Name:
Sayuri

Title/Product:
Program Manager, Expression Web

What inspires you?
Great looking designs and Art.

How did you choose to work on this team with this product?
I used to work as a professional Web Developer for about 8 years before joining Microsoft. It seemed like a natural transition to work in a team that develops software for Web Developers.

What’s your favorite feature? Why?
SuperPreview. Diagnosing cross browser issues in Front-end Web development has been difficult since the Netscape & IE days. It's great to be working on a product that finally has a solution for this community.

How long have you been a Microsoftie?
1 year as a contractor in Developer Marketing and going 4 years as a Full-time employee in July.

What does your typical workday look like?

• Getting to know customers by responding to newsgroups, visiting customers or visiting Websites that they visit
• Work with team members to come up with solutions that solves customers' problems in the coming release
• Do research on 3rd party or Microsoft partner products that we're looking to integrate in the next release
• Project manages the release work items for the team like security, globalization, and accessibility reviews.

How do you like to spend your time outside of work?

• Gardening
• Hiking
• Cooking
• Biking
• Playing guitar (I'm playing in a band that is made up of my fiancé and 3 other very close friends)
• Reading
• Play XBOX
• Snowboarding
• Kayaking
• All the above with my friends and family

Anything else you’d like to share with the community?

• I'm originally from Indonesia and Singapore but I've lived here for the past 9 years and I'm not going anywhere.
• I'm volunteering to help redesign my son's school Website.
• I used to be a developer until I joined Microsoft.
• I recently appeared in a handful of newspapers in Seattle and internal MS Website with my first grader son in the effort to promote Seattle public school and attract talents to come work for MS.

Links
Team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/xweb/. My post is at http://blogs.msdn.com/xweb/archive/2009/04/10/manage-your-fpse-site-permissions-without-using-frontpage-2003.aspx. I'm working on more. :-)