Kyle Severson Email & Phone Number

Appleton, WI, US

As a Technical Specialist at Microsoft, I focus on Microsoft 365, the world's leading cloud productivity solution. My areas of expertise include Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Viva. I am passionate about guiding our customers to understand the benefits and functionalities of Microsoft's productivity.

Appleton, WI

Partner with account teams to obtain a strong understanding of each account’s governance and decision processes and the customer’s business & technology priorities. Lead technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, architecture design sessions, proof of concepts, and pilots to explain, demonstrate, and prove to our largest customers the capabilities.

Appleton, WI

• Drive technical decision for Microsoft Collaboration offerings with enterprise and corporate customers. Including the sale, deployment, and adoption of Office 365 and other collaboration workloads (Office clients.
• Build relationships within the enterprise customer segment, including CxO level
• Work across organizational teams to deliver unified customer solutions
• Develop scenario-based sales presentations to address customer’s unique business challenges
• Identify and foster partner relationships to assist in drive sales and consumption
• Continue to develop deep and broad technical skills, including security, collaboration and mobility

Neenah, WI

• Key AccomplishmentsDeveloped a Unified Communications vision/roadmap incorporating Microsoft, Polycom and Avaya solutions by meeting with key senior stakeholders and effectively leveraging outside consultants and.
• Led design and implementation of Exchange and Skype for Business in Office 365 to support the divesture of Halyard Health.
• Member of the integrated architecture virtual team responsible for developing solutions across complex technology silos.
• Worked with global service provider to plan the transition from on-premises Lync 2013 to a hosted Skype for Business 2015 model to accelerate global delivery of Enterprise Voice.
• Lead architect for Lync 2013 upgrade project that built-out capabilities to support Enterprise Voice.
• Initiated and implemented centralized SIP trunking, which saved $600,000 per year and increased uptime of voice services.

Neenah, WI

• Key AccomplishmentsLead engineer on the Lync 2010 project. Provided technical leadership to deliver a highly available, virtualized environment for 50,000 global users. Collaborated with various infrastructure teams to.
• Key member of the video stabilization project providing strategic guidance and direction to improve the video experience of users and deliver capabilities for future integration of video into the Unified Communications.
• Deployed a working pilot of Lync integration with Polycom video conferencing environment.
• Member of the Microsoft Office Division Advisory Council providing feedback to Microsoft on improving capabilities of Lync and Exchange to provide better business value.

Neenah, WI

• Key AccomplishmentsTransformed the email environment with several first of a kind technologies using Microsoft Exchange. These capabilities included deploying direct attached storage (avoiding $350,000 in costs).
• Stabilized messaging environment and developed a close working relationship with outsourcing provider.
• Led analysis to determine viability of centralizing Exchange.
• Delivered new user capabilities like Outlook Anywhere and Office Communicator Remote Access.

Appleton, WI

• Key AccomplishmentsDeveloped relationships with customers to understand their needs and propose solutions (products and services) to help meet their business goals. Expanded the Northeast Wisconsin Microsoft practice.
• Worked with account executives to identify and target customers for opportunities.
• Met with customers to align technology solutions to solve business.
• Made presentations on competitive advantages of Microsoft technologies and CDW service offerings.
• Participated in customer calls with account executives to scope statements of work.
• Coordinated marketing activities with Microsoft technology events.

Neenah, WI

• Key AccomplishmentsBuilt a strong virtual global team in Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America to leverage Kimberly-Clark best practices, achieve performance objectives for user administration and maintain a secure.
• Conducted performance evaluations, set career goals and provided coaching to a global team.
• Managed team resource availability and ensured project deliverables met commitments.
• Member of the leadership team determining tactical and strategic direction for security.
• Led project to implement a Citrix solution that had to quickly scale to meet business outsourcing requirements. This cross functional project team which included server, application packaging, database, network and.
• Member of the integrated engineering virtual team that was responsible for coordinating efforts across Kimberly-Clark IT to ensure new technical solutions fit into existing IT infrastructure and architecture.

Neenah, WI

• Key AccomplishmentsProactively sought out innovative solutions to increase network resiliency, reduce costs and enhance network service offering that resulted in saving $880,000 per year.Engineering
• Identified and led a project to retire legacy technology resulting in annual savings of $400,000.
• Slashed WAN cost by optimizing existing circuits and eliminating unneeded services resulting in annual costs savings of $300,000.
• Led Wireless LAN analysis and design project.Projects
• Expanded the reach of data network, while reducing cost, by developing a site-to-site VPN solution for corporate and business partner locations.
• Conducted network site surveys to provide recommendations on physical cabling and equipment upgrades.