STATHIS PAPAEFSTATHIOU, PH.D.

***** ***** ** ** ? Redmond, Washington 98052

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Curriculum Vitae

Summary

? General Manager with proven track record of bringing to market state of the art technologies and

products on time and on budget.

? Technologist with extensive research background and experience adapting research technologies to meet

the needs of real world products.

? Entrepreneurial Leader that successfully and consistently developed new product proposals, secured

funding, and built organizations and businesses from the ground up.

Specialties

Multidiscipline organization management including engineering, product planning, and business development

teams; business and product strategy planning; recruiting top talent; managing P&L; consumer hardware

development; cloud service development; cloud operations; research; embedded systems; advanced human

interaction models; natural user interfaces; robotics; development platforms and tools; high performance

computing.

Professional Experience

Microsoft Corporation,

Redmond, Wa Aug 1999 to Present

General Manager, Startup Business GroupFeb 2008 to Present

Responsible for defining and driving the overall Robotics strategy for Microsoft. Defined a product roadmap that

aligns with the overall corporate strategy and has the potential to create a sustainable and profitable business.

Drove a project incubation that led to a major product proposal that included a business plan, advanced Robotics

technologies, customer validated scenarios and Natural User Interface based experiences. Established a long term

business plan that captures multiple revenue streams and developed a multi-year financial model that

demonstrated the viability of the business.

? Leading a multidisciplinary engineering team of senior software & hardware engineers to develop

advanced technologies including machine learning, human robot interaction models, autonomous

contextual aware navigation, cloud services, and analytics.

? Leading business and marketing activities for all releases and managing a team of product managers and

business development managers in addition to R&D.

? Hired a senior team of engineers, business development managers, and product planners.

? Member of the senior Microsoft Hardware Leadership Team defining best practices and processes for

Microsoft.

? Shipped multiple releases of products including Robotics Development Studio

(http://www.microsoft.com/Robotics), CCR/DSS Toolkit, and the Recite embedded speech technology for

Windows Mobile phones.

? Managed a substantial P&L for FY11 that required close collaboration with corporate finance.

? Established a Partner Advisory Board comprised of senior executives to act as product advisors and

internal evangelists.

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? In addition to Robotics, led the division's Central Hardware Team to support a wide range of hardware

development projects in GPS navigation, home energy, and shared computing.

Software Architect, Office of the CTO Mar 2006 to Feb 2008

Member of the Technical Incubation Team researching and prototyping next generation Operating System (OS)

technologies. Defined a formal framework for describing OS architectures and developed analysis tools for

assessing performance, reliability, and quality metrics for alternative designs. Led a team of architects that

developed the resource management design and prototyping work. Evaluated the implications of next generation

virtualization technologies and hardware trends to the architecture of next generation OSs. Specified requirements

for the next generation hypervisor releases to support the future OS architectures.

Product Unit Manager, Windows Management May 2002 to Feb 2006

Owned full accountability for development and delivery of System Center Capacity Manager product line.

Recruited, trained and oversaw product-engineering team of 20 including developers, testers and program

managers. Lead research and development of cutting-edge technologies to support advanced performance

planning scenarios for enterprise datacenters and cloud services. Defined vision, scope, requirements and feature

set of all products. Liaise with marketing team to create marketing collateral, packaging/pricing strategies, and

business plan and product roadmap. Interface with executive management to secure funding and deliver progress

updates.

? Introduced product to market that provides IT Administrators with advanced scenarios such as SLA

prediction and pre-deployment sizing previously available only to capacity planning consultants with

highly specialized knowledge in performance modeling.

? Defined the overall capacity planning strategy for the Windows Enterprise Management Division product

line and provided the core performance modeling technology for other products such as System Center

Virtual Machine Manager and System Center Operation Manager.

? Nominated for 2005 Computer World Horizon !ward given to developers of especially cutting -edge

technologies from research labs and startups that are on the horizon and have the potential to change

the way companies do business or solve technology problems into the future/

? Awarded the Patent Leadership Award 2005 for Server and Tools Business

Researcher, Microsoft Research Aug 1999 to May 2002

Spearheaded development of new performance-modeling technology (codename Indy) that allows for

performance modeling of distributed software running at enterprise geo-scaled datacenters. Conceptualized and

implemented method for combining simulation with analytical and statistical techniques to allow for modeling of

multi-tier transactions running on thousands of servers in a few seconds and using limited memory.

? Project was the first from Microsoft Research overseas lab to have formed its own product group (level 5

technology transfer).

? Successfully applied new technology to numerous MSN services, resulting in identification of a multitude

of performance and capacity issues for critical services.

? Recognized as performance-modeling expert, assisting product groups with development of features that

required modeling technology including Visual Studio and Commerce Server.

? Served as expert representative to European Union, evaluating research funding for GRID testbed

projects.

University of Warwick,

Department of Computer Science, Coventry, UK Jul 1997 to Jul 1999Senior Research Fellow / Group Manager

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Directed team of 10+ post-doctoral researchers and Ph.D. students in full lifecycle development of the PACE

project, a technology solution designed to predict the performance of parallel and distributed applications, and to

provide load balancing and scheduling for parallel GRID-based applications. Defined system architecture and

developed core-modeling technology.

? Application was selected for use in NASA GRID infrastructure.

? Successfully authored winning research proposal, securing funding from the European Union, DARPA, the

US Navy and NASA.

