Building the strategy, programs and offerings that enable the world's largest companies to migrate to the pubic cloud by working closely with strategic partners such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

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Making it simple for customers to build and deploy products and services to the IBM Cloud. Responsible for prioritizing requirements for new IBM Cloud features/services and partnering with engineering on the release roadmap. Developing non-traditional marketing assets like mobile apps to enable go-to-market activities for IBM Watson. Growth hacking to create interest and excitement around the IBM Cloud.

Led the Worldwide Product Marketing Team for IBM Security’s Identity & Access Management portfolio. Responsible for building and executing go-to-market plans that resulted in 5 straight quarters of double-digit revenue growth. I directed the activities of three Product Marketers and was responsible for budgeting and executing new marketing programs. I led the effort to develop new portfolio messaging and executed multiple product launches. As an evangelist for IBM Identity & Access Management solutions, I often spoke with industry analysts, prospects and current customers.

Boundary is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) system management solution that collects over 1 trillion performance and availability metrics a day. I led product management and was responsible for gathering requirements, developing a strategy and executing the product roadmap.Boundary was acquired by BMC Software.

Managed a team of product marketers and marketing mangers responsible for creating awareness and driving demand for a portfolio of SolarWinds products. Managed the SolarWinds Tools business (DameWare) and led the SolarWinds Security Portfolio (SIEM).

Led a team of Product Marketers responsible for launching, positioning and promoting CA’s Virtualization, Cloud & Server Automation products.

Led Product Management for this open source system management startup. Implemented a structured product planning process. Responsible for gathering and validating customer & market requirements. Worked extensively with executive team in developing product strategy.

Was privileged to manage an outstanding team of product managers and technical marketers. Responsible for setting strategic product direction for Sun’s Identity Manager. Worked extensively with M&A team to complete strategic acquisition that expanded product portfolio.

Met with prospects & customers to gather requirements for Sun’s Identity Manager. Collaborated with Engineering on creating and maintaining product roadmap. Gave many, many, many product roadmap presentations. During my tenure the product was named a leader in both the Gartner Magic Quadrant and the Forrester Wave.

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Launched BMC’s PATROL Express monitoring solution (now BMC’s Performance Manager). Responsible for collecting and prioritizing requirements for the first product release. Evangelized and championed PATROL Express both internally and externally. Consistently grew product revenue year-over-year.

First product manager hired by this web monitoring startup. Responsible for gathering requirements and product planning for the SiteAngel web-monitoring service. Helped lead Evity to a successful acquisition by BMC Software. Led post-acquisition integration activities including repricing and positioning of SiteAngel into BMC Software’s product portfolio.

Traveled the world giving pre-sales presentations to prospective customers. Created technical responses for customer RFPs. Taught product training classes on ObjectSpace's Catalyst product. Worked with software sales reps to close new business!

Designed and implemented features in C++ for ObjectSpace's Catalyst process control product. Implemented a distributed scheduling system in Java that helped reduce fabrication time of semiconductor chips. Worked on site with key customers in deploying early versions of new products and releases.