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Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

Building Advertising platform and portal for Expedia

Redmond, Washington, United States

Microsoft Windows Small Business Server – Senior Program Manager (6 yrs)Product Development: o Led a cross functional team that designed and built a new Admin Console that resulted in a simpler, easy-to-use product. The design created a new common Admin model and User Interface that was used by all development teams creating a seamless end to end integrated management experience. Resulted in broader customer adoption of the product.o Drove end to end development team plan .Included costing, feature planning, stakeholder dependencies and customer feedback .Wrote feature specification docs. Achieved an 80% acceptance rate on feature requests for the next milestone/v-next product & 95% on-time delivery of features for the development milestone was achieved.Stakeholder management: o Managed external product team stakeholder requirements, brokered agreements, tracked deliverables. Customer Advocate: o Drove regular customer visits & implemented feedback from customers throughout the development lifecycle to all product teamsInternational: o Drove simultaneous localization of the Windows Small Business Server into 9 languages resulted in significantly lower costs of post release support.Microsoft: Microsoft Exchange Server – Program Manager (6 years)Product development: o Refined the design of the Exchange 2000 Admin Console for Exchange 2003.o Drove Exchange 2000 clustering solution into a more reliable architecture / Exchange Server deployment. Resulted in reliability of 99.99% at customer deployments.o Engineering spokesperson for product launch including key representative/presentations at internal Microsoft and external conferences.International:o Drove business case to extend the number of languages available in Exchange 2000 to 6 server languages & 21 client languages.o Drove globalization, internationalization, and localization issues across the Exchange development, program management, and test teams.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

IBM Canada – localization Program Manager, IBM DB2 IBM DB2 is IBM’s relational database management system and database engine• Created and managed the global testing and localization schedule across 13 countries. Provided on-time delivery within the overall development & build schedule.• Managed localization of DB2 UI with localization vendors.• Drove Testing of IBM DB2 in 22 server languages, 24 client languages on Windows OS platform.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Led the Dutch localization of Office 95, managing both the engineering, build and testing of all aspects of the product.

Shizuoka, Japan

While based in Japan, designed and built a new LAN network replacing a 300-wire point to point wire harness in a car, resulting in raw material savings and more flexibility in the cars electronic management systems; Built & developed a hardware prototype to emulate nodal stations in a car; Assembly programmer and prototype tester