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Palo Alto, CA, US

Finishing up my post-graduate in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning for Business Applications from McCombs School of Business at University of Texas, Austin.

Santa Clara, CA, US

Managed team of Product Managers and Technical Evangelists to deliver FlashArray product integrations and APIs/SDKs for Microsoft technologies.⦁ Created business cases, conducted market research, value propositions, feature roadmaps and customer engagements.⦁ Defined and managed integration roadmaps for Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio extension.

Santa Clara, CA, US

First Microsoft Solutions Architect at Pure responsible for defining and developing reference architectures to deploy SQL Server, SharePoint, Hyper-V and Exchange workloads on FlashArray. ⦁ Assisted Systems Engineers on pre- and post-sales calls influencing over $350M in revenue.⦁ Developed Pure’s first hybrid cloud solution using Microsoft Azure and.

San Jose, California, US

Focused on Microsoft SharePoint, NetApp SnapManager for SharePoint, SQL Server and SnapDrive product strategies and features.⦁ Defined multi-year product roadmaps, software architecture, and managed third-party ISV engineering for SnapManager for SharePoint.⦁ Delivered reference architectures to help customers reduce their time for deploying disaster.

Redmond, Washington, US

⦁ Managed team of 4 Program Managers to create content for Microsoft TechNet that provided a jump start for developers to build Office and SharePoint solutions. ⦁ Defined content roadmaps for the individual Office programs and SharePoint framework. ⦁ Wrote 2 Microsoft Press books covering Programming Microsoft Business Applications (2008) and 6 Microsoft.

Redmond, Washington, US

Created Smart Client strategy as part of.NET Framework adoption for Windows Forms, Microsoft Office and SharePoint extensibility models. ⦁ Delivered 30 invite only lab events to work hands on with ISVs developing their integrated solutions for Office, SharePoint. Built all deep-dive content, demonstrations, sample code and organized engineering resources.

Redmond, Washington, US

⦁ Developed Electronic Forms Designer toolkit for Visual Basic 3.0 with custom Visual Basic Custom Controls (VBXs) for mail routing and forms customization. First use was for internal Microsoft Giving Campaign to over 8,000 employees. ⦁ Wrote Professional Web Site Optimization in 1997 for Wrox Press.⦁ Presented at CES on the topic of Visual Basic custom.