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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 Mexico Retail Systems, Import Automation, Supply Chain Systems, and Auto-Ordering to launch a fully-featured shopping site experience on amazon.com.mx.Accomplishments• 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 • Improved Shipment Tracking and Service Fee calculation granularity across marketplaces to lower COGS resulting in $13M incremental P&L for Canada

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 content into the cloud-based CMS for both Web and App properties, the Portal supports App design and publishing on the Windows Store. Prior to MSN, worked on the Visual Studio IDE team and led UX incubation effort to automate the globalization and localization of Win-dows Store (C#) projects. In addition, owned UI optimization, asset scoping, and localization features of the CMS used by Microsoft product groups for managing, authoring, and publishing content and security bulletins.Accomplishments• 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 that provides dynamic, contextual content to Windows Azure users working in the Management Portal built using cross IFRAME protocols. Additional responsibilities included moving the feature team to a 3 week release cycle, defining exit criteria, ensuring SLA coverage, threat modeling, and owning overall feature roadmaps and accountability. Also, worked with the Azure Framework team to ensure integrated support for Webtrends telemetry and monitoring. Accomplishments• 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 to guide investments to increase content NSAT. Evangelized repeatable customer engagement models. As part of team, built Silverlight application to animate and demonstrate globalized IT Pro Solutions and published animations on borntolearn.net blog.Accomplishments• 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 services in the Exchange Labs data center, and enabling language packs in the on-premises and hosted product via Web integration. Additional responsibilities included schedule management and threat modeling of Exchange localization/compliance features, and driving accountability to ensure Exchange component teams meet globalization commitments. Also, worked with Exchange UA team and partners to develop content migration strategy and communication plan for upgrading authoring client and continuous publishing system.Accomplishments• 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• Removed all hard-coded languages lists from component modules; led to common API• Defined strategy/vision for Exchange 2010 Web-based help system• Designed Exchange 2007 “in-product” PowerShell help; received industry award• Re-engineered Exchange SDK content to enable search and online help integration

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 Virtual Labs 1.0. Built virtual lab infrastructure and negotiated strategic partnership between business marketing group, IT, and UA to deliver product on-time, on budget. As part of team, re-engineered and co-architected the MSDN Virtual Labs 1.0 infrastructure. Results included improved user experience and feedback mechanism and scheduling mechanism, and re-designed load balancing and performance enhancements. Additional responsibilities included Online Books and hiring. Accomplishments• 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 demonstrated how Microsoft customers, such as Ford Motor Company and Costco, deployed Windows Server System applications in their enterprise to improve operational efficiency and security. Each book featured complete source code examples, task-based documentation, and comprehensive guidance on how to plan for deployment, migration, and disaster recovery. Accomplishments • 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, and developer documentation for BizTalk Server 2000 and 2002. Led the effort and script development for BizTalk Server Toolbox, a collection of common scripts developed and shipped with the help of MVPs and industry professionals.Accomplishments • 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