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Kirkland, WA, US

Redmond, Washington, US

Lead a team of over 40 Product Managers, Data Scientists, Researchers and Technical Program Managers to research, define, design and build developer infrastructure tools, services and experiences to support the Experiences and Devices division, Office Product Group and Substrate Platform org ship and sustain their product and service portfolio and.

Redmond, Washington, US

Lead a team of 20 Product Managers and Researchers to research, define, design and build developer infrastructure tools, services and experiences to support the Experiences and Devices division, Office Product Group and Substrate Platform org ship and sustain their product and service portfolio and business. Including build, developer experience and.

Redmond, Washington, US

Redmond, Washington, US

Lead a team of eight Program Managers to define, design and build core developer infrastructure tools, services and experiences to support Microsoft Office’s multi-billion dollar business ship and sustain its product and service portfolio and business. Including build, developer experience and productivity and dependent infrastructure on a new, monthly.

Redmond, Washington, US

Lead a team of ten Program Managers to define, design and build core engineering tools and services to support Microsoft Office’s multi-billion dollar business ship and sustain its product and service portfolio and business across multiple platforms (Windows, UWP, Android, Mac and iOS). Including build, developer experience, testing and validation.

Redmond, Washington, US

Broad responsibility of core engineering tools and services to support Microsoft Office’s business ship and sustain its product and service portfolio and business. Including build, developer experience, testing and validation, deployment, telemetry and dependent infrastructure.Key focus was delivering the initial infrastructure and developer experience.

Redmond, Washington, US

Lead a team of five Program Managers to deliver several key infrastructure initiatives; including designing and delivering a core capability to componentize Office’s monolithic codebase into “tenants” to provide fast, yet managed and isolated code velocity gains. Other deliverables included moving Office to Visual Studio Online for work item tracking and.

Redmond, Washington, US

Responsible for the core Office developer experience stack. Included defining and delivering features to improve the release and remote developer experience across Office. Included exploration of technologies; including DFS-R, remote differential compression, P2P and WAN accelerator solutions and associated prototyping. Resulting solution reliably.

Redmond, Washington, US

• As an IPE within the Office Software Localizability team I was responsible for ensuring the World-Readiness and international quality of Microsoft Outlook and related applications in over 90 languages worldwide. This.
• Lead the relationships with core product teams to review designs and specifications to meet complex localizability and local-market business requirements.
• Lead the definition of specifications for tools, infrastructure, and processes that improve international customer experience and fulfil international market needs.
• Defined and drove innovative downstream localization tools, plans and processes and established business goals that helped lower overall product localization costs.
• Partnered with core product management teams to adopt best practices, tools, infrastructure and/or methods to improve the localization process and overall quality of the international Microsoft Office product.
• Managed complex international release schedules and changes to facilitate on-time release of localized products.

Redmond, Washington, US

• As a member of the Graphics and OSS Team I was initially responsible for leading the engineering of localized releases for Microsoft PowerPoint and Graphics applications; and later took responsibility for the original.
• Managed several members of engineering staff, including contingent staff and interns both internally and externally. Managed team priorities, schedules and deliverables to successfully release Microsoft Office software.
• Lead a team of worldwide offsite localization vendors, tasked to deliver high quality localized content on time and within budget.
• Defined and lead support for multiple tools across the internal product team and external vendor teams to streamline the software localisation process.
• Performed complex software bug investigation and resolution for localized releases of Microsoft Office using Microsoft LocStudio and other Microsoft internal tools.
• Invented process and software improvements; identified, defined and developed bespoke solutions on various occasions.

Volunteer club Secretary and Executive Board Member for Puget Sound Go Kart Association non-profit organization.

Livingston, West Lothian, GB

• Lead the definition, development and support of a complex Tracking, Monitoring and Reporting software solution which is used to provide reports and tools to analyse data obtained from the authority’s educational.
• Carried out requirements analysis and specifications. This primarily involved liaising with Senior Managers and Project Board Members. This required a wide knowledge of both Education customer requirements and.
• Developed and supported several customised software tools using Visual Basic, VBScript, Microsoft Access and Crystal Reports to analyse data from several MIS sources, including OMNIS 7, Oracle 8i, SQL Server and.
• Took a leading role in the planning and development of a platform migration project; migrating a complex Visual Basic client-server application to a web-based.NET distributed application solution.
• Developed several Visual Basic and VB.NET software tools to support the interfacing and migration of a third-party OMNIS MIS system to a nation-wide IBM DB2 web-based Education MIS system. I was also involved in the.
• Regularly supported and maintained both database (SQL Server, OMNIS 7, Oracle 8i) and IIS Enterprise servers, both remotely and locally.

Redmond, Washington, US

• During my time as a member of the Microsoft Office Automation Development Team at Microsoft I developed a vast knowledge of software development technologies, software testing and automation in a localisation.
• Developed high quality test automation scripts and tools using Visual Basic and C++, leveraging COM, while carefully following strict automation and coding standards as part of a quality assessment scheme.
• Attained an expertise in debugging and troubleshooting various Office applications, both client and server and automation scripts.
• Took a leading role in the set-up and maintenance of a complex department test server lab. This required in-depth knowledge of the supported server applications, including Windows 2000 Server, MS SharePoint, MS SQL.
• Took a leading role in the migration and support of Microsoft InfoPath into the Ireland Office.NET automation process, defining and developing the initial code, software libraries, automation scripts and tools whilst.
• Authored and presented several training seminars to new employee groups on various Microsoft internal processes, tools and standards as part of a larger training roadmap.