Entries tagged with leadership - Channel 9

Anu Arora: Software Testing (R)Evolution

Charles — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:20:00 GMT

Anu Arora is a Principal SDET(very senior level) with the Engineering Excellence team. As a part of the Software Test Engineering Excellence team, she is chartered with helping everyone in the testing discipline at Microsoft get better through training and consulting. With a passion for quality, Anu is a huge advocate for the testing discipline and has spent her entire nine-year career at Microsoft in testing. During her journey, which started as an SDET to a test lead to a test manager and then back to being an individual contributor (IC), she learnt a few lessons along the way and she shares them in this interview on WM_IN.

Roz Ho: Reflections On Leadership and Believing in Yourself

Charles — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:59:00 GMT

Sometimes Charles and Ritzy get really lucky in meeting people whose energy is truly contagious, as in the case of Corporate Vice President, Premium Mobile Experiences, Roz Ho. In another edition of WM_IN, Roz tells us about her diverse experiences; from growing up in Hong Kong, moving to California, landing at Microsoft and how she almost left Microsoft to become an archeologist! Roz leads a team working on consumer-focused projects in mobile communications, and her team comes first; she literally shows us what keeps her coming back to the job every day, even after 17 years. And she knows a little something about the importance and delicacy of human relationships, as she used to be the GM of the Macintosh Business Unit, where her team was responsible for the development and marketing of Mac Office. Before joining Microsoft in 1991, Ho was a software engineer for HP and she also spent two years working as a software engineer developing a number of financial systems at Bank of America, including the first large-scale ATM system in the world.

Lynne Hill: Parallel Computing Platform - The Vision and Future

Charles — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:38:00 GMT

Over the past few months you've seen several interviews with members of Microsoft's Parallel Computing Platform team and we've learned about tooling advances, managed support for parallelism (Parallel Extensions for .NET), and native support for parallelism (the Concurrency Runtime).

Here, we meet the leader of the Parallel Computing Platform team, General Manager Lynne Hill. Lynne is a veteran Microsoft leader, starting the Parallel Computing Team and builiding it into what it is today, a relatively large organization with many virtual members spread across the entire company. The Parallel Computing Team (and the industry at large, of course) have a tremendously daunting task: bringing parallel computing to the general purpose masses. The Parallel Computing Platform is in fact making significant strides in this area, as I hope we've made clear on Channel 9. Lynne tells us about the vision of her team, the history of the problem and the future of parallelism. She makes it clear that with the advent of much more computing power the industry is poised to invent some incredibly interesting technologies that will enable new classes of computation experience for computer users. Now, the problem of getting a grip on how to harness the impending power of many-core in reasonable ways is of paramount importance. Go Lynne! Go!

Enjoy.

Tracey Trewin: Tackling Tough Problems - From Math to XBox

Charles — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:48:00 GMT

Tracey Trewin, Technical Assistant to Technical Fellow Mohsen Agsen, talks to Charles and Ritzy about how she’s always sought out hard challenges, whether it was majoring in math or helping lead the Xbox 360 team to launch. A 13 year Microsoft veteran, the former Hawaiian has lead 2 incubation teams to ship as a Product Unit Manager during her tenure at the firm. Prior to joining Microsoft, Tracey ran her own business for 12 years building customer business solutions for businesses. Tracey will be attending the PDC this year, so make sure to find her. She’ll be attending the Women in Technology reception on October 29.