Leading product management and R&D of cutting edge security testing, evaluation, and verification technologies, tools, products, solutions, and services.

Senior Product Manager focusing on Cloud Networking and special projects in GCP. Driving the vision, strategy, roadmap, and development of networking and routing in Google Cloud at global scale to create effective enterprise class multi-cloud hybrid IT for Google's customers.Products and Projects Successfully Led to Global Launch:* Google Distributed Cloud Hosted (GDC-H) Secure Data Center Interconnect (DCI)* Google Cloud Interconnect Dataplane v2 Global Deployment & Availability* MACsec for Cloud Interconnect* Google Cross-Cloud Interconnect* Led the cross-Google effort to bring IP multicast to Google Cloud, unblocking Cloud transformation for Capital Markets, Financial Services, and Media/Broadcast/Entertainment industries.

Led product management and go to market for Service Providers across Commvault. Responsible for the development and execution of Commvault's SP partner business and product roadmaps. Led the definition of product and GTM strategy for Service Provider transformation from traditional on-premises solutions to Cloud SaaS based models and platforms.

Experienced professional providing strategic consulting and services for businesses looking for ways to improve their product marketing and product management capabilities. I leverage proven methods to drive communication, interaction, and collaboration between the key business functional groups of product development, marketing, and sales to deliver improved alignment with business goals. I specialize in bringing these groups together to create cohesive roadmaps, messaging, go-to-market, and content strategies, combined with structured execution that is adaptable to companies of any size.

Responsible for planning and execution of market analysis, Go-To-Market, overall messaging, verticals, and specialized collateral planning/development across corporate global marketing organization for Data Center and Software Defined Networking (SDN) product and solution technology areas. Primary lead for driving cross theater Data Center marketing collaboration and planning. Primary acting industry, investor, press, media, and analyst community relations representative providing company positioning, strategic communications, and briefings on Data Center and SDN technologies. Outbound customer facing spokesperson and evangelist, providing high-level business focused value oriented guidance and positioning to C level executives, management, and technical audiences.

Managed and led the US R&D Data Center team in concept and prototype development for next gen data center technologies and solutions. Led the development of R&D strategies, systems, and IPR around the areas of data center switching, infrastructure, storage, software defined networks (SDN), data analysis, systems management, and cloud computing.Communicated and evangelized company data center technology strategies and solutions, including product capabilities, overall vision, and architectural strategy. Internal and external technology socialization and coordination. Performed direct industry analyst relations and communications. Industry standards body relationship management.Developed and promoted international cross-functional virtual team collaboration. Liason and advisor to China headquarters for product marketing, product development, and executive management on strategic planning and understanding of mature data center IT markets.

Led inbound feedback to Product Management and Engineering teams for product enhancement and development, focusing on NX-OS NOS, Security, Telemetry, and Resilience for the Nexus 7000/5000/2000 Data Center Platform lines. Drove outbound technology and feature positioning, messaging, evangelization and thought leadership. Established frameworks and content for advanced field sales asset training and education. Led "trusted advisor" technical relationships and interactions specializing in intensive sales, partner, channel, & customer enablement programs with a focus on Cisco's Top 100 Global Enterprise customers (GET).

Led the development, positioning, and messaging surrounding Cisco Service Oriented Network Architecture. Drove partner ecosystem and industry development of standards and baselines to improve the utility and value of the network infrastructure in Enterprise Architectures. Ran associated inbound field sales asset training and education, as well as outbound customer, partner, and industry analyst messaging, training, education, and evangelizing.

Design and development of security architectures and solutions. Inbound field sales asset training and education. Internal security standards and baseline development. Cross-BU product enhancement. Outbound customer and partner consulting, training, and education. Solution, technology, and product positioning, messaging, and evangelizing.

Led the design and development of enterprise campus switching and security architectures, internal cross-product enhancement. internal sales field training and education, outbound customer, partner, and analyst education and training. Industry product, technology, and solution evangelizing.

Led the development and design of mid-large scale data center and content networking architecture solutions. Internal cross-BU product line enhancement. Internal sales field training and education. Outbound customer and partner training, education, and evangelizing.

Worked with product management and engineering teams to enhance and improve product line. Solutions and architecture development and design. Inbound education of field sales assets. Outbound customer, partner, and analyst facing education and evangelism of product line and associated architectures, technologies, and roadmaps.

Supported the development and maintenance of the AS1 global backbone network. Tier 3 network engineering support and coordination. Led global large-scale hosting and co-location data center design, deployment, and operational support.BBN/GTEI was acquired by Verizon

Senior network consulting engineer. Team lead and deptartment lead for network integration and security. Group lead for UNIX integration and system design. MCP, CCIE, NCSE

Led the design, development, and deployment of network, data, and security systems to support carrier and ISP operations. Evaluated and selected key technologies used across the company to support customer facing services. Vendor relationship management. Developed custom support systems for internal systems monitoring, operations, user management, and billing. Led internal systems security evaluation and penetration testing.