A big component of my perform was in acquiring desktop photographs for our 20 markets. I worked with thousands of professional photographs, but I also organized a photo contest for Microsoft employees because I especially wanted employees in all of the worldwide subsidiaries to be able to participate. Over 2,000 photographs were submitted from employees all over the world, and then as part of the selection process I had the employees in each local subsidiary vote on all of the photographs for their region.
So, are you excited for
Windows 7?
Absolutely! I can’t wait for it to launch. For the past 2+ years I’ve been leading the content-and-design side of the job to help
Windows 7 look and feel more locally relevant for 20 of our top markets.
Windows 7 includes some really cool new personalization functions, and my job dovetails with that -- providing a more globally diverse range of options.
I'm in Windows Global, a group of about 350 folks. We're those that enable all the performance that underlies the unique language variations of Windows. Windows is obtainable in 98 distinctive languages, and that involves things like sorting & collation, fonts, globalization APIs, stuff like that.
Wow, so each region really got to voice what images worked for their area.
Yeah, employees in Brazil voted on the photos for the Brazilian Portuguese version of
Windows 7,
Office Standard 2010, which included some with the photographs taken by employees, numerous of whom were in or from Brazil. In the end,
Microsoft Office 2010, out with the 270 photographs that were selected,
Buy Office 2010, forty were taken by Microsoft employees in a dozen distinctive countries. I thought that was really cool, considering they were up against professional photographers. It was actually fairly competitive. Anyway, I’ve been living and breathing this project for 2-plus years, so yeah, I’m really psyched about
Windows 7. It’s been a lot of operate – but incredibly engrossing and fun, too.
The position title: Consumer Encounter Designer II
Tell me a little about your profession.
I've kind of the hybrid position; I'm a jill of several trades, and do Internet design,
Windows 7 Professional Product Key, UI style, graphic style, creating, content material management, and task management. So,
Windows 7 Key, I put on many distinctive hats. My title retains altering back again and forth in between Program Manager and Designer. This 12 months it is Person Expertise Designer II.
The geek in query: Jennifer Shepherd
Where's your staff based?
Mostly in Redmond and Dublin, but we also have folks in over 30 distinct countries globally. And the people today that are here in Redmond largely come from other countries. It is a diverse group. We have individuals from more than 44 distinct countries on my group, and we speak more than 33 numerous languages.
But when I came to Microsoft I felt I was respected for what I can do. You're treated like a grownup here. Your work isn't micromanaged. I just feel like men and women can be themselves, and it's what you can do, what you can bring to the staff that really matters, not whether you went to the right college or if you’re buddying up to the right people or dressing for corporate success. It is nice to just be able to be who you are and focus on doing your work instead.
How long have you been here?
Fall of 2009 will be both my official 10 year anniversary as a permanent employee and also the 20 12 months anniversary of when I first started at Microsoft in my very first “real” position out of college. During that 20 years I spent about 7 as a permatemp. I also worked at other companies for just a few years, but I’ve spent most of my profession at Microsoft. It feels like home to me.
What keeps you here?
A lot of reasons… I love the work I do and I perform with excellent consumers. But one of the reasons Microsoft feels like home is something that seems pretty trivial and like it shouldn’t matter, yet it really does. Basically I've spent plenty of my life feeling like a misfit — I was always the artsy introvert who never fit in, and persons would think I was just a weirdo. I worked for the State for a while and I felt conspicuously weird. I wasn't trying to be weird! I don't have massive facial piercings or anything. But somehow I often felt uncomfortable and like an outsider.
Links please? • www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7 • windows.microsoft.com/Windows7/Personalize • (the Go Global Developer Center – Microsoft’s international development portal) • Jennifer's personal site: jenithea.com
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