Michael Reeb, Project Manager in İzmir, Turkey
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Michael Reeb

Verified Expert  in Project Management

Project Manager

Location
İzmir, Turkey
Toptal Member Since
April 29, 2021

Michael is a military veteran, Harvard alumni, and results-driven, highly technical business leader with 20 years of experience in business management, consulting, sales, program management, and digital transformation. He has in-depth knowledge of large-scale, worldwide information technology solutions and networks and is experienced in customer strategy formulation alongside plans and programs. Michael's business sector experience includes defense, education, nonprofit, and technology.

Project Highlights

Enterprise IT as a Service
Led a 50-personnel team in the IT discovery of three public sector sites on behalf of Microsoft Consulting Services. This vital discovery led to dozens of vital risks discovered and more than $100 million in program expansion.
FastTrack Consulting Cost Initiative
Led the creation of the Consulting Cost reporting portal. This portal resulted in the 1st-ever visual representation of contractor/employee costs into a readable (Power BI) portal for key stakeholders, which led to more than 10% efficiency in hours.

Expertise

Work Experience

Senior Build Product Manager

2020 - PRESENT
Microsoft
  • Led the Windows 11 engineering team in the first incubation and go-to-market scale for Microsoft's vital strategic 2,500 customers.
  • Organized a complete customer feedback loop to present the customer voice to the engineering and sales teams while incorporating their feedback into future product releases.
  • Enabled FastTrack to help enterprise customers transform their business and IT environments through the adoption and usage of Microsoft365 and drive the customer experience through FastTrack motions as senior product and program manager.
  • Learned from these engagements and took that learning back to product groups to ensure that our products and features continually improve for the best customer experience.
  • Supplied the go-to-market path for new products to generate the attention of our most strategic customers.

Senior Program Manager — FastTrack Leadership Team

2020 - PRESENT
Microsoft
  • Led key stakeholders in all of the FastTrack teams, including operations, automation, partner, security and compliance incubation, migration, business management, and PM roles to shape the changes across the people, processes, and tools at FastTrack.
  • Applied my knowledge and understanding of FastTrack operational and delivery processes to accelerate progress in this space. Data-driven business agility is an essential element and cornerstone of my role in FastTrack.
  • Closely collaborated with all teams involved in FastTrack to ensure that their needs were addressed by any new changes implemented!
  • Served as a change management leader versed in multiple change management methodologies like ADKAR, McKinsey 7-S, and Satir.

Senior Project Manager — Microsoft Consulting Services

2018 - 2020
Microsoft
  • Served as a senior project lead for more than $100 million programs migrating customers to Azure-based networking solutions.
  • Facilitated project milestones across multiple geographically dispersed assessment teams to produce the best-in-class cloud solutions.
  • Formed business development teams to create and edit a project of over $20 million, Change Requests, and business development.
  • Led teams of tech volume, price volume, and basis of estimate creators to close million-dollar deals.
  • Pioneered new intellectual property initiatives in communications planning, operations planning, and quality assurance planning.

Founder

2012 - 2016
Golden Eagle Solutions
  • Signed and delivered multiple sub-contracting agreements with multiple firms. including GDIT, Buchanan and Edwards, and other IT consulting firms.
  • Led the design and development of SharePoint 2013 Master Page/Page; the 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.
  • Led teams that gathered user requirements—developing systems requirements, documents, systems security requirements documents, and system test plans for multiple communications divisions.
  • Designed and piloted network monitoring solutions for enterprise environments for multiple customer networks.

Lead Principal Technologist — SharePoint Consulting Services

2012 - 2014
GDIT
  • Responsible for the operations, maintenance, engineering, training, and administration of two SharePoint 2007/2013 production environments covering 2,500 members deployed across the globe.
  • Frequently served as the SharePoint subject matter expert for customers.
  • Advised in multiple programs for professional consulting and implementation planning.

Lead Operations Manager — SharePoint

2009 - 2012
Applied Information Sciences
  • Managed 200,000 user clients with over 10TB of in-house SharePoint data.
  • Supervised, implemented DevOps, and deployed over 180 custom software solutions to four different SharePoint farms.
  • Managed over 60 Microsoft 2008 Servers using only Microsoft built-in performance monitoring and analysis tools.
  • Led multiple 2007-2010 upgrade projects to include more than eight terabyte data migrations.
  • Ran DevOps code reviews for Microsoft SharePoint solutions and teams.

Non-commissioned Officer—Computer Communications Team

2001 - 2008
US Air Force
  • Managed help desks of 15-30 people in the US (Colorado, Washington), Iraq, and Qatar.
  • Led dozens of younger airmen in soft skills, protocol, and professional growth.
  • Restored damaged and destroyed military installation communications across the Middle East.

Enterprise IT as a Service

Led a 50-personnel team in the IT discovery of three public sector sites on behalf of Microsoft Consulting Services. This vital discovery led to dozens of vital risks discovered and more than $100 million in program expansion.

I served as a senior project lead for $100 million programs—migrating customers to Azure-based networking solutions.

Tasks Accomplished:
• Led technical Architect Azure teams in migrating over 100,000 users to Azure cloud networks.
• Facilitated project milestones across multiple, geographically dispersed assessment teams to produce best-in-class cloud solutions.
• Pioneered new intellectual property initiatives in various plans (communications, operations, and quality assurance).
• Responsible for billing, payroll, quality control, and work packages of over 50 team members.
• Formed business development teams to create and edit change requests for a $20 million consulting contract.

