John Kelbley

John Kelbley is a Senior Technical Product Manager with Microsoft's Platform Tech Strategy Team and is based in the Northeastern U.S. He joined Microsoft in 2002 after working at numerous large enterprises as a Management Consultant, IT Manager, and Infrastructure Architect. This garnered him over 20 years of computing industry experience, focusing on infrastructure architecture and operations. In his role with Microsoft, John works with customers and partners, helping them understand and deploy new Windows Server-based solutions-including Virtualization and HPC. He is co-author of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V: Insiders Guide to Microsoft's Hypervisor and a periodic contributor to TechNet Magazine. His contributions to the book largely focus on his obsession with backup and recovery, automation through scripting, and "low cost" approaches to computing problems. John is a noted speaker and presenter at Microsoft TechEd, in user groups, and at various other industry events. When he's not working, John is usually found creating one of his many inventions. This often results in voiding warrantees of common household appliances and generally annoying his family with unexpected, loud noises coming from the basement.