Grant GeorgeCorporate Vice President, Windows Experience Group - Testing and Operations Updated: July 19, 2007 Grant George is Corporate Vice President of Testing and Operations — Windows Experience Group, in the Platforms & Services Division. The Windows Experience Group is an integrated system of programs, services and solutions that largely make up the Windows Client experience - designed to work together to address a broad array of customer problems and needs. George is directly responsible for test teams and test engineering as well as internal engineering operations in the Windows Experience Group. George has additional responsibility to drive engineering standards and methods with other leader-partners across the broader Windows teams (client, core and server). George joined Microsoft in June 1994 as test manager for the then newly-formed Office Product Unit, whose first shared code efforts were developed for Office 95. Since then, shared code has increased significantly in Office, and George has led convergence on common testing tools, test strategies, best practices and schedule and product delivery across all Office test teams to deliver Office 95, Office 97 and Office 2000 products. Many of George's interests lie in the continued refinement of methods for driving the product development, test and release engineering methods and process, and in finding smarter and earlier ways to trap and remove product defects and instill earlier implementation of user feedback and improvement into the product development cycle. George joined the Windows Experience team in August of 2006. Prior to Microsoft, George spent 14 years in Silicon Valley as a test engineer and test manager at Tandem Computers. After Tandem, he helped start up Cooperative Solutions Inc. (a privately funded venture) to put test engineering and product release processes in place for an object-oriented application development and run-time environment product called Ellipse. He later joined Taligent, a joint venture of IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Apple Computer, with similar responsibilities. George holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and German with minor studies in computer science from California State University, Fullerton. J Allard Image GalleryPortrait of Microsoft Corporate Vice President, Design and Development, Entertainment and Devices Division J Allard.
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