Marc Seinfeld CV Dive Bio Homepage - Water and Software centric story

In short, I'd like to respond to a help wanted ad something along the lines of "Window Washer Wanted. Must love fish, waving to the kids, and work well under pressure."

Thanks for your consideration; references provided on request. I truly look forward to exploring dive related opportunities with you in the upcoming months in your tank... Best regards. -Marc

I grew up sailing on the Great South Bay on Long Island, New York and raced Sunfish out of the Bellport Bay Yacht Club; in the early 80s I competed in the North Atlantic Regionals in NJ
I received a BA in economics from Duke University in 1989; while attending, I rowed for Duke University Lightweight Varsity Crew 1985-86 and 1986-87 seasons.
I've been an avid diver with over 315 dives logged <as of May 21, 2004-- need to update more current tally.>, totaling ~214 hours bottom time (or ~9 days) in both fresh and salt waters, and cold and warm locations ranging from my my current home in Puget Sound and nearby British Columbia, to the warmer waters of Hawaii, Tahiti, Australia, Belize, Grand Cayman and South Florida.
For 8 years, I served as a volunteer diver at the Seattle Aquarium starting in Feb 1996, yielding ~350 hours of total service in their 40k gallon Pacific Coral Reef (PCR) tank washing the windows, vacuuming the gravel, feeding the fish, and waving to the kids, before i moved to Hong Kong in April 2004. My supervisor Alan Tomita, and chief biologist for the aquarium's Exotics team Bill Robertson can be contacted as references regarding my work at the Seattle Aquarium and comfort in the water.
I co-founded and endowed the Victor B. Scheffer foundation in 2000 which has a mission to increase the awareness of life in the sea-- it's beauty and diversity, its fundamental support of human life, and its sensitivity to human abuse, through research and education.
In '05 I completed my weekly rotation as a volunteer in Hong Kong's Ocean Park Atoll Reef 5 million liter (1.3m gal) exhibit. What a world class exhibit, amazing creatures (including hammerheads, mature grouper and spotted eagle rays, cownose rays, guitarfish, sturgeon, etc) and stellar crew i had the good fortune of working with (including David Lai curator OPHK who made my participation possible, volunteer coordinator Yvonne Lim, Walter Tang now the assistant curator & dive buddy Lell Luk among others could upon request provide comment on my time with them).
On moving to South Florida in '08 i became an active member of Kayuba.org a local group that dives the ocean reef system off the Fort Lauderdale shoreline; members each use a kayak as their own self-contained dive platform. The group has also been a volunteer force in community events including the annual Bonnett House cleanup, Broward County IntraCoastal cleanup, the Pompano Pier cleanups, and Kayak Against Cancer

Other Bits and Bytes:

I built my first Sinclair 1K computer from a kit in the early 80s; I'm pretty certain my dad, seeing me with the soldering iron and piles of transistors was convinced I had thrown away $100 of hard earned paper route nickels. I soon moved on to one of the first Apple //e machines off the production line in 83 and continuing to befuddle my parents formed MES Software in NY, and wrote DesktopPlanner long before Microsoft knew what Schedule+ was (and long before I knew what patents were).

I was employed at Microsoft for 22 years, summer '92 through summer '14. Novel ideas, and their detailed development led to a wonderful couple decades yielding ample patent filings, along with several full product cycles. Across 3 major areas: email, mobile and antimalware, from V0 conception --> V3++ versions, alongside a team of incredible engineers, we shipped commercial software to 100s of millions of customers.

Many of my projects have been influenced by an idea i had early in life of being able to work from anywhere in the world, in an e-connected yet untethered manner... eg. from the beach, or the deck of a boat. What a fantastic ride!

I had direct involvement in the design and shipping of Microsoft Exchange Server (v4.0 aka 1.0, v5.0, v5.5 and successive versions) in a Program Management capacity. Having sold 100 million email 'seats', Exchange is the third most commercially successful software package in history (with only MS Windows and MS Word having sold more seats).

In a Group Program Management capacity i designed and delivered 2 versions of Mobile Information Server, a server setup to wirelessly extend the reach of Exchange email, calendar and contacts to phones and other wireless mobile devices. As part of this team i am named as an inventor on 7 of the 14 patents filed by the team; 6 of these have been issued by the USPTO, and one is still patent pending. The gem in the rough here was the ActiveSync protocol developed for efficient OTA (over the air) synchronization across latent mobile networks; this was later monetized via licensing with Apple and numerous top-tier Android vendors.

In a Group Program Manager capacity I further led the Windows team into new territory in the AntiMalware space; as an individual contributor I continued working remotely for the Windows team from Hong Kong and currently from various locations around the US. In my time with this team have been named as an inventor on numerous patent filings. Our work has directly resulted in producing the Windows Malicious Software Removal tool (aka MSRT) updated and distributed monthly as part of Windows Update mid-monthly security updates, Windows Defender, Windows Online Safety Center Scanner, the now sunsetted Windows OneCare, Microsoft Security Essentials consumer AV, Microsoft Forefront corporate desktop security, scanning within Windows Live Messenger for shared files, Microsoft Forefront for Exchange Server & Sharepoint, SmartScreen in the browser which blocks downloading malicious files, scanning in the various cloud mega-services including Hotmail aka Outlook.com, OneDrive, Azure, the Win10 Store and more.

While on a sabatical from MS in mid-2002, with longtime software engineering colleague & friend Aaron Bell, I built DiveShop.net-- a comprehensive and custom tailored reservation booking and resource management system for Ocean Frontiers dive shop in Grand Cayman built on Microsoft's .NET framework, IIS and SQL server. The diveshop owner who we collaborated with on this project, Steve Broadbelt, who I have dove with since '96, could also vouch for my comfort in the water and interest in dive related physiology and research, as well as my passion for aquatic creatures and their preservation... as well as the stability, and feature rich capability of the system and the degree to which he's since bet his business from a front and back office perspective on its capabilities.