Santos Martinez was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico, in 1982, and grew up in Caguas. Santos has more than 16 years of experience in the IT industry. He has worked on major implementations and in support of Configuration Manager and Enterprise Mobility + Security for many customers in the United States and Puerto Rico. Santos was a Configuration Manager engineer for a Fortune 500 financial institution and an IT consultant before joining Microsoft. For the Fortune 500 companies, he helped with the implementation and support of more than 200 Configuration Manager Site Servers and support of more than 300,000 Configuration Manager and Intune device clients worldwide.
Santos was a SQL Server MVP from 2005 to 2009 and then a Configuration Manager MVP from 2009 to 2011. He is well known in the Microsoft communities as a mentor for other MVPs and Microsoft FTEs and for helping other IT community members. He has also participated in Midwest Management Summit, and Microsoft Ignite as a technical expert for Configuration Manager, SQL Server, and Microsoft Intune. Santos is also a former Puerto Rican martial arts champion and currently holds a fourth-degree black belt in TaiFu Shoi Karate Do; he earned the title of Shihan Sensei.
Santos and Karla, a pastry chef, have been married for 16 years and have two children, Bryan Emir and Naomy Arwen.
Santos currently is a senior premier field engineer for Microsoft in security infrastructure.
You can get in touch with Santos via his Twitter account @ConfigNinja or his blog at http://aka.ms/ConfigNinja.
Peter Daalmans is a senior technical consultant at IT-Concern, a Gold Certified Microsoft partner in the Netherlands. Peter has been awarded as an Enterprise Mobility MVP every year since 2012 for his work in the community. Peter worked with deployment tooling from Microsoft competitors since 1998; in 2005 Peter discovered (BDD) Business Desktop Deployment and (SMS) System Manamagent Server 2003 deployment tooling and has embraced them since then. In recent years, numerous (international) deployment projects have crossed Peter’s path.
Peter is one of the founders of the Windows Management User Group Netherlands and shares his Configuration Manager and Microsoft Intune experience with the community via his blog (http://ConfigMgrBlog.com).
Besides speaking at the Windows Management User Group Netherlands, Peter speaks every year at several events like user group meetings in Europe, TechDays Netherlands, and ExpertsLive. In 2013 he had the honor to speak at TechEd Australia and TechEd New Zealand. Peter has also been a speaker at conferences like BriForum in London, Denver, and Boston; IT/Dev Connections; and the Midwest Management Summit.
Peter resides in beautiful Breda, in the south of the Netherlands, with his girlfriend Samantha and his son Stef, with a newborn due Christmas 2016. In addition to his daily work, he is the chairman of the NAC Museum Foundation, which preserves the history of the soccer club NAC Breda. Australia is also a huge passion; he travels Down Under whenever he gets the chance to sniff the outback and the Aussie lifestyle.
You can reach Peter via @pdaalmans and peter@ConfigMgrBlog.com or look at https://ref.ms/aboutme for the latest information.
Brett Bennett lives in Texas and has been with Microsoft for over 10 years, currently as a Senior Premier Field Engineer. Brett has been in the computer industry for almost 30 years and has used every version of SMS/SCCM since SMS 1.0 beta was released in 1994. He has been involved with the development of several technical books over his career and has spoken at several technical conferences.
Brett is married to Rosalie Bennett and has three children (Brittany, Jamie, and Justin), three dogs (Yogi, Boo Boo, and Reeses), and one granddog (Rue). Brittany and Jamie are both graduates of Texas A&M and are now in the workforce, and Justin is currently finishing up his degree at A&M. Brett enjoys driving his Dodge Challenger, riding bikes, playing guitar, expanding his vinyl collection, and preparing tasty food in his Weber smoker (especially Texas-style beef brisket). You can reach Brett at texasmcse@yahoo.com, @texasmcse on Twitter, or on his blog at https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/breben.