Paul Schottland

Hi, I am Paul Schottland. Smart Software Development motivates me.

Led product creation teams at Microsoft - I work for them for 11 years. I have a patent for Delta Replication, which is a core technology used in major MS products. I designed the lead feature (Inventory and Asset mgmt) for a 1+ Billion dollar product (SCCM/SCOM), I led the teams which created Fixit and shipped Windows Error Reporting fixes to 100M desktop users. Built the teams doing remote development and coding work in Thailand and India, and managed development and test groups in China. Also managed the Knowledge Management for Microsoft's intra and internet spaces via Sharepoint and webservices. Providing search and content for Support.Microsoft.com. This is globally available and multi-lingual as well as involving serving direct customers and partners. The product unit I manage is a multi-million dollar software development organization spread across 4 geographic regions. "Knowledge Management" is creating, finding, making, web-posted content for Microsoft's knowledge base and content articles- on the Sharepoint Product stack, in an Agile development methodology. I love building global teams which ship standardized, publicly-used services. I also have significant experience hiring and managing the global effort to devlier software, and the contract and negotiation associated to accomplish large enterprise-level work.

Product Unit Manager at Microsoft

July 2007 - June 2011

Software Development management

Manager, Critical Problem Resolution at Microsoft Corporation

2002 - 2007

Lead teams of brilliant folks who solved problems others couldn't, wouldn't or didn't.

Program Manager for Inventory and Asset Mgmt at Microsoft

1999 - 2002

Inventory and Asset Management features are used to catalog, track, account, and plan system-wide assets for companies. I designed the inventory system and asset management features and reporting for systems and licensing.

Director Application Development and Architecture at Skanska USA Inc.

2011

Building high performing teams focusing on platform optimization and application development to serve multi billion dollar businesses. Apps and platform responsibility to provide revenue generating, cost control, and margin improving applications and enforce critical process controls. .Net, SQL, custom DB and workflow apps, with Sharepoint intra and extranet for knowledge management.

Samford University, Cumberland School of Law

1992 – 1995

JD Juris Doctorate

Sewanee-The University of the South

1987 – 1991

BA

Concentration: History, Economics

Software Development and producing easy to use and customer-focused software.