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Redmond, Washington, United States

Seattle, Wa, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Drive execution and strategy for a team of high-performing FastTrack Partner Managers. Coordinate with a variety of stakeholders across ecosystems to simplify, bring clarity, and the drive performance from an elite group of Microsoft's top partners.• Own OKRs• Deliver insights & product/process feedback from Partners into engineering• Identify and prioritize holistic and actionable intelligence• Organize and optimize staffing and delivery models• Coordinate best practices globally

Redmond, Washington, Us

Champion and represent the voice of the customer in feature prioritization and solution delivery activities. Use data, customer feedback, and other inputs to inform key decisions. Educate and influence senior decision makers while working side by side with developers and other stakeholders. Ensure that all activities are in alignment with roadmap and timelines. Educate, evangelize, motivate, unblock, facilitate, and manage risks for a variety of highly-visible engineering and digital transformation projects.

Advise, govern, oversee policy and direction, and assist with the leadership and general promotion of 1 Green Planet's mission to provide FREE sustainable, environmentally responsible recycling to everyone.1 Green Planet is a 501 (c) (3) public non-profit organization.Major responsibilities:• Organizational leadership and advisement• Formulation and oversight of policies and procedures • Financial management, including adoption and oversight of budgets• Oversight of program planning and evaluation• Personnel evaluation and staff development• Promotion of the organization and business development• Fundraising and community outreach

Defining the sales strategy, product roadmap, partnerships and execution to sustain 20% YOY growth for $19M human annotation and validation crowd business, specializing in machine learning experiment validation, speech and natural language processing, and global localization automation for the world’s largest software companies. Own key customer relationships, go-to-market strategy and implementation of new data and analytics offerings to supplement customer maturity and create additional markets to service. Assist in prioritizing investments and acquisitions to expand global capabilities and increase scale. Driver of operational process improvements across multiple global delivery sites.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Represent Microsoft to a broad set of key partners ranging from OEMs to device manufacturers responsible for a significant portion of license revenue. Provided strategic overview of the Windows roadmap and vision to ensure technical and business alignment. Presented and participated in key Microsoft events, and spoke/presented at strategic partner events. Drove excitement, enthusiasm, and support across all levels at partner organizations. Directed global efforts to conduct focus groups and gather qualitative and quantitative feedback. Analyzed and prioritized key findings to inform product planning and competitive analysis activities.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

Coordinated a team of technical account managers, solution architects, and engineers who deliver enterprise class SaaS, IaaS, and cloud provisioning automation services. Oversaw all aspects of professional services delivered for América Móvil and their subsidiaries in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina. Presented to C-Level executives across multiple countries during all engagement phases. Translated business requirements into solutions. Clarified strategic objectives. Oversaw solution design and scope. Managed risks, expectations, and customer satisfaction. Identified and prioritized partner and upsell opportunities. Oversaw the process development lifecycle for continuous improvement.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led team of consultants, and field engineers who deliver enterprise support and consulting services to Microsoft product groups and operational teams. Key stakeholder in early process work to enable customers to leverage both Premier Support Services and Microsoft Consulting Services on the same paper. Completely redesigned the offering. Worked with legal and financial stakeholders to ensure compliance. Created and implemented business rules and KPIs. Drove feature requests into product releases. Provided vision and strategic direction, value proposition framework, and roadmap alignment. Responsibilities include key-customer account management, evangelizing the offering, managing the group’s P&L, budget and forecasting, executive escalation, product and service enhancement, tool and infrastructure development oversight, and measuring progress against other strategic goals.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Worked directly with key partners (and competitors) while providing engineering program management for the Software Logo and Windows Certification programs. Managed a combination of full-time staff, vendors, an off-shore team, and borrowed resources from other teams to gather and analyze quantitative and qualitative data about the software ecosystem, from partner, customer, and competitor perspectives. Provided strategy, infrastructure, and tool development design and oversight. Provided account management functions for global ISVs who develop software that runs on Microsoft platforms, including hostile competitors. Enabled product and engineering teams to improve compatibility for the Windows platform, enhance relationships and communication, and improve technical engagement opportunities.

Salo, Fi

Responsible for product and services offerings, business development and product management, and marketing of security products at the Intermountain West’s largest managed security solution provider and data security consulting firm. Owned two virtual teams comprised of sales engineers, project managers and support engineers. Responsible for staff development, market analysis, value proposition validation for new offerings, and evaluation and modification of existing products and solutions.

Provided a myriad of security consulting services for ERP and financial systems, ranging from perimeter security & intrusion detection to penetration testing, system hardening, and custom developments. Management of large projects and implementations ranging from accounting and ERP implementations to network and system design consulting, to performance testing and policy development.

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