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Woodinville, WA, US

Duvall, WA, US

• TRUMPF spin-out focusing on maintaining and evolving the C-Labs IoT connectivity platform and building a broader eco-system.
• Engagement with CESMII (https://www.cesmii.org) focused around OPC UA modeling and OPC UA NodeSet editing.

• Industrial Automation meets IT meets Cloud.
• Provided IoT connectivity solutions to TRUMPF Laser GmbH, TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen, and AXOOM. C-Labs Corporation was acquired by TRUMPF in 2017.
• Architected and personally developed key components of the IoT connectivity platform, including a data stream filtering and aggregation pipeline, OPC UA and other protocol adapters, integrations into the AXOOM cloud.
• Lead and managed a development team of 5 developers.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Technical PM on the team delivering a Cloud-based messaging system. Championed shift towards “Internet of Things” using messaging as a buffer for telemetry data from embedded devices and a routing system for commands.
• Specified and coded scalable Hadoop (Azure HDInsight) storage adapter and schema manager that makes IoT device telemetry data sent through Service Bus Queues available for Analytics and BI.
• Coded samples for embedded device platforms (.NET Micro Framework, Arduino) and languages (C#, C++) to demonstrate device platform and protocol reach.
• Built customer and Microsoft-internal mind share around “Internet of Things” via Service Bus, by coding and showing end-to-end demos from Device to Analytics, including presentation at Microsoft TechEd 2014.
• Drove the initial customer pilot for Service Bus / IoT with a Fortune 100 company, by organizing workshops, weekly conference calls and technical drill downs. Documented learnings to inform Service Bus product roadmap.
• Defined and released updated pricing models to enable IoT scenarios by building COGS models, proposing pricing approaches to stakeholders in Marketing, Finance and Engineering.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Lead team of Technical PMs delivering internal technologies to support the service life-cycle including build, deployment/update, monitoring/alerting, tenant provisioning, usage tracking and billing.
• On-boarded multiple services (Cache, AppManager/Container service, Notification Hub).
• Documented and prioritized ongoing improvements to platform technologies. Helped integrate with common Azure deployment and monitoring systems, while minimizing engineering impact to teams.
• Delivered Service Bus as one of the initial services in Azure China, by addressing technical and process requirements for independent operation by an external, local company. Coordinated the actual build out of the.
• Delivered Service Bus as part of the Azure Cloud Appliance project (Japan/Fujitsu), enabling fully separate service instances managed by a separate Microsoft operations team.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Technical PM/Lead on an incubation/startup team delivering the first developer-oriented cloud services for Microsoft.
• Cross-divisional Release Coordinator, converging early cloud initiatives from two divisions (SQL, Connected Systems) with 4 new services through strategy and tactics meetings.
• Co-designed and partially coded tenant provisioning system for two cloud services that coordinates per-customer resource creation (i.e. DNS registration, service credentials).
• Co-owned the usage reporting and account provisioning contract (Web API) between all initial Azure services and the billing/commerce backend system.
• Managed a team of PMs boot-strapping AppFabric Developer Portal Web UI and Community/Forums.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Lead multiple teams of Technical Program Managers, delivering platform technologies in support of Windows Service Packs.
• Managed team of 20 Program Managers including 5 Leads (Manager of Managers) through a high-pressure effort with minimal attrition on the team.
• Communicated schedules, status and trade-offs to large number of stakeholders, including Windows management and impacted component teams, minimizing surprises.
• Focused previously separate sub-teams with diverging technology visions on a common set of deliverables, by establishing agreement on overall priority.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Lead team of Technical Program Managers delivering platform technologies to build and install a large number of Windows SKUs and flavors through decentralized component descriptions.
• Prioritized platform investments such that a minimal number of component teams (3000+ developers) were impacted by platform changes and feature availability.
• Communicated platform changes through regular e-mail communications and Windows Shiproom. Worked directly with affected component teams as necessary.
• Established support/escalation mechanisms for component teams while minimizing impact to the platform engineering team through internal e-mail groups, rotations of dev/test/PMs.
• Established processes to measure and improve component quality through static code analysis, test cases both centrally and by each component team.

Redmond, Washington, US

Fusion Team, Lead team of Technical PMs addressing Application fragility (“Dll Hell”) and Application Install complexity (“ClickOnce”).Application Center team: Delivered XML-based configuration store for Internet Information Server and WMI provider for managing.NET Framework configuration files. COM/COM+ team: Delivered technologies into Internet Explorer.

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