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geek in query: Ian Ellison-Taylor employment title: General Manager, Presentation Platform and Tools have you been doing right now?
I am the general Manager of Presentation Platform and Tools, which can be about 170 people who work on Windows Presentation Basis. We also have the Jolt crew internally, that is all the graphical animation media elements and Silverlight. And I have a resources staff called Cider that delivers resources for both equally individuals groups to work with. It truly is your conventional developer/test/PM kinda organization. countless a long time have you been with Microsoft?
Seventeen a long time this summer season. I came straight out of university — well, technically I worked for a UK company for about five minutes, but basically I'd just graduated and arrived for an internship in 1990. you tell me how numerous different positions you've had?
I couldn't possibly tell you that. Titles have changed probably once a year. I started in development, then switched to project management. Then I became a check supervisor, before moving into normal management and strategy. been new roles, new titles, new challenges every year or so. I stopped putting my title on my business card years ago because it was getting out of date so quickly. So now they just have my name, and Microsoft. Braille.
Yes,office pro plus 2010 activation, and Braille. you're a quintessential career Microsoftie. This has been your Masters degree, and probably by this point your PhD, too.
…And an MBA in there somewhere. Tell me about your MBA from Microsoft.
In terms of getting an MBA, I debated going back to school,win 7 home basic 64 bit key, but Microsoft has great training program on the leadership tracks. And Wharton Business School leads ongoing training courses for Microsoft employees — you get to spend a week talking with some of the industry's best trainers. And for free,office 2010 Standard serial! get access to a great peer group too — a lot of other Microsoft individuals from other departments, and all over the planet! A lot of the classes have students from all over Europe and Asia, and so you get this great perspective which you just wouldn't get from a typical MBA program. I still go to people classes. There are always new ones. products have you ever worked with?
I've been all over the place because I wanted to try different things in different groups. I interned in Languages — that is now Developer Division with 2000 people today. It was a lot smaller back then. Then I got into Windows. It wasn't an obvious success at the time — it was just another project that might be a hit,microsoft office Professional Plus code, or it might not. After five years, I was still having a blast, but wanted to try something different. So from there I went to IE and Java. And now WPF. you've worked on Windows, that is used by bazillions of many people —
It truly is about a billion now. Somewhere between 800,000 million and a billion, I think? It truly is ridiculous because it was 10 folks when I started. billion persons — that means your get the job done has touched one sixth of the planet?
When you put it like that it is kind of scary. But,windows 7 ultimate 64 bit key, yeah. It really is a huge number of people today. that keep you up at night?
Not really. But maybe it should! I don't think about it other than feeling this general responsibility to a large number of those who base their lives on some of the software we produce — they can't get around, they can't function, they can't do their jobs, they can't manage their families — if we don't do a good position on our side. it doesn't have to be billions of everyday people to feel that way. It could be 10 customers — if they really care about your product and are depending on you, it can be important. when you're not working on software that's impacting a sixth of the planet, what do you do?
I've a house on Vashon Island, and so I spent my time away from do the trick plowing fields and building fences. to make you happy: Silverlight Windows Presentation Platform & Tools on MSDN Ian's Channel 9 video about Windows history (check out Ian's mysterious accent!) Ian on Facebook