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Olympia, WA, US

Providing strategic and tactical architectural leadership across the organization to drive the realization of WSECU’s digital strategy.

Minnetonka, Minnesota, US

• Established multi-year strategies, roadmaps, budgets, and execution plans to achieve prioritized business objectives. Served as an advisor to senior business leaders.
• Provided effective leadership and guidance for key strategic initiatives: Digital Transformation, Cloud Adoption, Security Strategy, Traveler Experience, Personalization, Client Onboarding, Workforce Optimization, Data.
• Conducted research, pilots, PoCs and championed innovative and transformational strategies and proposals.
• Optimized service delivery across cloud and global datacenters.
• Developed and maintained awareness of new and emerging technology trends, practices and benefits.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Led the activities to establish strategies and execution plans for: Cloud Adoption, Workforce Identify & Access Management and Customer Identify & Access Management. Included: Vision, Strategy, Target Architecture.
• Provided effective leadership and guidance for key strategic initiatives: Cloud Adoption, Customer Identity and Privacy, Personalization, Workforce Collaboration and Identity Management.
• Supervised Azure Active Directory and Office 365 roll out and ongoing administration.
• Conducted research and conducted pilots and PoCs to improve technology value delivery to achieve business objectives with new and existing technologies.
• Developed and maintained awareness of new and emerging technology trends, best practices and benefits.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Led development and execution of worldwide sales and competitive strategy for Data Center and Private & Public Cloud: revenue targets, programs, scorecards, compensation and readiness for Microsoft field and alliance.
• Led worldwide competitive effort in Data Center and Private & Public Cloud selling in the enterprise.
• Built and executed annual GTM strategies for technical field sales and partners.
• Provided product and marketing feedback and recommendations to product teams and executive leadership.
• Delivered more than 250 technology briefings, workshops and demonstrations to enterprise customers in support of sales field and partners in competitive pre-sales engagements to C-level executives.
• Created and delivered top rated presentations at field, partner and customer events; crafted senior executive messaging and keynote presentations.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Technical pre-sales support for Microsoft and partner teams through customer engagements; engaged directly with 100+ large enterprise customers on-site to architect, plan, deploy and operate enterprise solutions to.
• Delivered more than 1200 technology briefings, workshops and demonstrations to enterprise customers in support of sales field and partners in competitive pre-sales engagements to C-level executives: Recipient multiple.
• Created and delivered top rated presentations at field, partner and customer events.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Responsible for worldwide technical readiness of Microsoft services and support personnel.
• Led the development, delivery and successful execution of enablement programs, including core curriculum, for Microsoft services and technical professionals ahead of schedule and below budget. o Group Manager quote.
• Developed the master plan and calendar for technical enablement activities throughout the year.
• Developed, delivered sessions at Windows 2000 launch, Windows World (including BillG keynote) and other events.
• Led the development, delivery and execution of enablement program to more than 300 partners worldwide.

Mba, Business Administration - Technology Management

B.S., Business Administration - Information Systems Management