Martin Thorsen Email & Phone Number

United States

Kirkland, WA

Software consultant for Spotlight Systems responsible for designing, coding and testing several business applications including Expense Report, Employee Scheduling, and general HR applications. In addition, I design, code, and test new features/applications for their existing SCADA system as well as maintain and improve existing features.Desktop.

Redmond, WA

• Managed a 40 person development team responsible for building customer facing support experiences.
• During the first three months on the job helped the team navigate through a major organizational reorganization.
• Key member of the fiscal year planning process including strategic and tactical planning, resource allocation and vendor investments.
• Delivered and executed product plans in conjunction with other discipline managers.
• Established organizational health through project and people management, process improvements, hiring and retaining great talent, and goal-setting.
• Coached direct reports for individual growth, success and team leadership.

Redmond, WA

• Managed a program management team working on an application platform for Connected Health solutions.
• During the first four weeks on the job, steered the team through overall release planning by identifying and focusing on core value propositions, scenarios and features.
• Coached/drove team on how to shift focus from delivering applications to building an Application Platform and SDK.
• Proposed and drove the execution of an early Software Design Review with external partners. This was the first such review for the group.
• Delivered and executed product plans in conjunction with other discipline managers.
• Established organizational health through project and people management, process improvements, hiring and retaining great talent, and goal-setting.

• Managed a 30 person development team working on the next version of Microsoft Windows.
• In two months, built new organization as a result of reorganization of three teams into the Windows Division.
• Instrumental in helping team navigate through change and ambiguity resulting in clear team charter and retaining key talent.
• Delivered product plans in conjunction with other discipline managers.
• Drove technical direction and guidance in addition to developing required software architectural components.
• Established organizational health through project and people management, process improvements, hiring and retaining great talent, and goal-setting.

• Managed a 20 person development team working on Together Computing.
• Defined overall product strategy as key member of Roadmap team which consisted of a cross-section of disciplines such as Product Management, Marketing, and Product Development.
• Produced product plans in conjunction with other discipline managers.
• Drove technical direction, architecture and guidance.
• Established organizational health through project and people management process improvements, hiring and retaining great talent, and goal-setting.
• Coached direct reports for individual growth, success and team leadership.

• Managed a 24 person development team responsible for.NET Client platform (WinForms),.NET RIA Services, and Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF).
• Shipped.NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5
• Grew team from 10 to 24 developers over a 5 month period by identifying and hiring great talent.
• Formulated product strategy and planning in conjunction with other discipline managers.
• Drove technical direction, architecture and guidance.
• Established organizational health through project and people management as well as process improvements, hiring and retaining great talent, goal-setting.

• Managed a 5 person development team responsible for the WinForms design-time component.
• Shipped.NET Framework 2.0.
• Coached direct reports for individual growth and success.
• Managed team schedule, deliverables and activities.
• Implemented several WinForms design-time features such as drag-drop, snap lines, behaviors and glyphs.
• Worked closely with Program Management and Test on feature design and direction.

• Tasked with small team to develop components for the Business Client shipping in next version of Microsoft Business Framework.
• Worked with Office to ensure tight integration between Office and MBF
• Worked closely with various MBS teams to evangelize MBF technology.

• Managed a 5 person development team responsible for the user experience in the MSN Messenger client.
• Shipped MSN Messenger 6 and 7.
• Coached direct reports for individual growth and success.
• Managed team schedule, deliverables and activities.
• Implemented several features such as custom emoticons.
• Headed up the development effort for QFEs.

• Member of the Messenger Platform Development team.
• Led the Security Push on Windows Messenger.
• Led the release of Windows Messenger for Windows XP SP1.

• Managed an 11 person program management team.
• Shipped MSN Messenger 4.6
• Defined product strategy in conjunction with other discipline managers.
• Drove software design of MSN Messenger and Microsoft Alerts.
• Established organizational health through project and people management.
• Worked closely with other discipline managers on project schedules and deadlines.

• Forged deeper technical relationship with Apple Computer.
• Assisted as a spokesman for the business unit.

• Managed a 31 person development team.
• Shipped Microsoft Office 2001 for Macintosh.
• Drove software development of Microsoft Office for Macintosh
• Worked closely with other discipline managers on product strategy, project schedules and deadlines.
• Established organizational health through project and people management, and hiring and retaining great talent.
• Contributed technically by fixing bugs in many product areas.

• Managed a team of 5 developers responsible for the development of Microsoft Excel for Macintosh. Acting Development Manager from 9/98 to 12/98.
• Shipped Microsoft Office 98 for Macintosh.
• Team Lead for the development of the Japanese version of Microsoft Office 98 for Macintosh.

• Member of the Office Development team.
• Shipped Microsoft Office 97 for Windows, Microsoft Office 95 for Windows and Microsoft Excel 5.0 for Windows.
• Developed several features including mail integration, support for different file formats in Excel, File New, OLE Document Properties, and Lotus Notes integration.
• Produced bug fixes in Office, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

• Developed localization tools for Microsoft Project 3.0 for Windows.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science & Mathematics

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