Curt Collins Email & Phone Number

San Jose, CA, US

Took time off to help with family and complete personal / home / life projects. Recently restarted job search.

Menlo Park, CA, US

• I led several efforts to address Meta’s most difficult data, AI/ML, and privacy challenges after a $5B FTC fine in 2019, focused on data use across all apps (Facebook, Instagram, Reality Labs, WhatsApp) world-wide:
• Machine Learning (ML): managed the product team’s delivery of a secure, mobile on-device platform for internal Engineers that captures and uses data in privacy-safe ML models; published research.
• Consumer ML models: supported creation, maintenance, and data / privacy review of dozens of critical ML models (FB/IG People You May Know, Friends & Family, Age, Gender, Trust & Safety, etc.)
• Unified Identity Graph: managed the product team's delivery of a secure, privacy-safe data infrastructure solution for Meta's 3B+ user "identity graph," supporting dozens of apps / features and AI/ML models.
• Product Growth: overhauled user flows across all apps (new user reg, resurrection, notifications, etc.) while migrating the 3B+ user base to new privacy terms and maintaining positive / neutral growth rates.
• Data Analytics: implemented a solution for data scientists to handle 1000s of data analytics reqs per day.

• This is a personal consulting company that I spin up in-between full time roles. I provide PM and business strategy consulting services, typically as a VP of PM in startups (all company names are confidential):
• Digital marketing big data & analytics startup (acquired): led a project to identify new growth areas,generate & test product ideas, develop customers, and secure pilots to accelerate revenue growth.
• Customer behavior & audience data startup: Led a project to identify major potential uses in ad tech for a highly differentiated data source, create related sales / biz dev materials, and pitch to key partners.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Yahoo was merged with AOL in 2017, then spun out of Verizon in 2021. I led a team of ~40 PMs covering 3 company-wide B2B SaaS platforms for ads and related infrastructure, generating $1+ B in annual revenue:BrightRoll.
• Handled 100 B reqs / day across 6 data centers WW using real-time auctions (<100ms response).
• Full campaign mgmt: planning / setup, DMP / APIs, targeting, measurement, reporting / analytics
• Bidding / optimization: implemented auction & bidding strategies, multi-goal optimization (e.g. CPM, CPC, CPA, viewability, brand safety, etc.), pacing, frequency capping, pre-/post-bid measurement, etc.Targeting: data.
• Enabled targeting by all Yahoo ad platforms (DSP, Premium, Gemini Native, and Search).
• Ad targeting: audience (interests, demographic, look-alikes, retargeting), keyword, contextual, geo, etc.Trust & Safety: infrastructure providing "safety and security " for all Yahoo ad platforms

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• BrightRoll (acq. by Yahoo) was an industry leading platform for the delivery of programmatic video ads.
• Covered the Demand Side Platform, Sell Side Tools, Data Infra Platforms, and Data Centers / DevOps.
• Led Big Data / Analytics tech efforts (data pipelines, log processing, structured & ad hoc analytics).
• Replaced legacy data infra with linear scale platforms (~20 B reqs / 20 TB per day) with no downtime.
• Led Infrastructure & Ops efforts for cloud services and 6 data centers, including DevOps & CI/CD tools.

• Same Axata as above. I ran projects for many satisfied clients (company names are confidential):
• Leading networking SaaS startup: Completed concept commit, wrote user stories for a new class of network device and SaaS cloud management solution. Managed delivery of POCs for both.
• Leading network management SaaS startup: Wrote all user stories for a cloud-based SaaS NM service.
• Optical net vendor: Analyzed market effects of SaaS network trends, made growth recommendations.
• Cable / MSO consortium: Bandwidth impact on cost / revenue, SaaS net effects, and recommendations.
• Large networking vendor: Performed a competitive analysis of SaaS networking vendors’ products.

San Francisco, California, US

• Splunk provides a real-time "big data" and analytics platform for gathering, analyzing, and visualizing text-based IT data over long time periods. Built 2 products covering VMware and WebSphere App. Servers:
• Hired / managed the 12-person Infrastructure & Operations team (Engineering, QA, Docs, and PM).
• Eng. Management: created product architecture, technical infra, and trained team on VMware & Splunk.
• Delivered two enterprise-class 0 to 1 products in 18 months with a brand-new team.
• Closed $200K revenue in 1st week of 1.0 VMware GA release; built beta pipeline of $2.5 M.
• Worked with customers, determined the minimal viable product, and wrote the user stories.

• Same Axata as above; pursued a product development partnership with Juniper Networks:
• Created the PRD for an XML-based network management software product.
• Built a subscription-based business model and financials (pricing, revenue, P&L, break-even, etc.)

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• CBD was the “in-house McKinsey” team at Juniper. We worked with external partners (Investment Banks, Consultants / McKinsey, tech vendors, etc.) We also led critical “internal-only” company initiatives such as:Market &.
• Virtualization / VMware, Data Center infra, Net & Systems Mgmt, Storage / SANs, Switching / SLB
• Security S/W & Mgmt, SIEM, Net Access Control, Web Services Security (XACML / RBAC) Strategy: led 18 cross-functional team projects to analyze, present, and execute strategic initiatives.
• Initiated 4 new Network Management software products; improved competitiveness of 5 product lines.
• Co-wrote the business plan for “QFabric” (next-gen converged Ethernet / FibreChannel solution for the Data Center) with Juniper’s CTO; invested $200 M and created a new Data Center division.Alliances: managed 13.
• Co-led deal team that closed a critical data center partnership and $35 M investment from IBM.M & A: managed 26 acquisition initiatives, created and presented business cases to Executive Staff.Investments: evaluated 16.

Customer & PRD work for deep packet inspection s/w and a network-based systems integration product while getting my MBA (part-time).

Led delivery of our first product, an enterprise class x86 blade server that unified compute, storage, networking, and virtualization into a single fabric (similar to Cisco UCS, Nutanix, and VMware). Wrote PRDs, sales, and competitive materials. Secured several F500 customers and a $17.5 M series B round.U.S. Patent (# 7,873,693) "Multi-chassis.

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Co-founded a startup that built XML acceleration tech (h/w & s/w) for enterprise application servers (J2EE). Wrote product requirements, sales & investor materials; secured interest from 26 F500 customers, etc.

• A DSL startup that went from initial start to IPO in 3 years. Managed a Systems Integration and TechnicalSales Eng. team supporting 40 telecoms; received 2 awards for growing revenue from $5 M to $157 M.Sr. Software.
• Built our first telecom h/w product as part of the founding Eng. team.

Designed and implemented device drivers, embedded s/w, and testing infra for fiber-optic internet h/w.U.S. Patent (# 6,914,907) "Method and Apparatus for Providing Multicast Transmissions Using a Distributed Router."

Ms, Computer Science

Mba, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Marketing, Finance

Bs, Computer Science, Minor In Mathematics