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Seattle, Washington, United States

Redmond, Washington, United States

• Talent acquisition and retention: Grew fledgling team from 2 to 10 strong in 6 months, empowering each individual contributor to build a brand around a tech expertise area and become an established SME.• Strategy and roadmap: Defined north star goals, interim milestones, marquee scenarios and customer journeys/storyboards to articulate product roadmap and direction. Domain specific canonical scenario storyboards to define vNext.• Security features: Led investments in team to solve for device identity, AuthN with x.509 certs, SAS tokens, hardware Root of Trust, and AuthZ to deploy at very large scale. Drove platform investments for customers to elevate device credentials with PKI-issued certs.• Customer obsessed team culture: Team delivered record number of Product Group interaction calls with field and direct customer engagements. Synthesized learnings and socialized via high visibility presentations to key stakeholders. Built a ‘demo’ culture as a way of articulating e2e feature flow for customers and celebrating across PM/dev team.• Customer impact: Enabled very large-scale deployments for key Fortune 500 customers via feature investments and x-team partnerships. Landed preview features with 50+ large enterprises for early feedback. Partnered with architects/devs in redefining technology stack and API changes.

Redmond, Washington, United States

• Thought leadership: Early product definition, roadmap, planning/areas of investigation, feature design and implementation with dev experiences (SDKs, CLI, Portal UX) for Azure Digital Twins service.• Agile development: Shepherded team and cross-org partners through agile delivery, hitting private preview, public preview and GA milestones all in one calendar year.• Technologies: High Availability (Availability Zones, BCDR), geo replication and federation for multi-tenancy, with focus on data sharing and data separation scenarios.• Domain Focus: Enabled key partners and customers in Smart Building/Smart Cities while shepherding Customer 0 (Microsoft Campus) to full deployment at scale in production. Envisioned digital twin scenarios and experiences for Retail environments with AI/ML workloads. • Customer signals: Drove research, gathered and synthesized requirements and wrote PRDs. Used ‘Moneyball’ data driven techniques to validate concepts and prioritize features prior to implementation.

Redmond, Washington, United States

• Edge Platform/Distribution Services (CDN/over the air updates): Drove redesign of a device client-heavy architecture of a proven OTA stack, scaling down components into Azure services runnable on MCU-class RTOS devices (256K RAM, 1MB Flash).• Incubation: Envisioned an OTA Linux update solution via a hackathon project, pitched to senior LT for buy in, gathered compete and biz insights, incubated through private preview. (Now available in GA as Azure Device Update service.)• Refactored OTA stack for first generation Hololens and Raspberry Pi running Windows IoT, coordinated across three organizations for a One Microsoft solution.• Fundamentals/Deployment/OS image composition: Drove Feature on Demand capability to reduce Windows image footprint by 40% across 30 inbox components, including a1GB Hydrogen library for mixed reality Oasis headsets.• Mobile Connectivity: Drove initiative across 5 orgs to ship cellular provisioning on first boot powered by an extensive APN database for Surface/Windows PCs with eSIM. Delivered GA in record time, six months ahead of schedule.

Redmond, Washington, United States

• Tech Advisor: Paired with Windows GPMs focusing on perf, scale and power management for sleep state optimization to reduce first boot time by 80%. Informed thickness/weight/battery life specs for Surface PCs and PC OEMs (Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Acer)• Strategy: Analyzed and synthesized market insights, trends to inform investment in a cellular Data Marketplace for 5G connected PCs. • Research: Creative methodologies used: hardware breakdowns, battery analysis, usability studies/focus groups, Maxdiff (feature prioritization), card sort affinity mapping, Kano model, ranking importance vs satisfaction.

Msee, Computer Engineering

Bsee, Computer Engineering