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The geek in query: Ian Ellison-Taylor
The occupation title: Common Supervisor,Office Home And Business 2010 Activation clave, Presentation Platform and Instruments
What are you currently doing right now?
I'm the Basic Supervisor of Presentation Platform and Tools, which is about 170 persons who perform on Windows Presentation Foundation. We also have the Jolt team internally, which is all the graphical animation media elements and Silverlight. And I have a equipment staff called Cider that delivers resources for each those groups to use. It's your standard developer/test/PM kinda organization.
How a great number of many years have you been with Microsoft?
Seventeen years this summer time. I came straight from college — well, technically I worked for a UK company for about five minutes, but basically I'd just graduated and came for an internship in 1990.
Can you tell me how a number of 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 manager, before moving into common management and strategy.
It is been new roles, new titles, new challenges every year or so. I stopped putting my title on my business card a long time ago because it was getting out of date so quickly. So now they just have my name, and Microsoft.
And Braille.
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So, you're a quintessential career Microsoftie. This has been your Masters degree,Office 2010 Professional Plus 64bits, and probably by this point your PhD, too.
…And an MBA in there somewhere.
Right! Tell me about your MBA from Microsoft.
In terms of getting an MBA, I debated going back to school, but Microsoft has excellent 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 with the industry's best trainers. And for free!
You get access to an excellent peer group too — many other Microsoft men and women from other departments,Office Home And Student 2010 X64, and all over the planet! A large amount of the classes have students from all over Europe and Asia,Microsoft Office 2010 X64 Key, and so you get this awesome perspective which you just wouldn't get from a typical MBA program. I still go to those classes. There are always new ones.
What products have you 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 consumers. 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, or it might not. After five decades, I was still having a blast, but wanted to try something different. So from there I went to IE and Java. And now WPF.
So, you've worked on Windows, that is used by bazillions of consumers —
It's about a billion now. Somewhere between 800,000 million and a billion, I think? It is ridiculous because it was 10 persons when I started.
A billion many people — that means your operate has touched one sixth with the planet?
When you put it like that it's kind of scary. But, yeah. It is a huge quantity of persons.
Does 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 big quantity of folks who base their lives on some with the software we produce — they can't get around, they can't purpose, they can't do their jobs, they can't manage their families — if we don't do a good job on our side.
But it doesn't have to be billions of men and women to feel that way. It could be 10 individuals — if they really care about your product and are depending on you, it is important.
So when you're not working on software that's impacting a sixth with the planet, what do you do?
I've a house on Vashon Island, and so I spent my time away from function plowing fields and building fences.
Links to create you happy:
Silverlight Windows Presentation Platform & Resources on MSDN Ian's Channel 9 video about Windows history (check out Ian's mysterious accent!) Ian on Facebook