Alan Ross

Alan Ross

Redmond, Washington, United States
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⇒ Microsoft Executive Briefing Center Distinguished Speaker, 2025
⇒ Launched Dynamics…

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  • 15 Rules
    Jul 27, 2022

    15 Rules

    It has been a few years since I published my last article on LinkedIn. Then, as now, I was inspired by reaching a…

    47 Comments
  • Brutally Honest Career Advice
    Sep 23, 2019

    Brutally Honest Career Advice

    Small victory in a title change, I realize. But it's the little things sometimes that keep me going.

    36 Comments
  • Year End Reflections: Big Microsoft
    Dec 31, 2018

    Year End Reflections: Big Microsoft

    This was the year of learning to work with "Big Microsoft". When mired in the depths of an engineering org, it's easy…

    14 Comments
  • Microsoft Compliance Manager
    Oct 8, 2017

    Microsoft Compliance Manager

    Microsoft continues to build products designed to make customers’ lives easier, and is increasingly focused on…

    3 Comments
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  • Rethinking Cloud-hosted Financial Exchanges for Response Time Fairness

    HotNets

    In this paper, we consider the problem of supporting modern
    financial exchange services on the cloud premises. Important
    exchange services rely on predictable, equal latency from the
    servers to the participants for fair competition. Existing cloud
    networks, however, are unable to offer such property, as they
    were not originally designed for this purpose. We attempt to
    tackle the problem of unfairness that stems from the lack of
    determinism in cloud networks. We argue that…

    In this paper, we consider the problem of supporting modern
    financial exchange services on the cloud premises. Important
    exchange services rely on predictable, equal latency from the
    servers to the participants for fair competition. Existing cloud
    networks, however, are unable to offer such property, as they
    were not originally designed for this purpose. We attempt to
    tackle the problem of unfairness that stems from the lack of
    determinism in cloud networks. We argue that predictable or
    bounded latency is not necessary to achieve fairness. Inspired
    by the use of logical clocks in distributed systems, we propose
    a new approach that instead corrects for differences in latency
    to the participants for fairness. We evaluate our approach in
    simulation and show that it is feasible to achieve fairness under
    highly variable network latency. Our approach is deployable
    in contemporary cloud environments; it avoids limitations of
    state-of-the-art and outperforms it.

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  • Concentration Risk

    Microsoft

    Microsoft response to regulatory concerns around concentration risk in the cloud.

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  • Microsoft Azure and Data Compliance - Internet of Things (IoT)

    Microsoft Corporation

    The Internet of Things (IoT) is about the data collected by simple or intelligent devices – “things” – that are connected via the Internet come together in new ways. IoT collects data from simple standalone devices such as weather sensors, from more complex devices such as street lights, and also from devices embedded in other devices, such as vending machines, and combines this data in new ways. In a modern IoT environment, customers can tap into this data with dashboards, uncover actionable…

    The Internet of Things (IoT) is about the data collected by simple or intelligent devices – “things” – that are connected via the Internet come together in new ways. IoT collects data from simple standalone devices such as weather sensors, from more complex devices such as street lights, and also from devices embedded in other devices, such as vending machines, and combines this data in new ways. In a modern IoT environment, customers can tap into this data with dashboards, uncover actionable intelligence, and ultimately modernize their businesses by unlocking new potential.
    The question for many decision makers is: Where and how to comply with security and privacy requirements in an IoT environment?
    This document is written for decision makers who are considering the use of Microsoft Azure IoT Suite:
    Section 1 focuses on information about how Microsoft generally addresses key security, privacy, and compliance principles in Azure cloud services.
    Section 2 describes specific cloud services that Microsoft offers for IoT.
    Section 3 provides recommendations about how customers can achieve a high level of security and data compliance for their IoT environment.

  • Microsoft Azure Security Response in the Cloud

    Microsoft

    This white paper examines how Microsoft investigates, manages, and responds to security incidents within Azure. Other service impacting issues that are not security incidents are addressed by a separate response plan (or business continuity plan), and will not be discussed in this paper.



    The security incident management program is a critical responsibility for Microsoft, and represents an investment that customers using Microsoft Online Services can count on. The five-stage…

    This white paper examines how Microsoft investigates, manages, and responds to security incidents within Azure. Other service impacting issues that are not security incidents are addressed by a separate response plan (or business continuity plan), and will not be discussed in this paper.



    The security incident management program is a critical responsibility for Microsoft, and represents an investment that customers using Microsoft Online Services can count on. The five-stage process presented in this white paper is a process that has evolved over many years – and continues to do so – and involves a team of dedicated experts with skill and dedication to protecting Microsoft customers.

