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Michael Howard

Michael Howard is a security program manager on the Windows 2000 team at Microsoft Corporation focusing on Internet security issues and secure design best practices. Prior to his current position, he was the Web infrastructure security program manager working on next-generation Web technology. He was also the security program manager for Internet Information Services 5. Before working on the Web server and Windows operating system teams, he was a senior consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services, working with large corporations, financial institutions, and government agencies on security-related technologies. He is a native of New Zealand and now lives in sunny Bellevue, down the road from the Microsoft campus, with his wife, Cheryl, and two Yorkies, Squirt and Major.

Marc Levy

Marc Levy is a program manager in the BizTalk Server group. Before this, he was the program manager for Microsoft Transaction Server and COM+ 1.0 security. Prior to coming to Microsoft, Marc worked at OSF, where he developed his security background while working on the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE).

Richard Waymire

Richard Waymire is the enterprise program manager for Microsoft SQL Server and owns overall security for SQL Server.