Karen Rice Email and Phone Number

As an Azure Technical Specialist and Trusted Technical Advisory, I have acquired a combination of strong business acumen and technical skills and track record of bridging customer business requirements with key market trends.Throughout my career, I have overseen multimillion-dollar projects and product offerings, collaborating with business leaders to set a vision and chart a course that achieves company objectives. I am equally comfortable in both a business and technical context, interacting with executives and talking shop with technical audiences.Select highlights:➢ Currently support Strategic Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods customers for Microsoft Azure platform➢ Played an integral role in scaling Informatica, from $0 to $1B, representing the company at 2 IPO events (Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange), including the bell-ringing at the NYSE.➢ Received several awards, including President’s Club 19X, Global Sales Consultant of the Year, and multiple Sales Consultant of the Quarter awards. Trained and certified 100+ new pre-sales engineers globally.➢ Skyrocketed revenues 600% annually in the Western Region as part of the company’s first formal sales team; relocated to Chicago to build out the Central Region.Areas of Expertise:Account Management • Microsoft Fabric • Azure Open AI • Data Warehousing • Business Intelligence • Cloud Computing • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) • Data Governance • Data Integration • Data Quality • Enterprise Software • Presales Consulting • Problem Solving • Product Development • Product Enhancements • Project Management • Software as a Service (SaaS) • Solution Architecture • Technical Sales Consulting • Technical Sales Presentations • Microsoft Azure