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San Francisco, California, United States

Led transformative change, ensuring roadmap alignment and trust in product delivery for the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) area of Cisco Native Application Observability (CNAO) product. Orchestrated successful Early Access and GA releases, reimagined core features, and guided customers through sales-led trials, securing substantial new revenue. Demonstrated leadership guiding fellow PMs, fostering integration and prioritization in APM area, driving product strategy aligned with customer value.• Directed CCO’s core APM strategy and launch, orchestrating early access and GA releases that delivered significant observability and troubleshooting capabilities, resulting in the acquisition of hundreds of paid customers within the first year post-GA release.• Reinvented the way microservice application tracing works to align to business outcomes, improving on legacy. Translated customer feedback into actionable insights, solving for previously unaddressed pain points, drawing over 40 new CCO customers.• Managed multiple customer transitions from a competitor product, to CCO, acquiring top three telecom provider as a customer in the process. Close customer contact and pivotal feature prioritization led to seamless onboarding and significant revenue boost.• Led APM roadmap, ensuring alignment, seamless integration, and strategic prioritization with Product Managers both within and adjacent to the APM domain. Built strategy around E2E use cases focused on delivering concrete customer value.• Drove features with cross-functional teams, including design and engineering, to ensure timely execution and delivery in accordance with roadmap and provide decision support and “voice of the customer” for features from conception through delivery.

San Francisco Bay Area

Manage the strategy, development, and launch of features that span across Bluescape's enterprise SaaS solution portfolio, consisting of Wall, Web, and Mobile. Own the product roadmap for Bluescape's large-format interactive display solution (Wall), used by over 90% of customers.• Led the development and launch of novel collaboration features, including real-time video playback for distributed teams, generating $2M+ revenue increase from media and entertainment customer segment, including Disney, Netflix and Lionsgate.• Strategized and drove the overhaul of 3 content creation features, leveraging feedback from customer interviews and key stakeholders, solving numerous customer pain points and achieving 400% increase in annual subscriptions from top customer. • Managed the design and implementation of new user interface across all Bluescape products, defining requirements based on user interviews and market/competitor research. Resulted in unified/simplified user experience and increased competitive advantage. • Engaged with key customers including Ford and SC Johnson to beta test upcoming features and established a feedback loop to iterate on requirements prior to releasing for general availability, leading to significant boost in CSAT scores for new features.• Demo upcoming features to customer success and sales, and work with support, documentation, educational outreach, and marketing teams to prepare customer facing content and messaging prior to release.

• Own internal customer-facing website for team’s product, set to go live in Feb 2019. Defined metrics for success by tracking engagement with FAQ page, outlined roadmap from design to launch, consistently create/track new user stories for each milestone.• Serve as engineering PoC for key Cisco partners: facilitate early field trials to capture voice of the customer, analyze customer feedback, and collaborate with product managers to update the roadmap with enhancements for upcoming releases.• Lead team of 2 UI engineers in developing 3 major SaaS products, working closely with cross-functional teams to expand feature sets. Most recently, migrated on-prem solution to the cloud, re-defining UX and integrating with network-management platform.• Created detailed design documents, UI mockups, and use cases during planning stages of multiple high-visibility projects. Then, groomed, prioritized, and tracked user stories/product features in an Agile Scrum-based environment throughout project lifecycles.• Led 3-day Design Thinking workshop with 50+ person team using hands-on training and interactive activities to teach process. Captured valuable data from customer interviews and proposed solutions, now used to define product requirements for mobile app.

Davis, Ca

• Specialization in scientific visualization, with high proficiency in computer graphics, data analysis, and numerical analysis.• Published 5 articles in reputable journals within the computer graphics field and presented each at international conferences.• Achieved the best paper award at IEEE Large Data Analysis and Visualization 2014 for groundbreaking research and innovation.• Optimized particle-based flow visualization methods, improving reconstruction accuracy of flow representation while reducing the expense associated with computational cost and I/O constraints.

Berkeley, Ca

• Utilized NERSC Supercomputers to develop and test innovative flow visualization methods resulting in two journal publications.• Designed an interactive 3D environment for exploring a flow field, allowing for user-driven refinement in areas of interest• Introduced a novel technique for writing flow data to disk, which increased the speed and accuracy of flow field visualization.• Devised an algorithm for distributing resources based on features to achieve high computational accuracy given a low sampling.

Mountain View, Ca

• Invented a novel visualization technique to display message passing between event loops as part of a distributed debugger.• Implemented user-driven highlighting and filtering to extrude program flow behavior, allowing users to focus on salient events.• Created an interactive interface allowing the user to filter the visualization by excluding chosen calls.• Presented intern project at colloquium for Google employees, which led to private presentation to Chrome development team.

Livermore, Ca

• Developed extensively with physics-based vehicle code to simulate the transport of materials through corners at high speeds.• Utilized multi-variable mathematical optimization to develop autonomous vehicle movements based on speed and turning radius.• Visualized physical metrics in real-time as 3D glyphs to report vehicle acceleration, speed, and the forces exerted on the payload.

Executive Certificate, Productizing Innovation

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: IEEE, ACM, Fundraising officer of Telemark Dance Troupe (4 years)

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computational Applied Science

Activities and Societies: UC Davis Men's Crew Team (1 year), Treasurer of Birdstrike Improv Comedy Troupe (3 years), Golden Key Society