DARE OBASANJO
	Education
	8/99 – 12/01	Georgia Institute of Technology	Atlanta, Georgia
	Computer Science		HONORS

Professional experience

09/10 – Present                                       Microsoft Corporation  Redmond, Washington

Senior Program Manager Lead, Live Platform Services group

• Lead the team responsible for developer platform that enables websites, desktop and mobile applications to integrate Hotmail, Messenger, SkyDrive and Windows Live ID into their user experiences.
• Work closely with large web companies and mobile partners to integrate the above offerings into their products and experiences.
• Also responsible for next generation social feed experiences in Windows Live Messenger. 

09/08 – 09/10                                       Microsoft Corporation  Redmond, Washington

Senior Program Manager, Live Platform Services group

• Conceived, co-designed and project manager for the platform the powers the What's New feature across Microsoft's Windows Live properties. This brought social activity streams to Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger and Windows Phone. The resulting platform is a megascale service that handles billions of transactions a day and is used by hundreds of millions of Windows Live users on a daily basis.

10/04 – 9/08                                       Microsoft Corporation  Redmond, Washington

Program Manager, Live Platform Services group

• Was responsible for public API strategy for Windows Live Spaces
• Spearheaded Windows Live developer platform efforts that lead to http://www.msdn.com/live and http://dev.live.com
• At different points was responsible for design of Web services that powered photo storage, access control lists, social networking, and user profile platforms for various Windows Live services.
• Liaised with various partner teams including Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Expo and Windows Live Writer teams about future design direction in our contacts & storage platform and managed feature requests.

03/03 – 10/04                                       Microsoft Corporation  Redmond, Washington

Program Manager, XML team

• Responsible for design of XML APIs in System.Xml, System.Xml.Schema and System.Xml.XPath namespace for version 2.0 of .NET Framework.
• Launched XML MVP program at Microsoft and was liaison between MVPs and Microsoft.
• Launched MSDN XML Developer Center and was content strategist for the website.
• Author of Extreme XML column on MSDN
• Liaised with external teams including XML Web Services, SQL Server, Windows, Office and BizTalk about future design direction in XML technologies and managed feature requests.

02/02 – 03/03                                       Microsoft Corporation                                   Redmond, Washington

Software Design Engineer in Test, XML team

· Author of Extreme XML column on MSDN.

· Tested .NET XML parser for conformance with W3C XML Schema (XSD) and XQuery specs.

· Designed and implemented components used for automated test generation software.

• Answered questions about XML on the various Microsoft XML newsgroups.
• In charge of developer relations for WebData XML team and liaising with PR & marketing teams

06/01 – 08/01                                          Microsoft Corporation                                   Redmond, Washington

Software Design Engineer in Test Intern

· Created a test engine that dynamically created and modified XSD schemas via the classes in the Microsoft .NET Framework’s System.Xml.Schema namespace using C# and XSLT.

· Tested .NET XML parser for conformance with XDR spec and W3C XML Schema spec (XSD).

· Wrote certain sections of .NET Framework SDK documentation on XML schemas.

· Answered questions about  XML on the microsoft.public.dotnet.xml newsgroup.

Publications (Conference Proceedings)

• A Proposal for an XML Data Definition and Manipulation Language. Proceeding from the VLDB 2002 Workshop EEXTT and CAiSE 2002Workshop DIWeb. pp. 1 – 21.

Publications (Print Magazine Articles)

• XML and Relational Databases. Dr. Dobbs Journal. March 28, 2003.

Publications (Online Magazine Articles)

• 8 articles on O’Reilly’s XML.com listed at http://www.xml.com/pub/au/142
• 19 articles on the Microsoft Developer Network listed at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa902491.aspx

Extra Curricular Activities: Lead developer for RSS Bandit, which is an Open Source feed reader which is hosted on http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/rssbandit and has been downloaded almost 1,000,000 times since December 2003.