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Michael Reeb

Summary

I'm a results-driven highly technical business leader with 20 plus years of a mix of business analysis, consulting, sales, program management and digital transformation experience. Deep knowledge of large-scale, world-wide information technology solutions and products. Reputation as a strong leader who builds high performance and high energy teams with an excellent record of success!

My Industry Distinctions:

  • Holder of 15 active IT certifications, from Networking and Programming to Program Management and Proposal writing.
  • Harvard Business School Graduate
  • Combat Disabled Veteran
  • M.S. in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance.
  • Over 20 years in Technology Delivery, Customer Experience, Program Management, Product Management and IT Sales in multiple Engineering, and Education industries.
  • 3+ Years of People Management in Technology-focused roles.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr. Project/Senior Product Manager

Hazelcast, Realtime
Bornova, Turkey
10.2022 - Current
  • Responsible for accelerating the Cloud adoption of the Hazelcasts SaaS product (named "Viridian")
  • Identified market trends, gathered customer feedback and analyzed competitive landscape to develop new product ideas.
  • Provided training and mentorship to junior members of the product team.
  • Product owner for an in-memory database application (IMDB) and responsible for performance, scalability, resiliency, and utilization needs of the customer workloads
  • An expert in Hazelcast's real-time data platform core capabilities including storage and streaming in the cloud
  • Leader in collaborating with Engineering, Documentation, Solution Architects, and Marketing to lead the business and advance the next version of Hazelcast's product
  • Reported directly to VP of Product Management
  • Responsible for formulating Fintech use cases for for Fortune 100 Fintech companies.

Sr Project/Product Manager

Microsoft
, USA
07.2021 - 11.2022
  • Recommended product changes to enhance customer interest and maximize sales.
  • Increased new client acquisition 250% over previous quarter.
  • Participated in product demos at trade shows or other industry events.
  • Managed product testing processes with staff engineers.
  • Identified market trends, gathered customer feedback and analyzed competitive landscape to develop new product ideas.
  • Researched and identified market opportunities while monetizing current opportunities across Microsoft FastTrack offerings.
  • Oversaw progress on product and project plans by launching multiple product incubations and feedback sessions.

Sr. Program Manager

Microsoft
, USA
05.2020 - 07.2021
  • Product Management Change leader who works with key stakeholders in all of the FastTrack teams including Operations
  • Automation, Partner, Security & Compliance Incubation, Migration, Business Management, and Program Management to shape the necessary changes needed across the people, process, and tools within the FastTrack system
  • Guided its evolution as it grows in support of the FastTrack business
  • Fascilitated dozens of meetings across the entire business enterprises to include business analysis sessions
  • Developed new onboarding program to speed up vendor onboarding and delivery of services
  • Demonstrated technical leadership, great interpersonal and communication skills, creativity, flexibility, and above all a passion for customers
  • I’m comfortable with ambiguity, while striving for clarity with the personal desire and initiative to drive proactive business impacting change and clarity
  • Self-driven, customer focused Program Manager with proven history of demonstrated technical skills and leadership and scoping work with the future goals to scale appropriately in mind
  • Collaboration: exceptional collaborator on complex multi-faceted programs across multiple groups with varying priorities
  • Ability to navigate complex process scenarios and to identify, manage and drive cross team deliverables to support complex, multiple scenarios and initiatives
  • Performance Management and Delivery responsibility of 5+ subcontractors
  • Deep experience in Azure DevOps, Power BI and SharePoint for business operations.

Senior Project Manager

Microsoft
, USA
11.2016 - 05.2020
  • Conducted regular meetings with stakeholders to ensure projects were progressing as expected.
  • Maintained comprehensive documentation regarding all aspects of a given project including deliverables, milestones, tasks, changes and progress reports.
  • Established clear goals and objectives for each phase of a given project before commencing work.
  • Reviewed contracts with external suppliers and contractors prior to signing them off by senior management.
  • Advised senior management on best practices for successful completion of projects within budget constraints.
  • Monitored the performance of each team member throughout the duration of the project and provided feedback where necessary.

Founder

Golden Eagle Solutions
04.2012 - 11.2016
  • Complete design, development, testing, governance, and monitoring of IT Systems deployment for multiple DC Metro Area
  • Offices
  • Signed and delivered multiple sub-contracting agreements with multiple firms including GDIT, Buchanan and Edwards
  • ShoreIT Solutions and others
  • Lead design team and development of SharePoint 2013 Master Page\ Page Layouts to include multiple organization
  • Intranet Portals
  • Pioneered User Experience teams and ability to manage SharePoint from Windows, Mac OS X, Apple iOS, and Android, on desktop and mobile devices
  • Lead teams that gathered user requirements; developed systems requirements documents, systems security requirements documents, and system test plans for multiple communications divisions
  • Facilitated Architect team to create multiple InfoPath form solutions to include employee Weekly Accountability Reports
  • Scheduled Outage forms, and other personnel forms to facilitate office productivity and process discipline
  • Designed and piloted network monitoring solutions for enterprise environments for multiple customer networks.

