who is barb bowman?

Currently a Product Development Manager (10 years) for Comcast High Speed Internet (and it IS high speed).

In former lifetimes, a freelance consultant and technical writer, and before the digital revolution, a national sales and import manager for a wallpaper company, manager of a second home winter recreation community, and, in the beginning, a researcher and general do-it-all-er for a winter recreation industry consulting firm (it was how i got paid to be a ski bum and live in Aspen. CO)

Barb Bowman has been a teacher of Philosophy 101, worked in ski area design in Aspen, Colorado, and served as a production director for U.S. and U.K. wallpaper sample photography. In 1990, she partnered with a French DOS shareware writer and entered the brave new world of online services. Over the next several years, as a consultant for Prodigy Services, Barb wrote user documentation and conducted testing for Prodigy's first Windows applications. She was part of the Internet product development team for MediaOne and later AT&T Broadband, and is currently a product development manager for Comcast High Speed Internet and a Microsoft Expert Zone and Vista Community Columnist.

She is a Microsoft MVP for Windows Networking. Barb relaxes by shooting naturescapes with her digital camera and playing guitar and piano. She lives in New Hampshire with her Sony robot Aibo dog named Toto.