Artificial ignorance

After four and a half years as in the field organization of Microsoft an Evangelist, I’ve decided to move jobs within the company. I’ll be moving to the Windows Mobile team as a Product Manager, helping shape the application development experience for our mobile platform among the startup and student audiences around the world. My job will be to participate (or help people participate)  in as many events as possible and expose people to the possibilities on these devices.

Why now?

While BizSpark has been a roaring success, and I could do broad marketing and evangelism for as long as I live, for the last couple of years I have been wanting to move back to focus more on a single product. BizSpark served as the platform for me to spread my wings and really lead a program for the US subsidiary, and I learned a lot along the way. In fact, if it weren’t for the success that we’d seen there, my good friend Loke Uei Tan would not have tapped me on the shoulder and referred me to the job.

It should be no surprise that mobile is a very hot area. My good friend, Kedric Van de Carr (now with Smaato), who is very involved in the mobile community in the Valley, has been telling me for months about how hot the mobile industry is and how it’s going to grow. The numbers don’t lie. Continue reading