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Promoted to increasing leadership roles, including interim VP, in HPE’s largest user experience organization. Directed and grew a worldwide UX organization of approximately 50 product designers, front-end developers, UX researchers, and associated leadership across 3 continents with a $5M budget.• Delivered UX product designs for HPE's pivot to offering everything as-a-service(aaS). Highly intuitive designs resulted from leadership coupling research and user-centered design methods… Show more Promoted to increasing leadership roles, including interim VP, in HPE’s largest user experience organization. Directed and grew a worldwide UX organization of approximately 50 product designers, front-end developers, UX researchers, and associated leadership across 3 continents with a $5M budget.• Delivered UX product designs for HPE's pivot to offering everything as-a-service(aaS). Highly intuitive designs resulted from leadership coupling research and user-centered design methods with close partnerships with R&D and product management.• Established and managed the first HPE Design System team to design and implement a common UX framework. Adopted as a company-wide standard to ensure consistent experiences across products and services, accelerate development times, and reduce costs.• Led and expanded the HPE Developer Program, strategically adding numerous products and captivating content to engage the WW developer community, resulting in membership exceeding 3000 in 18 months.• Led the development and alignment of the organizational vision, objectives and key results despite undergoing 6 upper-level management changes over 2.5 years. Show less

Led 3 worldwide Microsoft and HPE Azure Stack Innovation Centers providing customer-facing engagements to accelerate the sales process.• Oversaw the delivery of 400+ worldwide customer engagements across 3 centers (Seattle, Geneva, Singapore), touched approximately 35% of all orders over 24 months.• Managed a team of 8 engineers and system administrators across 3 continents to define and deliver a variety of customer engagements including demos, proof of concepts, deep dive… Show more Led 3 worldwide Microsoft and HPE Azure Stack Innovation Centers providing customer-facing engagements to accelerate the sales process.• Oversaw the delivery of 400+ worldwide customer engagements across 3 centers (Seattle, Geneva, Singapore), touched approximately 35% of all orders over 24 months.• Managed a team of 8 engineers and system administrators across 3 continents to define and deliver a variety of customer engagements including demos, proof of concepts, deep dive workshops, and technical briefings enabling HPE to dramatically accelerate the sales cycle.• Built and managed the Seattle data center, provided secure and highly available access to 8 Azure Stack environments, enabling customers and partners to demo, test and certify their software virtually anytime. Show less

Led the design and development of HPE's first VMware-based Hyper Converged (HC) solutions, including the CS300, EVO:RAIL and HC 380. Enabled HPE to enter the market, capture mindshare and ship 1000s of units to customers worldwide.• Led 3 worldwide teams (India, US, England) through the design and development of HPE’s first VM-vending HC product, HC 380, from inception to first customer ship in 8 months, enabling HPE to disrupt the market and stay competitive.• Automated the… Show more Led the design and development of HPE's first VMware-based Hyper Converged (HC) solutions, including the CS300, EVO:RAIL and HC 380. Enabled HPE to enter the market, capture mindshare and ship 1000s of units to customers worldwide.• Led 3 worldwide teams (India, US, England) through the design and development of HPE’s first VM-vending HC product, HC 380, from inception to first customer ship in 8 months, enabling HPE to disrupt the market and stay competitive.• Automated the manufacturing process reducing production time from weeks to days. Show less

Led a technical startup team across business units to deliver HP's first integrated cloud solution, HP Cloud System Enterprise, resulting in HP's first factory tested cloud solution which helped establish HP as a leader in the private cloud market. • Delivered and improved the technical architecture and solution roadmap, obtained commitments across HP organizations, created compelling customer use cases.• Contributed to the group's mission statement, organizational design and… Show more Led a technical startup team across business units to deliver HP's first integrated cloud solution, HP Cloud System Enterprise, resulting in HP's first factory tested cloud solution which helped establish HP as a leader in the private cloud market. • Delivered and improved the technical architecture and solution roadmap, obtained commitments across HP organizations, created compelling customer use cases.• Contributed to the group's mission statement, organizational design and hiring/mentoring of technical staff. Show less

Built trusted relationships between HP and strategic software partners to deliver differentiated solutions with HP enterprise products.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science And Engineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science With Distinction