Company and product leadership, solution inventor, evangelist, ecosystem/alliance builder, and AI innovator. At Salesforce, I lead products and management. 2 Gen-AI patented inventions; Big Data, DevOps, Privacy, platform ecosystems, and economics. I envision and evangelize products and solutions, lead teams to build them, and market, sell, and deliver success with partner ecosystems. 20 patents.I enjoy mentoring many promising professionals.I am passionate about IT innovation, developers, platforms, marketplaces, partners, ecosystems, and evangelism.I am obsessed with innovating and delivering the best customer and partner experiences possible.At Microsoft in 1992-2010, I mastered incubation and innovation, solution selling, evangelism, cross-team leadership of customer-delighting products, complex program management, and engineering teams, global synergy. I authored "The Internet Video Tidal Wave whitepapers in 2005- I was invited to meet with BillG in Jan 2016. He agreed with my accurate predictions and advice -including purchasing YouTube and starting Silverlight. I Incubated products, services, and partner programs that made people wealthy. I delivered multiple version releases: 100+ highly rated training, demo titles (think TechNet in 199), products, services and UX from vision to V3 and beyond; many sales, marketing, and partner engagement programs Envisioned, led, partner strategy, product roadmaps and GTMSpecialties: Investment Due Diligence and Strategy, building and managing effective teams, strategic project management, innovating, architecture solutions, products, services and experiences; business development; field, customer & partner marketing and enablement; expert software development life cycles (SDLC), process engineering and taking products from vision to market; full product cycles. Positive & respectful attitude, highly rated presenter. Certified ScrumMaster, PMP trained. MSCP. Inventor with 15 patents, 2+ pending. Expert in cloud solutions ecosystem, cloud migration, DevOps, blockchain, collaborative SW; TV, digital media, devices/mobile, security, and privacy. Mac/IOS, Android, big-data.I grew up as a tool and die apprentice, in a family where we build everything and built whatever we wanted. My father was an inventor. So are my siblings and me. Manufacturing, inventing, and building things is in my blood. I am a multi-instrument musician, audio and video creator, and engineer for most of my life. my hobbies include science, especially quantum mechanics and computing, and leading-edge philosophies.
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