Hi Dr. Fawcett. Yeah, I have finally found my groove at Microsoft and it turns out to be UI development. I keep trying to get into Systems and I keep finding myself getting pulled into the world of edit controls, menus, forms .... The good part is that I love it. Anyways, I found a picture that I liked, its a bit worn down thanks to sea water getting into the camera. But it should do the job. Hope you are doing really well. Take care Girish -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jim Fawcett [mailto:jfawcett@twcny.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 6:28 AM To: Girish Premchandran Subject: RE: Request from Jim Fawcett Hi Girish: I’m delighted to hear from you. Sounds like the “old guard” is doing very well indeed. I’ll put your bio information on the gradates web page when I get a few minutes, e.g., maybe this weekend. In the mean time, do you have a digital photo I could use with the bio? Not a major issue if you don’t, but it is nice to associate a face with the bio. Regards, Jim Fawcett www.ecs.syr.edu/faculty/fawcett/handouts/webpages/fawcettHome.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Girish Premchandran [mailto:girishp@exchange.microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:59 PM To: jfawcett@twcny.rr.com Subject: FW: Request from Jim Fawcett Hi Dr Fawcett A very HAPPY NEW YEAR to you. How are things with you? life is going really good out here at Microsoft. Everyone is doing amazingly well. Sam has been promoted to Test Manager with the Active Directory team. After doing really well with the RPC test team, Tass decided to end his stint as a test lead and become a developer on RPC tem. Pretish is working with the Exchange test architect to keep improving the testing infrastructure. So everyone has found their sweet spot. As for me, I graduated from Syracuse in Dec 97. I had already done an internship with the SQL Server team at Microsoft. I did get a chance to apply the OOD concepts I had learnt from Dr.Fawcett's course, both during my interviews and my internship. I joined Microsoft as a SDET in March 1998 working with the Windows 2000 networking team on their audio video stack. I did this for a couple of years before moving to the PocketPC Team. I worked with them for couple of years as a developer on Pocket IE. We shipped PPC 2002 ,2003 and the first version of the Smartphone. I am currently working with Microsoft Business Solutions as a UI developer for their PocketPC client. We have a very small solid team that is pretty much like a startup group. I own all of their UI for the device and its all written in C# using the .Net Compact framework. Luckily I dont have to write up the B-specs :). However, I have to interact a lot with our Program Managers to make sure we have everything speced out correctly. Its a challenge doing UI development for the device because .Net CF is a subset of the deskop framework. I should say its been a pretty interesting year with this team. Your courses definitely set our foundations as good programmers. I apply those concepts everyday and its just a pleasure to see the end result. Thanks so much. -Girish -----Original Message----- From: Jim Fawcett [mailto:jfawcett@twcny.rr.com] Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 3:16 AM To: Akhil Kaza; 'Goveas, Bruno'; 'Yanagimachi, Isao'; 'Jiangang (James) Guo'; 'Kim McLaughlin'; 'Gandhi, Nirav'; 'Ahmed, Shafiq'; Shreeniwas Kelkar; 'Siddhartha Azad'; smita.narayan@autodesk.com; 'Tony Lowe'; crajshree@hotmail.com; aaron.gerega@lmco.com; Sultan Abdul Kader; snpalaskar@hotmail.com; deepakas@hotmail.com Subject: Request from Jim Fawcett Hi Everyone: I’m starting a web page devoted to former students on my class site. I would love to get a digital photo and a paragraph about what you are currently doing to put there. You can view the start I’ve made by clicking on the link below and following it to a Graduates link on my home page. I’ve lost most of my email address collection due to a computer meltdown. If you know any other SU grads at work or elsewhere, would you forward this message? I’ve lost touch with too many of you and would love to hear how you are doing. Happy New Year! Regards, Jim Fawcett http://www.ecs.syr.edu/faculty/fawcett