Dan Iatco Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Wa, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Playing critical role in design and implementation of numerous Surface devices, from concept to bring-up, manufacturing, mass production and post launch engineering• Leading the technical collaboration with our Silicon partners (Intel, Qualcomm, AMD, Nvidia, NXP), OS Group and HW Team in multiple areas, including UEFI, Debug, Power/Performance, System Integration, and future Silicon and OS improvements• Driving long term strategies in Surface, Microsoft, and Silicon partners, e.g., improving power/performance in Windows devices, lower abnormal shutdowns etc.• Leading multi-year, industry first, effort to improve debuggability of Surface devices, in partnership with Silicon and OS partners: MIPI I3C Debug, secure JTAG of production devices, FW Crash collection in the field, advanced HW telemetry etc.• UEFI development/architecture for Surface devices, including industry leading features like DGPU Hot Plug, ACPI D3Cold, secure Production debug, cutting edge Power/Performance optimizations, government compliance• Mentoring a team of talented IC engineers, guiding their technical growth towards next-generation architects• Implementation/debug expertise of full stack of modern devices: Silicon, HW, FW, Drivers, OS and Apps• Investigated and fixed some of the most difficult issues that the Surface team encountered, that required cooperation between multiple orgs inside Microsoft and teams outside MS as well (Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung etc.)• Team lead expert in numerous high and low speed busses: PCIe, USB, SPI, I2C, UART, SWD, JTAG• Designed multiple PCBAs (Cadence/OrCAD) to support Surface team development effort. Full end-to-end implementation: HW, FW, SW, OS. HW Prototyping and Debugging: oscilloscope, bus analyzers, precision soldering station, microscope, and other tools

Redmond, Washington, Us

- Surface Pro/RT V1 and Surface Pro 2 Software RF testing- Tools and test case for WiFi/Bluetooth, Throughput tool, precision timer for A/V sync, various manufacturing tools- Wireless Display testing for Surface Pro- Factory yield improvements- SPI, I2C, JTAG and bit-banging debugging tools based on FTDI chips

Redmond, Washington, Us

- Lead contributor for the design and test of an automated system to create and publish Windows Phone Updates- Designed and implemented version 1.0 of AT&T’s MTBF test for Windows Phone 7 (WP7). - One of the technical leads for a team of more than 40 engineers that designed version 2.0 of MTBF test for WP7. This version was deployed to OEMs to run for AT&T Technical Acceptance (TA)- Implemented parts of AT&T’s 10776 test suite

Redmond, Washington, Us

- Technical lead of BSP test team. Designing and writing hardware tools for HW test team. Integrating HW and SW test infrastructures. Tested various hardware components of the Zune device- Designed and implemented the infrastructure for continuous fuzzing of different components in Zune device- Implemented device memory performance and validation tools for both RAM and Flash memory using ARM assembly language and C- Worked on stabilization of Zune software lab. Implemented a check-in validation system for Zune team

Redmond, Washington, Us

- Designed and implementing parts of the new ActiveSync protocol, synchronization between Exchange server and mobile devices via HTTP protocol, for Exchange 12- Designed and implemented Exchange administration management for ActiveSync using Active Directory and PowerShell- Worked on Unified Messaging Server (UM Server) for Exchange 12 SP1 and Exchange 14- Designed and implemented Message Waiting Indicator (MWI) for UM Server, including UM Server load balancer for SIP requests

Redmond, Washington, Us

- Developing an Outlook (Office) message store for Business Contact Manager (BCM) in C/C++ and C#- US Patent 7,810,713: Cash Flow Projection Tool- Developed an event system for connecting the billing database and services in C# and SOAP- Developed a distributed system for service interaction in C++ (system service) - Developed a Web Service for Microsoft Outlook using HailStorm standard in C#

Bellevue, Wa, Us