Jared Blake Email & Phone Number

Medford, Or, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Using PMO best practices and standards, partner with the Microsoft product/program managers to facilitate a project management process to oversee and execute the process and plan. Create, maintain and control the project schedule and dashboard, facilitate meetings, and proactively identify risks to the project. Shepherd the Project Team through the Release process, being mindful of all requirements. Facilitate program communications, identify and implement continuous improvement practices, and provide regular status reports as required. Engage with Microsoft's executive leadership as necessary to communicate project objectives, strategy, tactics, and ongoing progress.

Lindon, Utah, Us

Funded and managed the construction and build-out of a Crumbl Cookies franchise. Trained and managed a team of over 80 bakers to get the store up and running and operating efficiently.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for influencing the methodology usage and adoption across the Services delivery domains and account aligned teams working closely to manage the diverse global stakeholders to ensure alignment.Coached field teams to help them consistently improve how they land the value of the Analytics & AI businesses and helped them leverage the right Data&AI sales program to better support them in each stage of the sales cycle.Actively supported across the Top Analytics & AI opportunities, provided deal coaching support for early-stage engagements to help sellers progress their opportunities through the pipeline.Program managed the modernization of Microsoft Consulting Services Customer Experience (CX) program by reimagining the entire lifecycle with a growth mindset leading a vTeam of over 200 members representing a global audience.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Functioned as the Delivery Project Manager for multiple Fortune 50 companies managing the successful delivery of purchased consulting services through the entire lifecycle of the project (contracting, staffing, executing, etc.)Rescued a failing project valued at $7M by restructuring the contract and team resulting in a successful, highly profitable project (increased margin >50% by optimizing labor costs) and sold an additional $4M to the customer.Managed a complex financial program portfolio with internal and external stakeholders governing the allocation, budget and spend of $25M. Managed resource plans to leverage offshore teams to increase the overall delivery capacity to ensure Microsoft provided around the clock value at a competitive cumulative bill rate.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Functioned as a SharePoint consultant who successfully demonstrated a mix of advanced Microsoft technology and strategic business acumen, focusing on the largest, most complex, and strategic projects for large enterprise customers.Collaborated with clients leveraging broad and deep technology knowledge to architect solutions by addressing customer business problems with end-to-end technology solutions. Automated the business processes associated with receiving service requests using SharePoint to create a request queue to increase visibility, resulting in increased performance due to efficient request assignment and resource loading.Collaborated with customers to design a social platform to leverage Microsoft SharePoint/Teams technology to enable employees to form organic specialty focused communities to discuss improvements for the business.

Arlington, Va, Us

Managed the IT security required to re-locate a data center across state lines ensuring all applications and satellites remained operational throughout the move.Developed criteria to prioritize increased security measures to be implemented on applications that allowed the company and its suppliers and customers to share proprietary data.Organized the integration and collaboration across a large number of individual projects and teams to analyze and prioritize project deliverables to meet the organizational goals of the delivery center; provided visibility to upper management on the current status and worked quickly to resolve issues, escalating when necessary.Created and maintained complex project schedules, action item logs, and team deliverables for a variety of cross- functional projects to report out to executive level management.

Arlington, Va, Us

Increased team collaboration by transitioning the processes and projects from standalone computer documents to a configured SharePoint; provided colleagues increased visibility of all ongoing projects to eliminate internal redundanciesLed a multifunctional team to create a new database to retain current and future projects to increase accountability, visibility, and adequately prepare for business needsLed a cross-functional development team to leverage a virtual teaming environment to collaborate and continually improve the project management divisions’ standard templates based on PMBOK principlesProject managed multiple departments to create a hybrid-forecasting calculator to decrease flow and eliminate redundancies for process improvement projects

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Utilized Visual Basic to code macros to automate standard workflowsDesigned a real time MS Access database and reporting system to improve the time sensitive packages; improved the efficiency and visibility resulting in increased customer satisfactionCollaborated with a cross functional team to adopt and implement a new database and reporting system as a best practice for statewide process improvementsLed a group through the design process to develop an employee recognition system to be implemented with the deliverable of increasing employee satisfaction through peer recognition

Cupertino, California, Us

Functioned as the brand ambassador to engage students and staff to demonstrate the capabilities and value of the Apple product lineInitiated contact and meetings with perspective high volume departments, which resulted in increased sales for the account executive, converting Windows based computer labs to tri-boot Macintosh, Windows, and UNIX labsCreated original marketing initiatives, bringing fresh and relative perspectives to the Apple brand on the Oregon State campus

Cupertino, California, Us

Achieved the highest sales award for surpassing all three key performance indicators leading the entire sales team and obtained national recognition from corporate for the performance of our storeRecognized from multiple customers, which resulted in corporate acknowledgement and a publication on the internal website of an example of outstanding customer serviceLead salesperson on all measured metrics within the state, encouraging and inspiring healthy competition amongst fellow co-workers; collaborated with co-workers to understand different techniques on approaching customers to improve store rankings and combined sales

Masters, Business Administration And Management, General

Advanced Project Management Certificate, Project Management

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Industrial Engineering, Engineering Management, & Business Entrepreneurship