Mark Paley Email & Phone Number

Redmond, WA, US

Redmond, Washington, US

Scaling our Azure Hardware Diagnostics and Telemetry Services for the Azure fleet.

Menlo Park, CA, US

Menlo Park, CA, US

Responsible for cross-functional planning & execution of the AR Camera Software Team, spanning 8 engineering managers, 2 Product Managers and 50+ developers. Provided technical coverage with partner teams on all aspects of team ownership including camera driver bring-up, camera algorithms and computational photography, camera platform and APIs, as well as.

Menlo Park, CA, US

Drove planning and execution of multi-year roadmap across 13 engineering teams related to the bring-up and demonstration of still image and a/v capture via innovative Augmented Reality Experiences. Presented summary of work at monthly leadership business reviews, highlighting accomplishments, risk, and mitigations. Developed and executed on factory.

Redmond, Washington, US

Redmond, Washington, US

• Manage software engineering team responsible for developing end-to-end device driver distribution system installing billions of drivers every month to 900M+ Windows 10 monthly active devices.
• Design an advanced workflow in Azure to assess driver quality, utilizing petabytes of GDPR-compliant telemetry to make approval decisions for 100s of third-party publishers.
• Build 2 key, 2 phase system to validate and release based on system owner and stakeholder interaction.
• Spearhead distribution system development across 4 divisions as cross-functional project manager.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Technical program manager for GameDVR, attracting more gamers to Windows 10 by enabling automated game recording across NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPU platforms by pushing Win+G on their keyboard.
• Led cross-organizational effort across 5 teams and 30+ people, developing new OS technologies in graphics and Windows composition system enabling high performance overlay and A/V encoding.
• Enabled key game DVR innovations, including the ability to enhance the operating system to provide UX overlaid on game play without unduly impacting gaming performance nor capturing UX into encoded video
• Managed UX overlay capability on games that request exclusive access to hardware (full-screen exclusive) by emulating exclusive-mode in the windowing system with high performance. Developed application compatibility.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Managed Windows Media Editing API development of new screen recording and video editing scenarios for use across Windows Phone and Windows Desktop.
• Developed orientation sensor APIs based on work from Microsoft Research, which combines sensor and related motion data from hardware gyrometer, compass, and accelerometer to create directional orientation measurement.
• Advanced multidisciplinary engineering engagement with cross-platform game engine Unity, driving CoreCLR and platform work to enable high performance Unity game support, comprising 30%+ of total game portfolio.
• Created 4-part phase-gate measurement process managed on a division-wide website to address application compatibility readiness, resulting in 500+ Tier 1 applications ready at launch.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Drove development of HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) for Live and Video On Demand (VOD) scenarios, unlocking potential across 100s of Windows Phone 8-targeted smooth streaming applications.
• Provided technical and strategic leadership on Digital Rights Management (DRM) strategy, resulting in the use of DRM technology for application signing (U.S. Patent # 9,589,114)
• Developed a cross-platform API strategy & convergence plan for PlayReady technology to support embedded systems up to managed API systems.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Developed new PlayReady Porting Kit for use on Windows Mobile and other embedded systems.
• Leveraged advanced code obfuscation technology designed to thwart attackers as development lead for Windows Vista DRM technology.
• Doubled team size to 12+ as Development Manager, providing coaching and guidance to leads on my team and eliciting high team morale and productivity as measured by Microsoft's Workgroup Health Index (WHI).

Redmond, Washington, US

• Drove schedules and execution of the V1 Hypervisor on AMD and Intel systems, including design reviews via technical documentation.
• Developed a user-mode debugger enabling remote debugging of applications running in a virtual machine, measured by a hardware-based root of trust managed by the hypervisor.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Led team of talented 0perating system engineers, developing solutions to key problems including, trusted input, trusted output, and trusted execution.
• Received a Patent award for Bitlocker, a secure way to boot Windows based on a hardware root of trust (TPM).

US

• Responsible for hiring, managing, mentoring, and motivating highly skilled team of engineers chartered with extending Liquid Audio’s distribution network to consumer devices.
• Developed DRM solutions used by Sanyo, TDK, Hitachi, IO-Data, Aiwa, and Porteson in their portable music devices.
• Co-Inventor of Patent No. 6,367,019 entitled “Copy Security for Portable Devices.” This patent describes the security technology Liquid Audio licenses to our partners for device authentication, establishment of secure.
• Developed highly portable firmware libraries currently in use on ARM, TI DSP, and Oki micro-controllers. Libraries are part of the SP3 SDK licensed to device manufacturers for the development of devices that can play.

Dallas, TX, US

• Team developed an MPEG Advanced Audio Coder (AAC) encoder and decoder that performed transparently at 64 kbps.
• Established a team for the development of firmware architecture for the TMS320AV71xx set-top box decoder chip, resulting in on-time delivery of software design and two patent disclosures. Designed firmware API.
• Designed and implemented an object-oriented software development framework resulting in a flexible development environment for audio compression research.
• Co-developed a fully compliant real-time MPEG-2 multi-channel audio decoder on Intel Pentium and TI’s TMS320C3x DSP.