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Lead integration of the Git/GVFS technology for Windows platform validation including the migration of 50+ vendor resources from India to a new African subsidiary, saving $2.5 MM/year.Designed and lead team on development of several cloud services for development/engineering productivity includuing cloud-hosted service for coding, cloud-hosted service for machine (specifically virtual machine) testing, and a cloud service for code package creation and deployment.Managed DevOps/SRE model and team for maintaining and supporting the aforementioned services.• Utilize a data center of 14K virtual machines, a week at a time, to boot Windows and run automation reporting so that machine learning models can evaluate results for false negatives and prevent critical security breaches that cost clients millions• Prevent an average of 2.5 critical Windows failures/month before release which is the 2nd most valuable service after Windows Software Updates• Work with individual developers with requests for validation on software changes or the CI (continuous integration ) leg of a CI/CD model with a budget of $3M/year • Lead 35 vendors in the "quest" effort for customer use cases during 9 different Windows releases from Windows XP through the 6 versions of Windows 10• Manage a team of 14 engineers and 57 vendors globally as well as 14K machine resource assets for the validation of monthly releases• Led 7 engineers and 5 contractors in the release GIT (source code control system), for the Windows Org of 3000 developers, and owned the on-boarding process for 18 proxy servers used by the build lab• Analyzed developer usage patterns of download frequency with metrics created to ensure quick uploads and downloads at peak capacity of 3000 users, and developed 20+ reports on Power BI• Analyzed the interaction and dependency on the VPack service that downloaded binaries for development to the source code, for edits by as many as 200 International Developers

Sole Program Manager for a group of 40 focusing on Game developer experience. Owned product integration with 3rd parties and license owners to create a hardware/software shipping product for 1st and 3rd party game developers.Owned an $8 million annual budget for teams production costs as well as ongoing HR (employee costs) for project which I can not disclose.Owned integration road-map and release criteria for shipping Nintendo Switch. Worked with NVidia counterparts as well as Nintendo of Japan to ensure product was released on-time.

Was principal program manager for the Switch Devkit, led a team of 42 engineers with an $8M budget, in developing the product integration of dev-kit hardware and software for the public release.• Was awarded "Distinguished Contributor" during the first 9 months by owning the release schedule, the feature development plan and roadmap ,and delivering ahead of schedule• Was asked to assist the "Nintendo Switch" group in meeting their release schedule, saving them a year in their roll out process• Worked with development companies in Spain, California, and Japan including NEC and NCL• Developed features like hardware video capture for camera support and in-game video recording; and direct memory access/DMA to read and write memory sequences without interfaces for debugging

Managed teams in data analysis for engineering tools, productivity tools for the Windows phone product, and Hardware/software integration quality for Xbox.• Performed build tree analysis for over 90 teams, and led failure trend analysis for all of Windows failures reducing the Windows phone platform build by 4.5 hours and default execution time by 10%• 2nd highest rated manager (190+ total) on MSPoll for phone division, for managing a team of 11 engineers who said they" felt valued and engaged " in the 60 question management evaluation• Managed development of such features as the automation of the game installation to the hard drive, and use of USB storage on Xbox , including internal utility tools used by 1000+ engineers• Was nominated by the VP,and placed into the "Microsoft Bench Program" for the top 2% of all employees with the best review score for 2 consecutive years • On boarded GIT src control tools for 3000 developers and a src-code base of 200 M lines of code• Owned the QA and creation of Windows Phone Kits for OEM consumption and partners such as Qualcomm, Nokia, and HTC • Led a team of 6 vendors testing Xbox classic games on the 360 to ensure backwards compatibility, find bugs, and perform discovery of fragmentation/ performance when writing to a hard drive• Led a team of 6 in the kernel software development for the Xbox 360 and all audio/video software with HDMI support , wireless technology, and USB drives for storage