About Me
I am Shiv Shankar Kumar. I am currently working as Senior Program Manager in M365 CxP team for Microsoft. My primary interest is cross-cloud solution offering and IP development for Microsoft partners.
My technical expertise lies on Azure and M365 cloud. I have had extensive hand-on experience with C#, REST APIs, JavaScript, WCF Services, SharePoint/O365 Development, SharePoint Online, Hybrid setup, ADFS, Custom STS, and DevOps, IaaS, PaaS, Power Platform, Logic Apps. As they say, all the roads of business transformation goes through Azure. In the Azure world, I got to work on Azure Web apps, Functions, Logic apps, ARM templates, etc. and designing architecture for high availability and scalability.
With the ever-growing popularity of JavaScript libraries and frameworks, I got to learn and work on React JS, AngularJS and Node JS.
My past experience include working as senior developer, lead, technical architect, and Technology Strategist for multi-national companies. Key experiences include:
- Keep an eye on future trends and create offerings, IPs which can generate revenue for Microsoft partners
- Conducting user interviews and writing Functional Specification
- Stakeholder management and tasks co-ordination amongst multiple teams comprising leadership teams internal and external located off-shore and on-shore.
- Defining Scope and Vision for the engagement
- Pre-Sales
- Team Lead
- Creating Low level Architecture and Design, and mentoring junior team members in the team.
- People manager leading appraisals for direct reports
Certifications
- International Certification in Product Management: Bauer College of Business, University of Houston and Institute of Product Leadership, Bangalore
- Product Strategy: Discovering, Developing, Managing and Marketing Products as a business by Northwestern | Kellogg School of Management
- Modern Marketing: Deliver successful campaign in the digital world by Northwestern | Kellogg School of Management
- Management Essentials: Harvard Business School Online
- ITIL® V4 Foundation
- AZ-203: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure
- Exam 70-532: Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions
- Exam 70-573: MCTS: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Application Development
- Exam 70-630: TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Configuration and Administration
- Exam 70-542: TS: Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Application Development
- SCJP: Sun Certified Java Programmer
Education
- EMBA: Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India
- M.S.: Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India