Ian Ellison-Taylor

The job title: General Manager, Presentation Platform and Tools

What are you doing right now?

I’m the General Manager of Presentation Platform and Tools, which is about 170 people who work on Windows Presentation Foundation. We also have the Jolt team internally, which is all the graphical animation media parts and Silverlight. And I have a tools team called Cider that delivers tools for both those groups to use. It’s your traditional developer/test/PM kinda organization.
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Katya Sedova (SDET Lead for IE) and Scott Rowley (SDE II for Live Meeting)

Katya Sedova (SDET Lead for IE) and Scott Rowley (SDE II for Live Meeting) compete at the USA Dance: Seattle Chapter’s “Quest for the Best” Competition on October 21, 2006 in Seattle. They placed 2nd in PreChamp and 5th in the Open Competition. Both dancers perform with several other Microsofties on the Ballroom Dance Performance Team.