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Senior Manager
Global Market Development

August 2005-Present
* Manage Global Delivery team of 40 people, scaling the team from 10 to 40 in a year.
* Team consisted of 3 Project Manager; 18 .NET Developers; and 19 Developer in Test.
* Directed the team toward a successful integration of a Scrum Agile method of development reducing release schedules form a typical 9 months release cycle down to 3 months.
* Delivered 12 new assets or updated assets in the past 2 years. Assets utilized regionally for customer delivery projects accounting for 70% of Avanade's total revenue.
* Responsible for the development, training, and delivery of Avanade VB Migration Center of Excellence based in Delhi, India. Team is responsible for providing pre-sales; estimation, and delivery support to VB migration projects.
* Maintained 20% personal utilization and for my team onshore
* Developed new Support offering to accompany a broader Application Maintenance solution, creating a great confidence with our customers in our assets and commitment to ongoing support.
Technologies:.NET 2.0-3.0; VSTS; Team Foundation Server (TFS); Visual Studio 2005; Windows Vista; Office Suite 2007; InfoPath 2007; Project 2007; MS Dynamics Enterprise Library 2.0-3.1, SharePoint 2003 and 2007; Windows Mobile 5.0.
Methodologies: Avanade Connected Methods; Accenture Delivery Methods; Microsoft Solution Framework; Scrum; Agile Methods; Test Driven Design (TDD);