Director, Windows Live Europe
Ireland
- Current
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- Director, Windows Live Europe at Microsoft Corporation
- Past
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- Architect at Microsoft (MSN)
- Architect at Microsoft (Windows)
- CTO and Co-Founder at XDegrees, Inc., Mountain View, CA (acquired by Microsoft in 2002)
- Vice President of Engineering and Co-Founder at Xift, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
- Senior Scientist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
- PhD Candidate at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
- Technical Lead at Alcatel Austria Research Center, Vienna, Austria
- Development Engineer at Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Linz, Austria
- Technical Lead at Computer Research Institute, Bucharest, Romania
- Education
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- Stanford University
- Stanford University
- Politechnic University of Bucharest, Romania
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Dan Teodosiu’s Summary
Dan has over 17 years of experience developing successful consumer and enterprise software and services.
As the Director of Windows Live Europe in Dublin, Ireland, Dan is currently building a new global development hub for Microsoft.
Previously, Dan was an architect in Windows Live/MSN where he evangelized, secured top-level executive funding for, and led an initiative to deliver a set of highly innovative scenarios. These included Sharing Folders (part of Windows Live Messenger), currently one of the largest secure P2P file sharing networks.
Prior to MSN, Dan was an architect in the Windows Server division, where his team shipped the Distributed File System and File Replication Service in Windows Server 2003, and developed DFSR, a state of the art file replication service that is a key component of the branch office support in Windows Server 2003 R2, and also part of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
Dan joined Microsoft in 2002 through the acquisition of XDegrees, a Bay Area start-up he co-founded to develop a P2P solution for secure file sharing. As the CTO of XDegrees, Dan recruited and managed a top-notch engineering team.
Prior to XDegrees, Dan co-founded and led the engineering for Xift, a search engine and automatic directory construction technology.
Before Xift, Dan defined and helped build the first version of the Virtual Partitions product while at Hewlett-Packard Labs. Some of Dan's prior industry experience includes working for Alcatel Research in Europe and developing Lisp compilers.
Dan holds a Ph.D. and MS from Stanford University. He has filed over 40 US and international patents.
Dan Teodosiu’s Specialties:
Extremely sharp focus on execution and delivery.
Very strong team building and leadership skills.
Deep understanding of technology, customers, and business objectives.
Reconciling technical vision and pragmatic goals.
Dan Teodosiu’s Experience
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Director, Windows Live Europe
Microsoft Corporation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
August 2006 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Secured executive support for creating a new Microsoft Windows Live development hub in Dublin, Ireland.
Worked with partner teams in Redmond to identify and define development projects, including adCenter analytics visualization and Windows Live for mobile browse platform enhancements. -
Architect
Microsoft (MSN)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
February 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 6 months)
Defined and evangelized a new strategic product initiative. Helped secure top-level executive buy-in and funding.
Built and led the virtual team of 50 people implementing the various offerings. As part of Windows Live Messenger beta, shipped the Sharing Folders feature, a secure P2P solution for sharing files with Messenger contacts.
Architected several additional products slated to ship in future releases. Put in place an aggressive launch strategy and execution plan. Evaluated potential acquisition targets and managed the acquisition of FolderShare. -
Architect
Microsoft (Windows)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
June 2002 — January 2005 (2 years 8 months)
Analyzed customer requirements and drove the definition of the new Branch Office market segment for Windows Server 2003 R2.
Built the team, architected, and led the implementation of two key products for supporting branch office and several other scenarios in R2 and Vista: DFSR (Distributed File System Replication) and RDC (Remote Differential Compression).
Defined and shepherded advanced development projects with Microsoft Research in Redmond, Beijing, and Silicon Valley on self-organizing storage systems, protocol modeling, and differential compression.
Shipped DFS (Distributed File System) and FRS (File Replication Service) in Windows Server 2003 and significantly improved customer satisfaction with these products.
Filed numerous patent applications and worked with legal counsel on numerous licensing and IP issues.
