Barbara Engle Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas Area

• Business entity for financial positions below. As of 2018, create & deliver coaching packages to couples in conflict about money, divorce preparation and inheritance. • Provide elite customer service by calmly responding to crises and priority shifts.• Recruit fans and clients then manage sales, marketing, coaching, CRM and billing.

Austin, Texas Area

• Built book of business in a new state through commission sales of Index Universal Life (IUL), Term Insurance, Whole Life and Disability Insurance and Annuities.• Generated sales from home through networking, email campaigns, social media outreach and presenting. Maintain relationships, created fans and referrals.• Modernized, sold, and delivered a 5-week personal finance course.• Recruited and mentored agents. Updated and delivered internal training.• Created and executed financial plans based on needs and life goals. Solved for cash flow, insurance, debt management, growth, retirement, legacy, and taxes.

Redmond, Wa

• Delivered vision, strategy and execution for MSDN and TechNet websites for 66 properties in 23 languages, reaching 25M customers monthly. • Managed international team and collaborated with subsidiary leads.• Increased traffic by 27%, improved local ratings and decreased localization costs with technology & processes.

Redmond, Wa

• Drove adoption of emerging technologies through solution stories for Disney et al. • Delivered complex, NDA only solutions with internal and partner teams with $1M budget and Program Managers, UX Designers and Systems Engineers across 15 subs. Products later known as Silverlight, Deep Zoom, Cloud, SQL Server, Expression Studio and Windows Server. • Reduced recruiting overhead and improved the quality of client stories by launching an enticing global program that field sales had to apply for. • Engaged with executive stakeholders’ through presentations and emails. • Recruited Design Agencies to be 1st MSFT UX Partners. • Courted and hosted deep access activities such as a Bill Gates roundtable with influencers including Evan Williams, Marc Canter, William Hurley, Dave Winer, Chris Messina, Luke Wroblewski and Michael Arrington.• Keynote speaker at CEO Summits and Hong Kong User Experience summit with 5,000 attendees.

Redmond, Wa

• Directed PR for call centers world-wide: branding, story boards, media, and interviews. • Wrote Corporate VP speeches & emails to ensure consistent & compelling messaging. • Helped revamp global website with new brand to give agents one tool for all call center needs, including scripts on breaking news and up-to-date support ticket status.

Redmond, Wa

Java Virtual Machine Project. • 6-person team recruited to lead a company-wide effort to enable Microsoft’s Executive Leadership team to respond to the Sun Microsystems lawsuit in a way that minimized cost, negative publicity and customer satisfaction. • Lead global data collection and field communication to assist in summarizing situation, cost and impact for Executive Leadership team. . • Limited solution costs to $2 million, which was less than 10% of anticipated costs.

Redmond, Wa

• Kept the Windows build stable by coordinating break-free .NET FX integrations. • Reduced high priority IIS bug fix turnaround time from 53 days to an average of 16 days, while increasing the number of languages released from 2 to 10. • Spearheaded pre-alpha feedback group to justify ship cycles and feature decisions for Bill Gates reviews. • Keynoted to audiences of thousands on new programs and product demos like COM+ at Microsoft TechEd Japan.

St. Louis, Mo

Mid-America District. Assist district in exceeding its $112 million-dollar goal across Missouri, Kansas and Tennessee. Lead a team of employees, partners, resellers and OEMs to reach $62,000,000 in sales, and leading the district-wide marketing team that supported the enterprise, medium business and small business teams in driving early sales and adoption of Microsoft Office and Microsoft BackOffice products. Exceed quota at both team and district levels. Recruit partners, train and maintain satisfaction. Manage team of 6 and virtual team of 16. Act as point of contact on all PR efforts through the district to expand and enhance reputation in 9 local markets. Manage a $1,100,000 marketing budget. Define content, delivery and marketing for events. Creatively build 30,000-person local database. Partner with Bill Gates’ team on Bill Gates successful 1000-seat visit to St. Louis.

Houston, Tx

• On-Site Account Management & Sales for Exxon US companies, including Chemical, Polymers and Refineries. Sold first Exxon global contract for $30M. • Owned 55% of St. Louis district goal of $109M and exceeded personal target by 4% ($62M).• Coordinated in-person product demos to 30,000 people and added 25,000 new emails to database through innovative PR and marketing campaigns across TN, MO, KS. • Qualify, recruit, train and drive sales through IT Consulting Firms and Large Account Resellers in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana.