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United States

Ramallah, Ps

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Bellevue, Washington, Us

Chairman and strategy advisor, leading the board of directors through two funding rounds, acquisition of a complementary small business, and entering into strategic partnership with Moody’s Analytics. Drove several strategy pivots working with the company’s founder CEO, leading to cash flow positive operation. Key Results include:• Established strategic and business performance KPIs to drive company and CEO accountability• Developed compensation programs for CEO and employees• Governance through twice quarterly board meetings and regular strategy sessions with the CEO

Redmond, Washington, Us

Leading strategy and product management for upstream ‘Horizon 2’ investments focused on creating new growth areas and breakthrough end-user value through cloud powered AI and services. Product Responsibilities include:• Windows 365 for Mixed Reality (in private Preview): Leveraging elastic cloud compute to deliver 3D productivity solutions across desktop and wearable computing devices• Azure Remote Rendering (Generally Available): Metered PaaS service for applications looking to expand beyond the limits of battery powered mobile GPUs to offload rendering tasks to the cloud• Azure Spatial Mapping Service (in private Preview): Spatial intelligence platform for indoor spatial mapping, localization, navigation, and semantic understanding – enabling mobile devices and AI services to better understand the real world• Undisclosed Windows AI Programs: Pioneering new use cases and cloud+client synergies for enabling artificial intelligence to expand its reach and utility across a diversity of endpoints and experiences

Redmond, Washington, Us

Leading Microsoft’s efforts to ensure the portfolio of Mixed Reality (MR) products delight customers and actualize their full potential in-market. Responsible for the Product Management, business strategy, and partner engagement for HoloLens, Microsoft Mesh and other in-development MR products - creating the future immersive metaverse experiences that will define the next wave of the internet. In addition, responsibility for the in-market performance for HoloLens 2, Havok, and Mixed Reality Capture - driving digital transformations across Healthcare, Manufacturing, Entertainment, and Education industries. Accountabilities include:• Product Management leadership for future MR hardware and software products, including prioritizing target customers, end-user use cases, developer platform, and associated product requirements and roadmaps.• Deployment and adoption of MR products to achieve targets, including aligning marketing and sales efforts, ISV, developer, and content ecosystem engagement and partnerships across the MR portfolio.• Engineering and support for in-market MR products, including driving regular software updates.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Business and product leader for Microsoft’s entrance into delivering end-to-end 1st party Mixed Reality & AI solutions for national defense, spanning innovative hardware, software experiences, cloud hosted services, and edge compute solutions. Responsibilities Include:• Created a new cross-functional team in a studio approach, with expertise in engineering, design, art, production, user research, field testing, business planning, customer engagement, and operations. • Developed new infrastructure and frameworks for doing defense work within Microsoft, including the business models and systems to enable ITAR compliant engineering, domestic manufacturing, supply chain, validation infrastructure, compliance, and DoD collaboration. • Adapted human centered product design methodology to establish iterative approach to understanding customer needs and evaluating product concepts - challenging traditional product specification processes. Key Results include:• Generated $600M in booked revenue the first 24 months since project kickoff, and on track to establish ongoing revenue >$1B per year for year 3 and beyond.• Grew a new team from zero to 150 full time employees in the first 12 months, with high levels of diversity across race, gender, skillset, and backgrounds.• Scored in the Top 7% of all managers at the company in the FY20 MS Poll based on the “Brightness Index” measuring net promoter questions related to being one of the top places for engineers to work.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Customer & Product leader for Microsoft’s portfolio of Mixed Reality and AI Perception devices, including the category defining augmented reality device Microsoft HoloLens. Responsibilities include:• Managed the lifecycle of planning, product management, and commercialization across a variety of 1st party and 3rd party cloud connected devices – driving strategy, customer-led product definition, investment roadmap, engineering planning, strategic partnerships, field engagement, and broad developer ecosystem for these devices and associated platform technologies. • Direct accountability for in-market ecosystem growth including monthly active users across both 1st party and 3rd party developers creating new Mixed Reality experiences in a variety of industries. • Led a cross functional team which grew to over 300 full time employees across 4 countries, including leading the successful acquisition and integration of Dublin based Havok. Key Results include:• Created organization wide strategy framework and stakeholder alignment across sales and marketing partner teams, with published OKRs at both the product and portfolio level.• Developed the partner and customer ecosystem for HoloLens 2 launch, including more than 20 tier1 ISVs, engaged field support in 6 countries, a breadth developer program, and an incubation sales pipeline• Managed strategy, execution, and rhythm of the business for several supporting independent initiatives: Mixed Reality Capture Studios with its outbound licensing program, Havok middleware suite which grew revenue 33% YoY, and Altspace which exceed MAU and retention targets.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Xbox Program Management leader responsible for the Xbox 360 operating system, user experience, and developer platform. Collaborated with counterparts in Xbox Live, Xbox Game Studios, Xbox hardware, and others to drive ongoing growth of the Xbox 360 business. During the development of Xbox One, responsible for the Kinect software platform for Xbox and Windows, including Microsoft’s strategy for Natural User Interaction. Key Results include:• Drove engineering process change to move into a monthly cadence of validated updates to the installed base of consoles, dramatically improving engineering output and quality.• Developed KPI dashboard for computer vision technologies spanning Accuracy, Robustness, Performance, and Operational Envelope – leading to a robust platform for software developers.• Created and led the Xbox One ‘Mission Control’ to address digital content publishing platform gaps leading up to launch – effectively removing a blocker that threatened launch of the console.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for the Zune video marketplace for Xbox Live (now Xbox Video), the first commercial HD multi-bitrate streaming video service. Led product innovation & engineering, growing Xbox Live into the second largest streaming video on demand service behind iTunes. Lead a cross-functional team of 50 full time software engineers, program managers, designers, and test engineers to develop the client-side console experience and update it frequently, leveraging human-centered design to continually refine the flow and user experience. Partnered with counterparts in Xbox Live and business development to grow the content portfolio and drive overall user engagement and revenue growth across 7 international markets.Key Results include:• Drive ARPU growth of 26% YoY, with revenue exceeding $100M per year• Drove increases in user engagement and retention, while simultaneously lowering support cost and reducing MBR video streaming overhead costs by 25%• Launched an on-console music streaming subscription which ramped to deliver over 1M songs per day in the first 30 days in market.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Product engineering leader for entertainment version of Windows Home Server and consumer entertainment technology incubation in the custom installation and high-end retail CEDIA channel. Led software engineering as well as channel development, marketing, and PR for the custom install segment.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Windows CE: Smart Display, Media Center Extender, Digital Living Network Alliance

IPv6 Edge Router development. Hardware, Software, ME/ID

Redmond, Washington, Us

State Management, Roaming, Mobility, Drizzle