Driving the product portfolio transformation in support of a company reinvention with the CEO, CFO, CRO and CSO, by doubling down on delivering a delightful user experience to our customers while not only adding products but fundamentally changing the way we build them.Drive the long range financial plan with the CFO and CRO defining the five year path from a primarily (95+%) hardware-based revenue model to a blended hardware and software-only, cloud-first, subscription software model through strategic partnerships with leading enterprise platform vendors and key distributors.Own the multiproduct storage and data management portfolio at Quantum driving $400+ million overall revenue, covering media and entertainment storage, deep archiving, backup appliances, video surveillance and media asset management.Define with the team the long term innovation roadmap in support of the long range financial plan. Drive investment in new products to blow open TAM into new use cases, new verticals and new customers.Recast and synthesize industry analyst market data to drill into a new go-to-market approach for Quantum that leverages our product portfolio as a solution set to attack more focused point product companies.Oversaw pricing restructuring to accomplish our business transformation to a primarily software driven model.

At DriveScale I am collaborating to develop the next generation approach to deploying commodity compute, storage and GPU on high performance NVME fabric in the data center. I am a key contact with analysts and prospects with an eye towards increasing the sales pipeline. I am also deeply involved in fund raising activities and strategic discussions. 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀:▪️ Position DriveScale as a technology innovator in both Series B fund raising activities and strategic discussions.▪️ Led the redesign of DriveScale's orchestration product user interface to be intuitive, visually data rich and focused on a delightful new customer experience. Emphasis was on expected new user workflows to accelerate product evaluation.▪️ Co-authored two presentations for key conferences to emphasize DriveScale's product innovation and differentiation: on the DriveScale product architecture and integration with Kubernetes to provide dynamically provisioned persistent commodity storage for containers, that continue to be used in strategic discussions.

Consulted on performance benchmarking and NFS Version 4.

Worked with a small group of brilliant people on next generation storage architectures. I worked across Pure positioning the new scale-out NAS product and with key customers and partners worldwide to ensure a successful launch. I determined improvements to the core product installation process with an eye to reducing field cost at deployment that resulted in changes to product packaging and streamlining of documentation. I investigated a strategic position for a Software Defined Storage product as part of a cross functional team. I met with customers ranging from Wall St. to hyperscalers to zero in on key requirements and refine TAM estimates. I did performance benchmarking and analysis of the FlashBlade product to define release criteria and determine progress to goal. 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀: ▪️ Investigated a strategic position for Software Defined Storage in the CTO office and made recommendations for positioning and refining TAM estimates. ▪️ Worked on a cross functional team on positioning and release criteria for Pure’s new scale-out product FlashBlade, targeted for the NAS market.▪️ Improved product installation effort for Pure’s primary SAN product FlashArray from box to first I/O.

Mission is to increase the impact of women on all aspects of technology, and increase the positive impact of technology on the world's women. Chair of the Nomination and Governance (Board Affairs) Committee. Member of Compensation Committee.

By 2012, the storage market pivoting to All Flash Arrays (AFA) and NetApp was in a bind without a clear differentiated product and IP response. I led an effort to decide to make vs. buy an AFA product and ended up creating the first start-up within NetApp to build a new product from scratch. With the only directives being “Build us a competitive All Flash Array, and don’t come back until you’re finished.” and “Don’t do anything NetApp has done before unless it helps you achieve that.”I left the main NetApp campus with four handpicked senior architects and built a cross-functional team of 150 people to deliver FlashRay V1.0. We achieved success by deploying a new Continuous Integration/Test infrastructure with entirely new-to-NetApp tool chains with a laser focus on developer productivity and Day One employee integration. We implemented the entire system in user space on Linux while making no compromise on performance.𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀:▪️ Delivered FlashRay V1.0 in two years and put NetApp on the industry AFA map.▪️ First at NetApp to exploit true commodity (SATA) SSDs and enable their use through a data layer that minimized write amplification by variable length block packing, always-on inline deduplication and compression which resulted in industry leading storage efficiency.▪️ Innovations led to industry-leading storage efficiency, performance, and radically improved usability and resulted in more than 50 fundamental patents being awarded to NetApp. ▪️ We delivered an enhanced user experience through 100% immersion of the entire team in usability studies resulting in a 32 minute install time from unboxing to first I/O.▪️ We were the first product at NetApp to be fully I18N and L10N compliant for six languages including Simplified Chinese and Korean.

