Mike Pell Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

I lead The Microsoft Garage in NYC (the company's worldwide innovation program for curiosity-fueled experiments), where I help turn people's passion and ideas into reality every day. My role involves inspiring the world's most successful companies to innovate by leaping forward. I work at every altitude of Design, and across all aspects of Engineering. One hour I may be setting high-level strategy, and the next delivering final executions. Never a dull moment in this business.As a Design leader at Microsoft, I'm bold, insightful, and uncompromising when it comes to driving innovative ideas forward, and inspiring those I collaborate with to make giant leaps into the future.I have written three books – my first, "Envisioning Holograms", has been called a must-read for next generation storytellers and digital explorers. My latest book, "The Age of Smart Information", has been called a bold vison for the future of communications. The second book, "Visualizing Business" illustrates how AI and Mixed Reality will illuminate global business in an entirely new light. It details how interactive visualization – the art of clearly communicating key concepts quickly, at the right level, with the ability to explore more deeply, will help people everywhere experience information in completely new ways. And the much anticipated latest book "Visualizing Business" is a roadmap for how AI and Data Viz coupled with Spatial computing will help us to finally see how business work.As I always say, "It's never ever about technology, it's always about people."

SUMMARYDeceptively powerful and stunningly beautiful, 4D is a monumental leap forward in conveying business information effectively. It has always been right there in front of us, waiting to be unlocked, hiding in plain sight. All it took was the convergence of human ingenuity, Artificial Intelligence, and the rise of a medium capable of magic.Foreword by legendary media artist, Refik Anadol.DESCRIPTIONThis highly anticipated book by M. Pell heralds the emergence of "4D", a new approach to business intelligence fueled by Artificial Intelligence, Spatial Computing and advanced Data Visualization techniques. Combined, they now provide us with the ability to not only see, but truly understand, what is actually happening within our businesses. 4D enables us to rewind and fast forward time at will, making it one of the most significant advances in the history of global business. By utilizing these breakthrough techniques for representing process, systems, and flow, businesses will forevermore be shown as living, breathing, dynamic entities, and in a form that truly depicts their ever-changing nature.Welcome to the 4th Dimension, and the future of global business.ADVANCE PRAISE"M. Pell's ability to imagine not only the future of business, but that of humanity’s interactions with technology at large, is an important perspective that we should all understand and embrace.”– Refik Anadol (Media Artist, Legend)

Our relationship to content, and the real world itself, is changing. As we enter this next phase of ubiquitous, invisible, wearable computing, what was flat, now has dimensions. What was dead, is now alive, remarkably energized by AI and Spatial Computing. Author, Mike Pell, explains in the following pages how our data, text, pictures, graphics, and anything else really, can be enabled to reveal deeper meaning, hidden relationships, and even tell its own story. In this book, Pell shares his compelling vision for the future form of our most vital and humble communications tool – text. Readers of Pell’s first book, Envisioning Holograms, were given a unique look at the design thinking and approach taken when creating content for the then newly invented Microsoft HoloLens. As an early pioneer in designing 3D interfaces decades ago, Pell was uniquely qualified to share his hard-won knowledge and unique insights with readers. In the same way, as one of the creators of Adobe Acrobat, he is the right person to shed some light on what’s coming next for us in the area of information design, consumption, and authoring. This book predicts that in the near future, the data we regularly consume will feel like it’s alive and aware, powered by a type of Artificial Intelligence that understands our routines, location, time of day, schedule, and even our emotions, to automatically filter how it is presented to us. New devices, together with precise geolocation and latency-free cloud computing, will be able to place information exactly where and when we need it, without us having to take any explicit action to make it happen. Pell believes this unique, personalized combination of Spatial Computing and Artificial Intelligence will enable our most common forms of communication to come to life right before our eyes.-- Charlie Fink, Forbes Columnist, Author, Futurist

Sunnyvale, CA.Founded and self-funded this software startup to bring his concepts for "Dimensional Communications" to market. The goal was delivering a web-based tool to uniquely combine rich media, 3D, speech and audio in a form that brought an order-of-magnitude leap in effectiveness when conveying dynamic information and processes within e-business systems.- Wrote the business plan, created investor presentations, and prototyped the web-based software- Recruited a senior team of former colleagues for key executive positions- Attracted a highly successful Advisory Board of Silicon Valley executives- Validated the business model and service offering with high-profile, paying customer (nVIDIA)

New York, Ny, Us

Designing for mixed reality is completely new experience for everyone involved, and takes some experimentation to get right. You won’t nail your first mixed reality project by relying solely on your previous mobile or web design expertise as a guide. Mixed reality requires a different kind of design thinking for its unique challenges.Breakthrough holographic design starts with envisioning – the act of visualizing what could be. By rapidly depicting a desired experience and trying out its real-world interactions, you can quickly turn your initial vision into a tangible example of innovative design. Envisioning Holograms digs into why holographic computing is the future, takes you through the mixed reality design process, and gets you ready to take advantage of its endless opportunities.This book explores the approach, techniques, and mindshift needed to design truly breakthrough experiences for the Microsoft HoloLens and Windows Mixed Reality platform. Learn what’s so different about working with holograms, how to think spatially, and where to start designing your own holographic projects. You’ll move rapidly from initial concept to persuasive prototype – all without the need for expensive tools or a designer’s skillset.

