Patrick Gardner Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Leading Product and Engineering to deliver actionable threat intelligence to every team.

Austin, Texas, US

San Francisco, California, US

San Jose, California, US

• P&L responsibility for $350M business that included network appliances (hardware and virtual), cloud services, and endpoint software running across all major platforms.
• Founded the Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) product line and organically grew the business from nothing to $90M of bookings with over 3000 customers.
• Led migration and re-architecture of Symantec’s largest SaaS business in cloud email security from on premise bare metal architecture to a modern AWS hosted service
• Doubled size of IOT business with launch of Industrial Critical System Protection in 2019.
• Global sponsoring executive on Symantec customer advisory boards including CISO advisory board, healthcare advisory board, and product user groups.
• Led a number of M&A activities and due diligence on acquisitions.

San Jose, California, US

• Executive responsible for a 300-person organization delivering all core protection and detection technology for all Symantec products.
• Revolutionized Symantec’s protection stack, making it the best in the world and won reviews from SE Labs, AV Test, AV Comparative, PC Magazine, and Gartner.
• Created many new technologies that were the first in the industry, including file reputation, a real-time machine learning behavioral engine, static file machine learning detection, system cleanup tools.
• Enabled customer and the industry to understand and see the new technology through worldwide press and reviewer tours.
• Key member of company 5 year strategy project, Envision 2019, chartered by the CEO.
• Personally designed, led, and executed a security audit of 100 products in Symantec to review and upgrade the security and engineering practices of all products with report outs to the CEO and board.

San Jose, California, US

• Manager and technical lead for a team of 30 engineers for the malware detection engines, IPS, file system filter drivers, firewall, product update component, service host framework, file compression libraries, and.
• Engines ran on Windows, MacOS, and Linux in email, network gateways, and endpoint products from Symantec across the enterprise and consumer business units.
• Led the security half of a JV with a large network company to integrate Symantec’s engines into the vendors hardware platform. JV had a successful exit in 4 years growing to a $1B+ valuation.

San Jose, California, US

• Was a lead engineer building common shared infrastructure and components used by multiple product groups across the company in both the consumer and enterprise BUs.
• Led the development of a number of key platform infrastructure components including an event publisher/subscriber system, a common interface language for component versioning and re-user inter-product, and developed.

San Jose, California, US

• Developed key product components and unit tests on the Windows based endpoint product in C++. Developed the instant message, email, and on-demand scanners.

San Jose, California, US

• Responsible for testing Norton Antivirus product functionality, evaluation of competitive products, live virus testing, and developing test tools.
• Won recognition for most defects found on the entire project team.