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E l l e n C r a m K o
w a l c z y k
S e a t t l e , W A 9 8 1 0 5
ellen_kowalczyk at hotmail
G o a l : To lead a team who is charged with providing secure products that meet
the customer need.
S k i l l s :
Strong management and leadership
Solid experience running a strategic, Microsoft-wide business
Excellent program and project management skills and accomplishments
Noted for pulling teams together and accomplishing stretch goals on an
aggressive schedule
Highly knowledgeable and experienced in computer security, including thread
model analysis, protection profiles, and designing to minimize attack surface.
Recognized for cross-group coordination and leadership skills
Strong technical design and specification writing skills.
Excellent leadership, organizational, personal relations, and time management
skills.
Strong presentation and customer skills
Noted for my learning ability, punctuality, dependability and efficiency.
A proven track record in computer security and building secure applications
and platforms.
Technical skills include programming ability in C#, Java, SQL, and many other
languages, basic knowledge of algorithms, program design, and windows
programming.
Extensive knowledge of internal automation and publishing systems and device
driver issues.
E x p e r i e n c e :
G r o u p P r o g r a m M a n a g e r , S e c u r i t y E n g i n e e r i n g ( S
W I )
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA. January 2005 to present
As the Group Program Manager for the SWI team, I lead a team of security professionals who advise products across
Microsoft on security, coach teams on using the SDL (Security Development Lifecycle) to find, fix and mitigate
against exploitable issues, and sign off on the secuirty of products before they release. I set business goals and direction,
make calls on whether products are ready to ship from a security point of view, and communicate and
manage issues at the Vice President level. I handle
tough cross-group issues around communicating ship signoff decisions and
reasoning to teams, and provide security expertise to teams across the company.
I lead a team of both leads and individual contributors, which I have grown
over two fold since joining.
L e a d P r o g r a m M a n a g e r , N e x t G e n e r a t i o n S e c u r e C
o m p u t i n g B a s e
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA. December 2002 to January 2005
As the Lead Program Manager for Agents and Services in NGSCB, I drove a team of
4 PMs to design, spec, manage, and deliver key security features in the
platform, aimed across 2 different releases. I hired each team member, helped
ramp them up quickly and efficiently, and worked with each person to help them
grow their skills and career. The team has been very successful in driving their
projects, becoming an example to the remainder of the team in good PM skills. In
addition, I drove our internal and external relationships, coordinating our work
with other teams and working closely with biz dev and marketing on partner
issues. I also headed up our ISV relationship program, spoke at RSA, IDF and PDC,
and have lead communications with governments, partners and customers.
P r o g r a m M a n a g e r, W i n d o w s U p d a t e D r i v e r s a n d P u b
l i s h I n g
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA. March 2000 to December 2002
As virtual team lead for Windows Update drivers, I set the overall vision, plan
and goals for Windows Update and drivers, coordinating across the WHQL, PnP,
Printing and Imaging, SUS teams to provide the right solution for both vendors
and customers.
As program manager for the software content publishing tool I created a tool
that enables groups within Microsoft to publish updates to the Windows Update
site. This involved understanding customer needs, designing the tool, and
managing the project through feature tradeoffs through to ship.
I also wrote a paper for BillG's think week to raise the awareness of Windows
Update, which he has quoted.
P r o g r a m M a n a g e r , W i n d o w s . c o m
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA. January 2000 to March 2000.
Took over Hardware Update initiative to evangelize the need for users to
download bios updates when upgrading to Windows 2000 and provide them with a
direct link to bios and other updates. Managed merging the site in with the
existing windows.com compatibility searches, worked with contacts at various
hardware manufactures to help them provide pages that provided updates, and
handled all other issues related to the program.
P r o g r a m M a n a g e r , W i n d o w s N T
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA. August 1999 to January 2000.
I concentrated my focus on Small Business users, driving user interface
improvements in faxing, backup, and general document management. I worked
closely with UI designers and usability engineers to develop UI that would
improve the user experience, and coordinated with groups across the Windows NT
group to drive these designs as well as a general empathy for the user
experience. I presented ideas and issues to upper management to gain buy off
across the product. I also lead a group to pursue the possibility of creating a
specific Windows experience for the Small Business user, coordinating feature
sets, time estimates, and schedules.
P r o g r a m M a n a g e r ,
V i s u a l S t u d i o
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA. September 1998 to August 1999.
As the program manager for a new web application technology I worked with a team
of about 25 people to put together a strong product for the Visual Studio user.
I wrote technical and high level specification documents, gave presentations,
led team meetings and tracked team status and adjusted priorities as necessary.
I also focused on making sure that the entire team understood where we were,
where we were going, and the details of issues that affected them. As a result
of this, the project remained on track for a timely completion while adjusting
to best target the end use.
S o f t w a r e E n g i n e e r ,
A d v a n c e d D e v e l o p m e n t
Starwave Corporation, Bellevue, WA. November 1997 to September 1998.
A s s i s t a n t P r o d u c e r , v a r i o u s p r o d u c t s
Starwave Corporation, Bellevue, WA. October 1996 to November 1997.
E d u c a t i o n : Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, University of Washington.
Deans list Fall 1995 and Winter 1996.
R e f e r e n c e s : Available on request.
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