Deb (Johnson) McFadden

Experience

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  Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company

  Oct 1994 - Aug 1996

  Programmer Analyst and Senior Programmer Analyst

  Gained PL/1 programming experience with Financial Services Year 2000 compliance projects and supported those products in a production environment

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  Languages at Work

  Sept 1996 - Jun 1997

  English Teacher

  Developed grammar, vocabulary and conversation lessons for 40+ Prague business executives English at all skill levels in an individual and group basis.

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  Accenture

  Nov 1997 - Oct 1999

  Systems Analyst and Consultant

  Designed and coded in C as an experienced consultant on PeopleSoft and Siebel implementations for two major Fortune 500 companies.

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  Microsoft

  Dec 1999 - now

  • Leading a multi-disciplinary team to enable self-directed learners to drive 15%+ YoY Growth for each product offering – Math Solver, Bing, Copilot and Flip• Developing learning causality analysis to ensure retention impact hypotheses• Doubling an existing 3rd party partner revenue stream in the next fiscal year• Collaborating across Microsoft to leverage and ground SLM/LLM models for better learning answers and tutoring• Enabling communities of educators to learn together and embrace AI in EDU Show less • Delivering on the mission to make learning fun and empowering for everyone through short-form video discussion and community activities• Co-leading Flipgrid's social learning vision with a talented cross-discipline team that secured a 5x resourcing investment• Built a 15-person multi-disciplinary engineering and operations team from scratch in 4 months.• Define and deliver trust and safety experiences to Flipgrid's learning communities for around the world/multi-age people user generated content - near-real time UGC videos for younger people was a first-time effort at Microsoft• Lead privacy, legal and community success efforts Show less • Participated in Microsoft acquisition team to assess Flipgrid's viability for Microsoft.• Per legal and Microsoft standards, led newly acquired team to achieve privacy compliance in record time with a Google & Microsoft userbase.• Lead product management efforts with uniquely skilled team to drive 2x usage growth.• With COVID, Flipgrid became a necessity for educators, families and classrooms and our team requiring us to scale our engineering & success efforts by 3x to meet demands for the community. Show less • Created product roadmap and features for 40,000+ System Center Configuration Management and Endpoint Protection customers and drove $900 million business.• Lead a team of 30 employees in Shanghai and Redmond development locations. • Developed best practice product planning/SCRUM model for 90+ employees in Shanghai and Redmond development locations.• Co-lead defining the v.Next vision for Windows Intune, a cloud based desktop management services solution, for CoIT and BYOD initiatives. • Delivered multiple technical presentations at Microsoft events to crowds of 400+ and demonstrated the products capabilities many times with executive speakers where the largest crowd was 15,000+. Show less Co-lead 2 month tiger team for the vision and scenario development of a the new desktop management people centric vision. Developed technical functional design specifications for various desktop and server management features including setting management, asset management, SQL replication and product setup, migration, performance and scale features with 5 team members, Created and executed customer and partner focused design sessions that ultimately drove a multi-year product release. Build cross-product relationship with Microsoft SQL product group where ConfigMgr became one of their biggest key partners for replication and change tracking features. Considered a key Microsoft and Citrix VDI expert for desktop management as evidenced by multiple requests for competitive analysis research and functional designs for features implemented. Show less Lead multi-release, multi-year customer and partner programs for SMS and System Center Suite of products. Collaborated with 5 team members that drove hundreds and thousands of customers and partners to be early adopters of the product by working with engineering teams, legal and upper management. Improve customer satisfaction and drove resolution for many Fortune 500 customers that were unhappy with our product solutions. Successfully build cross team customer programs with Windows Client and Server teams where our program best practices were continually referenced by peers. Show less

  • Partner Group Program Manager in Customer Success Engineering

    Aug 2024 - now

  • General Manager of Learning in Microsoft AI

    Aug 2022 - Aug 2024

  • Head of Trust & Safety for Flipgrid

    Nov 2020 - Jul 2022

  • Aquisition Integration Lead & Principal Group Product Manager of Flipgrid

    Jan 2018 - Oct 2020

  • Principal Program Manager for Office 365 Education

    Apr 2016 - Dec 2017

  • Principal Program Manager for Skype & MS Teams

    Oct 2014 - Apr 2016

  • Principal Program Manager Lead for Office 365

    Jan 2013 - Oct 2014

  • Principal Group Program Manager for System Center/Intune

    Apr 2011 - Jan 2013

  • Principal Program Manager Lead for System Center Infrastructure

    May 2007 - Apr 2011

  • Senior Program Manager Lead for Customer & Partner Programs

    Nov 2003 - May 2007

  • Senior Program Manager for Incentive Compensation

    Jul 2001 - Nov 2003

  • Siebel Systems Analyst Lead

    Jul 2000 - Jun 2001

  • Siebel Systems Analyst

    Dec 1999 - Jun 2000