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New York, Ny, Us

New York City, Ny, Us

Spectra Media Collective is a preseed-funded start-up founded by a family group of theater artists, technologists and educators passionately committed to expanding access to theatrical storytelling and storytellers by disrupting the economic system of the industry as a whole. spectra.theater enables digital content creators to become live theater-makers by supporting them in imagining and building new community-based theatrical projects, plays and productions.

Bainbridge Island, Washington, Us

Growing effective leaders who foster a culture of creativity and inclusion. Redefining culture through vision, mission, and values storytelling. Pathwise offers business leaders uniquely effective programs to transform individual, team, and organizational behaviors through immersive exploration of and practice in graduate-level psychology. Developed and refined over the past fifteen years, Pathwise has been a part of transforming the business and personal lives of over four thousand senior business leaders on its way toward a positive cultural impact at over two hundred companies.

New York, Ny, Us

Musical theater producing (FIDO). Musical theater writing (Newton's Cradle, Based On A True Story). Episodic TV writing (The Sheridans).

Developer of Juanita Farmhouse Cottages, a Five-Star Built Green eight-cottage community in the Juanita area of Kirkland, offering a re-imagined sense of place containing small groups of single family cottages and shared common spaces to nourish the individuals who live there, support their family relationships, and encourage a strong sense of community.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Manage a Microsoft Bing Ads project team focused on delivering immersive customer experiences to product engineers with the goal of inspiring high-quality long-term innovations.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Incubated and launched a new Azure-based service to enable developers to easily integrate social web data into their applications.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Drove customer/partner satisfaction including through CPE programs, Product Quality measures, broad community engagement, customer/partner engagement in product development process, and evolution of program management discipline to increase customer-centric thinking and processes. Also deliver ongoing early technical adoption programs (TAP), customer and partner advisory councils, and evolution of customer pool/CRM for product development activities for BPD products including SQL Server, BizTalk Server, and Windows Server AppFabric.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Drove product marketing for all partner initiatives, including enterprise and breadth partner areas, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) and Independent Hardware Vendors (IHV), Independent Software Vendors (ISV), and breadth ISV partner management programs. Managed team of six FTEs and two contract employees. Developed new ISV engagement and investment strategy that drove +300% platform growth in each of 30 new ISVs recruited.  Achieved 20% increase in partner engagement and satisfaction with successful launch of SQL Server 2008.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Delivered products and programs, including Windows XP “N” edition, that reduced competitive regulatory risk. Supported ongoing US Department of Justice Technical Committee and European Commission Trustee technical relationship. Managed team of five FTEs and two contract employees.  Created new Developer and Platform Evangelism interoperability team to close customer-identified product and program interoperability gaps. Identified and mitigated over 250 competitive regulatory risks to Windows Vista through new competitive regulatory-risk-response approach. Launched diversity initiative, which resulted in 33% of diversity hire candidates in total new hire population.  Awarded Gold Star Award in April 2006 in recognition of high-impact, long-term work.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Delivered global development, training and assessment programs for sales and marketing personnel. Programs included worldwide Solution Selling and product and security training. Managed team of 28 FTEs and ten contract employees. Responsible for annual budget of $28M. Launched Voyager/Microsoft Learning Center, a sales and marketing learning infrastructure, which became the basis for companywide learning management system, and designed & implemented Role Guide and Development Plan Builder to drive consistency in field-role implementation/career development. Developed a new industry-benchmark 12-month onboarding program for new field hires. Improved organizational health measure from 54 to 76 (top third). Awarded Microsoft Achievement Award and Gold Star Award in recognition of accomplishments and long-term contributions. Accepted to Sales Marketing and Services Group Bench Program, a training program for executive-track managers..

Redmond, Washington, Us

Developed and delivered Microsoft Developer Networks product line (MSDN) and Microsoft Technical Network for IT (TechNet). Responsible for subscription-based annual revenue of $288M. Directed 154 FTEs and 50 contract employees. Grew business $50M year over year, a rate of 20%. Launched a new offline viewer which supported integration of offline content and UI with online properties. Accepted to Power Lab and CDDG Bench Program.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for supporting worldwide field sales through delivery of internal and partner-ready sales tools. Led teams of up to nine FTEs and eight contract employees. Developed executive content and demos for Saleskit and the Competitive Handbook to train enterprise sales executives.  Started as CSB Marketing Manager in 1995; promoted to Group Manager in 1997; promoted to Director in 1999. Launched SalesKit and the Competitive Handbook, a new integrated online and subscription tool for quarterly delivery of sales content and marketing collateral to field sales and external partners.  Managed enterprise depth tracks at Microsoft Global Summit for FYs 1998 and 1999. Awarded CATM Quarterly Achievement Award twice. Accepted to CSMG Bench Program.

Projects included short- and long-term business analysis, development and deployment of PC database applications, and development and instruction of technical courseware. Multi-year examples: Paradox database programming courseware series (Boeing Computer Services/Renton, WA) Relational database design courseware series (Hands On Learning/Boston, MA)  Strategic technology adoption planning (Shurgard, Inc./Seattle, WA) Electric utility conservation tracking (NW Power Planning Council/Portland, OR)  Retail purchasing POS (Eddie Bauer, Inc./Redmond, WA)