Carrie Wong
Kirkland,WA
Summary
Accomplished business manager with a proven track record of revitalizing and restructuring organizations, developing strategic initiatives, and influencing cross-organizational leaders. Achieves results through decisive decision-making, strong communication, and negotiation abilities. Builds win-win relationships with key partners, vendors, and clients. Owns major partnership contracts, conducts executive reviews, and drives corporate policy rollout. Possesses significant financial, mathematical, and team governance skills. Proficient in sourcing, analyzing, and structuring data from multiple sources to synthesize business outcomes.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Business Manager
Microsoft
10.2011 - 08.2023
- Driven impact through hardware leadership teams and corporate support stakeholders. Analyzed and solved multi-faceted problems that effected executive leaders and business initiatives. Resolution examples: team relocation, business group ramp down / up, product confidentiality, etc.
- Managed team specific rhythm and communications - LT meetings (10+ members), all-hands (500+ FTEs), offsite (100+ FTEs), training, awards, etc. Include but not limited to communicating upwards at CVP, SLT, and regional leaderships level, and across / downwards at functional team levels.
- Built strong relationships with key stakeholders to facilitate collaboration across departments for optimal business results. External key partners include strategic outsourcing partners in engineering and supply chain. Internal key partners include finance, procurement, legal, HR and other business groups.
- Managed multimillion+ hardware vendor outsourcing portfolio, largest $ engineering portfolio in Microsoft GCR; Scope including partnering with procurement on yearly rate negotiation / saving plans, performance review, issue escalations, program ramp up / down, and Corporate initiative roll out. Achieved significant cost savings (in millions) through effective negotiation of vendor contracts and optimizing resource allocation.
- Maximized centralized budget with rigorous financial analysis, budget planning, and cost control measures; Ensured all program asks to have clear ROI.
- Established review mechanism for organizational initiatives, provide insights, metrics, and actions contributing to business and people excellence. Initiatives such as engineering excellence, oar award, GIVE, Sustainability, and Hackathon.
- Leveraged data analytics to inform decision-making processes that led to more informed choices in strategy development and execution. Such as External Staff Policy in GCR roll-out.
- Negotiated and executed major contracts on behalf of department.
- Built highly-efficient administrative team through ongoing coaching and professional development opportunities.
Product Planner
Microsoft
07.2008 - 10.2011
- Own product planning of coupon ad product in China Innovation Group; Product eventually shipped to local IPTV service provider, and filed one interactive technology patent.
- Enhanced product portfolio by identifying market trends and conducting competitive analysis; Developed accurate, relevant messaging and partnered with internal teams such as development team and MSN China to implement message across customer channels..
- Established strong relationships with consumer coupon suppliers, negotiating favorable terms to reduce costs without compromising on quality or delivery timelines.
Project Planner
Aker Kvaerner
- Owned project schedule of $200+ million sulphuric acid plant construction.
- Conducted thorough risk assessments for each project phase, mitigating potential issues before they arose. Once named by client as most proficient scheduler among General Contractors.
Project Engineer
Clark Construction Group, LLC
- Performed over 200 time impact analysis (TIA) within project duration; Mitigated over millions of penalties posed by client through demonstration in project schedule.
Education
Master of Business Administration - MBA -
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China06.2008
Bachelor of Science - Construction Management
University of Washington
Seattle, WA06.2001
Skills
- Project Management
- Organizational Development
- Decision-Making
- Team Building and Leadership
- Operational leadership
- Strategic Planning
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Contract Management
- Problem-solving abilities
- Negotiation
Additional Information
GIVE champion 2023
Co-founder of Microsoft GCR Sustainability Chapter 2022
Global Hackathon Winner 2021
GCR Diversity & Inclusion Committee
Languages
English
Full Professional
Chinese (Mandarin)
Full Professional
Chinese (Cantonese)
Native or Bilingual
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimeWork Location
HybridTimeline
Senior Business Manager
Microsoft
10.2011 - 08.2023
Product Planner
Microsoft
07.2008 - 10.2011
Project Planner
Aker Kvaerner
Project Engineer
Clark Construction Group, LLC
Master of Business Administration - MBA -
Tsinghua University
Bachelor of Science - Construction Management
University of Washington
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