Alan Murphy Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Reporting to the CTO, the lead (sometimes only) Product Manager for an early stage startup, wearing every product-related hat you can imagine: Defining, building, delivering, and measuring new market products in the Kubernetes and cloud observability SaaS and telemetry pipeline spaces.[PM] Drive product requirements based on net-new market fit, customer requirements, and competitive threats; spend time with both existing customers and new opportunities to define net-new product direction; launch zero-to-one observability products from the ground up; build pricing models for SaaS COGS, margin considerations, etc[PO] As the SaaS and agent Product Owner, lead deliver from telemetry pipelines and observability Agile engineering teams; manage day-to-day sprints and Agile ceremonies; drive Jira hygiene as the primary delivery management platform[QA] We're an extremely agile team, and as such the PM is also the primary QA tester/reviewer/approver for the Edge Delta SaaS platform[Jack of all Trades] Anything necessary to drive product and overall startup success 🚀

San Francisco, California, Us

- Owned multiple products and workstreams responsible for delivering Kubernetes SaaS and on-prem observability- Lead Kubernetes agent work to design and build cloud-native tooling for running infrastructure agents within managed and stand-alone Kubernetes environments, including low-level Linux kernel, eBPF, and syscall functions- Built products and features to ingest infrastructure and application metrics via Prometheus- Worked directly with customers -- SREs, DevOps, Developers, Administrators, etc -- to identify key use cases and pain points with Kubernetes infrastructure monitoring at scale- Lead and supported teams based in the US, Spain, Italy, and Serbia

Seattle, Washington, Us

- Directed the design and build of a lightweight service mesh for Kubernetes traffic management and security, built on enterprise-class NGINX Plus data plane, from inception through release - Created new revenue models for Kubernetes traffic management products (ingress controller, service mesh, app firewall) based on consumption and sizing models, monetizing free/OSS/enterprise software through unique licensing and support options for customers- Drove cross-product integration based on how customers deploy and manage Kubernetes-based services

Seattle, Washington, Us

Relocated to APCJ to build and foster NGINX offices and technical resources throughout the region (Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore, Tokyo), hiring top engineering talent while bootstrapping in-region pre- and post-sales customer support

San Francisco, California, Us

Based out of Sydney, opened technical arm of NGINX APCJ and built new technical sales and support teams in Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo, and Singapore.

San Francisco, California, Us

Managed day-to-day operations for NGINX Plus on AWS, GCE, and Azure cloud marketplaces and ecosystems; led technical relationships with all ecosystem partners.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Built a vertically-focused technical marketing program to target the specific storage needs and use cases for Media & Entertainment, Life Sciences, Oil & Gas, Higher Education, and Telco Providers

Seattle, Washington, Us

Built and led a customer-focused technical marketing teams for Cloud and ADC solutions; drove unified content marketing and spokesperson programs NA, EMEA and APJ regions

Seattle, Washington, Us

Led a global team of technical content marketers and spokespeople across traditional, corporate, and social media outlets

Seattle, Washington, Us

- Primary subject matter expert, author, and evangelist in F5-enabled cloud and virtualization architectures and solutions- Provided strategic counsel, targeted product suite consulting, and articulated corporate vision to various analysts, press, and external organizations; communicated and advocated regarding outbound technology and marketing to internally-focused and vendor-neutral groups, such as consortiums, professional groups, and specialty markets.- Independently managed cutting-edge projects for data administration, virtualization, data center consolidation and communication. - Managed F5's Technical Marketing content development lifecycle, bringing technology collateral to market by working with product, marketing, design, and field teams throughout F5.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Part of the engineering arm of Product Management, specializing in application and user-based security technologies.- Led product management engineering virtual team and execution of design, development, and promotional strategies for hardware and software builds. - Designed and created easily digestible story‐form documentation advocating usage and functionality of technology as well as its business application and advantages.

Seattle, Wa, Us

- Managed post-sales strategies in DRM space targeting media production companies in music, movies, and television, emphasizing data security and digital rights- Analyzed business operations and consulted on, developed, and integrated secure environments at DRM client sites; worked directly with major corporate entities such as Sony Pictures and Music, Warner Brothers, Starz/Encore, Cisco, Paramount Studios, Movielink, and Deutche Telekom AG to design complex communications and digital rights management systems.- Deployed and implemented media networks in international locations including France, Germany, Spain, UK, and Australia.