Daniel Akins

Sr. Director / Principal Group Technical Program Manager Lead: Led a team of Technical PMs engaged with strategic ISVs to drive platform adoption and market expansion across FSI business workloads with a focus on AI enabling their business data and applying AI via Copilot/Agent patterns.

Sr. Director / Principal Group Technical Program Manager Lead: Led a team of Technical PMs across the Americas that focus on leveraging local expertise to build strategic partnerships with subsidiaries and engineering teams, defining strategic priorities to accelerate Azure region(s) adoption and growth by optimizing Azure services for local markets and resolve any engineering-related issues impacting customer success at scale.

Sr. Director / Principal Group PM Manager: Led a team of Technical PMs that evaluated customer needs and pursed opportunities to gain competitive advantage and geographic reach for Azure as a cloud platform of choice for markets that required higher level of assurance that addressed concerns related to data residency, data sovereignty, and mission/government sensitive workloads.

Sr. Director / Principal Group PM Manager: Led a team of technical PMs focused on accelerating Azure consumption for Azure’s top customers and their most complex and business critical workloads while leveraging learnings to inform product roadmaps to improve all customers experience across the platform.

Consulting Practice Manager: Led a team of Architects, Consultants, and Project Managers to deliver on consulting engagements to deliver custom solutions leveraging the Microsoft platform that address key mission/business outcomes across public sector. and the Justice and Public Safety industry.

Justice and Public Safety Practice, US Public Sector Services

Justice & Public Safety Industry Solutions Team, US Public Sector Services

Microsoft Enterprise Services, State & Local Government