Mike Paull

Mike M. Paull is a Director of Advanced Research in Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group. He has designed hardware products and created device businesses for Microsoft since 1991, over two careers spanning a total of 15 years. Mike designed or managed cross-functional teams that prototyped Microsoft’s first optical mouse, and shipped the first ergonomic keyboard, digital joystick, force-feedback joystick, digital PC gamepad, home networking kit, and an activity-based home remote control.

Mike’s technical interests are in pretty much anything with lots of moving parts, robotics and automation, human-machine interaction, sensors, transducers, materials, tooling and processes. His current Applied Sciences dual hats are: finance and operations for the team, and sensors, processes and automation for hardware devices. He holds 28 patents.

Before joining Microsoft, Mike designed consumer products for clients of Stratos Product Development Group, cardiac monitors and defibrillators for Physio-Control, patient monitors for SpaceLabs, photo-therapy and medical processing systems for Olympic Medical, and served in the military as a missile fire control and maintenance specialist in Europe.

In his free time, Mike’s passions include global motorcycle adventure touring, the preparation and consumption of food and drink, reading, movies, music, any project or maintenance chore involving many tools, and pretty much anything with even a mere whiff of, or totally derived from . . . bacon.