Leading a product team across three sites (US, India, Australia) that is responsible for defining, expanding, and optimizing Google’s payment methods across Banking, eWallets, Direct Carrier Billing, Cash, and Stored Value. As a worldwide entity, Google supports as many different types of payment options, in as many locations as possible. Forms of Payment (FOPs) are key to monetizing Google’s products. The FOPs product management team enables Google’s businesses, like Ads, Cloud, Play, and YouTube, to grow through global expansion and better transaction experiences.

Worked across teams, across functions, and across the globe to deliver Google Cloud SQL.Cloud SQL is a managed service that makes it easy for users to set up, maintain, and manage MySQL, PostgreSQL, & SQL Server databases in the cloud. Launched the Second Generation platform (MySQL), now the foundation for all of Cloud SQL, as well as Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL. Grew and managed a team of product managers across all functions of Cloud SQL for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Responsible for:* Identifying user needs through qualitative and quantitative analysis* Defining roadmap, positioning, and pricing* Developing product vision* Setting success metrics and financial targets* Shipping a well crafted product

Product Line Manager for the ReadyDATA storage family. ReadyDATA is a unified storage line that brings enterprise features, like de-duplication, thin provisioning, replication and snapshots, to small and mid-size businesses. Job responsibilities:* Manage the product line, both hardware and software, through the product lifecycle, defining the product line vision and working closely with engineering to deliver successful products and features* Define pricing and forecast revenue for each product in the product family* Run beta and pilot programs with early-stage products and samples* Deliver Product Requirement Documents and User Stories with prioritized features and related justification* Work closely with Marketing to effectively position current and newly released products in the marketplace* Forecast worldwide inventory positions for products and product components* Develop GTM strategy, provide sales training, and create competitive materials to support product launch

Product Management of Hitachi IT Operations Suite software. The software delivers datacenter monitoring and desktop management for mid-size companies. Job responsibilities:* Directly managed a engineering team responsible for quickly supporting new hardware and software within the IT Operations Suite, allowing our sales teams to respond to customer requests for device support.* Defined product positioning and conducted competitive analysis* Managed entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to EOL of a product line from a technical perspective* Specified market requirements for current and future products based on customer feedback and market research* Introduced new releases and enhancements to industry analysts, sales teams, and key customers

Project management role with focus on testing and qualification of data storage hardware and software products. Job responsibilities:* Direct the overall product qualification effort between six engineering teams* Manage conflict within and external to the project team and conduct timely issue resolution meetings* Support the Sun Microsystems product release process by providing single representation to the Product Team and aligning inputs and deliverables between the Sun product release process and test engineering teams* Work with the product team to assess business requirements, define project schedule, and determine release criteria* Define test resource requirements and coordinate resource allocation* Schedule and conduct team meetings on a regular basis to communicate program information to the test engineering teams and ensure on-time delivery and conformance to requirements

Systems test engineering role with focus on customer emulation and interoperability testing. Accomplishments:* Facilitated product sales by providing white papers, best practices, and interoperability information to Sun’s sales force and customer engineers* Interfaced with customers and field employees to define test strategy of new products and conduct issue re-creation for beta accounts* Translated product marketing and customer profile information into a test plan and strategy* Developed and executed test plans to certify McData Fibre Channel switches and routers with the Sun/StorageTek product line including Engenio disk arrays* Analyzed requirements and products specifications to develop a test strategy and refined the strategy using test development methods such as boundary testing and pairwise analysis* Achieved proficiency in Storage Area Networking and System Administration as demonstrated by the following certifications:- Brocade SAN Design and Troubleshooting- McData Certified SAN Professional- McData Implementing IP SANs

Systems test engineering role with focus on interoperability testing. Accomplishments:* Worked with Senior Engineers to create Best Practices document for StorageTek BladeStore disk array and gathered interoperability data in large Storage Area Network environment* Performed validation of new StorageTek product line with Veritas software with Systems Engineers and obtained three certifications in SAN and UNIX concepts* Integrated application and operating system software, tape and disk storage devices, SAN, NAS, and other network attached components, to create a working solution* Achieved proficiency in Storage Area Networking and System Administration as demonstrated by the following certifications:- StorageTek Advanced SAN Concepts & Connectivity- Emulex Fibre Channel and SCSI-3 Networking