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Salt Lake City, UT, US

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San Jose, California, US

Led 150+ team members in Symantec's Utah site and small teams in Canada, Norway and Malaysia. Organization included 7 product engineering and cloud operations teams for reporting and analytics, malware defense, web filtering, breach detection, and management platforms. Solutions based on big data analytics and machine learning classification (AI).

Led Blue Coat's Utah site, including product teams for threat defense, web filtering, breach analysis, management, reporting and analytics, delivered on-premise and in the cloud.

Led team of product managers responsible for software, hardware and cloud solutions in Blue Coat's security product line.

• Led strategy for security product line, SaaS and on-premise
• Launched three new products (B2B cloud API, consumer mobile app, custom search engine)
• Designed reporting interface for new Cloud Web Security ServiceFormed small business unit around new software product and business plan
• Managed P&L for business unit, exceeding plan the first four quarters
• Grew consumer desktop product, K9 Web Protection, to over 3 million users worldwide

• Owned three major Blue Coat products (Reporter, WebFilter, AV)
• Produced > $70 million in annual revenue with thousands of large enterprise customers
• Achieved 250% bookings growth over three years
• Presented product pitches to customers and sales team worldwide
• Participated in corporate product strategy councils
• Managed relationships with 10 technology partners

• Drove creation, initial development and release of K9 Web Protection product
• Designed web-based interface for new desktop application
• Grew user base from scratch to over 100,000 users in less than one year
• Maintained partnership with Computer Associates for marketing bundleManaged engineering and data quality teams for enterprise internet content filtering

Sold to Deseret Digital Media (KSL.com / DeseretNews.com) after 15 years of running as a side business.

Created patented automated classification system, driving component of acquisition by Blue CoatDeveloped DB-driven JSP/Java web tool to categorize URLsDirected operations to achieve 99.9% uptime SLA for worldwide content filtering

• Hired and managed 75 part-time employees on Data Quality Assurance team
• Created process to verify 1 million records/week for FlipDog.com
• Coordinated data verification outsourcing solution to reduce cost by 50%
• Managed employment data collected from 100,000 companiesProgrammed Java utility to detect changes to company employment web pagesIdentified and tested bugs in Whizbang crawling and extraction technology

West Hartford, US

Graduated top of class from two-month, intensive Java training courseDeveloped internal project tracking web site to track time estimates and deliverables

Master, Information Systems Management

Bachelor, Business Management