Michael Parish Email & Phone Number

San Jose, CA, US

• For this global cybersecurity leader, I have provided high-end oversight of a diverse product portfolio, including advanced firewalls and cloud-based offerings. My focus lies in partnering with global technical and.
• Led NPI effort that accelerated revenue generation, bringing in multi-million dollars within the first year and reducing delivery time from 3 months to 5 weeks.
• Managed the delivery of Unit 42 and Global Customer Services NPI, improving project velocity by 40% and achieving 90% in baseline regression testing.
• Championed Agile methodology adoption and integration of a Robotic Process Automation Center of Excellence, fostering innovation and efficiency across diverse business groups.
• Implemented scalable SaaS service to support new lease and loan corporate functionality, leading to systems integration and automated workflows across multiple departments.
• Led and managed a high visibility worker automation initiative, creating cohesion for multiple internal and external teams.

At VMWare, I led enterprise deployment of new global wireless environment utilizing Aruba wireless technologies in conjunction with the full LMS Lync deployment. I also deployed the wireless network access control to enhance security and performance measurement and monitoring.

As Service Delivery Leader, I evaluated hosted service providers and provided guidance on risk, operational metrics, and contract terms. I also lead partnerships with sales, marketing and global support services which affected the streamlining of business requirements for domain-specific IT initiatives.

Within my role as Managing Director, I developed an extensive partner network that increased VIVO’s brand and won key business accounts. My achievements also included directing information security business development as well as account management services, cloud computing, strategic planning, enterprise architecture, project, and data management.

• With Fortune 500 technology leader, SanDisk, I established Infrastructure Engineering and built the IT Emerging Technology team from the ground up. I also aligned scope and vision for PLM and ECM enterprise initiatives.
• Led thin client/virtualization enterprises which reduced yearly desktop costs by $300K, increased data center storage utilization by 40%, averting $500K annual excess storage costs.
• Drove integration teams during two corporate acquisitions, eliminating redundancies and consolidating infrastructure services. Migrated corporate data center to new facility with minimal impact to business systems.
• Managed database services team and oversaw daily support, maintenance, and development of Oracle (BI), MS SQL/Siebel and Progress/QAD application database environments.