About the Author
Kerrie Meyler, MA, BA, MCSE, CNA, is an independent consultant and former trainer with more than fifteen years of experience in IT. While at Microsoft in Field Technical Sales for four years she focused on infrastructure and mangement, presenting at numerous product launches. Presenting on Operations Manager 2007 and giving several podcasts at TechEd 2007, she also presented at internal Microsoft conferences and received company recognition and awards including a SPAR MGS award. An MCT for six years, Kerrie worked with Microsoft Learning to develop functional specifications for the 2550: Implementing Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 Microsoft Official Curriculum course and did the beta teach for that course. She also participated in the alpha walkthrough for the 2274: Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment course and the 70-400: Configuring Microsoft System Center Operations Manager certification exam. She is the lead author of "Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed," Cameron Fuller, BS, MCSE, MOM MVP, is a Senior Lead consultant for Catapult Systems, an IT consulting company and MIcrosoft Gold Certified Partner in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions. He focuses on management solutions, and serves as the Microsoft Operations Management Champion for Catapult. His fifteen years of infrastructure experience include working with medium to large companies in the retail, education, healthcare, distributing, transportation, and energy industries. Cameron continually focuses on improving his existing business and technical skill sets through hands-on experience and leveraging certifications including an MCSE since NT 3.51, MCSA, A+, Linux+, Server+, and CCSA. Cameron haspresented on Operations Manager at events including Microsoft TechEd and the MOM 2005 product launches in Dallas and Tulsa. He is co-author of "Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed." John Joyner, LCDR USN-R, BS, MCSE, is a presenter and inventor in the systems management space. A senior architect at ClearPointe, a leader and pioneer for the Managed Services Provider (MSP) industry, he's been using Microsoft systems management technologies to deliver SLA-based guarantees of application performance in multi-tenant environments since 2001. As a Navy computer scientist, he deployed Microsoft Mail to the battlefield for NATO in former Yugoslavia in 1995, then took Exchange 4.0 afloat in 1996 for the first Internet-connected aircraft carrier battle group deployment in history. John retired as a Lieutenant Commander from the Navy in 1998, and has worked for ClearPointe since then. He has provided consulting services on behalf of Microsoft to design some of the world's largest Operations Manager deployments. John is a contributing author of "Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed," Contributor Andy Dominey, MCSE, MOM MVP, has been in the IT industry for eight years. He started out as a field service and support engineer and worked his way up to systems administrator, responsible for MOM, Active Directory, Exchange, web hosting, SAN technology, and clustering for an Exchange hosting provider based in the United Kingdom. He is currently working as a Senior Consultant for 1E, a Windows management firm based in the United Kingdom. Andy has a number of large-scale MOM and OpsMgr deployments to his credit and is an avid evangelist for the product. He has been awarded the Microsoft MVPaward for MOM for the past two years. Andy authored "Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Field Guide,"
