Bill Barnes Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, US

I help the world's biggest companies understand when and how to work with Gen AI and other cutting edge technology, with a special focus on design thinking and user/developer experience.

Redmond, Washington, US

Helping accelerate Microsoft partners worldwide through co-innovation and code-with engineering engagements.

Redmond, Washington, US

Leading a team of program managers and product designers to build AI solutions (including Lobe) for citizen developers.

Redmond, Washington, US

Managed a team of 18 engineers, program managers, and designers to build Lobe

Redmond, Washington, US

I traveled around the world, coding alongside engineers from dozens of Microsoft partners, helping unblock them on mission-critical projects involving chat bots, serverless computing, MS Graph, and more. Then I took the learnings from these collaborations back to Microsoft’s product teams to help improve our offerings. Along the way I also wrote the open.

I parlayed my popular web-based comic strips Unshelved and Not Invented Here into a diversified media business. We sold books and a wide variety of merchandise, and I pioneered an innovative and lucrative advertising model. In addition to sharing writing and drawing duties, I sold advertising, developed and operated our websites, supervised our retail.

Seattle, Washington, US

I provide high level guidance on platforms and products for this fast-growing newsletter reporting on book publishing. In the course of this work I designed and developed several small-to-medium sized Ruby on Rails web apps, both back office and customer facing.

Redmond, Washington, US

I crafted messaging and wrote speeches for a Corporate VP. This was a bit of a departure for me, and not a perfect fit, but it was fun to try something different.

Redmond, Washington, US

I was hired to productize a nascent claims-based digital identity technology then known as InfoCard. I developed prototypes, refined UI with design firms, conducted usability tests, and spearheaded our evangelism effort, meeting with high level technology officers at aspirational partners such as eBay, Amazon, Apple, MasterCard, Visa, and the FDIC. This.

Omaha, NE, US

I oversaw development, testing, and operations at startup GiftSpot, which provided gift certificate technology to ecommerce companies. I left shortly after our acquisition by GiftCertificates.com.

Redmond, Washington, US

I helped launch Microsoft's groundbreaking "web magazine"​ with founding editor Michael Kinsley. We juggled the technical limitations of the early web against big dreams and many unknowns. I created the technology column "Webhead", which I continued to write for several years after my departure.

Redmond, Washington, US

This innovative research project aimed to improve search by utilizing controlled taxonomies. I brainstormed with domain experts, prototyped user experiences, and met with potential partners.

Redmond, Washington, US

I managed the development team for most of the client side of MSN 1.0, which was a pre-Internet online service in the vein of CompuServe and AOL that shipped with Windows 95. It was rapidly obsoleted by the Internet.

Redmond, Washington, US

As a member (and eventual lead) of the spreadsheet/database team, I shipped five versions of Works, Microsoft's entry-level integrated productivity suite for both MS-DOS and Windows.

Pittsburgh, PA, US

I worked full-time for Professor John Anderson developing a Mac-based Algebra tutor leveraging his research into expert systems.

Mathematics, Computer Science

High School Diploma