Experienced IT professional with a background that includes significant project, operational and budget management; technical marketing to a global audience; proven public speaking skills to executive audiences, teaching at university level, including course curriculum development. Set up teams in foreign regions, created group process improvement, program and project management. In my last few years at Microsoft I set up a three year program for technical marketing in legacy migration. Spent 12 years at Microsoft in a variety of management and technical roles. These included management of Network Engineering (12 direct reports), Operation Manager of Expedia (8 direct reports), Project manager for Expedia’s Data Center move (1 year), Technical Evangelist of Data Center Operations (WW role), Technical Manager for mainframe migration team, Manager of Competitive Response team in Europe (4 Direct Reports), member of the Executive Briefing Center speakers team, and Microsoft’s global speaking group, CATM. Consulted back into Microsoft on Data Center process issues. I was called in to help do root cause analysis on issues related to 'onboarding' internal customers to their data center, order entry streamlining, delivery and setup issues, and general customer feedback loops. Setup project Sharepoint site, managed weekly international meetings via conference calls, and tracked weekly project status for management. Specialize in long running projects.Additionally I've recently consulted on a cloud migration projects off Microsoft Server 2012, AD and Exchange to all MSFT cloud services. Projects completed in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 21. Recently successfully migrated a business from GMail to O365. -Specialties: Significant project management, technical marketing, training and small team management. Also skilled at video and audio production, shooting and editing. Full complement of production gear, and advanced editing skills.