Michael Aldridge Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

I am building a customer feedback engine for the Microsoft Loop PM and Engineering Team

Redmond, Washington, Us

Own and manage the UX, development and sprint management of the revamped Microsoft 365 Developer Program launched in March 2018 and Microsoft Access.In this role I create the roadmap, specs and sprint prioritization partnering with a team of designers and 5-7 engineers. A key part of my focus is also to talk with customers directly on a regular basis to glean data driven insights into how we prioritize and build our experiences.Grown our user base to over 1,000,000 developers in 4 years.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Own and manage the UX, development and sprint management of the revamped Office 365 Developer Program launched in March 2018. In this role I create the roadmap, specs and sprint prioritization partnering with a team of designers and 5-7 engineers. A key part of my focus is also to talk with customers directly on a regular basis to glean data driven insights into how we prioritize and build our experiences. In our first year we have grown 59X to nearly 120,000 registered developer members by providing them with a special Office Developer subscription plus essential tools, and learning tutorials to help teach them how to build custom solutions across Microsoft Graph, Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Develop and own the content strategy for pre sales experiences on Office 365, a service with over tens of millions visitors a month. Hired to build a B2B lead-gen marketo-based marketing automation engine from scratch on the Office web site working for the director and GM of one of the largest web properties at Microsoft.• Scaled program and drove content localization strategy into 15 markets by end of first year and scaled campaigns to 100+ markets and 20+ languages by year 2.• Designed digital end-to-end metrics and measurement frameworks for optimization partnering with the Office Web Analytics team. Included a real-time Power BI dashboard to track lead pipeline conversion from visits to new knowns, qualified leads and direct sales. • Built new innovative localization tooling to automate global rollout process without the complexity of marketo, tool enabled a human intensive 30 day process to be done in 2 hours with a single person saving millions of dollars in operational costs and reducing time to market from 3 months to 30 days.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Own and manage the UX, development and site management of Microsoft Virtual Academy. A fast growing technology learning service (MOOC) which has grown from 700k to over 3M registered users, and monthly site traffic approaching nearly 2.1M unique people visiting per month (400% growth) since I took it over in 2012.What is MVA?Successful technologists never stop learning and great technology never stops evolving. Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) offers online Microsoft training delivered by experts to help technologists continually learn, with hundreds of courses, in 14 different languages. Our mission is to help developers, knowledgeable IT professionals and advanced students learn the latest technology, build their skills, and advance their careers. MVA is free of charge, and the entire service is hosted on Windows Azure.

New York, Ny, Us

Invited to join the board based on volunteer efforts since 2014. Visited Burundi and the operation in January 2021. Help spearhead the funding of one doctor in Burundi for one year through a Microsoft employee giving campaign; raised over $10,000 in Oct of 2019 with over 60 donors from Microsoft. Provided technical expertise and council to outfit the VHW KIA school with 50 laptops in 2020Next year raised over $30,000. Supported and recruited for the annual dinner which has helped raise over $100,000 for VHW from Seattle in the last 2 years.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Provide board oversight to exciting social business, helping to take surplus PCs from corporations and organizations, refurbish them, and/or recycle them, then provide them to NGOs and Non-Profits in Seattle and around the World to help bridge the digital divide.

Seattle, Wa, Us

As a Senior Consultant my primary responsibilities include understanding client/industry business challenges, and applying my experienced business analysis and project management expertise to deliver solutions for the client that exceed expectations. Revel Consulting is a Seattle-based management consulting firm that offers high value consulting solutions across multiple disciplines and industries. Revel’s PURE Consulting model removes the inefficient bureaucracy of traditional consulting firms so we can focus on our clients’ business challenges. Revel provides locally-engaged, full-service management consulting to businesses in the high-tech, telecommunications, consumer, healthcare and other industries and maintains offices in Kirkland, and San Francisco. From small, focused efforts to large, complex initiatives, Revel Associates drive client success. We thrive on a powerful blend of industry experiences, strategic thinking, technical knowledge, take-charge initiative, and interpersonal skills.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

We are a fast growing Pay for Performance based Search and Interactive Services company with offices in Seattle, Mumbai, Singapore and Delhi.Our pay for performance business model and proprietary technology for optimizing search marketing differentiates us from other online advertising agencies.Our services include SEM, SEO, Analytics, Web site development and creative.Our list of clients include fortune 500 companies as well as startups. Some of our clients are Microsoft, MSN, Yahoo, Concur, Corbis, Mastercard, TATA, ICICI bank, Puget Sound Energy, Bergman Luggage, Kingfisher, Citibank, Veer etc.

Consulting projects included. Microsoft Corporation: Competitive Analysis Tablet SpaceWindows 7 Product Group - Consumer MarketingWindows Live Product Planning Team - Social Cause Discovery Project Grameen Foundation's Grameen Technology Center: multiple paid and pro-bono consulting projects on a exploratory business strategy proposal and comparative industry research relating to technology innovations for the world's poor

Seattle, Wa, Us

Worked with the government of Vietnam on a multi-million dollar grant to fund internet access through rural post offices and libraries, touching the lives of nearly 1M rural Vietnamese. Program expansion was funded in 2011.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led strategy and business model incubations team in US and India focused on the BOP (base of the economic pyramid) and Middle ( MOP) in emerging markets. Particular focus was on SMS-based mobile technology, ICafes and Rural Kiosks/Telecenters. Key Areas of Focus: China, India, and AfricaLearn more about my work at this linkhttps://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2008/jul08/07-07QAaldridge.mspx

Redmond, Washington, Us

Product Planner in charge of anti-phishing, and family safety technology for IE7, Windows Live and Windows Vista

Redmond, Washington, Us

Major Responsibilities and Results:•Developed strategy and program plan to evangelize consumer electronics companies and encourage rapid adoption of Windows Media A/V Codecs, DRM and MS protocol technologies. •Managed marketing team of two direct reports and owned management of Windows presence at the Consumer Electronics Show; praise from both GM- and VP-level management two years in a row. Team also drove co-marketing efforts cross-company and with individual partners.

Certificate Course, Consumer Insight Leadership For New Product Development

Education record

Certificate, Marketing Training At Microsoft (Marketing And Value Prop Development

Ba, Chinese History And Politics