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El Dorado Hills, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

I shifted focus to a product management role while retaining responsibilities as the Principal Software Architect. I establish and execute the product roadmap and long-term strategy for Hyperforce to deliver high value features for our customers.* Spearhead commercialization efforts, introducing previously unavailable capabilities through public cloud innovations and defining product requirements based on hands-on Hyperforce knowledge and development expertise.* Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to identify market needs and promising opportunities while distilling complex technical concepts into highly accessible material for maximum cross-functional alignment.* Collaborate closely with customer leadership teams to understand and address their biggest challenges and pain points, gathering feedback on Hyperforce’s performance and impact to continuously improve offerings and meet evolving customer and market needs.* Identify new use cases, integrations, and partnerships that leverage power and scalability of public cloud infrastructure, enabling customers to reach business goals more effectively and efficiently.Select Achievements* Play pivotal role in effort to launch Hyperforce in 20 distinct countries worldwide by end of 2023.* Revamp infrastructure support for customers running mission-critical work through Salesforce by leveraging Hyperforce’s uniquely flexible capabilities to address customer concerns regarding efficiency and security. This became the most successful (by revenue) product in it's first year in Salesforce history. * Improved Hyperforce’s ability to address residency and sovereignty concerns regarding data management, storage, and processing by developing and launching EU Operating Zone in 2023.* Refocused Hyperforce’s new product team by developing and implementing vision for a highly technical product organization, eliminating the need for constant back and forth between Engineering and Product Management teams.

San Francisco, California, Us

I was promoted to lead Salesforce’s new Hyperforce development initiative, defining the overall vision, architecture, and its foundational elements to build successful, cutting-edge products. * Aligned product needs and standards across Engineering organization comprising 20K total Engineers to develop high-quality, unified, centralized platform that complied with critical company infrastructure requirements.* Orchestrated single method of creating and maintaining cloud provider accounts while securing new resources, prioritizing cost-effective solutions, and incorporating crucial security features.* Responded quickly to constantly evolving regulatory market regarding data and security needs, incorporating innovative new features and improvements into Hyperforce throughout development process.* Provided high availability, high security, low latency, and consistently predictable behavior to global customers through deeply integrated Hyperforce features.Select Achievements* Transformed Salesforce from collection of on-premises enterprise services to cloud-native, Web-Scale services designed for scalability of enterprise needs by coordinating across Salesforce’s primary Engineering teams.* Launched Hyperforce to customers and broader market in 2020, addressing customer feedback calling for public cloud services with increased security.* Clarified and strengthened customer understanding of Hyperforce’s capabilities by building out customized marketing content, including messaging, talk tracks, first-call decks, and more detailed, technically-focused call decks.* Attracted new customers through demonstrations and presentations at Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce conference and re:Invent event in Las Vegas, NV.* Enabled Salesforce to resolve long-standing technological complaints and issues from customers due to Hyperforce’s increased adaptability compared to previous, on-premises products.

San Francisco, California, Us

I advanced to guide Salesforce’s transition from Enterprise-Scale to Web-Scale, investigating and streamlining the entire process, including product launch, running services, hardware ordering, and overall monitoring.* Utilized combination of existing open-source tools and in-house solutions to build new supply chains, allocation models, and health mediated deployment mechanisms while driving “lights out data center” initiatives. Select Achievements* Spearheaded effort to streamline and shorten the entire allocation process, resulting in easier, more efficient methods for service owners to put new services into production. * Delivered presentation titled “Yes, We Can Move to Public Cloud, But We Have to Leave Our Dirty Laundry Behind” at 3/2018 architecture summit for 400 Architects detailing how to propel Salesforce into the future of public cloud products and offerings.* Tapped by Chief Engineering Officer and President of Technology to lead new public cloud effort as first and core member of newly formed Hyperforce team.

San Francisco, California, Us

I transitioned to support Salesforce in reinventing and modernizing application services and the management of 12 data centers across eight countries aligned with key geographic regions.* Played instrumental part in development of new infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform, heading QA compliance and improvements through implementation of innovative processes, tools, and mindset transformations.* Assisted in development and execution of Salesforce’s first-ever effort in 2015 to migrate into the public cloud for core technology stack in Canada and Australia. Provided critical expertise and support to ensure successful launch.* Backed migration away from traditional Developer and Engineer mentalities toward dedicated DevOps culture through implementation of new best practices and standards.

San Francisco, California, Us

I joined a dynamic, cross-company group tasked with resolving capacity and scaling issues. I collaborated closely with Application Engineers, Data Center Engineers, Vice Presidents, and other key company leaders to develop optimal solutions.* Identified issues and enhancements ranging from software defects to architectural improvements. Proposed and spearheaded solutions that provided company-wide impact for cross-functional teams.

New York, Ny, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

I advanced quickly to the QAE III level by demonstrating leadership skills, attention to quality, and cross-company collaboration abilities. I also facilitated design reviews for new projects as a required stakeholder for initial project reviews.* Coordinated with technical teams in the U.S., India, and China to maintain project schedules and quality levels while identifying defects early on to quickly mitigate future concerns.* Championed higher quality code delivery from developers and overall faster release cycle by driving better unit test, integration test, and user interface (UI) test coverage.* Advocated for adoption of continuous deployment (CD) methodology as core member of company-wide engineering excellence groups, resulting in migration from twice monthly to daily deployments using automation practices.* Enabled QA Engineers with minimal development skills to write robust tests by playing pivotal role in design and implementation of test automation frameworks that promoted streamlined best practices, including abstraction layers.

I co-founded the software development start-up, OmniTechnica in 2003, and sold the company to Iluminar Technologies in 2005. I transitioned to the new company to continue our critical development projects.* Formed and led QA team to meet high quality standards for customers. Maintained crucial development activities, such as architecting custom XAML-based installation system.* Designed and built state-of-the-art ASP.NET license management system that enabled on- and offline activation for use by nationwide companies.

New York, Ny, Us

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