I am building the OS for AR GlassesI was the tech lead for the Orion OOBE experience, guiding a team of engineers, artists and composers to create a delightful entry to the world of Augmented Reality. I worked closely with design and PM to ensure everything went smoothly and led execution for the entire project.I was also the tech lead for OS notifications on Orion, building the entire notification delivery pipeline through the UI backend personally, and letting a team of talented front end engineers and designers make it delightful

Word Web is the focus of a huge amount of energy. Over the pandemic, we've seen it explode with usage, and with more usage comes more requests from our users to make it awesome. That's what I'm working on. I am working on the most requested feature our users have requested for Word Web (can't talk about it yet!), and we are going to fundamentally change how the whole thing works to the delight of our users.

Microsoft Word. You've probably used it. You probably have mixed feelings about it. "It looks like you're writing a letter". Yeah. You might think it's old - it feels old, it has all of the stuff you used 20 years ago - it must be the same, and Microsoft is just putting a fresh coat of paint now and then, with some new frills.But here's the thing. Word is at the forefront of all that's new and great with Microsoft. We can bring machine learning and natural language understanding to hundreds of millions of people helping them write and be understood. To do that requires a great UI - great experiences for people to be exposed to and discover. Experiences that show up when they're needed, but unobtrusively. Experiences that enhance and augment the writing endeavor. Special experiences for those just learning, or those that need a little extra assistance.And that's what I do. My team builds engaging experiences for Word. We strive to make writing better for those just starting out to wise, old hands that have made Word sing for decades. It'll be a long ride, but keep Word up to date, and you'll see how we're doing.

I am the technical lead for the Intune policy administration UI.Ok, so that doesn't sound super-interesting, but in actuality, it's just a fascinating and challenging space. The Intune console is moving away from the old UI, which was written for the (practically dead) Silverlight runtime, and towards the new, shiny Azure UI framework (an HTML and JS framework known as Ibiza). There is a tremendous amount of functionality to move over just to get to parity, and the UI in Silverlight was, for lack of a better word, awful. This is a big chance to make UI fantastic.And that's something I love to do.UI should be built to be functional, intuitive, and consistent at a bare minimum, before we get into such things as aesthetics and fun. There are a lot of different thoughts that go into building a UI, and a huge part of my job is to ensure all those thoughts and ideas get represented in a consistent manner so that the UI speaks with a single voice. I am deeply involved in the non-technical parts of building a UI. Much of my time is spent with PM, Design, and Usablity, ensuring that engineering is represented in all phases of development to keep iterations short and agile.I am also responsible for how it's all built, behind the scenes as the architect from the developer's inner loop, through the build system on up to the UI back end. I also perform a lot of the management duties for the team. I'm the team's Scrum Master, and do the usual sprint planning and tracking work. As well, I am a hiring manager, and have been called out (positively!) for the quality of my hires. But I'm most proud of building the culture of my team. I took a random assortment of engineers (we had a draft style reorg) and built a team that works well together, produces great results, and genuinely has fun as a group. People are starting to copy us, and I think there is no higher praise.Oh, and I coded some too.

I am the technical lead for the Office 365 MDM project on the Intune team at Microsoft.O365 MDM is a feature of Office 365 to give robust device management capabilities to O365 customers.I am responsible for the technical design of the project, from the high levels to the individual service interactions. I'm the primary architect for this particular corner of the broader Intune service, and I work with the product architect extensively.I have implemented modern coding patterns and practices on my team, ranging from implementing an agile philosophy, to specific coding patterns.I have built a culture of code quality on my team, where everyone feels a collective responsibility for keeping our code clean and (relatively) bug-free. Our team has had low bug counts and few live-site issues due to our culture of quality.I onboarded new engineers into the O365 MDM project team as part of the large MS-wide reorganization, getting them up to speed and productive in a totally alien code base.I am also responsible for working with the technical leads on our partner teams, O365 and Azure Active Directory, to ensure that changes are communicated promptly to allow for service updates.I even coded a bunch of it all.

I've been on the manageability side of things (System Center) for almost my entire career, and I've worked on everything, up and down the stack from the UI through to the database and everything in between.