About Phil Taylor

I first learned computer graphics in 1982. I graduated University of Maryland in 1984, and spent some 7 years in the government community and worked some cool gigs. Then I moved to the PC and I started programming MS Windows in 1987 with 1.03. I moved out west in 1990 and worked at Softview, Borland, Kaleida, and Dynamix/Sierra. Alex St. John hired me in 1996 to be the 1st engineer on the DirectX evangelism team and I took over D3D evangelism. While it was a hard go for a while, eventually D3D turned into the leading graphics API it is today. Once the hard work of D3D evangelism was done, I joined the product team as DirectX SDK PM in 2000, and shipped the DX8, DX8.1, and DX9 SDKs. I then left MS to join ATI in 2002 and learn the hardware side of the business. After 2 years at ATI, I returned to MS in 2005 and joined the VS Core team working on VS extensibility. My time there was extremely valuable; I learned Scrum and became an Agile convert. And now I am in Flight Sim and I am loving it.

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