Eric Albright Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Az, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Part of Microsoft Teams Calling/Meetings/Devices team. I continue to own NDI features but also analyze crashes and hangs and help to improve our processes for catching and monitoring them.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Part of IC3 media platform team. I continue to own NDI features but also ACS and Screensharing.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Part of Microsoft Teams Calling/Meetings/Devices team. Added broadcast features to Microsoft Teams: NDI, Hardware Out.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Part of team that made Microsoft Teams available for home (not just business) scenarios. Stood up backend services that mirror business services. Architected Safe feature in Teams. Received patent for MANAGEMENT OF ENCRYPTION KEY UPDATES BASED ON ACTIVITY OF A USER GROUP.

Redmond, Washington, Us

As part of Skype for Broadcast (Skype TX) team, interacted with PMs to help shape the direction of Skype TX Controller, channel, automation and Skype for Content Creators (using NDI in skype client to expose video/audio streams). Helped determine the relative priorities of feature work. Researched feasibility of features and made recommendations based on that research. Provided architectural guidance to rest of team. Designed and implemented Skype for Content Creators features into desktop Skype client, exposing video/audio NDI streams for each participant, the user, and primary speaker (C++, Typescript, NDI). Added other calling features to Skype client. Provided support to partners building on our platform and researched and fixed issues reported by partners.

Redmond, Washington, Us

In Skype TX (Skype for Broadcast), part of mob programming effort to write software to connect Skype client to broadcast industry. Created Skype TX Controller application (C#, XAML, WCF) and rewrote Skype TX Channel (C++, WWS) to allow multi-channel units. Refactored Controller to pull out the main functionality into an Automation layer (C#, WCF, C++, WWS) that can be used by partners for more advanced scenarios.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Design and implement new Windows Run Time (WinRT) Windows.Globalization APIs (C++, STL, TDD, WinRT, COM). Help other teams refactor code using best practices and Unit Tests (C++, STL, TDD).Participated in TC39 JS Internationalization Standard committee

Redmond, Washington, Us

In Windows, design and implement spell checking API; private hyphenation service, and Windows.Globalization APIs (C++, COM, STL, TDD). Mentored new college hire.

Redmond, Washington, Us

In Windows International Globalization Services maintain Searching and Collation tables (C++); own the System.Globalization namespace in .Net Framework (C#, C++).

Payap Language Software Development Group (Chiang Mai, Thailand)▪ Co-designed and implemented WeSay, a dictionary editor (C#). ▪ Designed and implemented Multiscribe, a DLL that hooks Uniscribe functions and uses Graphite for complex script functionality when font is Graphite enabled (C++).▪ Implemented exclude feature and added unit-tests to Enchant, a spell-checking framework with major open-source spell-checking engines as plug-ins (C).▪ Helped design LIFT, a lexicon interchange standard (XML and RelaxNG).▪ Mentored four interns.

JAARS (Waxhaw NC)▪ Implemented page scrolling and superscript and subscript rendering in Fieldwork’s Translation Editor (C++ and C#).

Malaysia Branch▪ Network administration and general computer support for linguists and office staff.▪ Designed and implemented:Page cost estimator (by color coverage) as backend to CUPS (C).Calendar presentation system for office intranet (PHP and XML).System for creating texts that pop-up morphological breakdown and gloss of word when mouse hovers over it (HTML and JavaScript).▪ Finalized GUI and hardened open-source vote tabulation software (Python and wxWidgets).

▪ Primary responsibilities included linguistic consulting and analysis.▪ Designed and implemented:Spell-checking engine conforming to Microsoft’s CSAPI (C++ and STL).Utility to convert structured text files to XML (C++, STL, COM and MSXML).Utility to replace text in XML files (C++, STL and MSXML).

Ma, Applied Linguistics

Ba, Communications