Adam Fazio


I'm a Portland-area product and program leader with deep roots in Microsoft, Nike, startups, public & private sector, and enterprise cloud. I specialize in complex, AI-driven program and product management, cross-functional alignment at scale — bridging the gap between technical teams and executive stakeholders for business outcomes.
Years in Tech
Fortune 100 and Public Sector Clients
Products Shipped
Published Works
PRODUCT & PROGRAM
Product Strategy | Market & Data Analysis | BRDs / PRDs | Business Cases | Roadmapping | Portfolio Management | GTM Strategy | OKRs & KPIs | Agile / Scrum | Stakeholder Management | Process Automation
CLOUD & TECH
Azure | AWS | GCP | Cloud Modernization | Infrastructure Strategy |
AI/ML Programs | DevOps/ GitHub | Scripting & Automation
ANALYTICS & TOOLS
AI tools: Claude/ClaudeCode, Copilot/GitHub Copilot, Gemini, ChatGPT | Power BI | Jira | Confluence | Azure DevOps | MS Project | Advanced Excel & Office

AI-Ready Cloud Modernization
High-throughput, fixed-price application modernization through structured PODs, blending onshore orchestration with AI-powered engineering. Targets high-ROI workloads to unlock cloud savings and fund AI, Zero Trust, and data platform innovation.

Cloud & Datacenter Portfolio
A portfolio of B2B cloud service offerings for cloud-native customers needing to optimize and accelerate their cloud usage across 6 pillars: Business Strategy, Empowered People, Continuous Innovation, Portfolio Management, Service Management, and Predictive Analytics.

Cloud Optimization Insights
Customizable Power BI reports enabling monitoring, operations, and infrastructure teams to gain rapid insights into Azure footprint, resource usage, and DevOps/GitHub contribution characteristics. Built with Power Query M and DAX over Azure REST APIs.

Private Cloud Solution
A turn-key private cloud solution with custom UI enabling provisioning, health monitoring, and self-service tenancy. Fully automated installation and configuration of the Microsoft stack — validated by Microsoft product groups.

Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track
Joint initiative with OEM partners (Cisco, Dell, IBM, HP, and more) delivering best-in-class, pre-configured private cloud solutions. Reduced time-to-value while maintaining partner-specific features.

Multi-Cloud Program
Standardized multi-cloud usage across a massive engineering organization. Identified and documented capability gaps and created features to ensure the right workloads land in the right cloud environment.
Cohort Consulting Group
Leading product strategy for an AI-ready cloud modernization offering. Aligning with Microsoft Azure Migrate & Modernize and Azure Innovate as a trusted execution engine for enterprise modernization programs.
Microsoft
Owned multiple B2B cloud service offerings in the Cloud Optimization portfolio. Drove a 6-pillar value proposition, authored product documentation, and led cross-functional teams across engineering, field, and partner organizations. Shipped CCO Insights to the Azure open-source community.
Nike & Earlier Roles
Standardized multi-cloud strategy across Nike's large-scale engineering organization. Earlier career includes private cloud, Hyper-V infrastructure, and OEM partner programs with Microsoft.

This book is an essential resource for those responsible for strategizing, architecting, implementing or managing a cloud infrastructure. It helps readers understand what is hybrid IT and how it's applicable (and inevitable) in today's world of emerging cloud. The book will focus on the Microsoft concept of a private/public cloud, deploying a private cloud fabric, deploying services, and building a private cloud, as well as integrating it with Microsoft's public cloud to create a cross-premises or public cloud. On Amazon.
Reference Architecture, specialized versions used to design and validate Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track OEM solutions.
Published as a Contributing Author in TechNet Magazine, delivering technical guidance and thought leadership to Microsoft’s global IT professional audience. Articles focused on enterprise architecture, cloud services, and practical implementation strategies.
A grass-roots multi-author blog created by myself but contributed to, supported, edited, and made great by many amazing minds. The blog then was taken up by the Microsoft Cloud (Azure, Hyper-V, etc.) Marketing team. The blog did very well and was in the top 10 Technet blog sites for years. View Archive.
I love face-to-face conversations, let's make that happen!
Camas, WA 98607, USA
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