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Alvin Gendrano

Master of Science in Computer Science from University of Arizona (1996-1998), Masters of Business Administration in Finance from University of North Carolina (2002-2006), Director, SQL Server Business Management at Microsoft Corporation since 2010.

Headline: Investor
Skills: Business, Engineering, Languages, Leadership, Management, Software Engineering, SQL, Web Development
Groups: Global Entrepreneurship Week
Interested in: Advising startups, Investing in projects, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Supporting my investments
Schools: De La Salle University, Philippines, University of Arizona, University of North Carolina System - Charlotte

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Microsoft Corporation Seattle, WA
Position: Director, SQL Server Business Management
Time period: January 2010 - Present
Description: Directly working with the senior leadership team (SVP, VPs, and GMs) to deliver against the operational and organizational priorities of a product with almost $4B in annual sales and over a thousand employees. Leading a team of business managers who manage the day-to-day rhythms of the business, budgeting/forecasting, scorecards, communications, business reviews, special projects, and alignment between cross-functional teams (Engineering, Finance, Marketing, Legal, Enterprise Sales, etc.)

Employer: Microsoft Corporation Seattle, WA
Position: Director, Xbox LIVE Business Management
Time period: January 2008 - December 2010
Description: Business and P&L ownership for Xbox LIVE Marketplace Games and Add-ons. Grew the business from a nascent $40M transactional business to $300M in annual sales.

Led a cross-functional team with Marketing, Support, Ops, IT, Supply Chain, LCA, Biz, and regions to launch Games on Demand. Led the strategy to allow e-tailers like Amazon.Com, BestBuy.com, Walmart.com, etc. to re-sell digital content and LIVE subscription cards.

Employer: Microsoft Corporation Seattle, WA
Position: Group Program Manager, Global ISV Advisory Services
Time period: January 2004 - December 2007
Description: End-to-end management of a multi-million dollar global services operation serving Independent Software Vendors (ISV) and Web-VARs with 60+ phone-based Partner Technical Consultants in 4 continents. Responsibilities include budgeting, strategy, P&L, monthly operations reviews, executive quarterly business reviews, scorecards, and data analysis.

Employer: Microsoft Corporation Charlotte, NC
Position: Senior App Dev Consultant, Microsoft Partner Services (ISV Practice)
Time period: January 2002 - December 2004
Description: Managed CXO-level relationships, consulting delivery, and renewals for $2M of services to strategic Microsoft ISVs (Fiserv and CSS). Responsibilities included engagement scoping, services selling, critical situation management, resource matching, and project management.

Specialized in MS SQLServer analytics, performance, clustering, and replication.

Employer: Microsoft Corporation Charlotte, NC
Position: Technical Lead, SQL Server Developer Support
Time period: January 1998 - December 2002
Description: Mentored and led a team of 10 SQLServer Developer Support Engineers.

Employer: University of Arizona
Position: Research Assistant
Time period: January 1997 - December 1998
Description: While completing a Master's Degree in Computer Science, worked as a research assistant for Dr. Richard Snodgrass. Research work focused on Temporal Databases. Co-authored a published paper on parallel processing of temporal aggregates (Parallel Algorithms for Computing Temporal Aggregates). Presented the technical papers at the 15th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE’99 Sydney, Australia) and with ACM.

Employer: Software Brewers Incorporated - Manila, Philippines
Position: Programmer I
Time period: January 1995 - December 1996
Description: Software Brewers was an early off-shore development shop in the Philippines. Prototyped and developed multiple components for a US-based ISV in VB4.0 and VC++.

EDUCATION

University: University of North Carolina System - Charlotte
Time period: 2002 - 2006
Degree: Finance, MBA

University: University of Arizona
Time period: 1996 - 1998
Degree: Computer Science , MSc

University: De La Salle University, Philippines
Time period: 1991 - 1995
Degree: Computer Science, BSc

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