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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.
• 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.
• 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bellevue, WA, US