As the worldwide transformation leader for growth, my role is to partner on customer solution areas with category management, product groups, product engineering, three global business regions, channel sales, channel marketing, sales operations and finance to optimize our collective longer-term consumer growth and enable transformation of our growth mind-set culture, supporting an objective of sustained double digit revenue growth annually with retailers, distributors, mobile operators, online marketplaces, and direct digital (MSFT) stores.

As the worldwide consumer leader for the Mobile Operator partner channel, my interim role was to develop a growth strategy by aligning on a multi-year approach with on customer solution areas with category management, product groups, product engineering, three global business regions, channel sales, channel marketing, sales operations and finance to optimize our collective longer-term growth.

As the worldwide program leader for growth, partner with product groups, product engineering, category management, five global business regions, channel sales, channel marketing, sales operations and finance to develop and drive execution of strategic growth plans at the initiative level, innovate upon the scope of approaches to growth, and enable transformation of the growth mind-set culture, supporting an objective of sustained double digit revenue growth annually with managed retail, distributors and mobile operators.

As the WW Consumer and Devices Sales Principal Program Manager for growth, partner with Regional Sales, Category Management, Channel Sales, Operations and Finance to develop and drive execution of strategic initiatives, supporting an objective of sustainable double digit growth.

Business strategy and operations execution for an independent developer of educational content, online gaming and virtual reality entertainment.

Start-Up Accelerators engages directly to enable start-ups and growth companies to accelerate the time to funding their ideas & profitability, by executing all critical entrepreneurial activities that promote the support of investors and business health. Start-Up Accelerators also provides specific services that accelerate a Microsoft Partner’s or Customer's time to revenue recognition by providing the capabilities every business needs to be a successful engaging with Microsoft.

Leading the global Microsoft team. Responsible for growth strategy and results for Luxoft/DXC as a Microsoft supplier, partner and customer.

Business strategy and operations execution for Microsoft Services, Corporate Engineering, Legal and Human Resources business groups.

Leading delivery of professional services to include Strategic Development and Managed/Outsourced Services (RedCloud @ Microsoft).Consulting @Microsoft Services delivering product management strategy for product support offering(s) for Azure, Windows, Office, Dynamics

Business Architect leading Consulting/Outsourced/Managed /Sourcing/Supplier-Management/Marketing Services: Scope, Sell, Build, Lead, Deliver.

Real-time Patent Analysis for the IP Professional.Linked and optimized strategy, people and operations to transform a reactive start up into a rapidly growing company that continues to build alliances and drive exceptional business results while changing the lives customers, partners and team members.

Developed and implemented a go-to-market plan based on conducting 360-degree market research, field sales integration/enablement, and consumption economics expertise; achieved #1 Category status with Amazon Web Services and secured Microsoft Azure Market Place launch partnership.

As a cloud pricing expert, built a product pricing and promotion model, plus developed and implemented a go-to-market plan supported by end to end market research and embracing a consumption economics philosophy.

Provided business strategy and operations advisory consulting supporting the CEO with optimizing start-up business modeling and investor brief.

Acted as the trusted advisor to the CIO’s leadership team providing insight and advice on financial and operational challenges related to sourcing and partnership; developed the first Microsoft IT sourcing and supplier management strategy, gaining full funding for the initiative, then operationalized the strategy as a global shared service driving long term results for the annual spending of under one billion. As part of continuous improvement, delivered a SaaS Business Intelligence solution into beta through joint development with BI IT and SQL product group and deployed a cloud based digital document routing solution as part of the green IT initiative.

At the CIO leadership level, developed and launched new programs for global IT: Sales & Marketing integration into IT domain, workforce planning (5-11K), multi-year strategic planning, business management community coordination, IT performance management, industry (analyst relations) services management, six sigma green belt sponsorship for business processes, CIO Chief of Staff responsibilities, and IT human capital management.

Established a community and governance infrastructure to build the talent pool, a positive impact upon hearts & minds and improve role readiness curriculum & work-life balance for the partner account management community. Founded the US One Voice Team to unify the US/WW approach to partners as one Microsoft delivering exponential value through access to funding, effective & efficient execution and focused bi-directional communication.

Enterprise, Business & Sales Operations Management 2003/2005Gained executive sponsorship to establish the Premier brand as a stand-alone business unit, established the headquarters operations teams, implemented rhythm of business connecting the highly distributed field (1.5K FTE), and developed/launched the Corporate Account Connect program to drive telesales of annuity services. Exceeded revenue & margin targets (123%), ranked #2 WW for MS Customer Satisfaction, introduced lean Six Sigma for process improvement cross Global Services, achieved Employee Satisfaction of 86%, authored business model (re-org) strategy, and acted on-behalf at the VP level. OEM/Embedded/Mobility/SI Partner, Services Director 2003Sales (24M annually), fiscal management and consulting delivery (89 FTE) responsibilities for Partner Services group and process improvements including quarterly business reviews, all-hands meetings, delivery standardization, fiscal forecasting/demand management, continued to deliver on 50+% of my Practice Manager duties and mentored one of my team to fulfill the remaining half of my technical delivery responsibilities .Embedded/Mobility/Retail Partner, Practice Management 2001/2003Managing a team of consultants delivering services to our product-group-targeted partners, delivered our collective objective to penetrate the emerging embedded & mobility markets by enabling our partners to deliver quality devices, applications and services developed on Microsoft technologies in the pre-launch timeframes; delivered 12M in annual sales, 44 named partners’ assets for product releases, 15 point improvement in Customer Satisfaction, 129% Total resource utilization and exceptional Employee Satisfaction results of 94%.

As Microsoft's chief strategist and spokesperson in the Retail industry worldwide I defined a vision for the future of the industry and how Microsoft technologies would enable it by leveraging my 20 years of experience in the retail & CPG businesses to define and implement a strategy for Microsoft's short & long-term success. Coordinated a team of technical evangelists, Partner Account Managers, Microsoft Consultants, Industry Marketing Managers, PR resources (internal & external), and Enterprise Customer Representatives and through a coordinated plan, generated demand for and helped close sales of line-of-business solutions based on Microsoft technology.

Brought into the International Division as a champion of change in implementing the strategic direction of SUPERVALU HQ; placed on the Strategic Steering Committee to influence operational excellence, select & deploy internal & external systems and to leverage manufacturing, transportation & worldwide retailer resources/relationships.