Suzan DelBene: From referee to VP

Posted By: Charles | Jan 13th, 2006 @ 12:47 PM

What’s the best way to become bullet proof? Be a high school football referee!

Meet corporate vice president Suzan DelBene as she talks about the smallest but fastest growing division at Microsoft, the mobile and embedded devices (MED) group where they produce software for everything that isn’t a PC. Suzan talks about what is hot in MED right now, and reflects on her early days as a football referee where time on the field helped prepare her to be a Microsoft VP, all this and more in another edition of WM_IN.

Tags: MS Execs, MS Personalities, Windows Mobile

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sdavids

question, are we going to get any demos for any of these interviews anymore?

DuNuNuBatman

If you guys are looking for motivating VP's you guys should hire him http://www.navyseals.com/community/navyseals/famous_ns_marcinko.cfm

...dude's freaky just looking at.

Manip

Nope...

The WM_IN series is fundamentally flawed anyway... So you want to get women into technology, so you post videos on a technology site who's entire audience is already in the technology industry...

Does anyone else see a chicken and an egg problem with this little scenario? 8-)

Manip

DuNuNuBatman wrote:

If you guys are looking for motivating VP's you guys should hire him http://www.navyseals.com/community/navyseals/famous_ns_marcinko.cfm

...dude's freaky just looking at.

wtf?

sdavids

Can we get Scoble to revist the Vista team to find out when we are getting the beta 2? - Get some more in depth looks at the OS as well.

daytrip00

Seriously guys... enough with the WM_IN series already. C9 is getting pretty boring these days as I count 3 of the last 6 vids being WM_IN videos and 1 a four minute impromptu video.

Learn some moderation. 1 WM_IN video every couple weeks or more would be fine, but I get the impression you're now very heavily focused on making those videos.

Which brings me to why this series is flawed anyway. Show the female geeks! The women that will make the niners think, "I wish I had her skills." Not the PMs. Let the femGeeks impress with demos just as the manGeeks would and then maybe spend 5 minutes at the end of the video discussing the finer points of being a woman in technology. Treat them equally guys. If I only watched the WM_IN series I'd think: "Gee wiz! At microsoft, woment can only be PMs. There really aren't doing any of the powergeeking." Which is really a disservice to what I assume you want to accomplish. Let's see more Molly Brown. There are women on the Avalon team (Lauren Lavoi, I think. I saw her PDC presentation) and women working on the .NET GC (Maoni Stephens). Let's see them guys if you want to make this series worth anything at all.

Manip

daytrip00 wrote:

Let the femGeeks impress with demos just as the manGeeks would and then maybe spend 5 minutes at the end of the video discussing the finer points of being a woman in technology. Treat them equally guys.

That was my point in the other thread... It seems C9 does more to make women feel like outsiders than most of their male peers... I mean can we not just have a employee, who HAPPENS to be female show us a demo?

Or does Microsoft fast track women into PM roles so quickly that C9 can't source any actual developers?

scobleizer
I'm the video guy

The videos will get better soon. Come back tonight for some fun ones.

LaBomba
Summer

Booooooring,

Where's the Vista vid's?

There was a big gap in between vids on Vista, then they said a lot more is coming on Vista/In Deep.

They gave us Larry O. and that was it.

WM_IN is nice and all but....