James Gray
My Career Strategy
Now
What’s Important
Development
Personal Profile
What’s Next
Brand
Marketing
Value Proposition
What’s Important
Purpose: Live a happy, long and prosperous life while serving others as a
husband, father, leader and volunteer
1Stay
Healthy
2Build a Happy Family
3Manage Career
4Grow Net
Worth
5Give to Others
CholesterolWeight (Lbs)Sleep (Hours/Week)Cardio (Minutes/Week)Church attendance (#/Month)
Couple-only timeFamily outingsWedding savings ($)College savings ($)Relationship Health
Workgroup Health Index (WHI)Performance Rating (#)Linkedin Recommendations (#)Klout Ranking (#)Compensation ($)Development Plan (%)
Debt ($)Budget vs. Actual ($)
Retirement Portfolio ($)Savings ($)
Credit Rating (#)
Charity Contributions ($)Volunteer Hours (#)
Volunteer
Individual
Father
Husband
LeaderCFO
Life MissionLive a happy, long and
prosperous life while serving others as a husband, father, professional and volunteer
ValuesCommitmen
tHealthFamily
IntegrityExcellence
Wealth
PassionsHealthy Lifestyle
MarriageFatherhoodTechnology
MusicMoney
TravelingSports
StrengthsStrategicAchieverLearner
Responsibility
Significance
Career InterestsQuantitative Analysis
Counseling & MentoringEnterprise Control
Entrepreneurial Attributes
Application of Technology
MotivatorsPower & Influence
Managing PeoplePositioning
Financial GainPrestigeLearning
CultureAggressive
Structured ApproachCooperation and
Interpersonal SensitivityAnalytical
Physiological Type (ENTJ)Natural leaders and organization builders – conceptualize and theorize readily and translate possibilities into plans
to achieve short-term and long-term objectives
Personal Profile
EducationBSEE, Union
CollegeMBA, UC Berkeley
FactoidsPitched No-Hitter.445 Batting Title
United Million Miler
MusicianMet Wife in Airport
ResidencesSchenectady, NY
(Born)Stamford, CTBoston, MA
Baton Rouge, LAMarin County, CAPerth, AustraliaWoodinville, WA
FamilyMarried 20 years
5 kids (18,16,13,9,9)
Personal Motto
Anything is possible – just believe
Brand Attributes
Future-orientedPlanner
PassionateCollaborativeResourceful
Mentor
Legacy Statement
“A visionary who could deliver and
made others great along the way”
Brand Statement
Using my strategic thinking, leadership, and passion for information technology, I help
organizations and people innovate to achieve prosperity
My Brand – How I Want to be Known
My One B1G Thing1 - Comes Easy To Me• Planning• People management• Solving problems• Learning
2 - I Love• Strategic thinking, Marketing• Data, theories that predict the future• Applying technology to solve problems• Learning• Helping others
4 - Be Remembered For• a model husband and father• inspiring others to see what is possible• enabling a culture for business results
and employee happiness• someone who made others great
3 - Drives Me Crazy• Divorce, kids without parents• Unhappy people living life on auto-
pilot• Unhappy people in the wrong jobs• Companies who say employees are
the most important asset but don't back it up
I inspire mutual success by sharing how 7 strategic processes can drive
personal happiness in life and business success. I lead communities
as a catalyst to drive personal and organizational change.
Target and Value Proposition
As a Digital Leader I transform companies into market leaders using digital channels, analytics and real-time business processes. I am at my best tackling large scale and complex challenges that redefine the bar how industry success is measured. I hire, develop and re-align senior talent as the most important company asset.
Digital Leader
Analytics
Talent Leader
Customer Experience
s
CloudMobile
Digital Marketin
g
E-Commerc
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Only nine companies — less than two percent of the Fortune 500 — are what we would call "highly digital."
