Brian Smith Brian Smith is an escalation engineer working on Microsoft Office Project, and also speaks regularly at Project Conferences, TechEd etc - as well as running the Project Support blog at https://blogs.msdn.com/brismith and https://blogs.technet.com/projectsupport. In his past life he was a research chemist formulating photographic processing solutions - in the days when a darkroom was somewhere you processed films rather than kept your servers. Moved on to chemical production before getting more involved with computer based business systems - going through UNIX to Windows along the way.