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General Manager @ Microsoft General Manager for Power BI, Microsoft's premier business intelligence suite. Oversaw a 300 engineer/PM organization with multiple products for desktop, SaaS, mobile, and embedded BI. Our mission was to quickly become the world’s most recognizable, capable, and frequently used modern business intelligence solution. Rapidly grew a portfolio of products and teams from inception...

General Manager @ Microsoft General Manager for Power BI, Microsoft's premier business intelligence suite. Oversaw a 300 engineer/PM organization with multiple products for desktop, SaaS, mobile, and embedded BI. Our mission was to quickly become the world’s most recognizable, capable, and frequently used modern business intelligence solution. Rapidly grew a portfolio of products and teams from inception to delivery. From October 2015 to October 2016 (1 year 1 month) RedmondMultiplayer Technology Consultant @ Self-Employed Consultant for gaming companies seeking to develop online multiplayer experiences. Extensive use of Winsock and TCP/IP libraries. Custom designed a hybrid peer-to-peer network architecture for massively multiplayer games. Featured writer on Game Developer’s Network. Wrote a paper on using cubic splines to defeat the effects of Internet latency in real-time games. From January 1999 to January 2000 (1 year 1 month) Greater Boston AreaPrincipal Engineering Manager @ Microsoft Development manager for the SQL BI New Experience Team. Staffed and lead a V1 team of 35 developers to create next-generation business intelligence experiences. Brings together many technologies including natural language search, interactive data visualizations, mobile, and web services. Projects include:InfoNav - access BI reports using the power of natural language and interactive data visualizationMobile BI "Helix" - mobile access to BI reports on Win8 and iOS From May 2012 to June 2014 (2 years 2 months) Redmond, WASenior Engineering Manager @ Microsoft Lead a team of talented software engineers and contractors in support of several projects involving machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, enterprise search, text analytics, and artificial intelligence techniques. Responsibilities include project leadership, technical strategy, recruiting/staffing, and partner team engagement. Shipped features and text analysis components across Office, SharePoint, Exchange, Windows, Bing, MSN, and Windows Phone.Example projects:"Huddle" - exploration of next generation project management tools integrated into SharePoint. Organized and lead a team consisting of developers, testers, computational linguists, usability engineers, and researchers. Won several internal awards and had multiple review meetings with Microsoft executive leadership (Ray Ozzie, Stephen Elop, Kurt DelBene).Mailbox Intelligence - Architecture for performing advanced text analysis on Exchange 2012. Includes information extraction methods for contact information, meeting requests, keywords, question/answer pairs, and task assignments.SharePoint Site Mailbox - provide SharePoint sites a shared mail repository backed by Exchange.Excel Voice Commands - prototype Excel add-in that allows for the import of data as well chart creation and manipulation using natural language commands. From April 2007 to May 2012 (5 years 2 months) Senior Software Development Engineer @ Microsoft Speech and Natural Language Group. Shipped several features related to proofing tools,statistical natural language processing, and search. The most well-known is the engine code for the spellchecker which is now used across most Microsoft products in more than 40 languages.Example projects:Spellchecking / thesaurus - Designed and implemented a framework for language-scalable orthographic spellcheckers. Now used daily in 40+ languages by hundreds of millions of usersContextual Spellchecker - Language-model based statistical spellchecker, ships in Word 2003 and later.Expertise Tagging - SharePoint service analyzes a user’s document collection and sent mail to automatically determine their area of expertise"Did You Mean?" - Query spelling correction in low-traffic scenarios. Uses a lexicon generated from search-index data to provide search query completion and correction.Appointment Wizard - prototype Outlook add-in enabling users to create and alter calendar items with natural language commands. From August 2003 to April 2007 (3 years 9 months) Intern @ Microsoft Interned in the Natural Language Group- "Pivot Table Wizard" which enabled spoken natural language commands to be used for manipulating Excel pivot tables.Interned in the Direct3D Group- Optimized “Unreal Warfare” 3d game engine- Developed OpenGL emulator using DirectX under Windows XP- Worked on OpenGL shim for app compatibility From May 2001 to August 2003 (2 years 4 months) Intern @ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Held several internships at NASA over the course of 3 years. Researched the use of micro-fabricated Fresnel zone plates in x-ray source analysis. The work was part of the $250M High-Energy Solar Spectral Imager (HESSI) satellite project.- Programmed user interface, hardware controllers, and analytics tools - Created user interface and hardware library to display x-ray detector output in real-time.- Developed image analysis software to measure micron-sized differences in test materials.- Required use of VB, AutoCAD, Matlab, and assembly. From June 1996 to June 1999 (3 years 1 month) Greenbelt, MarylandSenior Director, Product and Engineering @ Google Leading the Looker product organization through integration and growth at our new home in Google Cloud Platform. Responsible for Engineering, Product, Design, and Product Marketing. From February 2020 to June 2020 (5 months) Chief Product and Engineering Officer @ Looker Acquired by Google. Responsible for building 170 person Engineering, Product, and Design team. Our mission at Looker: To inspire everyone to embrace their curiosity, dig deeper and keep asking questions. From October 2018 to June 2020 (1 year 9 months) VP Engineering @ Reddit, Inc. Led engineering team through hyper-scale. Reddit is the home of authentic conversation online (and an awesome place to work)! We're the 5th most popular website in the U.S., serving up content of all kinds to more than 300 million users per month. As VP of Eng, I'm helping take Reddit to the next level by expanding our phenomenal development team, delivering rapid improvements to our web/mobile/ad products, and kicking off multiple new strategic bets. From October 2016 to October 2018 (2 years 1 month) San Francisco Bay AreaPartner, Director of Engineering @ Microsoft Founding team member for Power BI, one of Microsoft's fastest growing products. Lead a 150+ person engineering organization for PowerBI.com. Our goal is to disrupt and transform the business intelligence category by quickly delivering a beautiful and engaging SaaS experience to millions of users. From June 2014 to January 2016 (1 year 8 months) Greater Seattle AreaVice President Of Engineering @ Twitter Lead a talented team of 700 engineers responsible for all consumer-facing Twitter products. San Francisco Bay Area