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Mountain View, Ca, Us

Leading Product Management for production platforms and tooling used across Alphabet, from YouTube, Search, Ads, Maps, Gmail through GCP, that make it possible for Alphabet to run the largest systems on the planet supporting billions of users with the highest reliability standards in the industry. My work influences vision, strategy and roadmap for 600+ Google engineers, and requires alignment with senior leaders and executives leading the different Alphabet business units on prioritization and investments.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led Product Management for PowerBI governance, security, administration, B2B data sharing, big data analytics, reporting services, PowerBI Premium, and the SaaS platform.Wrote the first PRD / requirements document to integrate Azure workloads into the SaaS platform, what has become now Microsoft Fabric. Reported directly to a CVP.This was a fantastic role. Google came knocking my door and I decided to take the opportunity to work with products that serve billions of users.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Ran the business side of Product Management for a ~40% of Azure services, driving business models, monetization and adoption strategy. My primary responsibility was to maximize Microsoft's revenue, driving customers to adopt new products through innovative business models, generating additional revenues through premium offerings validated through customer willingness to pay studies, defining product positioning partnering with marketing in GTM, and influencing engineering to build market leading functionality that would bring commercial benefits to Microsoft.Role required cross-team collaboration and influencing 20+ distinct engineering teams, as my scope covered:- innovating on business model and business strategy for new products such as Edge and Azure Arc for disconnected / semi-connected environments and AI/ML (including tiny AI embedded in chips) and other AI/ML incubation projects working directly with ISVs and image processing semiconductor partners - accelerating revenue growth for products in the analytics and data governance market, including vertical solutions- generating additional revenues with Premium launches for products in established markets such as Azure Databases (including SQL Server) and Azure Storage.I had the opportunity to work directly with C-level executives, presenting proposals and getting buy-in from them. Reported directly to a CVP.

Seattle, Wa, Us

I joined Redfin to apply my business PM and M&A skills in a consumer business, and follow my personal passion in Real Estate.At Redfin, I evaluated M&A acquisition targets, and developed strategies and business plans for expanding into new markets such as Canada and rentals.

Aliso Viejo, Ca, Us

Key team member of the corporate development team that executed the Software group divestiture from Dell to Francisco Partners and Elliot Management, a ~$2B revenue, 6000+ employee business. Worked on the full M&A cycle, from creating investment portfolio materials, through due diligence and M&A integration. Led cross-functional separation strategy, planning, and execution for different departments to form an independent company. Responsible for setting up new corporate functions that relied on Dell corporate as independent departments in the new company. Reported directly to the CFO.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Led a multi-disciplinary team creating predictive analytics product solutions applying innovative AI/ML models to build specific business solutions such as marketing analytics, sentiment analysis, healthcare analytics and others. Built end-to-end solutions and GTM for analytics integrating software in application integration, BI and AI/ML, and GTM solutions with software and hardware.Responsible for Build, Buy, Partner strategies and execution for growth in the Business Intelligence and Operational Analytics market space. Reported directly to a VP & GM whose skip manager was Michael Dell.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Drove the growth and adoption of a product line of emerging and fast-growing solutions for Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics. The product portfolio included new products for self-service BI, self-service data integration, data federation, Hadoop-based analytics, and Natural Language Processing.

Led Database Management product portfolio with more than 30 products for IT professionals offering database development, administration, data replication, performance monitoring and alerting, including market-leading products Toad and Spotlight. Evolved portfolio into cloud, SaaS, NoSQL, Hadoop, Data Integration, Analytics, and Eclipse. Global responsibility for all aspects of business and driving all operational groups across the company.

Managed a team of Product Managers and directed the entire product development cycle of the Toad for Oracle product family, the #1 tool for Oracle professionals with more than 2M users. Defined product line direction and goals. Created business cases and market requirements for new products. Developed competitive strategies and go-to-market plans. Engaged with peers across the organization in sales operations, tech support, finance, and R&D to ensure the success of the product line.

Drove integration of the Lecco SQL tuning portfolio acquired by Quest Software, rolling out functionality as part of Quest database administration and monitoring portfolio. Drove product strategy to innovate in the performance monitoring, diagnostics and analysis market launching solutions for historical and real-time performance monitoring such as Foglight Performance Analysis and Spotlight.

Lead Product Management, pre-sales and customer support teams in a start-up company in the SF Bay Area with HQ in Hong Kong acquired by Quest Software in 2004. Defined strategic direction for products and roadmaps of unique Artificial Intelligence-based SQL Optimization software offerings. Besides driving engineering prioritization and product strategy, lead GTM activities including evangelism on the unique value and solutions that Artificial Intelligence technology can offer when applied to database performance tuning. Frequent speaker in technical conferences such as Oracle and SQL Server user groups, and Sybase Techwave. Participated in key OEM partnership negotiations and implementations of SQL optimization technology to complement offerings from companies such as Sybase, Mercury Interactive, NetIQ and Candle Corp.

I started my professional career as a software engineering building executive information systems using Java, Perl and T-SQL. I designed and built a data warehouse for a large parcel and courier company in Mexico. I specialized on UX design and graphics using Java, performance tuning at the Java and app layers, and also tuning performance of databases such as Sybase. Experienced working with SQL Server and Oracle too.

Certificate, Blockchain Technologies

Certificate, Leading Organizations And Change

Certificate, Strategic Communications And Negotiations

Certificate, Executive Leadership

Masters, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Engineering