? Group was recognized with Best Project award by Dr/ Frederica Darema, Director of D!RP!/

Greek Army,

Various locations, Greece

Jan 1996 to Jul 1997IT Specialist

Performed as developer for nationwide GIS project as part of compulsory military service for all Greek male

national citizens.

University of Warwick,

Department of Computer Science, Coventry, UK Sep 1992 to Dec 1996Research Fellow

Partnered with Mental Images GmbH & Co. KG to port and parallelize Mental Ray, ray-tracing software used by

major visualization manufacturers CATIA and Softimage to workstation clusters. Introduced technique for

characterizing parallel algorithms running on MIMD and shared memory high-performance computers. Established

and utilized analytical techniques for predicting and analyzing performance of industrial-strength parallel

applications.

? Results of research were selected for use in European Union PEPS project for characterizing the 12 most

industrial workloads.

OWLSOFT INFORMATION SYSTEMS,

Thessaloniki, Greece Aug 1987 to Sep 1992Development Manager

Spearheaded design and implementation of development platform for medical-research applications targeted for

research institutes and hospitals. Managed team of 15 developers and testers for last two years at company.

DATAPAC S.A.,

Thessaloniki, Greece Sep 1985 to Apr 1987System Programmer

Developed numerous enterprise-level database applications using UNIFY for use in various corporate

environments. Successfully modified code of UNIX/UNIFY database to support 8-bit international character set.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1995 University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, 1992 North College, Thessaloniki, Greece

GPA: 3.82/4.00, High Distinction Honor, Top of class

Patents

? US Pat No.6,996,517 A Performance Technology Infrastructure for Modeling the Performance of

Computer Systems

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? US Pat No.6,925,431 Method and System for Predicting Communication Delays of Detailed Application

Workloads

? US Pat No.7,167,821 Evaluating Hardware Models Having Resource Contention

? US Pat No.7,107,191 A Modular Architecture for Optimizing the Configuration of Computer Systems.

? US Pat No.7,552,036 Preconditioning for Stochastic Simulation of Computer System Performance

? US Pat. No.7,383,161 Systems and Methods for Device Simulation

? US Pat. No.7,552,208 Methods for Managing Capacity

? US Pat No.7,571,088 Simulation of Connected Devices

? US Pat No.7,548,843 Simulation of Distributed Networks

? US Pat No.7,747,986 Generating Static Performance Modeling Factors in a Deployed System

? US Pat No.7,689,676 Model Based Policy Application

? US App Number 200******** Late Binding Of Resource Allocation in a Performance Simulation

Infrastructure

? US App Number 200******** Automatic Validation and Calibration of Transaction-Based Performance

Models

? US App Number 200******** Automatic Configuration of Transaction-Based Performance

? US App Number 200******** Prescriptive Architecture Recommendations

? US App Number 200******** Detecting Computer System Simulation Errors

? US App Number 200******** Dynamic Software Performance Models

? US App Number 200******** - Abstracting Operating Environment from Operating System

? US App Number 200******** - Hierarchical Reservation Resource Scheduling Infrastructure

? US App Number 20060235664Model-Based Capacity Planning

Major Research

ContractsContract: N660001-97-C-853, Period: 5/1997-05/2000, Value: $350,000 Development of Predictive and

Analysis Tools for Parallel and Distributed Systems, DARPA ITO Performance Technology Initiative

? Project 22765, Period: 1/1997-6/1999, Value: $150,000 Design by Simulation and Rendering on Parallel

Architectures II (DESIRE II), European Union, ESPRIT 4

? Project 6952, Period: 11/1992-10/1995, Value: $1.4M Performance Evaluation of Parallel Systems

(PEPS), European Union ESPRIT 3

? Project 6173, Period: 7/1992-6/1994, Value: $200,000 Design By Simulation And Rendering On Parallel

Architectures I (DESIRE), European Union ESPRIT 3

Project Review Experience

? European Union IST2001 (V.1.9

CPA9), Brussels, Belgium, June 2001

? European Union EUROGRID (IST-20247), Manchester, UK, December 2001

? European Union EUROGRID (IST-20247), Toulouse, France, December 2002

? European Union EUROGRID (IST-20247), Paris, France, January 2004

? European Union FP6-2005-Infrastructure-7, Brussels, October 2005

Selected Publications

B/ Hertzberger (eds/), Optimising !pplication Execution Using Dynamic Performance Prediction, High

Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-2000), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1823,

Springer Verlag, May 2000

? J/ Cao, D/J/ Kerbyson, E/ Papaefstathiou, G/R/ Nudd, Parallel and Distributed Computing Using P! CE, IEEE

International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC-2000), Phoenix, Arizona,

February 2000

? E/ Papaefstathiou, D/J/ Kerbyson, G/R/ Nudd, J/S/ Harper, S/C/ Perry, and D/V/ Wilcox, ! Performance

!nalysis Environment for Life, 2nd ACM SIGMETRICS Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Tools,

Oregon, August 1998

? E/ Papaefstathiou, D/J/ Kerbyson, G/R/ Nudd, D/V/ Wilcox, J/S/ Harper, S/C/ Perry, ! Common Workload

Interface for Performance Prediction of High Performance Systems, Workshop on Performance Analysis

and its Impact on Design (PAID98), Barcelona, Spain, June 1998

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