Program Manager for Speech at Microsoft
Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area
- Current
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- Program Manager, Speech Components Group at Microsoft Corporation
- Past
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- Program Manager at Zetta Systems
- Founder at Copper Software
- Operations Director at Flight Across America
- Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation
- Independent Author at Microsoft Press
- Program Manager at Microsoft
- Vice President of Development at Henter-Joyce
- Education
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- University of South Florida
- Pasco-Hernando Community College
- Connections
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- Industry
- Computer Software
- Websites
Charles Oppermann’s Summary
Creator of software; including design, engineering, and management. Focus on user-centric interfaces, particularly for people with disabilities; including cognitive, sensory and mobility impairments. Specialist in implementing speech recognition and voice output. Experience with shipping products large (Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer), medium (JAWS screen reader, Active Accessibility) and small (numerous utilities available from Microsoft).
Charles Oppermann’s Experience
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Program Manager, Speech Components Group
Microsoft Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)
Program Manager in the Speech Components Group. Primarly responsible for speech API's, SDK and text-to-speech (TTS) engines.
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Program Manager
Zetta Systems
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)
August 2004 — February 2005 (7 months)
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Founder
Copper Software
(Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2005 (5 years )
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Operations Director
Flight Across America
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
March 2002 — September 2002 (7 months)
As an unpaid volunteer, I coordinated all aspects of the Flight Across America, a national aviation event honoring the first anniversary of the September 11, 2001 tragedy. I organized a team of a dozen volunteers, delegating roles, and coordinating events in 20 states. Created the project website, http://www.flightacrossamerica.com, and used Microsoft SQL Server to store pilot applications. All aspects of the project were Internet-based. From 8/11 through 9/11/2002, nearly 3,000 pilots participated in the project, along with representatives from each state. I piloted the lead aircraft to 20 states, meeting with the media (including appearing on CNN Sunday Morning), schoolchildren and elected officials to promote general aviation. Also coordinated logistics and security between 53 aircraft and federal and local agencies, including the FAA, TSA, NYPD, and the NJ State Police.
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Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation
(Computer Software industry)
January 2002 — January 2002 (1 month)
As a contractor, I coordinated documentation processes for Microsoft Server products, including Services for UNIX, Systems Management Server, and Microsoft Operations Manager. Worked with authors, editors, and production personnel to keep documentation projects on schedule using Microsoft Project. Also created a SharePoint-based team website, including customized modules using DHTML scripting with XML-based data sources.
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Independent Author
Microsoft Press
(Computer Networking industry)
April 2000 — March 2001 (1 year )
Sole author of "Microsoft Windows 2000 Active Directory Programming" published by Microsoft Press (ISBN 0-7356-1037-1). All aspects of Active Directory and ADSI are covered in 450 pages with over 30 complete sample applications. Extensively researched and presented a history and implementation of network directories and helped the reader understand client-server interaction and LDAP-based programming using ADSI from a variety of languages including C++, Visual Basic, VBScript and ASP. Noteworthy for this type of technical publication is the amount of code samples and writing style that was praised as a “fresh, friendly approach to explaining concepts, ideas, and code samples” in the foreword written by Microsoft Program Manager Andy Harjanto.
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Program Manager
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
November 1994 — November 1999 (5 years 1 month)
Program Manager for accessibility components in Windows and Internet Explorer.
Primary inventor of Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) technology.
Microsoft representative to the W3C Web Accessibility Initative. -
Vice President of Development
Henter-Joyce
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1990 — November 1994 (4 years 3 months)
Developer for JAWS screen reader for DOS and Windows.
Now part of Freedom Scientific.
Charles Oppermann’s Education
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University of South Florida
Computer Engineering 1985 — 1986
Did not graduate
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Pasco-Hernando Community College
Mathmatics, Computer Science 1984 — 1986
Additional Information
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Charles Oppermann’s Interests:
Aviation, Tennis, Digital Photography, Football
Charles Oppermann’s Groups:
Olympic Club of Seattle, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Experimental Aircraft Association, ADDitude Group on MSN Groups
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Microsoft - Current and Former Employees -
Automatic Speech Recognition
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