Mike Gillespie Email & Phone Number

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

Greater Boston

CIO Sensei is an IT advisory firm comprised of former CIOs, IT Practitioners, and Business Executives with “real world” experience successfully leading organizations and delivering business results. Our experienced team accelerates measurable benefits and value realization for our clients.I am passionate about partnering with clients to accelerate business outcomes and transform organizational capabilities.

Hopkinton, Ma

Responsible for Engineering Program Management, and Cross Engineering Operations / Chief of Staff to the VP of Data Protection Division Product operations with a focus on the following:• Proactive Leadership, Management and Support of Operational Cadence• Executive Communication, Presentations and Internal/External Engagement Support• Engagement in Strategy and Transformation Work• Managed resources and budgets to drive common development processes and collaboration tools• Worked with senior management to define Strategic direction, Product roadmap, budget,quarterly goals, and drive the execution of supporting objectives and key program indicators(KPIs) / results• Manage teams towards long-term goals as well as short-term daily capabilities• Ability to work with everyone from developers to product owners to C-level executives to help communicate, prioritize, influence key business, development, and product decisions.

Hopkinton, Ma

• Provided leadership for the VPLEX (provides continuous availability and no disruptive data mobility) Product Development (Control path - UX, data path, serviceability) & Quality Engineering organization within the Data Protection and Availability Division. • Led a team of managers within the EMC/ Data Protection and Solutions division to organization work to cultivate, grow and expand individual’s skill sets, coach individuals through change and challenges, best development practices, support individuals career growth, and build winning teams. The role grew to include building a scalable world class agile organization focused on repetitively adding customer value while continuing to meet market, corporate, & quality objectives. • Managed engineering operations, program management, release engineering, and lab support teams to support and govern VPLEX product releases while ensuring quality of project delivery and maintaining customer satisfaction. Resulted in $75+ million in product revenue & $50+ million in service revenue in 2 years

• Managed major engineering programs from planning to release. Responsible for engineering related schedules and coordinating integration with cross functional groups. Managed teams locally and globally located to achieve engineering objectives. • Chaired program reviews for Integrated System Components senior management. Contributed to operational areas such as escalation management, dashboard generation, and IT related capabilities operational model.

Hopkinton, Ma

Managed major engineering programs from planning to release. Responsible for engineering related schedules and coordinating integration with cross functional groups. Managed teams locally and globally located to achieve engineering objectivesChaired program reviews for Integrated System Components senior management. Contributed to operational areas such as escalation management, dashboard generation, and IT related capabilities operational model.

Southborough, Ma

• Technical lead for specific mid-range Storage Clariion management “Navisphere” projects, with responsibilities to manage small to medium size development teams to deliver system management features. Coordinator for Navisphere's off shore development team. • Defined the processes for interaction between the teams and continually monitoring and refining these processes to ensure success. • Software developer for mobile hand held computer used for health solutions for both health care providers and consumers of the medical mobile app.