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• Co-Owner of Red House (https://www.redhouserenton.com/) restaurant in Renton, WA. Relaunched restaurant under new ownership, menu, bar, and design post-Covid.
• Sabbatical after nearly 15 years to explore both internationally and domestically. Learn about the vast difference in culture and experiences across a multitude of geographies including Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Enterprise Health - Performance
• Managed a team of PMs in the Performance space across both Consumer and Enterprise solutions.
• Set multi-year team priorities, fiscal OKRs and product timelines for the Office Organization to greatly improve and protect customer performance.
• Lead the central team in a Hub-Spoke model. Set goals, thresholds, guidance and reporting cross-organizationally across the entire Office Product Suite - Developed (in unison with Data Scientists, Data Analysts, and.
• Conducted enterprise customer engagements (Fortune 500 to SMB) for performance troubleshooting and end user feedback.
• Main POC for Office engagements with chip manufacturers (Intel, ARM, AMD ) to liaise between future chip iterations and Office utilization of product features and improvements.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Acting PMM for Office Engineering Automation and Performance, leading/mentoring 5 PMs to drive strategy, prioritization, and manage projects of work across ~40 Engineers to support over 3,000 Office Engineers
• Developed plan of work for the future of Office validation and cohesion with cross-Microsoft Solutions.o Planned and Led cross-team offsite for Engineering Leadership on current and future investments.o Managed.
• Defined project/process management for the Performance Teamo Presented roadmap and dependencies to Director and CVP level stakeholders including ROI, roadblocks, and resourcing requests.
• Sole PM defining the Engineering Systems that shipped Office for iOS and Office for Mac releases under one cross-platform shared code base.
• Tracking US Govt. Required Compliance of Office Applications and Services in order to meet customer requirements for widespread adoption at the highest Govt. Level.
• Drive adoption across customer base with feature announcements, status updates, interview/surveys, and demos

Redmond, Washington, US

- Point person for Cross-Platform Engineering systems for the Office Organization. Pulling together technology experts to enable the authoring of high quality apps across multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Windows/Phone)- Aid in organization and restructuring standards in order to improve the ability to share code between all supportedplatforms- Established.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Collaborated with dev and test in an Agile system to assure that we meet our partner and business needs.
• Worked closely with customers to determine their use cases and begin a hypothesis on the next iteration
• Identified metrics to determine what “Success” is in order to determine if feature work is progressing as expected
• Investigated, designed, and aided in streamlined authoring Service Monitors to run locally, in lab, and in production
• Worked closely with the Internet Explorer team to assure that Office’s priorities were understood when implementing new Web Standards
• Documentation of new feature sets in order to ensure a smooth adoption and transition onto the new toolset

Redmond, Washington, US

• Involved from planning, designing, developing, and testing of the entire product cycle
• Wrote extensive BVT, CVT, and Comps automation scripts for regression testing
• An active participant in the V1.0 shipping of the Office Web Applications and subsequent live updates
• Client-Side and Server-Side Testing
• Communication of the wire, primarily using the Fiddler proxy tool
• Live Service monitoring, debugging, and support for the SkyDrive/Office Web Apps environment

Redmond, Washington, US

• Developed a testing framework to handle a broad set of Admin Settings that was extensible by individual testers
• Gained experience of the software development in a large scale operations
• Hired as full-time employee based on my performance and skill

• Gained experience with the software engineering process from a group perspective
• Became familiar with group communications to make project management more efficient and accurate
• Used Google Web Toolkit and Django(a Python tool) to create a rich and interactive web-based user interface for environmental scientists working in Malaysia

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science; Computer Games And Graphics Track; Minors In Mathematics And Computer Engineering

High School Diploma