We at EPMGuru had covered Brian's work in this earlier post. Brian is a support escalation engineer working on Microsoft Office Project, and also speaks regularly at Project Conferences, TechEd, etc - as well as running the most famous Project Support blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/brismith. In his past life, Brian was a research chemist formulating photographic processing solutions - in the days when a darkroom was somewhere you processed films rather than kept your servers. Moved on to chemical production before getting more involved with computer-based business systems - going through UNIX to Windows along the way.
As a Senior Technical Product Manager for Microsoft Office Project Server, Christophe Fiessinger is responsible for IT professional and Developer evangelism. Christophe focuses on promoting the value of Project Server by speaking at global Microsoft conferences like Tech Ed, SharePoint Conference, Tech Ready, and Project Conference.
He is a major advocate for enterprise deployments of Project Server, speaking on topics such as architecture design, line of business integration and reporting customization. Christophe also focuses on whitepapers, training, blogs, and other technical readiness materials related to Project Server.
As Group Program Manager of Microsoft's Project team, Keshav Puttaswamy is responsible for leading the team that defines the product vision, and specifications, and drives the release for Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server.
Keshav joined Microsoft in 1996 as a Program Manager. In his 6 years in that role, he designed features for the Project client, Project Central, as well as the first version of Project Server. He was the Lead for the Project 2003 release and the Enterprise Project Management features in 2007 before stepping into his current role. Keshav holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Economics from Dartmouth College.
In his spare time, he enjoys playing cricket and has been active in developing the sport in the Pacific Northwest. In addition, Keshav enjoys photography, traveling, and spending time with his wife and 3-year-old daughter.
Doug is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft Corporation. He thinks Project Management as a skill and a job is one of the most interesting things you can do. Why? Because it involves changing things for the good, improving people's lives whether business or personal and is an extremely stimulating process.
Doug's role in his current portfolio is to define the overall partner strategy across
• systems integrators,
• independent software vendors
• resellers
• hosters
and to deliver programs and go-to-market plans that grow partner capacity, accelerate partner wins and drive EPM deployments.
Treb is a Program Manager for Microsoft Office Project Server. Previously, he was the Project Manager for Wachovia IT's implementation of the Microsoft Office Project 2003. Tred have over 16 years of experience in project management, business process development, and software development management. He has a BS in Management from Louisiana State University and an MBA from Wake Forest University. Treb's famous blog "Evil Doctor PorkChop" is active since 2004 covering many aspects of Microsoft EPM.