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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 Eng, 2017-PresentVP Eng, 2015-2017Senior Director Eng, 2014-2015Director Eng, 2012-2014Managing Principal Architect, OpenShift, 2010-2012In partnership with the CTO, instrumental in developing the OpenShift platform into an industry-leading service in the PaaS space. Key contributions:• 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 conferences and with analysts and press to promote view on technology trends.• 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.• Oversee development organizations and operational teams for commercial hosted services, which have grown to 3 million customer applications deployed and 1+ billion requests per day.COMPETENCIES: Executive Leadership, Organization Management, Financial Management, Customer Success, Strategic Partnerships/Alliances, Engineering Management, Industry Thought Leadership, Global Team Leadership, Cloud Computing, Next-generation Applications, IaaS, PaaS, Product Strategy, Agile Development, Open Source

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. Achievements:• 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 Linux 6.• 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, Stakeholder Management, IT Strategy, Strategic Technology Planning, Product Launch, Team Leadership, Matrix Team Management, Budget Management, Financial Management, Vendor Contract Negotiation

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 applications. Achievements:• 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, Production Support, Application Support, Strategic Technology Planning, DevOps Leadership, Business Enablement, Team Building, Process Automation, Vendor Selection, Technology Selection

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 customer entitlement tooling. • 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 Engineering, Agile Development, Team Building

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

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