Partner with the core business and functional leaders to define product strategy, define and help execute the product roadmap vision by fully understanding the customer and their needs, identifying solutions for addressing those needs, and bringing those solutions to life through technology.

• Provide strong leadership to product teams who are conducting innovative work, through intelligent, clear communication with a hands-on, passionate approach to the job.• Developed the first of its kind roles and responsibilities matrix for Scrum Master, Technical Product Owner, and Technical Product Manager. Socialized the documentation with Application Development and Agile coaches to ensure alignment.• Engage with the Cloud Business Office, Enterprise Architecture, Security and Development teams in technical details, ensure compliance requirements are well articulated at the feature level, understand the implications of certain choices, manages change, and make educated trade-offs in priority, complexity, or even timelines. • Develop, communicate and drive DevOps Tools & Automation, IT Operations Management and Cloud Operations roadmaps, product priorities, epics, and features across the company by collaboration and building consensus with stakeholders.• Serve as a champion for our product teams, driving strategic thinking around Infrastructure & Operations products.• Identify new innovations, features and capabilities that support the roadmap and work with the various stakeholders for validation of use cases.• Ownership of defining and managing technical debt within product roadmaps, business cases, and support backlogs.• Using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology for both Scrum and Kanban teams, create, prioritize using Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) calculations, and manage Epics and Features with capability requirements supporting technology strategies and objectives, in line with the Planning Increment (PI) calendar. • Responsible for Azure Cost Management for Cloud working with our Cloud Service Provider to develop custom reports and alerting on subscriptions and services. Proactively report on factors increasing costs, cost avoidances and optimizations, presenting monthly and quarterly to VP and SVP leadership.

Responsible for developing and managing major strategic projects with overall accountability for project budget and success while leading product owners and teams to return specific value to IT, AppDev and the business. Development of epics, features and capability requirements, prioritization, strategies and objectives to support the roadmap and reflect program vision and charter, working in partnership with multiple cross-functional enterprise-wide teams.• Responsible for the Infrastructure Modernization and Hybrid Cloud program consisting of 3 distinct workstreams:• Data Center Essentials – making essential only upgrades to the Enterprise Data Centers to maintain current availability. • Co-location/Hybrid Cloud – move the Rancho Cordova Enterprise Data Center to a co-location site. Through co-location services, advance the resiliency tier rating of the data center to guarantee availability and enable high-performance hybrid cloud integration. • Cloud Strategy and Platform – Lead the evaluation and selection of a public cloud provider for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployments of strategically identified workloads. Program manage the Cloud Transformation Maturity, Application Portfolio Assessment & Architecture Analysis, and TCO/ROI tracks for cloud migration readiness and strategy. Manage the formation of the Cloud Business Office and buildout of the Minimum Viable Cloud in an Agile format with the team using JIRA for epics, features & stories, and participating in the various Scrum ceremonies.• Lead the Technology Asset Management project implementing Flexera for all software and hardware asset management and creation of interactive heat maps showing technical debt risk levels. Project was delivered ahead of schedule and under budget. Creation of Policy, Process & Metrics Documentation for ITSM.

Initially employed as a Senior IT Project Manager for shared services and then asked to help form the PMO. Member of the senior IT management team reporting directly to the VP of Information Technology and providing project information, roadmaps and updates directly to the CFO and CEO with clear and effective communication at all levels.• Built a Project Management Office by creating and implementing a standard framework, processes and procedures to follow for all enterprise projects, based on industry best practices but tailored to the organizational culture. • Ownership includes the research and development of new concepts, ideas and applications, ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments, and goals.• Responsible for all aspects of overall direction, definition, business & functional requirements, implementation, execution, control and management of all enterprise-wide projects including IT, HR, procurement, ecommerce, accounting, finance and business development. • Plan, assign, direct and manage activities that require technical development, improve operational processes and support critical business strategies while meeting project requirements and objectives.

