As a quality and customer-focused product management lead, I have gained 26 years of experience in planning, executing and leading campaigns to introduce community derived, open-source solutions as enterprise software to market. These products now serve a network of global Fortune 100 companies which continue to grow.During the last 20 years, I have progressed in my career through numerous acquisitions, working for different companies with similar products and objectives. The last 10 years have been spent as a product manager at Red Hat and currently I am a Senior Principal Product Manager, operating as a strategic thinker and creative planner to launch new technical products to market, from accelerated product development to creating roadmap and scope, synergised with business strategy and growth objectives.I have an influential leadership style to drive fast-paced, high intensity product management environments, adjusting to new opportunities, technologies and business plans. I confidently influence and lead cross-functional teams and engage with partners to deliver products in line with vision, customer requirements and prioritized outcomes. I am meticulous in defining business cases, generating new concepts and bringing new customer experiences to life through launch of new technological platforms and software.With credibility and honesty, I am recognised for my ability to collaborate with and influence cross-functional, diverse teams to achieve desired goals. As a product manager, I have taken full independent ownership of delivering market ready products, without the support of a team. However, I have operated alongside different constituent teams such as engineering, quality assurance, document writers, amongst others, to work toward the same objective. This is especially true within open-source engineering teams, often housing community heroes.In academia, I have a BS degree in business from The Indiana Institute of Technology magna cum laude, having returning to school as an adult following a decade of service in the marines. I am dedicated to continued professional development and welcome any further training or education to reach maximum potential at senior-level.As a LinkedIn member, I would like to extend my network to share interesting articles with fellow product directors and managers to keep up to date with trends or techniques in the discipline to remain aware of any changes.