Michael Venables

Creative technology storyteller

United States

Creative technology storyteller with seasoned organizational, communications, and cross-cultural people skills.

Extensive experience on high-visibility, enterprise-scale content projects with a range of cross-functional partners: product engineering, product management, brand management, legal, and executive leadership.

Experienced leadership and technical communicator (leadership presentations; marketing materials; technical blog content)—knowledgeable in networking, security, and cloud-native technologies.

Portfolio

CUSTOMER STORIES

Microsoft Customers Stories
08/22/2024
Telecom expenses for Florida Crystals dropped 78% with Teams Phone and Teams Meeting Rooms

Focused on innovation and product development, Florida Crystals Corporation is a joint owner of ASR Group International, the world's largest refiner and marketer of cane sugar with operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Belize, the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Italy. The company produces a full line of grocery, industrial, food service, and specialty sweetener products.

Microsoft Customers Stories
06/28/2024
Aon Brazil CRS uses Power BI, lowers costs 8%, deployment time by 80% with Power Apps, Power...

Aon exists to shape decisions for the better-to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world. Through actionable analytic insights, globally integrated Risk Capital and Human Capital expertise, and locally relevant solutions they provide clients in more than 120 countries and sovereignties with clarity and confidence to make better decisions.

Microsoft Customers Stories
06/28/2024
With Dynamics 365 Sales, Glencore Technology increases workflow efficiencies by 50%

Glencore Technology, a subsidiary of Glencore PLC, one of the world's largest, globally diversified natural resource companies, needed to upgrade its sales solution. The previous solution struggled with poor customer engagement tracking in addition to reporting-and lacked integration capabilities.

Microsoft Customers Stories
06/18/2024
For Lander & Rogers, seamless integration and 78% faster deployments with Surface complement...

Lander & Rogers, an influential Australian law firm with a practice spanning a broad spectrum of sectors and industries, needed to upgrade its fleet of devices to meet the demands of both remote and in-office work. The Surface Laptop empowered the firm to follow modern deployment and management strategies-and with Microsoft Intune and Autopilot, it reduced deployment time from 3 hours to 40 minutes.

Microsoft Customers Stories
06/04/2024
Almere's modern workplace delivers employee satisfaction, projects savings of $73,000 with...

The Municipality of Almere in the Netherlands is the country's newest city, built on land reclaimed from the North Sea. It sought to create a modern workplace for its employees. Employees were dissatisfied with their laptops and outdated workstation configurations-and had expressed a measure of low satisfaction in their employer.The city evaluated competitive hardware solutions but saw compelling value in a Surface Pro Windows 11 device.

Microsoft Customers Stories
05/16/2024
Employees at Principal Financial Group use Microsoft Viva Goals to drive strategic alignment and...

Principal was successfully tracking ongoing corporate strategy within its multiple lines of business, but mapping goals across the entire company created challenges. Aligning to an enterprise-wide strategic vision was necessary for future company growth. Viva Goals integration with Microsoft 365 apps allowed the company to incorporate the product into daily workflows.

Microsoft Customers Stories
05/09/2024
Nationwide Building Society achieves 27% savings in total cost of ownership with Windows 365

Nationwide Building Society's 18 million United Kingdom members share ownership and profit in the world's largest building society. The organization has long invested in personalized service to its member community, providing home ownership and savings opportunities. To address growing business operations and continue to effectively serve its membership, Nationwide faced a critical need to replace its aging on-premises virtual desktop infrastructure platform.

Microsoft Customers Stories
03/14/2024
Kantar Adopts Windows 11 Enterprise to Build the Foundation for Copilot and AI

To achieve its vision of delivering an employee experience that rivals the simplicity and ease of use of the best consumer experience, Kantar moved from on-premises to cloud-based Intune endpoint management. In preparation for its deployment of Windows 11 Enterprise, the company spun up Windows 365 Cloud PCs-and is harnessing the power of generative AI with Copilot.

Microsoft Customers Stories
03/26/2024
NC Fusion expands youth marketing outreach, taught kids leadership and life skills with Dynamics...

North Carolina-based sports club NC Fusion needed to increase the content production of marketing campaigns to match the growing needs of its programs. The club chose a comprehensive Microsoft solution comprising the real-time journeys feature in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, Dynamics 365 Sales, and Fundraising and Engagement (Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit).

Microsoft Learn
05/03/2019
LHC scientists prototype data analysis solution on Azure Machine Learning

Video script. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN is the largest physics machine ever built, and experiments using the collider generate close to an exabyte (one billion gigabytes) of data in the quest to understand the mysteries of the universe. Machine learning on the global-sized network and speed of FPGAs have the scope to improve data analysis for particle physics.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Microsoft Azure Inspire blog
07/22/2020
Enabling customers for success on Azure

Thought leadership blog post for Microsoft Inspire in the voice of Omar Khan, General Manager, Microsoft Azure—on digital transformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM

Medium - Bytes & Pixels
02/25/2014
NASA's Robotic Avatars

Interview with Jeff Norris, Founder and Director, JPL Ops Lab, about building virtual interfaces for human-guided, robotic space exploration.

Medium - Technics & Civilization
08/22/2014
How Jane Poynter Rocks Girls' Stem Education

Interview with Jane Poynter, CEO, World View Enterprises, on the importance of girls' STEM education, future space travel to Mars, and Biosphere 2.

FORBES TECH

WIRED GEEKDAD BLOG

WIRED
04/12/2012
MSI Takes on Minecraft

How many geeky dads and geeky moms want to play their favorite game when they are on the go, instead of waiting to get back to their home PC? But you need a hefty machine that can deal with running games that can be very demanding on your CPU and GPU.

WIRED
08/03/2011
The Scoop on Through the Wormhole With Morgan Freeman

Interview with Bernadette McDaid, VP of Production for Science and executive producer of Through The Wormhole, Discovery's science documentary television series—on host Morgan Freeman's questions on science, humanity, and the outer limits of our universe.