John Walpole Email & Phone Number

Honolulu, Hi, Us

Builder. Getting stuff done, fast.#ShipIt Passionate about building agile, happy, and high performing diverse cross-functional program teams to deliver features with increasingly complex requirements that improve the customer satisfaction of the worlds largest services.Strong stable teams increase focus on the right things for their customers, improve productivity & predictability, and create much happier team members. In addition, we should see:1. Significant increase in organizational stability. Re-orgs become much less frequent and team members are generally insulated from the impact when they occur.2. The leadership team will have much stronger levers for impact and can move away from tactical focus on trivial problems to a more strategic stance focused on strategy, prioritization, funding/investments, removal of systemic obstacles, and org alignment.3. Less management required, less territorialism, more cross-functional collaboration.4. More focus on optimizing our customers desires and the company’s success.5. Much more transparency and trust across the organization.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Get in touch if you're LGBTQIA+ or an underrepresented minority interested in starting a career in tech. I can help with:Career adviceInterview coachingResume guidanceIntroductions to other professionalsNonprofit adviceYou can connect with me via jw@jwalpole.com, or https://microsoftalumconnect.com

San Francisco, Ca, Us

🚲 🛴 🚘 🚆 I like shipping things FAST to keep Lyft rider, drivers, and cities happy 😀

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Making it happen for our riders, drivers, and cities with happy teams 😀

San Francisco, Ca, Us

🚲 🛴Launched Lyft Bikes and Scooters delivering 4 vehicles #MakeItHappen https://medium.com/@johnzimmer/lyfts-approach-to-bikes-scooters-90ce505ff496

San Francisco, Ca, Us

📈Lyft IPO Readiness Team👨‍💼👩‍💼🚙 Shipped the updated Lyft passenger app https://eng.lyft.com/meet-sravanthi-one-of-the-pms-behind-lyfts-new-rider-app-9bc61abeee31🌎 Founded the Internationalization Team to take Lyft into our first international market. We are now live in Canada! https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/12/lyft-goes-international-with-toronto-launch/🚘 Shipped the Lyft Driver app to 10x driver feature delivery speed and delight our driver community

San Francisco, Ca, Us

📈Twitter IPO Readiness Team.📱📹 Worked on the integration of Periscope live video into Twitter to leverage combined audience to increase customer engagement during live events.♻️ Delivered a Continuous Deployment Program to ensure that the software can be reliably released at any time. It aims at building, testing, and releasing software, faster and more frequently.🏗 Supported Twitter Architecture Group (TAG): Established and led ongoing, data-backed analysis of Twitter’s technology portfolio, resulting in technical deep dives, roadmap reviews, and investment trade-off decisions.🐑 Founded and ran the Technical Design Shepherd Program at Twitter. Shepherds are domain experts across Twitter Engineering who provide guidance through technical design, review processes, and launch planning. They've all launched major services and features at Twitter, and want to help your team succeed together.🛠 Led a cross-functional team to deliver Fabric features & infrastructure. Fabric is a modular mobile platform that makes it easy for developers to build great apps.More info: https://dev.twitter.com/fabric/overview https://blog.twitter.com/2014/introducing-fabric⚽️ Led cross-functional World Cup Resiliency Program to ensure system reliability & uptime during the World Cup for our users & partners. We had no major incidents while also breaking Twitter traffic records, the World Cup #BRAvsGER match was the most-discussed single sports game ever on Twitter with 35.6MM game related Tweets and we took impressive system stats to all time highs (confidential). Also reduced top-line failure rates by x% (confidential) across the board.🌤 Led the Cloud Utilization Program to increase efficiency 50+% delivering $ (confidential) savings.✅ Mentored & coached teams through agile transformations.

Redwood City, California, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Released over an exabyte of Cloud Storage for Windows 8. Certified, passionate and focused technology leader with 11 years of experience at Microsoft. Delivered many of the largest online services across the globe through a razor sharp focus on Site Up and Costs Down. Currently a core feature & infrastructure senior technical product manager of highly scalable automation systems to further drive costs down, deliver features with increasingly complex requirements and improve reliability of the world’s largest SQL Server installation & secure documents store; Outlook.com, Office365.com, Hotmail.com & SkyDrive.com to support Windows 8.Delivered Outlook, Office 365, Hotmail & SkyDrive architecture, features and quality of service for the backend of the world's largest email service, SQL Server installation and secure documents store; Hotmail.com, Outlook.com, Office 365 & SkyDrive.com to support Windows 8, Microsoft’s first cloud enabled OS.1. Delivered the Containerized Datacenter Automation Strategy & Lights-out automation plana. Single nextgen SKU to realize 25% YoY CapEx & OpEx savings.b. Business continuity planning.2. Planned, forecasted and managed feature & infrastructure budgets to deliver increased capacity for Windows 8 launch.3. Drove the design and specification of the Outlook, Office 365, Hotmail & SkyDrive storage architecture.a. Drove Storage feature team planning. Chose and prioritized investments based on corporate strategy, pillars and top-level goals.b. Developed & prioritized feature list and release plan. Coordinated complex dependencies with partners and align with Microsoft milestone schedule.c. Reviewed and delivered page-1 specs, estimates, and functional specs per planning schedule.d. Triaged & prioritized product bugs and design change reviews daily.4. Provided leadership and a centralized point of contact for feature requests, troubleshooting, and change management as the platform evolved.

