Ben has been using Microsoft web technologies for the last ten years. He has seen the development of Microsoft products from Site Server through to BizTalk, Commerce Server, Content Management Server and Sharepoint. He is now at the forefront of SharePoint development – he built the first Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 website in the world for cScape client Ministry of Sound. He works closely with Microsoft product teams and and participates in the SharePoint community through blogs and newsgroups. Ben is an active member of the Microsoft Portal Architect Forum and speaks regularly at conferences and user group events.
Ben led the development on Ministry of Sound's new site, created to provide record label Hed Kandi with a scalable web platform that enables user generated content services. He has written a feature on his ground-breaking work: Moving from design to reality – building HedKandi.com in Office SharePoint Server 2007. Read Ben's account