My name is William Wu (吳萬忠 in Chinese). Here is a quick glance of my background.
Managing Director, William Wu Ventures, 2018-Present
- Past
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- Co-founder, Executive VP Engineering & Chief Technology Officer at DS-IQ, Inc. (formerly known as Innovidia, Inc.), 2003-2018
- Editor-in-chief, Digital Signage Network Standard Playlog v.1, POPAI (Point-of-Purchase Advertising International)
- Group Manager at Microsoft Windows Update Services, 1997-2003, first architect & developer of Windows Update
- Software Design Engineer & Development Manager at Microsoft LAN Manager, Windows, Consumer Multimedia Publishing & Desktop Finance , 1989-1997
- Project Lead at Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan, 1985-1987
- Education
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- M.S. in Computer Science, State University of New York at Buffalo
- B.S. in Computer & Information Science, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
- Public presentations and documents
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- Software Development Issues for Large Scale Projects, presented for Institute for Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Oct. 23, 2003
- Digital Signage Playlog Standards, POPAI Digital Signage Standards, Aug. 23, 2006
- An Entrepreneur’s Experience in the Software Industry, presented to Taiwan’s government representatives, Microsoft Executive Briefing Center, July 2006
- Logging In-Store Media, Marketing-At-Retail magazine, POPAI, Dec. 2006
- Building Retail Sales on the Microsoft Technology Stack, 2015 Top 100 Most Promising Microsoft Solution Provider interview with CIO Magazine
- Bio
- William Wu is currently Managing Director of William Wu Ventures.
- Previously, William co-founded DS-IQ and was responsible for building the company’s technical vision and inventing DS-IQ’s dynamic shopper intelligence marketing services and contextual data sciences.
- William was known for pioneering Microsoft’s Windows Update services in its inception. Windows Update has since become the world’s largest Internet software update service. As the Windows Update Group Manager, he managed the day-to-day operations and technical innovation that led to a prestigious Webby Award in Technical Achievement given by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences in 2001. The 14-year Microsoft tenure also earned him a Microsoft Achievement Award, culminated in the years of technical leadership positions in many key projects, including Windows, LAN Manager, Multimedia and Internet Finance Server products.
- William enjoys technical innovation, running and travel to new places around the world.
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