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United States

Ramallah, PS

Super excited to be working with an incredible technical and creative team at the intersection of sports and videogames! Stay Tuned!

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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

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.
• 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.
• 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