J.D. Meier Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

I help CEOs reimagine their business with AI that's good for people, good for the planet.MISSION:We’re building a better world with AI that’s good for people, good for the planet.VISION:Imagine a world where AI amplifies human potential, drives sustainable innovation, and unlocks new possibilities for prosperity and wellbeing. This is the future we are building.

Redmond, Washington, Us

★ Spearheaded the end-to-end development and implementation (from program design to enablement and launch) of the go-to-market strategy for sustainability among Industry Solutions field sales personnel. ★ Collaborated with worldwide sustainability teams to define and execute go-to-market initiatives across a portfolio of targeted accounts while maintaining a focus on readiness, enablement, and activation in the field. ★ Established and grew a Sustainability Swarm Team with 200+ members to share sustainability knowledge and swarm on customer engagements. ★ Served as a “super connector” building relationships between field personnel and experts to provide assets, guidance, and support to field staff for customer engagements.★ Created a Sustainability Show to share real-world lessons learned from engagements, for practitioners, by practitioners.★ Coached Digital Advisors and Industry Digital Strategists on innovation management, as well as the innovation mindset, skillset, and toolset.★ Envisioned and coached the process, model, and approach for a global and scalable innovation capability that produced 957% return on the initial investment of $2.47M.

Redmond, Washington, Us

★ As Principal Program Manager, conceptualized, developed, and launched the Digital Enablement Office to help Microsoft customers drive and accelerate their digital transformation journeys while reducing risk and fostering continuous innovation.★ Enabled and empowered clients to establish digital operating models with robust governance frameworks covering people, processes, data, and technology while connecting digital strategy with execution plans. ★ Researched industry trends and insights to shape Microsoft’s go-to-market strategy and guide its investments in digital transformation and innovation. ★ Created a team of 500+ innovators representing all industries to share and scale scenarios, stories, and solutions, in addition to organizing an Innovation Show to share lessons learned from real world engagements. ★ Designed and implemented a pilot program for an innovation service for customers to accelerate business innovation and improve their innovation management.

Redmond, Washington, Us

★ Played a business-critical role as "Head Innovation Coach" for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's innovation team, with responsibility for sharing insights with Satya and his Chief of Staff to accelerate digital transformation and innovation. ★ Designed the digital transformation approach for Microsoft (the Book of Dreams), which helped C-level executives and business leaders reimagine and transform their businesses for the digital era. ★ Developed multiple Books of Dreams addressing digital transformation and innovation possibilities across multiple verticals, including automotive, banking, cities, consumer electronics, consumer goods, education, healthcare, industrial equipment, insurance, manufacturing, media, retail, sports, and telco. ★ Created a catalog of 100+ digital business patterns to share strategies and insights on digital innovation. ★ Trained and upskilled a team of 500+ Digital Advisors and Strategists on innovation and digital transformation, resulting in the title “King of Dreams” from the Microsoft CTO.

Redmond, Washington, Us

★ Drove vision, strategy, and execution for intellectual property investments, including creating a prioritization framework and managing a portfolio of investments across R&D, marketing, product development, services, and support. ★ Established a clear, shared vision across Enterprise Strategy, the Office of the CTO, and Microsoft Consulting Services that focused on Architecture, Scenarios, and Value as the foundation for intellectual property investments across teams, resulting in the title “Chief Clarity Officer”.★ Built cross-organizational teams to build business-first assets for the field across cloud, mobile, social, and big data topics as well as top technology trends and initiatives. ★ Drove integration across the value realization framework by creating industry guidance, analytics models, delivery methodology, and templates to facilitate field enablement and accelerate transformation.

Redmond, Washington, Us

★ Delivered Agile program management leadership to the newly formed Cloud Vantage team to ship the first life-cycle service for Microsoft spanning Enterprise Strategy, Microsoft Consulting Services, and Premier. ★ Established a scenario-driven approach for the productivity story for the cloud,and shipped the top 10 scenarios for business, IT staff, and IT Platform for Office 365 in the Enterprise. ★ Strengthend collaboration and coordination between marketing, sales, and field execution by simplifying the portfolio of offers, packages, and components, including creating a streamlined methodology to help drive end-to-end cloud engagements (resulting in $17M in savings from IP reuse of 75K hours over 9 months).

Redmond, Washington, Us

★ Defined, built, and implemented a system approach for enterprise-level change programs that drove business transformation. ★ Created step-by-step techniques to reveal customer insights, understand customer strategy, identify opportunities, assess current states, define future states, and optimize value realization planning. ★ Led the integration and simplification of the value realization framework with domain-specific guidance and industry guidance.

Redmond, Washington, Us

★ Created world-class strategic guidance, methodologies, and Agile frameworks used around the world for building software. ★ Consistently improved customer satisfaction and customer confidence in the Microsoft platform as demonstrated through customer surveys and Net Promoter Scores. ★ Earned the title “the Blockbuster PM” for presenting inspiring vision scopes and leading high-performance teams to drive on-time, on-budget, and high-impact delivery.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Drove performance & security for patterns & practices that also included baking patterns & practices security and performance guidance into Microsoft Visual Studio and MSF Agile and MSF for CMMI. • Shipped the Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Guide, the Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications Guide, the patterns & practices Security Engineering Explained Guide, and the Improving Web Services Security Guide.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Owned creation of the all up Microsoft story for security & performance for Line-of-Businessapplications across business groups, product teams, MS IT, Microsoft Consulting Services, Microsoft• Support, and external experts, & created an all up security information model across products. Shipped the Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability Guide, the Improving Web• Application Security Guide (“Threats and Countermeasures”), & the Building Secure ASP.NETApplications Guide.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Helped developers succeed on the Microsoft platform, promoted recovery techniques though teamconference calls, mentored team members in case documentation and case wellness procedures and encouraged cross-team collaboration often leading by example. • Shared best practices across teams, including Product Support Services Europe, for processes and procedures from Content Lead to Tech-Lead activities, & built cross-group communication channels between product groups and support to help drive product improvements. • Authored a monthly column called Servin’It Up on MSDN that reached 25,000+ customers per month, and served as a spotlight speaker providing direction & insight for many strategic MS customers.