As Senior Vice President of Engineering & Technology, Tuoc Luong oversees all engineering and technology issues for the Company. Luong, who joined Ask Jeeves in February 2002, is responsible for the overall direction, resource allocation and operations of Ask Jeeves' engineering and technology groups across the Unites States and internationally. Luong brings extensive technology background, market sensitivity, vision and pursuit of technology excellence. Prior to Ask Jeeves, Luong was general manager for Microsoft's BackOffice, and Hosted Service. He was one of the key executives leading the effort for Microsoft's Software as Services initiative and built the company's first Hosted Knowledge Worker MegaService. Before joining Microsoft, Luong was vice president of research for Baan Company where he was responsible for Baan's future technology architecture.
Luong also served as VP of Development at Borland, where he
was responsible for the entire Delphi client/server product line.
Luong has held management positions with Pyramid Technology, Oracle
Corporation and Informix Software. The 18th employee at Informix,
Luong was the original author of the company's internationalisation
technology and one of three original authors of Informix-Turbo,
now called Online. Luong holds a Master's in engineering management
from Santa Clara University and a Bachelor's in computer science
from University of California, Berkeley. Luong is the author of
the book, ``Internationalization, Developing Software for the
Global Market,'' published in 1995.