About Bill

Bill Heldman is an accomplished and creative author, speaker, and trainer. His first book-writing venture was a study guide he co-authored for Sybex Books, Inc. titled MCSE: Systems Management Server 1.2 Study Guide. This study guide prepared readers to take the Microsoft SMS exam conducted by Prometric. Test-takers that satisfactorily passed the SMS exam could count the exam as one of the electives required toward their Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification. Bill went on to write the SMS 2.0 Study Guide as well. (SMS is currently in version SMS 2003.)

In addition to the Study Guide, Bill has also written other study guides for the MCSE including topics such as Exchange Server, Internet Security and Acceleration Server, and Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure Design. Additionally, he has written the Sybex Project+ study guide for the CompTIA Project+ exam, also administered by Prometric. Overall, Bill has been the author, co-author or contract writer on 13 different books for Sybex.

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Bill is also a magazine writer. He has written product reviews, "Tales from the Trenches" pieces and feature articles for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) Magazine (now known as Redmond Magazine) as well as Windows NT/2000 Magazine (now known as WindowsITPro Magazine). Here are some examples of his magazine articles. He was also a web columnist for MCP Magazine's online content. Here are some examples of his Windows Foundations columns.

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Bill has also been a speaker on the national MCP Tech Mentor circuit. Here are some audio clips from a couple of his speaking engagements.

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Bill is currently co-authoring a book on using Excel 2007 and SharePoint 2003 (known as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server - MOSS) for project management. The book is due out at the end of 2006.

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Bill is an excellent speaker who is able to entertain and engage his audiences in the topic at hand and leave them with several word pictures, tips, and hints they can take back and apply immediately to their situation. Bill's warm, engaging, funny style easily gets listeners involved in the topic.

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Bill also enjoys technical training and has a plethora of experience in the field. Bill's most recent experience involved teaching Computer Technology classes to junior and senior high schools students at a Career and Technical Education (CTE) school in Lakewood, CO. Bill has a tremendous depth of teaching/training experience with adults as well.

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In addition to technical books, Bill also enjoys writing fiction. Click on the fiction link to find out more.

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Bill holds a Masters Degree from Regis University and a BSBA from the University of Phoenix. He has been an Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) since 1994, and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 1998 and CompTIA Project+ certified since 2001. He has over 15 years of experience managing information technology projects, operations, applications development, server, storage area network, network infrastructure and customer care environments. (See resume).

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Bill is currently a full-time writer/speaker/educator and lives in Colorado with his wife and a toy poodle named Nutmeg. He has three grown children, and two grandchildren.

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