Senior technology product management and engineering leader with 20+ years' experience delivering business value. Experience spans cloud services and infrastructure; desktop, web and mobile devices; for consumer and enterprise markets, and major industry defining products including Microsoft Exchange, Outlook, Office, and Azure.Deep experience of software product development lifecycles spanning everything from huge, complex products to one-off projects with small teams. Areas of expertise:Customer-centered product design and development • Development of product vision and roadmaps, translating strategic initiatives into actionable plans • Working with customers to understand the market and their businesses • Utilizing data to drive product planning and evolution • Negotiation and management of relationships with partners, outsourced and contract work • Technical experience with Microsoft and open stacks and architectures• Specific technical expertise with security, identity management, storage and databases, API and SDK development, Web services and IOT • Development and leadership of multi-disciplinary teams • Broad project management skills, and experience in both waterfall and agile methods.Creating new businesses• Business planning and business model development• Startup formation, funding, investment due diligence• Building lean teams Extensive experience in consulting roles. Speaker at conferences, seminars, workshops, executive briefings - to technical, end-user, executive, media and press audiences in the US, Europe, and Asia.Industry experience spans Energy (especially clean tech), finance and banking, retail, telecoms, consumer products, biotech/pharma, government, non-profit and NGO.Keen to network: Open to relevant conversations at paulgar@paulgar.com.