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Welcome to Cold Elm Consulting - the web site for my Personal IT Consulting Company.

I'm Shaun Curtis and I specialise in SharePoint Consulting.

As well as being my presence on the web, this site is a collection of articles that share some of my experiences and knowledge in SharePoint and other areas I've worked in.  The majority of articles are SharePoint related, but other sections cover Active Directory and Virtualization.

My SharePoint experiences go all the way back to Tahoe.  I installed and evaluated the beta release and implemented SharePont 2000 when released as a workgroup project tool in a global IT Environment.   We used it to coordinate the activities of geographically dispersed teams work on IT projects and problems. 

Since then I've implemented several 2003 instances in companies where I've worked as a project co-ordination and documentation tool.  I've also had dealings with the Microsoft CMS system!

My first SharePoint 2007 project was a SharePoint 2003 server migration.  This held large document databases that required some major permissions work to migrate.  Since then I've developed custom applications including web parts and custom workflows and designed new user interfaces through themes and customized master pages.

Before SharePoint my previous working lives include: Senior IT Manager in a global oilfield company; CTO and Operations Director in a large UK Web Hosting company; Server and Network Architect.  In the world of SharePoint this diverse experience gives me some fairly unique perspectives, and the ability to communicate effectively at all levels in an organisation.

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