Business Development Advisor at Microsoft
Greater Atlanta Area
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- Platform Strategy & Business Development Advisor at Microsoft
- Past
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- Senior Enterprise Consultant / Dev Manager at Microsoft
- Practice Development Manager at Connecture
- Senior Development Manager at London Bridge Group
- Principle Systems Architect/ Business Development Manager at Elite Technologies
- Senior Developer at Lanier
- Senior Software Developer at Scientific Games
- Contract Consultant at Coca Cola
- Software Engineer at Apple
- Education
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- Regis University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
- Tuskegee University
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Eric Griffin’s Summary
Dynamic, hands-on, leadership career with skills in architecting, developing and maintaining corporate and commercial enterprise software systems for Fortune 500 companies. Combines expert technical knowledge with proven management, marketing, business development and corporate strategy experience. Capable of building motivated and productive teams; create processes and management structure to ensure successful software product development and increased shareholder value. Published author who can communicate effectively complex technical concepts for pre-sale, post sale and executive presentation and communication.
Books:
Apress
Popfly, Rapid Mashup Development
MSPress
Visual Web Developer 2008
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft%C2%AE-Visual-Developer-Express-Microsoft/dp/0735626065/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229030997&sr=8-1
Articles:
MSDN Magazine
.NET Mobile Web SDK: Build and Test Wireless Web Applications for Phones and PDAs
Wrox/Apress
How Exceptions Work in ASP.NET
Eric Griffin’s Specialties:
Team Building and Team Leadership / IT Governance/ Enterprise & Product Strategy / Staff Development / Turnarounds / Architecture / Applications Development / Software Development Life-Cycle / Program Management / Microsoft Technologies & Products / Research & Development/ Business Intelligence
Eric Griffin’s Experience
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Platform Strategy & Business Development Advisor
Microsoft
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Manages a Portfolio of Global ISVs totalling over 35 billion in revenue. Works to align Microsoft's emerging technology innovations with ISV product development strategies to insure ISV revenue growth, cost reduction and increased shareholder value.
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Senior Enterprise Consultant / Dev Manager
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
June 2006 — August 2008 (2 years 3 months)
Lead Consultant, Development Manager and Trusted Advisor for Microsoft's top enterprise clients. Manages onshore and offshore partner development teams. Expert in SharePoint Architecture, Business Intelligence, IT Governance, Form Services, Windows Workflow Foundation and Visual Studio Team System.
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Practice Development Manager
Connecture
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
2004 — 2006 (2 years )
Recruited as Technical Manager to lead one healthcare hosted broker portal client line. Promoted to Practice Development Manager to lead all client lines to standardize software development life cycle for J2EE and .NET InSureConnect solutions. Introduced performance-driven team building processes for Technical Leads and Technical Managers. Lead .NET InsureConnect Research & Design Team.
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Senior Development Manager
London Bridge Group
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 1999 — April 2004 (4 years 10 months)
Hired by Group Executive to lead Mortgage Originations commecial products. Lead 30+ person cross functional development team challenged to revitalize and expand software development and engineering capabilities.Promoted to Senior Development Manager and guided Originations & Serviceing Division through ISO 9000 certification Became trusted advisor to CTX Mortgage executive team and was key factor in the multi-million dollar investment by CTX Mortgage, a subsidiary of Centex, for the development of an end-to-end enterprise mortgage software solution called Diamond. Led the design and development of Diamond, an N-tier, VB6/.NET mortgage origination product from initial UML conception in May 2000 through product requirement definitions, estimations, development, QA and implementation to successful commercial release in June 2003. Diamond is currently running at major banks and mortgage companies.
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Principle Systems Architect/ Business Development Manager
Elite Technologies
(Computer Software industry)
November 1996 — June 1999 (2 years 8 months)
Fast track promoted from Senior Consultant to Principle Systems Architect to lead Elite Technologies 30+ consultant cross functional teams, custom technology solutions, operations and business development.
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Senior Developer
Lanier
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Business Supplies and Equipment industry)
July 1996 — 1999 (3 years )
Lead developer handing custom projects and development in VB4/5 for Lanier's consulting division.
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Senior Software Developer
Scientific Games
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SGMS; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 1995 — July 1996 (1 year )
Lead developer responsible for Instant Lottery Management System (VB3-4) for the Virgin Islands and Greece. Performed upgrades and migrated the system from VB3 to VB4 and moved database to Data Access Objects (DAO).
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Contract Consultant
Coca Cola
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Food & Beverages industry)
March 1995 — August 1995 (6 months)
Wrote C++ code on the Coca Cola's Marketing Venue Management system.
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Software Engineer
Apple
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
December 1990 — September 1994 (3 years 10 months)
Developed in Object Pascal/C++ on the Worldwide Population Quality information system that managed a Quality database for the Worldwide Manufacturing Division.
Eric Griffin’s Education
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Regis University
MBA , Strategic Management , 2009 — 2011 (expected)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management
Executive Education , Management & Leadership , 2008 — 2008
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Tuskegee University
Mechanical Engineering , 1986 — 1990
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Eric Griffin’s Interests:
product management, program management,organizational development, strategic planning, competive strategy, new poduct development, IT governance, SDLC,SaaS
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Apple - Current and Former Employees
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