With a combined 100+ years of experience in operational technology and 60 years in IT, we help organizations unlock the power of data insights to drive intelligent innovation and achieve meaningful business outcomes that benefit society.As Director of Product Management, I’m responsible for the strategy, vision, and execution of product management plans for our Enterprise Data Management software that supports a multi-billion platform business.• Developed and launched Ops Center Clear Sight*, Hitachi's first SaaS solution for managing hybrid-cloud storage assets, reducing support needs and improving upgrade efficiency for customers, partners, and sales teams.• Reduced customer deployment times by 80% and software management costs by 50% by delivering software upgrades for the Vegas launch of VSP 5000*, the world's fastest enterprise storage product.• Launched the Hitachi Ops Center Suite*, resulting in a 30% decrease in technical support calls and a 20% reduction in implementation times by leading the global presales, marketing, engineering, delivery, and support team to solve adoption issues.• Led the development of Hitachi's Autonomous Infrastructure Solution* with ServiceNow integration, improving product adoption and the customer experience while driving future development.• Built out Hitachi's private cloud stack in partnership with the OpenStack Foundation and the opensource community* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUJtXT-Lsmo* https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products/storage/all-flash-hybrid-flash-storage/vsp-5000-series.html* https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products/it-operations-management/ops-center.html* https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products/storage.html

As Principal Technical Product Manager, I led product development and management initiatives with partners such as VMware, Microsoft, Brocade, and Cisco to deliver integrated ecosystems.• Appointed by VP of PM to lead the incubation of 3 research and development projects to successful exits: Unified Compute Platform ($XXXM annual)*, Analyzer ($XXM annual)*, Automator ($XM annual)*, Infrastructure Analytics ($XXM annual)*. • Supported the Ecosystem Enablement and Partnership team in providing timely knowledge transfer and training to global partners for each product launch, while owning the product strategy, roadmap, and successful delivery.• Introduced Hitachi’s first iPad app* for business analytics to revamp a stagnant 2-year-old product, resulting in a 300% annual revenue growth and increased customer satisfaction.* https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products/converged-hyperconverged-infrastructure.html* https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products/it-operations-management/ops-center/analyzer.html* https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products/it-operations-management/ops-center/automator.html* https://www.slideshare.net/hdscorp/hds-ipad-app-for-hitachi-command-suite

I was responsible for leading a team of DevOps and Quality Assurance Engineers to build storage plugins for Microsoft SCOM, VMware vCenter, and Oracle OVM; which led to developing storage APIs for integration with our strategic partners.