I'm the Engineering Lead for the Microsoft Business Group at Accenture, where I focus on joint engineering at our largest clients and working closely with Microsoft on future product roadmaps between our organizations. I'm an x-integration consultant with a varied background across lots of technology and business roles - from data center management, database administration, packaged software engineering, website development, software release engineering, across on premises and Azure, to business manager / chief of staff, and go to market development. I've worked in companies spanning many industries - health care, manufacturing, financial services, public sector, and more. I've spent time in all sizes of companies from 25 people up to my current employer, Accenture. I've enjoyed being an individual contributor, a manager and a manager of managers. My classical education is a BS in Computer Science from Kettering University and an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

I'm passionate about leading teams working on solving customer problems, where technology, architecture, and business mix together, and I love doing a bit of evangelism along the way.

The easiest way to reach me is either via LinkedIn.

Want to see some stats and stories about our Accenture usage of the GitHub platform including GitHub Copilot? Check these articles out:

• Research: Quantifying GitHub Copilot’s impact in the enterprise with Accenture
• Accenture Customer Story on GitHub.com
• GitHub Copilot: the AI pair programmer for today and tomorrow - Dan Shocke from Accenture starting at about 2 minutes in

• University of Michigan Ross School of Business - Masters of Business Administration
• Kettering University (formerly General Motors Engineering + Management Institute) - Bachelors of Science in Computer Science

2021-CURRENT - Managing Director

• Global Engineering Lead for the Microsoft Business Group
• North American Applications + Infrastructure Functional Lead for Microsoft Business Group
• Engineering Lead for GitHub partnership

2024 - CURRENT - Healthcare System

• Azure Cloud Foundations Lead for Epic, non-Epic and custom application migrations Azure

2023 - CURRENT - Multiple Global Travel Clients

• Azure Engineering liaison for global travel workload modernization
• Enterprise architect for PaaS modernization

2023 - Healthcare System

• Azure Subject Matter Expert for resiliency workstream of Epic on Azure for client

2022-2023

• Subject Matter Expert for Cloud Native at the Edge on the Microsoft Platform (AKS/AKS-EE/Azure Stack HCI/Azure Arc/Kubernetes)

2021 - Biopharmaceutical Industry Client - Open Source SME

• Helping TransCelerate BioPharma, Inc. launch DDF, an open source reference implementation for clinical trial data standards.

2019-2021 - Director Open Source + Cloud Native Strategy, World Wide Commercial Business

• 4 Year Microsoft Executive Briefing Center Award Winner (148 briefings, 189.9 NSAT, 1.405B total influenced revenue) on the sole topic of Microsoft's own internal IT engineering organization transformation from 42k+ on premises servers across multiple data centers to Azure, including the engineering system changes, people and org changes, financial decisions, and cultural change.
• Linux + Cloud Native Strategy lead for Microsoft World Wide Commercial Business Apps + Infra STU (front half of typical sales pipeline)
• Own partnership for STU with Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Red Hat OpenShift, upstream CNCF, Open Source Product Groups
• Role owner for Cloud Native Global Black Belt discipline (Specialists + Technical Specialists)
• Partner with Azure Linux Product Group on strategic initiatives internally and with our Linux partners ahead of GA
• Linux ISV Strategy for STU for Red Hat, HashiCorp, Canonical, SUSE, Cloudera, Confluent
• Holistically owning Open Source on Azure sales + partner strategy
• Ensure Azure Consumption Investment Programs (customer enablement offerings) optimized for OpenShift adoption
• Joint execution with Azure Product Management, Business Development, Partner Teams on Azure Red Hat OpenShift
• Business and Sales strategy/execution for OpenShift on Azure for Field + Partner - enablement, compensation issues, on point for Red Hat/Microsoft field escalations
• Field enablement for OpenShift on Azure (both Azure Red Hat OpenShift and OpenShift Container Platform) for Microsoft and Red Hat field
• Maintain standing Azure Red Hat OpenShift cluster for Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM with login via Azure Active Directory
• Personal project of evangelizing adoption of Azure in an Enterprise context (main Azure YouTube, personal YouTube) - azureintheenterprise.com

2015-2019 - Senior Program Manager, Core Services Engineering + Operations

• Presented at external Microsoft Build Conference in 2018 - Microsoft’s Supply Chain Journey from BizTalk to Azure Serverless
• Presentations at multiple internal //Ready events
• Collaborate with Azure CAT (Customer Advisory Team) to talk to how Microsoft IT is moving to Azure with specific strategic customers visiting the Microsoft campus
• Launched external Azure Workshop 3 day program for external engineering customers, >60 customer employees through over 2 years
• Launched internal Azure Consulting program focused on internal Application Modernization across all internal divisions of Microsoft (1Y stats - 250+ projects, >50% non-IT, 7 FTE)
• Established Cross Workload Infrastructure Working Group recurring engineering sync across network, security, infrastructure, development teams to address issues affecting Microsoft IT when migrating to Azure. Used to solve organizational issues and create patterns for the application teams to adopt.
• Created Microsoft IT Engineering Wiki (>3k users/mo, 400+ pages) reducing collaboration barriers running Wordpress with Active Directory Integrated Authentication
• Shoot/edit/produce content for IT Showcase on YouTube and on IT Showcase blog
• Launched Microsoft IT Hybrid Cloud Release Roadmap coordinating 40+ feature releases over 6 teams

