Spencer is an enterprise architect who helps organisations implement and drive value from solutions based upon Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. With over fifteen years of commercial experience in the architecture, design, development, deployment and operational service management of Web based applications and hosting platforms, his broad base of fundamental skills routinely enables Europe’s largest organisations to succeed with SharePoint.
Spencer delivers enterprise content management and portal systems architecture, design, development and deployment solutions, application security best practices, threat modeling and the implementation of highly available Windows Server System based hosting platforms. He is also pretty handy with single-pixel GIFs.
Product expertise includes SharePoint Technologies, MCMS, IIS, SQL Server, Commerce Server and BizTalk Server, Windows Security, Active Directory, Identity Integration Server and High Availability.
Selected clients include Barclays Bank, ScottishPower, Microsoft, The Royal Bank of Scotland, BP, Unilever, HBOS, Scottish Enterprise, British Airways, The BBC, Centrica, NHS, Clifford Chance, SCVO, The Automobile Association, Ballie Gifford, British Sky Broadcasting and BASF.
Spencer is also a strong community advocate, supporting the UK SharePoint User Group and helping others through his blog, forums and public events such as the SharePoint Conference. He has been awarded the prestigious Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for the last six years. He also continues to maintain www.mcmsfaq.com, a Content Management Server resources portal. In 2006, Spencer co-authored Enhancing Microsoft Content Management Server with ASP.NET 2.0, and he frequently assists other community contributors with their writing projects. Spencer represents Microsoft at events worldwide and was a speaker most recently at Microsoft Tech Ed Developers EMEA, 2007.
Spencer is also an instructor for Combined Knowledge, EMEA’s premier SharePoint training provider.
In his spare time (not much of it) he listens to the Jazz giants of yesteryear and some young blood, and spends time with family and friends in the beautiful capital city of Edinburgh, Scotland and his home town of Manchester, England.
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