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Greater Seattle Area

• Launched key aspects of the physical consumer business for Canada and Mexico and the sharing of qualified Retail inventory across all North American (NA) business units. Contributed to strategy and implementation of.
• Led design and efforts to enable Imports for Mexico and Automated Buying of Inventory
• Led technical team to launch Groceries in Mexico
• Led technical teams to launch Prime Monthly in Mexico and Canada
• Led project spanning multiple VPs to improve carrier sortation/delivery accuracy
• Shipped Vendor System Tax Invoicing Automation and Certification by Tax Authority

Greater Seattle Area

• Lead PM for Partner Onboarding Portal for MSN. The Portal automates the onboarding of content from over a thousand partners. Primary responsibilities include UI and end to end feature de-sign. In addition to ingesting.
• As part of Team, shipped new version of MSN (http://www.msn.com/) – 1000+ Publishers
• As Lead, shipped Onboarding Portal for MSN and MSN Apps (http://appproducer.bing.com/)
• Shipped Beta Version of Windows Azure CMS for MSN and MSN Apps
• Shipped Versions 2.0 and 2.5 of Microsoft-wide CMS for MS Product Groups

Greater Seattle Area

• Managed features related to the help system for the HTML5-based Windows Azure Management Portal. Primarily responsible for ensuring each Sprint resulted in customer-ready experiences. Delivered REST-based web service.
• Shipped Windows Azure Management Portal
• Shipped Windows Azure Services for Hosting Service Providers
• Inventor attribution for a Notification and UI patent (pending)

Greater Seattle Area

• Connecting with customers and building relationships with International clients such as IKEA and Unilever to establish/sustain long-term feedback loops for content. Analyzing specific markets, such as Japan and China.
• Shipped Windows Server 2012
• Built partnership with Japan DPE to collaborate on strategy to raise NSAT in FY11
• 3 Technology Comics (VM, PowerShell, and Azure) to the JA Market - 46K downloads

Greater Seattle Area

• Managed projects related to globalization and global compliance for Exchange Server 2010. Primarily responsible for ensuring architectural purity of build system/process, localization, product setup, com-pliance.
• Shipped Exchange Server 2010 Beta & Exchange Labs to EDUs and TAP customers
• Shipped Exchange Server 2007
• Completed overhaul of Exchange 2010 build system and code to enable language packs
• Led engineering to re-design Exchange 2010 on-prem setup for “on-the-fly” localization
• Designed global criminal compliance procedures to enable GCC and cut DC costs

Greater Seattle Area

• Led team of 3 program managers and 2 developers. Evangelized and set check-points against MSF principles and practices. Project lead and co-architect on large-scale virtualization lab project for MSDN/TechNet, MSDN.
• Shipped MSDN Virtual Labs 1.0
• Negotiated SLA between business marketing, IT, and UA
• Awarded US Patent for "System and Method for Generating Virtual Networks"
• Awarded US Patent for "Remote Certificate Management"
• Shipped 4 E-Business Series Online Books to MSDN/TechNet

Greater Seattle Area

• Led team of 3 developers to design, build, test, document, and ship the BizTalk Server SDK. Also, led cross-organizational, virtual team to ship a set of developer and IT-based “real-world integration stories” that.
• Shipped BizTalk Server 2004 & 8 E-Business Series Online Books to MSDN/TechNet

• Shipped Direct3D Visual Basic and C++ code samples and scripts and developer documentation for Di-rectX 8.0 and 8.1 SDKs. Designed the BizTalk Server 2002 SDK and shipped the product tutorial, code samples, scripts.
• Shipped BizTalk Server 2000 and BizTalk Server 2002
• Received recognition in Information Week for the BizTalk Server Toolbox
• Shipped Internet Explorer 5.5 & DirectX 8.0 and 8.1

Bachelor Of Science, Computing And Software Systems, Computer Science, With Honors

Activities and Societies: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Master Of Arts, Historical Musicology And Theory, Music, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ)

Education record

Bachelor Of Arts, Music, Music Performance

Activities and Societies: School of Music