Sarahmarie P.

About Sarahmarie P.

I am a Senior Technical Program Manager in Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) at Microsoft, a global engineering organization that partners with enterprises, governments, and not‑for‑profits to solve complex technical challenges. My team focuses on government and not‑for‑profit customers, delivering end‑to‑end technical solutions across a wide range of technologies.I foster a supportive, inclusive team culture in a fully virtual environment, enabling collaboration, maintaining momentum, and keeping teams focused on delivery and customer outcomes. I am passionate about building technology with an accessibility and UX lens, believing inclusive design leads to more impactful, usable solutions for everyone.

Experience

1. Senior Technical Program Manager

   Microsoft

   Oct 2020 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US

   With 6+ years leading customer-facing, cross-functional delivery across engineering, product, and design, I focus on government and not-for-profit customers, partnering with development and product teams to shape solutions aligned to mission needs. I serve as a trusted liaison between customers and engineers, leading scenario definition and solution shaping with customer engineers, Microsoft engineers, and subject matter experts to map requirements to feasible cloud architectures. I own end-to-end delivery for multiple short-cycle engagements using a code-with approach, defining success criteria and driving backlog, scope, milestones, governance, and release readiness so customers can operate, maintain, and extend solutions post-handoff.Working side by side with customers strengthens engineering rigor, accelerates skill development, and builds shared ownership. I coordinate schedules, dependencies, and partner commitments, surface delivery and technical risks early, and drive data-backed tradeoffs to protect timelines, quality, and outcomes. I lead discovery through interviews, workflow mapping, and pain-point analysis, translating insights into prioritized scenarios and partnering on prototypes to validate requirements and de-risk approaches. I define acceptance criteria, create UAT plans and test cases, validate delivered functionality against user stories, and support implementation planning and enablement to drive adoption.

Education

• University of Tampa

  Bachelors of Arts, Electronic Media, Art & Technology

  2006 — 2010