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I am highly effective at cross-functional / matrixed communication, development, and influencing within the GCP organization enabling timely delivery of modular functionality required by several orthogonal very large scale / complex program.I am working on the Cloud Web3 team as a vertical TPgM.

I was the first FTE focused solely on Data Residency in GCP. I was the first horizontal TPgM focusing on data residency and data sovereignty issues at global scale on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Carlsbad, Ca, Us

• Develop product vision, strategy, and performance for two security solutions. • Help to conduct multi-year product planning to determine product life-cycle decisions, ensure consistency with overall marketing and corporate strategy, and achieve product performance, revenue, market share/penetration, and profitability objectives. Primary customers are VP of Engineering, VP of Marketing and VP of Sales.• Ownership of product roadmap for ThreatSTOP service, IP Firewall Product and DNS Firewall Product lines (Azure and DNS Policies) providing automated, actionable enterprise IP and DNS network security• Led Agile methodology adoption and process installation• Researched and prototyped in C++ of Windows roaming IP focused endpoint security solution using Windows Filter Platform and real-time threat intelligence delivery via DNS using ThreatSTOP security policy engine.• Developing engineering ready product specifications based on marketing and customer/partner requirements.• Coordinates product releases between Operations, Sales and Marketing departments using appropriate project management methodologies focusing on overall quality, timeliness and customer satisfaction.• Manage & resolve cross-organization issues to ensure the success of the security solution and escalate to executive level when necessary to ensure effective delivery of the product(s). • Successful OEM product development and delivery with A10 Networks (TPS and ADC) and PANW PANOS.• OEM / MSSP relationship management: market research, engagement, business negotiations, and nurturing activities. • Interact and work directly with sales, regional teams, OEM partners, and customers, to collect marketing and sales requirements to ensure the successful marketing, launch, and sale of the security products.

Walnut Creek, Ca, Us

• Project Management: Successful on-time and under budget delivery of data center hardware and software upgrade project for the DEV, TST/UAT, and PROD environments; Applications moved/updated with no disruption of service to business users: Oracle DB, Informatica, Cognos, MDM Bridge and Shiloh POS Applications.• Managing 3 agile teams developing key business analytics and reports for Inventory Management (shipping, slow-moving, obsolete), Shipping Fill Rate, POS sales, Daily sales (plan vs. actual), Open to Buy (purchasing) reports for the corporate executive team to manage day-to-day operations of $1.65 Billion revenue company. Multiple data sources are integrated for forward-looking analytics and reporting data – Logility (S&OP), HFM(financial), SAP (ERP and financial), Shiloh (POS), and 3 legacy ERP systems. • Decreased public company costs and fines by $150M while leading a companywide profitability improvement initiative.• Driving technology stack evaluation comparison of SAP HANA / Lumera vs. Hadoop ecosystem with SaaS Data discovery and visualization tool. Evaluation provides short-term, TCO and long-term technology growth information to the company executives.• Leading a 9 member PROD support team and on-call support training for all data analytics applications and services. Closing 3492 of 3709 PROD support tickets in 26 month period while concurrently developing corporate business analytics and reports.• Operational process improvement - on-call PROD support by all team members, improved deployment/migration documentation and protocols, CAPEX v OPEX project work determination, security protocol review and improvement.Environment: Agile (Data analytics), Waterfall (IT projects), ETL (Informatica), Cognos, Oracle 10, SAP, Hadoop, MongoDB, Excel, SPSS, Perforce, Clarizen, and Service Manager 9.

Houston, Texas, Us

Senior Technical Project Manager – On site at Symantec in Mountain View, CA • Project Management: Turned around over-budget and delayed project through a detailed project and budget management of $4M QlikView Sales dashboard implementation within highly matrixed HPES and Symantec environment. Completed three PCRs (budget requests) and corresponding SOWs within extensive Symantec/HP budgeting process. Successfully managing three-way vendor relationship: HP <=> Symantec and Symantec <=> QuikTech Consulting. Mentoring less experienced software developers on the team. The project is currently on-time and on budget.• Successfully coordinated and worked within the matrixed virtual development and SQA teams of up to 20 people spread around the world (United States, England, Ireland, and India). Environment: QlikView V10, PMI, Waterfall, Salesforce, ETL, SDLC, Data modeling, Perforce, MS Project and Remedy

