Mike Torres

Contact Information
Blog: http://spaces.msn.com/members/mike

Biography
Mike Torres is a Lead Program Manager on the MSN Spaces team.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Mike was co-founder and Vice President of Product Development at Jump.com—a Microsoft acquisition that ultimately became MSN Hotmail’s calendar system in 1999. After close to two years at Jump.com, Mike continued to work on social software at bCandid Software in Boulder, CO—a company focused on online discussion sold to Openwave Systems for $70 million in 2000. At Microsoft since 2002, Mike has worked with a wide variety of emerging technologies spanning a number of different products, including the Hotmail Contacts and MSN Messenger server systems, and both the MSN Spaces back-end and front-end platforms.

Mike received a BA in Psychology with a concentration in Human Computer Interaction/Computer Science from Cornell University and currently lives in Seattle, WA. He is currently working on a book project with Microsoft Press on blogging with MSN Spaces.

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