Christopher Donald Williams
Principal Program Manager Lead at Microsoft
- Role
- Principal Product Manager Lead at Microsoft
- Location
- Redmond, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Christopher Donald Williams
Experience Technical Manager having worked on client, server, big data and device software.Specialties- Client Server Architecture- Large Distributed Systems- Global Multi-site Development- Software Development Lifecycle and Tools- Capacity forecasting- Hardware procurement and deployment- Data center planning and optimization
Experience
Principal Product Manager Lead
Jun 2016 — Present · Redmond, WA, US
Lead Product Manager in the M365 Capacity planning team. Managed team of PMs that forecast and procured billion-dollar hardware purchases to handle growth of the service. Drove hundreds of millions worth of COGS efficiencies in the platform though hardware deployment efficiencies and data center optimizations. Managed rapid capacity growth through COVID-19 usage spike in Microsoft Teams and M365 Azure services. • Team designed hardware SKU component selection for new hardware platforms and managed OS/firmware updates.• Identified gaps in Microsoft sovereign cloud design and OKRs• Drove Azure sovereign cloud expansion staffing model• Lead Cobalt 100 ARM adoption, working with SQL, Cosmos DB, Teams IC3 and Microsoft Defender Engineering leads and Architects to secure +100 HC for workload modernization.• Designed SKU for M365 Substrate that resulted in over a billion dollars in COGs savings.• Worked closely with Finance on building capacity cost models and budget planning.• Improved hardware break remediation pre and post-handoff and kept hardware uptime above 99.9% availability in a stateful service. • Improved new hardware deployment velocity by 300%.
Education
Queen's University
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering
1990 — 1994
Skills
- Agile Methodologies
- Scalability
- Software Engineering
- Integration
- Cloud Computing
- Sql
- Quality Assurance
- Distributed Systems
- Databases
- C++
- Test Automation
- Security
- Enterprise Software
- Project Planning
- Software Development
- Scrum
- Software Design
- Mobile Devices
- Saas
- Agile Project Management
- Testing
- Sdlc
- Program Management
- System Architecture
- Software Project Management
- C#
- .net
- Oop
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