Group Product Manager, Web Tier Products
Palo Alto, Ca, Us
Managed life cycle for Sun Web Server, Sun Proxy Server, Chili!Soft ASP Server and Sun Web Stack.Tasks included participation in forums, assistance to account and support teams, market evaluation for features and road map, training development and delivery, web content (Podcasts, Videos, voice work, white papers, blogs, web pages, data sheets, etc).Planned Web Server 7.0 and drove it through to release. This included GUI and CLI re-design (working with Sun's UI team), usability testing, technical training, and coordination with the product team (Engineering, Sustaining, Docs, QA, Support, I18N/L10N, etc).Helped to build the Sun Web Stack team, plan its road map, and identify the components to include (lighttpd, Apache HTTP, MySQL Community, PHP, Ruby & Rails, etc). This involved upstream community participation, commercialization plans, building distinctive value-adds, and more. My final task was to complete the open sourcing of Web Server 7.0 as Open Web Server.