david ornstein

senior director engineering, customer security and trust

About

I've been building and shipping software for over 40 years. Writing code and leading teams are my favorite things to do at work.

Country

united states

City

seattle

Industry

computer software

Skill

software development, program management, software project management, cloud computing, product management, agile methodologies, saas, enterprise software, project management, cross functional team leadership, agile project management, enterprise architecture, strategy, software engineering, strategic partnerships, management, it strategy, business strategy, business intelligence, scalability, integration, data center, scrum, sharepoint, e commerce, mobile devices, start ups, security, software design, sdlc, sql, azure, html, typescript, javascript, compilers, language design, design patterns, architecture, wpf, rest, api design, platform development, file formats, data pipelines, user interface design, coaching, people development, c#, .net framework

Experience

president

open ebook forum

1999-1 - 2000-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

chief technology officer

nuvomedia

1998-1 - 2000-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

president; chief executive officer

pragmatica

1995-1 - 1998-1 · 3 yrs 1 mo

member technical staff

longview international sa

1993-1 - 1994-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

director of development; chief architect

intersolv

1987-1 - 1993-1 · 6 yrs 1 mo

chairman

cdif technical committee

1988-1 - 1991-1 · 3 yrs 1 mo

member technical staff

access technologies

1986-1 - 1987-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

consultant and staff programmer

applied intelligence

1985-1 - 1986-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

consultant

applied systems technologies

1985-1 - 1986-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

project manager; software developer

multimate international

1984-1 - 1985-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

member technical team

timex computer

1982-1 - 1983-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

founder; president

heuristics

1981-1 - 1982-1 · 1 yr 1 mo

manager technical services

sinclair research center, llc

1979-1 - 1981-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

lead program manager, architect

microsoft

2000-10 - 2005-4 · 4 yrs 7 mos

Led program management and drove architecture and design for eBooks and eReading teams at Microsoft, first outside and then inside the Windows division. Received 10+ patents for this work.

senior director engineering, customer security and trust

microsoft

2016-4 - Present · 10 yrs 6 mos

I lead an engineering and strategy team that builds awesome software we use to manage the security of Microsoft's products and services. Technical and management leadership of 20-60 person software engineering teams. Focused on delivering compliance management systems and data services to support Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing programs (security, privacy, accessibility, etc.) as well as Microsoft's management of legal demands for customer data received from law enforcement agencies and governments around the world.

director, compliance engineering

microsoft

2005-1 - 2011-1 · 6 yrs 1 mo

Built tools and led teams that managed Microsoft's compliance programs for DOJ antitrust, security, privacy etc.

chief of staff, trustworthy computing at microsoft

microsoft

2011-1 - 2017-2 · 6 yrs 2 mos

Helped CVP of Trustworthy Computing run our 500+ person team. Broad business management, strategy, engineering, leadership and special projects work, including specialized security projects.