Experience

Kry10 Limited

• United States
• Embedded Software Products
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder and CEO

  • Mar 2017 - 6 years 10 months

  Seatttle WA and Wellington NZ Building next-generation platforms for connected devices (IoT) and cross platform applications. Focused on secure and robust applications that minimize the hardware required to run, remote well over the internet, and are easy to program.



Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF)

• New Zealand
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Impact Entreprenuer Fellow

  • Sep 2018 - 5 years 4 months

  Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand



Incubation and Independant Study

• Technical explorer and innovator

  • Dec 2014 - Mar 2017

  Anywhere that pleases me Since leaving Microsoft, I've been surveying the technical landscape, getting my coding chops back, and incubating a startup idea or two. I am happy to say that things are moving along and it is hugely refreshing to be personally deep in the code again. The end of Moore's Law is upon us just as mobile hardware is greatly expanding the opportunities to have complex devices in the field talking to equally complex services in the cloud. Traditional development practices, stacks, training… Show more Since leaving Microsoft, I've been surveying the technical landscape, getting my coding chops back, and incubating a startup idea or two. I am happy to say that things are moving along and it is hugely refreshing to be personally deep in the code again. The end of Moore's Law is upon us just as mobile hardware is greatly expanding the opportunities to have complex devices in the field talking to equally complex services in the cloud. Traditional development practices, stacks, training were designed with ever increasing clock speeds in mind. The reality is that multi-core is now the standard and all developers must learn to write robust parallel code on both clients and servers. I'm very excited about the coding language Elixir, which is built on the venerable Erlang core tech and is perfectly suited to the challenge on both ends of the internet pipe. I'll be talking more about this soon and sharing some of the work I've been doing. Show less



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Partner Director of Development, Xbox

  • May 2011 - Dec 2014

  Redmond, WA Owner of technical design and development of all software on the Xbox One and Xbox 360 consoles, including Operating Systems, Kinect, the UI/shell, TV services, engineering systems (build, infrastructure, and more), and support for AAA titles. Managed a budget in the high 10s of Millions of dollars. Xbox 360 is the #1 console of that generation, Kinect was the fastest selling consumer accessory an innovated user interaction and video game interfaces more than any other… Show more Owner of technical design and development of all software on the Xbox One and Xbox 360 consoles, including Operating Systems, Kinect, the UI/shell, TV services, engineering systems (build, infrastructure, and more), and support for AAA titles. Managed a budget in the high 10s of Millions of dollars. Xbox 360 is the #1 console of that generation, Kinect was the fastest selling consumer accessory an innovated user interaction and video game interfaces more than any other accessory. Helped ensure Xbox can update millions of boxes being used constantly through the day without interrupting service. This effort goes back to the first Xbox where I helped lay out the plan to update via Xbox Live. Played a large role designing and ensuring the software security of all the consoles (Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One). Was the first and most vocal person on the Xbox team championing anti-cheating technology (and more) to keep the games fun and fair - and the machines working.

• General Manager - Advanced Media Project

  • 2009 - Dec 2011

  Redmond, WA Worked directly with Ray Ozzie (Chief Software Architect for Microsoft Corporation) on an advanced media project. Part of this shipped in TV services for Xbox One and SmartGlass. The rest is as yet unannounced. My work during this project, while still largely secret, was equally focused on technical design/strategy and business understanding/strategy.

• General Manager - Xbox Developer Program

  • 2008 - Aug 2009

  Redmond, WA Owned XNA, and the Xbox XDK, certification, and developer support programs. Managed a team of 220+ people, and a (roughly) $100M budget. I owned the P&L for the XDK program, which covered the developer kits for Xbox 360, certification, and support. This was the year of the economic downturn and I spent much of my time focused on the finances and optimization of the team. While many other teams around me shrank and faced layoffs, I was able to optimize our impact on customers and even… Show more Owned XNA, and the Xbox XDK, certification, and developer support programs. Managed a team of 220+ people, and a (roughly) $100M budget. I owned the P&L for the XDK program, which covered the developer kits for Xbox 360, certification, and support. This was the year of the economic downturn and I spent much of my time focused on the finances and optimization of the team. While many other teams around me shrank and faced layoffs, I was able to optimize our impact on customers and even grow the business. I also recognized the needs of the (new/small) Kinect project and re-organized the team to ensure it had the resources it needed to succeed. These efforts exceeded the business expectations both technically and financially.

• Product/General Manager - XNA

  • Aug 2004 - Aug 2008

  Redmond, WA Owned XNA Game Studio from its inception through the successful launch of 3 major releases. I set the vision/strategy (in 2004) that predicted the pent-up demand of independent game developers and built the first open marketplace on a console. I lead a strategy to encourage more students into the Computer Sciences by opening up the Xbox and using it in schools around the planet. I also designed and implemented a strong engineering philosophy where developers were heavily responsible for… Show more Owned XNA Game Studio from its inception through the successful launch of 3 major releases. I set the vision/strategy (in 2004) that predicted the pent-up demand of independent game developers and built the first open marketplace on a console. I lead a strategy to encourage more students into the Computer Sciences by opening up the Xbox and using it in schools around the planet. I also designed and implemented a strong engineering philosophy where developers were heavily responsible for quality, test wrote games (end-to-end testing the same way a customer would do it) and Program Managers focused on the problems our customers faced. It was critical that we only build what was actually valuable to game developers, and not all the minor bells and whistles. External face of XNA. Personally drove discussions with game development shops and gave talks around the world including, GDC, Gamefest, FMX (Germany) and CEDEC (Japan).

• Development Manager - Xbox Live

  • Aug 2000 - Aug 2004

  Redmond, WA Led Xbox Live's technical design, direction, and implementation. This includes all areas from security to identity to protocols to datacenter design and more. Managed the people, budgets, development, go to market plans and all other aspects of the product through 3 major releases. All releases were on time and on budget. On it's own, Xbox Live is a greater-than $1Billion/Year business and has been flourishing in the market for over 10 years.

• Development Lead - Application Center Server

  • Feb 1999 - Aug 2000

  Redmond, WA Led a team that created advanced datacenter management tools. The goal was to seamlessly replicate and control web applications across a flexible cluster of servers.

• Developer/Lead - IIS (Web Server)

  • Mar 1997 - Feb 1999

  Redmond, WA Led the Administrative Tools team for IIS4 and partway in to IIS5. This included all management tools, setup, and more. Personally wrote certificate management tools for the web server. Wrote a significant amount of shipping code in IIS3, IIS4, and IIS 5.



Zephyr Design

• Owner/Entrepreneur

  • 1990 - 1997

  Seattle, Wa Founded company out of college and played multiple roles, wrote all code. Focus was on desktop publishing tools. Achieved world-wide distribution of the packaged products and was the premier "Aldus Additions" provider for PageMaker. Featured in many books from the PageMaker 4.0 era. Also did contract work with Microsoft, Aldus and others. Wrote code that shipped in Office, PageMaker, IIS 3, and the Microsoft Arcade Pack for Macintosh (Centipede, Tempest, Missile Command, BattleZone, and… Show more Founded company out of college and played multiple roles, wrote all code. Focus was on desktop publishing tools. Achieved world-wide distribution of the packaged products and was the premier "Aldus Additions" provider for PageMaker. Featured in many books from the PageMaker 4.0 era. Also did contract work with Microsoft, Aldus and others. Wrote code that shipped in Office, PageMaker, IIS 3, and the Microsoft Arcade Pack for Macintosh (Centipede, Tempest, Missile Command, BattleZone, and Asteroids) Show less