Founder and CEO of CROWDSHIFTER Media, a digital marketing consulting firm. Prior, he ran a full service ad agency that serviced over 70 clients including Marriott Hotels, Univ of Nebraska and others. He teaches social network strategies at Iowa Western. He is coauthor on the “Facebook All In One for Dummies”. Voted Best Social Media Consultant 2011 by Omaha Businesses via B2B Magazine, 2011 Stevie Awards Finalist & is Miller Heiman Certified.

Engagement Manager in Advanced Services Data Center & Cloud practice delivering enterprise data center projects. She has held management roles at Cisco, EMC and EMC Consulting. Managed international teams in VDI and Iaas environments. Technical experience includes: Data Center IT Infrastructure, Virtualization Strategies, Disaster Recovery, Cloud Computing and Domain 10sm. Has BS from Smith and MS from Harvard. PMP, ITIL and CSM certifications.

Alan is a successful financial professional, CPA and entrepreneur. He was a senior audit manager at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Chief Financial Officer at IHOP and Four Media Company, a high tech entertainment services company in Burbank, CA. The company was originally funded by private equity and taken public within 4 years. Alan is the Founder and managing member of AU WealthPlan, LLC and Consolidated Credit Acquisitions, LLC

Currently a Technical Consultant Manager for premier storage and infrastructure provider. Worked with mid to large companies building infrastructures with automated Disaster Recovery to alleviate downtime and design IT to be more agile in supporting business needs. He has 20 years in the IT industry, mostly with EMC, focusing on infrastructure and systems management, and Business Continuance solutions for Fortune 500 companies.