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Mountian View, California

Mill Valley, California, United States

Santa Cruz California

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San Mateo

Drive the creation of quarterly and yearly strategy for Business Technology (BT) within Zuora. Portfolio and Program Manage the projects for BT. Drive changes including adoption of Agile, adoption of OKRs, and interlocks between BT and all functional groups.

Mountain View, Ca

Provide overall leadership and strategic direction for the LogMeIn Machine Learning center of excellence. This COE will support developing ML capabilities to improve sales and retention for all product lines and enable development of cutting edge ML and AI features.

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead an organization of Portfolio and Program Managers for LogMeIn. The PMO enables SAAS principles of Speed, Quality, and Productivity through Lean and Agile practices. Responsible for managing portfolios at each LOB, lead large cross functional programs, and define agile software delivery methodologies

Santa Clara

Note that this division spun out of Citrix and Merged with LogMeIn in Feb 2017. Job description same as above.

San Francisco Bay Area

An experienced leader in developing and driving corporate innovation programs. I am focused on impacting corporate performance and profitability through the creation of these programs. Responsible for helping global organizations develop and scale innovation programs by concentrating on enabling the right strategy, process, and technology to drive innovation and collaboration. Skilled in both front-end and back-end innovation, facilitating enterprise organizations on effective methods for conceptualizing ideas, incubating, and commercializing within a corporate environment.

San Jose, Ca

Create and manage an Innovation Program for the Internet and Broadband Development Unit. In this work I have 2 main roles:- Help create and participate in an "Innova Squad" which is a small team which leverages training in Design Thinking development methodologies from IDEO (www.ideo.com) to help spread design thinking practices into the organization. This is accomplished through joint innovation projects with development teams in a radical on the job training method.- Manage a VC process within the development unit which identifies, incubates, and helps bring to market innovative ideas from within Ericsson. In this role I manage a budget for innovation and help innovators gain funding, time, and the necessary resources/partners to move an idea to product then to market.

Manage R&D operations for a global networking engineering organization. The team made up of direct reports in the US and virtual reports in Sweden, Italy, China, and India consisting of engineering operations managers. • Implement a common vision, mission, and strategy which enables operational best practices across multiple Product Development Units. Drive for higher quality, increased productivity, and improved customer sat across these organizations• Create a set of metrics, dashboards, and a data warehouse that provides transparent, drillable, and actionable R&D operations metrics across the Product Development Units • Improve the integration, synergy, and collaboration between the Product Development Units through increased visibility and transparency of metrics and best practices• Perform internal ISO 9000 Audits and manage the external ISO 9000 audits for the organization• Champion Agile as a development Model within the Product Development Units • Champion Software and Hardware Quality initiatives• Manage the Operations Excellence budget• Grow the talents and careers of the team members who report to me

Manage a team made up of 25 reports consisting of engineers and managers located in CA, MA, Australia, and New Zealand• Implement a vision, mission, and strategy to create an HA Center of Excellence which is recognized throughout all of Cisco’s divisions as the leadership team with respect to High Availability• Lead a cross functional set of teams to architect, code, and deliver Stateful Switch Over, In Service Software Upgrade, and Line Card Redundancy features across multiple Cisco platforms delivering an ROI of over $300 Million in the last 5 years• Partner with Engineering, Marketing, Customer Service, and Operation teams across multiple Business Units to provide highly available solutions• Manage the High Availability Department and budget• Grow the talents and careers of the team members who report to me• Improve sustaining productivity by 3X, reduce staff on sustaining from 40% to 25%, and maintain the highest quality metrics within the business unit

Managed the Software Development Team for the Cisco 7500 and parts of the Cisco 7600 product lines. My team was around 8-10 engineers. In this role my responsibilities were:o Selected and trained a software team in India and transferred all software development and sustaining work to this team which provided significant cost savings because at this time, the cost of an engineer in India was ¼ the cost of an engineer in the US. o Discovered a critical issue with one of the major 7500 hardware components that could potentially impact millions of dollars to the 7500 product line. I helped manage a small team which executed a plan to contain this risk. It is estimated that the results of this team saved ~$500 million dollars in potential lost revenue. o Project managed and deliver several new features on the 7500 and 7600o Significantly reduced the number of open code defects especially for the 7500 and maintained the 7500 revenue while reducing the cost of support

Mba, High Tech Business

Computer Engineering, Networking

Activities and Societies: I created and was preseident of the Society of Computer Engineers. This organization setup a lab that could be.