Blain Barton
Senior Program Manager at Microsoft
- Role
- Senior Business Program Manager - Industry Solutions Engineering - (Ise) at Microsoft
- Location
- Lahaina, HI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Blain Barton
Raised in Spokane Washington, Blain has been with Microsoft for 31 years and has held many diverse positions within the company. He currently works on Agile \"code-with\" projects within Microsoft Industry Solutions Engineering Division as a Senior Business Program Manager working with Microsoft\'s Enterprise Customers and Developers in the US Government space. Blain\'s career started in 1988 as a Team Leader in Manufacturing and Distribution, then accepted a role as Product Support Team Manager for Visual Basic development teams for \"Rawhide\" and \"Thunder\" Code projects. Blain spent 7 years as a Product Development Consultant in the Microsoft Word Division and spent many years as an OEM Systems Engineer for System Builders. Blain served as a Senior Technical Evangelist\\Developer working on IoT devices and sensors that integrate with Microsoft Azure Cloud Services and Edge. In his past, Blain has organized and delivered a wide array of technical events and has presented over 1500 live events and has received over six “top presenter” speaking awards. He has traveled around the world delivering OEM training sessions on pre-installing Microsoft Windows on new PC’s. He attended Washington State University graduating with a bachelor’s degree in English/Business with a Minor in Computer Science and was a professional snow skier in the Cascade Mountains before starting his career with Microsoft. Blain currently resides in Lahaina Maui Hawaii.
Experience
Senior Business Program Manager - Industry Solutions Engineering - (Ise)
Jan 2021 — Present · Tampa, FL, US
Working in the Industry Solutions Engineering team as a Senior Program Manager qualifying and managing engineering engagements empowering Microsoft Customers and Partners to achieve more and transform their Intelligent Cloud and Edge through great software engineering. Works on \"code-with\" co-engineering, co-innovation opportunities with Microsoft\'s top Customer/Partner Development and Engineering teams coding alongside Industry Solutions Engineering Development Crews. ISE helps them solve their most difficult challenges and roadblocks unleashing their transformation and modernization efforts within Microsoft Azure.
Education
Washington State University
Bachelor of Arts - BA
1983 — 1987
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Drone Pilot Cert 107
2018
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Product Owner
2020 — 2022
University of Washington
Microcomputer Management Certification
1991 — 1992
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