About the Authors

Michael Lee (MCT, MCPD, MCITP, SCJP) has spent the last 15 years in technology training and consulting. Most of his career has been spent working with companies and helping them ease the transition to new technologies and practices. With a degree in Business Finance from the University of Utah, Michael discovered early that he enjoyed the IT aspects of business and built a career bringing together businesses and IT professionals, helping them understand each other and improve communication.

His beginnings in IT were a bit dubious, having worked as an intern with IBM in 1988 on the FAA modernization project (AAS), which has been dubbed one of the greatest project failures in IT history. A lot was learned from that experience, and since then, his focus has been bringing together business and technology interests. As a former Microsoft Regional Director, he was heavily involved in the rollout of Visual Studio 6.0 in 1997 and has made a career out of melding business and technology into a unified strategic front.