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Boston, Ma, Us

San Jose, California, Us

As a Principal Product Specialist, Microsegmentation, I am a member of a small product management team who focuses on developing, selling, and implementing novel, industry-leading, microsegmentation and macrosegmentation products. I personally feel that a platform-centric and multi-tiered approach to cybersecurity that includes user-network segmentation, workload macrosegmentation, and workload microsegmentation, is a corporation's best approach to stopping malicious actors from breaching their environment, establishing a foothold, and moving laterally to compromise core assets.

San Jose, California, Us

San Jose, California, Us

San Jose, California, Us

San Jose, California, Us

Zscaler acquired Edgewise Networks in May 2020.

Edgewise’s mission is to eliminate network attack surface, stop lateral movement and prevent breaches in data centers and clouds. Unlike other microsegmentation products that rely on complex, address-based controls, Edgewise is a radically simpler solution that delivers software identity-based microsegmentation with one click. With zero trust at the core, Edgewise allows only verified software to communicate using policies built automatically by machine learning. Edgewise, a Gartner Cool Vendor and SINET 16 Innovator, has three approved patents and eight pending. Edgewise was founded in 2016 in Boston and is backed by investors including Accomplice and .406 Ventures (Veracode, Carbon Black, ThreatStack and Recorded Future). See our 1-Click Auto-Segmentation video at www.edgewise.net

Reporting to the CEO, I am responsible for product vision, various facets of sprint planning and execution, aspects of customer care and support, various technical partner and platform relationships, and the ongoing quality and applicability of Infinio Accelerator.I also currently manage IT. I focus on keeping both our on-premises and cloud-based systems running optimally so that Engineering can focus on building a first class product.

While in this role I was responsible for all feature definition and played a key part in all UX design, the sales process, the support process, product documentation, and customer care. I reported directly to the Director of Product Management.

Hired as the first software engineer in the QA group for the purpose of test automation, my responsibilities quickly expanded due to my systems engineering background. They soon included systems administration, development operations, and build and release engineering as well. I played a key role in the early days of QA and DevOps at Infinio, up to and through the release of Infinio Accelerator 1.0.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

- Co-developed an automated certification test kit for vendors and customers to use to verify XenServer compatibility with server systems and networking hardware- Was responsible for triaging XenServer issues having to do with Citrix Provisioning Services, XenServer Integrated StorageLink, and XenServer hardware compatibility- Was responsible for XenServer/Provisioning Services interoperability, hardware certification kit and website collateral, and in-house compatibility testing, per XenServer release, including but not limited to automated and manual testing, test planning, feature development, and vendor/partner relations- Maintained the XenServer Hardware Compatibility List website and mailing list

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

- Performed testing exploring XenServer hardware limits, compatibility, and performance- Maintained the XenServer Hardware Compatibility List mailing list and website- Managed the Dell, IBM, Cisco, and Intel ESAA relationships for Citrix/vendor hardware compatibility testing- Installed and managed the local automated testing site

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Worked closely with SQA engineering and product management on the Citrix Provisioning Server product to test and demonstrate advanced features and pre-release builds. Also coordinated the QA/Demo lab where I assist the northeast sales engineering team with customer demonstrations and troubleshooting. I also had the oppertunity to travel to Citrix Summit US 2008 where I organized, implemented, and helped staff four booths at the tech demonstration lab and was partially responsible for the Provisioning Server portion of the opening keynote.

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Performance testing/benchmarking of Ardence Enterprise products including test reports. The latter in turn included test results, charts, data, analysis, discussion of results, and comprehensive assessment. Data was published internally as well as externally. Testing of advanced configurations combining Ardence with VMware, Ardence with Citrix Presentation Server, RES PowerFuse, AppSense, and Appstream. Provided multiple successful demonstrations a week to Ardence customers, as well as support to the sales engineering team.

Bangor, Maine, Us

Built, configured, and deployed windows-based computer systems. Installed and upgraded networked printers on a large scale. Answered the help-desk phones and assisted employees in troubleshooting technology related problems. Traveled and repaired branch level networks as well as assisted in the maintenance of the enterprise-level network.

Bachelors Of Science, Computer Engineering

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