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Grant George is Corporate Vice President of Testing and Operations - Office Division, in the Information Worker Business Group. The Microsoft Office System is an integrated system of programs, servers, services and solutions designed to work together to address a broad array of information work problems.
George is directly responsible for the Office shared code test teams, as well as fundamental release and test technology and tools in the Office Division. He is also responsible for Office Operations (online Web services for the Office line of products), and has indirect responsibility for application team testing of Office products. George joined Microsoft in June 1994 as test manager in the then newly formed Office Product Unit, whose first shared code efforts were developed for Office 95. Since then, shared code has increased significantly in Office, and George has led convergence on common testing tools, test strategies, best practices and schedule and product delivery across all Office test teams to deliver Office 95, Office 97 and Office 2000 products. Many of Georges interests lie in the continued refinement of methods for driving the product development, test and release process, and in finding smarter and earlier ways to trap and remove product defects and instill earlier implementation of user feedback and improvement into the development cycle.
Prior to Microsoft, George spent 14 years in Silicon Valley as a test engineer and test manager at Tandem Computers. After Tandem, he helped start up Cooperative Solutions Inc. (a privately funded venture) to put test engineering and product release in place for an object-oriented application development and run-time environment product called Ellipse. He later joined Taligent, a joint venture of IBM Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Apple Computer, with similar responsibilities. George holds a bachelors degree in business administration and German with minor studies in computer science from California State University, Fullerton. | 