Sean Squires

Sean Squires is a creative and accomplished technical program and product manager with over 20 years of experience in building, managing, and delivering enterprise software and services. He excels in translating strategic vision into tactical solutions throughout the product lifecycle. Sean is a passionate team player and customer advocate, known for collaborating with others to solve complex business problems with user-centric solutions that excite and delight.

His expertise lies in the Microsoft Office apps and services space, with a focus on SharePoint and Office 365. Sean has extensive experience working on SharePoint since its 2003 release, leading various ship cycles, and contributing to building innovative cognitive capture capabilities for 'AI for SharePoint'. He is a frequent consultant and conference speaker, advising partners on designing and implementing portals, content services models, and business applications with a specialization in search, content services, and governance areas.

Sean Squires' specialties and core competencies include product strategy and design, user experience, program management using Agile and SDLC methodologies, SharePoint and Office 365 expertise covering content management, knowledge management, shared services, cloud application models, site governance, corporate taxonomy design and implementation, social computing and adoption strategies, customer engagement and management, as well as next-generation content services.

His educational background includes a Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS) in Library and Information Science from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology from The University of New Mexico. Throughout his career, Sean has held various significant roles at Microsoft, including Principal Program Manager at ODSP - Project Cortex, Senior Program Manager - Product Manager for SharePoint Experiences (O365), Senior Program Manager - Product Manager for SPO Service (O365), Senior Program Manager - Product Manager for SharePoint Workplace Experiences, Principal IT Program Manager - SharePoint on Office 365, Senior Technical Program Manager - SharePoint, Product Program Manager, as well as positions at Washington Mutual, Fizzylab, and University of Washington Libraries.