Redmond, Wa, Us

Redmond, WA.Recruited by CEO Alex St. John to create and run the Enterprise Development Group within WildTangent after a funding round lead by Accenture to push WT’s technology into the Enterprise. Delivered over a dozen innovative working prototypes of solving real business problems through interactive 3D graphics embedded within web pages for major companies. Later tapped by St. John to lead the successful execution and deployment of the WildTangent Game Channel, a major shift in corporate strategy to sell online web games direct to consumers. - Worked directly with Accenture, Microsoft, WaMu, Time, Boeing, SAS and Siebel on Enterprise solutions- Formulated and drove the Microsoft .NET strategic plan for WildTangent- Developed toolkits and examples of integrating Microsoft Office XML data with interactive 3D graphics

San Jose, CA.Acting Chief Technical Offer for Fuel Real-Time Marketing (RTM). Agency was a successful high-tech marketing communications and advertising firm used by Microsoft WebTV, Sony Playstation, Seagate, CurrenEx, Asera, NVIDIA and Inventa. This thirty person firm consistently did top notch work and attracted top Silicon Valley clientele.- Member of the executive management team during the transition from Ad agency to e-service provider- Contributed to the overall strategic thinking for taking the business into its new market- Part of the sales team that went in to pitch for new business, and wrote several client proposals- Responsible for all technology-related aspects of client projects during this time- Primary technical contact for all client meetings and ongoing project work- Responsible for developing the methodology and process for internal project deployment

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

San Jose, CA.Promptu was a venture-backed Internet startup that was spun out of FCI Communications in May 1999. The company delivered a comprehensive enterprise solution for Channel Partner Management through a web-deployed ASP model. Customers included leaders such as Apple, Shell, 3Com, Oracle and Logitech. - Key member of the executive management team that attracted venture capital funding- Concurrently managed engineering, web production, creative, project mgt and support groups- Deployed the processes and methodologies that made projects profitable for the first time- Drove the company toward more progressive and efficient organizational structures- Primary customer contact and project manager for several web-based applications and public websites- Hired and retained key personnel and converted all contractors to full-time employees

Sunnyvale, CA.Newfire, Inc. was a venture-backed Internet startup that created groundbreaking 3D online game technologies before Quake even existed. Based on a unique playback engine and toolset, Newfire enabled online games to be played within standard web browsers using Java and VRML 2.0 standards. This was way ahead of its time in both business model and market space in '96.- Recruited out of Adobe Systems to become employee number one (after the company founders)- Responsible for cross functional management of Engineering, QA and Product Marketing - Designed, programmed and usability tested all aspects of user interface for 3D software products- Created product specifications, visual designs, user experience and working prototypes for all products- Art Director for early company image, marketing collateral, website artwork and 3D game demo- Worked closely with Marketing and Sales on demo prep, trade shows and press events

San Jose, Ca, Us

Mountain View, CA.Key team member on the original tiger team that designed and built early prototypes of Acrobat in 1990. In fact, I was the first and only Macintosh engineer on the Carousel/Acrobat project for the first year and a half. After working as UI Designer and Engineer on the ground breaking Acrobat 1.0, I assumed an Engineering Management role during the 2.0 development process, which focused on installation and localization. Left Adobe in 1996 to join a VC-backed Web 3D startup founded by an Acrobat teammate.- Pioneered the use of Multiple Master font substitution technology in early versions of Carousel- Principal user interface designer for Acrobat 1.0 UI (Macintosh and Windows). Programmed major UI portions of the Acrobat 1.0 viewer application and installer- Created a dynamic language sensing Installer for the entire Acrobat product line in seven languages- Formed and ran the Acrobat Release Engineering Group for MacOS, Windows and Unix platforms

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Menlo Park, CA.Emerald City developed Adobe Postscript-related software and utilities for the Macintosh and NeXT platforms. Pell moved to Silicon Valley to join this VC-backed software startup run by Randy Adams, which was later acquired by Adobe after releasing the groundbreaking TypeAlign (first utility based on ATM v1.0).- Helped design and code the award-winning TypeAlign utility which was brought to market in 3 months- Worked on the prototype of DisplayTalk Mac (Display PostScript programming environment)- Forged a relationship with Pixar to work on 3D text utilities, which directly lead to their release of Typestry

Tucson, AZCo-founded this software startup in 1985 to design and publish Macintosh utility software. The company successfully launched and sold its product for five years, and was later acquired by Dubl Click Software.- Conceptualized and wrote the clever user interface enhancement, MenuFonts, in 1986- Managed daily operations, customer support, marketing, production, documentation, advertising- Successfully raised angel funding for the company through a private placement stock offering