Yes, really! My name is Carri and I am the Director of Sourcing Operations within the Data Center Services team here at Microsoft. I have been in the Seattle area for 15 years, working organizations with hard-core manufacturing and supply chain focus. When you think of supply chain, companies such as Starbucks, Amazon, Boeing, PACCAR, etc. all come to mind, but not usually Microsoft.
Wow! I was surprised when I...
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Hi, my name is Dave. I am based out of our Mountain View location and am a Group Manager in the Global Networking Services Implementation team within the Global Foundations Services organization.
Our team builds network infrastructure to ensure that BOS enterprise customers have the required capacity and bandwidth requirements to support new growth. The teams maintain responsibility for deploying to GNS architectural standards...
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The Bing Mobile group in Boulder, Colorado is constantly
developing new areas to bring relevance to search through processing and
interpreting imagery. When we last met, I had
outlined the structure
of our team and operations in Boulder, CO. This time around, I’d like
to take some time to go a little more in depth on one of our products: Bird’s
Eye imagery.
One of
the challenges our site met in the previous year was...
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Our advertising team is working to deliver unique digital advertising experiences to key audiences. Natasha is the Director of Global Insights and Analytics for Microsoft Advertising. She discusses a topic that is near and dear to her heart: Multi Screen Moms. Learn about how Moms use their digital devices and what unique advertising opportunities this creates. You can view her blog entry and webcast here. Are you a...
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Hey bloggers! My name is J.J. and I’m a Test Lead on the Autopilot team within Bing. Have you ever wondered how a massively distributed search engine is built, monitored, and maintained? So did I several years ago when I joined the Bing team (back before it was actually called Bing). My team and I work on testing one of the biggest, baddest, and most highly distributed software applications on the planet. ...
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My name is Diana and I am the Content Ads Product Manager in APS. Right now we are focused on Yahoo! migration and landing it successfully. It is a very interesting time to work in this division and I am excited by the huge opportunities for Content Ads in the next year. Before I joined full-time, I was a vendor with the same group and got to learn a lot about APS and Microsoft. From the start, I was impressed with...
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I am a Senior Program Manager in the DCS – Site Selection and Analytics group within our Online Services Division. Much of my work entails supporting the team that makes the decisions on which locations to build or lease our next datacenter site. Currently we are figuring out where to grow our datacenter footprint in Europe and Asia along with deciding where our best opportunity to grow is in the USA. Before I...
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I joined Microsoft in 1992. Since then, I’ve worked in four distinctly different divisions in three different types of jobs. In every team, I’m continually energize by the challenges we take on and the great people that contribute to innovative solutions. At Microsoft, you can explore many different roles and experiences surrounded by a great peer group. I joined the Manageability Services Group in 2009 to...
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