Directed the strategic development, implementation and ongoing management of initiatives intended to achieve corporate goals, by successfully leading remote global teams.• Managed a WW Solution Center Community of Practice consisting of 4 work streams all with clear, actionable tasks to both innovate and achieve efficiencies, with accountable results being delivered on time to project schedule.• Pioneered Transformation Solution Demos for worldwide presales community detailing the customer story and use cases in short, compelling and informative way to help drive sales.• Led Program management of 3rd party companies, including ongoing support for the HPE Demo Portal and live demos, future demo roadmap activity and SOWs to ensure successful resource planning and commitments were met.• Spearheaded and led global face to face meetings of all Solution Centers and Executive Briefing Centers to rebuild intra-regional working relationship between center managers, increase leverage of demos and equipment, and reducing costs.• Represented organization on corporate teams, ensuring organization needs are met with worldwide sites being evaluated for consolidation or investment.

Responsible for Program Managers, integration with Enterprise Group engineering demo managers, regional leads, IT and partner managers: Worldwide Solution Demo Portal for live and recorded demos on Servers, Storage, Networking and Cloud.• Managed enablement of regional and partner integration with Train the Presenter program, TekTalks, and Elite Partner live demo pilot to increase sales.• Oversaw Demo Governance Council for all regional integration, awareness, demo delivery, and roadmap development.• Delivered IT integration for demo portal, POR changes, enhancements and system linkages to track sales metrics.• Ambassador event participation and development of collateral to increase demo awareness, capabilities, and drive sales.• Ensured project scope, development, plan and implementation success with objectives and stakeholder requirements.

Responsible for 11 connectivity test engineers handling Linux, Citrix, Xen, VMware and MAC OS qualification and certifications of HP Storage arrays finding innovative ways to improve test efficiency and tools.• Managed all priorities for connectivity organizations and organization’s roadmap.• Effectively collaborated with contractors and partners to deliver new products, deal exception requests, customer enhancements request and asynchronous operating system support on time.• Mentored and empowered individuals on team by creating new opportunities, cross training to increase breadth of technical knowledge and flexibility, and focus on more strategic deliverables.• Program managed Storage array product teams and defined organizations array and OS support discontinuance policy.• Successfully executed hiring, performance coaching, corrective action and termination of employees.

Responsible for development and execution of programs and managing partners in array connectivity and applications for both established and emerging technologies, including virtualization.• Defined, set and managed program priorities for test efforts, increased IOP coverage and competitive offering of applications.• Drove Storage division program roadmap generation including deliverables from internal partners.• Planned collateral to support, and ensure inclusion of, application content in new product introduction launches.• Managed presales, sales and business escalations, communicating support decisions and plans, and engaging with field.• Led quarterly business reviews with partners to improve relationship and drive awareness of Storage Division requirements and implications from partner strategic direction.• Mentored and developed team members on Program Management and Project Management best practices.

Managed both internal partners and external contract manufactures worldwide for PCA and array manufacturing, performing worldwide quarterly business and engineering reviews and making presentations to senior management.• Led technical and business teams to design Supply Chains; wrote, analyzed, and awarded RFQs for up to $50M.• Negotiated hundreds of millions of dollars savings in cost reductions and avoidances with contract manufacturer and supply chain design optimization.• Led and managed the successful transfer of multi-million-dollar programs from domestic to Asia Pacific manufacturing, setting up entirely new test, business, and infrastructure.• Partnered with new product teams to manage program risk, quality, and escalations and keep program on schedule.

Promoted two levels in less than 9 months full time. Responsible for procurement of regional and worldwide commodities in cross geographical product group to support R&D lab NPI proto builds and current product lifecycle.• Negotiated 20-53% cost savings on various commodities and through process improvement.• Detail, structure, and negotiate RFQs for both NPI and CPE material including risk analysis and hard tooling ROI.• Lead QBRs as part of strategic vendor and contract manufacturer management and partnered with other divisions.• Successfully managed and audited all business aspects of supplier quality, risk, and capacity, of manufacturing facilities.• Trained and mentored new buyers on processes and SAP.