Brian Uphoff Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Wa

Through the release of Win10 and regular updates, the teams I’ve led have delivered many customer-focused experiences to the hundreds of millions of Windows customers. • Currently, I’m leading the UX Systems & Storytelling team within the Windows UX team. Our team drives coherence across Windows UX using customer-focused Jobs-To-Be-Done.• In early Win10 we brought back the Start Menu. The UX my team, our designers, and engineers delivered was a Start experience that tailors to a variety… Show more Through the release of Win10 and regular updates, the teams I’ve led have delivered many customer-focused experiences to the hundreds of millions of Windows customers. • Currently, I’m leading the UX Systems & Storytelling team within the Windows UX team. Our team drives coherence across Windows UX using customer-focused Jobs-To-Be-Done.• In early Win10 we brought back the Start Menu. The UX my team, our designers, and engineers delivered was a Start experience that tailors to a variety of devices (Laptops, Desktops, Tablets, Phones) and it brought our Win7 and Win8 customers forward to the new Win10 OS. • For Win10X, my team, along with our design and engineering counterparts, created a simplified Start experience for the Surface Neo (coming for Holiday 2020). • My team delivered Windows Timeline, a history based UX for getting back to recent “activities” across your devices including your phone and PC. • We have also delivered improvements to pen & inking experiences including updates to Snip & Sketch and lightweight UX that invokes when the pen is detached from new surface hardware. Beyond these features, my team has also been at the forefront of new ways of working within the larger Windows team. • We were the first to broadly flight experience to customers prior to major release dates. This work is now commonly known as “Windows as a Service” and delivered to customers via the “Windows Insider Program”. It enabled us to learn directly from customers, make tweaks to the experience based on feedback, and ship more frequently.• We transitioned to an Objective & Key Result framework for orienting investments toward business outcomes. • Our ongoing customer-focused approach regularly evaluates customer problems, objectives, jobs-to-be-done, and solutions as we conceive of new investments and deliver updates an ever-improving product. Show less

Redmond, Wa

During Win8, I worked on the Search, View, and Command team under Windows User Experience. Feature work included Windows Search integration into the Search Charm. The Search Charm was one component of the redesigned touch-first immersive shell introduced in Win8. Specifically I delivered the App and File search experience views. I also helped deliver the ribbon to the File Explorer. I continued work on Performance Fundamentals as I had in Win7 with new emphasis on the Immersive File Picker… Show more During Win8, I worked on the Search, View, and Command team under Windows User Experience. Feature work included Windows Search integration into the Search Charm. The Search Charm was one component of the redesigned touch-first immersive shell introduced in Win8. Specifically I delivered the App and File search experience views. I also helped deliver the ribbon to the File Explorer. I continued work on Performance Fundamentals as I had in Win7 with new emphasis on the Immersive File Picker, Windows Explorer, and Search.As we transitioned to the Win8.1 release, I worked on the Actions and Answers team under Windows User Experience. I again worked on the Search Charm which was re-designed to merge previously separate views and introduce web search to the Start search experience and worked on experience improvements related to windowing between search and other apps, especially the browser. I also worked on a set of framework Components/Controls that apps and shell experiences leveraged including popup dialogs and flyouts. Windows Search Performance and Reliability continued to be a large investment at this time as well which I helped lead. During the Win8-8.1 timeframe I mentored several individual contributors with a focus on growing their skills to unlock their potential. Show less

Redmond, Wa

During the Windows 7 timeframe, I worked on the Find & Organize team under the larger Windows User Experience team. I worked specifically on the following features: file views within Windows File Explorer, Copy Engine Experience, and led a group aimed at improving performance of file management tasks, Start Menu search, and Windows File Explorer search.

Chicago, Il

Worked as a Research Fellow for the National Science Foundation. The focus of my research under the Learning Technologies Group at the EVL was to use computers and software to immerse students in simulated scientific phenomena to facilitate learning. Projects included RoomQuake, an earthquake simulation teaching seismology where students mapped quakes over the course of months across a fault line in their classroom, and WallCology, a virtual ecosystem living inside the walls of the classroom… Show more Worked as a Research Fellow for the National Science Foundation. The focus of my research under the Learning Technologies Group at the EVL was to use computers and software to immerse students in simulated scientific phenomena to facilitate learning. Projects included RoomQuake, an earthquake simulation teaching seismology where students mapped quakes over the course of months across a fault line in their classroom, and WallCology, a virtual ecosystem living inside the walls of the classroom used to teach life science and population ecology.WallCology Details:Designed and implemented WallCology, an Embedded Phenomenon pilot study, in a Chicago Public School in Spring 2007. WallCology is a Java and Flash Actionscript-based, cross-platform virtual ecosystem simulation implemented on multiple touch-screen computers. Responsible for overall development, coordination, data gathering and data post-processing. Evaluated the effectiveness of using augmented reality systems to teach scientific phenomena. Show less

Champaign, Il

Re-structured and executed an NSF-funded educational learning tools project. Participated in filming at Chicago Public Schools. Coordinated contributions of project members and integrated video/photo production programs and computer graphics that resulted in two DVDs for K-5 mathematics curriculum.

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Mathematics And Computer Science

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