Gil Gido

About Gil Gido

A Program Manager with 10 years information technology experience at the Microsoft Corporation. Demonstrated history of strong leadership, increased responsibilities and successful team building capabilities due to excellent technical, communication, presentation, and customer service skills. Resourceful problem solver with proven ability to bring quick resolution to complex situations as well as building lasting relationships with vendors and customers. • Project/program management excellence: Offers a broad and valuable frame of reference gleaned from 10 years’ IT experience at Microsoft. Strong technical acumen, with a big picture understanding of how initiatives impact entire organizations. History of promotion to positions of increased responsibility, awards and citations for excellence and achievement. • Strong leadership abilities: Cofounder and leader of Microsoft Asian Professional Society (MAPS), launching the organization in response to dearth of Asian representation in executive positions. Presided over consistent growth, organizing and delivering three leadership conferences in three years, raising funds and training employees. Identified by C-Level management as a key pillar of organization’s Global Diversity initiative. • Organizational focus: Demonstrated ability to lead organizational growth, develop business and positively impact revenue. Expertise with Project Portfolio Server 2007 enabled customers $420M savings in two fiscal years. Orchestrated a comprehensive project delivery, hiring and training staff, implementing and configuring, as well as tracking hardware utilization and resource performance.Project Portfolio Management • Continuous Process Improvement • Risk Management • Global Partnerships • Strategic Planning • Reporting • Financial Analysis • Team Building • Security • Application Development • Vendor Management • Sales • Marketing • Customer Service • Ashtanga

Experience

1. Sr Program Manager

   Avenue In Consulting, Llc

   Oct 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Incubated MDE Proof of Concept (POC) sales play with the FastTrack Ready Partners (FRP).• Responsible for the quarterly planning cycle gathering plans and priorities from key stakeholders.

Education

• University of Illinois Chicago

  B.S., Biochemistry

  1987 — 1991

• Landmark Education

  Personal Development

  2007 — 2011

• Executive Development Institute (EDI)

  Certificate

  2008 — 2008

• Global Knowledge

  Certification, Unified Communications

  2011 — 2012

Skills

• Process Improvement
• Team Building
• Management
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Saas
• Software Development
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Business Process Improvement
• Software Project Management
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Program Management
• Pmp
• Leadership
• Research
• Vendor Management
• Strategy
• Training
• Testing
• Customer Satisfaction
• Sharepoint
• Business Process
• Cloud Computing
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Community Outreach
• Consulting
• Customer Insight
• Strategic Planning
• Start-Ups
• Project Planning
• Leadership Development
• Project Management
• Product Management
• Outsourcing