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About Neil Fishman
I am an experienced, technical, engineering leader who is passionate about building great products and teams with proven experience managing both large and small teams.As a leader and strategic thinker there are 3 ways to accomplish this: • Helping employees grow their technical skills and leadership• Driving the product’s direction based on both business and technical goals• Building and leading an efficient, agile, engineering processMy experiences show an ongoing commitment to maintaining my technical skills and a passion for focusing on building great end-to-end customer experiences. I have also transitioned multiple projects from the waterfall model to agile allowing the teams to build higher quality products in less time.
Neil Fishman Work Experience Details
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Director Of EngineeringActivision Apr 2023 - PresentSanta Monica, California, Us -
Director Of EngineeringRiot Games Mar 2020 - Feb 2023Los Angeles, Ca, UsManage two larger teams that deliver backend services that are critical components of Riot's Games Pillar. Central Player Dynamics builds technology and services that ensure our players have a safe and respected experience in our games. We build services that provide voice and text moderation for chat, name evaluation services (to determine if player selected names are appropriate) and the general infrastructure that track transgressions and allow the games to enforce restrictions based on those. We have about 20 engineers split between Los Angeles and Bellevue working on these features.Our Commerce initiative is responsible for payments that players make to Riot (which is responsible for the majority of our revenue). We process credit card transactions worldwide and do our own anti-fraud to reduce our charges. We also provide services to external companies/streamers that allow them provide custom links which grant access to our content. This team is about 40 engineers split between Dublin, Ireland and Los Angeles. -
Chief Technical Officer (Cto)Hoylu Apr 2017 - Feb 2020Oslo, NoStarted as company was founded and taken public and have driven all aspects of engineering and architecture for SAAS suite of collaboration software. Oversee all development activities across multiple sites (Kirkland, Orlando, Austria, and Poland). Manage agile process for product, setting priorities for bugs and feature development and mentor individual developers. Work closely with sales on enterprise sales focusing on security and deployment process. Manage support process and hardware evaluation for our partner products.Since our product sells into many of the Fortune 100 companies, I interact with IT and Security leadership at our customers as a part of their evaluation of our service and drove Hoylu our FedRAMP and ISO 27001.In addition to building our own products, our team built the mobile app (both Android and iOS) for Holland America Cruise Lines. We took their existing design and then implemented and deployed in a short period. We are currently expanding this to other lines within their fleet and adding additional features to the application. -
Vice President Of EngineeringUievolution, Inc. Mar 2015 - Feb 2017Bellevue, Wa, UsUIEvolution is a vertical cloud Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider specializing in highly scalable connected device software and solutions across a broad range of markets, including Automotive, Cruise, Hotel, Retail and more. We believe that technology and connectivity should enhance and never distract from life experiences. From our inception in 2000, we have said - The User’s Experience Matters. And, now for nearly 15 years we have made software and provided services that deliver this vision. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in Tokyo and Detroit, UIEvolution has a proven track record with clients like Toyota, Lexus, Carnival Cruise Lines, Samsung, AT&T, Microsoft, Disney, Mitsubishi and Panasonic. www.uievolution.comAs the Vice President of Engineering, I managed 200 engineers across multiple locations (Kirkland, Tokyo, Miami, and Dallas) working on multiple projects for a number of companies. For Toyota, we built and shipped the Toyota Entune Infotainment applications that ship worldwide in their cars. For Carnival Corporation, we drove the video portion of their Ocean project in addition to shipping in-room video and digital signage to multiple fleets. I drove standards for hiring and code quality across the organization as well as overseeing the overall product architecture. Supported sales in business development as they brought in new work in addition to building relationships with executives in our partners and customers. Worked closely with our Chief Product Officer to ensure all of our products delivered the appropriate user experience to the end user. -
Principal Development Lead, Operating Systems Group/MarketplaceMicrosoft Jan 2014 - Mar 2015Redmond, Washington, UsOnce Xbox One shipped our team was moved into OSG to help build the tool suite for providing curated content to the unified store. In this role I’m helping to define the architecture used across the various platforms as well as the workflows that will be used to program the content. -
Principal Development Lead, Interactive Entertainment BusinessMicrosoft Dec 2012 - Jan 2014Redmond, Washington, UsManage multiple teams of developers in the Xbox Live organization. One team owns the metadata catalog for Video across all Microsoft Platforms. A second team owns the pipeline that is used to publish editorial data to the Home screens for the Xbox 360 console. And the third team develops the Content Management System used for editorial data displayed on the home screen for the Xbox One and many of Microsoft’s gaming web sites. This team also develops and maintains part of the pipeline that is then used to deliver this content to the clients. My responsibilities include supervising the development of our code, helping set the architecture for these components and coordinating our development with the services that are consumers of our data.
