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Irving, Texas, United States

Irving, Tx, Us

Product Management lead for multiple platform as a service teams delivering Identity & Access Management, device/vehicle services management & provisioning, call center agent UX & workflows, and supporting platform services. Providing safety & security (life saving) and convenience services on connected vehicles for millions of subscribers.

New York, Ny, Us

SXM CV's API first, Cloud-centered PaaS for Connected Vehicle Services next-generation infrastructure.

Volunteer for data & mapping project(s) to local Police Department.Mentoring to two Houston early stage start-ups.

Missouri City, Texas, Us

Introduced and lead product management as a new function in the organization. Definition and delivery of the best in-car, body worn and stationary audio, video and presence capture, storage, retrieval and analysis systems in support of law enforcement.- Refined product strategy, road map and feature/function selection and definition.- With development leadership, implemented Agile / Scrum sprint planning utilizing Jira / Confluence.- Defined & prioritized backlog based on strategy, customer needs and company capacity & capabilities.- Established and lead team of two product managers and one technical writer.- Performed and published market and competitive research. - Modeled ROI and established product, support and cloud services pricing.- Evaluated and established 3rd party partnerships with complementary vendor solutions.- Addressed highly detailed contracts, terms of service and compliance programs creation and revision.- Wrote product marketing collateral, presentations, RFI & RFP responses and provided field training. - Successful financial / industry analyst and sale-of-company briefings.

RádnuSoft researched the use of predictive analytics to provide business growth insights for the investment community. It developed an analytics processing algorithm and tool set in support of this analysis. The resulting tools and IP sold and wind-up complete May 2016.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Research and product requirements/ product definition to implement large scale analytics / predictive analytics to improve Data Center outcomes. Specific areas of approach including:- network device instrumentation, data capture and on-device lifecycle- network device data export via synchronous and asynchronous methods including data streaming- data format/taxonomy formulation for optimizations of use and capacity- general publication & availability of these data sets/graphs- proprietary publication, delivery as specific outcomes/guidance based on these data sets/graphs

San Jose, Ca, Us

Product line manager responsible for data center management products. Overall manageability responsibility for Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) portfolio, including Application Control Engine ACE10/20/30 modules, ACE4710 appliance, and Cisco Application Networking Manager. Responsibility for market evaluation, requirements definition, coordination with engineering/manufacturing/training, and overall marketing programs.Managing product lifecycle from last round product development, reduced investment, to end of sale -- one of the few times a PM drives from start to finish.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Product line manager responsible for data center management products.Including Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager which encompasses Data Center management for DC Core Networks, Fabrics, and Storage Area Networks (SAN). Responsibility for market evaluation, requirements definition, coordination with engineering/manufacturing/training, and overall marketing programs. Taking current, established product to higher level of value to customers, working to provide better product differentiation and overal impact (profitability).

San Jose, Ca, Us

Product manager responsible for data center management products. Overall manageability responsibility for Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) portfolio. Product manager for Cisco Application Networking Manager and for Cisco ACE Global Site Selector. Responsibility for market evaluation, requirements definition, coordination with engineering/manufacturing/training, and overall marketing programs.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Focused on creation of management solution set for Metro Ethernet and Metro Optical networks. Ran the ME OSS team which worked to coerce, cajole, and convince the various product teams to develop and support the necessary manageability and management features to enable management of Cisco powered Metro Ethernet networks. Led to successful deployment at major carrier(s).

San Jose, Ca, Us

Joined Cisco in the Office of the CTO working on network management for service providers with focus on Voice-Over-IP-via broadband options. Took on role coordinating a number of efforts on network management "accounting" across Cisco including intial membership of Cisco to IPDR.ORG. In 2000 moved into Business Development role network management business unit, performing evaluations to provide guidance on investments and acquisitions as well as other partnership activities. Ancilliary work on general marketing programs.

Co-founder of Quintessent Communications, start up vendor of OSS Interconnect Systems. First real Product Mgr. job. Quintessent was a software start up that developed OSS gateways for carriers ordering and other OSS electronic data exchange. At Quintessent I co-developed what we would know of as the initial PRD, worked on product marketing, developing marketing and sales literature, as well as leading in product demonstrations including co-leading the TMF's first Catalyst Project (CIGP). I additionally worked in the ATIS/Ordering and Billing Forum as representative for Quintessent and our customers on exchange rules development, notably serving on the Local Pre-ordering committee and also sponsoring revamp of the Design Layout Reports for Access Ordering.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Founding member of SunNetworks, Sun Microsystems' network consulting arm. Within first year I was promoted to Practice Manager for the Network Management practice group and from there consulted and managed my consulting staff on over 30 projects for over a dozen Tier 1 Carriers, as well as commercial customers, with the most key being in charge of developing the network management agents and applications in support of McCaw Cellular's (ATT Wireless) data networks and subsequent development and deployment of CDPD. Other significant projects included network management design and deployments for Chubb Insurance, John Deere & Co., Smith Barney, Proctor and Gamble, revamps of NOCs for two carriers (MCI and Ameritech) as well as FedEx's GCOC, and support of the Divisional Advanced Warfighter (DAWE) project with the US Army.

CAT II NetWare instructor and network consultant with The Matrix Organization, which became CGI and subsequently was acquired by IBM. It was at this time I began focus on network management, moving from initial learning of protocol analyzers through to NMS platforms (HPOV, NetExpert, Ciscoworks, etc). During that time I worked on design, deployment and management of very large scale networks, ran a key network operating system performance analysis study, was architect of the network for the US Olympic Festival in San Antonio, served on many trade show boards of advisors while writing and presenting a number of tutorials and dozens of panel / session presentations, and wrote a number of articles that ran in leading trade journals (such as LAN Magazine, ComputerWorld, PC Magazine).