Valentina Haack

About Valentina Haack

Transformation leader who fosters innovation to ensure growth. The person who has the tenaciousness to consistently supplied Real Value for numerous organizations in Canada and in the US across various private and public sectors. Specialties: Product Management • Program Management • Organizational Change Management • Cross-Functional Team Leadership • Strategic Definition & Planning • Business Transformation • Digital Transformation • Process Analysis & Redesign • Data Driven Success • Customer Centered Design • Planning & Integration • Lean Startup Methodology • Enterprise & Business Architecture • Foster Innovation with Results • Exec. Account Management • Go-to-Market Strategy Definition & Delivery • Sales Strategies • Strategic Alliance & Partnership Development • Blockchain As a professional who provides value with 20+ years of progressive leadership experience who demonstrated ability to successfully balance the achievement of short-term objectives with longer-term strategic and policy deployment goals - including customer-centered strategies to identify growth opportunities with operational delivery roadmaps. Core Competencies Include: STRATEGIC | be a strategic thinker able to convert transformative ideas to practical solutions that deliver real results. TEAMWORK | able to lead inter-company and cross-functional teams to meet objectives. ABILITY TO INFLUENCE OTHERS | able to inform, convince, and persuade others to action on key initiatives. RESULTS ORIENTATION | able to drive change through others to deliver measurable results. LEADERSHIP | strong leadership skills characterized by a high degree of humility, empowerment, transparency and the ability to work at multiple levels of the organization in order to drive results. ANALYTICAL THINKER | process-oriented, obsessed with continuous improvement, and manages by fact. TEAM BUILDING CAPABILITIES | strong team leader who inspires and motivates her reports and colleagues to achieve superior results.

Experience

1. Various Roles both as a Fte and as a Consultant September 2005 2022

   Microsoft

   Sep 2005 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Enterprise Architect - Senior Product - Program Manager and Senior Strategy Consultant – Microsoft Corporation (Engagements via various Consulting Agencies) October 2010 - CurrentlyThe high-lights key efforts include of the following:• the person who gets things done• Senior product/program manager/enterprise business architect who drives positive results through leadership and strong collaboration • Defined and drove pragmatic approaches to strategic shift of a large organization• Developed execution roadmaps with targets that resonated with defined articulation of expectations and behaviors• Enabled operational excellence via cross-functional team communication, creative problem-solving expertise, coupled with business development, marketing, design, analysis, evangelization and product/program management• Worked with the business leaders to identify new opportunities of growth • Developed strategies to engage with customers across technology including mobile/social/cloud for consumer segment through to enterprise customers• Performed enterprise/business architecture for various lines of business• Collaboratively defined delivery of shared conditions of satisfaction via effective client management

Education

• Stanford University

  Certification, Executive Program for Growing Companies

  2004 — 2004

• University of Washington

  Professional Certificate Completed, Mobile Business & Marketing Strategy

  2013 — 2014

• Simon Fraser University

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, Studies Information Systems, Geography, Economic Geography

  1990 — 2020

• Project Management Institue

  PMP, International Professional Certification