Brijesh Desai

About Brijesh Desai

Proven track record of delivering Security & Compliance solutions to Microsoft Cloud customers from regulated industries. Business and engineering leadership experience working with cross-functional teams in a global environment. Experience driving product vision, strategy, and roadmap in alignment with business objectives. Strong execution with well-defined ROB and tracking progress through OKRs. Data driven decision making using business insights, telemetry, and customer feedback.Multi-year experience of hiring, managing, coaching, and developing diverse talent, recipient of management excellence awards. Co-inventor of multiple patents filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Experience

1. Lead Product Manager

   Microsoft

   Jun 2018 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Leading a team of talented Product Managers focused on growing Microsoft 365 business by delivering parity and seamless runtime experience to Sovereign Cloud customers. Providing business leadership in areas including service health monitoring, observability, and data access.Led M365 Data-at-Rest Encryption program to meet data protection needs of customers from highly regulated industries and help increase adoption of Microsoft Cloud services. The program covers encryption using platform managed keys as well as customer managed keys.Established the overall vision & roadmap for developing a standard Data-at-Rest encryption platform for M365 services. Successfully released the platform for Enterprise and Government customers. Direct engagement with Enterprise and Government customers to understand business requirements and provide technology updates at CAB and Ignite sessions. Effective collaboration with internal partners including Legal, Product Marketing, Business Planning to deliver customer value. Driving annual Security & Compliance audits with external auditors for the product.Strong ROB by partnering with engineering on planning, postmortems, service health monitoring and improving engineering efficiency. Driving regular business reviews with leadership using Objectives & Key Results. Led the program for developing Secure Investigations Platform to investigate security incidents in a secure and compliant manner. Jointly filed 3 patents for the project.

Education

• Wayne State University

  MS, Computer Engineering

• Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business

  MBA, Business Administration and Management

  2001 — 2003

• V.J.T.I. University of Mumbai

  B.E., Electronics Engineering

  1990 — 1994

Skills

• Testing
• Automation
• Software Design
• Operating Systems
• Software Quality Assurance
• Program Management
• Projects
• Shell Scripting
• Storage Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Test Automation
• Project Management
• Windows
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Project Planning
• Solaris
• Software Engineering
• Accounting
• Storage
• Tcp/Ip
• Gui Testing
• Perl
• Software Project Management
• Team Management
• Sdlc
• C
• Test Management
• Unix
• File Systems
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Test Planning
• Java