Entries tagged 'amy-lin'

  • Rewind: Amy Lin in the Cloud

    Posted Thursday, February 03 2011 by the JobsBloggers

    Last May, we spotted Amy Lin, a Program Manager with Excel Services, a technology that allows you to use, share and manage Excel workbooks online. For today's Microspotting Rewind, we wanted to share Amy's story with you again.

    MicrospottingForecast: CloudyThe 'Softie in question: Amy Lin 

    The job title: Program Manager for Excel Services. I work on Excel in the Cloud. The Program Manager role is much more multi-faceted than it sounds. We’re at the intersection of project managers, designers and customer champions!

    You’re in your early 20s and you’re a Program Manager at Microsoft… you must be doing something right. Did you always know that you wanted to work for Microsoft?
    I grew up around here and starting building websites when I was 11 and was programming games like Monopoly by high school. We only had one computer science class in my high school, but it led me to the Microsoft high school internship program - which was only for students in the Seattle-area.

    I didn’t do big stuff during the internship and wasn't totally set on returning to Microsoft, but it was good industry exposure. Up until that point, I had no idea what “computer science” really meant or how it could actually be applied. I just knew I was interested in technology.

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  • Amy Lin: designing the future of Excel in the Cloud

    Posted Tuesday, May 11 2010 by the JobsBloggers

    MicrospottingForecast: Cloudy‘Softie in Question: Amy Lin

    Job title: Project Manager for Excel Services. I work on Excel in the Cloud. The Project Manager role is much more multi-faceted than it sounds. We’re at the intersection of project managers, designers and customer champions!

    You’re in your early 20s and you’re a Project Manager at Microsoft… you must be doing something right. Did you always know that you wanted to work for Microsoft?
    I grew up around here and starting building websites when I was 11 and was programming games like Monopoly by high school. We only had one computer science class in my high school, but it led me to the Microsoft high school internship program - which was only for students in the Seattle-area.

    I didn’t do big stuff during the internship and wasn't totally set on returning to Microsoft, but it was good industry exposure. Up until that point, I had no idea what “computer science” really meant or how it could actually be applied. I just knew I was interested in technology.

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