David Widner Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

As program owner of Microsoft's Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) sales motion worldwide, I'm responsible for partner authorization and the development of policies, strategies, tools, and process upgrades to drive CSP's long-term evolution.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Partner landing and change management lead on the New Commerce & Commercial Strategy team. Responsible for the creation and delivery of readiness campaigns and communications for Microsoft partners to support licensing, product, and program releases, collaborating with the Engineering, Operations, and Business Planning teams.

Issaquah, Washington, Us

•Worked on the Device Partner Solutions Sales (DPSS) team at Microsoft (Jan.-Nov., 2020) to manage and support the onboarding of Microsoft's device/hardware partners to the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program.• Worked on the CSP program team at Microsoft from August, 2015, to December, 2019. Assisted Microsoft partners worldwide, from enterprise to SMB, with onboarding to CSP and launching their reseller business in the cloud.• Advised and managed top-tier Microsoft cloud partners via multi-day workshops and Teams calls.• Coordinated partner enablement with Ops, Engineering, Treasury, Support, and Licensing teams to ensure seamless, timely commerce activation and resolve technical issues.• Worked on the communications team for the Dynamics AX for Enterprise Services (DAX4ES) program at Microsoft from July, 2014, to July, 2015. Produced and edited executive presentations and broadcast emails, created videos and developed content for major team meetings and events, developed program collateral, and produced and maintained the program’s SharePoint site.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Wrote new content and edited existing content for both the company’s website and its client support site as part of a relaunch of both sites, and subsequently managed those sites.• Wrote and edited copy for client and prospect email campaigns, social media, collateral, SEM campaigns, and marketing and training videos.• Created collateral for go-to-market campaigns associated with product releases.• Wrote and distributed company press releases and managed media relations.

San Antonio, Tx, Us

• Produced the company's website and wrote for and managed its blogsite.• Wrote and distributed press releases and worked with the company’s PR agency to coordinate media coverage of Earth Class Mail with such outlets as the New York Times, CNN, BBC, Forbes.com, Los Angeles Times, and Business Week.• Wrote creative for search-engine ad campaigns and produced online display-ad campaigns.• Worked with the design staff on the creation of marketing collateral, both print and online, including brochures, case studies, and in-store signage.• Edited the executive team's PowerPoint presentations and white papers.• Wrote and edited copy for customer communications, including email alerts, e-newsletters, broadcast emails about service changes and feature additions, and user-interface instructions.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

• In tandem with the design director, led a major redesign of Rivals.com's entire site, and worked with the dev team to revamp the site's content- and data-delivery applications and interactive features.• Created and drove development of Rivals.com's first-ever custom solutions for major advertisers such as Nike and AT&T, including the All the Way to Friday high school football video feature, the TailgateTV user-generated college football multimedia feature and the Skill Sessions instructional/video series.• Developed and wrote advertising proposals and presentations for major advertising agencies such as OMD, Wieden+Kennedy and Saatchi & Saatchi to showcase opportunities on Rivals.com; coordinated the creation of promotional videos and produced Rivals.com’s presentation to Nike at that company’s headquarters.• Produced and managed Rivals.com’s major partnership with Warner Bros. Pictures for the 2006 Scholar Athlete Awards in conjunction with the Hollywood premiere of the film “We Are Marshall.”

• Supervised all marketing communications, including trade-publication ads, the website, press releases, and collateral materials to support the company's transit-scheduling SaaS product.• Coordinated the redesign of and rewrote copy for the company’s brochures, ads and the new trade-show booth for the transit industry’s largest exposition (APTA Expo 2005, Dallas).• Managed the company’s responses to transit-industry RFPs and produced proposals.• Organized and ran the company’s first-ever Users Conference, including group social events and the conference’s educational and training programs and presentations.

New York, New York, Us

• Edited and posted content, wrote display copy and produced interactive and multimedia features for the coverage of the 2004 Athens Games on MSNBC.com.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Managed the promotion and production of third-party sports content and multimedia on MSN, as well as the promotion of MSN channel content on sports-content partner sites.• Developed the content plan and assigned, edited, and produced all features and columns for MSN’s multi-month sponsored special section, Agility on Tour, which spotlighted the synergies between golf and business.

Bristol, Ct, Us

• Supervised the pre-sales and proposal-development process for the web’s highest-traffic sports site. Identified and leveraged new sponsorship opportunities and acted as a liaison between the product and sales teams to facilitate advertising implementation.• Worked with the sales team to develop proposals for major advertising initiatives in contextually relevant content areas, either existing or customized. Managed the implementation of third-party content partnerships. Supervised, wrote and produced special sections and custom content.• Managed ESPN.com’s college football section and game coverage. Wrote features and edited content from columnists; developed, launched and produced ESPN.com’s Recruiting section; produced ESPN.com’s sports-medicine section and other custom content.

• Served as editorial leader for the launch and inaugural season of the NBA’s official website, which quickly became one of the highest-trafficked sports sites; helped shape the site’s navigation, features and departments, editorial tone and interactive components.