Location: ECJ 1.202
Time: Wednesday, October 12th, 6:30 - 7:30PM
Free food from Jimmy John's!!! Also, Microsoft will be raffling off a kinect, T-shirts, and other prizes!
What is innovation? Where does innovation come from? How can YOU be innovative? At this talk you will learn how Microsoft helps its employees become innovators by giving them the time, resources and support that they need. Come and learn the history of popular current technologies and their innovation path. Free food from Jimmy Johns!
Presenter Darrin House:
As senior test manager of Office Meetings, Darrin House leads the test team for the new Meetings functionality of Office 15. The Meetings team is a new team in Office that is taking on the challenge of making meetings enjoyable as well as productive. It focuses on the in-person meeting-in-progress experience, while at the same time working closely with a variety of teams including PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, WAC, and Lync. Previously, Darrin was the Test manager of the Visio team and joined Microsoft as part of the acquisition of Visio Corporation in January 2000. He joined Visio in March of 1994 as a test lead and helped the development team create Visio from a startup product into a $500 million a year business. Before joining Visio, Darrin worked for Autodesk corp. in Bothell, WA. as a tester working on various CAD products over several years.
