Senior Manager, Technical Program Management @ From December 2014 to Present (1 year 1 month) Principal, Mobile Labs @ Research, prioritize, and lead incubation projects to shape next big investments for Windows, Xbox, and Windows Phone. Partner with Microsoft Research, business, and product teams across the company to determine strategic opportunities and make recommendations to executive leadership. From June 2014 to October 2014 (5 months) Director, Reading Experience @ Managed $300M contract with Barnes and Noble. Secured rich digital content by building relationships with publishers. Defined global product roadmap, Beta product goals, go-to-market strategy, and core business KPIs for 130+ markets. Led product management and editorial organizations to create v1 product. From January 2014 to June 2014 (6 months) Principal Group Program Manager, Windows UX @ As the Group Program Manager of the Text Input Experience team for Windows 8.1, I was responsible for leading a team of 14 program managers who delivered end-to-end input experiences in the modern Windows user interface. We delivered the onscreen keyboard for touch tablets, autocorrect and predictive text typing efficiencies for 100+ markets, commanding surfaces for text corrections, selection UI for touch interfaces, and predictive text capabilities for the Surface Touchcover 2. From September 2012 to January 2014 (1 year 5 months) Senior Program Manager Lead, Windows UX @ As a Lead Program Manager on the User-centered Experiences team for Windows 8, I was responsible for leading a team of 7 program managers who delivered a large range of new UX models and functionality in the modern Windows user interface. My team and I worked across many org and team boundaries as well as with external OEMs to deliver the modern Boot experience of Windows 8. My team owned the new Share charm concept from the API surface through the user experience as well as partnerships with several first and third party apps who implemented the Share contract. We also delivered: Projection UI, deep link Tiles on Start screen, Shutdown experiences, file associations, HomeGroup, and Clipboard. From July 2009 to September 2012 (3 years 3 months) Senior Program Manager, User Interface Platform @ As Senior Program Manager on the User Interface Platform team for Windows 7, I was responsible for defining and designing the Windows Animation Manager and the Windows Ribbon Framework. From December 2007 to July 2009 (1 year 8 months) Program Manager II Lead, Office Graphics @ As Program Manager Lead on Office Graphics, I led the team who delivered the rendering engine for Office 2010. From November 2006 to December 2007 (1 year 2 months) Program Manager, Office UX @ Designed and shipped several components of the Office user interface for both Office 2003 and Office 2007. From March 2001 to November 2006 (5 years 9 months) Program Manager, Office Update @ Designed and shipped web-connected features in Office XP. From June 2000 to March 2001 (10 months) Lecturer in Computer Science @ As lecturer at the University of Kentucky, I developed course plans, delivered lectures, and mentored students in the undergraduate and graduate Computer Science programs. Courses I led included: Introduction to C++, Algorithms, Software Engineering, and Data Structures. From August 1999 to May 2000 (10 months) Lexington, Kentucky AreaSoftware Developer @ As a software developer at Ashland Oil, I was responsible for coding and testing automated accounting and freight systems. From January 1995 to August 1999 (4 years 8 months) Lexington, Kentucky Area

BS, MS, Computer Science @ University of Kentucky From 1993 to 2000 Billie Chafins is skilled in: User Experience, Software Engineering, Software Design, Program Management, User Interface, Software Development, Software Project Management, Scrum, User-centered Design, User Interface Design, Agile Project Management, Agile Methodologies, Product Management, Team Building, Cross-team Collaboration, Project Management