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• Progressed through increasingly senior positions in the Engineering organization to serve as Senior Vice President with engineering responsibility for all of Red Hat and their 20+ product lines. Chronology:Senior VP.
• Provide executive leadership both internally and externally. Establish product strategy and communicate priorities at all organizational levels, from engineering teams to Board of Directors. Represent the company at.
• Lead thousands of employees across 25 countries, focusing on recruiting, developing, and retaining key talent for open source projects and products. Continually align engineering efforts with business unit objectives.
• Manage $40+ million budget spanning multiple cost centers with responsibility for fiscal-year planning of OPEX and CAPEX.
• Foster success within key accounts to build public reference customers at Cisco, United HealthGroup, Barclays, FICO and other major organizations.
• Collaborate with partners (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc) to establish technology-product alignment and industry foundations such as the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Handpicked by CIO for high-profile, high-priority customer relationship management role to provide internal stakeholder support to key leadership, including CTO, President of Engineering, and multiple General Managers..
• Developed IT strategy to meet engineering needs and establish long-term portfolio strategy to negotiate common priorities, resulting in successful coordinated delivery of major product launch with Red Hat Enterprise.
• Headed both direct and dotted-line resources, as well as contract staff, to complete complex IT deliverables.
• Oversaw fiscal-year planning to deliver on all strategic engineering initiatives, managed OPEX and CAPEX budgets, and negotiated vendor contracts.
• Translated engineering stakeholder needs into detailed technical requirements and architectural fits, leveraging both in-house developments and vendor solutions to meet objectives.COMPETENCIES: Engineering Leadership.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Promoted into newly created positions with concurrent responsibility for overseeing business-IT architecture alignment, expanding production support efforts, and implementing a 24x7 support environment for end-user.
• Developed enterprise architecture plans for all major business functions to inform long-term IT strategy, including vendor selection, technology selection, and in-house development approaches.
• Built an efficient DevOps team that bridged development and operations teams. In less than 1 year, automated release processes, allowing development teams to perform dozens more releases each month.
• Dramatically streamlined the delivery of new requirements and reduced application issue resolution time from hours to minutes.
• Managed team of varying skill sets, including enterprise architects, developers, and operations staff on 24x7 pager rotations.COMPETENCIES: Engineering Management, IT Architecture Management, IT-Business Alignment.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Joined Red Hat as a Team Lead in an internal development environment to migrate internal applications from a legacy to a J2EE-based infrastructure. Achievements:
• Coordinated multiple development teams in migrating LAMP-based applications to a J2EE-based infrastructure, resulting in the on-time and on-budget migration of dozens of applications, including an online store and.
• Expanded U.S.-based engineering team to Pune, India. Interviewed and selected team, and conducted on-site enablement to develop a strong and unified team.
• Established agile development teams to build high-quality applications, many of which are still being used 10 years later.COMPETENCIES: Engineering Leadership, Application Development, Offshore Leadership, Software.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Gained strong foundation in product development and consulting in early roles with IBM.