Andrew Benson Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, Washington, United States

Product-Led Growth Champ Team Lead supporting Microsoft Account Teams and Modern Work sellers, driving digital engagement and co-selling efforts focused on optimizing workflows and enhancing productivity for customers using Planner/Project for Microsoft 365.

Kirkland

Post-production in excess of 2500 videos, podcasts and social media posts targeting the Microsoft 365 partner development community. Tools: Camtasia, Adobe Audition, Premier Pro, iZotope RX10. Videos for community calls, demos, snippets published in YouTube and Twitter. Blog posts authored and published in GitHub.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Post-production on 2 podcasts/week for "The Official AWS Podcast." Tools: Adobe Audition.

Greater Seattle Area

• Organized and refreshed internal sales content for Partner sellers, publish documents on Partner website, draft Future of Work eBook.

Redmond

• Marketing Communications – Content consolidation, production and management. Web site strategy, production and reporting. Vendor Management, Readiness and Event planning, SharePoint site consolidation and site.

Redmond, Washington

• Project Management – coordinating project managers from Dell, Microsoft OEM and Microsoft Store groups in opening new commercial channel at Microsoft Store. Addressed - Commercial Business Reporting, Sales Enablement –.

Seattle

• Curriculum and Website – Created Paced Start Learning – educational tools for kids with learning disabilities. Spent time in Seattle Public schools as Instructional Aid.

Redmond

• Program Management for enterprise social site - Infopedia. Owned Readiness, Helpdesk, Vendor and QA programs for platform.
• Relationship Development - built and nurtured long-time relationships with organizations leveraging Infopedia site to promote their products. Active Scrum meeting champion for business rationalized capabilities, owned.

Redmond

• Change Initiative Leader - Led EPG-wide site consolidation (1000 + sites to 1) after successfully leading cross company consolidation of 60+ compete sites.
• Relationship Development – As trusted advisor, engaged stakeholders across Microsoft’s businesses to drive adoption of Microsoft’s internal social platform – Infopedia from concept to primary KM portal at Microsoft..

Redmond

• Readiness program Leader - for Specialist Sales and Partners - assembled content and created role-based curriculum supporting Microsoft’s Infrastructure Optimization, Customer Engagement Solution (CES) and Business.
• Community Owner – Owner and champion for 650-member Business Value Community.
• Business Manager for 17-person Business Value IP team. Managed $1 M+ budget and reporting to senior executives. Managed production of 15 REJ Business Value case studies.

Redmond

• Internal Business Value strategy consultant – engaged every product and service organization at Microsoft to assess offering features/capabilities, develop value props, solicit metrics in evidence and develop.
• Sales Process Expert - Member of core team that rolled out the Solution Selling process at Microsoft. Drove development of training materials and delivery events.
• Linux ROB Scorecard managed reports and content organization for monthly meetings with CVP and compete initiative owners worldwide.

Redmond

• Product Manager – Owned regular builds of the Business Value Advisor (BVA) ROI estimation app used by Microsoft and Partner Sales professionals over 5 fiscal years. Also owned all internal, partner and customer facing.

Redmond

• Project Manager – Coordinated delivery of 14 REJ (Rapid Economic Justification) business value case studies for Windows 2000 Launch.

Seattle

• Consulting Project Manager, 1998 - 1999
• Project Planning and Production - Worked with Microsoft and Wasser personnel to create project specification and produce a series of tools and publications targeted to Microsoft ISVs.Marketing and Sales Specialist.
• Project Manager – managed database consolidation, application integration and the creation of organization’s first intranet.
• Sales and Marketing process consultant – Operationalized sales processes, developed internal performance reporting and created marketing materials.

Seattle

• Product Development and Business incubation - Managed engineering teams to create a security system for financial institutions that integrated technologies from the security and computing industries. Received UL, FCC.

Sedro-Woolley

• Product and Sales strategy – frequent interaction with customer, business and engineering stakeholders to agree on strategic direction for company. Make, buy, or exit business decisions. Negotiated 2.

Sedro-Woolley, WA

• Sales Manager - Managed four dissimilar product lines through three distribution channels, partner and sales representative skills development, and trade association representation.
• Marketing and Compliance - Managed product, pricing, positioning, MARCOM, new client development, compliance agency product certification, and contract negotiation.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Bachelor Of Arts Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Theta Delta Chi

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master Of Business Administration

Activities and Societies: DramaMBA