Who We Are

Train Signal, Inc is a privately held Chicago based company specializing in creating the “Best Computer Training Products on the Planet”.

This blog is about anything and everything that has to do with Windows Server. Here’s all the great stuff we have to offer:

• Exclusive (subscriber only) discount offers on Train Signal products
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• Free Windows Server training videos
• Windows Server “how to” tutorials & articles
• Windows Server product updates
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What We’re All About

We created this site for YOU — to help you learn, solve a problem, show you the way around a Windows Server and keep you up to date on new stuff.

If you ever wish that we had an article about a certain issue or problem that you’re having with your Windows Server — let us know. Contact our team at any time and we’ll do our best to help.

Why We Rock!

We work really, really, really hard on making our training videos, articles, tutorials, and everything else the best. We call it CNEI — Constant Never Ending Improvement (CNEI is actually Anthony Robbin’s idea, we just like it).

So the next time you’re wondering why our site looks different or why we’ve added all these new features to our videos — think of the 4 letter word for why we rock: CNEI. Any changes we make are for you!

Now let me introduce you to the team.

 

 

Meet the Windows Server Team

 

Gosia Grabowska

Gosia is our Product Manager. She’s the lucky gal who gets to see every minute of every Windows Server video and then polishes it to the lean, mean, not to mention awesome training you see.

She’s a smart cookie too, an experienced Network Support Specialist and an expert in Windows Server support.

Graduating from DePaul University, Chicago with a Bachelor in Network Technologies and being one of only 2 girls in her class, she achieved the highest honors. Pretty impressive huh?

But Windows Server wasn’t always Gosia’s passion … her first love affair (or more of an obsession) was with World of Warcraft.

You’d never guess this by looking at her, but Gosia was a level 60 Tauren hunter called Meighread (pictured on the left). She even had her own pet wolf called Mopsik!

She was the queen of WoW, an awesome warrior and a regular killing machine, but her life as a hunter abruptly came to an end when her boxer puppies Kajin and Diesel weren’t getting enough love and attention (and exercise).

Drastic measures had to be taken and Meighread the Almighty Hunter was deleted from WoW and the puppies survived. Yay!

So what else do you need to know about Gosia?

Oh yes … she’s married (so please, no emails with marriage proposals guys), loves sushi, traveling around the world, painting and working at Train Signal!

 

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Lisa Szpunar

Lisa is another Product Manager here at Train Signal. She starts with the raw videos from the instructors and turns them into the training courses you all know and love. Lisa also runs the Train Signal forums. What can I say, she’s a busy gal!

To say that Lisa is a woman of many interests is an understatement. Her husband is a Semi-Professional Motorcycle Racer (who sports an orange Mohawk) and Lisa’s favorite days are spent at the racetrack changing tires, and keeping her hubby hydrated. She even has her own Italian sportbike (which she looks really hot on)!
On non-race weekends she screen-prints t-shirts for fun and profit, does digital photography with her Nikon D200, and has a houseful of exotic (and non exotic) pets.

She would kindly take a picture of them all together for you, but she can’t … because someone might get eaten.

Lisa has a Masters of Science in Computer Science from Northern Illinois University. She completed her undergrad studies at University of Iowa in elementary education and in her former life Lisa was a computer teacher and a children’s librarian. She still secretly wants to be a children’s book author when she grows up.

Although Lisa loves to read children’s literature, she likes books for adults too. You will never see her without a book of some kind stashed in her bag. She also has a very strange obsession with office supplies, and loves spoons. But hey, who doesn’t right?

 

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Ed Liberman

Ed is an instructor and Coach’s partner in crime here at TS. You can always count on him for a good laugh when you need it, and since we all work int he same office, we actually do that (a lot).

He’s a real class clown, the goofiest IT instructor out there (apart from Coach, he’s pretty funny too).

When not infusing laughter into his training videos you can usually find Ed eating fried chicken. This guy loves the stuff more than anyone I’ve ever met. His favorite thing is hot wings for breakfast.

What else is Ed up to? Well he’s currently running for office. That’s right, you heard me, Ed is running for office; he’s going to be the new Trustee in his village this year.

Now I know what you’re thinking, what would possess a successful IT instructor and class clown extraordinaire to get involved in politics? Well, I really don’t know the answer to that one. Ed doesn’t look like the political type to me, although he is short, old and bald and kinda looks like a politician already (sorry Ed, no offense buddy).

What else do you need to know about Ed? Well, he’s our Windows Server guru, has more certifications and letters after his name than anyone I know, and always seems to find a way to relate anything and everything to his 4 kids.

 

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Benjamin “Coach” Culbertson

Benjamin “Coach” Culbertson is a former Steak N’ Shake Manager who decided that he didn’t want to spend his life in the exciting and fast-paced restaurant industry and started an illustrious career as a tech guy.

Achieving his A+, Network+, MCSA 2K and 2003, MCTS, and MCITP certifications along with several other random certs, he’s taught thousands of people ranging from CEO’s to janitors in a wide range of networking and computer application disciplines since 2001.

He also served a two-year tour of duty as an inner city high school teacher at Roberto Clemente High School in Chicago, where he broke up fights and taught in the Networking Technology program, sometimes simultaneously depending on the day.

Adopting a daughter and resultant son-in-law (and now a grandson!) while he was a high school teacher, he and his wife Kimberly realized that teenagers are expensive and went back to the higher-paying private sector.

He’s been creating The Best Computer Training on the Planet since 2007, and intends to continue to do so until his boss gets tired of his crazy antics or he becomes a millionaire, whichever happens first.

In his spare time, Coach does all the heavy lifting over at ReliefJournal.com as Technical Editor, and is the Editor-In-Chief of Coach’s Midnight Diner, a hardboiled anthology of horror, crime, and paranormal fiction found at TheMidnightDiner.com.