Sameer B. Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Driving customer and partner success initiatives for PowerApps and Microsoft Flow. Includes managing deep technical relationships with early adopters of the platform, capturing and sharing customer stories, presenting at conferences, conducting technical workshops, developing lab content and building proof-of-concept solutions as part of enabling customer & partner success.

Bainbridge Island, Washington, Us

As a Pathwise faculty member since 2012, I've been co-teaching cohorts and leading 1:1 advising engagements with members enrolled in their year long leadership program.Since 2015 I've been actively involved in efforts to launch cohorts with in-tact teams at Microsoft, where the leader and their team go through the cohort experience together. This experience has significantly increased the level of trust, understanding and connection within these teams.

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Lead manager training programs, consulting projects and team workshops with multinational corporations to develop the skill of awareness and mindful business practices with leaders, teams and individuals. More at http://simpleintentions.com/programs. - Led 6-month 1-1 Manager Immersion program with 20+ Finance managers multinational corporations. Managers were spread globally across US, Asia (China/India/Japan/Singapore), Australia, and South Africa. Program info at http://www.simpleintentions.com/manager-immersion/- Led a 6-month "Stop & Think" program (series of 25 team workshops) across a 500-person engineering division at Microsoft. Contributed to organizational health scores increasing by 15+ points.- Have led custom workshops to improve trust and engagement at multinational corporations globally, including in-person engagements in USA, India, China, Israel, and Turkey.

Spending time with family and friendsCo-teaching Pathwise Leadership classesAttending training sessions, conferences and workshopsWriting poetry

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led numerous projects as lead and individual contributor during this time in the Online Services / Bing group at Microsoft (now a part of Application and Services Group (ASG))Mar 2013 - Sept 2014: Bing Experiences team:- Drove program management responsibilities for Bing in the Classroom - http://bing.com/classroom- Incubated Bing projects for parents and teachers to teach kids to search online- Led PM team for integrating social content from facebook/twitter into Bing- Drove cross-discipline collaboration on incubation initiatives within Bing UX teamNov 2011- Feb 2013: Information Platform and Experiences (IPE) team- PM in Online Services Division responsible for driving technical partnership with Office division to incubate new areas of joint development- Established strong cross-org working relationships- Drove ideation and prototype development for integrating Bing data into Office experiences, developed project plan and led through exec review stages to get project approved and funded- Collaborated on early scenario development for "agent" scenarios, which later developed into Cortana- Led internal "culture v-team" for 90 person org, to assist leadership in establishing strong inter-personal communication and team culture in newly formed org

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led a small team of program managers in the Bing Mobile & Maps group. Responsible for developing the developer portal and publishing pipeline for Map Apps on Bing. Drove incubation efforts to integrate entity results in Bing (e.g. restaurants) with actions (e.g. reservations) and providers (e.g. Opentable) - was responsible for the driving development of backend services to support integration with 3rd party service providers. Was responsible for backend data ingestion pipeline and relevance/ranking service for local deals in Bing. Managed relationship and integration with 3rd party data providers. Successfully shipped v1 version of local deals in Bing.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Groups:Windows Core OS Division (Mar '07 - Mar '08)Unlimited Potential Group / Startup Business Group (Apr '08 to Feb '10)Involved in planning and design on Windows 7 application model team.On the UPG team, was responsible for managing the relationship and technical integration with mobile payment service companies in South Africa and India. Worked on mobile wallet solutions and Windows Live integration for mobile applications targeted at customers in the middle and bottom of the pyramid in emerging markets.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led a team of software developers on a test team in Windows, working on installer and deployment technologies - ClickOnce, Global Assembly Cache, Versioning. Responsible for developing test automation technologies and managing quality assurance process for assembly loader components that shipped with Microsoft .NET.My team also managed cross group coordination for the Fusion loader between Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Developer Division. I was deeply engaged in managing cross team architecture, planning, and issue resolution processes.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Developed test automation tools and processes for Internet Explorer 4.0 and 5.0. Responsible for quality assurance for platform components - temporary internet files and cookies.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

High School (Hsc)

Grade 10 (Icse)