• Led hardware and software engineering functions responsible for development of the RightPick line of industrial robots, reported to the CEO• Dramatically increased the velocity of engineering innovation and customer value delivery, by instilling a growth mindset and optimizing team design, infrastructure, code, process, and tools.• Re-balanced engineering investments, pivoting away from custom engineering, and aligning the organization to build a highly reliably, configurable, and scalable product• Partnered with Product Management on a daily basis to guide company strategy, product direction, and technology choices• Increased the transparency of engineering output and available bandwidth, simplifying strategic roadmap trade-off discussions• Hosted investors, customers, and partners at company headquarters; discussed product strategy and engineering philosophy, and conducted tours and product demonstrations.• Scaled the engineering team through rapid growth of the business, increasing from 20 to 60 heads over the first 18 months. Planned and executed restructuring during economic downturn during the following 18 months.• Instilled in the team a sense of continuous improvement, leading to countless efficiencies. e.g., established hardware and software design review processes, increased pace of software releases from 6 weeks to 3 weeks, instituted multiple improvements to the backlog prioritization process to ensure rapid, incremental delivery of customer value• Established entirely new engineering functions, such as Quality Engineering, Sustaining Engineering, and a Program Management Office• Partnered with People Operations to establish a mentoring program, establish career ladders and competency matrices, re-vamp the performance review process, improve compensation strategy, and develop a leadership training program

• Led all engineering functions responsible for development of the HPE SimpliVity product, including development, QA, dev-ops, infrastructure and labs.• Demonstrated technical leadership in large distributed systems, storage, and virtualization.• Collaborated with internal stakeholders, business partners and customers to continuously adapt product vision and roadmap.• Delivered products generating $350m in fiscal 2019 revenue.• Lead a global organization of 600+ badged and contract employees.• Reinforced a culture of servant leadership, empowerment, teamwork and transparency, resulting in a happier, more motivated workforce; 20% YoY increase in employee engagement index.• Improved engineering predictability, increasing engineering say/do ratio from 40% to 110%.• Coached R&D to leverage the agile mindset to achieve and maintain a quarterly release cadence• Delivered 15 software releases, on time, over 15 consecutive quarters.• Overhauled the performance management process; inspired 10x increase in peer-to-peer feedback.

• Joined SimpliVity as a mid-stage start-up; 100 employees in the company, 60 in engineering• Led engineering operations, engineering program management, technical writing, and release engineering functions. • Oversaw the growth of operations during a time that SimpliVity engineering grew from 60 to 500 employees• Established the SimpliVity program and agile practice, ground up.• Reduced engineering release cycle time from 18 months to 6 weeks.• Provided vision, guidance, and thought leadership throughout the agile adoption.• Sponsored and championed agile training for 400+ developers, testers, writers, and mangers.• Revamped all requirements / defect management processes and tools.• Provided program management oversight for all SimpliVity programs.• Following 2017 acquisition by HPE, led M&A and integration activity, including organizing technology / tools / process training 250 engineers.

• Oversaw a team of project and program managers. Provided strategic direction, set priorities, managed assignments and managed performance.• Established roadmaps, identified program requirements and developed program schedules.• Collaborated with executive team and co-led a transformation from waterfall to agile development methodologies.• Coached and trained an organization of 1600 engineers on agile mindset and scrum principles.• Improved engineering release cycle time from 9 months to 12 weeks.• Oversaw the delivery of 30 software releases.• Spearheaded multiple process improvement initiatives (e.g. simplified software versioning, automated dependency tracking, streamlined defect management)

● Program managed the development, test and release of the EMC VNX series of Enterprise Storage Arrays.● Authored program plans and schedules. Ensured completion of all deliverables.● Facilitated, coordinated, and lead cross-functional teams comprised of various functions including: development, test, escalation engineering, global service, manufacturing and documentation.● Developed, defined and managed execution of critical program elements.● Lead priority setting and resource allocation relative to each program.● Communicated program status across core business units and software divisions.● Involved in program operations process transformation relative to merging of EMC’s Celerra, Centera and CLARiiON divisions. Unified change control, common presentation structures, common reporting dashboards and a unified document repository were developed.

● Planned, managed, tracked, and timely delivered major software development projects.● Generated project plans and project schedules.● Ensured that all project deliverables were met on schedule.● Regularly reported project status to key stakeholders from project inception through post-release.● Managed and communicated project risks and issues.● Coordinated task management in a matrix organization ensuring effective workflow between teams.● Ran regular project meetings and facilitated development meetings.● Ensured that all processes, including software design process, were followed.● Lead the midrange storage division’s software development lifecycle process improvement team.

• Designed, implemented, and maintained complex SAN environments including EMC Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage arrays, Fibre Channel connectivity hardware (switches, hubs), and attached servers. • Designed and maintained EMC Enterprise storage solutions; RAID, mirroring, cloning, snapshot and similar technologies (C, C++). Designed test automation with PERL and shell scripting.• Developed an expertise in Windows kernel debugging. Excelled at troubleshooting complex hardware and software problems. • Promoted to technical lead; Became technical point of contact for a software release.