South San Francisco, California, Us

Technical Project Manager – gCOI Deployment Services • Project Management: Successfully managed 260 deployments in a 33 week period of software components developed in Salesforce.com, Informatica (ETL), MetaMatrix (EII), Weblogic (ESB), Business Objects, and iPhone to various GMP validated and non-validated environments (DEV, QA, UAT, TRN and PROD ). • Process Engineering: Business process review, documentation and improvement of software deployment solutions timeline from DEV, QA, UAT, TRN and PROD environments. Review focused on maximizing number of deployments while maintaining a stable, controlled software environment for developers, SQA and end users.• Successfully coordinated and worked with matrixed virtual development and SQA teams of up to 30 people spread around the world (United States, India, and Poland) to deliver specified functionality, on time and on budget.Environment: Google apps, PMI, Iterative, Salesforce.com, SDLC, Visio, Excel, Powerpoint, SVN, Clearcase and gRemedy.

• Iterative methodology used for specification and development of consumer product focused on SEO friendly, web-based N-tier adaptive search and recommendation engine utilizing data perishability/aging, data subjective relevance, ontological, assertive versioning, and machine learning techniques. Wine, food and wine & food pairings are the initial consumer product space selected for discovery and recommendation to efficiently model perishable goods, personal consumer preferences, and individual perceptions. • Dynamic information source parsing for keyword extraction, keyword relevancy ranking, consumer sentiment detection, preference clustering determinationEnvironment: Agile, JIRA, C++, PHP, Javascript, C#, JSON, XML, Win Server 2012 R2, SQL Server 2008, UbuntuLionheart Wines:Lionheart Wines brand development including name, image, and label selection and design, securing intellectual property (trademarks and internet addresses), consumer outreach and interface, wine critic outreach and interface (including in-person, print, and web-based media), marketing collateral design, electronic direct marketing and promotions, website and direct to consumer wine club development and management.

• Business Analysis / Process Engineering: Business process review, documentation and improvement of wine production timeline from initial customer engagement to bottling of the barrel aged wine. Review was used to determine all consumer touch points, develop a schedule for contacting customers at each touch point and plan for unexpected time delays while maximizing throughput of the winery and minimizing winery storage space.Environment: MS Project, PMI, Iterative, Salesforce.com, SDLC, Visio, Excel, Powerpoint, Perforce and UML.

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Takumi Technology is a venture-backed startup in the semiconductor DFM software space providing solutions from library cell optimization through wafer defect analysis on sub-130nm technology nodes.R&D Project Manager• Project Management: Managed distributed software development of 19 (US - 5, Netherlands - 11 and Japan - 3) while improving delivery time by 35% through the use of a combination of internet based collaboration tools, top-down scheduling, bottom-up master scheduling and continuous process improvement. Alpha software release was only +4% off the estimated delivery time of 128 days (+5 days, effort total = 89 man-months). Beta software release was exactly on time on 16 man-months worth of effort. Provided ongoing project monitoring and risk assessment. • Process Engineering: Initiated and drove improvement of software development practices to improve the overall quality, increase visibility of development metrics, lower development time and institute software development best practices (change management, peer code reviews and enhanced testing frameworks). Designed and implemented software release process from requirement gathering through QA review; developed key document templates (MRD, PRD, functional specification, design documents and test plan).• Business Analyst: Review of company business engagements, developed detailed customer engagement plans and sanity checking of new corporate business strategies/opportunities.Environment: MS Project, PMI, SDLC, Windows XP, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, Excel, Powerpoint, Perforce and UML.

The Band of Angels is an angel investing group based in Silicon Valley with 120+ members focusing on a spectrum of market niches.• Performed special projects for the Managing Director of The Band of Angels and the Director of Financing Partners. • Project Management, Implementation: Created portfolio IRR calculations, valuation calculations, researched indemnification documents, researched DOI insurance requirements and vetted/designed new deal flow management software.• Business Analyst: Provided on-site and technical due diligence on early stage technology and Internet companies. Active pre-screening contributor, vetted new deals and maked investment recommendations to Managing Director.Environment: MS Project, PMI, SDLC, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, HTML, Use Cases, UML, VBA, Perforce, Access, SPSS