Drove the vision and innovation for a cutting edge storage architecture and products to the delight of our customers. Led the completion of the Spinnaker Networks technology integration that is the basis for today's NetApp’s core product ONTAP 9 that continues to generate the majority of their $6Bn revenue. 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀:▪️ Created a three day annual innovation jam which resulted in NetApp's first five year vision and roadmap to guide product development investments and to identify new areas of investment. The vision work led directly to the spinning up of the FlashRay project.▪️ Managed an extraordinary team of technical hardware and software architects across the company to drive a coherent product vision for customers.

I was the first Chief Architect at NetApp. Designed and implemented an Advanced Technology Group (equivalent to NetApp Labs) that had a strong track record of innovation, publication and product influence. More than 75 papers were placed at top tier conferences such as FAST, MSST, FSE, HotStorage, SYSTOR, and SOSP. where they won several best paper awards. The ATG group was a patent generating engine for NetApp. 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀:▪️ Led the technical due diligence efforts that resulted in the largest acquisition by NetApp at that time, Spinnaker Networks. That clustered storage technology became and remains the basis for ONTAP 9 today. ▪️ Created a streamlined approach for comprehensive technical due diligence, in concert with the NetApp legal team, that became a template for later acquisitions.▪️ Wrote the first open source code license compliance scanners for NetApp and remediated the ONTAP code base to unlock the IBM OEM deal, and resulted in the creation of the first Open Source Compliance strategy for NetApp.

In 2000, NetApp was disrupted by the disappearance of Internet-focused customers (the dot com crash) which resulted in a revenue drop in one year from $1.02Bn to $786M. I started and built the team to deliver new SAN storage product capabilities to allow NetApp to expand their market to the enterprise data center helping drive a return to year over year hyper growth in customers and revenue.𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀:▪️ Launched a new SAN storage product from conception to the first customer ship in under 18 months which led NetApp to create a new market category called Unified Storage for the combined NAS and SAN products (2002) to shift NetApp from selling to internet focused customers to selling to established enterprises.▪️ Expanded the product to include the newly ratified IETF iSCSI protocol which by 2004 resulted in NetApp leading the industry with a 43% revenue share of the iSCSI storage market. ▪️ 11 quarters of iSCSI storage market dominance helped restore NetApp to a $1Bn company with several years of 35+% YoY revenue growth that took the company to $3Bn annual revenue.

𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀:▪️ Chief Technology Officer for NetApp's European subsidiary where I directed funding to the Linux open source community. ▪️ As head of Customer Support, staged a usability study of a planned upgrade of our primary production filer "maytag". The massive fail of the upgrade led to a new, award winning documentation set, and a custom enclosure design focused on serviceability that reduced time to replace failed components in the field ten fold. ▪️ Focused on improvement of product performance.

Mission is to standardize Linux, support its growth, and promote its commercial adoption. Linus Torvald's boss. Chair of the Compensation Committee.

𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀:▪️ Co-architect of the NFS Version 3 protocol and led the core NFS development team.▪️ Drove a 5X increase in NFS server performance on our new large scale symmetric multiprocessing servers running Solaris 2. This work enabled Sun to lead the market in NFS file server performance for several years.▪️ Built and led a cross-technology team of UNIX and mainframe software architects that implemented a multiprocessing NFS server for MVS which was later licensed and distributed worldwide by IBM. The project was jointly funded by Sun and EDS.