eric bahna

Defined the "attract loop" video experience that played on 500,000 Windows 8 devices in retail stores across the world. The attract loop's modular design provided the team with significant engineering flexibility, which allowed us to accommodate late requests from internal and external partners while delivering a polished user experience. Collaborated with designers, program managers, and marketing managers to ensure that the video was a high-quality and faithful representation of Windows 8. Served as the manager for our team's program manager intern, garnering excellent feedback from both our intern and our partner-level director.

Led the design of the Hyper-V PowerShell UI from the ground up, delivering 140+ new “cmdlets” with my teammates Improved the usability of features beyond my responsibility by securing funding for, designing, running, and analyzing user studies Represented the Hyper-V team to external developers of backup applications and shipped the “incremental backup” feature Crafted and delivered highly-rated presentations and trainings to audiences of up to 450 people

Co-created the user modeling strategy for the Windows Server and System Center families of products, evolving it from personas to empirical, verifiable data Improved a v1 systems management service through exploratory and evaluative research Drove improvements into PowerShell 2.0 through a deep understanding of how IT pros wrote scripts

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