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Pompano Beach, FL, US

Nuremberg, DE

Leading the next chapter for the product, design, and research teams. Expect more detail soon!

South San Francisco, California, US

Advising this very exciting database and data lake company who's changing the game on what we think about in traditional databases. Not only is the system advanced and scalable, but the GUI (Zui) is very nice for exploring data, which really helps. I am thrilled to be part of building something special with a stellar team.

San Francisco, CA, US

After being a long time contributor, I have taken a more active role helping this important open-source technology for distributed tracing move forward.

Seattle, WA, US

Founding member of the OpenSearch project and part of the steering committee of this critical open-source project which is now part of the Linux Foundation.

Bangalore, IN

Advising portfolio companies along with working on selecting companies the fund invests in. Typically, they are in my area of expertise in enterprise SaaS software. I cover off the technology along with the go to market.

Helsinki, FI

Led the successful expansion and transformation of the product management team to a 25-person organization, hiring two directors and numerous product managers to foster a customer-centric culture. Established efficient processes and a clear roadmap that revolutionized Aiven's product development approach, consistently launching two new products per.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

One of the executive staff with multiple areas of responsibility. The office of the CTO which I created and run includes many initiatives. This includes leadership leading the product and technical strategy and vision for Logz.io with the two co-founders. We share the business development needs and strategic discussion. I am extension of the technical.

San Francisco, CA, US

Driving product innovation and market leadership for Kentik's high-scale network analytics platform, empowering businesses to efficiently manage their complex network environments. I lead the product management team, shaping the company's vision and roadmap, while collaborating across functions to ensure successful product launches and go-to-market.

San Francisco, CA, US

Head of technology partners for AppDynamics: Building several new products with tech partners including building and product managing our Mainframe offering with IBM (z APM Connect), AppDynamics for SAP, AppDynamics for ServiceNow, and more to come. Key partnerships which are both strategic and must be driven via our product and business. I am the product.

Stamford, CT, US

• I work in the IT Operations group of analysts at Gartner, I cover monitoring technologies. In my day to day work I learn about the market, where it's going and use this to assist clients who build products (vendors) or.
• APM - Application Performance Monitoring which includes the end user experience monitoring, application runtime architecture, user defined transaction profiling, deep dive monitoring, and analytics.
• ECA - Event correlation and analysis includes traditional event management, system and network fault and performance monitoring, and the analytics around events coming from multiple monitoring systems.
• BSM - Business Service Management is the representation of IT metrics to a business user, normally in the form of dashboards. This is also closely tied to APM, especially the user defined transaction profiling, which.
• NPM - Network Performance Monitoring is often considered a distinct area, since it can be used for network debugging as well as monitoring and management of application performance. At Gartner we are seeing convergence.
• NCCM - Network Configuration and Change Management is the set of tools that operate in multivendor environments, enable automated configuration management, and help with the change management process, as well as.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Effectively manages a global team of 7 professionals, including 2 managers, with offices spread worldwide in Dublin, Shanghai, Atlanta, Geneva, Munich, Paris, and India for this company heavily invested in by Fidelity.
• Successfully reduced the size of the team from 10 to 7 by utilizing lower cost resources in Dublin and Shanghai to displace high cost locations
• Consolidated datacenters in Atlanta and Geneva to a single datacenter with smaller footprint, savings of $60k per year in leasing costs. Setup remote support with vendor for low cost in case engineering is needed.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Led and managed a team of 28, including 3 managers, and architecture of the monitoring and management toolsets spanning Boston, New York City, and India. Strategically integrated the teams from other parts of Thomson.
• Prudently managed and built a software budget of over $10m USD, including the offshoring of positions to technology center in India
• Managed a full time Project Manager who coordinated the large and complex problems faced by the team on an ongoing basis, running over 30 projects at any given time

Toronto, ON, CA

-Includes analyzing the current toolset and service management, and crating the gap analysis; also includes collaboration about the tools with other parts of the company, and implementing a best of breed solution-Tools used: include IBM Netcool, HP OpenView suite (OVIS, OVO, NNM), Infradesk helpdesk system, Coradiant real time user monitoring, Nlayers.

US

• Created a new group focused on advanced troubleshooting techniques using cutting edge tools and software; tools include real-time transaction and performance monitoring, low impact Java and.NET profiling, service.
• Built and managed the group’s annual software budget of $3 million
• Successfully resolved complex issues involving software, hardware, networking, and mis-configuration
• Implemented zero impact tools to assess situations and give vision into product operation and performance

US

-Created a new group focused on advanced troubleshooting techniques using cutting edge tools and software; tools include real-time transaction and performance monitoring, low impact Java and.NET profiling, service dependency mapping, as well as database diagnostic software-Worked on many issues across different products, business units, and areas of the.

US

• Collaborated in conjunction with QA and development teams on architecture, and deployment, proactively identifying issues before they affected the process; developed and implemented effective security early in the.
• Spearheaded enterprise integration efforts, and served as a team lead for CCBN operations during a move of offices and hosting facilities; rebuilt the entire infrastructure on Windows 2003, new EMC gear (DMX 800, DMX.
• Ensured proper DR policies were followed and tested, implementing one of the most advanced DR setups currently at Thomson Financial; moved to active/active datacenter configuration using cutting edge technology
• Shared best of breed findings and technologies with other parts of Thomson Financial
• Developed effective SLA and measurement utilities (scorecards), which were used to rate the level of services received by centralized Thomson Financial Technical Operations, and other support groups

US

• Executed all aspects of security for the company and their 2800 hosted public investor relations website, as well as other products including Institutional products subscribed to by over 15,000 users for this company.
• Implemented and designed a best of breed patch management system using UpdateExpert, Software Update Services, SMS 2003 deployment, and follow up scanning via HfNetchk pro 4
• Implemented a distributed IDS using Redhat 8, Fedora, behavioral products such as Lancope (Stealthwatch), Q1labs (Qvision), and the signature based Demarc PureSecure (Snort)
• Installed a centralized log file consolidation tool, with email based security alerting
• Managed and tuned a multi server Linux Postfix configuration which sent out over 50,000 emails per day

Austin, Texas, US

• Led technology strategizing for the entire company, particularly in the services division. Successfully managed a team of 2, maintaining taking sole accountability for accomplishing departmental goals, growth of the.
• Maintained 99.97% availability in handling Windows NT/2000, Active Directory, Unix Servers and uptime of ASP business
• Assisted in raising $3 million in funding from Hudson Ventures
• Managed corporate CMS (VSS to CVS migration), and support distributed global development for both the services and product development organizations
• Afforded client support and setup for 40 workstations, and 25 servers, including Microsoft Exchange (5.5 and 2000), IIS, DNS, DHCP, Checkpoint VPN1, ipfw, RealSecure, Sessionwall, Snort, and DEMARC IDS systems, Cisco.

-Created, set up, and managed a multiprotocol, multiplatform LAN -Created database driven websites based on the Windows NT platform for several companies including Microsoft, CERA, RASCi, and the company’s own software product ContentAdvisor -Administered 5 UNIX based servers as well as 12 Windows NT based Servers and 20 Workstations; also filled a DBA.

-Full-time webmaster, system administrator, programmer, database designer, developer, and implementor -Created database driven Internet content for several Fortune 100 companies including Digital PC Group, Broadview Associates, ADP Financial, AMNET, Antares Alliance, Deaconess Hospital, Kemper Management, Digital Networks System Integration Service, Norton.

Education record

Csc, Computer Science