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Redmond, Washington, Us

Architecture & Consumption: Collaborate with key stakeholders to identify customers’ business and technical requirements, architect consumable solutions that meet customer needs, facilitate and guide solution consumption (including Windows, iOS, Mac and Android modern management via Microsoft Endpoint Manager and Windows), and to otherwise act as a strategic technical consumption advisor to customers. Product & Service Insights: Help guide the future direction of Microsoft’s Commercial Management products and services. Ecosystem Enablement: Used subject matter expertise to train and enable scalable consumption ecosystem.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Architecture & Consumption: Collaborate with key stakeholders to identify customers’ business and technical requirements, architect consumable solutions that meet customer needs, facilitate and guide solution consumption (including Windows, iOS, Mac and Android modern management via Microsoft Endpoint Manager and Windows 10), and to otherwise act as a strategic technical consumption advisor to customers. Product & Service Insights: Help guide the future direction of Microsoft’s Commercial Management products and services. Ecosystem Enablement: Used subject matter expertise to train and enable scalable consumption ecosystem.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for providing Office 365 technical pre-sales support for state and local government customers. Led engagements to determine technical feasibility and potential cost savings for customers looking to move to Office 365. Led Architecture Design Sessions and Proof of Concepts for customers

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Sold Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure solutions across all levels of the customer; from Systems Engineers to C-Level executives.• Developed in-depth understanding of the platform and related solutions and the value they bring in solving customer business problems.• Drove customer and partner satisfaction for Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure.• Connected enterprise customers and partners with the product groups.• Recruited, engaged and readied Partners who helped drive the Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure business.• Collaborated with multiple Microsoft sales personnel, as well as Microsoft Partners Created and executed a business plan to ensure my product revenue and unit goals were achieved.• Developed and worked a healthy pipeline of qualified opportunities.• Guided customers to reach their IT management (ITIL) needs with Microsoft products.• Worked with customer to move to Azure while meeting their compliance and security needs such as SOC, PCI, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and others.• 112% attainment in FY16.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Drove partner technical enablement in areas such as Azure and O365 to increase capacity and help secure through-partner wins with new customers, existing customers and from a compete perspective. • Designed and Implemented skills development strategy for improving partner capabilities around pre-sales, technical sales, project management, and service delivery quality. • FY15 Circle of Excellence Gold Club.• 127% Attainment in FY15.

As a board member, I help to set the direction of the organization, find qualified coaches, set budget, and more. This is a volunteer position.

Richfield, Minnesota, Us

Led team that was responsible for:- Stabilizing the largest Office 365 implementation at the time- Provisioning, managing, and supporting Office 365 environment for 170,000 employees- Designing and implementing Lync based business solutions- Defining solutions and best practices for high-quality Lync experiences from multiple devices and locations- Eliminated nearly $1 million in ongoing costs from a budget of $5 million

San Jose, California, Us

• Managed Polycom’s Microsoft Technology Center relationship including overall sales, marketing and technical strategy.• Focused on helping customers integrate Polycom video conferencing solutions and UC endpoints with Microsoft OCS and Lync environments. • Provide technical and business expertise to Polycom Sales teams in customer calls dealing with Microsoft Lync and Exchange.• Brought in on key Polycom deals to provide support to the sales teams.• Led one-to-many seminars on integrating legacy video conferencing to Microsoft Lync.• Responsible for the Lync 2013 TAP program.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Work directly with district, regional and worldwide sales teams for execution against sales plans.• Influenced over $165mm in net new sales revenue.• Led Strategy Briefings to help enterprise customers identify and articulate the business opportunity.• Led Architecture Design Sessions to propose solution architectures and transfer knowledge on best practices through interactive whiteboard sessions and hands-on delivery• Led Proof of Concepts to validate solution architectures.• Worked with strategic UC partners such as Polycom, Jabra, Plantronics, and more to showcase their technologies in the MTC.• Presented sessions at the Exchange Connections Conference on Exchange and Lync in 2010 and 2011.• Led engagement to prove out Lync as an enterprise-ready voice platform for 30,000+ seat corporation.• Led engagement to plan the IT merger or two large companies; one running on-premise Exchange and Lync and one running Office 365.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Responsible for providing technical pre-sales support for the North Central District specifically involving Exchange Server and Lync Server. • Led engagements to determine technical feasibility and potential cost savings for customers looking to move to Office 365.• Led Architecture Design Sessions and Proof of Concepts for customers considering implementing the latest versions of Exchange and Lync• Notable customers include: Medtronic, Anheuser-Busch, Emerson, Express Scripts, Target, and General Mills. • Exceeded 100% attainment.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Responsible for managing the Microsoft support relationship for four customers; Allianz Life, Land O' Lakes, Northwest Airline, and Thomson Legal and Regulatory.• To meet the goal of high customer satisfaction, I built and maintained strong customer relationships through timely and effective communication, management and escalation of support needs, customer advocacy and responsiveness.

School Board Duties included establishing and maintaining a basic organizational structure for the local school system, approving curriculum, meeting federal and state mandates for public schools, appointing a superintendent, adopting an annual budget ($90 mm), and creating a climate that promotes educational excellence

Seattle, Washington, Us

• Lead architect on the US Bank Active Directory design and migration. This project was completed on time and the design is still one they are using today.• Led a team of 5-6 consultants. Wrote reviews, provided career guidance, assisted in hire/fire decisions.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Designed curriculum for and taught four courses: TCP/IP, Macintosh, basic UNIX, and Windows NT.

Mba, Business

Ba, Physics