David Asher Email & Phone Number

United States

Now writing a book on software management to be published by Springer, available in December. For a preview of some content, see my blog postings:https://medium.com/managing-software-development

Seattle, WA, US

• AWS File Gateway, enterprise cloud/hybrid storage appliance transferring files to Amazon S3
• Hired, trained, and managed a distributed engineering team in full remote working model
• Improved process and training to reduce production bugs and enjoy predictable release cycles
• Asserted technical direction over storage architecture, filesystem protocols, scale and security
• Delivered 4 - 6 feature and maintenance updates per year compliant with AWS security requirements, continuous integration, pipeline testing, and other AWS operational standards

Framingham, Massachusetts, US

• Consumer audio devices operating worldwide with media streaming and voice assistants
• Conceived and delivered a platform for microservice rapid development and IoT device management, enabling non-cloud engineers to quickly build scalable and secure cloud apps
• Hired and managed a team of 50+ developers, managers, devops, SRE, architects, security
• Early adoption of Kubernetes, Golang, service mesh, OpenAPI, API gateway, and AWS IoT
• Defined tenets - API-first design, microservices architecture, information transparency, intellectual diversity, you build it you own it, RFC process, root-cause analysis on all ops incidents
• Senior member of cross-functional design leads team, bridging firmware, mobile apps, and cloud, enabling a new multi-product cloud-connected architecture to reach market in under two years

Wellesley, Massachusetts, US

• Cross-platform low-code mobile app design system with online app builder and backend services
• Redirected product strategy from SMB to enterprise, leading to a win with Walmart
• Product management and more: customer support, analyst relations, fundraising, marketing
• Wrote identity system based on OAuth to enable social network login

Parsippany, NJ, US

• Telecom equipment manufacturer of high-density media processing subsystems
• Conceived and delivered the Vision Media Server for interactive voice and video telco apps, transforming the business from boards to systems, reducing customer TTM from years to months
• Partner and customer relationships with Ericsson, Lucent, Nortel, Avaya, Intervoice, others

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• SaaS data protection product portfolio with Connected PC and LiveVault Server Backup
• Owned P/L for the $100M+ data protection product portfolio, achieving growth and profitability (30% contribution) against free service competitors and the 2008-9 market crash
• Hired, mentored, and managed a team of Product Managers
• Created and led the Business Team structure that improved the quality and outcomes of business and technology decisions with reduced executive escalation and involvement
• Partnered with Microsoft Data Protector for joint product development of Cloud Recovery
• Customer and partner relationships with HP, Boeing, Google, Intel, Dell, McKinsey, and others

Acquired by Dialogic, product management of Vision Media Server and other telco components for high density media processing

Managed team of kernel developers in Unix and Windows; ported complex system software to Linux. Managed department of engineering quality, software build & release, documentation, and process.

Waltham, MA, US

Initiated, architected, and led the development for ABSNet.net, which transformed a traditional fax-based process into a real-time online platform for financial performance reporting and analysis.

Conceived and led the development of Banyan Intranet Connect, the industry's first web-based email service for enterprise, disrupting the remote dial-up server market. Managed the cross functional team to deliver several releases including internationalization.

Mba, Executive Mba

Ms, Electrical Engineering

Bs, Physics, Computer Science