Dubois Jim (Jim DuBois)

Dubois Jim (Jim DuBois)

Jim Dubois is the veteran of Microsoft working in the company since 1993. During this time it replaced several positions, taking including a position of the general manager on information technologies and the vice president for management of IT products and services. Besides, it helped the company during creation of the first Internet centers of data processing and was the director of Microsoft of information security.

2014: Appointment of Microsoft as the Chief information officer

On June 1, 2014 Jim Dubois officially became the new Chief information officer of Microsoft, having replaced on this position of Tony Scott who resigned authority in the summer of 2013. Dubois began to be responsible for "development of a broad spectrum of IT initiatives" and to manage global IT infrastructure of corporation.

2017: Leaving Microsoft

In July, 2017 it became known of Jim Dubois's leaving from a post of the CIO of Microsoft. Resignation of the top manager matched reorganization within which the company dismisses from 3 to 4 thousand human.

According to the Geekwire edition, Dubois will not return from a holiday as planned, and he made the decision on dismissal only partly because of business conversions.

Dubois's duties will be executed by Kurt DelBene, the executive vice president for corporate strategy and planning. He will hold a new position of the Chief Digital Officer and executive vice president for corporate strategy, design of key services and transactions.

Curt Delbene, as well as Dubois, works in Microsoft more than 20 years. However in 2013 he left the company to head the Healthcare.gov project. At the beginning of 2015 Delbene returned to Microsoft on a position of the executive vice president for corporate strategy and planning.

Till 2016 the IT department which was headed by Dubois was included into structure of Microsoft with the state in 51 thousand specialists in sales and to operational work. Then this big group was separated not several less large, and her head Kevin Turner resigned.^[1]

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