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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Leads the strategic planning and development of data and analytics-oriented business transformation products and services that help holistically transform organizations of all sizes into digital enterprises whose data-driven strategies, tool and processes, business models and culture enable them to thrive in an increasingly digital world.

Ottawa, Ontario, Ca

Responsible for the ideation, development, launch, and sales enablement of hybrid and cloud-based managed and professional service offerings at Pythian, a 500-person global IT services company specializing in data and analytics. Responsible for a portfolio of offerings including Google Cloud (GCP)-based infrastructure and support, FinOps cost optimization, security, compliance and governance, cloud migration and modernization, as well as SRE and DevOps services.

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Led all product marketing and marketing communications for SmarTek21, a 300-person AI and data analytics services firm. Responsible for product messaging and positioning, thought leadership, brand strategy, lead generation, and sales enablement especially for its industry-leading conversational AI and NLP platform, which was targets primarily at retail and healthcare.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Lead the development and deployment of value-added services and core management systems for 2nd Watch, the leading Managed Cloud Service Provider for AWS and Azure. Lead service development and deployment – internally and to customers – of new cost reporting, analytics, and optimization platform for AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure. Responsible for all product planning, messaging and positioning, pricing and margin analysis, vendor management, sales enablement, training, competitive analysis, and other GTM activities. Developed individualized migrations plans for all customers, including numerous Fortune 50 companies. Lead the strategy, design, and product management for 2nd Watch’s Cloud Management Platform, a management console used by external customers and internal operation teams. The system provides visibility and insight to the operations, costs, security, compliance, and optimization opportunities for an enterprise’s cloud infrastructure. Created PRDs, MRDs, HLDs, roadmaps, and work-back schedules. Drove implementation and deployment using Agile/Scrum. Lead all product management efforts for cloud and premise-based security, including the planning and creation of a Managed Security and Compliance Services practice group. Built and managed vendor relationships, technical integrations, and drove operational improvements and technical integrations, especially around security analytics. Responsible for all product marketing, evangelism, and GTM activities. Key member of Technical Review Team, which vets high- and low-level technical designs and statements of work for all customer solutions and proposals.

8200 Schaffhausen, Ch

Led product marketing and product management for Virtuozzo, which combines system and application containers, hypervisor virtualization, and software-defined storage into a highly scalable production platform used in over five million production instances. Developed new roadmap for Virtuozzo’s product platform -- including compute, storage, networking, and orchestration -- that reinvigorated interest in Virtuozzo’s customers and channels, technology partners, and major industry analysts. Led creation of product positioning, messaging, and value proposition for Virtuozzo platform and all associated products, including system containers, virtual machines (VMs), Docker application containers, software-defined storage (SDS), orchestration, and software-defined networking (SDN/NFV). Led rebranding of Virtuozzo after corporate spinout. Aligned Virtuozzo’s numerous open source efforts with its commercial offerings to create a cohesive strategy.

Responsible for providing technical, marketing, and product planning services to high tech companies, especially in the areas of security, cloud computing, and Big Data. Projects include:Ambient Intellect, Sr. Director, Marketing and Product PlanningDesigned the technical architecture and product roadmap for Ambient Intellect, a small startup providing cloud-based wireless and “Internet of Things” (IoT) device management, machine learning-enabled BI services, and predictive analytics solutions for medium-sized enterprises and retailers. Developed product positioning, messaging, and value proposition, as well as VC funding pitch and materials.Microsoft, Program Manager, Azure Security and ComplianceWrote whitepapers and technical implementation guides detailing how companies can ensure data privacy, security, and compliance with industry and regulatory standards when developing their infrastructure, applications, and content distribution solutions utilizing the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.

Sheridan, Wyoming, Us

Responsible for managing all product development at Epik, a small, privately held domain name registrar focused on full service domain name lifecycle management solutions. Led product and CRM architecture, UI design and development, design and implementation for Epik’s domain name registrar, Web hosting, and vertical software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses solutions, resulting in significant customer and revenue growth. Responsible for designing Epik's UI and its industry-leading ease of use. Lead multiple engineering teams – both local and foreign – utilizing a wide array of data center/cloud technologies (OpenStack, Hadoop, containers, some Amazon AWS) and languages (PHP, jQuery, Ruby, and Python).

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Responsible for managing product development at Identity.net, a twenty-person startup that lets users create, manage, and control portable and verifiable online identities across the Internet, restoring to users full control over what, when and where such information is accessible. Responsible for the architecture and development of Identity.net, a web service that provides highly granular, multi-mode identity verification services coupled with single-sign-on capabilities. Managed local and Chinese engineering teams. Developed the architecture for a highly granular reputation services based on semantic web ontologies. The architecture enables the monetization and syndication of original content partially as a function of the author’s identity, reputation, and expertise in the specified subject matter area.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for messaging and positioning, thought leadership and brand strategy for Microsoft’s Forefront brand of security products for businesses. Led the transformation of Microsoft’s security product positioning and perception from an industry also-ran into a Gartner Magic Quadrant “Leader” (upper right quadrant) and Microsoft’s fastest growing division. Created corporate messaging and positioning guidelines and content strategy for worldwide introduction of the Forefront security brand. Unified Microsoft’s messaging and positioning around Microsoft’s security, identity management, and systems management product lines. Led outreach to all major analyst firms, especially strategy and branding briefings, resulting in a significant turnaround in perceptions that led to placement in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant” and similar rankings.In an earlier role, responsible for all go-to-market (GTM) activities and content development for worldwide marketing campaign supporting the launch of Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005 database management system. Managed the SQL Server Oracle Migration GTM campaign that generated $75 million in incremental revenue.

Consulting with companies, mostly in the security and wireless space, with an emphasis on product planning, development, business strategy, and product marketing and positioning.

London, United Kingdom, Gb

Responsible for supply-side and demand-side services focused on data communication/IT infrastructure for North American and European Tier 1 and 2 network carriers, application services providers, and enterprises data centers.

Managed design and development for the ZipLock family of cross-platform digital rights management (DRM) products for Preview Systems, a public company with 90 employees. Preview’s DRM technologies enabled the sale and transmission of digital goods over the Internet, including music, e-books, and software. Helped transform engineering groups into an agile, responsive team with rapid delivery cadence.

Nyc, New York, Us

Conceived and built industry-leading VPN and managed network security services for Concentric Networks, a Tier 1 network provider. Greatly increased VPN revenues helped to more than triple company revenue from $45.5M to $147M. Positioned Concentric as the industry’s acknowledged thought and technology leader, and recipient of “Most Innovative ISP” award two years running. Widely considered industry’s leading VPN expert and evangelist.

Bs, Electrical Engineering

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