Manager Sales

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SIMON ZHANG

Executive Summary

• Proficient in Program Management leading multi-location / cross-functional teams

• Strong reputation in Product Management; Partner and Alliance Management

• Rich experience with Developer Communities, OEM/ODM, Supply Chain, QA and NPI

• Track record of building and managing highly productive development team

• Strength: Persistent, Innovative, Technical Breadth, Consensus Building; and Cross Culture

AMD (2011- 2014), Bellevue WA

Senior Alliance Manager, Microsoft Strategic Alliance

• Managed strategic programs between AMD and Microsoft in virtualization, cloud, server, online services and

GPU computing. Assisted major sales-in activates to Azure, Bing, eCommerce and GFS

• Created and managed Cluster-in-a-Box embedded server storage appliance program with ODM partners

• Created and managed server GPU virtualization program; Design and maintained KPI

• Initialized and planned Server GPU cloud computing sale-in program with Azure

• Led AMD Server ARM64 strategy and technical engagement with Windows Server

• Responsible for server business development, license and contract negotiations, product management and

technology alignment including roadmap update, strategic technology co-development programs, go-to-market

program initialization, direct sales programs, and executive communications; Performed value proposition and

ROI metrics analysis.

• Worked with multi-functional groups internally all the way up to CxO; And with external CxO level

Microsoft (1996-2011), Redmond WA

Senior Lead Program Manager, Xbox (2008-2011)

• End-to-end managed Xbox 360 Kinect (game 3D sensor) manufacturing program

• Managed the product team (Dev/Test/PM) to deliver Kinect test solutions for large volume production

• Delivered Kinect manufacture test planning, resource allocation, budget, staffing, and vendor

selection/qualification

• Owned and managed partnership with large scale EMS, ODM, and Contract Manufacture and tier II Supply

Chain;

• Managed Supply Chain to achieve 22% inventory reduction and reduces 11 days storage time.

• Drove the successful negotiation of $60+ million dollar contract for mass production

• Authored design specifications of large volume manufacture test stations for Kinect; One of the stations

calibrates/enables Kinect depth sensing capability which is the primary feature of the device

• Delivered Surface I Multi-touch computing manufacturing test solutions

• Managed project team with members in EE, ME, Optical, SDE, and LabTech;

• Applied Agile methodology and led scrum, bug triage, release war-room meetings

Senior Program Manager/Technical Evangelist, Windows Device and Networking (2006-2008)

• Owed and managed Windows Rally features; Released Windows Rally as part of the Windows Vista collateral

• Delivered feature specifications and shipped Device Profile for Web Services (DPWS) feature in Windows

• Program managed Digital Photo Frame Developer Toolkit v1.0 in Windows Vista collaterals

• Drove Asia Pacific Windows device partner technology transfer and project management, includes strategy

setting, business development, partner engagement, and support. As a result, 15 top tier OEMs, ODMs and

Chip Designers in Taiwan and China jointed the program; created 32 tier-two partners in silicon chip,

firmware, embedded designer in the Asia Pacific; 100s of devices shipped deploying DPWP software stack by

ecosystem partners.

• Established and led an international engineering team (APEG - Asia Pacific Engineering Group) in engaging

with Taiwan/China PC partners (ODM, OEM, Motherboard, Chipset and Microprocessor Designers); The

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program was to ensure Windows hardware ecosystem partners support Windows driver and hardware

development technologies.

• Established Windows Rally China Team (PM/Dev/Test) – planning, budgeting, recruiting and outsourcing

• Presented business and technology content at PDC, WinHEC, IDF, Computerworld, WinCE Con and VTF

Technology Strategy Officer, OEM Engineering (2006-2006)

• Responsible for technology marketing to top OEMs on CxO level; Initiated programs

• Teamed with FAE and Sales staffs to design and execute sales and marketing programs with leading OEM

customers and partners such as Dell, IBM, HP, Intel, and AMD

• Managed IP productization initiative/effort between Microsoft and top OEMs

Senior Program Manager, Hardware Innovation Group (HIG), Windows Core OS (1999-2006)

• Drove the adoption of Windows technologies such as Power Sense™, Auxiliary Display (Sideshow), Away

Mode®, Tablet PC, and Low Cost Emerging Market PC to ODM and device partners

• Authored Power Sense™ architecture and design specifications and drove Taiwan ODM deployment program;

Awarded 3 US Patents

• Presented to major industry conferences including WinHec, PDC, Lenovo World and IDF

• Award: Windows Division Gold Star Award, CVP

Windows XP Development (1999-2002)

• Participated in full product development life cycle from feature specification to RTM - WinXP

• Delivered design specifications for OS reliability features; PMed, and shipped the features in XP

• Drove the development and test processes to deliver reliability validation tool and deployed the tools to major

enterprise beta sites for reliability data collection and improvement;

• Shipped WHQL reliability test tool to major partners – Intel, HP, Dell, IBM and Acer.

• Delivered “Windows 2000 and Windows XP Reliability Study” Quantitative Analysis

Program Manager, Visual Studio, Developer Tools Division (1997-1999)

• Designed and shipped MSDN online web and search features to the subscription program in 1998

• Delivered design spec of MSDN online/web index, web UI, search features for the product re-launch in 1999

• Drove the first MSDN DVD release in 1997; The MSDN DVD program won Sliver Disc Award in 1997

• Shipped MSDN Subscription product specifications; and subscription product to developer communities

Responsible for feature and schedule trade-off to ensure monthly release shipment schedule

Senior Operations Analyst/Technologist, Microsoft Datacenter, ITG (1996-1997)

• Delivered IT support feature specifications and implementation plan for SAP (DB and App) and services

• Managed SAP implementation phases in ITG – NT 4.0, SQL 6.5, and SAP R3

• Authored SAP Operations Guide; Authored SAP Disaster Recovery Guide

• Led team efforts on SAP system analysis (base admin), operations support, data backup and troubleshooting

• Award: Chief Technology Officer Award

EDUCATION

• MA, Statistics and Demography, University of Alberta, Canada

• BS, Computer Science, Beijing Polytechnic University

• Post Graduate Program, Institute of Demography, Beijing University

• Post Graduate Program, Demography Research, Beijing School of Economics

• Non-credit classes: PMI/PMP training, Retail Marketing, Agile Product Development, Lean Design,

Negotiation, Driver Development, Precession Questioning, Critical Thinking; Toastmaster Presentation;

Leadership development

AWARDS

• Microsoft Windows Division CVP Gold Star Award, Microsoft - 2003

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• Microsoft CIO CVP Award, Microsoft - 1999

• 3 US Patents: Fan-less Cooling; Glitch Ride-out in Power Sense™ Technology; Drive Spin Rate Control

SPARE TIME

Oil Painting and Pencil/charcoal sketching; Swimming

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