Tom Wood

About Tom Wood

Progressive leadership background directing enterprise-wide governance, compliance, and AI driven innovation across the global Microsoft 365 and Power Platform ecosystems; leading large scale technology deployments while maintaining a strong commitment to quality, compliance, and user experience. Established compliance frameworks, and operational best practices while serving as a SharePoint Online authority, directing cloud migrations, taxonomy design, and governance. Execute large scale administrative changes as a Global Administrator, and partner directly with Microsoft on roadmap planning and release readiness. Lead cross functional deployment efforts, and conduct root cause analysis to ensure long term stability across platforms and services.

Experience

1. Microsoft Global Lead Collaboration Business Engineer

   Mars

   Dec 2025 — Present · Battle Creek, MI, US

   Established enterprise-wide rules, regulations, and best practices across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.• Deployed, manage, and maintain the Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE), including governance, strategy, and operational oversight.• Administer global Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies to ensure secure and compliant data usage.• Create and manage Power Platform environments and support emerging AI capabilities, including Microsoft Copilot.• Review, evaluate, and approve data connections, integration patterns, and gateway configurations.• Partner with regional leads, professional developers to guide the design, maintenance, and education of Microsoft 365 applications.• Present adoption metrics and KPI dashboards to global stakeholders to drive data informed decision-making.• Provide Power Platform application development and solution support.• Collaborate with functional leadership to implement Microsoft Purview compliance solutions, including Communication Compliance, DLP, Audit, Data Lifecycle Management, and taxonomy governance.• Serve as a SharePoint Online specialist, leading cloud migrations, environment cleanup, policy development, best practices, site templates, taxonomy, provisioning, and governance frameworks.• Oversee the technical execution and ongoing management of global and regional intranet platforms.• Manage and monitor large-scale configuration changes using PowerShell in a Global Administrator capacity.• Engage directly with Microsoft on release management, roadmap planning, and emerging feature readiness.• Collaborate with subject matter experts and leadership teams to ensure successful technical deployments and change adoption.• Oversee vendor relationships, including forecasting, contract management, and budget planning.• Conduct root-cause analysis for escalated products and platform issues to drive long-term stability and reliability.

Education

• Western Michigan University

  Broadcast and Cable Production, Radio and Television Broadcasting Technology/Technician

  2000 — 2004

• Western Michigan University

  Business Management, Business Administration and Management, General

  2000 — 2004