Alex Lowe Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Manage a team of 25 Technical Writers (managers and individual contributors) to produce interactive learning experiences and credentialing for over 20 Azure focused portfolios. Partner with our Sales & Marketing organization to create virtual training experiences for Microsoft customers and partners.My team creates innovative learning experiences in support of customers enablement at Microsoft. Specifically, we create online/instructor led training content covering Azure, Azure OpenAI, infrastructure services, and developer tools products. In my role, I’ve also had the opportunity to influence and lead our efforts to adopt generative AI/AI tools to optimize our business processes.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Facilitated the establishment of a 10-strong, culturally diverse & inclusive engineering team to spearhead customer journey to Azure ecosystem. My team delivered technical guidance and skilling to hundreds of customers enabling them to successfully migrate workloads to the public cloud.

Redmond, Washington, Us

I work with strategic customers to evangelize and educate them on the various Azure skilling programs we offer at Microsoft. I then help them create an organization wide skilling plan in support of role based training for their teams. Finally, I orchestrate the delivery and execution of the actual training for the customer to ensure they realize value with their Microsoft Azure based projects.

Redmond, Washington, Us

My role shifted slightly as a part of an internal reorganization but essentially I performed the same functions as I did in my previous Cloud Solution Architect role. I worked with customers to help them understand the value of Microsoft Azure and how they could leverage the public cloud to build innovative solutions for the business. One highlight from my time as a Technical Specialist was that I created the Cloud Skills Challenge concept, piloted it in the Great Lakes region, and then worked with Microsoft Azure developer marketing team to turn it into a US wide program. I built the initial leaderboard application and the program constructs and then advised a larger development team as we scaled the application. We've since conducted thousands of Cloud Skills Challenges in the United States which has resulted in thousands of people learning (nearly a half of a million hours of time spent by those users) about Azure on Microsoft Learn. I earned the Champion Award in Q3 for the impact that the Cloud Skills Challenge has had on our Azure business.

Redmond, Washington, Us

I worked with strategic customers to help them understand the value of Microsoft Azure and how they could leverage the public cloud to build innovative solutions for the business. Specifically, I did the following:*Educated and equipped teams with Microsoft Azure best practices and patterns for both migration and greenfield applications*Participated in design sessions in support of customer projects so they could validate potential architecture options and to ensure that best practice security, scalability, and reliability design decisions were followed.*Build minimally viable products to support customer proofs of concept as a part of the technical pre-sales process

Farmington Hills, Mi, Us

• Lead team of Software Developers and Business Analysts to develop line of business applications• Architect solutions using the Symitar PowerOn language used in Episys• Establish software development standards and best practices for the credit union• Manage P&L for the Information Systems department

• Led a staff of approximately 20 employees; managers and ICs• Managed vendor & contractor relationships for all cloud based IT and telephony equipment/projects• Architected and maintained network infrastructure, cloud storage, and security (firewall, etc.)• Maintained Office 365 and Google Apps for cloud based storage and document sharing• Developed financial forecasts, budgets and generosity plans that support the mission of the organization• Created line of business applications using .NET for use with church management system

Round Rock, Texas, Us

• Build .NET applications using C# or VB.NET, SQL Server, HTML/CSS/Javascript (jQuery), and other internet technologies• Design and build Sharepoint solutions utilizing webparts, workflow, content management, and other Sharepoint features• Maintain an expert level of knowledge on application security both from a development and systems standpoint• Analyze and propose technology solutions that meet end user needs

Frisco, Texas, Us

*Manage technical documentation team responsible for documentation of Telligent proudcts*Write technical documentation targetted at end users, system administrators, and developers*Develop training arm of Telligent's business

Frisco, Texas, Us

• Lead a team of developers and designers on various consulting engagements• Pre-sales customer facing role with potential customers• Design and maintain ad base revenue support for Microsoft developer communities• Responsible for financials and status reporting on Community Server product and all large ($500k+) services projects with Microsoft• Lead design and development of Microsoft properties including http://asp.net, http://windowsforms.net, and http://silverlight.net • Act as liaison between product team and services department increasing services based revenue• Led, directed, and mentored Program Managers on product team

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Engage and discuss Microsoft technologies with anti-Microsoft companies and developers• Contribute to sales pipeline planning with account team for Global accounts in Midwest territory• Create business plan for identifying and utilizing influential developers in the Midwest territory• Assist local Fortune 500 companies with the use of Microsoft software development tools (Enterprise Servers and Visual Studio .NET suite of products)• Organize and manage Microsoft's Developer Days events• Work with .NET developer User Groups in the Michigan, Ohio, and Kentucky area• Provide .NET training to enterprise customers

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

• Pre-sales research and client engagement• Lead teams of developers through the full software development life cycle• Architect, design, and develop web based software using Active Server Pages, ADO, VBScript, Visual Basic, SQL Server 7/2000, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#.• Mentor Jr. Developers with SequoiaNET.com software methodology