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Sunnyvale, California, Us

Senior-level Product Manager leading Data Loss Prevention strategy and execution for Proofpoint’s Information Security Products. Focused on providing core Information Protection Platform DLP capabilities for Endpoint, Web, and Email channels

San Jose, Ca, Us

Leader of new Offer Engineering function responsible for providing services throughout the full offer lifecycle (offer strategy, design, and development through EOL) in addition to overall operations and best practices.

San Jose, Ca, Us

The Cisco Umbrella cloud security platform protects users against threats anywhere they access the internet and secures their data and applications in the cloud, while featuring simplified policy management and world-class dynamic threat intelligence.- PM leader responsible for Umbrella Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (Cisco’s first native DLP solution) from concept through GTM. Directed global execution across 6 sites in 5 countries. The product was released on time and directly impacted FY21 and FQ4 revenue, helping close the largest Umbrella SIG deal to date. Adoption doubled quarter over quarter in FY22.- Led the Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) product management teams in delivering the Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) to market. This entailed unprecedented cross-functional collaboration from development to GTM on a global scale (9 sites in 5 countries). Firmly established Cisco as a major player in the SIG/SASE/SSE market, as recognized by Gartner.As Cloud Security Product Management Operations Leader, responsible for driving overall organizational discipline and defining the playbook on how the team works, interacts and delivers great products that customers love.- Delivered or facilitated many operational process improvements, including conceiving and launching an easy-to-use, self-service Umbrella Roadmap SharePoint Site. This site was lauded by sellers for its comprehensive information and contributed to closing several deals. Roadmap inquiries to Product Management were reduced by 90%, allowing increased focus on delivering features.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Product Management Director responsible for leadership of strategic enterprise information security product lines.- Led a new Enterprise Technology team focused on global enterprise expansion of key enterprise products and solutions delivered in on-premise, Managed Service, and SaaS/Cloud formats. Products included Enterprise DLP, Email Security, Web Security, WAF, and Endpoint.- Established and led a Product Operations function to drive effectiveness and efficiency of the overall Product function/team in order to better support the execution of the broad strategy and vision of the business.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

R&D Leader responsible for SW Engineering operations and product development for Proficy HMI/SCADA software products.- Led the transformation of the organization (60+ resources in 3 domestic and 2 international locations) to an Agile product development process and culture based on the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Delivered 3 impactful product releases on time with unprecedented high quality within 6 months of initiating the journey.- Developed and refined Automation product strategy with Product Management senior leadership. Optimized R&D investment across maintenance, tactical and strategic programs.

Cambridge, Gb

R&D Leader responsible for SW Engineering operations and product development of the Foxboro Evo Control Editor and Control HMI product lines.- Worked closely with Product Marketing/Portfolio, Program Management and Delivery/Services leaders to develop, refine and prioritize product requirements. Drove feature definition and elaboration with Development teams and subsequent execution utilizing a Lean/Agile process.- Delivered several landmark software releases that brought the product to unprecedented levels of stability, performance and scalability. Product and feature validation was performed in a highly successful “hosted Beta” program to confirm product direction with critical internal and external stakeholders.

Development leader responsible for providing overall product architecture and hardware and software platform leadership for the Foxboro I/A Series® Distributed Control System product line.- Delivered several system-level innovations to enable more efficient and scalable systems, provided a next-generation alarm interface experience and improved overall system cybersecurity.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Recruited by VC/Executive Management in this technology “restart” to lead overall Software Engineering operations for two domestic locations and all outsourced/offshore operations.- Led the transition the Software Engineering organization to an Agile product development process and delivered a breakthrough major product release within 8 months that drove market leadership. Worked closely with executive management to create the Product Management function, providing increased customer focus and more impactful features and products.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Led the Diagnostics PCTools Group (PC-based diagnostic software interfaces and tools for Symmetrix hardware) in addition to HTSG-wide Documentation and Release Management operations.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Software Engineering Manager for the Platform Software Engineering Group that designs, develops and maintains the Linux OS platform for the Centera product.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Software Engineering Manager responsible for the design, development and maintenance of midrange host failover products - ATF and PowerPath.

Responsible for next-generation HMI and I/O Driver product architecture and technical direction based on COM/DCOM/OPC technologies for the Windows platform. Lead developer for the FIX ASDK (Advanced Server Development Kit). Led R&D in OPC design, development and participation in the OPC Foundation.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), High-Technology

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical Engineering