Paul Mestemaker is one of the original founding members and now a Sr. Program Manager on the System Center Advisor team at Microsoft.  In his 6+ years at Microsoft, he has focused mainly on server manageability and supportability tools.  He has co-authored a book on SQL Server performance tuning.  He has been a top speaker at TechEd, PASS, Connections, and other Microsoft and industry conferences.  He is also a guest lecturer at Colleges and Universities across the U.S.  He is the co-host of Ping, a weekly tech news show on Microsoft's Channel 9.