Paul Mcdaniel Email & Phone Number

Product: https://aka.ms/wvdSummary: Software engineer and Principal Software Architect working on Azure Virtual Desktop. This is a virtual desktop infrastructure offering both PaaS and DaaS (desktop as a service!) technology for all sizes of companies. I am responsible for software architecture, distributed design, network security, and billing.

Redmond, WA

Product: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ai/Summary: Software engineer and Principal Software Architect working on Windows Machine Learning. This is a brand new AI platform that is now built into Windows. I was responsible for taking the project from incubation to commercial release. This included everything from API design, to the runtime layers.

Product: http://aka.ms/windows-mixed-realitySummary: Software engineer and Principal Software Architect working on Windows Mixed Reality. This includes the HoloLens program with world locked holograms, and desktop windows headsets that run windows inside rich virtual worlds. I was responsible for all the experience layers, including the core shell.

Product: http://windowsondevices.com/Summary: I created and bootstrapped Microsoft's entry into the IoT Maker Community. Starting with the release of Windows on the Intel Galileo in early 2014 and leading into the launch of Arduino partnerships and Windows running on Raspberry Pi. Culminating with the Windows 10 IoT Core product offering launch. I built.

Product: The Intelligent Car (Windows Automotive)Summary: I lead a development team of engineers across 5 feature crews, owning both the software and the experience top to bottom. From the hardware and vendor relationships, to device drivers and business logic, to the presentation layer and experience, to the cloud service connections to many of.

Product: Windows Phone Cloud ServicesSummary: Software Architect responsible for working on and designing the cloud services for Windows Phone. My core focus has been on a mixture of Azure platform services to enable engineering efficiency across the group, to also working on phone experience services like Family Rooms.

Product: Windows PhoneSummary: I was on the initial team responsible for the "reboot" of the windows phone franchise for Microsoft. I ran the development team for all of the consumer experiences, bringing our Zune brand and service to the phone for the first time, our XBOX brand and service to the phone for the first time, rebuilding a first class Photos.

Product: Exchange ServerSummary: Software Architect responsible for working on and designing the creation of a Microsoft operated "Exchange Server as a Service" in the cloud. This was made available both for EDU customers as well as ENTERPRISE customers later on. I was responsible for datacenter issues, scale and partitioning, user directory and.

Co-founder and creator of AutoLoop; the premier automotive dealership customer management system. AutoLoop is a cloud based subscription service; powered by interactive voice services.

Summary: I founded Fortis with my partner Uri Minkoff and built it with alumni from Microsoft Redmond. We have over 30 years combined experience building product for Microsoft at the Redmond campus. We design and build software for our clients, both locally in Tampa Bay, and nationally. We also build a suite of our own IT products that we sell via direct.

Product: Windows Supportability & ManageabilitySummary: I designed and built a new state management system for Windows. This allows applications to store both per user and per installation state both locally and roaming.

Product: System RestoreSummary: I designed and built a file system filter driver for windows NT that monitored all file i/o and based on a decision tree, performed a copy-on-write operation for interesting files that changed. This was a very creative project as it required many solutions that were considered “impossible” to do with the current o/s design..

Product: Windows Supportability & Manageability (PC Health)Summary: I built a fault monitoring application that dumped and posted application state which was later parsed into a server-side database. This was implemented via the win32 debugging API with just-in-time activation support, and posted to the server side database using the http file upload.

Product: Web ServicesSummary: I designed and implemented a NT5 kernel mode device driver to handle HTTP parsing for next generation Microsoft web servers. This included the design and architecture for a complete end-to-end web service design involving kernel-mode and user-mode services in Windows NT. I worked on interface design, component architecture.

Product: Commercial Operating System ServicesSummary: I led a team of program managers and leads to both ship the WBEM/WMI product in NT5 and work in the next generation versions of that product. This included vision and strategy designs and buyoff, then full product specifications.

Product: Commercial Operating System ServicesSummary: I worked for the product unit manager as a technical architect and advisor on the designs and business strategies for the commercial networking segment. This resulted in Senior Vice President designs and proposals that were accepted and approved.

Product: Site-ServerSummary: I led a development team to build an advanced personalization system that shipped in Site-Server 3.0. Here I acquired patents for the inventions in this area of internet personalization and profile storage and access. I was responsible for design, implementation, scheduling, and project management. The features I designed are.

Product: IIS: Active Server PagesSummary: I designed and invented the ASP engine for Microsoft. It started with my prototype invention that ran on all of Microsoft’s production sites for years. The work was completed and shipped in the IIS version 3 product. I then led a team of developers to design and ship an advanced web-site personalization engine to.

Product: MSN ServerSummary: I worked on troubleshooting and quick-fixing transport and performance problems in MSN’s data-center and custom server software (X.25 based). I was an architect for designing the distribution of the data-centers and the service. This included WAN design and massively distributed machines to handle millions of dial-up users.

Product: Lightweight Windows Operating System (for fax machines)Summary: I designed and implemented an OSF compliant RPC subsystem and all of the client and server network interaction components for the device. I also wrote the client and server drivers for mail and print connectivity. I later designed and built a lightweight, high performance hierarchical.

Product: SMSSummary: I designed and implemented client GUI components for SMS 1.0 as well as server components for accessing network and relational database resources. The client was a C++ MFC win32 application, with versions build for DOS using the VB DOS engine. The server components where also MFC applications written using ODBC for database access. I.

Product: CompilersSummary: Software testing for Microsoft Compiler version 7 (C7) which shipped in 1991. This included test case automation and script generation for testing the compiler and mainly the pre-compiled header feature targeted at the Borland and Watcom compilers.