9 Months of Labor...
Erik Ashby, Lead PM at Microsoft providing a short introduction about himself
OK, now that the initial welcome and an initial post, I felt introductions were in order. As team members post they should also do similar and post a short introduction.
I am a PM lead at Microsoft in Redmond Wa. Although I have been involved in some form or other with the Notes migrations (mainly on Exchange) for nearly 6-7 years, this past year I shifted my role to be 100% focused on helping customers who are moving to our platform. What a ride this past year has been. I started working with Todd Wanke last winter/spring putting together a good plan for our toolset, building a team, and development on our toolset. We knew that our messaging tools were in desperate need for an overhaul, so I started with that work and last December, after 9 months, we released the messaging tools to the public ( here ). ** Now for a shameless plug ** I wrote an article about that project, what we did and why we did it on Technet that was posted yesterday ( here ). We have also been working on the application side and more will be posted on that.
I have a long history in messaging and Exchange with over 15 years of working in the industry. In Exchange I have been working since 1997 on nearly every aspect of the product in some form or antoher. This past year focusing on these tools and expanding my interest into the application side has been fun, but hey, to me nothing is better discussing over the dinner table with my kids the internals of MIME encoding in Notes body parts, or the difference in WSS XML tables. They love it.
Lead PM, Microsoft, Redmond
Oh, the real release was Ashby V6 released October 18th ( here )