Matt Herrero Email & Phone Number

San Anselmo, Ca, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Supporting the DNC technical team in the development of their infrastructure by coordinating with the technology sector to drive investment, engagement, and thought leadership.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Led international expansion at Amazon Music for Alexa voice and client applications (mobile, web, desktop). Responsible for the successful delivery of Amazon Music launches in India, Japan, Canada, Australia, France, and 35 other territories around the globe since May 2017.Drove execution within Amazon Music and coordination with Alexa Music, Alexa Internationalization, and Alexa Science. Owned the schedule and committed scope for projects and managed risks to deliver with high quality in the shortest possible timeframe.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Defined the scope and led the delivery of a cutting edge turn-key, on-premise private cloud appliance based on OpenStack. - Drove the cross-functional leadership team to prioritize the scope, resources, and management of the release - Traded off schedule/scope to ensure delivery of most critical features with high quality - Defined and rolled out engineering methodologies used by feature teams across a 150-person engineering team - Successfully delivered the 1.0 hardware/software release, as well as subsequent minor and patch releases (4 in first 9 months of the product)

San Jose, California, Us

Built and led a team that defined and delivered software and services with $300M in revenue - Led the team that drove releases for major product lines: Advanced Threat Protection, Email Security, and Identity Protection. These included hosted, appliance, and software products, built by over 500 engineers - Implemented a hybrid agile development framework with solid, up front planning, test automation, continuous integration, and multi-stage delivery of code for evaluation during the release - Contributed to senior leadership team strategy definition to create the product roadmap, evaluate which markets to pursue, build/buy tradeoffs, and organizational re-development options

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Defined and delivered The Climate Corporation's unprecedented weather risk management offering - Worked with Executive team, Board of Directors, partners, and customers to define strategic markets to focus on. Narrowed focus from six verticals to two based on market opportunity and readiness - Defined agile product delivery process leading to rapid iterations delivering new capabilities every 3 weeks - Developed agriculture channel sales revenue from 0% to 25% within twelve months and ultimately led to Climate Corporation’s one billion dollar acquisition by Monsanto in 2013

San Jose, California, Us

Owned the Symantec Mail Security product line, with $100M in revenue - Had P&L responsibility for all of Symantec’s Gateway Messaging Security products: Symantec Mail Security 8300 Series Appliance, Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam, and Symantec Mail Security for SMTP - Shipped 3 major and 7 minor enterprise software and appliance releases in less than 4 years - Interfaced with cross-functional members from Marketing, Sales, Consulting, Development, and QA - Collaborated on the Go To Market strategy, defining key product messages, branding, package design, features/benefits, sales projections per segment/region/quarter, pricing, and licensing strategies

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Consulted with customers to do deployments and technical training of Critical Path's messaging, directory, and meta-directory server products - Performed onsite customer product deployments including requirements analysis, project management, software deployment, integration with existing environments, testing, and documentation - Developed and delivered detailed, 5-day technical customer training - Increased revenue working directly with customers, Sales, and Executive Team

Successfully led the development effort of the core messaging service through GA launch - Wrote functional specs prioritizing requirements of the financial services industry, transactional messaging technologies, and high-availability Internet service architectures - Led cross-functional team to manage lifecycle through development, certification, and rollout. Managed tactical requirements during final development phase to keep project on-track. Interfaced with QA, customers, and internal inputs to identify key success drivers - Established partner strategy with leading network vendors to accelerate customer on-boarding and increase sales pipelines. Developed strategic re-seller agreements with AT&T Solutions and Global Crossing

Created an outsourced, network videogame hosting business 2 years before XBOX Live & Playstation Network - Defined product, business plan, target market segmentation, pricing, promotion, and financial model. Pitched angel and venture capital investors, strategic advisors, early customers, and key partners - Successfully negotiated relationships with angel and venture capital investors, strategic advisors, early customers, and key partners including Cisco, Exodus, and blam! - Hired initial team of engineers and led development of prototype technology - Designed production hosting architecture, system requirements, and technology strategy

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Managed core messaging and hosted architecture including POP, IMAP, patent-pending proxy server, and geographic service continuity for Critical Path’s messaging offering - Grew messaging infrastructure from one million users in one data center to twenty million users in seven global data centers. Grew messaging revenue from $10MM in 1999 to over $60MM in 2000 - Responsible for MRDs, PRDs, and full development cycle of software from requirements through deployment - Developed requirements interfacing with teams including Sales, Operations, Exec Staff, and customers. Built P&L, industry positioning, and negotiated strategic partner relationships with EMC, Veritas, and Sun

Led cross-functional team, delivering web hosting offerings for business.

Bs, Computer Science

Management Minor

Liberal Arts - Film