SYDE Alumni Panel: Being innovative and making change in a big company

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 12:30 pm - Thursday, November 21, 2024 1:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Join us for a special corporate panel discussing change management within large companies with Vlad Joanovic, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, and Mark Chien, General Manager - Salesforce Success Central at Amazon.

Join online or in-person (E5-6008)

Vlad Joanovic

Vlad

Vlad Joanovic is a Partner Product Manager and works in the Azure Core\Cloud native team on services including Azure Resource Manager, Policy, Resource Graph, Resource Notifications, Deployments, Bicep, Templates, Terraform, PowerShell, CLI and Arc. Previously, Vlad was leading portal experiences for the compute, network and storage services and before that on Application Insights helping developers ensure their applications are available, performing and succeeding throughout the application lifecycle. Vlad has spent over 2.5 decades working with IT, Ops and developers across both cloud and on-prem scenarios and helping all companies digitally transform. Vlad graduated with a Bachelors of Applied Science from the University of Waterloo and lives in Seattle with his wife, 3 kids, dog and 5 chickens. In his spare time, when not in the mountains or the water, he can be found renovating a turn of the century home in Seattle's Madrona neighborhood.

Mark Chien

Mark Chien

Mark Chien is an 18 year Amazonian with experiences in AWS, Amazon Retail and Alexa Devices. He is currently the General Manager of Salesforce Success Central, a Salesforce Center of Excellence for Amazon. Prior to joining Amazon, Mark was at Trilogy Software in Austin, Texas for 5 years in the enterprise software space.  Mark graduated the class of SYDE ’01, went on foreign exchange to Singapore and currently lives in Seattle, Washington.