FASTforward’09 Interview: Tom Rizzo, director of SharePoint product management
by Joshua-Michéle Ross
Tom sits over all Sharepoint development – which means that he has a wide angle view on collaboration, social technologies and search. In this interview he speaks about the promise of search in facilitating innovation and operational effectiveness and where Sharepoint is headed now with FAST integration.
BIO: Tom Rizzo is director of SharePoint product management at Microsoft. In this role, he leads a team that helps customers and partners understand, develop on and deploy Microsoft SharePoint, which is one of Microsoft’s fastest-growing products. Before working in SharePoint, Tom worked on the SQL Server and Exchange Server teams at Microsoft. Tom is also the author of six books on topics ranging from developing collaborative solutions on the Microsoft platform to deep-dive technical references for SQL Server.