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    • ben ridgway

Honors & Awards

  • The Distinguished Speaker Award

    Microsoft Corporation

    Distinguished Speaker is the highest achievement we have in our Executive Briefing Speaker Program, with a very select few honored each year. This award recognizes speakers who embody all attributes of our Executive Briefing Program and customer engagement best practices. Distinguished Speakers such as yourself, deeply engage with and act as partners to both Account Teams and customers in making the engagement a success, including contributing to the agenda building process and developing the…

    Distinguished Speaker is the highest achievement we have in our Executive Briefing Speaker Program, with a very select few honored each year. This award recognizes speakers who embody all attributes of our Executive Briefing Program and customer engagement best practices. Distinguished Speakers such as yourself, deeply engage with and act as partners to both Account Teams and customers in making the engagement a success, including contributing to the agenda building process and developing the opportunity. You understand the customer through preparation, and appropriately tailor content to meet the needs of each customer. You also often continue the relationship beyond the EBC engagement and create interest and opportunity beyond your topic area.
    In addition to being a Distinguished Speaker, your results are among the highest average evaluation scores from visiting customers across all our speakers. Your exceptional dedication shines through in your outstanding customer and engagement owner satisfaction scores, and number of deliveries. Your contribution to growing stronger relationships with customers is vital to Microsoft’s success and growth!

  • Executive Briefing Center’s Performance Excellence Award

    Microsoft Corporation

    This award recognizes speakers who partner with the EBC and account teams to create a long-term positive impact on Microsoft customers and partners deeply with the EBC speaker program. On behalf of the EBC we are excited for your achievement and the level of excellence you bring to the EBC.

    In addition to being a Performance Excellence award winner, your results are among the highest average evaluation scores from visiting customers across all EBC speakers. Your thorough commitment is…

    This award recognizes speakers who partner with the EBC and account teams to create a long-term positive impact on Microsoft customers and partners deeply with the EBC speaker program. On behalf of the EBC we are excited for your achievement and the level of excellence you bring to the EBC.

    In addition to being a Performance Excellence award winner, your results are among the highest average evaluation scores from visiting customers across all EBC speakers. Your thorough commitment is evidenced by your outstanding customer and engagement owner satisfaction scores, and number of deliveries. Your contribution to growing stronger relationships with customers is core to Microsoft’s continued success!

  • Executive Briefing Center Performance Excellence Award Winner

    Microsoft

    "In addition to being a Performance Excellence award winner, your results are among the highest average evaluation scores from visiting customers across all EBC speakers. Your thorough commitment is evidenced by your outstanding customer and engagement owner satisfaction scores, and number of deliveries. Your contribution to growing stronger relationships with customers is core to Microsoft’s continued success!"

  • Executive Briefing Center’s Performance Excellence Speaker Award

    Microsoft

    "Your results are among the highest average evaluation scores from visiting customers across all EBC speakers. Your thorough commitment is evidenced by your outstanding customer and briefing owner satisfaction scores, and number of deliveries. Your contribution to growing stronger relationships with customers is core to Microsoft’s continued success!"

  • Executive Briefing Center Performance Excellence Speaker Award

    Microsoft

    ”This award recognizes individuals who partner with the EBC and account teams to build long-term relationships with Microsoft customers and partners. We are excited for your achievement and the level of excellence you bring to the EBC.

    Your results are among the highest average evaluation scores from visiting customers across all EBC speakers. Your thorough commitment is evidenced by your outstanding customer and briefing owner satisfaction scores, and number of deliveries. Your…

    ”This award recognizes individuals who partner with the EBC and account teams to build long-term relationships with Microsoft customers and partners. We are excited for your achievement and the level of excellence you bring to the EBC.

    Your results are among the highest average evaluation scores from visiting customers across all EBC speakers. Your thorough commitment is evidenced by your outstanding customer and briefing owner satisfaction scores, and number of deliveries. Your contribution to growing stronger relationships with customers is core to Microsoft’s continued success!”

  • Executive Briefing Center Hero Award

    Microsoft

    “Alan Ross consistently demonstrates the ability to quickly gain credibility with our customers and engage with them on topics that close deals. He has delivered 17 sessions in H1 with an average CSAT of 8.55 over 9 topics.”

  • Platinum Club

    Microsoft Corporation

    Metrics exceeded top .01% of my peers, globally.

  • McKinsey & Company Virtual Venture Competition

    McKinsey & Company

    McKinsey & Company holds an annual competition, typically focused on emerging technologies, in part to learn about the new tech; but also as a recruiting exercise. Their 2007 competition focused on Second Life, the (then new) emerging market of virtual worlds and virtual currency. Alan led the winning team by creating a virtual sales assistant that could be trained to help virtual store customers. The McKinsey’s Virtual Venture Competition awarded Alan Ross cash prizes, an iPhone, and…

    McKinsey & Company holds an annual competition, typically focused on emerging technologies, in part to learn about the new tech; but also as a recruiting exercise. Their 2007 competition focused on Second Life, the (then new) emerging market of virtual worlds and virtual currency. Alan led the winning team by creating a virtual sales assistant that could be trained to help virtual store customers. The McKinsey’s Virtual Venture Competition awarded Alan Ross cash prizes, an iPhone, and marketing advice, and trip to Germany for McKinsey & Company business training. Over 300 teams competed in the McKinsey’s Virtual Venture Competition with the 10 finalists flown to Austria. Other notable entries in the McKinsey’s Virtual Venture Competition included a 3d dating service, and virtual team building. As he was a recent hire to the Microsoft Corporation, Alan did not pursue employment with McKinsey & Company, although he occasionally wonders how his life would have been different if he had. http://complecta-secondlife.blogspot.com/2008/06/mckinsey-ideenwettbewerb-winner-is.html

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