• Launched SaaS Backup for Salesforce, including product strategy, go-to-market, competitive positioning, pricing and roadmap.• Initiated and drove partnership with Salesforce (AppExchange) for SaaS Backup for Salesforce• Developed Partner Central for Partners to accelerate opportunities for revenue generation• Led partnerships and Cloud Marketplace integrations with global distributors (StreamOne – TechData), resellers (AppDirect – CANCOM).

• Drove Secondary Storage, Data Management as-a-Service and Data Mobility product strategy and roadmap for the HPE storage platform.• P&L responsibility for $140 million HPE StoreOnce product line.• Led a team of passionate product, program & partner managers.• Managed the data protection partnership, for Veeam & Commvault, from business planning to storage integration to go-to-market.

• Led Cirata Fusion LiveData for Multi-Cloud product strategy, roadmap and delivery on Cloud Marketplaces (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba, Azure China).• Collaborated with Product Marketing to promote uptake of LiveData for Multi-Cloud.• Successful delivery of the product resulted in a customer win – a global mobile network.

Led NetApp’s SaaS Backup platform, with emphasis on building a highly scalable, API-driven, cloud-scale platform for customer’s backup data stored in SaaS/PaaS. Responsible for developing product strategies, managing product roadmaps, and coordinating cross-functional delivery of solutions.Led the delivery of SaaS data protection solution for Office 365, Salesforce, with a focus on security, regulations, and compliance (ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, SOC2 Type2, GDPR, HIPAA). Built and optimized pricing and packaging strategies for the software subscription. Defined specific relevant go-to-market channels, influenced positioning, packaging, and campaigns, collaborating with sales and marketingLed partnerships and Cloud Marketplace integrations with global distributors (StreamOne –TechData), resellers (AppDirect – CANCOM).Led datacenter modernization solution (OnCommand Shift) that enables fast and efficient data transport across virtualized and cloud platformsCoordinated integration of NetApp storage arrays with Azure Site Recovery, through close collaboration with Microsoft System Center team. Resulted in the case studyLed product teams through a smooth transition from the legacy architecture to integrating into new Snap* architectureDelivered Windows Server 2012, System Center and Hyper-V solution integration that earned NetApp the Microsoft Private Cloud Partner of the Year Award for 2012 and help establish market position as Microsoft’s leading storage technology partner

Led the development of various Microsoft enterprise application products, both from within the engineering team and cross-functional product teams – Virtualized Local Disk driver, Device Specific Module for Microsoft Multi-Path I/O, SnapDrive for Windows, vSphere ESX integrationDeveloped Virtualized Local Disk driver (solution for Microsoft Exchange). At that time, it was a revolutionary product and saved NetApp’s Exchange market shareDesign and developed Device Specific Module for Microsoft Multi-Path I/O, working closely with Microsoft, QLogic, Emulex and NetApp’s cross-functional product teams. Required great diplomacy, technical knowledge, strong cross-functional coordination, and leadership abilitiesAddressed the issue of redundant development and generated cost savings of 40% by developing common architecture leveraged by multiple productsAuthored a white paper on the use of web-services standards that served as a roadmap for future products integration with 3rd-party application solutionsDelivered technology presentations within the company, evangelizing Microsoft’s vision of server virtualizationContributed to NetApp’s engineering processes and metrics management technique improvementsDemonstrated leadership in producing design documentation and effectively communicating those designs to cross-functional product teams

Designed, developed, and tested I/O subsystems (PCI, SCSI, Fibre Channel) with specific emphasis on design and development of interface device drivers for Troika Network’s Fibre Channel adaptersCompleted the project two weeks early and 15% under budget than originally estimated

Led the effort to enable hot-swappable drives on the Windows NT platform. Pioneered this work for Agate in a very independent mannerSaved OEM relationships with key customers focusing on product quality and timely delivery

Developed sequential filesystem for SCSI tape devicesDeveloped block filter driver for Windows NT to monitor disk write requests