Chatting with Brad continued…….

Jeff Wettlaufer – Sr. Technical Product Manager, System Center. Jeff has been with Microsoft for 9 years, and in that time has specialized in enterprise infrastructure management, from deployment to operations, from the datacenter to the client. Jeff blogs regularly at (http://blogs.technet.com/systemcenter; http://www.wettlaufer.com) and can be found on both Facebook and twitter (jeffwettlaufer). Jeff’s main areas of specialty are; enterprise management, virtualization, windows deployment methodology, Management, Security, Windows and Office product lines, as well as Infrastructure Optimization. In addition to this, Jeff has been heavily involved in build strategy, infrastructure lifecycle management, client and server build automation, Resource Kits (Windows and Office) , Management technologies and the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit. In his time in Microsoft – both in the UK and Redmond HQ, he has worked with international customers and partners on different sizes of organizations, from Small Business up to large scale Enterprise deployments, numbering over 700,000 seats. In these engagements Jeff has assisted in deploying a secure well managed infrastructure, incorporating virtualization capabilities, removing deployment blockers, planning deployment automation, and customizing builds to suit corporate needs. Finally, Jeff has worked closely with the Partner community in service definition and offering development of the Microsoft platform. Previous to Microsoft, Jeff was with a UK Partner specializing in desktop deployments and Novell technology (CNE). Prior to 2000 Jeff lived in Vancouver Canada and was a Network Administrator for the Bank of Montreal. Jeff graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1996. As a new dad, most of his time is spent with his wife of 13 years, and his son Gavin. In his spare time, Jeff is active in hockey, cycling, basketball, rowing, golf, skiing and running. He loves to cook and travel in search of great food and wine with his wife (and new son) when the schedule permits!