(Do You Have the Digital Leaders You Need? - Harvard Business Review)
Market Opportunity
James Gray’s Plan
Manager as a Coach – empowering my team to reach its full potential
Leader – deliver business results as a trusted advisor and information thought leader
Current Role @ Microsoft
Manage performance
and recognition
Career Coaching
Optimize work group
effectiveness
Measure and communicate business value
realization
Support product innovation and
sales as Microsoft’s First and Best
Customer
Innovate data models and BI
solutions
Deliver on program and financial Plan
of Record commitments
Manage change
Analyze user needs
Manage investment plan
and roadmap
Collaborate across my team
and other groups for
results
Manage relationships
Deliver on Service Level Agreements
Results
Workgroup Health
Index (WHI)
Business Partner
Satisfaction
Business Value
Realized
End User Satisfaction
Director, Solution Management
Career Goals – Current RoleThriving WorkgroupSuccessful, respected team membersTeamwork & CollaborationActively managed career plansWe set the bar – be the best (WHI>90)
Delight Business PartnersAlways On - rock solid production operationsInnovative, real-time, compelling analyticsGreat Plan, Great Execution, Great Value
Thought LeadershipAnalytics strategySpeaker and authorDrive innovation as Microsoft’s First and Best BI customerValued asset to sales, marketing and product teamsCareer Strategy Leader changing the MS culture
Delight ClientsThought Leadership
Current GoalsThriving Team
Mutual SuccessUsing art and science to drive personal happiness and business success
By James Gray
September 2014
How Big Data analytics is optimizing life and daily habits to realize happiness
“the complexity of the one life we live is too precious to be left up to chance alone”
Success and
Happiness
PersonalAnalytics
predictions
recommendations
what happened
Big Data
Wearable Tech Machine Learning Mobile
Cloud Analytics
Innovation of the Year
James Gray
Develop People
Business Credibility
Ship Product
IT Breadth and Depth
Consultant to Turning Point Sports Mgmt
IT Solution Mgmt (Analytics)
Roadmap – What’s Next
CloudProduct Mgmt
Now Next Future
Cloud Computing
Business Management
Digital Marketing
Berkeley Haas Seattle President
Analytics Leader
Care drive to Lafayette, Louisiana
Analytics
Web Analytics
Digital Marketing
Talent Management
Predictive Analytics
Master’s program
IT Leadership
Digital Analytics Association
Seattle Board
e-Commerce
Services Business
Financial
BI Product Mgmt
Field
Talent Mgmt(Analytics)
Entrepreneurship
Business Leadership
(Analytics focus)
Health / Well Being
(Cloud/Analytics)
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1
2
3
Entrepreneurship
Sports Management
Talent Management
Competency Development PlanBecome a Thought LeaderPresent at an industry conference within the next yearAuthor an article in a leading magazine, journalPresent at EBC as Microsoft’s First and Best customer
Develop OthersMature workgroup career plans Apply Career Framework broadly across MS
Increase Business ImpactDeepen understanding of business issues, information Deepen business process knowledge, user rolesMature business relationships
Deepen Technical KnowledgeTDWI CBIP, Digital Analytics certificationBig Data, Predictive Analytics, Real-Time, MDMLearn from MS internal and external conferences
TechnicalBusiness Leadership
People Leadership
Thought Leadership
Development Stakeholders
James Gray
Matt Collins
Carl Paschke (Manager)
Andy Charchenko
My Wife
My Workgroup
TBD
Bill Koefoed
Mentees
TBD (Services Business)
Technical ExcellenceStrategic Insight
Executive Maturity
Performance feedbackCareer coachingBuilding Organization Capability
Planning, GovernanceBuilding Customer/Partner Relationships
Supportencouragement
Enabling ChangeDevelop OthersOptimizing Resources and BudgetSetting Goals and Expectations
Career coaching, sponsorshipExecutive Maturity
Marketing, Strategic Insight
Develop OthersGrowing Senior Leaders
Microsoft’s businessInvestor perspective
OneMicrosoft
Customer Commitment and Foresight
Create Business ValueDeep Insight
Marketing Plan
Grow Market Evidence40+ Linkedin Recommendations by June 2013Customer testimonials
Increase Brand AwarenessOnline – webcasts, Twitter, Linkedin, blogPresentations – internal, externalIndustry magazinesIndustry organizations – TDWI, DAAShare Career Plan broadly with stakeholders
Multi-ChannelBrand Awareness
Inside / Outside Microsoft
Market Evidence
28 Recommendations300+ Endorsements790+ ConnectionsTop 5% most viewed profile in 2012
Microsoft IT – Product and ServicesThought Leadership Award for Career Strategy (April 2012)IT Excellence in People Management (October 2012)
Success Evidence
Microsoft WorkGroup Health Index84% (FY13), 84% (FY12), 85% (FY11)
Turning Point Sports Management Digital Advisor to a professional sports
agency Web, Social, Cloud, Digital Marketing Guest speaker on “Social Media Safety
for Pro Athletes”
5 star rating on 3 webcasts 20+ years of marriage
James [email protected] me @MrJamesGrayhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesgrayhttp://jamesgray.me+1 206.696.0731
Career Strategy Framework Bloghttp://careerstrategy.net
Capabilities and Experiences
Technical• Electrical
Engineering• Applied math• Computer science
Graduate• Strategy, Marketing• Predictive Analytics
(in progress)
Certifications• Six Sigma Green
Belt
Manufacturing
Technology Center• Project management• Industry standards• Best practice leader
Chemicals• Project management• Automation – design,
implement, startup
Refining• People management• Reliability
management• Maintenance mgmt• IT project
management
Upstream• JV collaboration• Platform security
systems• Perth, Australia
Consulting Services• Business development• People management• Project management• Account management• Delivery management• Largest chemicals supply
chain implementation• P&L management
Marketing• Product management• Product roadmaps• Investment management• Product marketing• Customer reference
program• ISV alliance management• Partner management• Data integration, user
experiences• Pre-sales support
Software and Devices
Software and Services
Information Technology• People management• Project management• Account management• Delivery management• Requirements
management• Portfolio management• Value Realization• MS Partner platform tools• Business intelligence• Sales and Marketing• Customer Services &
Support• Consulting Services