Darren Mar-Elia

Darren Mar-Elia is CTO & Founder of SDM Software, Inc., a Windows systems management company. Prior to starting SDM Software, Darren was Sr. Director of Product Engineering for DesktopStandard-- a Group Policy tools company. Darren was also Quest Software's CTO for Windows Management and is a Microsoft MVP for Group Policy. Darren has more than 18 years of IT experience in systems and network administration design and architecture.

His IT expertise was on large-scale enterprise implementations of Windows infrastructures in distributed and data center environments. Prior to joining Quest, he worked as director of distributed systems architecture and planning for Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. In that capacity he was technical lead for the company's Windows NT & 2000 design and migration efforts and help create the company's strategy for Linux.

He maintains the popular Group Policy resource web site at www.gpoguy.com (but still contributes to www.GPanswers.com) and has been a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro Magazine since 1997. He has written and contributed to eleven different books on Windows including, most recently, the "Windows Group Policy Guide", published by Microsoft Press in 2005 and "The Definitive Guide to Windows 2000 Administration," "The Definitive Guide to Windows 2000 Group Policy" and "The Tips & Tricks Guide to Group Policy," all published online by Realtimepublishers.com. Darren also speaks frequently at conferences on Windows infrastructure topics.
 
 

 

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