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Redmond, Washington, US

Working with great people on great stuff.

Redmond, Washington, US

Led integration pre-close planning and post-close execution of Nuance's enterprise voice AI-driven business into Microsoft. Back to my roots!

Redmond, Washington, US

Responsible for overall product and P&L of MileIQ, the #1 paid app in the Finance category in iOS App Store and Google Play, that invented its' category. Maintained industry-leading user engagement, NPS, and QoS, while significantly reducing investment. Led the divestment of MileIQ out of Microsoft, insuring its' users would continue to benefit from the.

Redmond, Washington, US

Created, drove, and delivered new Microsoft strategies, products, and operational models that enabled the global launch of Microsoft 365 Personal & Family.

Redmond, Washington, US

Integration of acquisition of Mobile Data Labs within Microsoft, enabling Mobile Data Labs to leverage Microsoft, and enabling Microsoft to leverage Mobile Data Labs.

Redmond, Washington, US

Created the initial ecosystem of third-party partners for the Microsoft Teams product. Earlier, managed all aspects of business operations and rhythm of business, and other assignments as identified, as part of the launch of Microsoft Teams.

Redmond, Washington, US

Conceived, developed and managed all aspects of innovative and successful Microsoft Earn product, including strategy, engineering, marketing, partnerships and operations. Developed an innovative and frictionless card linking technology platform, which supported virtually any merchant, any consumer, and any issuer. Delivered an innovative coalition loyalty.

Redmond, Washington, US

Conceived, developed and executed new strategies and initiatives to expand Microsoft's advertising aspirations to local business merchants. Managed every aspect of Bing Offers, including strategy, engineering, marketing, business development and operations to deliver an early entry in card linked offers space. Among others, established partnerships with.

Redmond, Washington, US

Oversaw operational aspects of MSN's global engineering business, including re-engineering its' strategy and organization. Assisted with the creation of a new business strategy, technology strategy, and user experience paradigm, leading to first-time MSN service profitability. Established and managed a global rhythm of the business, including operational.

Redmond, Washington, US

Oversaw all operational aspects for the early stage launches of Bing Local Search, Bing Mobile Search and Bing Maps. Conceived strategies, established relationships, and drove mobile search partnerships with Apple and Android OEMs. Conceived strategies, established relationships and drove connected car partnerships. Established the initial dialogue and.

Redmond, Washington, US

Coined the industry term and created Microsoft's "VoiceSearch" strategy, 4 years before the launch of Siri, including the long-term roadmap leading to a network based, context aware personal assistant. Conceived, launched and managed the engineering aspects of Windows Mobile VoiceSearch, the industry's first VoiceSearch offering at scale. Co-led the.

Redmond, Washington, US

Oversaw business development and business strategy for Microsoft's voice recognition technologies and products for the Microsoft Speech Server business. Identified and led the acquisition of Unveil Technologies, an early entrant in the machine learning, voice recognition space for customer service solutions. Helped established industry standards and.

Seattle, Washington, US

Industry leading referral and loyalty platform. www.getambassador.com

Seattle, WA, US

Customer Data Platform + Customer Loyalty and Engagement Products & Services = More Customer Insights = More Engagement = More Revenue

Herndon, Virginia, US

Conceived and co-founded the CardLinx Association (renamed to Digital Commerce Alliance), which has become the global association for online to offline commerce, and the card linking technology enabler.

Management consulting, strategy consulting, marketing consulting, and corporate development services.

Redmond, US

Co-founded the company and strategy, successfully recruited a fantastic management team and board of directors. Coined the industry term “Voice Self Service”, building the industry’s first scalable approach to launch custom voice recognition applications as a cloud based service, generating recurring and transaction based revenue. Raised over $25M in.

Co-founded company and strategy, successfully launching the industry's first scalable voice driven auto attendant, branded "Virtual Operator". Among others, partners included Avaya, Lucent, Lernout and Hauspie, Siemens, and Inter-Tel. Took company public on Nasdaq Small Cap market. Among lessons, learned how to develop and launch a new market, how not to.

Co-founded and served as a Director for the voice recognition industry's first industry association focused on creating standards and market awareness for the productization of speech recognition, speech to text, and speech verification technologies. As well, the original sponsor of SpeechTek, the primary industry conference for the speech recognition.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Held a variety of roles with ever increasing responsibility. Most interesting roles included; launching IBM's voice recognition products (VoiceType) into the market, establishing personal and industry leadership in the space, identifying the use of active noise cancellation technologies to improve the accuracy of voice recognition, and leading the strategy.