Responsible for Amazon ECS & AWS Fargate developer experience, ECS-Anywhere and AWS App Runner.

Owned the AWS Outposts relationship with Nasdaq as they worked to launch their first options exchange on cloud infrastructure. Launched a new EC2 instance type, and multiple features to support financial industry regulations in support of their solution.

Led a team of offering managers towards launching an entirely new portfolio of IaaS offerings for IBM Cloud, competing in the multi-billion dollar public cloud market. Also responsible for the existing IBM Cloud IaaS (formerly known as SoftLayer) compute offerings, including virtual server instances and bare metal servers in over 60 datacenters in 15 countries.• Responsible for strategic direction and execution of roadmap by maintaining a progression of function coordinated across technologies and multi-functional teams.• Introduced product to market with analyst briefings, social media campaigns, print marketing and conference announcements

Subject matter expert and thought leader on IBM’s AIX operating system. Certified IBM Design Thinking champion. Presented at international technical conferences, led sessions on sales education, partner engagement, and developer involvement. Responsible for analyzing and ensuring IBM’s leadership stance in the UNIX market with P&L responsibility for a product with $100M+ annual revenue and a strong business partner channel. Unified product groups, development groups and other stakeholders to build product roadmap collateral for aligned goals. Worked with cross functional team to allowed for rapid correction and sprinted quickly using agile methodologies. • Introduced user research and data-driven decisions into the development process, product roadmap, and go to market positioning prioritization • Encouraged shift to agile product execution by acting as product owner for multiple teams • Introduced SaaS offering, IBM Cloud Management Console, as a new revenue stream • Managed through major industry disruptors by developing worldwide strategy to develop a cloud provider partner network • Pivoted pricing model of IBM AIX offerings from one-time perpetual licensing to monthly subscription licensing to attract cloud providers and increase overall monthly recurring revenue (MRR) for IBM • Modernized product website - focus on value propositions and information architecture • Extensive cross-organization collaboration playing a crucial role in interfacing with various technology teams and business stakeholders to identify requirements, converting them to functional specs, prioritizing, and driving execution using agile methodologies • Owned net promoter score (NPS) detractor responses and comment analysis

People manager to a team of UX designers with specialties in visual design, interaction design, user research, and overall product experience. Took over a team with a single software product focus and quickly established responsibility for the user experience of the entire brand. Identified a strategy to engage with senior leaders across the business while focusing on and prioritizing projects where there could be the greatest design impact. Project managed engagements that were: Software and UI focused, Hardware and appliance product experience focused, native mobile applications, big data, life sciences, agile, and open source. · Evangelized a culture of design and design thinking within the Power Systems brand· Established knowledge base of materials and facilitators to help teams with workshops and research· Launched a UI for a software product that previously had been only command line interface· IBM Systems People Manager of the Year 2014 (selected during first year of people management)

Worked in a variety of roles, spanning from Linux verification and test case generation, to new development and Linux customization for IBM offerings with integrated purpose-optimized operating systems. Experienced in Agile methodologies, working with internationally distributed teams, and the following languages: C, C++, Python, Perl, bash scripting. Selected for a year long rotational assignment as an assistant to a technical executive within the CTO office. Exposed to strategic decision making and afterwards led a strategy review board ensuring integration and collaboration of hardware and software for the Power platform. · Patent Achievement Award, 2005 "Inaudible MIDI Interpretation Device" Patent Application 20070166693 Published 19 July 2007· http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21033.wss· Mentioned for work on Real Time Linux: http://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~courses/coe518/LinuxJournal/elj2007-152-SMPrealtime.pdf· Taught at IBM System p Technical University: https://www.e-techservices.com/public/TechU2006/p07.pdf