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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.

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.

• 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.
• 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

• 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.
• 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

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.

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.