Doug Thomas Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

Manager a team of 5 as part of the Magic Video & Podcast team inside the E+D division. Many videos found at support.microsoft.com and in Microsoft YouTube channels.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Create and produce hundreds of how-to & marketing videos, help articles, training scripts, and other consumer content for the official Microsoft Help site, support.microsoft.com generating millions of worldwide views. Collaborate with several other groups to create content including Office Insider, Learning Pathways, What’s New, marketing, engineering, non-profits, education, brand, and retail services. On team debuting large-scale work with freelancers via Upwork.• Co-created, produced, and a host for Simply Windows video series. Host, co-creator of Remote Space podcast. Created and host The Celebrity Interview, an internal 1-1 interview with co-worker. • Consultant for speakers, both PowerPoint design and on-stage performance.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• On small team that introduced and trained others in video, scriptwriting, screen capture, writing for video and best practices. Created dozens of videos including several series.• Office Casual: Recognized inside company best in breed content. Talked at conferences on low-budget video creation and creativity. Relaunched in 2016. (100+ videos)• Office 15-Minute Webinars: Lead virtual team of 4, elevating grass roots efforts to reinvent how webinars are delivered and recorded. Evangelized these results in talks in and outside Microsoft, including Presentation Summit. (125+ episodes)• Co-created/hosted two-hour online trainings for Microsoft Virtual Academy and Premier Content, the first-time consumer training was offered for these technical-centric venues.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Maintain over two dozen sites for various products and services. Reshaped and improved page performance on product pages, including SharePoint and Live Meeting, channeling marketing directives into customer-friendly content. Fostered changes in site in best practices, site navigation, language, and community.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Responsible for hundreds of stores, promotions, articles, mass mailings, and reviews in DVD. Promoted to Senior Editor in 2001 and Managing Editor in 2004.• Established roadmap for editorial content and led in the production of merchandising and category management programs developed by other teams, working with them through the process to create outstanding content. Worked with representatives of every major and most minor home entertainment companies and studios. In charge of producing the store's internet home page, integrating marketing plans with editorial slant, current events, and trends for millions of customers.• In charge of a six-person DVD site production team responsible for online content, mass mails, and single product pages for one of the nation's top video companies with yearly revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Constantly experimented with what worked best in site for sales conversion and layout, improvements in mass mails, and week over week, year over year trends.• Led 25 media editors in a massive platform migration project. Worked with several program managers and technicians interpreting their work to create all training materials, samples, and a timeline for the editors' production. • Served as spokesperson for the store in print and radio, including national Oscar radio tours. Conducted dozens of interviews with actors, directors, artists, and animated characters for print, audio, and video.• Developed, wrote, and built several stores and pages including the Disney Store, American Beauty official website, Nickelodeon, DVD Discoveries, high revenue generating seasonal previews, Editor's Picks, and shepherded a program turning customer requests for unproduced DVDs into a lucrative pre-sale tool.

Creation of in-store materials for video stores, umbrella for freelance writing and radio gigs including the Seattle Times, KIRO and KING radio.