I am program manager at Microsoft Live Labs, in Redmond, Washington. I work on projects focused on the incubation of innovative, Internet-centric technologies. Read more about our team and how we will shape the web in our Manifesto.
Looking back several of my significant endeavors have been on the cutting edge. Around the time when Netscape released its first beta for Navigator, I wrote a master’s thesis proposing a Web-based visualization system that generated MPEG movies on the fly. Likewise, around the time when most workflow vendors were waking up to the e-commerce era and the term orchestration had only musical connotations, I wrote a Ph.D. dissertation proposing a lightweight, customizable workflow architecture.
Before joining Microsoft I worked in a variety of environments, ranging from resesearch centers such as NCSA (Urbana, IL, USA), IMAG (Grenoble, France), IMEC (Leuven, Belgium), and CNET (Bagneux, France) to state government, to dot-coms, to software services like ThoughtWorks. I have first-hand experience on projects from a wide range of industry segments, including telecommunications, healthcare, insurance, and e-Business.I have also worked as an assistant professor, teaching software engineering courses to working professionals. Coming from a top research environment I have found the computer science program at a second-tier department to be a wholly different experience than what I was used to at the University of Illinois. However, I have enjoyed teaching and the experience has been handy many times.
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