Founder

• Apr 2011 - Present

Principal Program Manager

• Aug 2019 - Dec 2021

Represent Azure Engineering in customer engagements by taking a solution-centric approach to understanding a customer's cloud journey and resolving business/technical issues that arise during implementations. • Be Microsoft’s “Single Point of Contact” for customer & partner stakeholders in Azure Migration Program engagements – partnering with all parties to identify/track risks and eliminate blockers to help ensure projects complete successfully and in alignment with customer’s business goals. • Be the “Voice of the Customer” by looking for opportunities to improve Microsoft’s products to better meet the needs of our customers. • Drive change by identifying inefficiencies within, and drive improvements to, Azure’s customer-facing programs – increasing employee, partner, and customer satisfaction. Show less

Senior Architect

• Jun 2008 - May 2019

Responsible for identifying innovative customer scenarios that are blocked with today's technologies and then building Early Access Programs in partnership with Microsoft Research and Engineering teams to unblock those customer scenarios. Activities included:• Implementing computer vision AI to identify and alert on unsafe conditions in workplaces• Architecting intelligent edge IoT solutions that enable data collection, analysis, and action at very low latencies• Helping "connected product" manufactures quickly and easily connect their products to the cloud by leveraging IoT SaaS solutions• Leading discussions with customers that have highly confidential/regulated data to evaluate how incorporating homomorphic encryption could allow them to take advantage of the cloud• Engaging all customers with a business-first, inclusive design-led, methodology that results in scenarios that deliver far more business value than originally anticipated.• In partnership with engineering teams, build and manage world-wide, cross business, field-based teams to create technical strategies for Microsoft Services around their key business strategies. Topics include: IOT, Application Development, Big Data, Social, Private Cloud, and Hybrid Cloud. Show less

Principal Consultant

• Jan 1999 - Jun 2008

Solution Architect for Microsoft products at large, multi-national corporations. Products architected and deployed include: Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, Office Communications Server, High Performance Compute Clusters, ISA Server (Web Proxy), Windows Server (fileserver role) and Office.

Software Design Engineer / Test Manager

• Jun 1992 - Jan 1999

Moved rapidly from entry-level SDE to management roles owning both testing and performance teams. • Responsible for testing key components of Microsoft's collaboration products including Microsoft Mail, E-Forms Designer, and Exchange 4.0, 5.0 and 5.5.• Architected and developed the team's distributed stress-testing architecture. • Responsible for driving the Exchange performance effort across the business unit.• Developed unit and system level tests in c, c++, vbscript and VB.• Managed multiple test teams - ensuring full testing coverage under tight ship deadlines. Participated in ship/no-ship decisions.• Worked with industry leaders to drive standards' compatibility. Show less