After working for Microsoft for 7 years as the Senior Designer, leading a new design and production team for the Systems Division, I left to open an art gallery in Seattle and to design and develop small business websites.

After the dot com bubble burst, I came back as a contractor/consultant and one of my first projects was to design the structure of a new server product.

This involved a very small team of about 5 people. It was, what I call a Lazarus project, that is, it died and came back a few years later in a similar vein, but the technology that was needed to support it  had finally caught up.