Product Management responsibility for Sonatype’s developer-friendly software supply chain management platform serving more than 2,000 organizations and 15 million software developers to accelerate innovation and improve application security. Partner with CTO & Co-Founder to drive innovation agenda and product development priorities and roadmap delivery.Recruited, built, mentored and coached team from 10 to 27 Strategists, Product Managers/Owners, Product Operations and Portfolio Product Management and Business Program Management experts. Led the team’s transformation leveraging past professional experience and Vista Consulting product management practices, processes and skills development.Implemented multi-year strategy, annual planning and continuous roadmap prioritization and execution management supporting Sonatype’s hyper business growth and scale.Introduced and mainstreamed numerous modern product management practices/methods such as: product growth and rapid experimentation, lean-agile business planning, operational OKRs and KPIs, cross-functional execution core teams, and modern tooling for planning, program health reporting and change management. Owned executive forum for decisions, execution transparency, and change management. Three Product and Platform segment teams accountable for total delivery, GTM/launch, business readiness and enablement for a wave of new innovations and products across the Sonatype Platform including: Nexus Repository, Lifecycle, Firewall, Containers, Advanced Legal Compliance, Lift Code Quality & Security, and Cloud/SaaS-based offerings.

Strategy and business model executive for media SaaS products and cloud-ready software, micro-services and IaaS solutions. Realized Avid's first cloud and hybrid solutions including: Nexis Storage Cloudspaces, Media Central Cloud UX and Avid Edit on Demand cloud service. Managed priorities agenda with strategic CSP partnership for joint innovation, roadmap plan and execution. Cloud business cross functional leadership with Product, Marketing, Sales, Engineering, DevOps, IT, Finance, Legal, Professional and Customer Services. Definition and delivery of total product experience from order to usage/cost/services health monitoring, to subscription and customer success management.

Change and execution management expert responsible for unifying and modernizing product strategy and management processes with best in class SaaS and SW development, DevOps and cloud market delivery practices. Initiated and automated business practices for: product strategy, customer development and lean startup methods, and SaaS business/product planning and continuous delivery.Partnered with Engineering to enhance Agile process and scrum teams engagement, product owner skills, and common tools for: improved strategy and goals alignment, rapid SaaS roadmap features and ideas management.Business leader for SaaS success and profitability initiatives with Marketing and Services to drive online engagement, customer success management, on-boarding and usage, expanded services for business outcomes and customer value.

Leader recruited to drive major transformations and excellence in software business strategy and models, product management capabilities and Agile/SaaS continuous delivery. Led cross-functional program team and delivered 1st SaaS multi-module cloud-hosted platform for Microsoft Office 365 and Azure AD workloads management.Developed and automated SaaS product management framework to drive complete product experience, diversified services, rapid feature delivery and engagement management.

Led product management team and program management office for product delivery. Refocused organization on priority products and persistent data and compliance markets.

Pace-setter and trusted, business development executive in infrastructure and investments for partner enablement and global market expansion. Reported to the CEO and senior executive team with total accountability for planning, execution, team building and results.Spearheaded more than $100 million in APJ business development and revenue generating infrastructure initiatives.Managed creation of 12 APJ solution centers and teams, increasing win rate and deal size by more than 40%.Managed China initiatives and teams totaling $25 million that provided technical product and partner infrastructure necessary to accelerate solution sales and demonstrate long-term commitment to China.Forged company’s first Chinese R&D center and strategic partnership with China’s top software sourcing provider.

Respected leader selected for outstanding multicultural team-building skills and geographical management experience to launch Japan Partner and Alliances Sales, mentoring 16-person team including Business Sales and Technical Sales. Formulated joint solutions and shaped partnerships with global and Japanese SI, ISV and telecom/networking entities.Increased Japan sales from $160 million to $465 million in 2 years through solution sales and partner alliances.

Charted CEO/Exec team’s Review Board for new products/innovation, lifecycle status, and go-to market readiness. Developed and instituted portfolio management processes and tools including: new products council, executive priorities interlock and business performance and roadmap review process, time-to-success/profitability reporting. Strategic initiatives leadership to expand product offerings and increase global market share.Established R&D facility and team in Japan as a competitive engineering beachhead, and to gain local market credibility.Originated corporate change in products and content requirements promoting internationalization and localization.

Led high-expertise, experience team covering datacenter-to-the-desktop technologies, systems and software. Created strategic and annual plans, driving standards to align business and IT architecture and technologies direction.Directed $70M of initiatives rollout for improved distributed, open computing performance and new revenue services.