Adam Fazio
Senior Technical Product & Program Manager
Products and Capabilities
Cohort AI-Ready Cloud Modernization
- Delivers high-throughput, fixed-price application modernization through structured PODs, blending onshore orchestration with an AI-powered engineering hub.
- Targets only high-ROI workloads to unlock immediate cloud savings and free budget for innovation like AI, Zero Trust, and data platforms.
- Aligns directly with Azure Migrate and Modernize and Azure Innovate, acting as Microsoft and Partner trusted execution engine for modernization work their field teams can’t staff internally.
- Learn more at cohortcg.com
Cloud Optimization Portfolio
Microsoft
- A portfolio of B2B Cloud Service Offerings targeted at cloud native customers who needed to optimize and accelerate their cloud usage.
- 6 pillars of value proposition included: Business Strategy and Value Realization, Empowered People, Continuous Innovation, Portfolio Management, Service Management, Predictive Analytics.
- Learn more here.
Continuous Cloud Optimization Insights
Microsoft
- A set of customizable Power BI Reports that enables monitoring, operations, and infrastructure teams to quickly gain insights about their existing Azure Platform footprint, resources and code contribution characteristics on Azure DevOps and GitHub.
- CCO Insights is developed using Power Query M language and DAX that pulls information directly from different Azure REST API. On GitHub here.
Private Cloud Solution
Microsoft
- A turn-key private cloud solution with a custom UI that enabled provisioning, health and performance monitoring, and more capabilities to administrators and self-service tenants.
- A fully automated installation, integration, and configuration of private cloud based on the Microsoft stack.
- Validated by Microsoft product groups.
Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track
Microsoft
- Joint initiative between Microsoft and multiple OEM partners (Cisco/Netapp, Dell, IBM, HP, Hitachi, Fujitsu, NEC and more).
- Best-in-class private cloud solutions.
- Pre-configured, validated, and tested solutions bringing each OEMs unique features to the solution while reducing time to value and risk. Learn more here.
Multi-Cloud Program
Nike
- Standardized multi-cloud usage across a very large engineering organization.
- Identified, inventoried, and document capability gaps and created features to adhere to the new standards ensuring the right workloads landed in the right cloud.
Authorship
- Published author with advanced writing capabilities.
- Whitepapers, marketing materials, business requirement documents, product requirement documents, program strategy papers, effective user stories and acceptance criteria, and more.
- Book available here.
Market Analysis
- Evaluating and understanding the dynamics of a particular market or industry to make informed business decisions.
- Studying various factors such as addressable market size, trends, customer behavior, competition, and economic conditions to assess the viability and potential of a product or service.
Data Analytics
- Finding and surfacing the right data at the right time for the right audience to confidently make critical business decisions.
- Balance both qualitative and quantitative data sources.
- Obtain empirical data and make objective inferences.
- Analyze how users interact with a product or service.
- Understand how users behave, uncover issues, measure performance, and improve the product.
Process Improvement
- Mapping out and analyzing complex business and product functional processes in order to fully understand all the steps involved in the process and how to improve them.
- Results in discovering unexpected complexity and opportunities for simplification.
Roadmapping
- A roadmap is a visual communication tool that aligns a company around a high-level product strategy.
- Shows the major features and milestones and is often not a commitment to ship something at an exact date.
- Identifies key objectives, prioritized initiatives, and sets a timeline for their execution.
Portfolio Management
- Includes analyzing, measuring, and optimizing how existing products contribute to broader business goals.
- Multi-faceted and requires a broad mixture of business and technical skills
- Identifying opportunities to expand the portfolio and creating a product portfolio roadmap.
- Ensures product cohesion and the full customer experience.