Redmond, Washington, Us

1. Delivered China Cloud Presence Infrastructure & Containerized Datacenter Operations Strategy covering:a. Go to Market Strategy; Partner Neutrality, Business objectives, Organization capability, Time to Market, Tax incentive and Financial status b. Technical / Operational; Power, Space, Growing capabilities – Leasing Facilities, Containers, IT Pac, Containers, Hardware SKUs, Security & Networking.c. Legal and Tax; Partnership and Joint Venture legal structure, Tax structure, Regulatory Relationship, Licensing, Auditing, Discovering, Filtering and Monitoring (Great China Firewall constraints).2. Defined & delivered Microsoft company-wide Trustworthy Computing Services Push Policies, Standards and Procedures (PSPs) for online services reliability & availability domain via five work streams with over 200 individual contributors & virtual team members for Microsoft’s post Danger outage response:a. Data and Service Backup, Redundancy, Resiliency, Recovery and Retentionb. Change, Configuration and Dependency Managementc. Service Instrumentation, Monitoring, Alerting and Controld. Release and Deployment Managemente. Operational Health and Quality of Service3. Windows Azure, Windows Azure Edge and Office 365 Champion for Asia regiona. Enabled zero touch deployments to East and South East Asia regional high availability tier 3+ data centers through Windows Azure.b. Fault tolerant site infrastructure with electrical power storage and distribution facilities guaranteeing 99.995% availability.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Deployed, scaled and managed operational architecture and quality of service of the backend of the world's largest free email service and SQL Server installation; Hotmail.com -Key technologies: SQL Server 2000 (replication, clustering, T-SQL, administration), Windows Services middle-tier application, CIFS, Windows 2003 Server, hardware and software load balancers including Cisco Content Switching Module.-Lead Deployment Engineer for Satchmo (Hotmail Backend) releases to support V.Next Hotmail; Windows Live Hotmail launch. Took ownership of Satchmo user loading – moving 300 million classic (UNIX backed with old user interface) to new Windows Satchmo platform to support the Windows Live Hotmail launch. This involved capacity planning, performance metrics gathering, moving users in a balanced manor and ensuring data integrity.-Developed a variety of tools & scripts utilising C#, VB, VB Scripting, ASP, T-SQL and .NET (ASPX, ASMX Web Services, XML) to automate common tasks, increase deployment accuracy & efficiency, improve scalability and produce reporting analysis.-Worked upstream with the product group gathering requirements, code and specification reviews, post mortems, and bug reporting and triage.-Liaised with 3rd party hardware vendors to drive product improvements into the hardware performance and reliability to reduce user down time and improve transaction response times.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Primary responsibilities were problem engineering and incident root cause analysis to ensure 100% availability and maximum performance of MSN Publishing Platform (SQL based) and MSN Rendering & Replication Services (IIS based).-Key technologies: SQL Server 2000 (replication, clustering, T-SQL, administration), MSMQ (transactional), IIS (performance tuning, administration, user mode data code debugging), Windows System Resource Manager (performance tuning), Windows 2000/2003 Server, Composition Framework, Publishing Systems, Wansync & Content Replication Server, Internet Security & Acceleration Server, Load Balancers including Cisco Content Switching Server, WLBS, NLB & Microsoft Clustering Services.-Supported MSN Publishing Platform and MSN Rendering & Replication (SQL 2000, Wansync & IIS based) responsible for generating content for 42 sites (Portal, Money, Messenger, Autos, News, Entertainment, Passport) in 21 EMEA markets. Ensured high availability through clustering & load balancing and regularly testing failover methods as part of MSN’s Global Service Quality initiative.-Liaised with Customers, Testers & Technical Program / Product Managers on a weekly basis to feedback on issues, suggest improvements & discuss further innovations.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Primary responsibilities, as part of the Outlook & Xbox Halo engineering teams, included test / automation tool development, testing, localization, reviewing specifications & documents and bug fixing.

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