Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area
- Current
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- Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft
- Past
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- Software Development Manager at Amazon.com
- Computational Biologist at ZymoGenetics
- Senior Research Scientist and Software Development Manager at Dupont Pharamceutical Research Labs/CombiChem
- Associate Computational Biologist at ZymoGenetics
- Biomedical Engineer at NASA Ames Research Center
- Software Development Engineer and Software Development Manager at Interlight Communications
- Software Development Engineer at Metric Systems
- Software Development Engineer at Metric Systems
- Software Development Engineer at Computer Industries
- Software Development Engineer at BizCom
- Consultant at Self (Self-employed)
- Education
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- University of Washington
- University of Washington
- Florida State University
- Florida State University
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Randal Henne’s Summary
Broad scientific and engineering career including software development engineer, computer scientist (algorithms, data mining, parallel systems), drug discovery, protein modeling and data mining. Also been a group leader of both scientific and engineering teams. I have helped start three small companies (employee # 4, 3, 3) and consulted for others. I have also worked for large organizations ( Dept. of Energy, NASA, Boeing, DuPont, Amazon.com, Microsoft).
Randal Henne’s Specialties:
Product Development, Software Development Management, Program Management, Software Development, E-Commerce, Biology, Chemistry
Randal Henne’s Experience
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Principal Group Program Manager
Microsoft
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
May 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)
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Software Development Manager
Amazon.com
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; AMZN; Internet industry)
April 2003 — May 2006 (3 years 2 months)
Group Manager for data mining and feature team with emphases on non-media products. Managed teams in both the Cross-sell and Personalization departments. My team owned our projects through the entire feature lifecycle, from research and algorithm prototypes to deployment and operational management.
I was also very involved in technical recruiting, serving on the company-wide group that set recruiting standards and policy. My greatest legacy is the superstars I hired and developed, although our features are pretty prominent on the site and continue to generate revenue. -
Computational Biologist
ZymoGenetics
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; zgen; Biotechnology industry)
April 2001 — April 2003 (2 years 1 month)
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Senior Research Scientist and Software Development Manager
Dupont Pharamceutical Research Labs/CombiChem
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)
April 1999 — April 2001 (2 years 1 month)
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Associate Computational Biologist
ZymoGenetics
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; zgen; Biotechnology industry)
March 1998 — April 1999 (1 year 2 months)
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Biomedical Engineer
NASA Ames Research Center
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)
February 1992 — July 1993 (1 year 6 months)
Built data acquisition systems for ground based and shuttle based biological experiements. I also worked on DSP based filter systems.
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Software Development Engineer and Software Development Manager
Interlight Communications
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1989 — February 1992 (2 years 9 months)
Was employee #4. Took this startup to 150 people. I designed and built all of our products for the first couple years. I started as the lone technical guy and ended up running the two software groups. I built animation and video software for an embedded graphics system developed by Sony.
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Software Development Engineer
Metric Systems
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1987 — August 1988 (1 year 2 months)
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Software Development Engineer
Metric Systems
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Defense & Space industry)
June 1984 — September 1985 (1 year 4 months)
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Software Development Engineer
Computer Industries
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
January 1983 — May 1984 (1 year 5 months)
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Software Development Engineer
BizCom
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1981 — September 1982 (1 year 4 months)
Developed business software applications for microcomputers.
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Consultant
Self (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)
January 1980 — April 1981 (1 year 4 months)
Developed custom software systems for clients in medical and pharmacy business.
Randal Henne’s Education
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University of Washington
Ph.D. , Molecular Bioengineering , September 1993 — June 1999
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University of Washington
MS , Physical Chemisry , September 1993 — June 1997
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Florida State University
MS , Computer Science , 1987 — 1989
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Florida State University
BS , Chemistry , June 1987
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Randal Henne’s Interests:
Experimentation, Data Mining, Statistics, Management, Functional Programming, Bioinformatics, Software Engineering
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Online Experimentation Professionals
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