• Continuously learning, developing with quality, improving processes and helping other developers grow.

• Developing apps with awesome user experiences.

• Increased sprint planning efficiency by establishing new practices and processes as the scrum master of the Xbox Music and Video apps on the Xbox 360.• Raised the team’s development and testing rigor via thorough code reviews, improving documentation, coming up with tools that increased productivity, and more.

• Unraveled firmware updating via a Windows Store app, for a music peripheral of Surface; developed the UI through to the device (HID) communication.• Exposed and resolved complex issues (such as reentrancy) related to recording audio from within any app via the Sound Recorder, an app shipped to the millions of Windows 8.1 users.

• Taught self driver development and pioneered the communication from a device to a Windows Store app, for a worldwide demo of the Surface Touch Cover.• Led development of several on-time, high quality software releases (IntelliPoint and IntelliType Pro) with each release averaging 25 to 50 million installations.• Architected software letting users scroll and perform commands with multi-touch gestures on a button-less mouse (Touch Mouse), earning PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice.• Co-invented a pressure-sensitive touch keyboard which evolved to be the Surface Touch Cover.• Invented simplified pairing of first ever Bluetooth keyboards and mice critical for opening a new line of products and in bringing Bluetooth to Microsoft Windows; received special award.• Invented method to horizontally scroll application windows using new tilt scroll wheel that achieved over 80% app-compatibility, reducing specialization work.• Established self as the go-to person for all areas of the mouse and keyboard software such as for technical knowledge and key design decisions.• Mentored junior developers and testers in China, which eventually enabled them to completely take over the mouse and keyboard software.• Orchestrated “feature team” model that empowered teams to create user-centric features.• Headed new source code branching and other processes that enabled global development and multiple features/releases to be developed in parallel.• Proactively introduced and deployed tool that cut code review time by 1/2 or more.• Managed 7 full-time direct reports spanning the US and China, keeping a strong team for 18 months and got praised as being the best manager.

• Developed new features in diverse areas of very large code base of WinFax 10.0 and TalkWorks 3.0 and fixed many difficult bugs of the products.• Became the expert and took charge of the entire program installation.• Designed and developed the UI for the One Button Checkup browser-based feature of Norton SystemWorks while learning Javascript and XML on the spot.

• Independently added major features such as syntax coloring and bookmarks to the startup’s flagship IDE for DSPs.• As a summer position, the startup company needed me to hit the ground running. Despite beginning with only experience in Visual Basic, I integrated with the team from the start and quickly ramped up to a working knowledge of C++ and MFC.