Weave Identity specializes in the digital identity space. We provide advisory services to organizations looking to create, mature, and scale their digital identity offerings. We specialize in providing product management, product marketing, and analyst relations guidance and coaching. We help build product-driven culture, grow product management and analyst relations skills, and strengthen go-to-market motions and messaging.

The Foundation’s goal is to foster global opportunities for people to study and explore digital identity. The Foundation helps address a critical problem in digital identity today: a global lack of diverse talent and knowhow. As a charitable organization, it seeks to grow the practice of digital identity through the issuance of scholarships and grants.

Helping OpenID Foundation achieve its mission as I serve as Authlete’s representative on the Board.

Conceived the idea, conducted research with industry leaders and spearheaded the effort to build IDPro, the professional association for digital identity that serves as a resource for practitioners and enterprises in the digital identity and access management industry to assist individuals in the field overcome challenges in advancing their careers, and providing organizations with a pipeline of skilled professionals to meet their digital identity needs.• Built support for the idea of a professional association, established the organizational and secured initial financial support. Wrote the initial set of governance documents, recruited members, and installed the first board of IDPro. The organization now has over 1000 active members.• Oversaw the creation and launch of industry’s first professional certification program.• Contributed to several vendor-neutral body of knowledge articles to foster practitioner skills development.

Executive member of the Salesforce product management team. Directed and executed the overall product strategy, including the multi-year vision, priority setting, and product management and engineering budgets, and served in several senior Identity Product Management executive positions, progressing in program scope and responsibilities over the course of seven years, a go-to resource for customer CIO and CISO conversations on employee and customer identity. Strategic Operations: Ran Salesforce's multi-cloud identity initiative to deploy a shared multi-factor authentication service and drive all Salesforce customers' adoption of MFA.M&A: Managing executive for the Toopher acquisition– a startup that developed a mobile app for two-factor authentication used to log in to web services securely.Marketing: Supported analyst relations efforts and ran Gartner Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities responses. Served as the face of the product line delivering keynotes at major identity events such as Identiverse, the European Identity Conference, and the RSA Conference.Product Management: Directed Salesforce's new multi-factor authentication MFA services program from concept to delivery of this global, multi-year effort. Served as the lead subject matter expert and product representative to the executive steering committee and was the de-facto head and face of the overall program.Continuous Improvement, Customer Experience -- Consolidated, standardized, and integrated a user-friendly login experience to replace a fragmented login experience across over a dozen product families vital to Salesforce initiatives to reach small customers.Identity-Based Integration Services --Drove a multi-year effort to build a new singular identity fabric for all of Salesforce that powered a unique, easier-to-secure login experience and delivered identity-based integration services to reduce tech debt within Salesforce and speed up trusted interactions between Salesforce services.

Senior member of product management team primarily focused on outbound product management. Responsibilities range from product architecture to analyst relations to key deal support to product marketing and beyond. Serves as go-to resource for customer CIO and CISO conversations on employee and customer identity. • Supports analyst relations efforts and runs Gartner Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities responses• Delivers primary product marketing deliverables including 1st and 2nd call decks as well as designs and delivers global field sales training• Face of the product line delivering keynotes at major identity events such as Cloud Identity Summit, European Identity Conference, Identity Relationship Management Summit, as well as talks at RSA Conference and IDM Europe• Leads technical and service partner management including relationships with Microsoft, SailPoint, and Deloitte• Orchestrates release planning• Mentors new product managers• Supported Toopher acquisition planning and integration

Elected by my peers on the Management Council to help lead the organization

Elected to the the Management Council as an At-Large delegate, I serve with pride to help improve the quality and utility of online identity systems.

Directed the strategy and service delivery of the Identity and Privacy Strategies team, responsible for researching, analyzing, and preparing comprehensive reports to provide actionable intelligence to C-level senior management and industry influentials.Team and Business Operations: Set the direction of the team, established research objectives, and coached and mentored the team to deliver top-shelf research findings with full accountability for the quality of the team's output. • Rebuilt and redefined the identity and privacy team personnel and focus perspective.• Trained and mentored new analysts in delivering written analysis and presentation skills.• Planned and managed a significant portion of Gartner's Catalyst event, including identity, privacy, security content, overall event themes, keynotes, and format.• Highly ranked writer whose written research is consistently ranked in the top 25% of all Gartner for Technical Professionals research. • Received Gartner's Thought Leadership Award in 2012 for work on mobile reference architecture.• Frequently cited by news services such as Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Computerworld, The Mercury News, O’Reilly’s Radar, and TechTarget. Grew teams’ document readership 100% year-over-year.

