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Greater Boston Area

Dell Software purchased Quest Software in September of 2012. Successfully incorporated the advanced features of the VKernel virtualization management product into the existing Quest enterprise platform.• Capacity analysis, management, trending and future planning• Change history retention and performance impact analysis• Created a virtual machine overall performance index (patent application in process)• OpenStack performance analysis and virtualization management

Greater Boston Area

Quest Software purchased VKernel Corporation in November of 2011. Identified as a key member of the VKernel team and contracted to remain with Quest Software for a minimum of two years. Significantly enhanced the VKernel virtualization management product and incorporated new functionality into the existing Quest enterprise platform.• Incorporated resource optimization and waste elimination into the Quest enterprise platform• Added the ability to automatically resize virtual machine logical operating system drives• Nationalized the VKernel virtualization management software for use in China and Japan

Greater Boston Area

Created and delivered an award winning family of virtualization management software applications designed to optimize the performance of VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines while maximizing the use of resources and return on investment.• Responsible for all aspects of product specification, development, delivery and support• Created the client/server products that made VKernel the recognized leader in virtualization management• Provided enterprise class functionality combined with an ease of understanding and operation that resulted in an 8 fold growth in product revenues in just two years • Won the 2010 VMworld ‘Best of Show’ Gold Award for Virtualization Management• Initiated and managed a joint product development venture with Microsoft that included integration with System Center and Hyper-V infrastructures

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Founded and grew the company into an international broadband access equipment provider with annual revenues of $20M. Sales were to independent telecommunications companies and internet access companies. Left having successfully sold the company to Paradyne.• Provided the vision and strategy upon which the company was based• Guided and motivated a total of 60 professionals in engineering, sales and operations • Built a diverse base of over 600 customers in North America and Europe• Grew sales at an annual 29% growth rate while competitors were declining• Maintained product margins of 50% in spite of extreme pricing pressure• Completed 3 rounds of equity financing for a total of $25M • Developed a comprehensive family of over 80 unique products• Originated and patented techniques for bandwidth aggregation and voice/data mixing

Rochester, New Hampshire

Led the engineering organizations responsible for the majority of the company’s revenue. The company provided network infrastructure equipment to domestic and international enterprise companies. Left to found Net to Net Technologies using seed money provided by one of the Cabletron executives.• Responsible for all networking technologies• Provided the products that increased revenues from $400M to $1200M• Engineering responsibilities were continually increased (went from 60 to 650 engineers) • Created a new low-cost product family adding incremental revenues of $250M• Introduced the company’s first high-speed switching products• Guided development of the company’s first voice and data switches• Opened a remote (Salt Lake City) development center with 30 engineers in just 2 months• Implemented cost innovations which increased annual profits by $10M• Led the introduction of ISO9000 within engineering

Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey

Engineering responsibility for the telecommunications switching products generating two-thirds of the company's revenue.* Guided a team of 150 engineers responsible for both development and support* Created a new low-cost (40% reduction) system in less than one year* Improved customer satisfaction by forming a new dedicated support organization* Accelerated the development process by implementing new development tools

San Jose, California And Salt Lake City, Utah

Held various positions within engineering for the company, a computer systems and services organization.* General Manager of Intel platforms, Director of Unix Systems, Director of Terminal Development, Director of Manufacturing Engineering and Director of Design Quality* Guided a two location division of over 250 professional engineers* Introduced the company's first "Open Systems" products that added over $300M in revenue* Worked directly with sales to win the largest Unix systems contract awarded to date