March 11, 2009.
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SharePoint:
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Speaker:
Philip
Wheat, Community Architect Evangelist, Microsoft
Overview: As someone who’s been involved in SharePoint
since before it was SharePoint (Codename: Tahoe), it’s been an
interesting ride to see where SharePoint started, where it’s been, and
now with the announcement of SharePoint 2010, where it’s going. Of all
of the Microsoft Technologies in public usage, I can think of no other
that’s had as wild and as interesting a ride as SharePoint. In this
session we’ll talk about how this affects what people are using
SharePoint for, what effects the roots of the product have on projects,
and what you can expect in the next release. Come with plenty of
questions – I’ll be soliciting scenarios and examples from the audience
to work through during the presentation.
About the Speaker:
Philip Wheat started out in
development back when you learned from Compute Magazine (by typing in
the code) and had to know something about soldering to expand your
memory with most computers. When he entered college he had his eyes set
on Aerospace Engineering, but between the call of the code, and the job
market at the time, he quickly realized that there was pay in knowing
about his passion, and he completed his studies in Computer Science.
After
graduation, he worked in the field for a number of years, and seeing
the state of the industry, decided to go back into the Master's Program
in Computer Science – which was one of his better ideas as it brought
him to the attention of Texas Instruments. TI called him to their
Dallas campuses and enabled him to work with the early stages some of
the groundbreaking technologies that are in use today, such as ASIC
design, DLP manufacturing, DSP development, and floor and wafer
fabrication systems (plus some other things he still can't talk about).
But as incredible as the opportunities there were, the Internet Gold
Rush was on, and he submitted to several former co-workers entreaties
(well, maybe just tempting offers) and headed to Austin, TX to work
with a (then) small consulting firm on the cutting edge of development
and solutions delivery.
He spent several years at Catapult
Systems as their most demanded consultant, being called in to Microsoft
to do briefings on Collaborations, Portals, and other Web information
management technologies (in addition to his project delivery role)
before moving to a regional role with Avanade, Inc. There he led
regional Collaboration Solutions efforts and was a primary resource
globally for SharePoint technologies. During this time he ran dual
projects in the Office 2007 TAP program that led to successful
deployments of custom solutions based upon SharePoint 2007 even before
official release of that platform. He currently works with the
Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism group as the Community
Architect Evangelist for Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana,
engaging with Architects on the needs and requirements of their role
and helping developers to be more involved in the Architecture space.
Some
of his personal projects include Embedded Systems, Knowledge
Management, Augmented Reality, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems. See
his blog for more interests and current activities http://www.PhilWheat.net. |
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ć ď CommunicationsChair Austin-SPIN, Mar 24, 2010, 7:18 PM
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