Dennis Lu Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

GPUs on Google Cloud

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Confluence Cloud Frontend UI Performance

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

• Managed team of PMs responsible for AI Platform Product to simplify and accelerate lifecycle of ML solutions, including data cleaning, feature engineering, model training, and deployment• Built infrastructure layer to support multiple delivery models including SaaS, Edge, and on-prem, delivered through Container technologies• Owned user experience targeting Data Scientists and ML Engineers• Executed multiple initiatives, including roadmap planning, release planning, agile transformation, market sizing, customer use case research, and other roles

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

• Created roadmap for VMware’s new Cloud based Edge Computing product as project’s first PM• Recruited and interviewed dozens of customers about their business goals and unique edge computing needs, along with their attempts to solve those needs with existing market solutions• Co-developed POC plans with large customer, including purchasing flow, hardware requirements, networking model, and support-and-service

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

• Led team of 10 PMs building the management GUI for VMware’s flagship product vSphere, improving the user experience for 300k+ customers who account for $5 billion+ in revenue• Directed joint efforts between UI and backend teams to improve usability for features across Storage, Networking, and Compute areas• Guaranteed availability of UI service in VMware Cloud’s AWS SaaS offering• Collaborated with UX to bring consumer like SaaS experiences to enterprise customers with a simplicity first philosophy, 2x faster speed, mobile friendliness, and frequent updates• Improved user happiness by 20% YoY, doubled customer adoption while raising NPS and CSAT• Actively engaged with customers through social media, presentations, user research, and on-site visits to prioritize product features• Presented to 1000+ at company’s annual VMworld, receiving 95% positive audience rating in consecutive years

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

• Created entry plan for $8 billion retail market by conducting customer research leading to recommended investigation into major vendor partnership implemented by director• Investigated Chromebook market verticals by analyzing internal and market data to deliver enterprise target recommendations guiding future marketing activities• Coordinated with Chrome product marketing and Google Apps sales to share product strategy and customer research to help improve quality of all products• Performed power study comparing many display options across multiple characteristics to enable faster design tradeoff decision making, including cost, power, weight, performance

Scottsdale, Az, Us

• Designed multi-level scorecard as objective basis for market evaluation and decision making• Presented new market recommendations based on market analyses and internal/external interviews to CEO and executives, and convinced leadership to enter $5 billion market

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Discovered and convinced CTO and CEO of performance modeling flaws in flagshipmicroprocessor; spearheaded initiative providing a company‑wide solution• Analyzed product goals, identified and implemented improvements, resulting in 25%gain in metrics, halting schedule delay• Organized cross‑functional design team meetings, aligning goals and balancing tasks,bringing performance metrics in line with product goals• Created automated system for generating and optimizing product components;widespread adoption reduced design time from 3 weeks to 1

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Built and delivered components for four different microprocessors and over a dozen variants, including fixes for several showstopping defects• Led team to fix critical issues blocking flagship microprocessor release, reducing project time by 3 weeks and saving $25 million• Prioritized project resources and eliminated duplicate work for my team resulting in 10% product performance improvement• Trained engineering teams in new design tools resulting in increased efficiency

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Collaborated with designers and PMs to improve user experience for Windows®• Created automated View Slider Control test suite to increase testing efficiency

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Master Of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering