Privilege of leading, and being part of the best Product Management team in the Cloud Storage industry with world-class PM leaders and Technical Marketing Engineers. The team has grown to 35 across the globe with strong connections to the industry, customers, and peers. Teams are the PM leaders for Azure NetApp Files, Google Cloud Volumes, and Astra for Kubernetes.Business leader for Kubernetes with Astra and our Kubernetes offering on-prem & cloud.

Thrive-Wise is a non-profit community for technical women+ and allies providing a safe space, allyship and reskilling to thrive in their careers. Supported as a board member and fund-raiser, learning along the way about allyship and challenges opportunities for retaining women in technical careers.

Tremendous opportunity and experience being the fifth employee during series A and through to series C with a 100-person family.

We developed the first storage that is purpose built for containers. Our emphasis has been enterprise-grade storage that is much easier to run and removes much of the limitations of existing storage. This includes multi-cloud support, out of the box high availability, and the first unified file and block storage fabric for containers. More here http://portworx.com/px-dev-beta/

First Product Manager for Kubernetes and Google Cloud's first release in container technologies. Wrote all the PRDs from pre-release through v1. Built early partner and customer relationships. Developed business strategy, spanning positioning and monetization. Enjoyed working closely with SREs and SWEs to build and run product as a server that ran at scale. Presented alpha launch of Container Engine at our Google Cloud Live event (https://youtu.be/c3sGfTQUHcM?t=982).

Led product partnerships for the v1 of Google's IaaS (GCE) and Storage (GCS) in Google Cloud for 2013. Built industry relationships and negotiated partnerships with startups and enterprises. Developed the partnerships featured at launch of GCE, supporting a successful release to general availability. Sized the market for nascent research projects, across Google X-projects and Cloud.

Planned features for the industry's first enlightened graphics driver in a virtual machine, called RemoteFX. Built the v1 ecosystem to support the product, from goals, through hardware verification, and go to market.Directly ran quality process across 50 person software team, assisting startup's integration into Microsoft. Negotiated agreements across IHVs and OEMs to support key initiatives for v1 technology.

Designed RESTful music service APIs and worked with six stellar engineers to deliver a fully functioning catalog, from scratch, in six months. Negotiated licensing deal with a large radio service provider and launched a service to enable an integrated listening experience. Led adoption by enterprise customers for network prioritization feature in Windows Networking that leveraged DiffServ for app-level traffic management. Awards and Leadership: Earned two Microsoft Gold Stars for exceptional performance, granted three patents, and filed four other patents.

Served as a board member, focused on growth in new markets and the nonprofit's technical strategy. One of 20 Fellows selected for year-long program.