Christian Buckley is Director of Product Evangelism for echoTechnology, an Axceler company, where he drives community and partner development. Christian previously worked at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager on the enterprise hosted SharePoint platform (now part of BPOS), and led an engineering and PM team in advertising operations. Prior to Microsoft, Christian was managing director of a regional consulting firm in the SF Bay Area, participated in several startups, and worked with IBM, HP, Cisco, Matsushita, Solectron, Seagate and other large hi-tech and manufacturing firms to deploy collaboration and supply chain solutions. He is co-author of three books on IBM Rational Software configuration management and defect tracking solutions.