Duane Bourgeois

Born in Metairie, LA in 1969, Duane lived in the New Orleans area until 13. His family moved to Laurel, MS for 4 years before returning to NOLA. Duane moved back to the Pine Belta area (Hattiesburg, MS) for college. He was the Senior Network Administrator for Sunbeam Household products, then worked for BellSouth, Novell and Teklinks before joining Microsoft in 2005. As a Principal Business Development Lead for the Cloud and Datacenter Management (CDM) team, Duane has driven a unique closed-loop relationship between Engineering and the field Technical Sales force responsible for selling the CDM products and solutions.