Technical Advisory Board
Technical Advisory Board Charter (PDF)
Michael Garfield is a technology expert for several media outlets in the southwest U.S. and on the Web. He began his broadcasting segments in the late 1990s on the Houston NBC-TV affiliate and continues today with syndicated programs to radio and TV stations and print publications. Known as “The High-Tech Texan®,” Michael hosts a radio program from his flagship station in Houston, The 9-5-0 KPRC-AM. “The High-Tech Texan® Show with Michael Garfield” features industry guests, listener call-ins, product reviews, tips and opinions. As a key figure in the technology industry, Michael regularly appears at conferences and across the media to speak about technology products and services, cyberspace issues and related topics. Recent media appearances include CNBC, FOX and various CBS and ABC affiliates. Michael gained experience in the communications, marketing and promotion fields with companies like Clear Channel, Microsoft, MCI, Bank One and ProServ Sports Management. Upon graduating college he was hired as one of the youngest TV show hosts in the history of QVC Network. Michael is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and holds a bachelors degree in communications, Radio-TV-Film.
Ian Barraclough is a Network Architect at BMC Software in Houston, Texas, with more than 17 years experience in Internet Technology with a strong background in LAN, WAN, security, Internet, load balancing, caching, Unix systems administration and scripting. He leads an engineering group of LAN, WAN and Network Security professionals who manage the daily network infrastructure operations and development of this multinational $3 billion company. BMC Software is a leading global provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to automate their IT and align it to the needs of the business.
Louis Marbel, a software engineer with a Master’s Degree in Engineering and Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has more than 35 years of experience in software and model-driven real-time systems architecture and more than 20 years of experience in designing knowledge-based systems. Mr. Marbel is founder and CTO of Interactive Design Labs (IDL™), a software products company which provides products and tools for domain-specific modeling and policy based workflow resource management in business process management environments.