Consumer Services and Software
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Partner Engineering Manager - Search Client at Microsoft
- Partner- Group Program Manager / Site Lead at Microsoft / Live Search Communities
- Past
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- General Manager, Live Incubator at Microsoft
- Vice President, Development at Scalix
- General Manager at MSN Information Services Client
- General Manager at MSN Incubator Team
- General Manager at MSN Hotmail
- General Manager at Macintosh Internet Development
- Senior Director of Integrated Product Development at Claris
- Connections
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201
connections
- Industry
- Computer Software
Don Bradford’s Summary
My career is about helping people connect and communicate. I've helped build great teams, products and services, recruited and mentored rock star leaders and individual contributors and delivered world class consumer products and services from White Pine Software to Aldus Persuasion, Claris Works, Mac IE, MSN Hotmail/Calender and MSN Toolbar/Desktop Search.
Don Bradford’s Specialties:
consumer products and services, internet and web services, consumer communication and communities, distributed development, team builder, mentor
Don Bradford’s Experience
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Partner Engineering Manager - Search Client
Microsoft
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Product development and site leadership for Search Client team located in Mountain View, CA.
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Partner- Group Program Manager / Site Lead
Microsoft / Live Search Communities
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; msft; Computer Software industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
As part of major re-org in the Windows Live organization, the Directed Incubation was merged with the QnA team to become the Search Communities Team; assuming responsibility for Live Boards, Ratings and Reviews, QnA and a new personalization initiative for Search. The team assumed responsibility for the existing services with less than 1/3 of the original headcount and continued to maintain service levels, partner onboarding plans and key feature released. The team is also on track to deliver a key feature for Live Search, starting 6 weeks later than other feature teams.
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General Manager, Live Incubator
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; msft; Computer Software industry)
December 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 2 months)
Rejoined Microsoft to lead an Incubation Team as part of the Windows Live Team to explore rich client and service opportunities integrating communities across Microsoft’s product and service lines. The identified and delivered three prototypes: 1) focused on Outlook and Search integration that was influential in planning Office 14, 2) integrating social networks, mapping and outlook to provide an integrated location, calendar and presence service and 3) integrating social networks and annotation with search.
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Vice President, Development
Scalix
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 6 months)
Joined Scalix at close of Series A on same day as new CEO. Reorganized product development team, increased morale and revised product development process to deliver desired results on a predictable schedule. Delivered Scalix 9.1 and Scalix 9.2 and three additional point releases on spec and on schedule. Worked with executive staff to focus business objectives and proposed 3 year product strategy and innovation opportunities. Supported growth of Scalix customers from 2 to over 100. Scalix 9.2 was awarded Communications Product of the Year at Spring 2005 Linux world.
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General Manager
MSN Information Services Client
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; msft; Computer Software industry)
2003 — 2004 (1 year )
Joined MSN Information Services / Search team as part of corporate wide initiative on search. Developed MSN smart client strategy, prototyped v2 client components and built MSN Information Services Client team in Mountain View, CA. These products were delivered as MSN Toolbar / Deskbar / Gadgets.
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General Manager
MSN Incubator Team
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; msft; Computer Software industry)
2002 — 2003 (1 year )
Led team that explored grass roots innovation / incubation model for MSN and Microsoft. Deployed internal web service that enabled all full time employees to propose/discuss ideas, build virtual teams and submit proposals to incubation teams and senior management. MSIdeas is central to the sourcing strategy for all current internal Microsoft incubator teams.
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General Manager
MSN Hotmail
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; msft; Computer Software industry)
1998 — 2002 (4 years )
Integrated Hotmail into MSN, preserved key staff, factored operations and development into peer tightly integrated organizations and maintained service level and user growth. Worked with executive staff to establish appropriate roles for Hotmail founders. Lead Hotmail development team evolving service from 8 million to over 200 million users and built development team from 24 to 140. Established service development process with operations and business development as key additions which became the role model for MSN. Recruited and mentored 10 key leaders on MSN and Windows teams who have achieved Group Manager level or above. Acquired Jump, Inc to kickstart MSN Calendar and effectively integrated team into MSN. Championed platform investigation resulting in: 1) deployment of Win32 front doors with 50% cost reduction and 2) re-architecture of storage system. Team has consistently met or exceeded technology and business objectives.
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General Manager
Macintosh Internet Development
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; msft; Computer Software industry)
1995 — 1998 (3 years )
Pitched concept of and then built Macintosh Internet Team in SF Bay Area, attracted key leaders and technologists from the industry at large and previous Aldus, Radius and Claris teams. Conceived and executed Macintosh Internet plan, delivered Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Java, IEAK, ISK and ICW for Macintosh, built team from initial 6 to over 130 full time employees; including remote sites in Dallas, TX and Maumee, OH. Coordinated Apple Internet relationship and was general resource to exec staff. Acquired two key technologies: ResNova – to obtain Macintosh server technology and resources and Natural Intelligence: to obtain Macintosh Java development tools and resources. Built key partnerships with Metrowerks and Macromedia. Macintosh internet products were established best of breed following release of Mac IE 2.1; winning every subsequent printed and online review. Macintosh Java implementation was second only to Win32 in performance, robustness and feature set.
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Senior Director of Integrated Product Development
Claris
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; aapl; Computer Software industry)
1992 — 1995 (3 years )
Led development team for ClarisWorks on Macintosh and Windows; grew the team to include 8 managers with 60 fulltime engineers. Delivered ClarisWorks 2.0, 2.1, 3.0 and 4.0 on Macintosh and Windows. ClarisWorks was category leader in reviews, market share and revenue during this period. Started advanced development effort to deliver a goal/task centered series of products resulting in ClarisWorks for Kids. Recommended partnership with Mozilla to add web authoring capabilities to future versions of ClarisWorks.
