David Roberts Email & Phone Number

El Cerrito, Ca, Us

New York, Ny, Us

I am currently leading Product Management for our Cash Cloud Platform used to power all Cash services for over 50M users.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Helping define architecture and migration strategies for a variety of customer on their journey migrating to, and operating efficiently on AWS. • Drove the migration efforts of a billion dollar tech company 5000 servers and 100PB of data to AWS in 9 months.• Designed a data lake solution to allow customers to meet CCPA and GDPR data retention policies.• Trained and mentored newly onboarded Solution Architects on Well Architected design patterns, best practices, and designing AWS analytical solutions.• Successfully accelerated the migration of a billion dollar tech company to AWS in 6 months.• Lead regular speaking engagements on big data and analytics to customers at the AWS Loft• Designed a data lake solution to allow customers to meet CCPA and GDPR data retention policies.• Trained and mentored newly onboarded Solution Architects on Well Architected design patterns, best practices, and designing AWS analytical solutions.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Successful transformed previously siloed underperforming product into overall performance management portfolio, increasing average deal size over 40%. • Converted standalone product offering into SaaS service, subscription-based offering dramatically reducing average sales cycle from 9 to 2 months.• Directly managed Agile SCRUM team, operated as product owner and ScrumMaster when required.• Enjoyed 90+% customer loyalty and top Gartner magic quadrant leader ranking for the last 5 years.• Led speaking engagements at vendor conferences, invited as regular panelist/presenter at Enterprise Connect for the past 3 years.• Served as technical subject matter expert on the impact of network performance on real-time communication protocols regularly authoring whitepapers and leading webinars.• Designed and delivered custom training curriculum for global sales team and partners on how to effectively communicate product features from a business value perspective.• Ran quarterly briefings to executive management to justify investment decisions offer transparent accounting of both product successes and misses

Redwood City, Ca, Us

• Successfully delivered 15 product releases over 7 years, helping to increase quarterly sales by over 20-50% for 10 consecutive quarters. • Built positive relationships and trust through on-time delivery, high quality, continuous innovation, strong communication, and the exceeding of expectations.• Collaborated with development (on and off-shore), Q&A, and sales engineering team(s) through the development and release cycle as well as ongoing/sustaining operations.• Worked side-by-side with developers on rapid prototyping of new functionality and GUI designs. • Researched market drivers, business cases, and new revenue streams to develop product roadmap and vision guiding Executive and Board strategic decisions.• Trained and provided ongoing support for business development, sales, and engineering teams on product value proposition, functionality, and best practices. • Rapidly absorbed new VoIP domain knowledge and within months became the resident expert.

Digital Fountain had several products mainly targeting acceleration of large data files over high bandwidth, long distance (high latency) WANs. As a Sr. Systems Consultant, I used my knowledge of data networks to provide a solution to prospective customers. Work involved ‘wearing many hats’ such as product developer, technical support engineer, sales engineer, product trainer, quality assurance engineer and solutions engineer utilizing broad array of skills adapting to the needs of the moment for a startup company. The company was ultimately acquired by Qualcomm.• Continually performed in depth analysis of competing products from the protocol layer through usability assessment; the results being incorporated directly into marketing design requirements for follow-on product releases.• Considered “go-to-guy” for developing new ideas to address previously unseen customer integration or environmental issues. Regularly requested first to be resident ‘technical expert’ during first encounters with potential customer conference calls and meetings by sales and business development departments.

Boise, Idaho, Us

• Consulted for various Internet companies throughout San Francisco helping to fix mission critical problems and assist in IT growth areas. • Analyzed data flow patterns and discovered numerous security flaws and inefficiencies in production network design. Made network configuration changes reducing administrative complexity and frequency of application network errors. • Lead streaming website load testing execution and discovered flaw in application server plugin component which caused degraded streaming performance. Removed faulty module resulting in over 100% increased performance and received Taos Client Appreciation Award.

Master Of Science - Ms, Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Engineering