Driving product vision and strategy, as well as marketing and roadmaps for IBM Fusion. Key responsibilities include:- Engaging customers to help them understand the power of Kubernetes and modernized data management- Enabling IBM and Red Hat sales teams to connect with those customers to deliver solutions which solve their business challenges- Working closely with IBM and Red Hat product marketing and product management teams to deliver products and solutions which make raving fans of our customers- Engaging industry analysts and press to help the understand the IBM vision for consolidated application and data modernization

Visionary technology leader driving market awareness for a completely new market segment. To do so, I created excitement and interest with the following audiences:1. Customers - especially customer personas who are new to IT such as application developers and data scientists.2. Industry analysts - briefed dozens of industry analysts and drove excitement and interest with the analyst community for a brand new technology.3. Sales teams - created and evangelized solutions for Kubernetes and VMware to drive vision and engagement.

Helping enterprises turn data from a cost center into a revenue engine

Taking the world by storm with innovative Big Data and AI/ML solutions which solve some of the most challenging business problems.Building agile infrastructure solutions based upon Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Ceph together with Rook.io and NooBaa technologies, for Hadoop, Spark, Tensorflow, Kafka, Hive, etc.

Game changing leader who delivers solutions focused on Object Storage, DevOps, Containers, and Open Platforms.

Delivering visionary marketing and product management for a wide range of clients ranging from early stage startups to mature businesses in the telecom/managed services, IoT, enterprise search, and cloud infrastructure industries.

Orchestrating comprehensive business and marketing plans for high growth cloud block and object storage use cases. Built a high performing virtual team to rapidly deliver innovative cloud storage solutions.• Analyzed overall cloud storage market opportunities and developed high-level business plans for action. Employed Pragmatic Marketing and Agile development methods to rapidly understand customer challenges and use cases to architect the best solutions to meet their needs.• Led a cross-functional team of marketing, product management, engineering and third party partners to develop a 2-year cloud storage roadmap to support the rapid growth of HP Helion OpenStack Storage.• Launched HP Helion Content Depot, a new cloud storage solution based upon OpenStack Swift, within 6 months.• Coached worldwide sales teams on opportunities and customer pain points, HP’s messaging, value propositions, elevator pitches, and competitive guidance. • Delivered deep dive technical training to raise presales competency levels and to enable effective sizing and quoting of cloud storage solutions.• Conducted competitive analysis of Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Microsoft Azure Cloud Storage. Prepared feature and pricing comparison versus Helion Content Depot to train sales teams.• Composed and delivered cloud object storage presentations at OpenStack Summit-Vancouver and HP Discover in both Europe and Americas, as well as numerous highly attended open public webinars.

• Collaborated with sales teams and partners to deliver 200%+ quarterly revenue growth for HP’s Mobility solutions with VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop.• Delivered 30%+ annual revenue increases for HP Storage in the Healthcare Industry. Developed OEM storage solutions for GE Healthcare, AGFA Healthcare, MEDITECH, EPIC and Cerner.• Led technical team to benchmark HP 3PAR All Flash Array for VDI. Created solution sizing whitepaper and conducted competitive feature and pricing analysis.• Presented VDI All Flash Array solutions at Citrix Synergy, VMware VMworld, and HP Discover.• Delivered Reference Architectures, Sales Guides, Sizing and Configuration Guides, Blogs, Whiteboard Videos, White Papers, and Solution Briefs.

• Orchestrated the product definition of HP’s new X9000 Network Storage system and brought it to market a record 90 days after HP’s IBRIX software acquisition in August of 2009.• Developed and implemented X9000 Worldwide Go-to-Market plans. Orchestrated sales and presales training and hosted weekly WW sales coffee talks to ramp sales and presales team competencies. • Directed the integration of the HP and IBRIX marketing organizations, including managing a multi-million dollar annual marketing budget for worldwide demand generation and outbound marketing.

• Developed and delivered HP’s Extreme Data Storage System, an innovative, industry-leading scale out storage product targeted at opportunities in Cloud, Media & Entertainment, Telecom, Health & Life Sciences, and Oil & Gas.• Broke from corporate tradition to pre-announce product six months ahead of launch. Executed worldwide press and analyst announcements, resulting in more than 200 unique articles and analyst responses. • Analyzed market growth opportunities using primary and secondary research. Developed and executed Go-to-Market and Sales Enablement plans for worldwide launch. Completed product forecasts and pricing analysis, including market, competitive, profit, and margin analyses.

• Developed and delivered HP’s Extreme Data Storage System - an innovative, industry-leading scale out storage product targeted at opportunities in Cloud, Media & Entertainment, Telecom, Health & Life Sciences, and Oil & Gas.• Led team of 20 senior architects and engineers to execute aggressive product launch plans for new scalable network attached storage and WAN acceleration products. Recruited and retained top talent and achieved a zero attrition rate.• Mentored worldwide enterprise sales teams to sell the new portfolio.