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Aaron Hartwell

Lakewood

Summary

Developer of bold visions that deliver real user value and drive business results. People centric leadership approach that obsesses over customers and empowers teams to achieve epic results. Always learning, growing, and evolving both personally and professionally.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience

Work History

Partner Group Program Manager, C&AI Localization

Microsoft Corporation
01.2022 - Current
  • Microsoft’s mission is to “Empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.” Led the team responsible for developing and operating a localization platform that facilitates global reach by translating Microsoft core products and documentation into hundreds of languages.
  • Broke tradition and created an innovative AI LLM powered localization system that reduced dependency on human translators.
  • Decreased localization costs by $24 million annually.
  • Reduced turnaround time by 94%.
  • Improved translation quality by 5%.

Partner Group Program Manager, M365 Online Services

Microsoft Corporation
01.2018 - 01.2022
  • Data is essential for modern organizations. Led the product management team at Microsoft responsible for developing a suite of compliance products designed to help customers manage and secure their data. These solutions were designed to be intelligent, integrated, and automated.
  • Created a bold vision that put our solutions in the upper right Gartner Magic Quadrant for 2020.
  • Invigorated 3 in-market products and grew their monthly active users base to over 300 million.
  • Released 3 new groundbreaking products in 1 year.

Director of Product Management and Design, Battle.net

Blizzard Entertainment
01.2015 - 01.2018
  • Directed a 275-person organization in developing a global platform that delivered shared social, commerce, cloud, and data capabilities for Blizzard’s entire game portfolio.
  • Developed a fresh new vision and built companywide consensus around it.
  • Completely rebooted the org’s culture, talent, and processes.
  • Developed and matured the Product Management discipline at Blizzard.
  • Enabled Blizzard to double the number of titles it had in market.

Principal Group Program Manager, Office Division

Microsoft Corporation
01.2001 - 01.2015
  • Led organizations of Program Managers responsible for household name applications including Outlook, OneNote, Office Web Apps, and Office for Surface and Mobile.
  • Led the Outlook team that transformed the way enterprises use e-mail and calendaring on the desktop.
  • Reimagined Office for the web and led the teams that created the first browser-based Office Web Apps (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote).
  • Led the team that created OneNote for tablets and touch.
  • Led key newsworthy acquisitions in the hardware and software space.

Education

Bachelor of Science (BS) - Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude

University of Houston
Houston, TX

Skills

  • Creating Clarity Generating Energy and Momentum Delivering Results Connecting with People
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Websites

Timeline

Partner Group Program Manager, C&AI Localization

Microsoft Corporation
01.2022 - Current

Partner Group Program Manager, M365 Online Services

Microsoft Corporation
01.2018 - 01.2022

Director of Product Management and Design, Battle.net

Blizzard Entertainment
01.2015 - 01.2018

Principal Group Program Manager, Office Division

Microsoft Corporation
01.2001 - 01.2015

Bachelor of Science (BS) - Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude

University of Houston

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