Andrea Michael Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, United States

Currently working on Virtual Network's and AVNM's security side:- AVNM security admin rules- AVNM's Virtual Network Verifier- Network security groups (NSGs)- Application security groups (ASGs)among other neat services and projects that'll go live soon!

Redmond, Washington, United States

As a Product Manager I, I worked in the Azure Virtual Networks team on Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM) and briefly on Service Tags. AVNM simplifies the management of customers' network resources at scale by providing mechanisms to easily establish and maintain desired connectivity, security, routing, monitoring, and more. Over the span of 2.5 years, I had the opportunity to learn from industry leaders and innovators as AVNM broached the public preview domain -- laying the groundwork for me to own various customer scenarios and contribute to the continued success of this product.In this time as a PM I, I collaborated on the following initiatives:- AVNM's public preview (launched & demo'd at Microsoft Ignite 2021)- AVNM's GA (hub and spoke connectivity configuration)- AVNM's security admin GA- Internal program to secure Microsoft's C+AI division with AVNM security admin rules- Continuous engagement with customers through product overview, roadmap, and demo presentations and discussions- Marketing and documentation authoring of several AVNM blogs and LinkedIn posts detailing use cases and best practices- Product monitoring and discoverability through event logging and queryable resource data- UX research studies and design iterations for upcoming feature releases and improvements- Service Tag's support in network security groups (NSGs) and user-defined routes (UDRs) GAThe focus of my work all comes back to chartering a new path in the customer experience of cloud network resource management at scale. This has been a space filled with endless opportunities to learn, tackle unique challenges, and exercise ownership in a far-reaching and high-impact product.

Redmond, Washington, United States

I worked in Azure Networking's Software-Defined Networking (SDN) space on Private Link, which allows customers to privately connect from their virtual networks to Azure PaaS services. Before diving deep into my project, I spent several weeks familiarizing myself with Azure, networking concepts, and Private Link on several levels. This helped me to contextualize my work and hold confidence to my contributions.Although my learning phase never stopped, about a month into my internship I conducted research and iterative user studies with large customers to pinpoint their issues with managing their Private Link resources at scale. I exposed a property that would be key to managing their resources' public network access and I automated the process of DNS configuration related to Private Link establishment. These solutions consisted mainly of newly built-in Azure Policy solutions, for which I drove the creation of and wrote best-practice documentation. The overall outcome of my work is a positive feedback loop for customers to better manage several Private Link resources (and in turn encourage increased use of Private Link as well).This opportunity provided me with hands-on experience as a PM. Although I had plenty of informal PM experience in past internships and projects, this was the first time I had this degree of work impact. I was truly able to immerse myself in the philosophy of building for the users, and gained a unique perspective in working with enterprise customers. As a result of this summer, I grew far outside of my "feature PM" comfort zone and can confidently say I've become a much better PM for it.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

I was a part of the Tech Pricing Team, which operates through paired programming. This agile technique has allowed me to quickly pick up the existing architecture, Spring Boot + Kotlin, and Angular framework of the team's pricing services and applications. As a result, I have been able to debug, test, and modify code across these platforms and a variety of services provided by the Pricing Team.In addition to daily paired programming, I developed a feature in PriceIQ, which will be used in-house to easily set styles on discount. This feature will allow users to preview how their submitted discount will appear on DSG's website as a part of the style's display card. In effect, this feature addresses ease of use, convenience, and efficiency in creating a discount event.This opportunity provided me with my first (official) real-world experience with software engineering at an internship, giving me confidence in my desired career path and immersion in the software engineering role on a team and as an individual. I learned to better read code and write tests for functionality and logic. I also got the chance to experience the product management role, as I fulfilled that role in my own project, considering business value, technical feasibility, and user feedback/design as a part of the iterative process for developing the feature.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

I edited articles prior to publication for grammar and style across a variety of topics. In addition to identifying and correcting grammatical, AP style, factual, and in-house style errors, I provided general feedback for the article at hand to other editors and the writers. I checked the final formatting and layout (as pertaining to AP style) of the paper before sending for printing.This opportunity gave me tremendous responsibility for the paper's reputation and quality, reinforced my leadership skills among my peers and ability to react to ever-changing situations and stories, and solidified my skills in organization and attention to detail.Please see www.pittnews.com for the culmination of the hard work of our student writers, editors, and staff!

Greater Pittsburgh Area

I read and edited articles for grammar, AP style, and in-house style across a variety of topics.I also identified and corrected errors in the above, as well as provided general revision feedback for the writer and section editors. This opportunity greater refined my eye for detail as I constantly compared text with several sets of rules.

Greenbelt, Maryland

I worked on the Heliophysics Sonification User Interface in HTML5 and Javascript through the SESI (Scientific and Engineering Student Internship) program.I compiled and organized dozens of JavaScript libraries and sonification projects and articles, laying the foundation for future in-browser work with sonification.I wrote code to ingest CSV files and audify the contained data. My code was the result of continuous evaluation of dozens of JavaScript libraries, and the assessment of those with the highest optimization potential for visual graphing, sonification, data processing and scheduling, and an interactive synthesizer.This opportunity provided me with skills in self-managing my own project nearly from scratch, including teaching myself JavaScript, considering auditory and user designs based on a desired UI and data formats. This was also my first unofficial real-world experience with coding, and was one of the factors in my change in major from physics and astronomy to computer science and information science.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

I analyzed trends in data under the direction of Dr. Rachel Bezanson from the UltraVISTA survey, which contains data that heavily lends to the study of galaxy formation and their star formations.I contributed to the Bezanson research group's website through my reviews of several articles and larger texts, and my tutorial for the setup and initial research process for future researchers joining this group or exploring the field or UltraVISTA data.This opportunity provided me with mentorship from an extremely accomplished researcher, structured access to galaxy research and papers, and reinforced my skills in analyzing data using Python.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

I worked on the VLA Low Band Ionospheric Transient Experiment (VLITE) in the Remote Sensing Department.I doubled the amount of VLITE data tested for radio transient sources and implemented Python to view the data graphically and identify patterns.This opportunity provided me with skills in data analysis in Python for the first time, as well as confidence from my first real-world experience in the astronomy field.

Northern Virginia

I helped a young beginner violinist develop their technique and music theory, and reinforced their skills and progress in collaboration with the violinist's professional violin teacher.This opportunity reinforced my skills in tutoring young students and communicating effectively with them.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science And Information Science, Junior

Activities and Societies: Business Manager of Women in Computer Science (WiCS), Kappa Theta Pi (KTP), previously VP of Society of Asian.

Advanced Studies Diploma, Astronomy And Astrophysics

Activities and Societies: UNICEF, Kids Are Scientists Too (KAST), Consulting Club