TS2 - Presenter Spotlight


			Ron Grattopp Tulsa, OK

			Ron is based out of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Formerly with MicroAge and ComputerLand, Ron joined Microsoft in 1997 and has been with the TS2 team since 2003. Prior to joining TS2, he spent more than five years as a Systems Engineer/Technology Specialist for Microsoft’s South Central District doing technical sales presentations for accounts across the customer spectrum, from small businesses to major enterprises, even education and government. He has worked with Microsoft operating systems since the mid 1980s (and remembers working with Windows v1.x using a PC with extended and expanded RAM), and became an MCSE/MCT in 1995. Ron’s primary technical focus is around the Windows platform; including all the server and desktop operating systems as well as Active Directory, Terminal Services, Group Policy, Security, and Management. And FYI, in a life prior to all that, he spent time in the USAF as a fighter pilot and jet trainer instructor and has traveled to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

RON'S PICKS

Books/Movies/Music
•	The Sting (1973)
•	Pirates of the Caribbean (original)
•	old James Bond films
•	Top Gun
•	Remember the Titans

Factoids About Me
•	Used to fly jet fighters for the US Air Force
•	love to play FreeCell (PC game)
•	Married with three sons, the oldest is also a USAF pilot

Hobbies
•	golf
•	history and geography buff

Websites

www.nogeekleftbehind.com

www.winsupersite.com

www.windowsitpro.com

Blogs

blogs.technet.com/
keithcombs

My Favorite Technology

Desktop OS (Vista & XP), SharePoint, and System Center Essentials

Nickname

"Dutch" since my heritage is Dutch and there was a famous mine out in Arizona where I spent a lot of my flying years known as the "flying Dutchman" so the name had a fun local aspect to it as well.