Joel Pelley

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About Joel Pelley

Vision: Connecting people and technology to create positive change that inspires the world. Career Summary: Proven people manger and technical thought leader driving integration of customer, business and technology insights into multi-year product and engineering roadmaps, including actionable individual team programs across Azure, Surface, Xbox and other hardware and software integrated products, consistently delivering high-quality, scalable and impactful business results. Innovative, collaborative problem solver consistently reducing complexity and balancing competing priorities to create actionable, productive solutions and generated consensus up through C-suite. Leading, coaching, growing, empowering and evangelizing for a data driven Technical Program Management team through an open and inclusive communication style that generates trust, collaboration and clarity on tactical goals and long-term vision. Known for delivering in high-impact roles including design of hardware, infrastructure, operations, supply chain and process optimization and efficiency. Expertise in all aspects of end-to-end product lifecycle including feasibility, prototyping, UI/UX, content, repair and refurbishment, customer service, marketing and localization. Career Highlights • Generated >$1B revenue,>1M of instances used by Fortune 500 companies through the design and delivery of Azure Dv3 / Ev3 and Dv5 / Ev5-series Virtual Machines and Intel-based server hardware (Haswell to Ice Lake). • Created >1M units each, at 95% functional and 99% cosmetic first-pass yield, on Surface Touch Cover and Surface RT2 from concept to live including design of business, product, manufacturing and supply chain operations <12 mo. • Delivered $500M cost avoidance, sub-1% 30-day Xbox global repeat returns and 25% reduction of Xboxes returned by redesigning the Xbox 360 Console Repair and Refurbishment and Customer Service and Support operations. Outside of Work I spend my time outside of work training and racing as an Obstacle Course Racing athlete, enjoying time with my family, watching the latest Marvel and Star Wars content, reading for growth and leisure, along with bouldering, hiking, fishing, cooking and home improvement projects.