It Operations Program Manager
United States
- Event technical lead for numerous high profile tier 1 events and keynotes including the Windows 7, 8 and Windows 10 product launches, CES and major internal and external Microsoft events and conferences including BUILD, TechEd, Worldwide Partner Conference, Game Developers Conference.- Event Technical Lead for the Microsoft keynote at CES 2008-2012. Worked with engineering, product marketing and product management teams to create and deploy impactful product demos at events.- Executive Level technical event planning and support at events for current and former senior Windows executives. Worked with Product Management teams, Marketing and Engineering to ensure the success of product demos from both hardware and product messaging areas including troubleshooting prototype hardware and custom branch builds for specific features. - Researched, planned and implemented and maintained a lab system and custom scripts for image creation, deployment, testing and management. - Defined and implemented systems and processes including best practices for hardware and image builds. This has enabled us to over triple our variety of hardware supported in just one financial year.- Managed an inventory of over 300+ active hardware devices including creating and implementing process for end to end life-cycle management spanning procurement, inventory management, troubleshooting, image build/deployment and product retirement.- Provided overall resource management and planning for our major events. This includes the resource allocation, shipping, logistics, technical planning and risk planning for over 500 individual PCs which needed to travel across the US and Europe in both parallel and back to back events while having content refreshed between events.