Pasadena Angels is an angel investing group with 90+ members focusing on a spectrum of companies. Investments are between $200k and $775k.• Active deal pre-screening committee member and led due diligence team efforts on potential deals.• Co-led Plantetwide Games deal with Tech Coast Angels – active deal negotiations, management vetting, revenue model vetting, market analysis, valuation calculation, term sheet drafting and SWOT analysis.Environment: MS Project, Visio, Change Management, Word, Excel Powerpoint, HTML, UML, Access, Perforce, Windows NT, Windows XP, SPSS

TVA ws a management consulting firm and network of accredited investors who make early-stage venture capital investments.• Project Management, Business Analyst: Performed in-depth due diligence (management, technology, competition, financial and market segmentation) analysis and produced reports on companies seeking seed and Series A funding. .• Requirement Analysis, Software Architect: Wrote MRD, PRD and functional specification for the next generation TVA website, portal and back-end server based on hands-on analysis of business stakeholder input, end user input and workflow analysis using UML. Developed implantation schedule structured for Indian off-shore development team.Environment: MS Project, Visio, SDLC, Change Management, Word, Excel Powerpoint, HTML, Javascript, Use Cases, UML, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 7, Access, ERWIN, XML, XMLSpy, Perforce, Windows NT, Windows XP, SPSS

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

A software development firm focusing on automating and enhancing US Special Forces ground mission planning (GMP).• Requirement Analysis: Conversion of MRD requirements to testable functional requirements and subsequent user acceptance testing criteria using UML principles.• Software Architecture, Project Implementation: Successfully designed, coded (C++ and COM) and tested 3D GIS enabled Ground Mission Planner version 2 utilizing modified A* path-finding algorithm with positive final user acceptance resulting in saving many US service men’s lives and increasing operational effectiveness of ground units. Project schedule development, maintenance and project update communication with stakeholders. Developed detailed project schedule (WBS) for implementation and maintained schedule during the implementation and acceptance phase.• Removed all system resource leaks in C++ code and increased speed 25% via usage of best programming practices.Envrionment: MS Project, SDLC, Change Management, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, HTML, Use Cases, UML, COM, OLE32, C++, GIS, ERWIN, XML (DTD), Visual Studio, A* Pathfinding, Perforce, WIN32, Access

A $54 million venture capital fund in the 96th percentile focused on high-tech software, Internet, hardware and infrastructure startup companies. Associate Venture Partner• Requirement Analysis, Process Engineering: Re-engineered the ad hoc venture deal vetting process into a consistent and repeatable process utilizing General Partner / Venture Partners business requirements and business process analysis as inputs, developed the straw-man process for consensus building, drafted MRD and PRD and received final approval for the system in two days.• Program Management, Software Architect: Automated business plan and venture deal vetting process resulting in 500% capacity increase and the ability to screen up to six business plans per day. Personally completed intranet-based workflow implementation and testing in three days, resulting in all current and historical deal data available at any time from any web-accessible location. • Business Analysis: Vetted 1300+ business plans in a nine-month period including on-site due diligence, competitive landscape analysis, management interviews and technology feasibility studies.• Program Management, Software Architecture, Business Analysis, Risk Management: Supported five portfolio companies in -- IT infrastructure, strategy, personnel screening, and technology evaluations. Director of IT• Mentored and managed three direct reports in the IT department. P&L budget planning, tracking and execution.Program Manager – Web Site• Program Management: Delivered Solaris-based website on time and under budget on a six-month delivery timeframe despite taking control of the project when it was currently two months behind schedule and had a disorganized distributed out-sourced development staff. Developed detailed project schedule and maintained schedule from Project Execution phase to Project Closure phase.

Digital On-Demand created the IP-based RedDotNet network to deliver on-demand compressed, encrypted digital content to brick-and-mortar stores. Software Consultant (for Digital On-Demand)• Requirement Analysis: Need for system replacement of old patchwork VB application determined by hands-on requirement analysis of existing code base, stakeholder input and QA report analysis. I developed the new system MRD and PRD using UML principles. • Software Architect, Project Management: Successfully led complete system redesign and implementation performing hands-on additional requirement analysis, architectural design patterns, staff mentoring, test case design and consensus building with engineers and management. UML methodology utilized for requirement gathering, high and low level system designs. Developed detailed project schedule (WBS) and maintained schedule from Project Initiation phase to Project Closure Phase.Environment: MS Project, Visio, SDLC, Change management, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, HTML, Javascript, Use Cases, UML/OMT, COM, DCOM, C++, ERWIN, XML (XSL, XQuery, DTD), Visual Studio, Visual Basic, Perforce, Visual Source Safe, Windows NT, SQL Server, Access, WIN32, Rational Rose

