Scott Kahler

Management of engineering (design, development, validation, telemetry) for a team of 10-18 software engineers. Focusing on customer-facing features for new Outlook client for Windows 10, including: - Visual polish, commanding, palettes, accessibility - Store update and deployment - In-app teaching, help, settings - Data/account/settings migration - Customer engagement telemetry Overall ship-driving for local engineering group of 30+ engineers, including: - Partnership management with Windows/Office - Bug tracking and triage - Development and evolution of process through transition to combined engineering

Principal Test Manager - Office C3 Built, staffed up and managed two test teams simultaneously as part of Office's Gemini product strategy. One team was a completely new SaaS product for Office focusing on information distribution using Azure, the other team was a client/service offering focused on enhancing and enriching the consumption of modern content.

Test Manager - Visio - Member of leadership team responsible for product strategy for advanced diagramming. - Responsible for test strategy and execution on Visio 2013, including the following work: - Replacement of Visio binary file format with ISO 29500 XML format (.vsdx) - Incorporation of new graphics and rendering layer in addition to major upgrade to in-box content - Re-architecture of Visio Services in SharePoint 2013

Test Manager - Office Starter - Member of leadership team responsible for extending success of Works 9 ad-funded model into the Office code-base. - Responsible for test strategy and execution for Office Starter Edition. - Shipped Office Starter to millions of customers through OEM distribution on new PCs.

Test Manager - Works - Reported to General Manager - Member of leadership team responsible for building advertising-funded strategy for Microsoft consumer productivity software in the Office division. - Owned test strategy and execution for Works 9, Microsoft's first ad-funded productivity suite.

Test Manager - Photos and Imaging Experience (PIX) - Reported to General Manager - Member of leadership team responsible for setting Microsoft strategy in imaging (driving industry standards and developing GPU accelerated graphics processing now used in Windows and Office). - Helped define the digital photo experience in Windows Vista, while in parallel continuing to define, build, test and ship annual releases of Digital Image Suite and MSN Photos. - Owned test strategy for Windows Photo Gallery, the first integrated photo experience for Windows, currently used by hundreds of millions of customers worldwide.

Test Lead - MSN - Launched MSN Photos in 2001 grew it to 3 million active monthly users. Owned service test architecture (storage, compute, front end) and synthetic testing platform. - Re-branded and re-launched the Picture It! franchise. Grew profit and share year over year vs. Adobe Elements. - Shipped multiple versions of Microsoft Works and Works Suite

Test Lead on Microsoft Works - Responsible for test strategy and test design for the new Works Word Processor - Led a team of testers to test the new Works WP - Built internal tools websites - Project management

Tester on prototype Database/Spreadsheet hybrid incubation project

Execution of test strategy on MS Bookshelf international releases Developed internal tools for data validation using multiple spell check dictionaries