Jun 2019 – Sep 2023 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Building tools to empower companies to have a deeper connection with customers and increase revenue through sales engagement

Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 2 mos · Portola Valley, California, United States · Hybrid

• Side project incubating ideas with friends

May 2015 – Jan 2019 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Palo Alto, CA

• Lead product, design and engineering for Skype

Mar 2013 – May 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Ran Engineering, Product, UX, Ops and QA. Re-architected the complete backend to be a modern, high scale, geo-distributed real time system. Lead the rewrite of all the clients in record time. Redefined the product strategy to focus on daily collaboration. Rebuilt most of the team and ran a multi-site organization which was acquired by Thinking Phones which took on the Fuze brand given its user experience strength and forward looking vision.

Jan 2012 – Feb 2013 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Worked on various parts of the Google Cloud Platform including Compute Engine, Developer Experience. Management tools and High Performance Computing features

Feb 2011 – Jan 2012 · 11 mos

• Lead the Developer Experience and Google Applications Marketplace team

Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs

• As one of two GMs running engineering for Office Communications Group, the fastest growing segment of Microsoft Business Division, responsible for all product development of the Unified Communications and Collaboration Client Suite (Microsoft Office Communicator - now called Lync, Communicator Mobile, Live Meeting, Lync Web App and the Unified Communications Client Platform)

Apr 2008 – Dec 2008 · 8 mos

• Defined and executed on a mobile strategy for the telephony, IM, presence and collaboration for Office Communications Group

Nov 2005 – Apr 2008 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Lead a multifunction team of engineering, product, UX and QA to develop an integrated VoIP, IM and Presence product

Jul 2005 – Nov 2005 · 4 mos

• As GPM for Office Communicator and Live Meeting defined the feature set of the products and championed the voice of the customer throughout the product cycle

Jun 2003 – Jul 2005 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Developed the vision for Office Communicator, pitched the business case to executives to fund the team and then took on primary responsibilities for the presence and PBX integration features of Office Communicator

Jul 2000 – Mar 2002 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Mobilian was a fab-less wireless semiconductor company that used patented software VLSI and RF techniques to create the first WiFi and Bluetooth combo chipsets. The company was acquired by Intel in 2002
• Implemented the host software to support chipset. Defined the end to end power management architecture
• Architected and implemented the complete test harness for the company. This distributed framework included tests for the drivers, embedded software, digital and RF components. The harness was written in Python and allowed the engineers and QA team to handle rapidly evolving functionality.
• Wrote PCI and Serial port drivers and configuration and management utilities to control the chipsets
• Integrated chipsets with multiple third party Bluetooth stacks

Feb 1997 – Jun 2000 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Managed the IP routing team for the Windows 2000 release which included enhancing the routing platform to support Multicast, IP Tunneling and NAT.
• Developed the multicast forwarding extensions to the TCP/IP stack of Windows 2000
• Enhanced the routing framework to support multicast routing protocols
• Implemented the IP in IP tunneling driver and extensions to allow for a generic tunneling framework accessible from user or kernel mode
• Based on customer and partner feedback developed a complete command line interface to manage the networking components of Windows 2000. The management shell called netsh.exe has proven to be an extremely popular management utility being used extensively across Windows code base.
• Managed development of PIMv2, IGMPv3, DVMRP, multicast group manager, very high speed route table lookup and many other routing components

Jun 1995 – Feb 1997 · 1 yr 8 mos

• As one of the earliest members of the routing team developed large part of the routing capabilities in Windows NT. The routing software was used by one of the early high speed IP switches developed by Berkeley Networks
• Developed the routing framework (router manager)
• Worked on OSPF and routing policy module
• Implemented multiple SNMP subagents including MIB-II and Interface MIB
• Developed the packet filtering driver used by router module as well as the ISA firewall product
• Developed the IP to PPP driver interfaces for dial up, PPTP and L2TP