2014-2014 - Senior Business Manager, Core Services Engineering + Operations

• Migrated Rhythm of Business reviews to data driven dashboard saving 100+ FTE hours/month
• Flattened content, hierarchy and permissions for dozens of O365 sites
• Created the long-term Azure strategy for Central IT for Microsoft IT
• Drafted key internal communications for General Manager
• Executed operational work for commitments, priorities, KPIs, financial planning, people and planning across quarterly, mid-year and annual cycles

2013-2013 - Business Manager, Communications, Media & Entertainment, High Technology Industries

• Executed rhythm of the business activities (sales reviews, investment tracking, communications, strategic programs) for the Communications, Media & Entertainment and High Technology (CMHT) industry group for Avanade
• Coordinated with corresponding Accenture Operating Groups and Microsoft Industry leadership across sales & marketing programs
• Grew Avanade's Media & Entertainment industry by building specific business case investments for client accounts

2011-2013 - Innovation Lead - Global Innovation & Incubation Programs

• Led global device seeding program to 200+ Accenture/Avanade executive leadership
• Created agenda for 3 day, 50+ session, 450+ FTE company conference + MSFT guests
• Coordinated the first ever global Innovation Contest at Avanade's annual TechSummit conference, where the winning team out of more than one hundred ideas pitched in front of 400 attendees to win $25,000
• Created the and owned the agenda for the 3 day, 50+ session, 450+ FTE annual company conference (2 years)

2008-2011 - Architect / Program Manager - Accenture and Avanade Solutions Showcase at Microsoft

The Accenture and Avanade Solutions Showcase at Microsoft (http://www.showcase.avanade.com) was established and funded jointly by Accenture, Avanade and Microsoft to increase communication, sales and innovation among the three companies.

• Created and launched the Accenture + Avanade + Microsoft "Power of 3" site showcase.avanade.com from scratch (Azure SQL Database, Azure Websites, Active Directory Federation Services), on demand video demonstrations, sales collateral, metadata + media management
• Responsible for meeting with Microsoft Industry + Engineering teams along with Accenture Industry teams to build jointly funded proof of concepts and working alpha prototypes for further investment or external events
• Presented at trade shows, multi-day conferences and 1:1 customer briefings

2008-2011 - Architect for www.whatsnewat.com

What's New @ was an Avanade SaaS offering I fully envisioned and created where employees are encouraged to share company news and promotions on their social networks, while marketing enjoys the analytics of click through analysis and a larger, viral marketing force. Launched in late 2010, the site and services ran on the Microsoft Azure platform. Particular challenges on the project were outsourcing of Android and iOS native clients while the underlying platform APIs were being built, and coordination with in-house offshore development teams for the new Windows Phone 7 platform. We were in the initial stages for filing patent paperwork when an employee showed it off at a conference, invaliding our patent application process.

• Program Manager and lead developer over an Avanade SaaS offering targeted at medium and large business to push marketing campaigns through to mobile devices
• Developed and deployed to the Apple and Google Play app stores for the SaaS offering
• Developed and deployed the management web application and mobile web client
• Led specification writing, requirements gathering, pricing for the platform

2007-2008 - Solutions Architect / Field Consultant

• Custom backend order processing design and implementation for large motorcycle manufacturer
• BizTalk EDI integration to IBM Sterling platform for railroad company
• Product Management of multiple features for emergency services realtime communications platform (fire/rescue/911), including requirements gathering from customers, spec writing, prototyping, coordination with development, test and release teams

2006-2007 - Microsoft BizTalk Architect

• Bi-directional integration (EDI + XML HTTP Post) between internal applications and external partners
• Pioneered use of XML DOM shaping inside Microsoft SQL Server for use in Microsoft BizTalk Server using initial release of FOR XML in Microsoft SQL Server
• Achieved BizTalk Certified Architect Certification
• Achieved Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer Certification

2005-2006 - Systems Engineer

• Data Center operations + management
• Active Directory Domain administration
• 24x7 on-call support for production Business Intelligence + Analytics platform
• Performance Engineering for Business Intelligence + Analytics platform
• Migration of high transaction systems to the first generation of hardware RAM disks
• Custom ASP.NET internal website for moving thousands of support tickets to frontline support by automating higher privilege requests

2004-2005 - Build + Release Engineer

• Created end to end release process and automated testing process for packaged software Manufacturing Execution System (.NET Remoting / Microsoft SQL Server / Oracle Database) leveraging NAnt, NUnit, SourceGear Vault
• Created tracking / versioning scripts for Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Database schema upgrades

2003-2004 - Developer

• Web UX (VBScript/COM+) + Data (SQL Server) development for public sector utilities packaged software
• Implemented advanced data type conversion engine leveraging the first version of System.Reflection in c# to eliminate tens of thousands of lines of code across three different product lines

2002-2003 - Developer

• Admissions Ticket Barcode Development + Implementation for Detroit Science Center
• Lead Java + SAS Developer on General Motors Warranty Analysis Platform on HP Superdome
• Web UX implementation for multiple customer projects in conjunction with creative studio leveraging Adobe suite

1999-2000 - Systems Analyst

• Installation + Configuration of OpenText Documentum and Oracle Database for multiple public sector customers, support + diagnostics for Oakland County Court System.