About Susan Wall
As Vice President of Marketing at Bronto, Susan is responsible for Bronto's marketing strategy and leading all lead generation, branding and positioning initiatives. Susan brings an extensive background in brand marketing, product marketing, marketing research, media and advertising to Bronto Software.

Thursday, May 13th 1:00-2:00PM EST

Learn how some of the most successful builders use software, internal processes, and expertise to run successful home building businesses. Join an experienced panel of industry consultants, builders, and Constellation representatives to learn how to protect margins, reduce costs, avoid errors, and get the information you need to run your business. This is your opportunity to ask questions and learn from the experiences of others.

About Blayne Parrish
Blayne Parrish (Center6) maintains over 15 years of home building industry experience, with specific expertise in technology systems, purchasing, operations, and sales and marketing. Blayne held positions as Director of Information Technology and Director of Purchasing for large single and multi-family home builders. He has experience working with top 20 national homebuilders throughout the U.S. and Canada.

About Christian Caswell
President of C.Caswell & Associates and Founder of Customer Insight™. Customer Insight is a relationship marketing firm specializing in providing actionable insights that turn customer data into profits. Our company along with our partners combine experience, strategy with technology and critical insight with action, working with clients to deliver results today that endure tomorrow.

About Kathy Mortensen
Kathleen Mortensen (HMS Cornerstone Solutions) has more than 30 years of experience in construction and job costing, including commercial construction, land development and home building. Her prior experience includes director of operations for a developer, management in commercial construction, and land development. In addition, she has served as senior project manager for home builder software as well as IT Director. Mortensen specializes in IT, project management and operations (both land development and builder), with a connective system view encompassing purchasing, site work/scheduling and sales through to final accounting.

About Mike Richards
Director of Homebuilding for SunCor Developments.

About Craig Schweikart
Vice President - Builder 360

With 25+ years of management experience, Bob is a well-known advisor and noted authority in the areas of business and strategic planning, accounting and financial management, management reporting, software selection, organizational development, incentive compensation system development, cost control system Implementation, and production management.

Chip Pennington is Corporate Director of Customer Service with Shea Homes.

Mike Lyon has "real world" knowledge and firsthand experience in the realm of online marketing and sales for homebuilders. He delivers his information from the trenches and draws from his diverse background in online advertising, digital design and internet sales.

He is a highly sought after consultant and has contributed to the success of homebuilders all across the nation. He is the bestselling author of Browsers to Buyers: Proven Strategies for Selling New Homes Online

Felicia is a Partner in RubinBrown's Assurance Services Group. She provides comprehensive audit and business consulting services to clients in the home building, manufacturing and distribution industries.

Steve is the Partner-in-Charge of RubinBrown's ten industry service groups. His experience includes extensive knowledge of audit, tax, and business consulting matters related to family-owned entrepreneurial businesses including home building, manufacturing, mortgage banking, transportation and others.

Join NEWSTAR staff for a technical overview of the latest NEWSTAR enhancements, deployment options, and best practices. The session will discuss how many builders are using NEWSTAR Enterprise with SQL in a hosted environment. The session will also discuss some of the improvements in NEWSTAR Enterprise that are only available when running NEWSTAR with Microsoft SQL. Updated deployment and installation best practices will also be covered with an emphasis on Constellation Updater as a deployment tool.

Today's builders do more with less. As the market rebounds, builders face aging IT infrastructure, part-time IT help, and large capital expenditures required to ramp up their IT infrastructure quickly when the market rebounds.

FAST Hosting can help. FAST Hosting provides powerful new servers housed in state of the art data centers. Backups are stored in multiple locations, enhancing business continuity. Fire suppression systems, fail-over, and precise climate control means your FAST system is well protected. System administration and system updates for the hosted system are maintained by FAST. We provide peace of mind.

This training session will provide an overview of the following features of NEWSTAR Sales:

• Creating and Using ToDo Plans
• Creating and Using HTML Email Messages
• Mailing System
• Creating and Using Campaigns

This training session will provide an overview of the following features of NEWSTAR Enterprise:

• Creating and Using Lot Line Reports
• Creating Financial Statements

This training session will provide an overview of the following features of NEWSTAR Enterprise:

• Budgets both General Ledger and Home Production
• Screen Driver - Over Budget Rules
• Latest Estimate Methods (ACE)
• Calculating Projections
• Detailed Cost Reports (ECC, Profitability, Analysis)
• Committed Costs

Learn the tips and tricks that will help you get the most from Builder 360.

This session will look at the tools included in Builder 360 that are designed to streamline the production process and the day to day maintenance of Builder 360 data.

Learn how Builder 360 scheduling can save time and money in your operations and is intended for the new user or a user considering the implementation of scheduling.

FAST provides an overview for managing, online, PO's/VPO's, Variance Requests and schedules. Specific training topics include business driven requirements for managing dollar amount and percentage level approvals; measurement PO approval; variance approval and supervisor hierarchy roles for superintendent management. Finally, FAST reviews the entirely new feature sets and different platforms and devices available to support this web-based management process. Don't miss your opportunity to learn the efficient and powerful manner in which your team can manage jobs online to reduce costs in supporting your business in this challenging market.

Training on FAST accounts payable - from vendor management, invoice processing including importing invoices and check runs

In this session, learn how to manage your leads from the web and build your relationship with them through target marketing, corporate directed follow-up programs with the added personal touch of on-the-fly task reminders. FAST will show you valuable ways to manage your marketing campaigns while managing the day-to-day tasks of follow up programs including calls, emails and others. Also, capture the important marketing demographics that will provide your business the intelligence and insight to continue the cycle and attract more qualified and appropriate leads.

Deliver a consistent and impactful customer experience using the FAST tools available today. Learn how to build the relationship with your customer from contract to closing, with easy ways to involve the customer. Closing through Warranty, channel requests and provide clarity of process. Automate and track homeowner maintenance and accountability. Drive referrals, automate surveys and provide positive builder buyer relations.

FAST provides an overview of the most impactful accounting enhancements introduced in 2009. Including: Enhancements to Intercompany GL – Configuring intercompany relationships and performing daily operations; Reversing Entries – deployment and daily operations; Enhancements to Accounting Imports –import methods reviewed, suggested templates and import error checking; Customer Service – Back charge and auto process service orders; Cash Management – Pro forma cash perspective; Asset management – Manage inventory and capital resources; Enterprise Budgets – Multilevel budgeting and report creation.