Michael Ling Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, California, United States

vSphere technology enablement (Next generation microprocessor features support)vSphere roadmap planning OEM server partner technology enabling and roadmap alignmentOn-Prem and On-Cloud workload enabling and support

Palo Alto, California, United States

Responsible for the vSphere platform strategic planning and product development:1. Product Strategy and Planning:Continually exploring strategic and emerging market and platform technology trends, green field and existing customer needs, to drive vSphere product innovation and differentiation.2. Product Development:Driving vSphere product development in defining the product requirements, leading the end-to-end product development lifecycle, from product concept or MVP to launch. I am regularly collaborating with various cross BU engineering teams for feature delivery against a target release.3. Product Roadmap ownership:I manage the vSphere platform roadmap and collaborate with key technology partners in creating and maintain a clear and prioritized product roadmap. Also incorporating input from both internal stakeholders such as Office of the CTO, BU partners, relevant market research, and customer feedback data. To maintain product roadmap relevance, I also continuously evaluate and adjust to ensure alignment with current business objectives.4. BU and cross functional collaborative engagement for product success:I am involved daily, in cross-functional collaboration across VMware: We operate cross functionally and by BU, with engineering teams, design leaders, marketing, sales, and alliances teams to ensure seamless coordination and execution of product initiatives. 5. Product Launch and go-to-market:Along with other functional teams, I help drive the vSphere platform product launch and track customer adoption, develop go-to-market strategies, and product positioning to ensure successful product launches. 6. vSphere platform market analysis: Evaluating market research data, analyze emerging industry trends, and stay up-to-date with competitor offerings. We use a data-driven approach to identify new opportunities for product enhancements and new feature development.

Palo Alto, California

I have deep experience in program managing and connecting Vision to Proof-of-Concept, paving the way for product development:* Working with technical leaders within the Office of the CTO for technology enablement and product roadmap planning. * Providing guidance to VMware product management and working with strategic partners to achieve product roadmap alignment* Offering strategic insights to VMware internal stakeholders who manage Partners technologies and future product planning. Work closely with partner alliances team to identify partner product integration opportunities and solution alignment where it makes business sense.* Program managing an internal global cross-organization team: “Server-PDT” (product development team) to ensure successful product execution and timely release of vSphere support to external OEM partners.

Santa Clara, California

• Planning and delivering the hardware enablement product strategy. I am responsible for the hardware support roadmap for Wind River Linux. Our product line covers x86, ARM, PPC and MIPS processor architectures. I am experienced with OS enabling of software support for a large portfolio of processors from various semiconductor companies.• Analyze key target markets and customer use cases that are relevant for defining product requirements and specifications. I am responsible for enabling key features-functionality-differentiation for product success.• Become a critical interface between product development and alliances teams to collaborate and align strategic semiconductor partner silicon roadmaps to Wind River Linux software roadmap.• Provide support to cross organizational teams (product marketing, pre-sales, alliances teams etc), customer briefings, trade shows, competitive analysis, market development and product launch activities.• Help sales teams in their business development efforts and alliances team in strategizing on co-marketing/co-selling campaigns with partners to go after mutual target markets to achieve product revenue goals.

Sunnyvale, California

Represent software engineering in AMD's 45nm Microprocessor Product Development Team (PLC & roadmaps), Go-to-market strategy development for open source & linux execution at AMD, Software Engineering Program Management for open source & linux, Technology Product Strategy & Planning experience.

Cupertino, California

Strategy & Business Planning Role: July 2003 - March 2006. Developed strategic initiative business plans, revenue forecasting, and analytic forecasting models for HP’s Linux Business planning cycles. Product Development responsibility for a HP strategic program, Incubate/Develop strategic initiatives, Pre-sales support for executive customer briefings, Strategy/Market Development for business transformation.

Cupertino, California

Marketing Requirements definition planning, business forecasting, content development (Solution guides, data sheets etc) for all server and storage platforms supported on Linux. Helped drive go-to-market events and activities.

Cupertino, California

Help Product/Solution managers define Market Requirements, validation for solution definition, managed business critical escalation process. Managed New Product Intros (NPI) roll-outs for Linux solutions. Developed and staged proof of concepts (PoC) systems, demo systems and showcase for trade shows, user conferences and customer executive briefings.

Cupertino, California

Direct customer facing role to apply technical consulting expertise to resolve system integration issues with HP servers and storage products running 3rd party software. This is a critical function in situations to save customer accounts from loss of HP business.

Victoria, Australia

Provide pre-sales technical support to HP Enterprise Direct sales force in deal qualification, opportunity identification, developing response to RFPs/RFTs, staged PoC for validation, etc.

Victoria, Australia

Full-time revenue generating consultant. Managed and sell my own services delivery portfolio in various industries: Retail, Financial and Communications enterprise customer base.

Victoria, Australia

Revenue generating technical consultant in data communications. Professional Services delivery portfolio include: LAN/WAN design and implementation, multi-vendor network equipment installation and deployment, layer 2-3 network troubleshooting with data sniffing tools.

Victoria, Australia

Promoted to Project Team Lead from System Engineer position. Managed KRF Datacenter Melbourne, Australia operations. Built a new data center for KRF Tokyo office (6 mth project).

Victoria, Australia

Systems Engineer working on customer network and server installations.

B.Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Systems

Pre-College Credits, Various