Ximena Velez Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

SR Program Manager Consultant for Enterprise Commercial & Strategy at Microsoft

• Managed the release of a new product called My Wellness Center, a personalized suite of diet & fitness tools that in 4 months of Beta had 21K registered users and reached 500k page views per month.• Worked with the User Experience team to plan and run usability studies in the initial effort of designing and mapping out the optimal end to end user experience for a large combination of features. • Accountable for gathering business requirements with stakeholder groups, managing the product road map and development schedule and delivering functional specifications.• Provided direction to Partner’s engineering team, design and business teams through the different phases of the product cycle including product maintenance and customer support.

• Released the 10.7 home page version for the US market (http://www.msn.com/) in collaboration with feature PMs. • Lead analyst responsible for delivering functional specifications and driving the end to end implementation of high priority features such as the first ever introduction of In-line Video experience on the MSN home page.

• Participated in the creation of an outsource development team in China, acting as the primary liaison between the Shanghai offsite team and US stakeholders.• Planned the training of 20+ people in coordination with senior team members to introduce and educate the new offsite team about Microsoft best practices, product development processes, Agile project management, MSN web publishing platform, tools, systems and network standards. • Created and supervised two scrum teams and one sustain engineering team that assist on the feature development and production issues for the Asian Pacific markets. • Managed the relationship with the vendor company to ensure all aspects of the outsource agreement are in compliance. Monitored and tracked open issues and opportunities for improvement until resolution.

• Drove more than five million in unique users each month by managing, designing, specifying, implementing, and localizing new product features for multiple concurrent releases on the United States MSN portal for the Hispanic audience. • Directed and delivered four major releases for MSN Latino.com; increased product and service demand driving the return on investment by enhancing user experience, page views, and site performance.• Oversaw project management consistently shipping on schedule despite resource and time constraints.• Facilitated streamlined business priority management and effective resource allocation by establishing and reengineering existing processes to adhere to scrum methodology.• Led efforts to redesign the internal SharePoint, a central repository utilized by multiple teams to effectively share information, receiving positive recognition from senior management and partner teams.

• Managed large-scale global support projects for all released products within the Home & Entertainment Groups and MSN; accounted for end-to-end implementation and activation of the product support service.• Administered internal tools and systems in support of combined use of live chat, online support, phone, and email to 200+ million unique users worldwide each month through customer support service and support.microsoft.com.• Designed and implemented support processes and procedures for 90+ released products ensuring support options were in place on time and accurately presented to customers via 80 localize support websites.

Mba, Emphasis In Marketing

Ba, Business Administration