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Kirkland, WA, US

VP of Research at this independent firm analyzing Microsoft technologies and licensing, focused on Microsoft 365 and Azure.

CTO and Founder of stealth-mode startup focusing on intuitive, easy-to-use analytics and machine learning.

I provide executive consulting services to leading global high technology companies primarily focusing on cloud computing. Provide technical analyses and "points of view" on modern cloud topics such as Kubernetes, cloud-native computing, data, machine learning, and other specific cloud offerings. Created an internal cloud certification examination to.

I provide pro bono technical and business advice and strategy to a number of Seattle area startups.

I provide technical and market guidance to Accelerated Pictures, which makes a collaborative cloud-based virtual reality storyboarding product. Among other areas I focus on the cloud implementation, adapting it for massive scale using WebSockets (Signal/R) and actor model (Orleans) technologies with a Unity client.

Redmond, Washington, US

Reporting to the General Manager of Cloud and Enterprise Strategy, I focus on analysis and thought leadership for emerging trends relevant to one of the most exciting areas in technology today, the Microsoft Cloud. I created, research and maintain a dashboard of emerging technologies for senior leadership, including investment theses, as well as write.

Working with one of the most distinguished animal biologists on the planet, we are examining advanced computer vision and machine learning technologies to enable us to decode the communications of our best friends, dogs. What we learn will apply to many other species as well.

Redmond, Washington, US

For Microsoft's Developer Evangelism group I recruited and led an amazing team of senior architect/developers to work with selected customers building "epic" applications on.NET, OSS, Azure, and IoT. I personally wrote, on Azure, the world's largest spreadsheet with 2.4b data items on hundreds of cores (each cell a.NET object); led the team creating Azure.

Redmond, Washington, US

As CTO for Microsoft's IT organization reporting to the CIO I ran the enterprise architecture organization, a team of approximately 40 professionals serving a global IT team of 4,000. I created and led the cloud migration strategy team which built and executed the roadmap for Microsoft IT's own transformation to a cloud-centric enterprise, probably the.

Redmond, Washington, US

As senior architect for the Business Process and Integration Division reporting to the Corporate VP I drove technical strategy for BizTalk Server and related products (including Host Integration Server and Microsoft's Commerce Server), working with both senior technical leaders in the division, other product leaders in SharePoint, SQL Server and other.

Co-editor of blog created by former CNN Tokyo bureau chief focusing on North Korea leadership, nuclear ambitions, human rights abuses, and international adventurism. Blog featured posts from distinguished Asia observers from all over the world. Called a "jungle of lies" by the government of North Korea.

Co-founder and CTO of company focused on complex business event processing. (What if a credit card is swiped in New Jersey and then swiped two minutes later in California? Does this signal a fraud rather than two purchases?) Company was acquired by IBM in January 2008.

Was CTO of this marketing consulting firm until it crashed after 9/11; the software product IP we created became the basis for AptSoft.

Redwood City, California, US

After the acquisition of Interleaf by Broadvision, I served as co-CTO of the company in Massachusetts. My primary focus was on evangelizing BV's server technologies and in creating new technologies around the then-nascent mobile market place (among other things I created a WAP emulator!). I spoke at numerous events including the Global Mobile Congress and.

US

Helped turn this company from almost being delisted on NASDAQ to fifth-fastest growing stock in US in the bubble year of 1999 by focusing on XML-based content delivery. Company acquired by BroadVision in 2000.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

At Lotus I served as chief developer/architect for Lotus 1-2-3 for five years. I subsequently served as architect on Lotus Notes through several releases. Following the acquisition of Lotus by IBM in 1995, I worked closely with a number of senior IBM technologists and business leaders on the integration of our respective technologies. I also created one of.

Managed the team of software developers in the Networking and Communications Group doing terminal concentrators for VMS.

B.A.

Master Of Arts (M.A.)