Richard McLaughlin
CIO, Microsoft
In the mid 80'sI was in the military overseas working with a local team. That team needed a classified product installed on their mainframe. I had no experience so was lead through the process by phone. Once done I figured that this would be a good career. I went to school to be a programmer - boring job - and moved to management and consulting which were fun.
11 contacts1999 - 2007CIO – Microsoft Consulting Services and Technical Support
* Delivered internal software solutions for Consulting and Support Teams
* Created a project to help IT become a profit center for Microsoft
* Member of Consulting and Support Leadership Teams
Project Director
* Large and Complex Call Center and Telecom Projects
* Data infrastructure installations and upgrades
* New Offices and office moves. Server and data consolidation – down to 7 data centers from 41
Regional Telecom Manager
* voice and data projects related to new products and services. * Managed team located in multiple countries
* provided services for EMEA region
* 40+ countries. Multi-million dollar budget
1996 - 1999Consultant for Voice and Data Projects
* Managed team that designed complete IT Infrastructure for major food products company Nestle
* Designed and implemented IT Call Center infrastructure for Microsoft
* Designed data network for major European companies and Managed team that implemented these projects