James Hardie

Lead Microsoft's Intelligent Cloud (Azure + Data & AI) business for South Central Region (Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas. Driving digital transformation with customers helping Optimize their operations, Transform their products, Engage their customers, and Empower their employees.

James Hardie is the Managing Director - Digital Transformation for Microsoft’s Cloud & Enterprise business in the South Central US Area. In this capacity, Hardie leads a diverse team of sales, technical, marketing and services professionals who are responsible for delivering digital transformation solutions which help enterprise customers engage their customers, empower their employees, optimize operations, & transform their products. This includes responsibility for Microsoft's cloud, server, database, business apps, security, management and development tools businesses. James’ performance metrics include a $500M+ annual revenue target for Microsoft’s cloud & enterprise business, customer satisfaction, partner ecosystem health, strategic competitive wins, employee morale and career development, marketing effectiveness and community relations.

Cloud Sales Director for Microsoft’s Enterprise Commercial business in the South Central region (Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, & Arkansas). In this capacity, Hardie leads a diverse team of sales, technical, marketing and services professionals who are responsible for growing Microsoft's commercial Cloud business & delivering sustained business value through consumption of our cloud services. James’ performance metrics include leading the district to exceeding our cloud annual revenue & consumption targets, customer satisfaction, partner ecosystem health, strategic competitive wins, employee morale (WHI) and career development, marketing effectiveness and community relations.

Sales Director for Microsoft’s Dynamics CRM & ERP business in Central Region of US. In this capacity, Hardie leads a diverse team (54+) of sales, technical, marketing and services professionals who are responsible for delivering sustained business value to enterprise accounts. James’ performance metrics include a $100M+ annual revenue target for Microsoft products and services, customer satisfaction, partner ecosystem health, strategic competitive wins, employee morale (WHI) and career development, marketing effectiveness and community relations. In FY14, James led the Central Region to the top attainment award in our US Dynamics business.

AT&T Account Team Director in Microsoft’s Communications Sector located in Dallas, Texas. In this capacity, Hardie leads a nation wide diverse team of sales, technical, marketing and services professionals who are responsible for delivering sustained business value to AT&T. James’ performance metrics include a $100M+ annual revenue target for Microsoft products and services, customer satisfaction, partner ecosystem health, strategic competitive wins, employee morale (WHI) and career development, marketing effectiveness and community relations.

Enterprise Sales Manager in Microsoft’s South Central District located in Dallas, Texas. In this capacity, Hardie leads a diverse team of sales, technical, marketing and services professionals who are responsible for delivering sustained business value to 10 of our largest Global enterprise customers in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. James’ performance metrics include a $100M+ annual revenue target for Microsoft products and services, customer satisfaction, partner ecosystem health, strategic competitive wins, employee morale (WHI) and career development, marketing effectiveness and community relations.

Enterprise Sales Manager in Microsoft’s South Central District located in Dallas, Texas. In this capacity, Hardie led a diverse team of sales, technical, marketing and services professionals who were responsible for delivering sustained business value to 80+ Corporate named enterprise customers in the North Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas area. James’ performance metrics included a $70M+ annual revenue target for Microsoft products and services, customer satisfaction, partner ecosystem health, strategic competitive wins, employee morale (WHI) and career development, marketing effectiveness and community relations.

Responsibilities included leading a diverse team of sales and technical professionals in delivering sustained business value around our Information Worker Solutions to 150+ Microsoft enterprise customers across the North Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas territory.

Major Account Manager responsible for overall revenue and customer satisfaction targets for 6 Global companies in the DFW area.

Hire.com started out as an angel investor backed start-up based in Austin, Texas. Responsibilities included creating and carrying out sales & marketing strategies in the sale of Hire.com’s software solutions, providing key competitive analysis, launching Corporate Partners Program initiative, and contributing to overall Company & Product strategies. Closed over 70% of this startups account base in the 1st year. Major wins at EDS, IBM, Tivoli, and Dallas Semiconductor.

Responsibilities included driving retail product revenue, customer satisfaction and maintaining a profitable business plan for large General Merchandise named customer list in the Texas area. Solutions included: Store Automation, Data Warehousing, Category Management, DSD, Distribution, and Inventory Systems.