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Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

Redmond, Wa

Managed long-term relationship with key ISV to drive customer engagement across account teams within capital markets and spanning other industries, developing a strong customer pipeline.• Owned the engineering relationship with a large European capital markets’ customer and their adoption of the cloud, driving revenue from $700K a month to $3.5M a month in 2 years.• Developed relationship with key capital markets ISV and successfully signed long-term strategic relationship between the organizations by closely engaging across Microsoft teams.

Redmond, Washington, United States

Developed and delivered the Microsoft “Cloud Mindset” training program, weaving best practices of cloud adoption and core tenants of organizational change management to key Microsoft cloud partners.• Developed tooling strategy for scanning and assessment of customer's digital estate to drive migration planning.• Curated feedback from customers to provide accountable work for product teams to improve cloud platform services.

Redmond, Wa

Provided program management for the cloud adoption team, accelerating Microsoft IT's journey to the cloud.• Developed and shared practices for cloud adoption, cost management, and community driven feedback.• Drove adoption of the public cloud at Microsoft IT, developing plans, migration and modernization of the application ecosystem.• Delivered 75+ executive briefings to Microsoft customers about cloud adoption within large scale IT organizations.

Primary requirement was to collaborate with business units and provide support for their storage needs within the Microsoft IT datacenter ecosystem. The role required knowledge of• Enterprise array solutions, primarily EMC DMX/VMAX arrays• CISCO and BROCADE storage fabricsOther activities included • Deployment of a new platform of EMC VMAX arrays/server blades/SAN fabric switch infrastructure to accelerate usage of virtualized server environments within MSIT• Performance analysis of the storage platform • Support for large business units during critical year end close activities• Fully Automated Storage Tiering• Whole array migrations from end of life platforms to a new, higher performing, array(s)