Acumatica Virtual Developer Conference 2018

Ajoy has over 15-plus years of experience in the industry in technical, marketing and leadership roles. For the last 10 years, Ajoy has been at Microsoft driving business success across a wide range of product management and marketing roles, including most recently serving as Director for OEM Segment Marketing where he and his team were responsible for the go-to-market strategy across commercial and consumer audiences. In a prior role, Ajoy was part of the product management and product marketing team in Microsoft Developer Tools division.

Ajoy has co-authored half a dozen books on various MS technologies including ASP.NET and Visual Studio. Previous to working at Microsoft, Ajoy spent five years in enterprise technology consulting. Ajoy has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from MS University in India, Masters in Computer Science from BITS, India, and also earned his MBA from The Ohio State University.

Ali has 20 years of experience in software industry and a successful track record as a high-tech entrepreneur with multiple successful start-ups. In 2001, Ali founded Everest Software and pioneered the first all-in-one ERP solution for multi-channel small and medium businesses.

As founder and VP of Product Management at Everest Software, he was responsible for products and the business direction of the company prior to its successful sale to Versata Software in 2009. Before Everest, Ali founded Accel Inc, a white-box PC Manufacturer; and iCode Inc, an ERP Software Company. ERP solutions built by Ali at iCode provided Accel a scalable solution enabling rapid growth and sale of the $35-million company in 1994.

He graduated from Virginia Tech with two bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.

Mike has more than 15 years of experience in software project management, ERP software design and implementation. He was Director of Engineering for Parallels, the leading provider of desktop virtualization, OS containers, and control panel software. He was responsible for the development of Parallels Business Automation line of products. Prior to joining Parallels, Mike was the CTO of SWsoft consulting division, responsible for the implementation of custom ERP solutions and providing customer support.

He received a Master of Science degree (1996) in Applied Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

Andrew has 25 years of experience in information technology, predominantly in ERP products and platform design and development. He has been a part of Acumatica since the company’s inception. Prior to Acumatica, Andrew led the development office of SWSoft, working on the Solomon IV ERP system for Solomon Software, and then Great Plains.

Andrew holds a Master Degree in Computer Science from the Kharkov Institute of Radio Electronics.

Former head of Acumatica Montreal Labs, Gabriel is now an independent ERP consultant helping organizations get the most of their ERP with customization, integration and business process optimization. He is also the author of Velixo Reports, an Excel-based reporting tool that brings the power of Acumatica financial and project reporting to your spreadsheets.

Sergey has worked for Acumatica 11 years – eight working as a system developer and the remaining time as a technical expert & consultant. As a developer, he specializes in C# with deep expertise in Microsoft development technologies. He spends his time in the field, sharing his development knowledge as a consulting and customer relationship manager.

Vladimir has worked for Acumatica for almost 5 years as a platform developer and a team lead. He is responsible for different platform areas such as Reporting, Generic Inquiries, Dashboards, Pivot Tables, OData, Modern UI, Programming APIs, Acuminator, etc.

Vladimir has been working in the ERP industry for the last 8 years. The past five of those years have been with Acumatica. His first role was as a C# developer on the application team. Presently, he is combining the roles of a Technical Account Manager and the team lead for a small development group dedicated to building specific regional customizations for Acumatica’s global OEMs.

Passionate evangelist and collaborator offering more than 7 years of success designing and developing Desktop and Web Applications for enterprise business systems. He’s been responsible for writing sample code and applications, creating content to educate developers, collecting feedback to assist engineering teams in refining the product and platform.

Joshua is the Lead Software engineer of Accounting System Integrators, a results-oriented provider of world-class software products and consulting services. He leads the development team, which built NonProfitPlus – a business management software engineered with Non-Profit organizations in mind and powered by Acumatica ERP, delivering a suite of fully integrated applications. As a developer who has worked with the Acumatica framework through years of its growth and refinement Joshua has cultivated a deep knowledge of the framework and those systems that may interact with it which has allowed proposals of innovative solutions to overcome challenging client requirements. An active member of Stackoverflow.com as he encourages fellow developers to share their questions and help one another out in the hopes of building a solid knowledge base for a solid framework. In his free time, Joshua enjoys being involved in his local community as well as politics having run for public office in his “spare” time.

Though I did amateur stand up at one point for kicks and giggles the fun side of me outside my work with the community and politics (I think they’re fun lol) can be found working with an improve group during the week and the occasional theatre performance having been Baptista in “The taming of the Shrew” by Shakespeare of late.