His job, for which he is nominally paid, includes reconciling contracts with a stringent budget as well as monitoring game-night promotions like the wing-eating contest.
The team has already produced the Romeo and Juliet-inspired Twitter play Such Tweet Sorrow, a mobile heart rate monitoring game called Heartlands and Civic Dashboard, which creates a hub of useful information for Birmingham residents.
But it seems like Microsoft is pretty late in the "stream monitoring" game.
The New York Times will monitor games for plays that appear to be incorrectly called.
The paper will monitor games for foul language, then turn up at clubs with a swearbox and charge the offending players or managers £5 per bad word.
But the episode has again raised the question of how officials can monitor games in an era when technology is so advanced, and it set off concerns about how such suspicions will affect the game.
These days, Tanenbaum, 30, gathers with his friends on Sundays in Manhattan to monitor games on NFL Network's NFL RedZone channel, a popular new way of televising football that is changing how fans consume the sport.
The probes were carried out by the world governing body's Early Warning System (EWS), which monitors games between national teams and the subsequent betting odds across the course of the match.
A Subway promotion lasted from August 23 to October 3, 1999, and included "Dexter's Super Computer Giveaway", in which a computer, monitor, games, software, and an exclusive set of Dexter's Laboratory DVDs were given out to the winner.
Customers include the online gaming company Zynga, the maker of FarmVille and Mafia Wars, which uses the software monitor game function to determine where players get stuck or quit playing, allowing Zynga to tweak games in real time to retain players.
