James Brennan

Helping Customers Transform Data into Business Value

Role
Director, Cloud & Ai at Microsoft
Location
Detroit, MI, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers

About James Brennan

Creative and energetic software industry professional with 20 years in solution sales, field enablement, product strategy and positioning, development, and delivery of innovative Data, Analytics, AI, and Cloud solutions. Customer-focused with expertise in competitive analysis, enabling success, and partnering with customers to create differentiated solutions that achieve business goals.

Experience

  1. Director, Cloud & Ai

    Microsoft

    Jul 2025 — Present · Detroit, MI, US

    Now, with the emergence of AI, data is a key strategic business asset. I help companies solve complex business problems through the application of both on-premises and cloud technology to transform data into insight in order to differentiate and outperform competitors.

Education

  • Waterford Institute of Technology

    National Diploma, Export Law

    1992 — 1993

  • Walsh College

    Masters, Information, Management, and Communications

    1997 — 1999

  • Kalamazoo College

    Bachelors, History, Area Studies - East Asia

    1988 — 1992

Skills

  • Saas
  • Visual Studio
  • Software Project Management
  • Technological Innovation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Solution Selling
  • Cmmi
  • Machine Learning
  • Cloud Development
  • Devops
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Agile
  • Test Management
  • Integration
  • Project Portfolio Management
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Application Lifecycle Management
  • Technical Product Sales
  • Management
  • Tfs
  • Requirements Analysis
  • Cloud Computing
  • Agile Project Management
  • Product Management
  • Quality Assurance
  • Pre-Sales
  • Sales Enablement
  • Software Requirements
  • Software Quality Assurance
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Performance Testing
  • Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
  • Testing
  • Soa
  • Test Planning
  • Enterprise Software
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Software as a Service (Saas)
  • Test Automation
  • Process Improvement

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