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Shawn Richardson: A winding road to Software Security
From being an economics major and MBA to working with a veterinary ophthalmologist in Florida, Shawn Richardson tell us about her non-linear path into the world of technology. As a security program...
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Betsy Hjort: On Making Windows Server, Singing with Bill and Being Technical
Betsy Hjort, principal program manager, turns the camera on Jennifer & Charles (literally!) as she tells us about her role on the Windows Server team and reflects about her tenure at the company...
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Mai-lan Tomsen Bukovec: From the Peace Corps to IIS 7
Meet group program manager, Mai-lan Tomsen Bukovec, who has been at Microsoft for nine years (Talk about a blast from the past . . . remember Microsoft Transaction Server? Mai-lan was on that team back...
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Carolyn Napier: Developing for Windows and Playing Pro Football
Carolyn Napier is a 9 year Microsoft veteran and she’s actually one of the truly technical women we’ve interviewed on WM_IN in a while (a former programmer she’s now a principal development lead on the...
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Jane Kim: From Inventing To Implementing IE Features
Jane Kim, senior program manager on the Internet Explorer team, talks about how the IE team really cares and connects with the community in this episode of WM_IN. A Northwestern grad and seven year...
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Tara Prakriya: Solution Architect
Architect Tara Prakriya is in the business of finding solutions to hard problems. What are hard problems? Ones that are complicated by both the business model and new domains, and then trying to...
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Jasmine Park: SkyDriving User Experience
Meet Jasmine Park, program manager in Windows Live, who works on SkyDrive and FolderShare. Want 5 gigs of free password-protected online file storage? Sign up for SkyDrive. Need to keep your latest...
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Jillian Venters - A Goth inside the Deathstar
Jillian Venters is a technical editor for ASP.NET within the developer division, editing documentation for Visual Web Developer to ensure all text and copy is clear and concise. With a diverse...
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Seema Ramchandani: From Brain Science to Silverlight
Seema Ramchandani is the performance and controls PM on the Silverlight team. Seema talks about how cool Silverlight is including it being FREE, runs on the Mac, and leverages existing developer...
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Tracey Trewin: Tackling Tough Problems - From Math to XBox
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...
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Roz Ho: Reflections On Leadership and Believing in Yourself
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...
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Ariel Stallings: Microspotting the Empire
You don’t think you can have blue hair and work at Microsoft? Wrong. You don’t think you can have blue hair, be a writer not a hard core geek, and be successful working at Microsoft? Wrong again....
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Jeanne Sheldon: Authoring Office Authoring Applications
Meet Jeanne Sheldon, Corporate Vice President of the Office Authoring Applications in the Microsoft Business Division. Phew! That’s a mouthful, what does all that really mean!? Well, Jeanne leads...
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Molly Breysse Cox: Women in IT, Management, Mentoring and Organizational...
Meet Molly Breysse Cox who has been honored by Women in IT International for her long history of mentoring young women at the start of their technology careers. For the past two years, Molly Breysse...
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Soni Meinke: From Fargo to Redmond, Engineering Windows Customer Satisfaction
Meet Soni Meinke, a senior program manager in the Windows Server group. From Fargo to Redmond, Soni talks about her successful yet non-technical path in the world of high-tech, and illustrates the...
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Dona Sarkar: Testing Software and Advocating Customers
Meet Test Lead, and author, Dona Sarkar. She hails from a family of engineers, and she’s one too, but she also writes fiction books for teenage girls. Wow! We could tell you more about her story,...
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Ramona Pousti: Visio, Software Testing, Technical Communication and Gender
Meet Ramona Pousti who works in Office on the Visio team. She took a programming class in high school, and from there her high-tech world took off. After interning at Microsoft, she joined the...
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Xin Wang: Science Fiction, Artificial Intelligence and Search
Meet Xin Wang, SciFi fan and an expert in artificial intelligence (she has a Ph.D in it!). Today she works on Markov decision problems and how to use approximate optimization problems that can be...
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Suneetha Dhulipalla: Making Office for the World
Suneetha Dhulipalla has been at Microsoft for 10 years, and is currently a test lead in the Global Experience Platform (GXP) group under the Office Shared Services (OSS) division. She and her team...
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Martha Bejar: Driving a 3 Billion Dollar Microsoft Business
As corporate vice president for the Communications Sector, Martha Béjar is responsible for setting Microsoft's strategy and driving the sales and marketing of solutions and services for...
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Anu Arora: Software Testing (R)Evolution
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...
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Margaret Burnett: Gender and Software
Meet Dr. Margaret Burnett, a Professor of Computer Science at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University. She is exploring hypotheses correlating and...
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Maria Klawe: Scholar, Scientist and Microsoft Board Member
Dr. Maria Klawe joined the board of directors of Microsoft in 2009. She is a distinguished computer scientist, scholar and president of Harvey Mudd College. If that's not enough, she's also an...
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Lili Cheng: Designing Experiences for Social Computing
March is Women in Technology Month. We kick off the festivities on Channel 9 with a great conversation with an industry thought leader in interactive user experience design and architecture. Meet...
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Women in Technology
Opportunities for women in the technology sector are limitless. Microsoft women talk about their interest in technology, their backgrounds and career paths and what it takes to succeed in the...
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