☁️ Chris Reddington Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I lead a team of advocates across APAC and EMEA that help enterprise devs, engineering leads and execs ❤️ GitHubInterested in learning more about GitHub for Enterprises in these areas? Get in touch!

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Part of the Azure Customer Experience organisation under Microsoft's Azure Engineering teamCLOUD ADVOCATERegularly involved in initiatives that benefit the wider cloud community - Written numerous Azure Docs and Azure Architecture Center articles; Committed several Pull Request samples for the Azure GitHub Actions; Led customers through architectural sessions at several Microsoft conferences; jointly initiated a video series “Azure Mythbusters” alongside Microsoft UK; Kubernetes upskilling sessions across a variety of regional teams.DEVOPS PRACTICE LEADResponsible for setting DevOps strategy within FastTrack for Azure to drive additional customer adoption. Executed on strategy by leading several cross-organisation initiatives, and co-ordinating a team of engineers that partner with and drive product improvements in GitHub and Azure Product Groups that focus on DevOps and developer focused tooling.Personally established several Product Group relationships with Engineering Directors & Principal PM/Engineering managers, driving actionable product feedback which have been incorporated across various Azure products.PROGRAM & REGION LAUNCH & EVANGELISMPresented at the Microsoft Inspire conference, engaging with Microsoft partners in a number of breakout and interactive sessions. Formed core part of “Rest of World” team to launch Australia, UK and Western Europe regions.COACH AND MENTORActed as a coach and mentor to several members in the team. Focusing on topics from technical development; architectural upskilling and career development.CUSTOMER ADVOCACYAccelerate customer adoption and migration to cloud based technologies on Microsoft AzureEngaging with numerous FastTrack customers and their partners, to ensure that recommended practices are being implemented, with strong architectural guidance, with an aim of minimising risk in customer solutions.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Part of the UK Premier Support for Developers team. Key accountability areas include;TECHNICAL DELIVERYSupporting a number of customers in transforming their development approach; focusing on agile processes DevOps and effective use of tooling. Skills also focus around Azure Architecture & Development.PROGRAM MANAGEMENT, AZURE SOLUTION ASSESSMENTSDeveloping an assessment framework into a formal global offering, and established formal feedback cycle with numerous corporate teams to feedback into documentation direction and cloud on-boarding. 25 customers have been involved in the pilot phase, resulting in over 300 recommendations; 50+ of which were critical.Presented to an internal Microsoft technical-focused conference on the framework and findings, with an average session rating of 4.62/5 and resounding positive feedback.DRIVING OPPORTUNITY PIPELINELeading pre-sales of the Premier Support for Developers offering for Microsoft UK's Small and Mid-Sized customer and partner base. Responsibilities range from internal awareness of the offering, through to customer-based scoping of deals and forming proposals. MENTORING AND COACHINGSupporting a number of individuals who are early in their career. Discussion topics range from personal and career development, through to coaching on role specific scenarios

Redmond, Washington, Us

ACCOUNT MANAGEMENTAccountable for a portfolio of Financial Services accounts in excess of £2.5m. Partner with customers to understand their business, helping them realise the value of Microsoft Technology within their organisation. Responsibilities include Service Delivery Planning, Stakeholder, Incident & Escalation Management and expectation setting.CUSTOMER VALUE REPORTINGDeveloped value reporting process to report on technical deliveries as well as reactive support cases through programmes of work. Received positive feedback from key customer stakeholders, continuing to build a strategic relationship. STRATEGIC CUSTOMER ENGAGEMENTSIdentified opportunity for customer to invest in a strategic development environment, enabling modernisation of their wider platform. The solution has been delivered, and was a strategic win for the internal account team, as the customer typically engaged on legacy migrations.

Redmond, Washington, Us

TECHNICAL DELIVERY Joined a $10m Windows 8.1 Client project during its plan and delivery phase. Picked up delivery of the functional specification, solution architecture and lower level design docs for key components of the supporting infrastructure. Additional technical ramp up focused on Microsoft's Cloud Technologies; Azure (VMs, AzureML, EventHub) and Mobile Device Management (Microsoft Intune, Azure RMS, Azure AD Premium). OPPORTUNITY MANAGEMENTAssisted the UK Devices & Mobility team with a pipeline reporting process. Building upon sales pipeline data to understand the detail behind upcoming opportunities and proactively resource projects with appropriate domain SMEs & provide informed forecasting to the business.TECHNICAL SESSIONSSelf-established programme to provide members of the Services UK Graduate Community with a foundation of technical knowledge. Personally presented a number of sessions, in addition to co-organizing the programme. Received very positive feedback on delivery, organization and values of the sessions and programme as a whole.

Coventry, Gb

Feb 2013 - Feb 2014, Summit CoordinatorFeb 2011 - Feb 2012, IT CoordinatorOct 2010 - Feb 2011, Deputy IT CoordinatorThe Summit is one of the largest student-run academic conferences in Europe: set out from the rest by world-renowned figures, engaging debates and educational workshops touching on a range of global issues, including politics, development, finance and psychology. Annually, it accommodates students from universities across the world, ranging from Massachusetts to Moscow and Beijing to Bombay and welcomes speakers from Europe, Asia, Africa and America.Further details regarding my role in the 2011, 2012 and 2014 summits are available in their respective project sections.

Initially tasked with the creation of the Parish's website, having been a member of the Parish Advisory Council for a number of years. The website has recently been rebranded with a clean design and a new logo, embracing a professional feel. The website back-end has been developed through Ruby on Rails. As a result of the redesign, the website is much simpler to manage, due to an intuitive user interface. The content itself is entirely managed by members of the Parish.Saint Philip Evans' website can be found at http://www.sphilipevans.co.uk

Redmond, Washington, Us

Working as part of a year-long internship in the Premier Support Services division of Microsoft UK, within the Financial Services team.GROWTHDriven revenue in excess of $2.7m (59.5% growth) into the business by maintaining business operational rigor and the development of a monthly forecasting initiative.PROJECT MANAGEMENTProject managed a team of 7 with a task of delivering value to Services UK. We won the FY13 Services UK intern competition, receiving sponsorship from the UK Services General Manager. The project was the development of a feedback platform, to provide the UK University Staffing team a quantitative and qualitative dataset, to further improve the Microsoft UK internship scheme. This is now setup as a process for future intern intakes, and the intern manager community.CUSTOMER RESPONSIBILITYDirect responsibility for three customer support contracts worth £50k. Accountable for service delivery, escalation management, setting customer expectations and delivering service reviews. Assisted in delivery on a portfolio in excess of £4.7m.BUSINESS TOOL DEVELOPMENTDeveloped an innovative tool for a user-base of approximately 150 to help identify opportunities within customers, from the Microsoft Services UK portfolio. Consequently awarded an FY13 Q4 'Do the right thing award', as the tool demonstrated best practice in customer satisfaction. Feedback from users say that it’s more efficient and effective than the existing available toolset. The tool has since been adopted by communities within other subsidiaries in EMEA, who will be using the tool directly with their customers. CROSS-COLLABORATIONReceived a Microsoft FY13 Intern Award for ‘One Microsoft’, in recognition of a series of work that engaged other departments in multiple business areas.

An elected and unpaid role, as Executive Committee Chair of Warwick Students' Union, main responsibilities include holding Union Officers to account whilst ensuring that policies and manifesto pledges are implemented by the Officers of the Union.The following positions were held alongside the role of Executive Committee Chair:- Deputy Chair of Union Council- Deputy Chair of the Steering Committee- Member of the Elections Adjudication Panel

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc) Hons., Computer Science With Intercalated Year

A Levels

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