Pamela Boyd
Senior Business Development Manager at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPamela Boyd is a Senior Business Development Manager at Microsoft in Seattle, blending a journalism-rooted editorial instinct with strategic partnership expertise to grow consumer experiences across Bing, Windows, Edge and MSN. With 8 years in business development roles and nearly two decades at Microsoft overall, she has led global alliances with publishers, data providers and game developers to scale the Microsoft Start feed to hundreds of millions of monthly users. Her background as a reporter and contributor to outlets like The Seattle Times and NBC informs a content-first approach to product partnerships and programming. She also brings hands-on technical familiarity from contributing database-focused samples to Microsoft’s high-profile sql-server-samples GitHub repo, demonstrating an interest in performance and feature-driven demos. Known for translating editorial strategy into commercial outcomes, she moves fluidly between content operations and technical product conversations. Based in Redmond/Seattle, Pamela combines newsroom curiosity with enterprise-scale partnership execution.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Northwestern University
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Github Skills (13)
database-tuning10
sql-server10
sql10
database-design10
tsql10
optimization10
database-optimization10
in-memory-database9
stored-procedures6
web-application6
vba6
architecture6
database6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/sql-server-samples
Aug 2019 - Feb 2020
Azure Data SQL Samples - Official Microsoft GitHub Repository containing code samples for SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure Synapse, and Azure SQL Edge
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:12 commits, 11 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Pamela primarily contributed to the SQL Server samples repository by implementing and updating examples related to database features. Their work included creating and modifying SQL scripts to demonstrate features such as `OPTIMIZE_FOR_SEQUENTIAL_KEY` and memory-optimized tempdb metadata. The user also updated demo files to use different database versions and incorporated changes to reflect the feature enhancements. These changes demonstrate a focus on database performance, optimization, and showcasing new SQL Server functionalities.
azure-synapsesqlserversql-serversqledge
bluefooted/sql-server-samples
Aug 2019 - Feb 2020
Official Microsoft GitHub Repository containing code samples for SQL Server
Contributions:10 pushes, 6 branches in 6 months
sqlserversql-serversqlmicrosoft
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