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Redmond, Washington, United States

Leading strategic initiatives to optimize secure cloud environments for U.S. Federal Government business. Driving the implementation of innovative architecture strategies that significantly reduce costs and improve operational efficiency. Chairing cross-functional councils to enhance governance, security, and compliance in highly regulated environments. Championing the use of advanced engineering platforms and tools to improve secure tenant management capabilities. Developing scalable operating models and promoting "Tenant-as-a-Service" concepts to create compliant, secure cloud environments at scale. Delivering executive-level briefings that shape the company's approach to secure federal computing solutions.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Responsible for the creation and implementation of a new Federal Compute and Business environment to support the Microsoft Government Programs Group. Accountable for the delivery of end to end value chain systems to support sales and marketing as well as operations, billing, invoicing and support. Also accountable for the end-to-end delivery of a secure Azure tenant environment to delivery Azure Active Directory (AAD), Active Directory Domain Services, Azure Multi-Factor Authentication, AAD Conditional Access in a NIST 800-171 and CMMC L2/L3 complaint manner

Redmond, Wa

Led the digital transformation efforts for a 12,000-person organization, transitioning from traditional IT to a modern engineering model. Partnered directly with executive leadership to create and align product visions across multiple divisions, supporting overall company transformation strategy. Established and managed strategic review processes to track progress and ensure goal achievement. Presented transformation vision to senior leadership and board of directors, securing over $1 billion in funding for key initiatives. Demonstrated strong leadership in driving technological and operational changes, significantly improving efficiency and modernizing core business systems.

Redmond, Wa

Oversaw end-to-end architecture of physical and digital supply chain for Microsoft's consumer hardware division. Led strategic initiatives to optimize new product introduction, engineering design, product lifecycle management, sourcing, manufacturing, and logistics. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to significantly improve supply chain efficiency, reducing operational costs per unit by a third over four years. Played a key role in launching multiple generations of flagship hardware products. Managed a team of senior-level architecture experts, ensuring high-quality and efficient product manufacturing and delivery processes. Demonstrated ability to drive operational excellence and cost reduction in complex, global supply chain operations.

Redmond, Wa

Responsible for the execution of Enterprise Architecture across $1.4B portfolio. Including technical, application, information, and infrastructure. Responsible for management of all Enterprise level architectural resources – 14 Principal direct reports that spanned the entire IT portfolio. Responsible for the leadership of all architectural resources within Microsoft IT, setting strategic goals and driving teams toward execution. Facilitating the creation of governing principles to guide solution decision making for all of Microsoft IT. Assess all significant solution designs and their fit within the overall Microsoft ecosystem. Management of a diverse set of senior and virtual teams. Responsible for the overall architecture quality across all of Microsoft business groups (Sales and Marketing, Volume Licensing, Services, Finance, HR, Legal). Also, responsible for overall organizational design and change management.

Redmond, Wa

Managing a multi-disciplinary team comprised of Software Engineers, Program Managers, Testers, Operations support personnel chartered with creating the next generation of Linguistic Analysis tools for the advancement of Natural Language Processing. Responsible for the creation of computational linguistics systems capable of detailed, real-time linguistic analysis to assist in the subsequent creation of natural language systems that enable computers to understand natural language in all its forms, written and spoken. Responsible for overall architecture, execution, management, hiring, budgeting, executive presentations. Shipped product in multiple versions of Office.

Redmond, Wa

Created superior, highly scalable, reliable and feature rich product to construct a single point of direct contact between enterprise customers and their development teams and Microsoft product groups and internal test teams. Responsible for creation of external web presence to facilitate the reporting of product defects discovered by external Microsoft approved beta testers. Primary responsibilities include leading medium size (10-12) development team, designing and implementation features for a robust highly available, high transaction rate, reliable enterprise Internet application able to scale from three hundred thousand uses to well over one million users without code modification. Scale up and out system design. As development lead I managed all communications within the development team as well as program and product management. Responsible for overall architecture, task scheduling, personal mentoring, task delegation, resource management, project management, ensuring quality and standard practices

Redmond, Wa

Managing a team of developers; created the first client server applications at Microsoft, using beta Version of VB 1.0, 8088 assembler and VAX Sybase RDBS. Promoted quickly to Lead P.M. Implemented major enterprise-wide applications in support of multiple groups; Finance, Operations, Global Manufacturing, Global Finance, Global Sales and Marketing 6–10-million-dollar budget responsibilities. Responsible for the creation and implementation of major client server applications used to support large scale product launches (Windows 3.1), global financial systems (Win Sales), global manufacturing systems, national and international sales and marketing systems. Responsibilities included requirements definition, functional specifications, technical specification and national and international implementations. As well as ongoing management responsibilities for a variety of teams containing multiple concurrent development schedules as well as multiple product teams, resource allocation of 6-10 person development organizations, hardware acquisition and allocation for worldwide installation, management of test and support systems nationally and internationally

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