Director of Engineering at Maxtor Corporation, with responsibility for New Product Introduction for the Network Systems Group, Disk Drive Test Engineering and world-wide Factory Information Systems. John holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.

LeftHand Networks Inc., is a venture-backed, network storage company located in Boulder, Colorado, a leading area for both storage and networking innovation. LeftHand Networks offers an IP-based SAN product that allows customers to build affordable, intelligent and highly manageable storage area networks that use their existing IP infrastructure. This LeftHand Networks' storage virtualization and management solution gives customers critical storage features such as pooling, replication, hot failover and snapshot capability that allow them to solve storage problems for fast-growing database applications, file sharing, disk-based backup, and disaster recovery.

John will talk about LeftHand Networks' next-generation Storage Area Network (SAN) solution for Ethernet. The company's flexible, IP-based SAN storage can be deployed on an existing LAN/MAN and WAN infrastructure, providing a painless migration path from direct-attached storage to shared network storage. Distributed clustering for Ethernet-based SANs combines the processing power of servers and storage, offering scalable performance with capacity.