Nilesh Thakkar
Principal Technical Program Manager Lead - Xbox Game Studios Developer Services @Microsoft
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WORK HISTORY
Principal Technical Program Manager Lead - Xbox Game Studios Developer Services @Microsoft
Reading, GB
Studios Developer Management – I manage a team of Technical Program Managers that work hand in hand with Xbox First Party Game Studios in Europe and Canada. The focus of my team is to provide shared solutions to empower our Studios to create and deliver great games. This requires strong partnership with game teams to deeply understand their technical intent to enable success. Further, working across the broader Xbox and Microsoft ecosystems to enable platform integration, unify first party perspectives, disclosing studios on the latest hardware strategies, and help shape the scope of new platform and store features.I also manage a number of programs that span multiple years and have global impact, making the gaming ecosystem stronger for millions of players. A recent example of this is Project xCloud where I drove content creation of Xbox First Party games and strategy for Xbox Game Studios. My current focus is on a highly confidential project that will really change the way we think about games at Xbox. Below are some of the games I\'ve been fortunate enough to impact.
EDUCATION
De Montfort University
BSc Hons Management Science, Management Science
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme, Artificial Intelligence
SKILLS
ABOUT NILESH THAKKAR
I\'m a Principal Technical Program Manager Lead at Microsoft with over 25 years of experience in delivering strategic and innovative solutions for various industries from healthcare, distribution, manufacturing and retail through the lens of ERP and CRM software implementations. My focus over the last ten years has been in the game development space helping game teams create amazing console, PC and mobile games.I am driven to enhance the gaming experience for millions of users across the world by lighting up the ability to play any game wherever the player wants to play.In my current role, I collaborate with studios to shape the scope of new projects, resolve development issues and integrate platform features. Highlights in this role include having led the first party content creation and strategy for Project xCloud (a cloud-based gaming service that enables users to play Xbox games on any device) and more recently the technical program management for Project Latitude (taking traditionally Xbox IP to other platforms).Co-author of Customer Success with Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step, published by Packt in January 2014.
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