aaron butcher
Principal PM Manager, Microsoft Edge Browser, Edge Mobile iOS, Android at Microsoft
product program management leader
product engineering leader 23 year experience building world ’ used software application . plan develop product experience delight empower customer . passionate hiring growing globally distributed , diverse team customer focused data obsessed .
Microsoft
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Led the remote development of new Edge mobile browser apps for iOS and Android based on Chromium open source. Provided a seamless customer upgrade experience through app store updates. Worked with enterprise customers to evaluate and address feedback to unblock deployments. 

Led Edge browser incubation team responsible for researching, planning, and developing new differentiated features, including Edge Collections, to build and grow default browser share and customer engagement minutes.

Planned and led development of highly used browser features including Favorites, History and Downloads for the first release of Microsoft Edge built on Chromium open source.
 
Experienced PM interviewer leading interview groups, college campus interviews, and responsible for making final hiring decisions.
Redmond, WA
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Principal PM Manager, Microsoft Edge Browser, Edge Mobile iOS, Android
Microsoft
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Led 12 member PM team responsible for design, development and delivery of Microsoft Music, Movies, and TV apps used by more than 200M customers a month, shipping across Windows PC, Xbox, mobile, and mixed reality hardware.
   
Drove improvements to product quality and design. Developed a personalized, AI generated music playlist experience resulting in a 42% increase in streaming "Groove Music Pass" subscribers.
 
Led retirement of music subscription services and drove strategic music partnership with Spotify to enable customers to migrate their music collections and playlists.
 
Increased Movies and TV app gross margin to $7M and increased NPS score 81 points by improving the customer experience with features such as 4K video, mini-mode (PIP) playback and more robust search and suggestions.
Redmond, Washington
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Group Program Manager, Windows New Experiences &Technology (Music, Movies & TV)
Microsoft
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Planned and led development of a set of new inbox applications for Windows 8 demonstrating the capabilities of Microsoft’s new touch enabled Surface hardware.
 
Led the planning and implementation for Windows Maps app which provided local search, directions with turn-by-turn navigation, satellite and 3D city imagery. Direct manager for a remote team of 20 in Dublin, Ireland. Managed and drove external data partnership with HERE maps.

Led the design and development of the modern touch-enabled browser for Windows 8 and Surface hardware. Reinvented browsing experiences and UI for touch enabled hardware. Partnered with the Internet Explorer team on enterprise deployment and shared codebase.
 
Designed and developed an innovative set of new Windows apps including Alarms, Calculator and Notepad to encourage and train customers to interact via touch and gestures.
Redmond, Washington
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Group Program Manager, Windows Maps & Navigation, Modern Browser, Utility Apps
Microsoft
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Designed and developed the new Ribbon user interface model for Microsoft Office. This resulted in a more visual and efficient user interface improving customer productivity and feature discoverability. 

Evangelized and consulted with product owners to lead the implementation of the Ribbon across the Office suite impacting more than 1.2B Office customers. Consulted on the adoption of the Ribbon across Windows OS experiences.

Many patents were awarded for components of the Ribbon UI including visual Galleries of formatting choices based on customer’s document or slide templates. Live Preview which enabled customers to hover over and preview formatting choices before applying them to their document. Contextual Ribbon Tabs which automatically appear for formatting objects like Tables or Photos. The Mini-Toolbar which brings the most often used text formatting controls near any selected text.  

Authored UI licensing guidelines and best practices for 3P application adoption, helping drive UX consistency and standards for customers.
Redmond, Washington
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Lead Program Manager, Office User Experience
Microsoft
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Led feature planning and development for customer facing features in Microsoft Encarta including Search, Maps and the Visual Browser which helped customers discover and explore popular topics.
Redmond, Washington
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Program Manager, Microsoft Encarta Reference Library
Microsoft
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Led planning and production of political and thematic map assets for Encarta Encyclopedia.
Redmond, Washington
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Cartography Production Manager, Microsoft Encarta Reference Library
RHO Inc.
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Cartographer delivering political and thematic map assets for Microsoft Bookshelf and Microsoft Encarta CD-ROM products.
Redmond, Washington
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Cartography Production Artist, Microsoft Bookshelf
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Word processing, database creation & administration. Plan and coordinate continuing education and certification classes for nursing staff.
Seattle, Washington
Nursing Administration Assistant
Bachelor's degree
Geography, Cartography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
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University of Washington
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Greater Seattle Area
Kim Meyer
Proactive, results-oriented, collaborative leader specializing in international, localization, and compliance | Principal Program Manager at Microsoft
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Kirkland, WA
Leon Zhang
Microsoft
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Seoul, South Korea
Jin Lim
Head of Enterprise Solutions Architect 
at Amazon Web Services
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Germany
Kerstin Betcher
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Garland, TX
Cindy Salazar
Audit Staff at Lane Gorman Trubitt PLLC
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San Francisco, CA
Martin Kalev
Software Engineer at Apple
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Redmond, WA
Jon McClay
Senior Product Design Lead at Microsoft
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Redmond, WA
Aneetha Jayaraman
Product leader at Microsoft and Strategist/Hustler at EarthDefine
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San Diego, CA
Scott McClay, CSM
Cultivating high performance teams to deliver practical software solutions.
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Greenfield, IN
Greg Blair
ATEC Electrical contractor
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Seattle, WA
Eva Chen
Product Manager 2 at Microsoft
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Duvall, WA
David Grant
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
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Redmond, WA
📱 💻 📝📓Vishnu Nath
General Manager - Microsoft OneNote, Office Product Group
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Kirkland, WA
Tom Alphin
Senior UX Program Manager, LEGO Artist, Author
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julietgritz
Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
Juliet Gritz, PMP
US Industry Solutions Strategy Lead | Business Innovation | Technology Consulting | Cloud Solutions
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kipling-knox-19534299
Greater Seattle Area
Kipling Knox
Writer (retired Microsoft GPM)
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Greater Seattle Area
Archana N.
Principal Group Product Manager at Microsoft
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Redmond, WA
Vincent Bellet
#Hiring! Principal PM Manager at Microsoft
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Redmond, WA
Hongfei Guo
Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft (We are hiring!)
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Operations specialist Albertsons/Vons/Pavilions
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Carlsbad, CA
Aaron Butcher
Mechanical Design Engineer at Virta Inc - Bulk Material Handling
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Dudley
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Chief Information Officer at Lightspeed Broadband Limited
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Belfast
Aaron Butcher
Quantity Surveyor at JPM Contracts
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Epsom
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Owner, PSYCHOLOGY Direct Ltd
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