Senior Director Of Product Management, Hp Cloud
Houston, Texas, Us
• Led & grew 16 person product management team (personally hired 10) for OpenStack-based cloud computing software after an inherited weak launch. Led short-term 1.1 plan to win strategic reference customers. Drove medium-term 2.0 turnaround plan to re-architect product & better fit customer needs, balancing time-to-market against critical MVP features by using Agile best practices. Initiated 3rd party partnerships to fill remaining gaps. Overhauled sales training & marketing efforts. • Efforts led to on-time launch, 7x revenue growth, & large government, financial, healthcare, & telco/NFV customer wins.• Scope included: compute, storage, networking, security/compliance, SaaS monitoring dashboard, big data, & UI/UX design.• Led Debian-based HP Linux initiative with full Docker & Kubernetes support as well as end-to-end tested partner support for other container management solutions such as Mesos DC/OS, Docker Datacenter, & Cloud Foundry PaaS.• Enabled billions of dollars of revenue for HP by creating solution bundles with server, storage, networking, & security assets.• Helped lead strategic initiatives including: acquisition due diligences, post-merger integrations, divestitures, & joint ventures.• Received HP’s highest performance rating (“Significantly Exceeds”), awarded to top 10% of employees, 4 years in a row. Awarded HP’s prestigious 2013 Leading the Way award for “superior leadership,” given to only top 0.1% of all employees.