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Principal Development Manager, Startup Business GroupMicrosoft Jul 2011 - Dec 2012Redmond, Washington, UsBuilt and managed a team of developers that investigated and took 3D video technology from Microsoft Research and transitioned it into multiple products. Built a recruiting pipeline of computer vision PHD candidates and systems experts and doubled the size of the team in 6 months while creating multiple sub-teams focused on different areas of technology. Designed and implemented an engineering process that allows the team to quickly develop code while ensuring that it meets product code standards.
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Development Manager, Windows Multipoint ServerMicrosoft Mar 2010 - Jul 2011Redmond, Washington, UsIn late 2009, the Unlimited Potentials Group was incubating a shared resource computing product targeted at education in emerging markets. I was asked to work with this team to see that the code met the server quality bar and I helped them convert this to a Server SKU. Once the product shipped, the team was brought into the Server organization and I have been acting as the development manager while a search is conducted for a permanent manager. Over the past year, I’ve set the technical direction for v2 of the product and managed the day to day operations of the developers on the team. In February 2011, we released Windows MultiPoint Server 2011, a major update to the product, less than one year after we shipped the initial version.
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Principal Software Architect, Windows Server Solutions GroupMicrosoft Sep 2005 - Jul 2011Redmond, Washington, UsAct as a consultant to the General Managers and product teams across three products (Windows Home Server, Windows Small Business Server, and Windows MultiPoint) and the Remote Desktop Services technology to help them set the strategic technical direction for their teams and to ensure the teams are making the correct technical investments. Help the teams evaluate and implement code that is shared between the products. Work as an intermediary between the product teams and Legal in terms of Patents, Antitrust, and Protocol documentation. In some of these areas I also am a resource to the legal team to help set companywide policies. Some of my patents have been used successfully in significant legal proceedings. Worked to establish Microsoft’s Shanghai development center as a part of the team that hired the majority of the first hundred fifty employees. Continued supporting the development center by mentoring developers, leads, and managers. I also was a part of the review process for developers and testers. I travelled to Shanghai two to three times a year for design reviews on several projects to ensure they were progressing on target.
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Development Manager, Windows Home ServerMicrosoft Jul 2006 - Jul 2007Redmond, Washington, UsWhen the Development Manager for Windows Home Server left the company unexpectedly, I stepped in to manage the team through the release of the product while working with the General Manager to hire a replacement. Challenges here included taking a dysfunctional team with almost no engineering processes and putting them on a path to ship a product with reasonable quality. A show-stopping bug was found post rtm and I set the process in place to correct the problem in a reasonable time frame. This involved the hiring of very high level contractors with specific knowledge of the file system and arranging for them to work with our team. Also worked through the process of shipping trusted SSL certificates with every Home Server; This involved getting approval from many internal parties and helping to negotiate with an external company to issue the certificates.
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Development Manager, Small Business ServerMicrosoft Mar 2000 - Sep 2005Redmond, Washington, UsBegan managing the SBS team in October 2000 and managed the final push to fix bugs before shipping Small Business Server 2000. Helped architect and managed team that wrote the Pop3 Server for Windows Server 2003. Directed development investigations of new features for SBS 2003, managed team through entire product cycle, and worked with management on many business issues that affected the product. Since its release in October 2003, Windows Small Business Server 2003 has been enormously successful, winning the Best of Show award at Comdex and doubling our year over year sales. Helped team build successful relations with Support and our customers. Managed development and test cycle of Service Pack 1 for SBS 2003. Started initiative for Engineering Excellence on SBS team where we combined our development and test teams and have development responsible for the overall quality of the product by building automated tests as part of the feature development.
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Lead Software Development Engineer, Microsoft ExchangeMicrosoft Sep 1997 - Mar 2000Redmond, Washington, UsStarted as first developer on adding services for mobile device to Microsoft Exchange Server. Built team from myself to 24 developers, architected version 1 of the product and helped build the overall team into its own business unit. Assisted with technical due diligence before the acquisition of SendIt! in Stockholm and then worked to integrate the two development teams.
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Software Developer, Windows CeMicrosoft Sep 1993 - Sep 1997Redmond, Washington, UsWas the only Microsoft developer working with Timex on the Data Link watch, a device that transferred meetings, contacts and tasks from the PC. Wrote the drivers that flashed the data on the screen, in C and assembly language, and worked with Timex developers on several versions of the application. Wrote the mail client for the Handheld PC version 1 in C++ and several proof-of-concept prototypes for the Pocket PC.
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Software EngineerDigital Equipment Corporation May 1988 - Aug 1993Houston, Texas, Us -
Software EngineerLan Services 1986 - 1988
Neil Fishman Skills
Software Development
Software Engineering
Software Design
Distributed Systems
Agile Methodologies
Cloud Computing
C#
Windows Server
Scrum
Software Project Management
Agile Project Management
Scalability
Saas
Enterprise Software
.net
C++
Windows Azure
Mobile Applications
Win32 Api
Web Services
System Architecture
Microsoft Technologies
Operating Systems
Neil Fishman Education Details
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Harvard UniversityComputer & Systems Engineering -
Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteComputer & Systems Engineering
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