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San Francisco, California, Us

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Responsible for the Kubernetes Product Portfolio Including 3 flavors of containers. (PKS, Containers on BareMetal, GPU for containers)-Launched Kubernetes on BareMetal as a Service aka Containers on BareMetal: full self service offering built with bleeding edge open source software and an awesome team.Two teams with 30 engineers total.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Leading product engineering teams to build consumer facing full stack intelligence applications the open source way. ☁️ Managed two teams to build partner/distributor facing services including data APIs in order to boost sales by utilizing machine learning models to suggest cross-sell and up-sell opportunities. Allowing for Red Hatters and Red Hat partners/distributors of all sizes to have the right visibility, ether via a user friendly front end, or through a data API that could be fed into a larger distributor's CRM tool set.One team of 6 application engineers, 1 data scientist, 1 designer, 2 BI engineers, and 10 product evangelists.

New York, New York, Us

-Launched cloud native services to production from OS, compute, storage, observability, configuration management, network and Kubernetes orchestration (providing requirements for 12 scrum teams)-Served as lead data architect for Public Cloud services. Implemented data model to meet regulatory needs and operational efficiencies in public cloud for all products-Led through audit deliverables for cloud inventory systems, successfully satisfying requirements-Promoted cloud modernization efforts through public speaking at events of 500-1,000 attendees -constantly hosting demo days for up to 150 attendees and building a demo culture within the public cloud organization -Mentored dozens of tech analysts for 7 years, as direct reports as well as volunteer mentorshipHonors: Graduate of Citi’s esteemed advanced leadership program, DTP. Nominated, selected, and trained for 8 months with a cohort of 36 Vice Presidents company wide. This included a special project creating a data architecture for measuring woman’s empowerment by Citi; collaborating with a team of 6 to ultimately solution the implementation of these models.*Responsibilities were split among 2.5 VP’s upon leaving this role

New York, New York, Us

I am responsible for all external cloud service products within Citigroup, including foundational services (compute, storage, network, security), and cloud native platform services.I do this through collaboration with operations, solutioning, engineering, finance, project Mgmt, product marketing, my fellow product managers, and finally the vendors. My role is to transform technology culture, by providing everything a developer needs to create world class apps at their fingertips, it has been my mission to do so for a total of 4 clouds (including private) for the best flexibility I can offer the app community as far as offerings and hosting presence.In addition to my core responsibilities I am involved in internal product initiatives such as Citi PaaS, advanced analytics/artificial intelligence/machine learning. In my spare time I like to mentor incoming analysts and dream up ideas on how to spread knowledge about managing infrastructure on next gen platforms!

New York, New York, Us

The responsibilities of Product Management are to be accountable for the products CTI provides at all stages of the life cycle which includes development, launch, build, maintain and operate, aligned to Citi’s global business strategy and delivered with the right technology, the right service model and the right economics. -responsible for IaaS and SaaS for externally hosted technology use cases-Data story telling for vendor strategy for leadership decision making-Write business requirements-work with cross functional teams across network, security, compliance, HW, SW, support, finance, infrastructure automation and orchestration, monitoring, logging, and legal-Vendor management for external infrastructure providers-keep up with vendor roadmaps not limited to AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, SoftLayer, Rackspace-Financial benchmark analysis of products across internal infrastructure and external vendors-Technology performance analysis-Ensure new products are market-competitive, standardized, supportable, and can be built repeatedly-Align CTI's products and delivery to enable Citi's global business strategy-Monitor key performance indicators

New York, New York, Us

Graduate Program Overview- Upon graduating from UNT I joined Citigroup, Citigroup Technology Infrastructure (CTI) division. I participated in a leadership program with a class of about 15 colleagues in North America. We regularly attended training and learning sessions to get familiar with technologies and how departments within CTI operate. Program Rotations- 7 months; CTI Global Command Center, Strategy and Planning Team (Analyst)11 Months; CTI Product Management, Cloud/Distributed Application Hosting Portfolio (Analyst)

Purchase, New York, Us

In June 2013 I began my professional career and finally got to solve real industry problems I had only read about in books.- I participated in a Supply Chain internship with 12 colleagues at Frito-Lay and worked under the head of transportation strategy. Frito Lay maintains one of the largest private fleets in the world. Not only did I set the foundation for my career I also got familiar with concepts I had not learned in the class room such as transportation regulatory law.After my 3 month internship I stayed an additional 8 months during my senior year as a part time analyst.-route optimization finding $6MM in savings-data system validation finding root causes for miles differing in different systems.-3rd party contract assessments for cost savings leading to $600M in opportunity-Trailer(cubic feet in carrier) optimization and recommendations -process improvement analysis

Catonsville, Md, Us

• Executed efforts to create first student organization for the Decision Sciences department• Recruited faculty and students involved in the chapter• Built relationships with industry leaders and invited them to guest speak at the University• Authored founding documents, and submitted to University and National Organization for approval• Representative in external affairs• Provided direction for the chapter• Created chapter website

Master'S Degree, Cybersecurity

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba, Major: Decision Sciences (Mgmt Sci), Minor: Economics