FastTrack Consulting Cost Initiative

Led the creation of the Consulting Cost reporting portal. This portal resulted in the 1st-ever visual representation of contractor/employee costs into a readable (Power BI) portal for key stakeholders, which led to more than 10% efficiency in hours.

This new report allowed consulting leadership to get the 1st glance at the costs associated with Change Items and the Change Program ecosystem.

This pilot report allowed leadership to suggest changes, visualize costs, and watch "where the money is going" in the Fast Track business organization.

Azure DevOps Security Scrum Business Process Creation

Led the security team implementation of a new KPI tracking the SLA overdue tickets of risk assessment items across functional teams and increase by 58% the closure rate of all risk assessment items (high, medium, low) for the security teams.

I led the security Scrum team in creating a better DevOps business process. I did this by guiding the creation of metadata that helped the security team implement a new KPI for tracking the SLA overdue tickets concerning risk assessment items across the functional teams.

Because of this KPI, the security team has eliminated 100% of the high-risk overdue items since its implementation in October 2020. There is also now a 58% increase in the closure rate of all risk assessment items (high, medium, low).

The new “threat classification” measurement capability has helped introduce another KPI called Repeated Threat Categories across functional teams by this fiscal year. This KPI allows the security team to track and monitor the threats that are being left unresolved across the fiscal years. Resolving these threats first will challenge the red teams to come up with new tools and POCs for the following fiscal year assessments.
2021 - 2022

Master of Science Degree in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance

Western Governors University - Millcreek, Utah, USA

2018 - 2019

Professional Degree in General Management Program (GMP)

Harvard Business School - Boston, United States

2008 - 2012

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Management, and Computer Information Systems

Park University - Parkville, MO, United States

AUGUST 2022 - PRESENT

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

ISC2

SEPTEMBER 2021 - PRESENT

Six Sigma White Belt

Association of Professionals in Business Management

MAY 2020 - PRESENT

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fundementals (MB-901)

Microsoft

APRIL 2020 - PRESENT

Learning Azure DevOps

LinkedIN

APRIL 2020 - PRESENT

POWeRful Proposal Writing

Shipley Associates

APRIL 2020 - PRESENT

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)

Project Management Institute (PMI)

MARCH 2020 - PRESENT

Managing Strategic Proposals

Shipley Associates

FEBRUARY 2020 - PRESENT

Capturing New Business

Shipley Associates

FEBRUARY 2020 - PRESENT

Microsoft Power Platform Fundementals (PL-900)

Microsoft

FEBRUARY 2020 - PRESENT

Microsoft Office 365 Fundementals (MS-900)

Microsoft

SEPTEMBER 2019 - PRESENT

Microsoft Azure Fundementals — (AZ-900)

Microsoft

SEPTEMBER 2019 - PRESENT

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Project Management Institute (PMI)

APRIL 2017 - PRESENT

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

MAY 2016 - PRESENT

CISSP

ISC2

JUNE 2015 - PRESENT

Mobility+

CompTia

MAY 2015 - PRESENT

Cloud+

CompTIA

APRIL 2015 - PRESENT

Network+

CompTIA

MARCH 2015 - PRESENT

Project+

CompTia

FEBRUARY 2015 - PRESENT

A+

CompTia

APRIL 2014 - PRESENT

Microsoft SharePoint Infrastructure (70-227)

Microsoft

APRIL 2007 - PRESENT

Security+

CompTIA

Tools

Office 365, Jira, Slack, Financial Data, Azure DevOps Services, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Power Apps, Microsoft Dynamics

Platforms

SharePoint, Azure, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 365, SharePoint OOTB, PC

Paradigms

Azure DevOps, Agile Project Management, Agile, Management, Kanban, Lean Project Management

Other

Microsoft Teams, Agile Program Management, Leadership, IT Project Management, IT Networking, Project Tracking, Portfolio Management, Financial Management, Project Coordination, Meetings, Conflict Resolution, Organization, Roadmaps, Project Management Professional (PMP), Program Management, Risk Management, Scrum Master, Coaching, Reporting, Web App Development, Operations, Project Management Office (PMO), Technical Project Management, Planning, Web Development, Websites, Microsoft Flow, Microsoft Office, Financial Risk Management, Scheduling, Thought Leadership, Product Owner, Project Planning, Benefits Management, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), IT Infrastructure, Negotiation, Contract Negotiation, Politics, Culture Management, Innovation, Business Strategy, Finance Strategy, Finance Reports, Accounting, Project Management, Project Initiation, Digital Project Management, Project Execution, Project Controls, Project Closure, Security Management, Cryptography, Security Policies & Procedures, Microsoft 365, IT Product Management, Hardware, IT Helpdesk, Computer Networking, Firewalls, Routing, Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing & Switching, IT Security, Encryption, SSL Certificates, Cloud, Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Azure SQL, Azure Virtual Network Gateway, Azure VPN, SharePoint Online, Dynamics CRM 365, Agile CRM, Mobile Device Management (MDM), MDM, Mobile Web, Business Development, New Business Development, Business Proposals, Proposals, Writing & Editing, Agile DevOps, Microsoft Azure, Computer Science, C#, .NET, Programming, Project Discovery, IT Consulting, Consulting, Account Management, Proxy Servers, WAN, LAN, Software Development, Team Mentoring, Agile Coaching, Performance Testing, Progress Reporting, Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Technical Program Management, Complex Program Management, Project Scheduling, Business Process Analysis, IT Program Management, Lean Six Sigma, New Products, Sales, Presales, Rapid Delivery, Product Delivery, Product Design, Auditing, Cybersecurity, APIs, IT Audits, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Ethical Hacking, Business to Business (B2B), eCommerce, Marketing

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