CloudZero is a cloud cost management platform designed to help businesses understand and optimize their cloud spending. Leader of multiple product areas, responsible for driving strategy, implementation, adoption.- Chartered strategic visions across 2 product lines and 2 engineering teams, supporting CloudZeros growth, scalability and cost efficiency leading to 15% increase in user adoption- Gained product vision buy-in across Engineering, Design, Executive, Sales and Customer Success teams- Built and groomed a prioritized product backlog for two teams by leading negotiation and trade-off discussions with key cross functional stakeholders- Demonstrated strong technical acumen by quickly ramping up on diverse technologies and identifying potential risks and trade-offs in project execution.

Leader of Edge Messaging portfolio of products responsible for driving success through research, development, market positioning, and customer evangelization. - Managed a portfolio of two new and acquired products through the entire product lifecycle.- Spearheaded the integration of third-party applications into core platform functionality, collaborating with engineering teams to deliver scalable and reliable solutions - Grew product revenue by 7x over 1 year across two products by prioritizing customer feedback in the Beta phase and identifying target customers. - Increase in conversions from free trial to paid contract across product line by 10% by identifying process gaps. - Evaluated market, competitive, and pricing trends, working with marketing and field sales to refine go to market strategy and materials aimed at target customers.- Product Blogs: https://www.fastly.com/blog/ashley-vassell

Lead and represent a group of engineers responsible for building TLS related Fastly services. Play vital role in engineering-wide initiatives as key member of Fastly’s engineering management team. Mentor team on best engineering practices to ensure crafting of high-quality systems. Assist in providing secure and reliable APIs/UIs for customers. Coordinate with customer support team to incorporate customer feedback into products and processes.- Developed operations framework for Black Employee Resource Group (ERG) and coordinated with CPO (executive sponsor) to execute on goals aimed at Black employee satisfaction.- Led team to completion of 100% of quarterly OKRs.

Collaborate with engineering and product teams to support business goals and strategic initiatives. Coordinate with leadership and management on common definitions of JIRA Versions, Portfolios, and Epics. Identified/tracked dependencies and OKR status to Dashboard for engineering-wide visibility. Implemented automated weekly JIRA report for SysOps in Domo. Supported development of software and deployment to production.- Developed escalation framework aimed at defining and rollout revising vision/mission for operations teams.- Operated as President of newly formed Black Employee Resource Group (ERG) at Fastly to develop the initial charter as well as select first executive sponsor

Prometheus Group offers a platform for end to end Enterprise Asset Management solutions that can be hosted both on premise or on the emerging Cloud platform.• Led the emerging Cloud Engineering team by helping to define priorities, working with internal customers to discover pain points and turn into technical definition as well as define and document processes• Led cloud development and implementation for Analytics product

GE's Big Data Platform is home to the company's financial and business data. The Big Data Platform team is responsible for maintaining the various applications, feature requests and 24/7 uptime of the platform.• Acted as Product Manager and architect for design and implementation of data cataloging software on the platform using AWS services such as CloudFormation, EC2, S3, VPC while consulting with the Power business on solutions design and priorities to enable key business outcomes• Ensured successful availability and performance of GE’s Big Data AWS Platform through operations management• Completed PoC of Turbonomic and AWS TrustedAdvisor and other workload automation and optimizations tools to incorporate better practices into the existing platform for cost reduction and increased performance

During my 2 years on the Digital Technology Leadership Program I had the opportunity to work within 4 different industries within GE Power including Water & Process Technologies, Power Services and Renewable Energy. I took on a variety of roles including Migration Project Lead for a large monitoring and diagnostics platform on to AWS, Digital Industrial Engineer working with machine data to visualize and better represent the status of repair machinery, and Industrial Internet Manager working to migrate key pieces of a monitoring and diagnostics platform to GEs Predix software platform.• Architected and designed PoC of analytics engine using Kafka, Spark and Predix and acted as Technical Product Manager to oversee the development of the Production environment • Developed a systems integration test plan for infrastructure of an AWS platform• Migrated business applications to AWS Cloud environment that resulted in 50-86% cost savings per application• Implemented Agile Scrum methodology for Data Ingestion and Infrastructure AWS platform teams and continuously managed and lead scrum process as Scrum Master and Technical Product Manager• Built dashboards to monitor machine health data and model data elements from sensors to gain an overall view of how machinery is running in a Turbine repair shop• Created a 4 phase multi-generational product plan to manage the integrations of strategic ERP data into data lake environment by working with cross business teams across 4 ERPs.

Developed a comprehensive testing strategy for a large scale ERP implementation.Gained an understanding industry testing best practices for ERP Implementations.Identified and configured necessary tools for used for testing including HP ALM and Top Team.

Benchmarked and partnered with vendor on program strategy to design a global challenge platform aimed at improving the health of GE’s 300k employees and their families.Lead a company –wide pilot for iBooks and a mobile-friendly website aimed at simplifying the day to day tasks of executive administrators and company officers.Create a centralized, searchable repository for third party Corporate Healthcare contracts.

Worked on a client/server framework for queuing, executing and reporting on the outcome of commands run on one or more remote systems(Virtual Machines) Worked intimately within the .NET framework in C# Front-end web development with ASP.NET and SQL Server Worked with Remote Procedure Call technology; WCF Services and Windows Services