Michael Schechter Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, WA, US

Redmond, Washington, US

I lead a 100+ person, globally distributed team of both Engineers and PMs tasked with growing Bing's audience of daily active users. My team consistently delivers strong results by integrating deeply with other Microsoft products, developing features with effective growth loops, and building external partnerships to further our business goals. With a focus.

Redmond, Washington, US

• I managed the Bing Experiences PM team, which was responsible for all user facing aspects of Bing and Bing powered services at Microsoft, as well as the Bing Local and Maps product lines. My role required me to find.
• Grew the team from 70 to 90 PMs, while scaling the team culture and attracting top, diverse, internal and external talent. Expertise in online experimentation, customer empathy, and effective partnerships were all.
• Drove significant quality gains across key search components: UX, answers, entities/knowledge graph, query formulation and rich captions. Established the technologies, tools, and processes required to scale whole page.
• Accountable for hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue gains via publisher side monetization. Established processes and techniques to successfully achieve these goals while improving the user experience.
• Led efforts across the product to improve search quality in key international markets. I was responsible for developing international quality strategy and coordinating efforts across multiple divisions. Bing quality in.
• Responsible for successful replacement of Local and Maps base data providers. Drove platform and quality improvements that improved capabilities while maintaining quality as part of migration.

Redmond, Washington, US

• I managed a 40-person PM team responsible for developing relevant, cohesive, and compelling search experiences on Bing, and a growing variety of Microsoft products. Focused on the overall user experience, my team and I.
• Built and managed a high performing, diverse team of Program Managers and implemented management excellence practices utilized by Microsoft teams around the world
• Effectively worked across the company to develop the strategy for Bing integration in Office, Windows 10 (Cortana) and Microsoft Edge (Cortana integration). Led cross-team execution on each of these projects to.
• Led development of metrics, ads operating contract, and implementation of new ad products towards the goal of Bing profitability. Delivered significant, consistent revenue gains while ensuring core product quality.
• Developed data driven methodologies for UX experimentation across desktop and mobile experiences, allowing for rapid gains in user metrics
• Delivered sustained, significant gains in whole page relevance across all competitive and online metrics

Redmond, Washington, US

Led a 12-person team as part of the Bing User Experience division, responsible for the design and implementation of a shared services platform for search frontend development. Designed and developed large scale, high performance web serving tier used to serve all web requests for all search verticals, mobile, and API endpoints. Developed shared services.

Redmond, Washington, US

Member of small development team tasked with turning a successful incubation product, "Start.com", into a scalable, personalized portal and web gadget platform for new Windows Live initiative, known as "Live.com."Responsible for feature specs, project management, technical design, partner management, and release management for all aspects of the product..

Redmond, Washington, US

Member of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 development teams.Conceptualized and served as primary developer on first version of SQL Server Upgrade Advisor, which shipped with SQL Server 2005. Designed and developed core analysis engine and associated API used by partners to extend product functionality. Designed and developed both graphical and command.

Redmond, Washington, US

Member of the SQL Server 2005 development team.Test automation developer on the SQL Server Playback test team. Leader on development efforts to increase automation efficiency and reduce user errors. Optimized multiple test processes, automated many manual tasks, implemented utility libraries for increased code reuse, and implemented automated test.

Redmond, Washington, US

Member of the SQL Server 2000 development team.Designed and implemented a high-performance database auditing tool for statistical analysis of feature usage in customer systems. Results used to prioritize test runs and drive test development for future releases. Tool was implemented using T-SQL and C++.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Developed and launched a new version of the Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center website. Migrated existing static content to dynamically generated pages using extensive Perl scripting.