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CTO for Industry Vertical, Platform Strategy Advisor, DPE
Company NameMicrosoft
Dates Employed2002 – 2006 Employment Duration4 yrs
LocationDowners Grove, IL, Redmond, WA and Chicago, IL
Lead Industry Technology Strategist for Financial Services/Healthcare vertical (Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance/Claims/Healthcare)
Served in direct report role to the world-wide industry leader for Financial Services at Microsoft where the team grew in number to hundreds of dedicated individuals across the globe and $2B in annual revenues (double digit growth year-over-year).
Expert on strategy, architecture and applications development migrating industry toward service oriented architecture concepts and leveraging the power and flexibility of .NET. Led partner efforts working with SAP, Oracle, IBM as well as industry solutions from MiSYS, Allscripts, Fiserv and others.
While at Microsoft also served in the lead executive sponsorship role for “Lighthouse wins” which focused on industry changing solutions developed by partners and customers. This role included the solution incubation of 30+ industry changing products and represented a $1M annual investment fund from Microsoft. This included direct P&L Responsibility. The investment fund jointly supported efforts with customers and partners and helped bring innovative solutions to market. This approach resulted in a positive ROI within 3 years of the investment. |