I am a Senior Consultant within the UK SharePoint team in Microsoft Consulting Services and have been working for Microsoft since December 2005 having previously worked for several Gold Microsoft Partners who specialised in Collaboration/IW technologies.
I have spent many years working with the various iterations of SharePoint even as far back as "Tahoe" ... those that known what that means will have a certainly level of sympathy!
Check out my team's blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint