Eduardo Kassner Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

Lead the Data, Analytics and AI Cloud Architect Team for the Software and Digital Platform organization in Microsoft US. We help architect, build and help deploy for the world's top Software companies, ISVs and Digital Natives, their AI, Analytics and Data Estate. In the past year we have driven close to $1B of Revenue across the Microsoft AI, Analytics and Data Platforms and Services. In the past years, we have deployed together with these innovative companies, over 200 AI solutions to production.

Redmond, Washington, Us

The mission of my organization is to Accelerate our Partners Capability to grow their business on the Microsoft Platform based on our joint customer's success, through aligned execution with the Microsoft Customer Success world, Global Partner Solution and Microsoft Engineering worldwide teams. Through deep integration with our top Global System Integrators, Advisory Firms and Global Commercial Partners, we architect and build with them to develop their solutions and practices on the Microsoft Platform, then support them technically on key strategic deals and RFP's, and after deployed drive with them best practices (Well Architected, Landing Zones, FinOps etc) to achieve our customer's cloud transformations. We collaborate with each partner to build their own Microsoft Business Units, land massive cloud skilling motions, achieve advanced specializations, certify as Azure Expert MSP and win some of the largest and most strategic opportunities. Achievements: Driven 1 billion dollars of cloud consumption revenue, supported over 1,600 sales opportunities and reached 1 million technical trained, essentially doubling our business from last fiscal year in 7 months.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Together with my organization we focus on defining and executing the strategy to enable the hundreds of thousands Microsoft Partners worldwide to increase their cloud technical capacity, so they continue to be wildly successful in today's digital economy. Lead the 800 Cloud Architects and Partner Strategists across the world supporting our top managed partners, as well as the Cloud Architect team supporting our top Global Partners. Achievements: In fiscal year 2020, my organization directly responsible for driving over 800 million in cloud consumption revenue, drove over 2000 sales opportunities, and trained over 1M people.

Redmond, Washington, Us

My responsibilities include the design of the Solution Architecture job profiles and scope, lead the hiring process, successfully on board each one of them, lead and manage the over 800 Solution Architects world wide to gather insight from their customer, revenue and consumption impact, as well as cloud design patterns and solution briefs. The Solution Architect role in Microsoft are architects with extreme technical proficiency that engage in pre-sales of select high potential customer and define the solutions, design the technical architectures, build proof of concepts and create the deployment plans, making the dream a reality. Lead the Cloud Solution Architects, the Data Services Solution Architects which focus on Relational, Big Data and Analytics solutions in the cloud, and Data Platform Solution Architects that focus on Relational, Hybrid, Data warehouse and Business Intelligence primarily on premises or in hybrid / interoperation models.► ACHIEVEMENTS: • Define the Cloud and Data Solution Architect roles for Microsoft worldwide • Hire and onboard over 1,400 Solution Architects world wide • Design and manage the Solution Architecture community in Microsoft • Manage the revenue, consumption, impact, best practices and insights • Grow the Microsoft Azure and Data Platform adoption and consumption rate year over year • Analyze and providing direct feedback to engineering, sales and marketing planning and direction • Engaged and lead top customers at executive briefings to drive C-Level commitment, drive investment decision on rationalizing Return of Investments while driving business innovation • Commonly speak at CIO forums, CXO and Architecture forums • Enabled IT Architects and Operations to deploy cloud solutions via solution architecture expertise • On strategic customers, sponsor and lead planning, architecture design deployment plans

Redmond, Washington, Us

As the Principal in the Enterprise Data Center & Cloud Strategy team my primary focus is on helping the Fortune 5,000 companies’ worldwide design build and deploy their Cloud and Infrastructure Strategies while being enabled by the Microsoft eco system. • Directly engage and support Microsoft customers worldwide helping them plan, design, build and deploy their On Premise and Cloud Infrastructure Strategies. The engagements where at the CIO, CTO, CXO, Business Decision Maker, IT Architect, and IT Operations and Support audiences• Create strategic positioning and direction to be presented at one on one, one to many, CIO Forums, Chief Architect Forums, Microsoft and other market events• Gather and decode deep insight into the market dynamics, trends as well as the behavior of all market top players. • Communicating internally to senior leadership potential implications of market trends, insights and strategies to actively contribute to the formation of the overall sales and marketing strategy of the Microsoft Infrastructure and Platform product lines (Windows Server, System Center, Identity, Security and Management Solutions). • Managed virtual team for each customer engagement. These virtual teams spawned across customer planning, operations and deployment, field sales, field services, partners, Microsoft business groups, product teams, as well as other corporate resources. • Shape Microsoft's strategies around product planning, marketing, competitive position, and all other efforts that mark Microsoft's worldwide go to market strategy across the Windows Server, System Center, Windows Client, Security, and Virtualization product and business groups.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Designed, Lead and Delivered the two 2013 Datacenter Field Sales onboarding training Boot Camps, that ramped up 300+ Data Center sellers, these events ranked as the top two readiness events across all other readiness event so far at Microsoft.• Designed and managed the infrastructure track at the annual Microsoft solution specialist readiness conference “S4”• Lead the Microsoft Worldwide VMware compete content development and delivery across all worldwide Internal readiness events and lead the Americas account review and planning, as well as across all Microsoft participating External forums.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Participated on the core team that developed the Cloud Optimization Model and Tools since its creation• Developed and delivered the content of over 200 session to communicate the IO Model worldwide• Presented these models and initiatives at more than 50 Conferences Worldwide from early 2006 to 2013 • Lead more than 350 IT environment assessments with the IO and Cloud Optimization models, as well as all associated tools with Microsoft customers

