The Visual Studio Documentary Mardi Brekke-Hutchings and Dee Dee Walsh full length interview

Tony Goodhew Full Length Interview

Mardi came to Microsoft in 1993 and in the last 16 years at Microsoft has spent much of her time in the Developer Division (which has had many names through the years).  Currently, she is working on the Windows Embedded Marketing team spreading the good word about Windows on specialized devices. 

Dee Dee has been in the industry for nearly thirty years in technical, marketing and biz dev roles.  She has worked at Microsoft for 18 years and 11.5 of those years were in developer tools where she did product planning, marketing, biz dev and business management.  She has spent the past several years working on ecommerce technologies (currently working on online Microsoft Store).  Prior to Microsoft she worked at the first shareware company, ButtonWare, for 8 years in technical support, product planning and marketing.