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Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

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Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Chief Architect for the development and delivery of multi-cloud management platform for Kubernetes and Virtualization. Designed and led the development of IBM Multicloud Manager(MCM), which is now called Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes. MCM manages applications, infrastructure, compliance, and security across multiple Kubernetes clusters and Virtual Machines (VMWare, EC2, Azure VMs, etc.), including Red Hat OpenShift and environments such as EKS, GKE, AKS, and IKS. MCM won the Edison Award for innovation.Press:https://newsroom.ibm.com/2018-10-15-IBM-Unveils-Worlds-First-Multicloud-Management-Technology

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Led Product Management for Watson and Cloud Platform portfolio (IBM Public Cloud). Responsible for the overall roadmap, strategy, and offerings of IBM Public Cloud. Created partnerships with other SaaS vendors, standardized service definitions and SLA across platform services, and managed onboarding of new capabilities across all IBM Public Cloud Locations, expanded locations, and dedicated cloud services.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Development Director, responsible for the IBM Cloud Operational Management business. Led a worldwide Development and Product Management organization that developed and brought to market the public cloud management shared SaaS services consisting of Monitoring, Logging, and Audit for all of IBM Public Cloud Clients.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for IBM Cloud business strategy and portfolio management. Developed strategy for all of the aspects of IBM Cloud transformation that includes IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and Solutions on IBM Cloud. Collaborated across senior executives, M&A, Market Intelligence, Development, Marketing, Sales, and other functions to build a unified view of Public Cloud. Built the concept of data gravity and transition for core IBM services to be delivered on IBM Cloud. This resulted in the creation of the Watson and Cloud Unit.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for IBM Middleware division business strategy and mergers and acquisition. IBM Middleware is a portfolio of software products consisting of WebSphere, MQ, BPM, IT Service Management, and other software components running the majority of the world's e-commerce sites. Responsible for orchestrating division growth in key areas with initiatives in Cloud, Analytics, and Cognitive. Created and executed the strategy for acquisitions and portfolio management. Delivered strategy for the transformation of the portfolio to Cloud-Native and Hybrid Cloud for all the relevant products.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Delivered consecutive quarters of high double digit growth in a nearly ~$750M portfolio starting from multiple quarters of decline. Consolidated packaging, simplified pricing, transformed product and Go-To-Market to digital channel. Transformed all functions to SaaS delivery. Transformed development and delivery model to agile DevOps, marketing to digital while maintaining profit and revenue.Key Outcomes: ● Increased marketshare of Application Performance Management with Hybrid (SaaS & On-Premises Delivery model).● Increased marketshare of Operations Management portfolio(#1 Market share in Telco & Enterprises)● Delivered new innovation in IT Operations Analytics with major product launch in 2013 at IBM Information on Demand conference.As head of Product Management with world wide responsibility, lead a team of 30 senior Product Managers (and their respective product teams - thousands of developers), responsible for integrating and aligning the efforts of Marketing, Sales, Development, Finance across the portfolio. Analyzed acquisition and partnership options as needed for the portfolio along with Business Development.Built strong relationships with key CIOs and analyst firms (Gartner, Forrester, IDC, EMA and others). Created worldwide sales plays, integrated business partner programs, marketing messages, social media strategy. Balanced development expense across heritage products and new products to deliver high double digit growth while preserving the heritage revenue stream.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

CTO for ITSM Service Assurance Portfolio ( APM, Monitoring Network Management), Virtualization Management Portfolio and IT Operations Analytics Portfolio. As IBM technical executive, lead a world wide team of senior architects and engineers to transform the Tivoli IT Service Management portfolio to support Virtualization and Cloud. Created the new architecture and technical design for support of virtualization. Designed and delivered new product lines for managing Cloud and Virtual environments. Worldwide development team consisted of 700 engineers across the product lines. Had relationship with key executives of VMware, RedHat, Microsoft in support of the hypervisors.Key Outcomes:● Created the Hybrid Cloud SaaS Architecture for portfolio. Completed all product updates ( 5 product families) releases in 18 months. ● Reduced development effort/cost and increased velocity of delivery of releases by moving to DevOps.● Improved modularity of architecture by transforming product to use REST public interfaces.● Managed key alliance partnerships with Virtualization Vendors like VMware, RedHat and Citrix for the division.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

● Lead Architect, IT provisioning and automation portfolio: Lead a worldwide team of 200 engineers to design the automation and provisioning components of IT Service Management.● Lead Architect, Security Management Solutions e.g. Identity Manager, Network Security Products. As IBM's Chief Security Architect, created IBM's Identity management strategy and acquired Access360 company to execute on the strategy. ● Lead Architect, Java Application Management Products.Lead IBM's first major commercial java project for Network Computer and thin client management. ● Lead Architect, TCPIP- DHCP, DNS development for OS2, 390, AS400, Windows.Lead IBM wide development team to create DHCP server and client systems across all the platforms. Designed Secure DNS system for the platforms. Worked with IETF and there standard bodies to contribute to the DHCP standard.

Responsible for leading a team of scientists and engineers to build the accelerator control system. The control system controlled over 100,000 control points that ran the particle accelerator and the liquid helium plant used to cool superconducting cavities. Responsibilities included design and delivery of software responsible for managing the smooth operation of the Data Center 24x7x365, continuous delivery of software upgrades to the data center, configuration, problem, incident, change and capacity management functions.

Responsible for building real-time unix compatible operating system that ran on i860 multi-processor computer used in Nuclear Power plants. Duties included all aspects of a startup business - development, marketing and support.Other Roles : ● Designed, SunOS/Solaris device drivers for integration of SCADA systems(DoD). ● Responsible for building real-time telemetry control system for NASA aircraft testing(DoD).● Responsible for building detection systems for submarines.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Marketing And Finance

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical Engineering