Kristen Burm

Directly supported and drove projects for senior leadership at Microsoft in the areas of employee geographic strategy, engineering productivity, new employee onboarding, employee well-being, and optimizing for a hybrid workplace.

• Researched factors impacting employee well-being by conducting a series of interviews and communicated recommendations that were well-received at the executive level.
• Reduced time to first pull request for new engineers by over 30%, resulting in a major improvement to productivity.
• Contributed to the broader onboarding program that provided new employees with guided learning paths and drove automation for scalability
• Defined processes for promoting code share within the company (internal open sourcing) that are still in use today
• Worked on defining prescriptive guidance for an employee geographic distribution strategy for geographic resiliency, as well other factors like talent availability
• Defined Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to measure success towards the geo-strategy above
• Promoted from Program Manager I to Program Manager II in one year.

• Coordinated executive-level activities, including travel, live meetings across multiple countries, and large scale events.
• Led a team of business administrators to align core business priorities, provided mentorship, and drove all-up initiatives.
• Conducted research, prepared reports, and analyzed data to support decision-making.
• Managed budget and headcount for a team of 200+ employees worldwide.
• Complex calendar management, international and domestic travel arrangements, expense and budget support, and day-to-day operations for a Corporate Vice President.
• Heavily involved in Microsoft's Giving Campaign in various leadership roles, and was the event lead for the Microsoft 5K event for 5 consecutive years, which raised over $500K with 4,500 in-person participants in 2019 for 4 nonprofits.

• Served as a board member on the school's Board of Directors and attended all board meetings and committee meetings for the organization where we discussed, made decisions, and voted on major business changes and additions. Provided ongoing advocacy for the organization's mission and vision.
• Appointed Development and Auction Chair for 2018 & 2019 and helped to raise over $40,000 for the organization within my first year on the board. In 2019, we raised $190,000 for the second auction I chaired.

• Provided administrative support to multiple Directors and teams
• Began as a contractor for 10 months, then converted to a full-time employee
• Calendar, travel, and expense management for multiple leaders up to Vice President level
• Event planning, vendor management, asset management and procurement, and new hire onboarding to teams.

• Early childhood educator to a classroom of 14 children ranging in age from three to five years old.
• Developed lesson plans and activities to promote learning and development.

• Early childhood educator to over 160 children ranging in age from two to six years old at an international school in Myanmar.
• Responsible for classroom management and curriculum, provided language practice to native teachers, prepared and edited school documents.

Graduated with a degree in Cultural Anthropology with a Museum Studies Specialization. I also received a minor in Studio and Fine Arts.