Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
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- Sr. Program Manager at Microsoft Corp.
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- Founder at Brilliant Labs
- CTO, Information Technology Solutions at Intuit
- CTO, VP Product Development at Blue Ocean Software
- Software Architect, Consumer Products Division at Symantec
- Sr. Consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton
- Naval Intelligence Officer at US Navy
- Education
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- Navy-Marine Corp Intelligence Training Center
- University of Virginia
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Jim Lamb’s Summary
Over the course of my career, I've shipped more than 25 releases of over 15 distinct products serving consumer, corporate, and military markets. For nearly all of these projects, I was the senior technical leader. I have an extensive track record of shipping quality, commercially successful products on time and on budget. Many of the products I've delivered have been 1.0 releases that I played a key role in defining. I have also had P&L responsibility for a half dozen product releases.
Jim Lamb’s Experience
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Sr. Program Manager
Microsoft Corp.
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
December 2005 — Present (4 years )
Working on Team Foundation Server (TFS), part of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). Currently managing the build automation feature area, leading our technology adoption program (TAP), managing our content for the Visual Studio SDK and delivering a synchronization solution for customers using HP Quality Center alongside TFS.
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Founder
Brilliant Labs
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2003 — December 2005 (3 years )
Creator of BrilliantPhoto, a top-rated digital photo management application downloaded by well over 70,000 users world-wide. Took my product idea from concept to release in 9 months working in C++. Several key elements of BrilliantPhoto's design later appeared in Apple's iPhoto and Microsoft's Digital Image Suite.
BrilliantPhoto was acquired by Bellamax in January 2006. -
CTO, Information Technology Solutions
Intuit
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; INTU; Computer Software industry)
September 2002 — December 2002 (4 months)
Intuit acquired Blue Ocean Software in September 2002.
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CTO, VP Product Development
Blue Ocean Software
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2000 — August 2002 (2 years 2 months)
Responsible for all aspects of product development, overseeing a staff of 30 (grown from 5). Instituted formalized product development lifecycle. Built partnerships with localization, self service, remote control, and software distribution vendors. Established third-level support process to handle the escalation of issues from Technical Support to Engineering.
Delivered (1) Track-It! 4.1, a fully internationalized version of the company's flagship product localized to six languages; (2) Track-It! 4.5, the company's first enterprise offering supporting both Oracle and MS SQL 7/2000 and synchronization with mobile devices; and (3) the award-winning Track-It! 5.0, a complete re-design of the user interface as well as integration of software distribution, web-based self service, hardware and software auditing of Macs, and enhanced remote control capabilities.
During my time at Blue Ocean Software we grew annual revenue from $10M to $55M and made the top 100 of the Inc. 500 each year. -
Software Architect, Consumer Products Division
Symantec
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SYMC; Computer Software industry)
December 1995 — June 2000 (4 years 7 months)
Responsible for overseeing the design and development process for the entire consumer product line. Provided oversight to over 60 technical staff. Contributed to the design and development of Norton SystemWorks, Norton AntiVirus, pcAnywhere, WinFax Pro and Norton Utilities.
I also served as Director, Shared Technology where I managed the development of LiveUpdate and other shared components. Prior to that, I was a Principal Software Engineer on Norton Administrator for Networks. -
Sr. Consultant
Booz Allen & Hamilton
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
June 1994 — November 1995 (1 year 6 months)
Led a team of 5 from different companies as Architect and Development Manager while working within the Strategic Intelligence Group. My team delivered the Standard Tactical Receive Equipment Display (S-TRED 95), a near real-time decision support system designed to display secondary imagery and electronic intelligence data to an operational analyst. Product was developed in C++ for Win32, with portability to Unix in mind.
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Naval Intelligence Officer
US Navy
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; USN; Military industry)
May 1990 — May 1994 (4 years 1 month)
Served as Operational Intelligence Analyst for VAQ-140 (electronic attack squadron) aboard the USS Eisenhower (CVN-69) and USS Washington (CVN-73). Selected Junior Naval Intelligence Officer of the Year (1992), Pacific Fleet for my contributions to both the tactical and national intelligence communities while deployed to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Desert Storm.
Designed and developed the Tactical Electronic Order of Battle (EOB) Manager, relational database software written in Object Pascal to facilitate the analysis of tactical electronic intelligence data. The system was brought from prototype to production in just six months. It was ultimately adopted across the entire Department of Defense. It included an innovative geographic map display as well as sophisticated analytical tools.
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Jim Lamb’s Honors:
* Microsoft Ship-It awards for Visual Studio 2005 SP1, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and SQL Server 2008
* BrilliantPhoto, top rated digital photo management software by C-NET for 2003
* Inc. 500 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies in the U.S. for 2000, 2001, and 2002
* Deloitte & Touche List of Fastest Growing Technology Companies in the U.S.
* 2002 HDI User's Choice Award Track-It! Product Line
* 2002 Win/Net Magazine Reader's Choice Award Track-It! 5.0
* 2002 Fortune Magazine's Top 5 VC backed Deals of the Year
* 2000 Winmag.com Win100 - Norton SystemWorks 2000
* 2000 Codie Awards, Best Utilities Product - Norton SystemWorks 2000
* 1993 Nominated for Association of Old Crows Gold Medal for contributions to the field of Electronic Warfare.
* 1992 Junior Intelligence Officer of the Year, Pacific Fleet
