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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

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.
• 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

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*.

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.