Bill Verthein
About
Bill Verthein is from Seattle. Bill works in the following industries: "Telecommunications", "Computer Software", "Information Technology & Services", and "Consumer Electronics". Bill is currently Principal Technical Product Owner - AWS Augmented Artificial Intelligence (AWS A2I) at Amazon Web Services (AWS), located in Seattle. In Bill's previous role as a Principal Product Owner, Office365 Cloud SMS Service at Microsoft, Bill worked in Redmond, WA until May 2019. Prior to joining Microsoft, Bill was a Principal Product Owner, Office365 Hybrid PSTN Appliance at Microsoft and held the position of Principal Product Owner, Office365 Hybrid PSTN Appliance at Redmond, Washington. Prior to that, Bill was a Principal Group Program Manager, Lync Partner Engineering at Microsoft, based in Redmond, WA from Nov 2007 to Mar 2014. Bill started working as Senior Director Cellular Personal Productivity Platform at Motorola in Libertyville, IL in Jan 2005. From Apr 2004 to Jan 2005, Bill was Sr Director 4G Handset Development at Flarion, based in Bedminster, NJ. Prior to that, Bill was a Product Unit Manager, Windows Networking at Microsoft, based in Redmond, WA from Mar 2002 to May 2004. Bill started working as Product Unit Manager, "Stinger Smartphone" (aka Microsoft Smartphone 2002) at Microsoft in Redmond, WA in Sep 1999.
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Bill Verthein's current jobs
I am the Lead Product Owner for A2I a human augmented AI Services for Amazon AWS and Amazon Mechanical Turk microwork platform.
Bill Verthein's past jobs
Drove Microsoft's Global SMS router sending billions of SMS messages to/from our customers and allowing customers to send/receive SMS from Office 365 Applications. Developed Azure based SMS router enabling Office365 cloud services to send 2way P2P & A2P SMS. Drove virtual team in Redmond, Palo Alto, London, Prague and Tallinn Estonia. Results: 7x SMS traffic increase over 3 years; 5% increase in delivery success; 10% cost savings
Enterprise Customers locked in long term telecom contracts wanted to move to Microsoft's cloud-based Unified Communication Lync product. Developed Hybrid PSTN Appliance to bridge on Prem PSTN and Cloud-based UC. Drove small virtual team spread across North America and Europe, shipped v1 in 8 months. Drove 30% of Lync Cloud traffic within 12 months in over 50 countries.
Unified Communication services depend on high quality consistent media peripherals to satisfy end users. Peripherals from the open market were of inconsistent quality. Led Microsoft's Lync Partner Engineering Team. Responsible for all Lync attached devices such as cameras, phones and video conferencing hardware for Lync. Certified hundreds of 3rd Party devices selling 10's of millions of units or devices built off of reference designs and requirements built by my team. Worked deeply with technology suppliers to advance the state of the art in audio and video from chip to finished product. Built innovative showcase cameras to influence and lead partners and suppliers. Built touch screen driven meeting room systems and innovative room view, speaker tracking cameras. Acquired, integrated and managed a UK startup that built the SkypeTX Appliance bridging Skype video conferencing directly into TV Control rooms. SkypeTX won a 2017 Technology and Engineering Emmy Award.
Led product team charged with defining, developing and delivering a software platform intended for all Motorola Personal Productivity Cellphones globally. Products Shipped: Headed technical due diligence team and was integration lead for Moto acquisition of Good Technology, OTA Email Sync Company ($430M). Integrated email sync into global Moto portfolio. Shipped Motorola “Q” QWERTY Smartphone, (fastest Microsoft smartphone to 1M units)
Flarion pioneered OFDM cellular airlinks (underlying 4th gen LTE cellular). Started and led Flarion’s 4G OFDM cellular handset engineering team. Oversaw all areas of cellular handset development including strategy, product architecture, software, and hardware development. Products Shipped: industry first OFDM preLTE Smartphones in 700 MHz, 1900 MHz, and 2100 MHz bands. Result: Numerous carriers in US/Europe signed up to evaluate Flarion's Base Stations and airlink.
Led a team of talented people in test, program management, and software development. The team had a broad charter within Windows Networking owning client and server components in VPN, Security Protocols, Authentication, and all wireless networking technologies such as WiFi and cellular data. Products Shipped: Shipped Windows Server 2003, Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista Release Plan Other Accomplishments: Outsourced VPN Product Management/Software Development and Test to Microsoft's India development center; Reduced test staffing 20% through improved automation.
Founded and led the original engineering team for Microsoft’s ground breaking “Stinger” smartphone project which shipped in Spring 2002 as Smartphone 2002. Product Strategy: Key contributor to Microsoft’s handset strategy with mobile carrier and handset OEMs in Europe and Asia (Orange UK, Samsung and others). Technical Strategy: Major contributor on hardware, software and user experience direction for Stinger. Execution: Supervised software, hardware and test teams to deliver Smartphone 2002. Team built four cellphone prototypes in house and co-created reference designs for and contributed to TI’s original OMAP 850 design. The OMAP 850 was the first purpose built smartphone CPU (2001). Go To Market Strategy: Launched Smartphone2002 in Europe (a first for Microsoft) due to the significant maturity of carriers and wireless networks in Europe versus North America in 2002. Products Shipped: Windows Smartphone 2002 and cellular subsystem of PocketPC 2002