Engineer, Lab Manger & Production Manager at Microsoft based in Redmond. Technical resource in release management for Microsoft Buisness Online Services. Currently working on all feature sets of Configuration Manager 2007 with focus on Network Access Protection, Virtualization and Internet Based Client Management. Previously worked for Warner Bros, NBC Studios, AT&T, 24 Hrs Fitness, State of California, Northrope Grumman, NOS Communications, GE Capital, KLA Tencor, Wells Fargo Mortagage, Dudeworks, TeleTech, TekSystems, etc...
Introducing the custom personal Microsoft IT hat. Some people call it a caps, baseball cap. but I call it a Hat. This is the first original custom Microsoft IT hat designed by me.
I'm trying to get Microsoft interested in providing or selling these hats for next years MMS 2009. Cost? I don't know what the price will be if we sell them. But personally, I spent $35 for a original NBA baseball cap. $12 for the embroidery for the Microsoft IT and NAP letters. So this is a $47 dollar hat.
The idea behind wearing the hat back-wards is, I don't need the sun visor in Washington. Where as it's sunny in Los Angeles California. When I have my head down in a laptop working on something in a Star Bucks or some place like that, I can't see when I want to peep up to look at something, the visor is always in the way. So I had to engineer a solution, flip the hat back-wards solved the problem with no additional cost and just a little over head. 
About Richard Dixon
I’ve worked in the technology field since 1990 in Systems Management, integration and automation thru the use of Microsoft technologies such as System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Operations Manager, and Service Manager. SQL Server 2008 & Reporting Services, Visual Studio, SharePoint with InfoPath Integration, SME on Microsoft's Hyper V Virtualization technology, Failover Clustering & Network Load Balancer Services. Recently managed a 17 Hyper V node environment, over a 130 virtual machines that span environments such as Lab, Preproduction & Production supporting several System Center Configuration Manager 2007 Infrastructures customized to support all site roles for the environment including 6 MPs, 6 SUPs & 8 DPs that are all completely virtualized supporting up to 200,000 desktops across all supported environments at Microsoft, other skills includes SCCM Network Access Protection and Forefront Identity Management with a strong unique ability to learn new technologies surprisingly fast.
Previously worked for Warner Bros, NBC Studios, AT&T WorldNet Service, 24 Hrs Fitness, State of California, Northrop Grumman, NOS Communications, GE Capital, KLA Tencor, Wells Fargo Mortgage, Dudeworks, TeleTech, TekSystems.