About Todd

Todd is an independent consultant and five-time Microsoft SharePoint Most Valuable Professional who uses SharePoint, Silverlight, Office, Windows Phone 7, and .NET technologies to create web sites and custom solutions for information workers.  Todd is the content author and presenter for the BCS portion of the SharePoint MCM program and a regular speaker at the TechEd, SharePoint Connections, and Microsoft SharePoint conferences.  Todd contributes regular columns to SharePointPro Connections magazine and also recently served as the technical editor for Scot Hillier and Brad Stevenson’s book Professional Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010.

Todd is currently working on several projects for Microsoft related to Windows Phone 7 and SharePoint.

Some recent projects Todd has worked on include:

  • http://visio.microsoft.com
    • Led the architecture phase for the Microsoft Visio marketing web site with Gary Lapointe.
  • http://lync.microsoft.com
    • Led the architecture phase for the Microsoft Lync marketing web site with Darrin Bishop and Gary Lapointe.
  • Building Windows Phone 7 applications with SharePoint 2010 Products and Unified Access Gateway (UAG) (white paper) 
    • Todd worked with Matthew McDermott and several folks at Microsoft including Ben Ari to create this whitepaper.
    • You can download it here. 
  • SharePoint 2010 Patterns and Practices
    • Researched and developed the Microsoft Patterns & Practices SharePoint 2010 Guidance with the P&P team and other industry experts.
  •  Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) training materials for SharePoint Online (SPO) 2010
    • Create these materials while while BPOS 2010 was in the alpha and beta stages.
    • Delivered the BPOS/SPO training materials at a post TechReady 11 conference for only Microsoft employees.
  •  http://sharepoint.microsoft.com
    • Todd led the team that implemented the web site on SharePoint Server 2007 and later migrated it to SharePoint Server 2010.
    • This was the first public facing site built on SharePoint Server 2010 in the world and went live on Beta 1 bits! 

Todd is a very active person who enjoys spending time with his family, playing hockey, playing lacrosse, and skiing every chance he gets.