The geek in question: Jillian Venters aka “That Goth Girl.”

The job title: Technical Editor, Dev Div

What is it that you do here?

I edit help documentation for developers on the Dev Div team, and I’ve been an editor here at Microsoft as a contractor and then full time for about seven years now.

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The geek in question: 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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A Microsoft PM tracks her story from aspiring astronaut to apprentice to SDET to PM to UX student

The geek in question
Dana Badeen

The job title
Program Manager, Engineering Innovation (Windows Server)

So, Dana. What did you want to be when you grew up?
When I started college at the University of Michigan, I wanted to be an astronaut. After two years in the Aerospace program I realized that the chances of actually getting into the Astronaut program are worse than getting struck by lightning! And even if you get into the program, you only have a one-third chance of making it to space.

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