Jocelyn Mae L.
Villaraza
jlvillaraza[at]hotmail[dot]com
SUMMARY
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3 years of experience
in the Developer & Platform Evangelism of Microsoft, taking beta
technologies to customers, partners and broad audiences, and helping in
enablement and implementation of these technologies into their respective
projects/products
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Program
management experience conceptualizing ways to deliver enablement programs to
reach a broad audiences
WORK
EXPERIENCE
ISV
Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Singapore Pte Ltd March 2007 – Present
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Responsible
for technical enablement of local ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) and their
adoption on technologies including Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, SQL
Server 2008, Silverlight and Office 2007
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Responsible
for recruitment of ISVs building on competitive technology stack
Achievements
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Key
technology enabler for a partner, Crayon Digital, who was working on the Singtel F1 Grid Girls Campaign, making use of up and coming
technology. Involved in the application design and architecture, technology
enablement of the project team, and provided technical support to the team with
their development issues resulting in a 6 week turn around for project
completion.
Similar enablement
engagements were conducted with various partners as well (Protégé Pte Ltd, Gurusoft Pte Ltd, Common Town Pte Ltd, HRNET One, IP Tech Pte Ltd)
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Achieved
162 (7 point growth from previous year) on customer satisfaction rating from
the Managed Independent Software Vendors (ISVs):
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Ran
technical enablement programs consisting of technology briefings and hands-on
labs to drive awareness and adoption of technologies such as Windows Server
2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008, MS Office 2007, Windows Mobile,
ASP.NET 3.5 and Silverlight 2
Community
Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Philippines June 2006 – Feb 2007
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Responsible
for breadth community technology enablement
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Responsible
for the recruitment of student influencers in the community
Achievements
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Initiated
the local Student influencer program (Microsoft Student Partners Program), recruiting
34 student partners
BCC
Program Manager, Microsoft Philippines March 2006-June 2006
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Responsible
for managing breadth programs to facilitate technology enablement
Achievements
MSDN Connection Program
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Ran
monthly promotions resulting 84.47% membership growth from March to June
resulting to making the Philippines the top APAC subsidiary in terms of
membership growth, with 528.55% YOY for Fiscal Year 06
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Created
and deployed a downloadable version of the Online Personalized Training Roadmap
for the programs members
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Responded
to and resolved member queries, issues and concerns
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Managed
11 in-house events reaching 782 people, with an average rating of 7.75 (9 point
scale).
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Managed
the Mobile Developer Conference 2006, reaching 329 people with an event of
rating 7.52 (9 point scale)
EDUCATION
University of the
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Units towards B.S. Computer Science
SKILLS
Presentation
Skills
Able to speak comfortably to a large audience
and articulate the subject matter at hand in a clear and concise manner
Programming
Related Technologies
Proficient in C# .NET 3.5, Windows Presentation
Foundation, Silverlight 1.0, Silverlight
2, ASP.NET 3.5
Knowledgeable in Windows Communication
Foundation, Visual Studio Tools for Microsoft Office, Windows Mobile
Development, HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX, Java
Strong technology background enabling quick
ramp up on new technologies
Operating
Systems
Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows
Server 2008, Redhat Linux, Fedora
Database
Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft SQL Server
2008
Tools
Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2005, Expression
Studio 2, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator
REFERENCES
Nick Wong
Platform Strategy Advisor
Microsoft Singapore
Todd Kepus
Partner Lead
Microsoft Operations