- Spearheading Copilot Platform and innovation in AI, specifically on Microsoft 365 Chat Copilot taking it from ideation, prototyping to private preview through to GA.- Expanding the M365 Copilot Platform to enable more clients and apps for Microsoft customers.- Expanding customer base beyond the first set of Enterprise customers. - Driving Privacy, Security, Compliance, Purview Capabilities for Copilot Platform and User Experiences Data handling.- Specializing Latency/Performance Improvement for Copilot.

Evolving new strategies, and working on new ventures in Cortana and Personal Assistants!

Director in the Speech and Audio Team in HoloLens/Desktops to structure and rally the team around data-driven innovation, multi-disciplinary work to influence the vision and execution of long term strategy/projects for Speech technologies enabling Microsoft products, services and solutions. Business Results:- Providing expertise to structure and rally the team around quality, and the ability to work through various phases of software development during two major release cycles in 2017.- Enabling the 75-80 people organization of PMs and Engineers in a start-up culture to ship multiple Speech/Audio features for PCs, HoloLens and Virtual Reality (Mixed Reality) Head Mounted Devices. - Providing the vision and execution for increasing Speech reliability and accuracy to above 95% in partnership with the AI team at Microsoft.- Taken on an extremely challenging opportunity to provide end-to-end testability at scale for compelling scenarios with in-development hardware.- Managing directly a few individual contributors working on a highly valued feature in partnership with a famous hardware company for better keyword-spotting. - Influencing a culture change to data-oriented decision-making on features to build for vNext, to measure and react to Insiders' information on features during development.- Bringing into place a culture of long-term thinking, vision and strategy to create world-class Speech experiences for our customers including innovation for monetization.- Driving Speech and Audio team's Shiproom to have predictable plans and releases, bridging with the rest of the Analog Division at Microsoft.

Director of Windows Engineering Systems to enable "Windows as a Service" model, the responsibility for which included multifold improvement to infrastructure and processes to handle the world's largest software release and maintenance, through innovative problem solving and effective team building. Business Results:- Pioneer the transition of legacy services to Azure/Cloud for Engineering Efficiency, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity.- Spearhead the convergence of Windows Desktop, IoT, XBOX, Phone and HoloLens platforms into a single release and maintenance pipeline.- Multifold system improvements and renovation of infrastructure and processes to release every week to the world.- Expedite corrections with ground-up health monitoring system that tracks machine health, 3rd-party product interactions, and overall impact to customers.- Influencing Windows transition to SaaS by improving update experience and accelerating customer migration to latest Windows versions.- Spearhead delivery of enterprise and consumer-focused listening systems and analytics influencing user upgrades to Windows 10 in addition to health monitoring for servicing releases.Team Building, Mentoring & Community Influence: - Assembled team adept in handling high-visibility charter and intensive time pressure; fostering a culture of transparent collaboration. - Division-wide influence through mentoring of other technical and business leaders. - Member of the Industrial Advisory Board (on behalf of Microsoft) at the Computer Science Department in Univ. of Florida for improvement of curriculum/advance in CS

Delegate of Engineering Executives:- Issued time-critical decisions as engineering leader appointed as delegate for Windows Executives in 250+-member division, working in alignment with peer leaders to handle edicts affecting features, bugs fixes, other innovative solutions and delivery for security and servicing releases of Windows.- Ensured well-coordinated, rapid resolution and development aligned with division leaders.- Capitalized on broad engineering knowledge and precision thinking to approve releases and fixes.- Held role concurrent to Group Development Manager position.Business Results:- Critical Resolutions: Directed expedited enhancements to Security, Hotfix releases; accelerated delivery, and eliminated the need for service packs.- Enabling Early Adopters: Created Zero Day Package (ZDP) 8.X servicing instrumental in near-immediate updates for early adopters of newly released OS.- Business Reviews: Spearheaded security and servicing business reviews with VPs, GMs, and Directors, ensuring alignment and awareness.- Product Release Coordination: Resolved time-sensitive ship-blocking issues in product / servicing releases, synchronizing product team efforts across Microsoft and driving research teams to identify solutions.

As Group Development Manager led a team of multiple Sr. Development Managers and Architects delivering essential features, fixes and solutions for Windows OSes ranging from Win2000 to Win8.1. Technology areas included:- Devices, Printing and Networking- Kernel and Platform Technologies- Storage and File Systems- Security and Identity- Hyper-V TechnologiesBusiness Roles held concurrently:- Spearheaded the Servicing Strategy of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, and hardware bring-up and release plans for Windows RT. - Developer pillar of the Engineering Trio (consists of one person each from Dev, Test and Program Management disciplines) as delegate to Windows Executives. - Instituted the 24x7 Critical Situation Program's course for Windows Servicing during this timeframe for double-digit % increase to OEM/Enterprise Customer satisfaction.

Standardizing the Windows 24x7x365 Customer Critical Situation Program- Successfully established a “follow-the-sun” model of 24x7 program in collaboration with Microsoft India Development team to help OEM Partners and Enterprise Customers. - Improved satisfaction ratings by high double digits % for fast resolution of critical issues filed against Windows team wrt. timeliness and engagement. - Directly managed a rotating v-team of experts from across multiple technical areas and product teams in Windows distributed across the globe. - Established a consistent channel and process for communication with OEM Support teams, and Executives of enterprise customers helping cut losses worth millions of dollars.

Devices, Printing and Networking for Windows Server 2003 to Windows 8.1- TCPIP, NDIS, IPHlpSvc, Protocol Drivers- USB, Bluetooth, Legacy Drivers- Print Components and Drivers

File Systems and Storage Drivers Development Windows 2003 to early phases of Windows 7- NTFS, FAT, Volume Manager, Partition Manager, Mount Manager- Volume Shadow Copy Services, VolSnap Driver- Legacy Tape Drivers and Disk Drivers- DFS

Storage DriversSystem Startup and Shutdown component areas