Josh George
Senior Director, Microsoft CoE
Frisco,TX
Summary
Highly motivated team first leader focusing on driving innovation through quality client delivery and high performing teams with over 19 years of industry and consulting experience.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Director, Emerging Technologies
Slalom Consulting
Dallas, TX
02.2023 - Current
- Instituted formal governance procedures to identify what is Next and emerging in the world.
- Drove global team revenue in Central markets enabling higher revenue to local teams.
- Drove strategic partners to enhance operational and organizational efficiencies.
Senior Director - Microsoft CoE
Slalom Consulting, Emerge
Central Region
01.2022 - 02.2023
- Currently lead a team of 50+ consultants focused upon the 3 Microsoft Clouds with an $18MM+ in consultant Revenue Run Rate and a YTD utilization of 78%+
- While focusing on the Central Markets, I also provide leadership to the whole global Microsoft CoE team
- Currently working with local market leaders to successfully drive $19MM+ in sold revenue on 55 total opportunities thru Oct of 2022
- Currently driving the new Market Leader role which interacts with local markets enabling more effective local market growth
- Perform the role of Market Leader for 3 Texas markets enabling more than $14MM in revenue
Senior Director
Slalom Consulting, Emerge
South Central Mountain States Region
01.2021 - 12.2021
- Lead a diverse team of consultants focused upon Microsoft, AWS, Systems Integration, and Cloud Data for the South Central Mountain States Region
- Grew a team of 22 Microsoft consultants and inherited 14 consultants to a combined team of 62 or 12% of overall Emerge, almost doubling each team
- Managed a $20MM+ Revenue Run Rate
- Worked with local market leaders to successfully drive $18MM+ in sold revenue on 101 total opportunities
- My market/team was continually in the top 3 of all Slalom markets in utilization
Practice Area Lead - Microsoft CoE
Slalom Consulting, Regional Delivery Team
Southwest Region
07.2019 - 12.2020
- Lead a Microsoft team of consultants focused upon the 3 Microsoft clouds in a regional enablement and delivery capacity
- Grew a team from 1 to 22 while maintaining high utilization, high bill rates, high profitability, and high quality
- Managed a $7MM Run Rate team
- Worked with local market leaders to successfully drive $9MM+ in sold revenue
Practice Area Lead
Slalom Consulting
Dallas, TX
07.2017 - 07.2019
- Practice Leader in charge of 15+ consultants and $3.5MM+ in revenue
- Practice Leader focusing on helping coach and mentor other consultants
- Drive Opportunities from Prospect to Win
- Plus Previous Slalom Experience
Solution Principal
Slalom Consulting
Dallas, TX
07.2015 - 06.2017
- Internal leader focusing on promoting the Microsoft data capability
- Create frameworks to expedite and create consistent delivery
- Drive change in organizations enabling quick turn-around of projects
- Plus Previous Slalom Experience
Solution Architect
Slalom Consulting
Dallas, TX
03.2014 - 06.2015
- Integral team lead which helped grow a strong Business Intelligence team from 3 to 50
- Lead many inter-practice community events to help foster team building
- Architect, designer, and implementer of multiple end-to-end Business
- Intelligence solutions
- Helped the Sales team with pre-sales activities including POCs
- Designed Slalom Dallas' go-to-market ETL strategy and framework
- Built, Designed and Architected the project which won the "2011 Microsoft
- Partner of the Year Finalist - Business Intelligence" award
- Built and Co-Designed the project which won the "2013 Microsoft Partner of the Year Finalist - Business Intelligence" award
Consultant
Slalom Consulting
Dallas, TX
10.2010 - 03.2014
- Focusing on helping coach and mentor other consultants
- Focus on Microsoft driven solutions while retaining the ability to work with other vendor's tools (i.e
- Tableau, Alteryx, etc)
- Help the Sales team with pre and post sales activities including POCs
Senior Consultant
LiveLogic
Dallas, TX
08.2007 - 09.2010
- Developed custom Business Intelligence reporting platforms for customers
- Enabled customers to report near real time driving highly informed business decisions
- Performed reporting and ETL utilizing the Microsoft SQL Server Business
- Intelligence stack (SQL Server, SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, PerformancePoint,
- SharePoint, Excel)
- Created custom Excel VBA apps to provide precise reporting needs
Software Engineer II
L-3 Communications
Greenville, TX
06.2005 - 07.2007
- Worked on a small elite team to build an Air Force simulation trainer application enabling a cost savings of over $100,000 per training
- Developed GUIs on a SGI platform using Java Swing and integrated with a legacy C application communicating via Java Native Interface (JNI) and
- TCP/IP protocol
- Lead programmer of a performance analysis tool which graphs and creates reports of real-time performance measures from our Modeling and Simulation application
- Developed a high risk Java based map to display a DIS simulation supporting the Simulation Models containing 10,000 moving entities and 10 historical locations
Software Engineer I
L-3 Communications
Greenville, TX
05.2004 - 05.2005
- See Above.
- Detailed resume upon request
Education
Bachelor of Business Administration - Computer Science And Business Administration
Austin College
Sherman, TX 09.2000 - 05.2004
Skills
Do what is right, always
Consultant First
Collaborative Team Leadership
Team Building and Motivation
Technical Sales
Client Relationship Management
Executive Leadership
Practice Operations
Data Architect
Business Intelligence Architect
Microsoft Power BI
Microsoft Azure
Smile
Timeline
Senior Director, Emerging Technologies
Slalom Consulting
02.2023 - Current
Senior Director - Microsoft CoE
Slalom Consulting, Emerge
01.2022 - 02.2023
Senior Director
Slalom Consulting, Emerge
01.2021 - 12.2021
Practice Area Lead - Microsoft CoE
Slalom Consulting, Regional Delivery Team
07.2019 - 12.2020
Practice Area Lead
Slalom Consulting
07.2017 - 07.2019
Solution Principal
Slalom Consulting
07.2015 - 06.2017
Solution Architect
Slalom Consulting
03.2014 - 06.2015
Consultant
Slalom Consulting
10.2010 - 03.2014
Senior Consultant
LiveLogic
08.2007 - 09.2010
Software Engineer II
L-3 Communications
06.2005 - 07.2007
Software Engineer I
L-3 Communications
05.2004 - 05.2005
Bachelor of Business Administration - Computer Science And Business Administration
Austin College
09.2000 - 05.2004