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Leads the product team building Tanzu Mission Control, a centralized hub for simplified, multi-cloud, multi-cluster Kubernetes management.

Leads product management for VMware Cloud Director, a cloud management solution used by service providers to deliver infrastructure and services. This includes both an on-premises version, as well as a SaaS offering.Responsible for the overall strategy, pricing, and packaging. Drove a SaaS product launch from business case to general availability in three geographies.

Manages a team of product managers, to drive success not only in the team but for each member.Works with product marketing to help craft and deliver messaging of product releases, including presenting at analyst briefings. Continuously working with the VMware account teams to ensure the adoption of products and features. Through high touch engagements, outbound activities along with speaking at customer events and trade shows.Building a business case, execution plan, and overall responsible for launching a new SaaS initiative at VMware.

Developed and executed a strategy to re-write the vCloud Director user interface.Helped shift product direction of vCloud Director away from basic IaaS platform to cloud services platform that cloud service providers can build a rich portfolio of services.

Work with partners to deploy products before general availability, and facilitate feedback to the product management team. Identified gaps in solutions to ensure successful go-to-market. Built automation tools for deployment, monitoring, and data collection of new products.Provided technical guidance to internal teams, as well as developed enablement content to help launch a Managed Service Provider program at VMware.

Leading architectural strategy, providing guidance, and designing solutions for cloud service providers. Developing intellectual property to enable broader consumption of VMware products.Managed vCloud Director based lab environment used by the entire team, to build POC’s for end customers as well as for their own experimentation. Authored vCloud Architecture Toolkit for Service Provider's whitepaper related to extending vCloud Director.

● Provide technical leadership and management for a scrum team of developers including architecture consulting, code reviews, mentoring and product owner responsibilities.Work with customers to troubleshoot all aspects of their cloud, from our custom code to the VMware infrastructure and networking layers.● Responsible for translating business needs into technical solutions, and defining solutions to business problems.● Determine integrated hardware and software architecture solutions that meet performance, scalability, reliability, and security needs.● Utilizing the full stack of VMware products, build virtual labs similar to the hands-on labs at VMworld to allow our developers to have their own development environments.● Evaluate third-party hardware and software for integration into platform.

● Founding team member of NaviCloud platform, a VMware-based infrastructure-as-a-service enterprise cloud. Awarded US Patent 8,806,486 for my work on the project.● Designed and wrote major parts of the platform including UI design, custom orchestration layer, and integration with third-party APIs. Using Python, Javascript, Apache, NGINX, Memcached and PostgreSQL.● Created a dedicated hosting portal that allows customers to build and purchase custom web servers.

Built framework for data collection using PHP, MySQL and Javascript.

Designed and developed internal server monitoring tool based in Flash, using XML-RPC.Lead redesign of America’s One Stop Operating System. An internal web application used by states to keep track of unemployment.Developed data extraction processes used for federal reporting.Maintained www.americasjobexchange.com, formerly America’s Job Bank using a combination of Java and Python.

● Built and maintained RemoteCourse (www.remotecourse.com), a website which enables students to purchase self-paced online classes.● Developed a custom C# application that generates all XHTML for RemoteCourse from XML files that are provided from a third-party vendor.● Taught XML, SQL, XHTML/CSS, Photoshop, JavaScript and Flash classes in person and online.

● Designed and developed three multimedia sales CDs for software packages ranging from $30,000 to $190,000.● Created internal website and database for the management of press releases.● Designed a full page magazine advertisement for software that was published nationally in two engineering magazines.

Developed and maintained internal sites using a mix of Perl and ColdFusion.