Techincal Product Planner at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area
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- Technical Product Planner at Microsoft Patterns and Practices
- Past
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- Senior Product Planner at Microsoft
- Principal Architect at Streamline Solutions
- Senior Software Engineer at Global Factory
- Senior Software Engineer at Sourcecorp
- Programmer at Cendant
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Glenn Block’s Summary
Glenn Block is the Technical Product Planner for the Client UX program at patterns & practices. As Product Planner he is responsible for driving the vision and creation of p&p client deliverables including the Web Client and Smart Client software factories, and Prism. Prior to joining Microsoft, Glenn has lived in various roles being "in the trenches" with developers, including being responsible for the overall architecture and technology direction. He has worked in both large and small organizations building enterprise systems for financial services, manufacturing, and print & mail on multiple platforms including .NET and Java. His technology passions are in software frameworks, architecture and systems integration. He resides with his wife daughter in Seattle (his other passion).
Glenn Block’s Specialties:
Disciplines: Architecture / Design patterns, TDD, XP, Agile practices
Technologies: C#,VB/VB.NET 1.0-3.5,JAVA,ASP.NET,WPF,LINQ,JSP,SQL,PL-SQL,JAVASCRIPT
Glenn Block’s Experience
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Technical Product Planner
Microsoft Patterns and Practices
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
April 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
• Drive the technical strategy for the Client Software stack including Web Client, Smart Client and Mobile Client software factories.
• Work with our enterprise customers and ISVs through their implementations
• Innovate, Innovate, Innovate! -
Senior Product Planner
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
January 2006 — April 2007 (1 year 4 months)
• Determine strategy and direction for developer e-Learning.
• Drive the vision and development of developer titles.
• Engage with various product groups at Microsoft to partner on content development.
• Promote new Microsoft technology to developers globally. -
Principal Architect
Streamline Solutions
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
May 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 8 months)
• Lead the design and development of an internal software framework.
• Migrated internal systems from VB6 to .NET 2.0
• Managed internal and offshore teams. -
Senior Software Engineer
Global Factory
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Semiconductors industry)
January 2002 — April 2003 (1 year 4 months)
• Developed a web base enterprise supply chain solution for the semiconductor industry
• Designed BI and Reporting web components
• Designed web based workflow tools -
Senior Software Engineer
Sourcecorp
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Printing industry)
March 1998 — December 2001 (3 years 10 months)
• Technical lead for development teams based in New York, San Francisco and Connecticut.
• Designed financial systems for Metlife, ChaseMellon Bank, and Oppenheimer funds generating over $5M in annual revenue.
• Designed custom High Performance Computing solution for processing financial data.
• Developed eTrac patented production tracking system.
• Developed integrated high-speed scanning solution. -
Programmer
Cendant
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CUC; Marketing and Advertising industry)
June 1996 — March 1998 (1 year 10 months)
• Designed direct mail solutions.
• Developed internal systems.
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Glenn Block’s Interests:
New technology,Mountain Biking,Hiking,Religion
Glenn Block’s Groups:
MCP, ALT.NET
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ALT.Net member
Glenn Block’s Honors:
2000 Outstanding Software Development
2006 Cross Group Ambassador
Glenn Block’s Contact Settings
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