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Assisting early stage startups on a part time basis with product strategy, tech roadmap and product build-out. Engagements include embedding with a team for a few weeks, running deep-dive tech roadmap sessions for a couple of days as well as managing product build out remotely. Based primarily in Paris and New York.

Luxembourg, Luxembourg, LU

Advising on product build, team structure and tech architecture.

Vancouver, BC, CA

CTO managing tech strategy, vendor team management and product build-out of a new team platform for delivering live monitored automated educational webinars.

Doha, QA

Advising WISE accelerator cohort startups across their Tech and Product challenges.

Brooklyn, NY, US

CTO driving tech strategy, roadmap and executing on build-out of a new platform for those inspired by providing wellness guidance.

Grand Cayman, West Bay, KY

Built the framework for having decentralized applications to scale and feel as quick and usable as web apps of today. Launched ICO.

San Francisco, California, US

Helped advise and integrate voice & CRM integration technology from the purchase of Mast Mobile into the Hearsay Social tech stack.

Technology startup that delivered a mobile business number as a 2nd number on your cell phone without using VOIP for voice quality. Raised $14MM and over the course of 3 years & built world class voice + messaging 2nd number service solution & experience across iOS, Android, Desktop. Mobile use deeply integrated with CRM systems such as Salesforce and.

Redmond, Washington, US

Headed up engineering & product management for the integration of Musiwave, a startup focused on music end to end marketplace experiences for the top Mobile Operators across Europe including Vodafone, Orange and T-Mobile. The team now makes up the Microsoft Engineering Center in Paris and builds most of the services as well as web and mobile experiences.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Formed Search & Browse strategy for Windows 7.
• Delivered platform strategy document for information management and evangelized across Storage, Backup and Live teams.
• Responsible for assuring team’s specifications gel around one cohesive experience.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Started team to deliver Microsoft Desktop Search product bringing along 4 colleagues.
• Designed product end to end experience as well as core indexer citizenship algorithms
• Delivered Beta 6 months from inception and Release 4 months later including result previewers winning key reviews against Google Desktop Search.
• Released 3 major releases of the product within 2 years including corporate ready versions actively deployed on XP while growing team from 5 to over 50 with WHI of 89.
• Merged key search technologies into Windows Vista and re-orged team into Windows.
• Evangelized to enterprises as speaker at key conferences and Executive Briefing Center

Redmond, Washington, US

• Managed PM team chartered with the delivery of the.NET Search Windows API and the Structured Reasoning Engine for natural language processing over WinFS.
• Transitioned top talent from this team to Windows Desktop Search.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Delivered 2 versions of category leading internet appliance for MSN.
• As first Lead PM on team, defined product’s feature set, implemented initial “vision” prototype, defined reference platform, and helped build PM & dev teams.
• Drove cross-MSN technology including support by Hotmail for msn.com accounts.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Implemented pull-up on Unix, hired team, collaborated with external engineering teams and managed engineering group.
• Delivered competition-beating browser in performance, quality and features for the Unix platform while exceeding comparable metrics relative to the Windows product.

Houston, Texas, US

Developed and released OS for a highly parallel RISC chip NUMA based system for Convex, a company purchased by HP to become the high end of HP compute servers.