About the Reviewers

Mick Badran has been performing Microsoft technical classroom-based training for more than nine years, and has over 12 years commercial development experience in various languages. Mick has been consulting for Microsoft in areas of CMS, SPS, and BizTalk for over four years. Mick also specializes in customized training in these areas.

He can be reached at <[e-mail]> and would love to hear your feedback.

Spencer Harbar is an MCSD.NET, MCSE, and MVP for MCMS, with over ten years commercial experience of architecture, design, development, deployment, and operational support of web-based applications, and hosting platforms for some of Europe’s largest organizations.

Spencer maintains http://www.mcmsfaq.com —an MCMS resources portal—and is active in the public newsgroups. His experience of MCMS goes back to the days of NCompass Resolution, and he has been involved in many enterprise implementations. Selected clients include Barclays Bank plc, ScottishPower plc, Microsoft, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Scottish Enterprise, HBOS, Centrica, BASF, and The Automobile Association.

Currently working as an independent consultant, Spencer delivers enterprise content management and portal systems architecture, design, development, and deployment solutions, application security best practices, threat modeling, and the implementation of highly available Windows Server System-based hosting platforms.

Spencer resides in Edinburgh, UK, and blogs at www.harbar.net .

David Mielcarek is employed as the Internet/Domain Administrator at Lower Columbia College in Washington State. Most of the time, he utilizes one of ten programming languages to get the job done.

Starting his career as a telecommunications cryptologist in the Air Force, he merged into the corporate world. Following a term with Lockheed, he increased his abilities by taking on larger positions. In 1994, the Internet became his mainstay, and it remains so to this day.

Juggling an educational position, outside-work through his GoldBorder.com site, and raising a family of three kids, 11 cats, two dogs, and two rats allows little time for his love of drawing. You can often find him taking his short breaks at the nearest table to pencil something in his art pad.

Chester Ragel is a Computer Professional, obtaining his degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Moratuwa. He is an MCSD.NET holder, and enjoys working with Microsoft technologies.

Chester contributes to the MCMS community and several IT Magazines. He lives in Sri Lanka and can be found blogging at http://chestermr.blogspot.com .

Christopher Walker is a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Services, providing specialist advice on integrated portal solutions (SharePoint, MCMS, BizTalk, and InfoPath). Christopher has a background in portal development and technologies with Unisys and a portal software ISV.

Christopher contributes to the community through his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/cjwalker/ , providing real solutions to customers using Microsoft technologies.

Christopher lives in Brisbane, Australia.

Joel Ward works for Booz Allen Hamilton as a technical manager and developer. Joel likes to work on ASP.NET, MCMS, and SharePoint projects, and he helped create a .NET user group at Booz Allen. He has a background in design, programming, and architecture, and has worked with MCMS since its first release in 2001.

As a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, Joel is acknowledged by peers and Microsoft for his active participation in the technical communities around the globe. Joel lives in Virginia in the United States.