ABOUT THE AUTHORS

STEVE CARAVAJAL is director of productivity solutions and lead architect with the Microsoft Corporation. Steve has 25+ years’ experience in technology leadership, strategy, product development, consulting, and training. Dr. Caravajal works with large enterprise companies, and his focus includes architecting solutions that include SharePoint, enterprise social computing, business intelligence, search, and cloud-based applications. He also advises several local companies on Enterprise strategy. Steve holds a bachelor of science degree in chemistry and mathematics, and a doctoral degree in chemistry and computer science. He is an adjunct professor at a couple of local universities in the Cincinnati area, teaching Enterprise Architecture, public and private cloud technology, and software development. In addition to holding several patents and speaking at conferences, Steve has written four books: SharePoint 2007 and Office Development Expert Solutions, Inside SharePoint 2007 Administration, Professional SharePoint 2010 Administration, and Professional SharePoint 2013 Administration.

TODD KLINDT has been a professional computer nerd for nearly 20 years, specializing in SharePoint for the last 10 years. His love affair with SharePoint began one slow day at the office when he discovered SharePoint Team Services 1.0 on the Office XP CD that was holding up his coffee cup, and he decided to take it for a spin. The rest is history. Since then, he has had the pleasure of working with SharePoint farms both large and small. In 2006 he was honored to be awarded the MVP award from Microsoft for Windows SharePoint Services, and he has written several books and magazine articles on SharePoint. Todd has presented sessions on SharePoint at many major conferences both in the United States as well as Europe and Asia, and does the user group circuit, SharePoint Saturday events, and the occasional children’s birthday party as well. He chronicles his SharePoint adventures on his blog, www.toddklindt.com/blog. Because his chosen career as a Hollywood stuntman didn’t pan out, he is currently working his dream job as a SharePoint consultant at Rackspace, where he spends his days fixing broken SharePoint environments and bringing new SharePoint environments into the world, along with the occasional nap at his desk. If you’re bored, you can follow him on Twitter @toddklindt.

SHANE YOUNG is just your average SharePoint nerd who has been doing nothing but SharePoint for a long time now. Microsoft has been kind enough to award him MVP status for eight years running now, so you know he is the outspoken type. Thankfully, his newest employer, Rackspace, appreciates that about him. If you are wondering what happened to SharePoint911, don’t worry; the band is still together, we are just flying the Rackspace flag these days, bringing fanatical SharePoint to the open cloud. You can contact Shane on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter (@ShanesCows), via e-mail ([email protected]), his blog (http://msmvps.com/shane), or through his company’s website (www.SharePoint911.com or SharePoint.Rackspace.com). Shane lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with his wife, Nicola, his two sons, Grant and Luke, and their two dogs.