Leading AI Solutions and Customer Success for the world's fastest AI inference machine.

Adjunct Faculty in the CDAO program training the next generation of data leaders. Teaching executive data/analytics literacy to large organizations and designing practical AI curriculum for Masters students.

Advising the founding team on GTM strategy, CDO profile (ICP), product direction, and selling strategy.

Helping founding teams and early/growth stage companies in the Insight portfolio with CDO empathy, ICP persona development, GTM and Product strategy. What's it Like to Be Your Customer? Ask a CDO and find out.

Advising early stage organizations and collaborating on big ideas

Advisor to founding team on ICP, GTM, and product. Transforming the way organizations interact with data.

Partnering with the kindest, most thoughtful, and talented humans I bring AI Solutions to life in every industry around the world. Appen ensures AI solutions remain human-centered. My team and I ensure our customers are safe, successful, and making the world better through responsible AI.

Senior-most accountable executive for all data strategy, data systems, and data teams. Leading 500 person team of Data Engineers, DataOps, AI/ML Engineers, MLOps, BI/Analytics, Data Governance, Data Management and Data Product. Executive sponsor for Agile Transformation helping standup dozens of Agile teams in 6 months.

Led Enterprise Data & Analytics team accountable for Data Engineering, Data Science, AI/ML, Data Platforms, Data Products, BI/Analytics, Enablement and Data Governance for all of Zendesk. Partnered with Engineering and Product Management on using innovative data, analytics, AI/ML concepts in the Zendesk platform to help our customers delight theirs.

Responsible for all data and analytics efforts across the enterprise. Directly accountable to our Board of Directors to transform an admired $5B retailer into a truly data-driven organization. My teams delivered amazing value, created innovation and built a culture based on empathy, shared mission, learning and a growth mindset. ▪ Created role and team charter in partnership with CEO, COO and CTO ▪ Directly accountable to Board of Directors for corporate strategy on data, innovation and AI ▪ Lead all enterprise data and analytics teams in strategy and delivery ▪ Enterprise responsibility for data platforms, architecture, insights, analytics & data science ▪ Accountable to our Board Audit Committee and shareholders for Data Governance and Privacy ▪ Recruited world-class leaders into the team to help drive transformation ▪ Designed team structure according to Analytics Maturity and prioritized staffing by business value

Led all aspects of field activities for the Pivotal Data/Data Science team. Bridged the gap between customer data executives, Pivotal Data Science, and GTM/Sales teams. Focused on delivering customer outcomes while accountable for profitable revenue growth, delivery, GTM strategy, business development, partner enablement and sales.Led dozens of executives and their teams through enterprise data transformations. Combined practical Data Science skills with modern data systems and cloud platforms to help transform organizations of all sizes around the world, in every industry.Part of founding team at the formation of Pivotal bringing together modern data techniques, cloud platforms and software practices. Originally Greenplum Data Science Field CTO.

As Senior Product Manager for High Performance Analytics, I was responsible for leading all aspects of new product development and delivery. This includes technical requirements and direction, marketing plans and collateral, sales models and planning, pricing and packaging, training, technical support and Professional Services.Highlights of my role span multiple functional areas:R&DPartnered with CTO and senior staff to define product scopePrioritized functionality to enable execution on a massively parallel processing environmentacross disciplines of statistics, data mining, Econometrics and Operations ResearchLed partner organization's engineering teams to provide required technical infrastructureManaged multiple customer engagements to prove resultsContributed to and approved final edit of User and Admin GuidesWrote outward-facing training materialsConducted inward-facing knowledge exchangeSales&MarketingChaired cross-functional team to produce collateral in support of launchCreated customer-facing sales and marketing materialsEdited and approved content for Information Week interview by CEO Dr. Jim GoodnightApproved all content for external blogsPresented in sales role to C-level executivesChartered a High Performance Computing Center of Excellence for on-going customer support and thought leadershipExecutive ManagementWorked one-on-one with CEO to developing pricing and packaging modelDesigned sales engagement model unique to both SAS and it's partners to create a seamless and efficient partnered sales approachWorked with sales executives in a sales and consultative role through all stages of the sales cycle

AnalyticsLead product team for SAS Model Manager. Defined product scope and lead sales engagements for SAS' model deployment and monitoring software. Under my tenure, sales rose over 100% the first year and 80% the second. I took over the product just after its second release and ushered into a more stable set of features and functionality while closing over 100 new deals. Due to the product infancy, I served as Product Manager, pre-sales support and co-sales executive. I participated in as many sales opportunities as possible. This served two purposes; one I was able to help our sales team close deals and, two, I was able to directly interface with customers to better understand their needs in my domain.

Responsible for leadership across all dimensions of client account relationship. Led a team of professionals in data warehousing, data mining, analytics and relationship management for MSA's largest client. Promoted four times in 10-year career with the company.