Lead Operations Manager

Buchanan and Edwards
, Virginia
04.2014 - 04.2015
  • Pioneered the system specifications, input/output processes, and working parameters for SharePoint compatibility to smartphone, tablet, and secure laptop solutions
  • Designed user access and ability to manage SharePoint from Windows, Mac OS X, Apple iOS, and Android, on desktop and mobile devices
  • Oversaw Design of SharePoint network connectivity from mobile end points to data center resources to include redundancy within data centers and COOP and disaster recovery requirements
  • Coordinated gathering user requirements; develop systems requirements documents, systems security requirements documents, and system test plans
  • Lead Deployment of Mobile Solutions for mobile implementations
  • Lead organization in making SharePoint mobile!
  • Lead Design and pilot team monitoring solutions for SharePoint Enterprise of 120,000+users over 12 Farms for
  • SharePoint

Lead Principal Technologist

04.2012 - 04.2014
  • Responsible for the operations, maintenance, engineering, training, and administration of 2 SharePoint 2007/2013 production environments covering 2,500 members deployed across the globe
  • Frequently utilized as the SharePoint Subject Matter Expert for customers and called into multiple meetings for professional consulting and implementation planning
  • Effectively coordinated meetings communications plans with actionable items and S.M.A.R.T
  • Goals

Lead Operations Manager

Applied Information Sciences
, Virginia
04.2009 - 04.2012
  • SharePoint 2007/2010, SQL 2008 - Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Training, and Administration
  • Successfully managed 200,000 user clients with over 10 TB of SharePoint Data in house
  • Manager of 60+ Microsoft 2008 Servers using only Microsoft build-in performance monitoring and analysis tools
  • Supervised and DEVOPS deployed over 180 custom software solutions to 4 different SharePoint farms
  • Installed and configured Microsoft Fail over Clustering to include SQL server nodes
  • Responsible for leading multiple 2007-2010 upgrade projects to include 8+ Terabyte data migrations
  • Experienced in running DEVOPS code reviews for Microsoft SharePoint solutions
  • Military Service

Cloud-focused

General Dynamics, Golden Eagle Contract
01.2007 - 01.2010
  • Project Manager focused on Public Sector Cloud-based solutions!
  • Senior Project Lead for a $100+ Million dollar programs migrating customers to Azure-based networking solutions
  • Led technical Azure teams in migrating 10,000+ users to Azure Cloud Networking
  • Facilitating project milestones across multiple, geographically dispersed assessment teams to produce best in class
  • Cloud solutions
  • Pioneering new Intellectual Property initiatives in Communications Planning, Operations Planning, Quality Assurance
  • Planning
  • Responsible for billing, payroll, quality control and work packages of 50+ team members
  • Formed business development teams to create and edit $20+ million-dollar project Change Requests and Business
  • Analyst systems
  • Led teams of Tech Volume, Price Volume, and Basis of Estimate creators to close million-dollar deals.

Staff Sergeant

United States Air Force
02.2001 - 12.2008
  • Years of Combat Communication in the, leading the following endeavors:
  • Managed helpdesks of 15-30 people in Colorado, Washington, Iraq, Qatar
  • Responsable for performance management and mentorship of 5 direct report
  • Restored damaged/destroyed military installation communications across the Middle East.

Education

Master of Science - Cybersecurity and Information Assurance

Western Governors University
12.2022

General Management Program (GMP)

Harvard Business School
Boston, MA
04.2019

Bachelor of Science - Management and Computer Info Systems

Park University
04.2010

A.A.S - Computer Info Systems

Air University
04.2008

Skills

  • Project Planning
  • Client Relationship Management
  • Requirements Gathering
  • Agile Methodology
  • Project Goals and Milestones
  • Schedule Coordination
  • Quality Control
  • Project Scheduling
  • Cost Control
  • Contract Preparation
  • Client Relations
  • KPI Tracking
  • Financial Administration
  • Project Management
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Team Collaboration
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Team Leadership
  • Work Planning and Prioritization
  • Vendor Selection
  • Budget Control
  • Staff Management
  • Technical Presentations
  • Requirements Writing
  • Verbal and Written Communication
  • Project Management Software
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Gantt Charts
  • Information Technology Management
  • Conflict Resolution

Certification

PMI Agile Certified Professional (PMI-ACP) PMI Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP) ISC2 CISSP SCRUM Certified Master (CSM) Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01) Azure AZ-900, Office 365 Essentials, Power Platform Fundamentals, Dynamics Essentials CompTia Project+ Capturing New Business (Shipley Associates) ECCouncil - Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) POWeRful Proposal Writing (Shipley Associates) Managing Strategic Proposals (Shipley Associates)

Languages

  • English

    • Additional Information

    • Permit Status , Citizen of United States (Natural Born) Work Permit in Turkey (Expires: 9-30-2023)

    Languages

    English
    Native/ Bilingual
    Turkish
    Limited

    Timeline

    Sr. Project/Senior Product Manager

    Hazelcast, Realtime
    10.2022 - Current

    Sr Project/Product Manager

    Microsoft
    07.2021 - 11.2022

    Sr. Program Manager

    Microsoft
    05.2020 - 07.2021

    Senior Project Manager

    Microsoft
    11.2016 - 05.2020

    Lead Operations Manager

    Buchanan and Edwards
    04.2014 - 04.2015

    Founder

    Golden Eagle Solutions
    04.2012 - 11.2016

    Lead Principal Technologist

    04.2012 - 04.2014

    Lead Operations Manager

    Applied Information Sciences
    04.2009 - 04.2012

    Cloud-focused

    General Dynamics, Golden Eagle Contract
    01.2007 - 01.2010

    Staff Sergeant

    United States Air Force
    02.2001 - 12.2008

    Master of Science - Cybersecurity and Information Assurance

    Western Governors University

    General Management Program (GMP)

    Harvard Business School

    Bachelor of Science - Management and Computer Info Systems

    Park University

    A.A.S - Computer Info Systems

    Air University

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