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

Professional experience

10/04 – Present                                       Microsoft Corporation  Redmond, Washington

Program Manager, Windows Live Platform 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.