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Employment History
December 2006 to October 2008
Microsoft Corporation, Principal Program Manager, Chairmans Office
From December 2006 until October 2008 I was one of three members of Bill Gates’ Technical Assistant team in the Chairman's
Office at Microsoft supporting the overall overall Microsoft technical strategy. The specific responsibilities of this position are
confidential. I remained in this position until the fall of 2008 when Bill refocused his energies from his day-to-day role
at Microsoft to his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
November 2002 to December 2006
Microsoft Corporation, Group Program Manager, Visual Studio
From November 2002 until December 2006 I was the Group Program Manager for the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE and Visual
Studio Industry Partner Program. During this time I participated in shipping Microsoft Visual Studio 2003, was responsible
for shipping the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 IDE, formed the Microsoft Visual Studio SDK team, and worked on multiple
undisclosed incubation projects.
May 1997 to November 2002
Microsoft Corporation, Lead Program Manager, Macintosh Business Unit
From May 1997 until November 2002 I was a Lead Program Manager and founding member of the Macintosh Business Unit. During
this time I worked on countless products including Microsoft Office 98 for Macintosh, Microsoft Office Japanese Edition,
Microsoft Office 2001 for Macintosh, Microsoft Office v. X for Mac OS X, Microsoft Messenger for Macintosh, and Microsoft
Remote Desktop Connection for Macintosh. Responsibilities included; technical people and project management, architecture,
and other facets of managing a successful software business.
October 1996 to May 1997
University of Iowa, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Undergraduate Research Assistant for the Chair of the Computer Science Department at the University of Iowa during my
Freshman year. Responsibilities included general research support for faculty, hardware and software technical support ,
creating a solid web presence for the Computer Science department, and developing internal processes.
October 1995 to Present
Weber Ventures, Managing Director
Since October 1995 I have been the Managing Director of Weber Ventures, a software development and Venture
Capital firm established to support the commercialization of my software applications. Weber Ventures has published
multiple software titles including the Eddy award winning ExecutiveSync which was
licensed by by You Software and rebraded You Software, and later aquired by
Smith Micro, Professional BlackJack Tutor which was acquired by
an undisclosed casino gaming company, and PBDuo Barrier Pro which was acquired by MSI Technologies. Today Weber Ventures
reinvests royalties in public and private companies with an emphasis on early stage technology investments.
My Software
ExecutiveSync was the first
dependable file synchronization program for Mac OS X that supported long
file names, Unicode, synchronization with Microsoft Windows File
Servers, and countless other features. ExecutiveSync was released as shareware and won 12 awards including a
MacWorld Editors Choice Award. It was licensed by by You Software and
rebraded You Software, then later aquired by Smith Micro. More Information...
Font Insight is a font utility for Mac OS X that allows users to view character sets and
encodings for fonts, as well as print font books and sample sheets.
FontInsight was released as donationware with the proceeds benefiting
the American Red Cross.
More Information...
Kaboom was the first native implementation of
Minesweeper for Mac OS X. Kaboom was released
as freeware and has received over 1,000,000 downloads. More Information...
Professional BlackJack Tutor was a version of BlackJack for Mac OS 9
and Windows that taught BlackJack strategy and approaches to card counting. Professional BlackJack
Tutor was released as shareware and later acquired.
PBDuo Barrier Pro
is an extension for Mac OS 7.5, 7.6, 8.0 and 8.1 that secured a
PowerBook by requiring a password on launch. PBDuo Barrier Pro was
released as shareware and later acquired.
Patents
System and Method for Customization in a Dynamic Environment
Jason Weber, James Lau and Paul Harrington, Microsoft Corporation, 5/27/2005
Multiple Document File Tab Channel
Jason Weber and Chris McGuire, Microsoft Corporation, 9/30/2004
System and Methods for Navigation of a Graphical User Environment
Jason Weber and Chris McGuire, Microsoft Corporation, 9/23/2004
System and Method for Utilizing Personal Information to Customize a User's Experience When Interacting with an Application Program
Jason Weber, Todd Roshak and Michael Connolly, Microsoft Corporation, 6/18/2001
System and Method for Integrating Reference Material in an Electronic Document
Jason Weber and Reed Vawter, Microsoft Corporation, 1/18/2001
Conferences & Presentations
- Microsoft TechReady 7, August 2008 (Speaker)
- Microsoft MIX, March 2008
- Microsoft TechReady 6, February 2008 (Speaker)
- Microsoft TechReady 5, July 2007 (Speaker)
- Microsoft MIX, April 2007
- Microsoft TechReady 4, February 2007 (Speaker)
- Software Architect Forum, September 2006 (Speaker)
- Microsoft TechReady 3, July 2006 (Speaker)
- Microsoft TechReady 2, January 2006 (Speaker)
- MacWorld San Francisco, January 2006
- Professional Developers Conference, September 2005 (Speaker)
- Microsoft TechReady 1, August 2005 (Speaker)
- Microsoft Mobile and Embedded DevCon, May 2005
- Visual Studio Live, May 2005 (Speaker)
- SQL Developer Connection, March 2005 (Speaker)
- EclipseCon, February 2005 (Speaker)
- MacWorld San Francisco, January 2005
- Direct X Meltdown, July 2004 (Speaker)
- Microsoft TechEd, May 2004 (Speaker)
- SQL Connection, February 2004 (Speaker)
- EclipseCon, February 2004
- Microsoft TechEd, June 2003 (Speaker)
- Apple World Wide Developer Conference, May 2003
- MacWorld San Francisco, January 2003 (Conference Faculty)
- Apple World Wide Developer Conference, May 2002 (Speaker)
- MacWorld San Francisco, January 2002 (Conference Faculty)
- MacWorld New York, July 2001 (Conference Faculty)
- MacHack 16, June 2001 (Speaker)
- Apple World Wide Developer Conference, May 2001
- CES, January 2001
- MacWorld San Francisco, January 2001 (Speaker)
- New York Education Association, December 2000 (Speaker)
- Comdex Fall, November 2000
- MacWorld New York, July 2000 (Speaker)
- MacHack 15, June 2000
- Apple World Wide Developer Conference, May 2000
- MacWorld San Francisco, January 2000 (Conference Faculty)
- Apple World Wide Sales Conference, September 1999 (Speaker)
- International Unicode Conference, August 1999
- MacWorld New York, July 1999 (Speaker)
- MacWorld San Francisco, January 1999 (Speaker)
- MacWorld Tokyo, February 1999 (Speaker)
- International Proofing Tools Summit Dublin, July 1998 (Speaker)
- MacWorld Tokyo, February 1998
- MacWorld San Francisco, January 1998
- Comdex Fall, November 1997
- Comdex Spring, June 1997
- Comdex Spring, June 1996
- Comdex Fall, November 1995
- MacHack 10, June 1995
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