Global leader of end-to-end business process transformation program, Corporate Strategy & CEO Office• Engaged with executive leadership team to enable strategic plan through process transformation.• Assessing business process efficiency and effectiveness gains via global shared services.• Leading company-wide S&OP, end-to-end forecast process, long-range planning, inventory optimization, and product master data transformation initiatives.• Co-leading initiative to deliver Business Intelligence-Reporting as a service to internal stakeholders.• Collaborating with global process owners to drive continuous improvement and business process transformation initiatives spanning all major company processes including corporate strategy development, technology/product development, procurement, supply chain, go-to-market, customer support, finance and IT.• Led effort to establish, document and socialize Western Digital Corporation’s core business processes, driving ongoing continuous improvement balancing key performance measures, process cost, and improvement initiatives. Regularly reported progress to company executive sponsors including the CEO and CFO.• Led competitive process performance benchmarking research to identify improvement priorities.

Worldwide general manager of the OfficeConnect and Instant On switching and wireless business. • Created portfolio and go-to-market strategy endorsed by HPE CEO and Aruba executive staff.• Defined cloud management strategy and solution requirements. • Led execution of worldwide demand-generation and channel engagement programs.

Executive leader of OfficeConnect SMB switching product line management (PLM), switching solution go-to-market strategic initiatives (SMB to enterprise), and switching PLM Operations, • Managed a team of PLM professionals and led a virtual worldwide team of category managers, channel partner business managers, and promotion managers focused on SMB switching. • Defined and gained senior executive approval of SMB switching product roadmap, and secured investment for strategic and top-priority future product program.• Led network management/security software-to-switching connect rate programs.• Successfully managed multiple switch product end-of-sale to new product transitions.

Worldwide leader of nearly thirty technology service professionals performing Bid and Delivery Assurance for HPE’s Communication Service Provider (CSP)/Telco cloud software and services business.• Team successfully performed deal pursuit resource planning and financial analysis, deal approval execution, and service delivery governance to ensure performance according to success metrics.

Worldwide leader of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) service practice and solution PMO.• Led and provided executive sponsorship for NFV engagements with strategic CSP/Telco accounts.• Led product-solution-service generation programs targeted at the CSP/Telco market, including purpose-built NFV product and service offerings. PMO team managed cross-BU value delivery chain execution across all functional areas through market release.

Senior product management leader for industry-leading private cloud solution, driving $0.5B+ in revenue.• Recruited by HP Enterprise Group VP to lead Cloud portfolio strategy and roadmap development, focusing on HP CloudSystem private cloud solution. • Drove product/solution requirements definition and collaborated with pan-HP business units to ensure delivery according to company-wide technology and business strategy. • Team engaged in a wide range of strategic portfolio positioning and outbound marketing activities, solution launches, and HP cloud solution evangelism.

Executive leader of strategic partnerships enabling growth objectives set forth in the HP Networking strategic plan.

Executive leader of end-to-end product lifecycle management for HP’s enterprise campus edge/branch and SMB networking solutions, representing well over $1B in revenue.

Executive leader of inbound product/category management with accountability for ensuring competitive outbound product/solution marketing for all major product lines comprising nearly $1B in annual revenue.

Worldwide general manager of volume commercial networking business, including SMB switching and wireless products representing ~$400M in annual revenue. • Owned business quadrupled and grew nearly 5 times market rate during tenure.

Responsible for leading the effort to identify, select, analyze, and secure funding approval for new business proposals that create significant customer value and profitable and sustainable business growth for HP. Managed a team of new business development professionals operating within HP’s corporate venturing process, in partnership with worldwide cross-functional resources to create winning new business plans and successfully secure end-to-end SEED/startup/venture funding. Markets of interest included communications and networking, location-based services, healthcare, education, security solutions, and consumer and business web services that spanned all of these areas. Regularly engaged with senior executive staff to review strategic direction, lead quarterly business reviews, and drive investment decisions.