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Bellevue, Wa, Us

Led Core Experience for Windows Mixed Reality. Delivered the HoloLens 2 core user experience, aligned product experience and developer facing toolkits. Expanded developer reach through new framework and engine support. Set long term strategy for VR and AR device experiences.

Established team and delivered core services and experiences for Cortana on Devices, starting with Harman Kardon INVOKE.Drove product definition, design, readiness, quality, and feedback processes across Cortana + Bing teams. Helped establish feature roll out and release plans. Drove improvements to ambient interaction model and established long term roadmap.Working on experience delivery for Cortana across all endpoints, including Windows, iOS, Android. Identified tool and process improvements for Cortana skill teams spanning design, pm, and development.

Responsible for building and delivering the Windows Ink experience in Windows 10 Anniversary Update, shipped on 7/29/16Drove the cross company effort to bring Ink Intelligence and new end to end scenarios to market, including analysis and recognition of ink, entity detection, and integration with Bing insights and Cortana. Delivered new capabilities around jotting notes, sketching, and annotating screenshots to reengage users with pen and ink, revitalize the pen hardware ecosystem, and drive key business metrics.Created an incubation team, Windows Interact Next, focused on identifying new opportunities for user interaction with Windows. Team drove the initial interaction exploration for Surface Dial and delivered the menu experience and developer APIs. Interact Next also delivered work that changed the multi-year product strategy in Windows, as part of the incubation and creation of Surface Duo.Drove 30+ person v-team to componentize and restructure Windows codebase as part of OneCore effort.

Built new input experiences for Windows and Windows Phone, simplifying the underlying platform architecture and converging the products for Windows 10.Delivered Dictation on Windows phone and email dictation for Cortana, enabling personalization and implicit punctuation to improve recognition accuracy and reduce the need for manual editing.Enabled keyboard UX for > 5" phones, with positioning and sizing adjustments to improve input, and better caret manipulation.Consolidated 15+ years of linguistic dictionaries, removing divergent representations of supported languages and improving consistency across products and experiences.Enabled multi-lingual spelling corrections, saving multilingual users from continually having to switch inputs while typing.

Addressed major gaps Windows 8 touch and text input experience. Unified the model for touch selection across UX surfaces. Improved the touch typing experience including UX, text prediction, and input personalization. Created an architecture for input method editors (IMEs) to integrate with Windows 8 and Windows 8 apps.

Built and delivered updated Task Manager, one of the most praised new features in Windows 8.Drove new experiences and features, performance, and reliability goals. Worked with teams across Windows on accounting, reporting, and process management. Addressed significant design and schedule challenges. Had the highest IC contribution in an organization of 200 while managing a team of 5 devs.Created a system to assist with diagnosing test failures by comparing screenshots from test execution with baselines, used internally by many developers building the Windows 8 modern UI.

New York, Ny, Us

Delivered multiple versions of Boxee software and shipped the Boxee Box in November 2010.Built support for many AV formats, added HD audio decode and bitstreaming for AV pros, HTML5 video playback, rewrote network media scan and playback capabilities to address major user pain points.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led a team of 7 developers working on multiple major feature areas within the Windows product (Bluetooth, UPnP, Web Services on devices, HID/Input). Led patented work on simplifying device discovery across protocol stacks.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Delivered platform and infrastructure for Homegroup in Windows 7, including PC and fileshare discovery and sharing. Built platform capabilities for 'play to' with UPnP and DLNA compliance in windows. Built multi-year strategy for Bluetooth in Windows, focusing on BTLE. Drove performance and reliability work across 4 major feature areas as part of Windows 7 quality push.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Key developer and protocol author on Web Services on devices support in Windows Vista.Built and shipped protocol stack, APIs, tools, documentation, and specification which was later standardized by OASIS. Created the foundation for network connected devices, which integrated with PnP and enables most WiFi and network connected printers on the market today. Drove integration into Windows CE.

Seattle, Wa, Us

M4A playback for RealPlayer, Harmony DRM transcode system

Developed portable music players and home stereo jukeboxes. Team of 9 devs working with ARM7, eCos, linux. Responsible for core system (drivers, networking, kernel), playback engine and formats, and product development.