Visual Studio ALM Ranger Champion Awards 2015

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As part of migrating team posts to this team blog, we are pleased to highlight the Champion Awards 2015 winners, the “best of the best”, selected by their ALM Ranger peers and communities, for impact over the past 12 months again.

It has been a humbling experience to review each of the comments and realize the magnitude of impact these engineers have made to our communities.

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The Visual Studio ALM Rangers team is a model of how Microsoft Product Groups, Services, User Education, Developer Experience and Communities can collaborate together to deliver out of band solutions for missing features and guidance.

It would not be possible without the passion and commitment that you bring to these projects and the communities.

and the winners are …

It is evident from the percentages, that it was a really close race between nominees in all of the categories.

AWARD

IMPACT CATEGORY

VOTES

WINNER(S)

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Champion of Champions The brightest star amongst all ALM Rangers we admire and respect.

17.4%

Brian Blackman

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Shining Associate Champion The shining star amongst new ALM Rangers we admire and respect.

19.4%

Donovan Brown

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Scrum Master Champion

The ALM Ranger who made an impact as a Scrum Master, mentoring, guiding and coaching ALM Ranger teams.

31.1%

Brian Blackman

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Project Lead ChampionThe ALM Ranger who made an impact as a Project Lead through transparency, focus and collaboration.

14.8% each

Brian Blackman John Spinella

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PG Champion The partner from the product group, who made an impact by nurturing bridges between the Rangers and Product Groups.

14.3%

Charles Sterling

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PO Champion The partner from the product group, who made an impact as a Product Owner through leadership and ownership of scope and stakeholders.

25% each

Keith Bankston  Sam Guckenheimer

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Top 933>| (Geek) Champion The ALM Ranger who made an impact through passion for technologies, solutions and creation of bits and bytes.

19.6%

Gordon Beeming

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Impact WWC Champion The ALM Ranger who has made an impact on Worldwide Communities.

52%

Hosam Kamel

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Impact PG Champion The ALM Ranger who has made an impact on Visual Studio Product Group.

27%

Jeff Levinson

Congratulations!

See champion awards (aka.ms/vsarchampions) for more champions.