As I fly from San Jose to Seattle passing over Crater Lake pondering over what this blog will be about, two things come to mind.  The first is that the business of developing secure, high performance line of business applications is an area I have had an opportunity to work with several CSOs/CIOs on and would like to capture this interactive knowledge. The second is purely about leadership. I encouraged the 10 people who report to me to blog and can’t really do so without taking the time out to do so myself.

 

Over the past few years I have evolved from a Senior Security Technologist striving towards securing Microsoft’s critical applications and software to an Engagement Manager on the Application Consulting & Engineering (ACE) Services team at Microsoft. The ACE team as you can gather from this blog is the team at Microsoft IT responsible for application security, privacy and performance.

 

I was hired around 2 years ago with the aim of helping the ACE team start a consulting practice around security by leveraging internal MSIT learning and taking it out to major clients and partners. This is has since expanded to the area of security and performance consulting. My role is to manage the business lines in the East and West Regions of the United States, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Latin America. Apart from that my current responsibilities include developing strategies for scaling Microsoft’s application security practice, incubating new service lines and establishing offshore capabilities.

 

This blog will focus on the business aspects of application security and performance as well as experiences relating to leadership development.