Friday, August 11, 2006 2:13 PM
Kevin Beares
So where is the SBS Community Lead?
Hi everyone,
Just to let you know where I have been for the last couple of weeks. My wife and I are celebrating the birth of our third child, Soleil Ainsley Beares. Our little girl was born on July 26th at 6:13pm and weighed 6 lbs 13 ounces and was 20 inches long. Soleil is doing very well and is already up into the 7lb range. My wife Stephanie is also doing well after the birth. I am home on Paternity leave with some vacation added on to the end so that I can help Stephanie until she is completely recovered from the surgery (no lifting heavy objects, son 1 Haven 36lbs and son 2, Schuyler 30 lbs for 6 weeks!).
Our boys are very happy to have a little sister and I think pretty psyched to have daddy home for such a long period of time. It is busy at the Beares home right now and I am sure it will be for some time to come.
I hope to post some more info on how things are going with the SBS product team later on and the final conclusions on the SBS Community Survey when I return in September. The level of responses were awesome and I am really pumped to share the results with everyone.
Here is a link to some photos of our little ones;
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/pictures?a=67b0de21b32265c82510&sid=8EctWTZmxasic
Kevin
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About Kevin Beares
Kevin Beares joined Microsoft in July 2001 as a Product Support Team Manager and has been in the Community Lead role for over 5 years. Before joining Microsoft Kevin worked at Webridge, Inc based out of Portland, OR running their support operations. Kevin started out in 1991 as a Quality Assurance engineer for Micro Focus, Inc. providing technical assistant to VP of R&D coordinating and building testing programs for their DB2 compatible XDB Database Server product as well as running their beta program. Kevin quickly moved into a Customer Support role supporting the latest XDB Database Server product. In 1994, Kevin moved to Portland, OR to work with Serena Software, Inc as a support engineer and later as a Support Manager providing advanced technical support, on-site consulting and training for over 750,000 customers in the continental US, Canada & Europe with product support team of 40. Kevin then moved on to a start up, Webridge Inc. in 1999 to create a support team from ground up to support a new fully transactional Microsoft COM-based object application server for rapid development of Enterprise level intra and extranet Web Portal solutions called the Webridge Framework.
While at Microsoft, Kevin started as a Product Support Team Manager supporting the Visual Studio Data Access Components. Kevin then moved over to manage one of the five US Based Solution Integration Engineering (SIE) teams. SIE was an Elite Escalation Team dedicated to providing support to the most critical customer cross-product integration issues. In 2003, Kevin moved over to the Microsoft Operations Manager team as a community Lead and finally moved to the Windows Server Solutions (WSSG) team to be the community lead for the three products that they were developing, Windows Home Server, Small Business Server, and Essential Business Server. High Performance Computing was added in early 2008. As a community lead, Kevin drives the community engagement strategy for the WSSG Product teams, running the Feedback, Influencer, Online communities, and outbound communication plans.
Kevin graduated from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1989 with a Bachelor's of Arts in Sociology.
