Andrew Graham Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

Cloud HW and Technology Investment Strategy Team is responsible for the financial cost and performance of Cloud hardware and technology investments and partnerships to drive Microsoft’s growth and profitability. We define and improve Cloud businesses margins through focusing on platform performance, configurations and emerging technologies informing and influencing optimal Cloud profitability plans.- Collaborate w/Hardware and Azure Dev teams to develop competitive silicon, server, platform technology.- Create, evaluate, and analyze both short-and-long term Cloud hardware strategy, roadmaps, and investments.- Define and provide recommendations for Cloud HW platform optimizing for data center performance and cost.- Drive price, cost, performance improvement through current and future hardware generations vs. competition.- Enable discussion, and provide objective, fiscally independent recommendation and ensure goal accountability.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Cloud HW and Technology Investment Strategy Team is responsible for the financial cost and performance of Cloud hardware and technology investments and partnerships to drive Microsoft’s growth and profitability. We define and improve Cloud businesses margins through focusing on platform performance, configurations and emerging technologies informing and influencing optimal Cloud profitability plans.- Collaborate w/Hardware and Azure Dev teams to develop competitive silicon, server, platform technology.- Create, evaluate, and analyze both short-and-long term Cloud hardware strategy, roadmaps, and investments.- Define and provide recommendations for Cloud HW platform optimizing for data center performance and cost.- Drive price, cost, performance improvement through current and future hardware generations vs. competition.- Enable discussion, and provide objective, fiscally independent recommendation and ensure goal accountability.

Santa Clara, California, Us

- Lead for Finance the IT Systems modernization initiative across Finance Business Process and associated Finance Enterprise Systems.- Partnering with Corporate Enablement IT VP, and key functional Finance leaders to define and implement a prioritized accounting, finance and business future-state systems roadmap addressing top modernization requirements.- Assess current and future financial ERP systems process and applications. Deliver a prioritized strategy/roadmap for leveraging, simplifying and standardizing our current ERP system solutions improving our effectiveness, efficiency and cost.- Recommend to CFO staff cross-Finance system investment requirements, optimization and technology modernization and migration initiatives. Address key dependencies across and with non-Finance Systems. - Defined and delivering optimized world-class enterprise solutions and business process roadmap via extensive benchmarking and extensive engagement with solution partners.- Leading multi-site team of 60 finance employees and Controllers on three US and one international site (Costa Rica).

Santa Clara, California, Us

- Directed long-term, annual, quarterly and monthly R&D, COS and product cost forecasts for Corporate Executives.- Led long-term, annual and quarterly planning and controls for company-wide Capital and depreciation spending. - Led and presented quarterly Capital spending report out to CEO and CFO used for earnings and external reporting.- Performed COS processes, oversaw COS accounting policies, guidelines, business process and system capabilities. - Executed risk management process ensuring effective SOX and non-SOX controls applied, tracked and reported.

Santa Clara, California, Us

- Directed long-term, annual and quarterly R&D, COS and platform cost deliverables with PDG Sr. Executive.- Drove product roadmap ROI, project ZBB, resource, and forecasted and actual capital and product/platform costs. - Established and drove SOC “Golden Doc” process, the source for schedule commit for Engineering, P&L and Mfg.- Delivered over $1B in margin savings over 3 years through combination of cost reduction and affordability initiatives.- Led multi-site team of 45 employees and staff of 8 Controllers on two US & three international sites (Israel, India & Malaysia).

Santa Clara, California, Us

- Finance lead for WiMAX charter representing corporate WiMAX business model both within and outside company. - Completed financial aspects for WiMAX business plans including all P&L, R&D and product cost requirements. - Led multi-site team of 8 employees across one US & one international site (Israel) & matrix in Accounting & Equity Deals.

Santa Clara, California, Us

- Directed long-term, annual, quarterly P&L requirements including revenue, pricing, and long-term cost forecasts.- Created and directed business plan to implement > $.5B YoY margin improvement improving revenue and COS.- Led multi-site team of 25 employees with staff of 4 Controllers across two US & one international site (Israel).

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

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