As a senior interviewer, drove the recruiting efforts and made the hiring decisions for several teams, conducting several hundred interviews. -
CTO and Co-Founder
XDegrees, Inc., Mountain View, CA (acquired by Microsoft in 2002)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2000 — June 2002 (2 years 2 months)
Helped raise $8M of Series A funding from first-tier VC firms. Recruited a top-notch executive and engineering team of 31 people.
As the interim VP of Engineering, managed 17 engineers through the first product release cycle and the deployment of XDegrees’ co-located infrastructure.
Contributed significantly to the definition of XDegrees’ market positioning, business development strategy, and customer contacts.
Architected and led the implementation of a highly scalable, cost-effective, and secure alternative to VPNs and extranets. Filed 13 U.S. and international patent applications. -
Vice President of Engineering and Co-Founder
Xift, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 1999 — April 2000 (1 year 4 months)
Recruited Xift’s development team and successfully led the implementation and launch of Xift’s search engine and automatic web directory based on a 60 million page corpus.
Managed the planning, co-located deployment, and operations of Xift’s processing infrastructure.
Architected a distributed infrastructure for Web crawling, automatic concept hierarchy construction, page indexing and ranking, and query serving. -
Senior Scientist
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)
July 1998 — November 1999 (1 year 5 months)
Developed the strategy for the vPars (Virtual Partitions) product line for HP SuperDome platforms.
Designed and led the implementation of the first version of the vPars product.
Contributed to the definition of next-generation HP platform hardware features.
Designed the high-availability support and implemented the system level simulation-based testing harness for a modular multicomputer operating system. -
PhD Candidate
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1994 — July 1998 (3 years 11 months)
Dissertation: “End-to-end Fault Containment in Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessors” (advisor: Prof. Mendel Rosenblum). Granted a Stanford School of Engineering Fellowship.
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Technical Lead
Alcatel Austria Research Center, Vienna, Austria
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ALA; Telecommunications industry)
March 1991 — September 1994 (3 years 7 months)
Managed a team of five engineers during the design and implementation of an industrial monitoring and optimization system for a large European customer.
Based on customer feedback, defined and implemented key performance and usability optimizations for the Pamela-C rule-based programming environment.
Performed customer requirements analysis and designed an expert system for fault-resilient telecommunication networks, and European research project BRE20566. -
Development Engineer
Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Linz, Austria
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1990 — March 1991 (7 months)
Designed and implemented the distributed image-rendering algorithms for a transputer-based multiprocessor system.
Developed a toolkit for parallelizing a computer algebra system on a network of fifty workstations.
Taught several advanced UNIX courses targeted at an industry audience and administered the institute’s Unix computing resources. -
Technical Lead
Computer Research Institute, Bucharest, Romania
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)
September 1989 — September 1990 (1 year 1 month)
Managed a team of six engineers that designed and implemented the Lisp development environment for the S-Machine (a dedicated list processing architecture).
Designed and implemented HARE, a highly optimizing Lisp compiler for the S-Machine. Significantly contributed to the design of the hardware architecture.
Dan Teodosiu’s Education
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Stanford University
PhD, Computer Science, 1994 — 2000
Solved a core reliability problem of current shared-memory multiprocessors: their inherent vulnerability to any hardware or operating system faults.
Designed and implemented two operating systems (Cellular Disco and Hive) and the hardware support for fault containment in the Stanford FLASH multiprocessor. -
Stanford University
MS, Computer Science, September 1994 — January 1996
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Politechnic University of Bucharest, Romania
BS, Computer Science, September 1985 — July 1990
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Dan Teodosiu’s Websites:
Dan Teodosiu’s Honors:
1999: Best Paper Award, 17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
1986-1989: First Prize, National Collegiate Programming Contest, Romania
1986: Grand Prize, National Collegiate Technical Competition, Romania
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Optimizing File Replication over Limited-Bandwidth Networks using Remote Differential Compression. Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2006-157, November 2006.
Cellular Disco: Resource Management Using Virtual Clusters on Shared-memory Multiprocessors. The 17th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), December 1999.
Hardware Fault Containment in Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessors. The 24th International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), May 1997.
Implementing Efficient Fault Containment for Multiprocessors. Communications of the ACM (CACM) 39(9), September 1996.
Hive: Fault Containment for Shared-Memory Multiprocessors. The 15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), December 1995.
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