Hyperfish acquisition and boomeranging back to Microsoft

I am proud to have been part of Hyperfish team that has been acquired by LiveTiles, announced last week. The team has done an incredible job of taking Brian Cook and Chris Johnson’s innovative concept and bringing it to market.

Working at Hyperfish has been a great ride for me personally, because I was able to wear multiple hats on a daily basis. I enjoyed my role as evangelist, pre-sales, and product manager in helping drive Hyperfish’s business. With the acquisition, I took time to reflect on what has inspired me the most and what I have missed from other jobs I’ve had. After much thought, I have decided to take this opportunity to “boomerang” back to Microsoft.

I’m excited to let you know that I’ll be moving into a Senior Program Manager role in the Microsoft Graph engineering team. I can’t wait to work even closer with the developers that are building the product. I’m eager to work for Yina Arenas and the rest of her team on the future of the Microsoft Graph. I will be working on the partner ecosystem and developer experiences to get started.

As a 13-year-old boy, I set a goal to live in America and work for Microsoft, something that I was so proud to have achieved back in 2013. I have enjoyed working at a large SharePoint ISV Partner, a technology start-up, and being Microsoft MVP. I will admit there have been recent moments, primarily at events like Microsoft Build and Microsoft Ignite, where I have missed working with a bigger team and being in that large company atmosphere on a day to day basis. I can’t wait to get back on Microsoft campus and again be part of a product that is used globally by 120 million users monthly.

If you’ve been listening to the Office 365 developer podcast and the Hyperfish podcast, the hot off the presses content will continue. Paul Schaeflein and I have rebooted the developer show which you can check out at http://www.m365devpodcast.com/ .

So, I’m not going far…expect to see a lot more of me in the Microsoft 365 developer space moving forward!