West Palm Beach, Florida, Us

OTX created a self-hosted ASP-formatted e-commerce real estate product exchange (www.realtrans.com).Manager of Software Development (Director)• Software Architecture, Project Management, Software Engineering, GIS: Led development of a self-hosted ASP-style internet-based real estate product exchange by nine staff engineers. Successfully integrated vendors into the exchange within five business days despite highly diverse EDI technological capabilities (Fax to X.12 and XML documents). UML methodology utilized for requirement gathering, database schema, high and low level system designs. Geographic information systems were developed to enhance the product offering of the exchange development. Detailed project schedule (WBS) and maintained schedule from Project Initiation phase to Project Closure phase.• Project Management, Change Management: Guidance and implementation of real estate focused XML DTD and schemas standards. The standards effort focused on accelerating XML document adoption for information exchange between real estate focused companies.• Change Management, Process Engineering, Project Management: Implemented source control software, reproducible design and development processes, test plan development and enforcement, defect-tracking system and RTM procedures in one month using procedural and cultural methods.Environment: MS Project, Visio, SDLC, CMM, Change management, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, HTML, Javascript, Use Cases, UML/OMT, COM, DCOM, C++, ERWIN, XML (XSL, XQuery, XPath, DTD), Visual Studio, Visual Basic, PVCS, Perforce, Visual Source Safe, Windows NT, SQL Server 7.5, X.12, EDI, Winrunner, WIN32, Rational Rose, Solaris, GIS

Stac’s product suite included an enterprise enabled desktop backup, Replica NDM, and disaster recovery product, Replica for NT.Principal Software Engineer (Project Manager)• Project Management, Change Management: Integrated eight US-based engineers and testers with ten Estonian-based engineers and testers despite time zone differences, and language and cultural barriers into a highly productive Replica NDM development team.• Software Architect, Software Engineer, Project Management: Delivered initial version of an enterprise-wide desktop backup product, Replica NDM, in four months (300% faster than scheduled). Designed, coded and tested highly configurable, superior performance, hybrid multi-threaded large data store using C++, COM, DCOM, flat text files and SQL Server in three weeks while managing integrated development team. Develop detailed project schedule (WBS) and maintained the schedule through Project Initiation phase to Project Closure phase.• Change Management: Member of the process team developing MRD and PRD templates as well as the development process to use them.Environment: MS Project, Visio, SDLC, CMM, Change management, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, HTML, Use Cases, OMT, COM, DCOM, C++, ERWIN, XML(Schema, DTD), Visual Studio, PVCS, Perforce, Winrunner, Visual Source Safe, Black Ice, Windows NT, SQL Server 6, Access, WIN32, Rational Rose, Select

Dataquick Information Systems is the leading provider of real estate information for the United States.• Software Architect, Project Management, GIS: Led a five-member team that designed and developed the $8 million revenues TOPS client / server title insurance application. I was a contributing member of the development staff (Foxpro, SQL Server, C++ and C) – dynamic vector map creation coding, database schema design, stored procedure coding, TIFF image library modification to enhance functionality and software architecture. Leadership role included overseeing the field beta testing, beta user acceptance testing and gold version field deployment of 15 installations. Developed detailed project schedule (WBS) and maintained from Project Initiation phase to Project Closure phase.• Software Architect, Project Management, GIS: Developed spatial information assignment processes and software tools using multiple data sources, data mining techniques and data cleaning methods. Tandem mainframe and PCs used for data processing, data cleaning and data distribution.• Software Architect, Software Engineer, GIS: Developed a highly accurate real estate property valuation model in one week using historical, geographically encoded sales information produced by internally developed multi-pass geocoding process. The valuation model was within 5% of a model developed by a mathematics Ph.D. over the course of five years.• Requirement Analysis: Developed the product requirements and user acceptance criteria for the client-server TOPS title insurance application based on development team, sales team and end user requirements.Environment: MS Project, Visio, SDLC, Word, Excel Powerpoint, Use Cases, OLE32, C++, Zinc Software, Rogue wave, GIS, ERWIN, Visual Studio, Visual Source Safe, Windows NT, SQL, SQL Server, FOXPRO, Tandem mainframe, WIN32

Mba, Finance And Entrepreneurship

B.S., Computer Engineering

Electrical Engineering

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