About the Authors

Wynne Leon has been providing high-value consulting to customers for 16 years. In addition to her many consulting roles, she has been providing executive leadership to companies for the past eight years. As the VP of Operations for CSG Openline, a channel marketing company, her role included increasing the delivery capabilities of the operations team two-fold by using technology, amongst other tools, to instantly measure and report company objectives. In the four years previous to the Avitiva incorporation, she was a partner at a boutique consulting firm responsible for the sales, delivery and growth of the portal team and fills a similar role at Avitiva.

Wynne’s consulting specialties focus on architecting and implementing Microsoft technologies to meet customer needs with a focus on SharePoint Portal Server, Exchange Server and Active Directory. Previous to this book, she also wrote a book on Microsoft Exchange server as well as contributed to Active Directory deployment guides and has written numerous articles and papers for Microsoft on Exchange and SharePoint Portal Server. Wynne has a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Washington.

Wynne enjoys long walks with her golden retriever, Biscuit, hiking, rock climbing, reading and experimenting in the kitchen.

Wayne Tynes started his career at PC Docs (now Hummingbird) in the early ’90s. Wayne has been deeply passionate about the knowledge management and business productivity space. Finding, managing and using information as a corporate asset have been at the core of his various positions. His experience has contributed to his deep understanding of portals and corporate data as both a business person and technologist.

Before starting Avitiva, Wayne was responsible for building a successful portal practice for a boutique consulting firm in Bellevue, WA. Prior to that, Wayne was a product manager on the Microsoft SharePoint product team responsible for SharePoint demos, competitive positioning, and customer references. Starting in 1995, Wayne spent five years with IBM, the majority of which was with IBM Global Services as an architect specializing in knowledge management solutions. Wayne has written reviewer’s guides for the first two versions of SharePoint and has a BS in Management Information Systems from Florida State University.

To relax after organizing the planet’s knowledge, you’ll find Wayne on the slopes riding his snow board in the winter or on the course crushing a little white ball during any other part of the year.

Simeon Cathey brings a variety of perspectives to this book on SharePoint. For the last three years, he has been a consultant specializing in SharePoint deployments for both large (75,000 seats) and small (500 seats) organizations. He applies his immense design talents to customize the environment exactly to the customer needs while using his deep development knowledge to drive requirements to the Avitiva development team to create integrated, functional and valuable portals to businesses.

Prior to joining forces with Wayne and Wynne to start Avitiva, he architected business productivity solutions and provided SharePoint consulting services to business organizations. Simeon spent 5 years at Microsoft in a variety of roles on the SharePoint Portal Server product team. From the early planning phases of SPS v1 to the release of SPS v2, Simeon led efforts in test, support, customer programs, and release management as well as Microsoft’s customer focused SharePoint beta programs.

Simeon enjoys a variety of hobbies in his leisure time—usually anything that involves speed and a lot of toys including snow boarding, wake boarding, scuba diving and wholeheartedly having what he would call “genuine fun”.