Jeffrey Howson

About Jeffrey Howson

Provide Analytical Strategic Planning, Coordination, and ExecutionResults-oriented problem solver and motivated professional capable of leading strong teams of cross-functional experts. Organizes internal process improvements, identifies and resolves project issues involving risks and change management, and understanding business trends by providing hands-on program management across multiple teams and functions.Skills: Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Project, Word, Autodesk Inventor, SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Pro / Engineer, CATIA V5, Mathcad, MATLAB, ALGOR / COMSOL / ANSYS (FEA / FEM), VAVE, DFMEA, PFMEA, PPAP, APQP, GD & T, ORACLE, SAP, AVANTE, SharePoint, Lotus Notes, PDLS, SDLS, JIRA, LiveLink, Confluence

Experience

1. Senior Program Manager

   Microsoft

   Jan 2022 — Present · Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US

   Oversee $2B+ globally across multiple industries and multiple Fortune 100 companies by driving customer engineering engagements to deliver well-defined solutions that generate customer value and high-quality, broadly applicable software contributions to Microsoft products and to open-source communities. • Customer and Partner Sales Engagement: Lead advanced technological high-impact Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered solution development in Azure, such as GenAI, NVIDIA Omniverse, Digital Twins, and more. • Executive Leader and Team Communications: Work with the Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) leaders and Development Crews, making sure we deeply discuss, understand, and potentially adjust both the ask from a technical standpoint – engagement goals, technical requirements, constraints, scope, backlog, definition of done - and the potential impact the engagement will have. Lead, organize, and drive monthly and quarterly business reviews and meeting minutes to internal and external executives.• Support data and impact-based decision making across multiple teams: Leverage analysis/data analytics to generate insights on customer engagements, delivered solutions, and technology impacts to inform and recommend ways to reshape our business, propose new business models and enhance our ecosystem through broad application of solutions and influencing the product roadmap and improvement with product groups. Created annual PowerBI/Azure DevOps dashboards for LT to visualize/prioritize portfolio pipeline.• Drive for positive outcomes and maximizing potential impact: Foster a data-excellence driven culture and Rhythm of Business (ROB) by solving cross-organizational problems, sharing best practices, and creating insightful dashboards and Power BI views that help optimize customer engagements and track business impact.• Business operations | Drive cross-functional excellence in execution across teams, high-quality business documentation, and governance.

Education

• Andrews University

  B.S. in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Mathematical Studies

  2006 — 2010

• New Jersey Institute of Technology

  M.S. in Engineering Management, Project Management

  2011 — 2014

Skills

• Design for Manufacturing
• Mechanical Engineering
• Business Analysis
• Matlab
• Contract Negotiation
• Consumer Product Testing
• Product Design
• Hands-on Problem Solver
• Project Planning
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Program Management
• Ptc Creo
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Autodesk Inventor
• Engineering Management
• Microsoft Project
• Product Development
• Inventor
• Project Coordination
• Autocad
• Business Process Improvement
• Mathcad
• Cad
• Ansys
• Microsoft Products
• Management
• Finite Element Analysis
• Engineering
• Manufacturing
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• Customer Service
• Negotiation
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Outlook
• Design Analysis
• Pro Engineer
• Lean Manufacturing
• Leadership
• Project Management