Spearheaded identity and access governance (IAG) and privacy research for Gartner. Led the technical operations as an industry-recognized SME supporting the Identity and Privacy Strategies team. Drove subscription revenue by helping sales via pre-sales prospecting and post-sales customer satisfaction activitiesResearch and Analysis: Role modeled the delivery of benchmark actionable guidance to the team's customer base, including industry experts and influencers.• Delivered written and verbal identity management and privacy architecture, program, project, and policy guidance to Fortune 500 and Global 1000 enterprise customers. Provided architectural and marketing guidance to Fortune 500 and startup technology companies.• Prepared and delivered written research that consistently ranked in the top 10% of all viewed and used Gartner IT Professionals' analysis. Rated among the top 5% of all Gartner analysts (800+) for peer review quality. Cited as one of the leading 100 most powerful voices in security by Sys-Con Media in 2011.

Researched, analyzed, and reported on identity and access governance and privacy issues in the I.T. space. Prepared in-depth research reports and leveraged social media platforms to drive the message of managing identity, access governance, and privacy issues.

Senior leader within the global product team, responsible for the design and user experience for all Approva products. Accountable for delivering products on time that exceed customer and market requirements.• Managed intercontinental team of program managers and user experience designers between US and India.• Served as intermediary between product marketing, product management, quality assurance, release management, customer support and engineering.• Designed an automated certification system targeted for periodic user access reviews and business controls reviews for enterprise customers including major CPG and manufacturing companies.• Reinvented and implemented Software Development Lifecycle including process definitions and templates.• Developed knowledge sharing processes between engineering, quality assurance and customer support.

- Evangelizing Approva to partners and their prospects and customers- Aligning Approva resources towards common partner goals and objectives- Helping in the creation and execution of Approva’s partners business plans- Defining product requirements with partners including integration points and process flows for key identity management ISV partners- Helping to define channel enablement programs including training and content and assisting in delivery- Working with Approva’s field sales organization as a subject matter expert on partner integrations in support of sales opportunities- Working with marketing to develop messaging and campaigns- Providing the necessary support to the channel in order to get the most value out of Approva’s products and services- Developing, delivering and participating in proposal preparation and sales presentations with the channel to secure new business

Defines strategic direction for the product line and company. Acts as internal market analyst and subject-matter-expert serving sales, marketing, and engineering. Provides counsel to executive team for market trends, competition, and standards. Briefs analysts and acts as an evangelist. Enables sales force by presenting company’s vision, key messaging, and position in the market, and key competitive intelligence. Establishes strategic technology and sales partnerships with major identity management vendors including Courion, IBM, and Sun. Acts as a public face for the company by speaking at conferences, blogging, and participating in industry groups such as The Identity Gang. Noted panelist and speaker at Digital ID World 2006 and International Information Integrity Institute Forum.

Responsible for IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Express offering, IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Adapter offerings, and componentized user management functions used throughout IBM. Acted as a bridge between customers, business partners, marketing, and development. Briefed customer executives on futures of IBM Tivoli’s entire identity management portfolio as well as addressed numerous customer care issues. Represented IBM on the Provisioning Services Technical Committee of OASIS, helping to define the Service Provisioning Mark-up Language version 2 specification and standard. Acted as subject mater expert for sales deal reviews and RFP responses. Played key role after the acquisition of Access360 by providing both sales and technical training for the global sales enablement team. Developed training on Identity Manager offerings. Delivered said training to IBM Tivoli globally, including sales engineers, architects, account managers, and channel partners.

Departed Oracle to help start the Federal sales division for Access360. Technical account manager within the Federal market, chartered to kick-start the sales process by leveraging prior contacts from Oracle. Acted as surrogate support and development resources. Helped create new products including Access360’s most popular connector offering; activities included writing the market requirements document, defining the quality assurance test cases, testing newly released version of the products, writing user guides, and supporting the products. Helped create and refine Federal specific marketing materials.

Technical account manager in the Federal Civilian division assigned to accounts such as the US Postal Service, Housing and Urban Development, and Department of Education. Responsibilities included product demonstration, customization, and system architecture reviews. Presented both technical briefings and solution designs to all levels of management. Responsible for sales lead generation, the day to day maintenance of accounts, customer relations, and emergency support. Helped architect and troubleshoot a web-based time and attendance system for the Postal Service and a web-based grants management system for Housing and Urban Development. Trained co-workers in new technology such as data mining and on-line analytical processing.