Qais Al Hajri
Program Manager 2
Blacksburg,VA
Summary
Program Manager at Microsoft with 2+ years of experience in managing feature development and defining product vision and strategy related to cyber security and automation. Enhanced engineering productivity and reduced services' security risks and outages by improving management of certificates, software supply chain, and security KPIs. Looking to leverage my program management skills and technical knowledge to improve organizational cyber security posture and data analysis and insights.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
2
2
Languages
Work History
Program Manager 2
Microsoft Corporation
09.2021 - Current
- Enabling highly secure software deployment automation in air-gapped infrastructure by defining product requirements and managing project plans.
- Driving the vision and strategy to meet the growing secure software supply chain standards at Microsoft and improve engineering system automation
- Overseeing 50+ services to eliminate frequent certificate management related outages and minimize engineering toil by achieving fully automated certificate management
- Organizing mentoring rings for 300+ employees and leading an early in career community to facilitate employee growth and improve company retention
Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation
Bellevue, WA
09.2019 - 09.2021
- Oversaw the effort for 30+ service teams to migrate away from distrusted Certificate Authorities and effectively managed a development team to deliver management solutions that played a role in maintaining Microsoft’s trust in the industry
- Delivered software supply chain features that reduced service buildout from a few weeks to a few hours and automated security policy enforcement allowing 30+ services to independently manage their CI/CD pipelines
- Enabled 50+ services to effectively comply 10+ security fundamentals KPIs by developing guidance and near real-time dashboards from previously manual and ineffective reporting
- Improved asset inventory management system of over 10,000 assets that is foundational in large distributed systems management, security vulnerability management, and incident response through cross-organizational collaboration
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 08.2015 - 05.2019
Skills
Azure DevOps
Software Supply Chain Management
Certificate Management
Threat Vulnerability Management
Data Insights and Analysis
Certification
Microsoft Oar Awards
Timeline
Program Manager 2
Microsoft Corporation
09.2021 - Current
Microsoft Oar Awards
07-2021
Program Manager
Microsoft Corporation
09.2019 - 09.2021
Summa Cum Laude
05-2019
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
08.2015 - 05.2019