Larry Larsen Email and Phone Number

Azure Marketing narrative lead for tier one events, quarterly earnings, and key moments. Key video storyteller responsible for creating the videos used for key moments from customer identification and tracking, product team coordination, script editing, production, and post process.

- Transformational leader responsible for the team behind Channel 9 including strategic planning, operations, finance, growth, recruiting, marketing, and BI analysis. Channel 9 has grown to over 5M unique viewers per month. - Manager of social operations including the @ch9 Twitter account with over 400k followers. - Led strategic cross-group initiatives on the senior leadership team for Microsoft’s Developer Platform Evangelism group including show development, keynote vision video production, MSDN technical content, storytelling, host coaching, and message development. - Owner of Microsoft's Channel 9 Live broadcasts including leading the teams behind logistics, marketing, scheduling, and production. - Created and manage the Channel 9 Studio, a $5M facility responsible for recording Microsoft’s Platform Evangelism strategy videos, shows, and live events. - Advisory consultant in VR and production of VR content for executive programs. - Producer and host of the Microsoft Research Luminaries series. Host of The Defrag Show and hundreds of strategic interviews with thought leaders including Bill Gates, Ray Kurzweil, Bill Buxton, and Eric Horvitz. Designer of hardware used in micro-gravity experiments currently on the International Space Station. - Creator and designer of ScriptTD, a Tower Defense game created for Windows Phone 7 that allows non-developers to create Windows Phone games. Used by many schools to teach programming to children. - Author of the second most popular Microsoft ThinkWeek paper of 2010 with a community rating and reviewer rating of 4/5 stars on the subject of iPad compete/tablet strategy. Many features first outlined in this paper are now integrated into the Microsoft Surface line of computers. - Created, designed, and product managed a cloud service that collects performance metrics from user machines, uploads them to the cloud, gives users feedback on best drivers for a system, and shares results socially.

- Editor and producer of multimedia content, podcasts, streaming videos, and interactive content for Poynter Online. - Project Manager for a custom developed ASP.NET publishing system and subsequent redesigns. - Program Manager of several software applications for journalists including tools for MS Word, an online photo gallery application, an application that captures images of news websites at regular intervals. - Seminar presenter on the subject of new and future technologies for reporting, emerging markets, and digital story telling.- Poynter Ethics Fellow, Class of 2006- Technical researcher for Poynter’s EyeTrack program including concept, design, and creation of three custom software applications to facilitate markup, testing, and analysis of data. - Frequent author of articles, news analysis, and story lead generation.- Concept of Poynter Labs, a research-driven investigation of new technologies for journalism. - Contributing Editor of eMedia Tidbits, a journalism technology blog. - Creator and PM of Headline Of The Day, a submission and voting system for collecting well-written headlines. - PM of the Poynter Ethics Tool, a secured collaboration tool for journalists working through ethical issues in a timely manner.