As a Business Consultant specializing in partnering with Microsoft, I facilitate successful collaborations between Microsoft and partners worldwide, resulting in revenue growth surpassing targets. By conducting thorough market research and analysis, I identify key opportunities for partnership expansion. Through the implementation of innovative strategies, I enhance partner engagement and foster long-term success that results in achieving trusted advisor status with any partner I work with.

I creatively leverage my knowledge of technology platforms and global market opportunity to build solutions with ISV's around the world and launch them for long term selling success with Microsoft through our commercial marketplace AppSource. My deep technology background enables me to set a vision then leverage engineering resources to build commercial success with our global partner community starting from an opportunity to partner and growing to partner of the year awards.

Recruited and managed a set of Microsoft SI partners in addition to my ISV portfolio to make them successful for the long term and ensured they were ready to grow as partners by aligning them to our partner offerings. Leveraged my competitive skills by recognising the partners IP that they may not have yet commercialised and proved out the opportunity to showcase their IP in our marketplace. Transformed services partners into services + IP by showcasing the opportunity to drive increased revenue growth.

Creatively building the next generation of great Microsoft Dynamics 365 partners and ISV's using my 14 years of Dynamics CRM and 10 years of Salesforce.com ISV experience coupled with a never ending thirst for new knowledge and desire to make Microsoft even more successful.

Focused on recruiting and enabling top consumer app publishers from the iOS / Android ecosystem to build their apps on Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Azure as well as LOB apps. Activities includes all aspects of the business from the initial "Why Microsoft" pitch all the way through to technical execution and developing a marketing plan and ongoing relationship management. As part of this journey I leverage my marketplace expertise to make these partners successful above their competitors.

Recruited top smartphone app publishers from across major brands over to the Windows Phone ecosystem. Worked with product groups to determine app list targets and performed outreach to recruit then manage the app publishers through initial envisioning / technical enablement / QA and final release into our app store and ongoing marketing strategy / relationship building. Responsible for complete application development lifecycle and product quality through working with Microsoft design and QA teams.Windows Phone Champ and Lead for Microsoft US Central

Recruited top smartphone app publishers from across major brands over to the Windows Phone ecosystem. Worked with product groups to determine app list targets and performed outreach to recruit then manage the app publishers through initial envisioning / technical enablement / QA and final release into our app store and ongoing marketing strategy. Responsible for complete application development lifecycle and product quality through working with Microsoft design and QA teams.In addition to this role I was requested at a senior level to take on a secondary role and continue my efforts to continue recruiting Salesforce.com partners as per previous role.

Recruited back into Microsoft having been one of the first two Microsoft Dynamics CRM MVP's to recruit the top Salesforce.com solution developers over to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM ecosystem. Responsible for determining target list of Salesforce.com partners to recruit as well as execution strategy. Technically enabled partners once recruited and managed the newly recruited partners all the way through to creating a GTM strategy that ensured their financial success. Key highlight was recruiting the top ten Salesforce.com ISV's (Salesforce.com dream team) to the Microsoft Dynamics ecosystem. As part of this mission I drove the community to leverage the original Microsoft business application marketplace which was pinpoint.microsoft.comPersonally owned US Central, US West and Central and West Canada with this effort at Microsoft

Responsible for both recruit and technical execution of CRM projects into the education sector. Worked with multiple colleges across North America to define / improve their understanding and use of Microsoft Dynamics CRM as a student relationship management system in direct competition with PeopleSoft's own CRM. Supported client litigation cases as a CRM subject matter expert using forensic analysis software to hunt down hidden / deleted data.

Provided senior level Dynamics CRM consulting services both for Avanade on their own Dynamics CRM deployment and external clients such as Goldman Sachs (NY)