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DARE OBASANJO Education |
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8/99 12/01 Georgia Institute of Technology |
Atlanta, Georgia |
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Computer Science
Professional experience
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Principal Program Manager Lead, Microsoft Advertising Responsible for the programmatic ad buying platforms across search and display advertising. This includes the search ads management platform which provides the foundation for http://www.bingads.com , Bing Ads Editor and the Bing Ads 3rd party developer ecosystem. This ecosystem includes large scale search engine marketing (SEM) companies such as Marin Software & Kenshoo as well large scale search advertisers like eBay and Amazon. The search ads platform is how search ads that bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue enter the search advertising ecosystems of Bing and Yahoo! search. Additionally responsible for the nascent platform for programmatic buying of guaranteed display inventory that pertains to buying ads to show up on MSN and other Microsoft online properties.
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09/10 09/12 Microsoft Corporation Redmond, Washington |
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Senior Program Manager Lead, Live Platform Services group
Lead the team responsible for
developer platform that enables websites, desktop and mobile
applications to integrate Hotmail, Messenger, SkyDrive and Windows Live ID into their user experiences.
Work closely with large web
companies and mobile partners to integrate the above offerings into their
products and experiences.
Worked closely with multiple teams to deliver key platform capabilities and client applications for Windows 8.
09/08 09/10 Microsoft Corporation Redmond, Washington
Senior Program Manager, Live Platform Services group
Conceived, co-designed and project
manager for the platform the powers the What's New
feature across
Microsoft's Windows Live properties.
This brought social activity streams to Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger and
Windows Phone. The resulting
platform is a megascale service that handles billions
of transactions a day and is used
by hundreds of millions of Windows Live users on a daily basis.
10/04 9/08 Microsoft Corporation Redmond, Washington
Program Manager, Live Platform Services group
Was responsible for public API strategy for Windows Live Spaces
Spearheaded Windows Live developer platform efforts that lead to http://www.msdn.com/live and http://dev.live.com
At different points was responsible
for design of Web services that powered photo storage, access control lists,
social
networking, and user profile platforms for various Windows Live services.
Liaised with various partner teams
including Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Mail,
Windows Live Expo and Windows Live
Writer teams about future design direction in our contacts & storage
platform
and managed feature requests.
03/03 10/04 Microsoft Corporation Redmond, Washington
Program Manager, XML team
Responsible for design of XML APIs
in System.Xml, System.Xml.Schema
and System.Xml.XPath namespace for
version 2.0 of .NET Framework.
Launched XML MVP program at Microsoft and was liaison between MVPs and Microsoft.
Launched MSDN XML Developer Center and was content strategist for the website.
Author of Extreme XML column on MSDN
Liaised with external teams
including XML Web Services, SQL Server, Windows, Office and BizTalk about
future design
direction in XML technologies and managed feature requests.
02/02 03/03 Microsoft Corporation Redmond, Washington
Software Design Engineer in Test, XML team
Author of Extreme XML column on MSDN.
Tested .NET XML parser for conformance with W3C XML Schema (XSD) and XQuery specs.
Designed and implemented components used for automated test generation software.
Answered questions about XML on the various Microsoft XML newsgroups.
In charge of developer relations for WebData XML team and liaising with PR & marketing teams
06/01
08/01
Microsoft
Corporation Redmond,
Washington
Software Design Engineer in Test Intern
Created a test engine
that dynamically created and modified XSD schemas via the classes in the
Microsoft .NET
Frameworks System.Xml.Schema namespace using C# and XSLT.
Tested .NET XML parser for conformance with XDR spec and W3C XML Schema spec (XSD).
Wrote certain sections of .NET Framework SDK documentation on XML schemas.
Answered questions about XML on the microsoft.public.dotnet.xml newsgroup.
Publications (Conference Proceedings)
A Proposal for an XML Data
Definition and Manipulation Language. Proceeding from the VLDB 2002 Workshop
EEXTT
and CAiSE 2002Workshop DIWeb. pp. 1 21.
Publications (Print Magazine Articles)
XML and Relational Databases. Dr. Dobbs Journal. March 28, 2003.
Publications (Online Magazine Articles)
8 articles on OReillys XML.com listed at http://www.xml.com/pub/au/142
19 articles on the Microsoft Developer Network listed at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/enus/library/aa902491.aspx
Extra Curricular Activities:
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Lead developer for RSS
Bandit, which is an Open Source feed reader which is hosted on
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/rssbandit and has been downloaded almost 1,000,000 times since December 2003.
· Author of multiple Windows Phone apps that have been downloaded over 850,000 times combined.