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Bing Local Search- Turnaround of both the architecture and the development team simultaneously- Key innovations in local entity conflation, high-scale systems, and machine learningBing Deals- Recruited and formed a strong development team to ship Bing Deals in less than 6 months- Architected the offline and online search stack for Bing Deals- Key innovations in machine learning, distributed systems, modeling, and entity conflationBing Shopping and Bing Cashback- Delivered 20x increase in organic traffic and a 5x increase in query share in 2 years- Proposed and shipped next gen architecture for both offline and online components- Successfully turned around Development Team with a strong focus on technical depth- Consistently met or exceeded aggressive KPI targets for 4 consecutive releases over 2 years- Highly leveraged the Development Team using collaboration relationships across the company, both in engineering, and Microsoft Research

Led the Development organization in the developing the V1 release of SQL Azure (aka CloudDB). Recruited and built a high performance team. Groomed Development Leads to become successful leaders. Delivered innovations in the areas of database replication, distributed systems, and software as a service on an aggressive timeline.

Office 2007Architected and shipped InfoPath Forms Server, a V1 server product beating established competitors in both functionality and performance. Responsible for the entire Development effort for the product, including product definition, managing dependencies, participating in customer interactions, etc. Successfully architected the entire product and championed Engineering Excellence. Grew my reports into excellent Development Leads. Key innovations in highly scalable server architecture, AJAX, reliability, robust and sandboxed hosting of 3rd party business logic, etc.Office 2003Shipped InfoPath V1 on a fast cycle, followed by a fast response to customer needs with a feature-rich SP1. Responsible for the InfoPath client runtime including the data-view architecture, XML platform, XSLT based rendering engine, data connections infrastructure, and programmability. Key innovations in areas of incremental XSLT transformations, declarative programming, etc.

Rapid growth in technical skills and overall responsibilities. Developed innovative technologies in document editing and collaboration, XML editing, etc., leading 2 feature teams.

Shipped the V1 releases of Music Central Online and its Online Store. Shipped the V1 and V2 client releases of the Music Central encyclopedia on Windows and Macintosh platforms. Shipped Cinemania 94, 95, 96 and 97 encyclopedia products on Windows and Macintosh platforms, and other reference products. Key innovations in control framework, search, performance, etc.