Tim Harris

About Tim Harris

Consistently focused on the needs of customers, I am adept at applying extensive technical experience to complex business problems and crafting solutions that meet their needs. I am known for asking hard questions and getting to core issues, and I’m not afraid of challenging projects. I thrive in challenging, dynamic environments, and I’m always on the lookout for new and innovative approaches to business. I have excellent written and verbal communications skills, and am a capable presenter. I have persuaded executives in one on one meetings, and I’ve also conveyed complex technical information to an audience of over two thousand. I forge lasting relationships across all levels of organizations and I leverage those relationships to best achieve company objectives.My extensive cross-platform technical experience, combined with excellent cross-team strategic messaging creation makes me proficient at internal and external requirements gathering, documentation, and outbound communications. I have acted as product manager, project manager, program manager, and PR manager for multiple large scale solution implementations and product launches.Specialties: Partner & Stakeholder Management, Exec Comms, Data modeling, analytics, and reporting, Crowd-Sourcing, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Security, Strong Authentication, Identity Management, Access Management, Compliance.

Experience

1. Data & Applied Scientist

   Microsoft

   Apr 2018 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Partner with business stakeholders to source, transform, normalize, and integrate data from across Microsoft\'s digital events ecosystem to create a standardized taxonomy and data model for analytics and reporting across 30k+ events worldwide annually. Design, develop, test, and deploy analytics and reporting visualizations leveraged by Microsoft\'s worldwide marketing organization to plan and measure events.Leverage statistical/analytical, and machine learning techniques to understand events at Microsoft in the context of overall customer journeys, and to infer the relative influence events has on various customer outcomes.Consult with application and data engineering teams across Microsoft to publish analytical insights and data into marketing and sales tools while increasing the feature capability of the overall analytics environment.

Education

• Western International University

  Business

  2006 — 2008

• American River Community College

  Computer Science

  1991 — 1992

• California State University

  Computer Science

  1990 — 1991

Skills

• Strategic Partnerships
• Business Process Improvement
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Data Center
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Executive-Level Communication
• Marketing Automation
• Cloud Computing
• Public Relations
• Integration
• Iaas
• Public Speaking
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Sales Enablement
• Virtualization
• Windows Azure
• Strategy
• Partner Management
• Product Marketing
• Paas
• Lead Scoring
• Microsoft Dynamics Crm
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Platform Evangelism
• Saas
• Identity Management
• Product Management
• Distributed Systems
• Big Data
• Technology Evangelist
• Program Management
• Solution Architecture
• Pre-Sales
• Developer Relations