Geoff Hill has been in the IT industry since 1990, when he developed and sold a C++ application to measure risk in the commodities markets in New York City. Since then he has worked as a senior developer of quantitative finance applications in Nomura Finance (New York), Mitsukoshi Finance (Japan), Macquarie Finance (Australia) and NatWest Bank (UK).
He joined Microsoft in 2002 and has since been the custodian of the Security Development Lifecycle for Services, a strict Security Engineering methodology that is fully endorsed by the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Initiative Group. He has been responsible for the Security Engineering of several high-profile Microsoft Services projects, including the British Telecom pay-per-view Vision service and the United Nations World Economic Forum Collaboration Service.
He is currently driving a company-wide initiative to implement & measure the success of SDL on all Microsoft complex services projects... and a SCUBA trip to Chuuk Lagoon, in the Federated States of Micronesia.
