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Bradford Wright

General Manager
Microsoft Corporation

Own the development and data operations teams for Microsoft's Master Data Management programs and the Relationship Experience Divisions middleware platform covering security, eventing/messaging and configuration.  We provide the core platforms and data stores for Microsoft's customer relationship management and all associated systems across the company.

Product Unit Manager
Microsoft Corporation

From 2006 to the end of 2008 I developed and implemented the end to end strategy for the future platform for Microsoft's Forefront enterprise security product line as well as owning the client security components.  In addition I headed the delivery of project codename "Stirling".

Product Unit Manager
Microsoft Corporation

I headed up the team that developed Microsoft Commerce Server.  We shipped version 2002, Feature Pack 1 and Commerce Server 2007.

Group Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation

I returned to Microsoft in April of 2001 and headed up the program management team for Commerce Server 2002.

Previous Projects

Director
Mentico.com
As Director Special Projects at a new Internet startup in the Seattle areaI heading up a variety of departments till it succomed to the dot come failures of 2000.  We were working on high-end dynamic personalization technology for a variety of applications.

Group Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation

Digital Media Team

My last assignment during my first stint at Microsoft was as a Program Manager in the Digital Media Division.  We're working on a distributed audio system for the PC and various other devices.

Windows 2000 Team

For most of 1999 I worked as the Group Program Manager for a special group in the Windows 2000 team working on development productivity.

Internet Gaming Zone

The Zone is the hottest online gaming site on the Internet.  All sorts of games are available from your standard Card and Board games, to the most popular retail titles to Zone only massively multiplayer online games.  For 1998 I was the Group Program Manager for the team.

Customizable Starter Sites for Site Server v3.0
For Site Server v3.0 I lead the team that produced these starter sites demo'ing the great technology shipped in Site Server.

Microsoft Content Replication System
Microsoft Content Replication System is the premier Web content publishing solutions. As part of Microsoft Site Server it replicates an authors content from the creation point to anywhere in the world it needs to be hosted, through firewalls, across the Internet, etc. in a reliable and secure manner. 

Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard and API
The Web Publishing Wizard/API provides for easy publishing of web content from he authors machine to the majority of web hosting sites available today.  Besides being available on the Microsoft website for download the Web Publishing Wizard also shipped in numerous other Microsoft products.

MSN 'WebFarm' Architecture
I was able to lead the team in the design and initial deployment of the architecture that currently houses all of MSN's websites including the initial launch of www.msn.com in July of 1995

MSN v1.05
I was able to assist in the development and deployment of v1.05 of MSN.  This provided direct Internet access to MSN customers and was launched at the same time as MSN v1.0.  It shipped as part of Microsoft Windows95-OEM and Microsoft Plus!  The rollout also included a nation wide dialup network developed and deployed in cooperation with UUNet.