Ali Schumacher
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft For Startups
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAli Schumacher is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft who builds pathways for student founders and startups to scale with cloud and go-to-market support, currently leading the Imagine Cup and Microsoft for Startups initiatives. She combines an MBA and M.Ed from UVA with hands-on technology consulting experience at Deloitte, enabling her to bridge product strategy, education innovation, and technical execution. Her background spans agile product management, cloud development (AWS/Azure), data visualization, and performance testing—skills she used to lead distributed development teams and rationalize large IT portfolios. Ali has a track record of designing programs and offers that drive adoption of Azure among students and early-stage companies while mentoring and coaching hundreds of junior practitioners. Notably, she has repeatedly translated complex federal and higher-education requirements into actionable solutions that unlocked follow-on work and executive buy-in. Based in Washington, DC, she brings a rare mix of education-sector insight and enterprise GTM experience to help founders turn academic innovation into market-ready products.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems and Marketing, Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems and Marketing at University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of BusinessMaster of Education - MEd Innovation in Education Higher Education, Master of Education - MEd Innovation in Education Higher Education at UVA School of Education and Human DevelopmentThe American University of RomeMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Github Skills (15)
azure10
python10
azure-cognitive-services10
azure-machine-learning9
computer-science9
ai9
javascript9
ambassador9
microsoft8
ml5
csharp5
windows-forms2
windows1
windows-desktop1
windows-app1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/SATechnicalOnboarding
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
This is a repo for the Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador Technical Onboarding Process.
Contributions:1 review, 23 commits, 4 PRs in 2 months
azureambassadoronboardingmicrosoft
microsoft/studentambassadors
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
This repository is for Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors.
Contributions:6 reviews, 51 commits, 5 PRs in 3 months
azuremicrosoft
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