Stephen Hardison is an IBM Certified IT Specialist with IBM Software Services for Lotus. He focuses on the design, implementation, and assessment of large-scale collaborative solutions based on Lotus Domino, WebSphere Portal, and Lotus Connections. Mr. Hardison joined IBM in 1999, and has worked in the Information Technology industry for over 20 years. He has worked on several world-wide deployments of Lotus products. Customer engagements have taken him to Argentina, the Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, France, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. He lives near Austin, Texas.