Manager Management

Eric Straub

Email: ********@*********.***

Address:

City: Kirkland

State: WA

Zip: 98033

Country: USA

Phone: 425-***-****

Skill Level: Any

Salary Range:

Primary Skills/Experience:

Consultant, entrepreneur, computer scientist, and technology enthusiast with software production and project management expertise, innovative problem solving and conflict resolution skills, passionate customer empathy, and established team leadership and management skills, seeking opportunity to significantly contribute on and/or lead a team, using agile development methodologies, planning and implementing world class software for current and new technologies and platforms.

Educational Background:

High School Dipolma from Washington State University, Pullman WA 1/2001 to 5/1985 (Computer Science)

Job History / Details:

Summary

Consultant, entrepreneur, computer scientist, and technology enthusiast with software production and project management expertise, innovative problem solving and conflict resolution skills, passionate customer empathy, and established team leadership and management skills, seeking opportunity to significantly contribute on and/or lead a team, using agile development methodologies, planning and implementing world class software for current and new technologies and platforms.

Highlights

Computer science/engineering

Strategic thinking

Communication and listening

Working with others

Project management

Risk management

Conflict resolution/creative solutions

Employee development

Accomplishments

Operating Systems:

Led planning and implementation of key integrated operating system tools built on new system technologies while those system technologies were being built by other teams.

Led planning and implementation of multiple operating system releases.

Led successful collaboration of leading industry companies to create and adopt DPMI technology standard.

Innovated idea of "commit" type transaction for risky OS changes with automatic back out when the change failed.

Games:

Inherited, overhauled, and developed world class program management teams for three different internal game studios, leading to release of over 20 major games.

Collaborated, defined, and documented the mission and roles for game program managers at Microsoft Game Studios, providing clear and consistent expectations, and much improved team performance.

Identified major system install issues, investigated and negotiated with numerous other groups, ultimately leading to resolution and significant reduction in support costs and user frustration.

Other:

Managed 3rd party partners including IBM, Intel, and numerous game development companies.

Consistent top 25 percentage performer at Microsoft (3.9 review average); received numerous awards for leadership and achievement; First ever non-Intel employee to receive Intel leadership award

Paid consultant, advising several companies and startups on software development and business development.

Experience

June 2002 to Current

Common Folk Co. Bellevue, WA

Entrepreneur

Own and operate (with my wife) Common Folk Co. in Bellevue, Washington. Responsibilities include all aspects of business, but primarily focused on strategy, planning, and the back office (Point of Sale, systemization of the business, government reporting, security, bookkeeping, payroll), lease negotiation, site planning, design and improvements. Also create fixtures from repurposed goods for resale and display at the store

September 2002 to Current

ES Consulting Kirkland, WA

Principal Consultant

Consulting services for all aspects of software planning, development, production, and business development for both startups and established companies. Most recently provided Program Management support investigating, designing, and planning multiple platform mobile and cloud based vertical event platform.

December 2000 to January 2002

Microsoft Game Studios Redmond, WA

Studio Manager

Managed the Studio X game development studio, planning and implementing production of AAA PC games and several Xbox titles, including Munch's Oddysee in time for the Xbox console launch.

April 1996 to December 2000

Microsoft Game Studios Redmond, WA

Group Program Manager

Joined Microsoft games group as Group Program Manager (GPM) of Simulations studio:

Overhauled the PM team by identifying and removing under performing PMs, mentored the team, and hiring quality new PMs (and one bad one that I later removed).

Planned and implemented several major PC games

Identified a major install design flaw that would leave customer computers unusable. Successfully spearheaded a cross division effort educating and motivating the stakeholder teams to fix a broken design that had plagued PC game install for years as teams pointed fingers at each other.

After successfully overhauling the Simulations studio PM team, and at the request of our senior VP, shifted to GPM of the Sports studio:

Overhauled the PM team, similar to what I did in Simulations.

Planned and implemented several PC sports games

After successfully overhauling the Sports studio PM team, and also at the request of our Senior VP, shifted to GPM role for the Action, Arcade and Strategy studio:

Overhauled the PM team, similar to what I did in Simulations and Sports.

Planned and implemented several PC games

Initiated and lead cross studio collaborative effort, clearly defining and documenting the roles and expectations of game PM's at Microsoft.

November 1993 to May 1996

Microsoft Redmond, WA

Group Manager - Systems

Systems Tools And Plus! Team

Managed the creation of core Windows system tools including Defrag, Scandisk, System Agent, and enhanced Drvspace disk compression, while simultaneously creating the first Windows Plus! product. Participated in daily Windows war team and established reputation as solid leader with excellent problem solving skills.

In the months following release of Windows 95, worked directly for VP strategizing and exploring ways for Microsoft to embrace the Internet. Conceived and created the first Internet Explorer Admin Kit (IEAK), an SDK/Wizard which made it easy for partners to customize Internet Explorer (IE) w/o impacting the IE development team.

June 1985 to December 1993

Details of prior years experience available upon request

Education

1985 Washington State University Pullman, WA

Computer Science

Minor in Math.

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