Thank You for Your Time……
Good morning everyone from a dark and raining Redmond, USA. My name is Jeff Wettlaufer and I am excited to join you here on the ‘Because It’s Everybody’s Business’ blog.
Like many of you, I have been in the IT industry for a number of years, and have enjoyed a passion for technology throughout. I have been with Microsoft for about 10 years, both in the UK and here in Redmond. My time in Redmond has mostly been in the System Center team (~4 years now) where we produce a powerful collection of configuration and performance management tools. It has been an incredible 4 years being a part of a product group that is growing like the System Center business. It is even more exciting to look ahead at the stuff in the pipes. The short term ahead of us is jammed with new market shaping capabilities across a number of areas that are especially important to you.
You guys have a lot on your plate. Your success is measured in ways that even a few years ago did not exist. As you strive to do more with less, centralizing your workflows, management technologies, admin consoles, investigating virtualization and improving workload strategies have all become massive accelerators to saving you cost – direct and indirect. I want to help you do that.
Our team has been active on the ‘social networking’ scene for a few years, and personally I have been blogging for both work and family for quite a while. If you haven’t seen our System Center team blog yet, check us out here, it’s a very active blog, with a lot of passionate contributors.
I am really pleased to be given a chance to connect with you here on this blog, and I am really looking forward to sharing news, updates and stories about our management and security division through the BIEB site. I hope you find my contributions valuable. If there is some topic or capability you would like me to dive on, let me know. This site is for you guys, its your valuable time you are spending reading our posts, and I want to make sure you find it worthwhile.
I don't want to assume anything, you guys know your business, your challenges, and where your pain points are. Let’s work together on helping you succeed, grow, gain agility and streamline your costs.
Thank you for your time.
Jeff Wettlaufer
Sr. Technical Product Manager
System Center
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About jeffwettlaufer
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!
