My name is KC, I'm a program manager on the Exchange team at Microsoft.

In college I started out majoring in MIS until I discovered that MIS' idea of computers was to learn how to use MS Access (and "gooeys"), so I switched into math/CS. But then I found out that in CS, you've got to code a lot, and I didn't really enjoy that, so I spent most of my time focusing on my work (jobs as a BSD/Linux sysadmin in the math & grad departments) and ignoring coding as much as I could.

I dropped out of college my junior year to take a contractor position as a tester in the Outlook team at Microsoft in Jan 98, moved to fulltime in August, moved to Program Management in 2000, and have bounced between a few different types of PM roles (but always in the Ex/Ol groups) ever since.

My legacy... well, I was the main tester on the security patches for Outlook. That was a fun time. That's when we thought that if you just warned users that really, opening executables is not always a good thing, really we swear it's not always a good thing, that they would actually LISTEN. Hah. At the time, we were reviled as being evil and controlling and Microsoft trying to take over everyone's email... and now we get yelled at because our attachment or file blocking isn't good enough Smiley

I love what I do. It's just all good. Except for the stuff that's not.

I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy in June 2003, and he is the light of my life. His dad and I figure he'll either be a bigger geek than both of us, or he will go 180 degrees the other way and be a musician or a doctor or whatever.

And oh yeah, I have a blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/exchange

- KC