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Zug, Ch

I am excited to join Aparavi as a Senior Strategy Advisor, and contribute to Aparavi's mission help companies discover the value of their unstructured data – no matter where it is located. APARAVI enables its customers to find, understand and process their unstructured data and allows them to manage it efficiently in automated data lifecycle processes.

Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, Us

I am honored to join Innodata Inc.’s new advisory board as its inaugural member. Innodata has been on an impressive growth trajectory as a leading data-centric AI company, and I am excited to help drive further innovation during this exciting time.

Washington, Dc, Us

I am honored to contribute to the mission of Generation: You Employed (generation.org) as a Senior Advisor to the CEO and Board. An innovative and incredibly impactful global non-profit with a mission to support learners of all ages to be trained and placed in careers that were previously beyond their reach. Generation works closely with employers to understand their talent needs and requirements, as well as work with early-in-career candidates, to define the program that will prepare them to be successful for the jobs defined with those employers. The results of Generation highlight their proven method to build training bootcamps that usually lasts weeks, and then drive candidates to employer's positions with a highly successful percentage of employability (65% still employed one year after placement), retention and performance (84% employed within 90 days after program completion).

Stockholm, Se

Conversational AI holds a great promise of better service internally and externally. Who doesn't want immediate answers to questions? But projects have been slowed down by difficult implementations where Machine Learning algorithms, languages and tone have become monsters to manage. Deploying Teneo - which is used all over the Globe today - makes this a bit easier. Combined with the Class-Leading Microsoft BOT Framework and MS LUIS you can build in half the time. Simply put our software lets you build LUIS based bots in half the time.

Bangalore, Bangalore , In

• Created and Lead the Sales Force that Gained 53% market share and number 1 market share spot on the Server Market band for 4 years.• Official enterprise speaker for Dell, at media and partner events.• Developed strategic alliances with hardware, software and service providers: EMC, Microsoft, Red Hat, CA, Secure Computing, SAP, Veritas, F5, APC, and EMC.

West Hartford, Us

• Managed the EDS Service Management Center which consisted 36 Outsourced Data Centers, their finances, billing, all of their resources, and service support areas as well as the 5 Remote Print and Output Centers • Delivered Mainframe, AS 400, Unix (HP, Sun, Linux), Novel and Microsoft (Intel), Telecom and Voice outsourcing services in centralized and distributed locations for General Motors, American Express, Citibank, Diners Club, Xerox, Aeromexico, Mexicana, GNP, and New York Life, among others.• Through the 5 print and output service centers we printed over 4.2 Million pages of: manuals, reports, stickers, checks, account statements and other formats. • The service center was divided as follows: Production Planning, Production Support, Quality and Processes, Tools, Librarian, Disaster Recovery Administration, Financial Management and Reporting, Facilities Management, Operations, and Print Center Management. Their offerings ranged from application management, testing, promotion, production scheduling, storage management, performance management, operations automation, and production operation, communication administration and support, and all of their printing and transfer outputs.

West Hartford, Us

• Created managed and developed the Technology Engineering Solution Center for EDS Mexico, where we develop all proposals and implementation plans for the outsourcing, facilities management and implementation services. Managed over 50 full time engineers providing proposals and implementations in the following technologies: Client / Server technologies including UNIX, Intel server and client, Telecommunications LAN, CAN, WAN, voice and data transport as well as media over land and satellite technologies, Help Desk and Call Center’s, Remote systems management and administration, Architectural re-engineering, and TI Strategic Planning among others.