The White House Is Bringing In Microsoft's Kurt DelBene To Run The Obamacare Website

[FarCenter]

The Obama administration is set to announce that Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene will be brought on to succeed White House official Jeff Zients in leading the overhaul of HealthCare.gov, according to reports in Bloomberg and Politico.

A White House official didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. DelBene is the husband of Rep. Susan DelBene, a Democratic congresswoman from Washington.

Zients had been enlisted to lead the "tech surge" of HealthCare.gov, the federal website where people can sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

DelBene announced his retirement from Microsoft earlier this year amid the company's big reorganization. He was president of the Microsoft Office division of the company. He has been with Microsoft since 1992.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-kurt-delbene-obamacare-website-healthcare-gov-2013-12

Ex-suit from Microsoft -- that'll do it.

[Vincardog]

1. Will he send the coding to India too?

[Pretzel_Warrior]

2. Of course. Because Microsoft never has software issues

Lol

[tk2kewl]

3. are they running the site on Windows servers!?!??!

no wonder there have been issues

[newfie11]

4. Hope he's not the one that developed windows 8

Or we are screwed

[FarCenter]

5. Last responsible for Office, Sharepoint, Exchange, etc.

As president of the Microsoft Office Division, Kurt DelBene is responsible for driving Microsoft's global productivity strategy for information workers. DelBene oversees the engineering and marketing functions for a wide range of productivity products and services, including Office, Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, and Visio.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/exec/kurtd/

It's weird that they still have his bio up on Microsoft's web site. Doesn't bode well.

As President, Microsoft Office Division at MICROSOFT CORP, Kurt D. DelBene made $7,906,725 in total compensation. Of this total $638,333 was received as a salary, $1,812,500 was received as a bonus, $0 was received in stock options, $5,445,594 was awarded as stock and $10,298 came from other types of compensation. This information is according to proxy statements filed for the 2012 fiscal year.

http://www1.salary.com/Kurt-D-DelBene-Salary-Bonus-Stock-Options-for-Microsoft-Corp.html

Bet he's making less now....

Microsoft's Office chief out after musical chairs reorg

Computerworld - Kurt DelBene, the former head of Microsoft's Office division, will retire, apparently one of the executive casualties of the company's reorganization announced today.

"As part of these changes, Kurt DelBene will be retiring from Microsoft," wrote CEO Steve Ballmer in a memo to employees early Thursday. "Kurt has been a huge part of our success in evolving Office to be a great cloud service, and is a key member of my leadership team."

DelBene, a 21-year veteran of the Redmond, Wash. developer, led Office, the biggest revenue contributor to the firm's Business Division, which in turn accounted for more sales than any other group in nine of the last 10 quarters.

During the first quarter of 2013, the last reported, the Business Division generated 31% of the company's total, well above the second-place Windows Division, which accounted for 28%.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9240724/Microsoft_s_Office_chief_out_after_musical_chairs_reorg

[BainsBane]

6. Great. Windows 8 for healthcare