Tom Rizzo is a director in the Microsoft SharePoint product
management team. Before joining the SharePoint team, Tom worked in
the Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server product management teams. Tom
is the author of six development books on a range of Microsoft
technologies.
Richard Riley is a senior technical product manager in
the Microsoft SharePoint product management team. He is responsible
for driving Technical Readiness, both within, and outside of,
Microsoft and specializes in Search Server 2008 and the Search
features of SharePoint Server 2007. He has more than seven years of
experience at Microsoft and has worked as a consultant in Microsoft
Consultancy Services, and as a technical specialist in sales. He
has over 10 years of industry experience and is a frequent speaker
at Microsoft Technical Events.
Shane Young is the owner of SharePoint911. He has over 12
years of experience designing and administering large - scale
server farms using Microsoft enterprise technologies. For the past
three years, he has been working exclusively with SharePoint
products and technologies as a consultant and trainer for
www.SharePoint911.com . Shane has been recognized by Microsoft as
an authority on SharePoint and is among an elite group of Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server 2007 MVPs. Shane also maintains a popular
SharePoint focused blog, http://msmvps.com/blogs/shane , which
contains a lot of beneficial technical information about SharePoint
administration.