Delivering software solutions that delight customers. Senior product manager with 20+ years of technical experience in the IT industry with an emphasis on security solutions. My career has let me use these products, and I know the pain of trying to keep Information Technology one of those magical “it just works” part of life.In my work with various software companies in development and sales engineering, I got to work hand in hand with customers from all over the globe in every industry. This has given me a fantastic ability to see how a product can be used (and let's face it, sometimes misused) by customers when their only job is to keep their company running. My passion is taking a product idea through the development process and delivering a solution the end users can’t get enough of. The whole process these days is a beautiful thing with methodologies like AGILE and LEAN that allow a company to work with the customers to produce rapid solutions that are in constant states of improvement. In any given day I might be working with customers to show them an upcoming release, delivering customer feedback to developers, marketing to explain the new capabilities and sales to explain the how the new capabilities will let them outsell the competition. All followed by study time where working on the next big project. Cannot get enough of:• Working with customers and partners• Continuous Improvement (Every engineer knows a project is never really “Done”)• Delighting the customer• Building teamsSpecific Accomplishments• Increased sales ~20% YOY with new compelling features, co-sales customer meetings, and a complete overhaul of marketing materials.• Led multiple engineering teams to adopt an Agile model, increasing development velocity by ~30%
Listed skills include Storage, Voip, Network Security, Windows Server, and 34 others.