Steve Thomas

About Steve Thomas

Steve is the Director of Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program Offers & Benefits team.His team is accountable for designing and managing all partner program offers and associated benefits to drive partner growth across all commercial solution areas, industries and partner business models worldwide

Experience

1. Director, Partner Programs & Experiences

   Microsoft

   Jun 2015 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Scaling sales through Microsoft\'s partner ecosystem & digital commerce.Leads Microsoft’s partner program design to attract, retain & develop the world\'s largest technology partner ecosystem.Past:1. Led program management for Microsoft’s commercial scale-partner channel sales technical team to meet revenue growth across all Microsoft products & services (Azure, Modern Work and Business Applications) through digital commerce & marketplaces.2. Led strategy & program management for Microsoft\'s commercial partner scale channel programs & digital experiences (e.g, Cloud Solution Provider, Microsoft Cloud Partner Program, Incentives) driving YoY revenue growth. Specific areas of expertise involve monetization, growth, competition analysis, compliance, support & scaling through digital experiences.3. Led global teams to design, build and run experiences across all partner lifecycle stages like recruitment, building IP, practice building, co-selling, customer management & incentivization through digital marketplaces and commerce.4. Led business problem formulation to drive cause/effect analysis of business decisions, predict high propensity partners and recommend workloads using deep end-to-end causal inference, classification, and regression machine learning models

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General

  2016 — 2018

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor's, Computer Science

• University of Mumbai

  Diploma, Computer Engineering

  2000 — 2003

• Don Bosco Institute of Technology (D.B.I.T)

  Bachelors, Computer Science

  2003 — 2006

Skills

• Windows Azure
• Integration
• Consulting
• Product Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Process Automation
• Business Analysis
• Service Management
• Google Cloud Platform
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Project Management
• Agile Methodologies
• .net Framework
• C#
• Software Engineering
• Infrastructure Capacity Planning
• Program Delivery Management
• Office 365
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Software Project Management
• Business Intelligence
• Vendor Relationship Management
• Team Leadership
• Microsoft Azure
• Sdlc
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Sharepoint
• Testing
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Sitecore
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing