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Round Rock, Texas, Us

Responsible for all aspects of Product Management for the Dell Object Storage Portfolio.* Drive product vision, strategy and roadmap for ECS.* Manage the activities of the ECS Product Management organization.* Work closely with sales leaders, account teams, marketing, engineering and other cross-functional groups to ensure product requirements are accurately captured and represented from definition through the development process and into marketing and sales.

Responsible for the successful planning and delivery of Huawei products and solutions.• Responsible for defining Huawei's Hybrid Cloud strategy and product planning. Identifying market requirements and real use cases for Hybrid Cloud including leveraging the public cloud for data protection, disaster recovery, tiering, and multi-cloud strategies.• Own product strategy and planning for SDS portfolio for Data Plane and Control Plane products and our Storage as a Service solution. Work includes cooperation with the OpenSDS community.• Frequently present Huawei portfolio to our global customers and respond to RFI/RFP’s.• Work with customers, partners, analysts and various teams within Huawei to ensure our products and solutions meet the business and technical needs of their intended audience.• Frequently meet with industry analysts to discuss Huawei portfolio strategy, discuss market trends and to promote our portfolio and vision.• Work with R&D to plan how next generation technologies fit into our future roadmaps and define use case scenarios.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Lead the PM team responsible for Hitachi’s Storage, Compute and Network portfolio• Responsible for the storage and compute portfolio vision and strategy and ensuring it aligns with corporate goals and initiativeso Portfolio includes Cloud Storage Solutions, Enterprise Storage, Software Defined Storage (SDS), and Hyperconverged platforms (HCI) • My team and I focus on defining the business plan, requirements to meet the plan and then working with other groups in the company to ensure success of businesso Specific actives include: market segmentation, identifying customer needs, defining application and workload profiles, competitive analysis, writing requirements and roadmap definition to define and deliver market leading products and solutions• My team is also responsible for identifying technology trends that will likely impact the storage market and how and when such technologies should be integrated into our portfolioPartner with sales, marketing, engineering, customers and partners to drive market success

Santa Clara, California, Us

Lead a team responsible for defining the markets, workloads and product portfolio to realize Hitachi’s 5 year corporate objectives.• Define product requirements for Hitachi’s next generation server, storage and hyperconverged platforms with an emphasis on Cloud, Software Defined Platforms and Flash for 3rd Platform and Bi-modal IT• Work with hardware technology partners to align Hitachi hardware roadmaps with technology trends • Align technology trends like Storage Class Memory, NVM and next generation fabrics to product portfolio roadmaps• Write Business Plans, Use Cases, and Product Requirements for next generation products

Santa Clara, California, Us

As Director of Unified and Converged Platforms Product Management my focus is on the strategy and vision of Hitachi next generation products and providing cross functional leadership to align multiple organization towards a common unified product goal.I lead a team of Product Managers in the development of business and technical requirements for Hitachi’s next generation Unified and Converged platforms. We work with our customers and sales organization to help define and validate product direction and requirements.My team and I work closely with Hitachi Product Planning teams in Japan to align Japan domestic and World Wide product requirements.I manage the creation and delivery of the MRD, Business Plan, PRD, Product PoR and all other aspects of the product planning and lifecycle management.My team works closely with Hitachi Engineering organizations in Japan and the UK to communicate product requirements and negotiate product delivery timelines. We coordinate with other product management teams including Server, Software and Solutions PM to ensure alignment of strategies and corporate direction.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Within Hitachi’s Unified Compute Platform engineering organization I was responsible for leading the teams that defined the requirements and technologies for Hitachi’s first private cloud software platform.• Served as member of the leadership team responsible for building out a new engineering organization within Hitachi, and defining and delivering its first private cloud software platform• Wrote detailed user stories, lead daily standups and sprint planning sessions, and worked closely with software engineers to ensure that deliverables met the product requirements• Lead the Technical Architecture team in validating technologies, configurations and implementation steps prior to hand-off to the software engineers for development• Assisted with patent investigations and documentation, and evaluated existing patents to ensure uniquenes

Santa Clara, California, Us

Defined and delivered solutions strategy and vision for Hitachi Global Solutions.Part of core team that established and managed the Solution Product Management team for Hitachi Data Systems with a focus on defining and delivering enterprise software integration and reference architectures with Hitachi hardware and software platforms.

Houston, Texas, Us

As a Senior Storage Consultant for HP on site at Microsoft I was part of the core HP team that managed the relationship, expectations and communication between HP and Microsoft. I handled all on-site storage escalations and coordinated the testing and evaluation of all HP storage on site at Microsoft.• Worked as the HP StorageWorks Division liaison to qualify and provide level 4 support for HP Storage solutions within Microsoft Corporate Data Centers• Collaborated closely with the HP/Microsoft Global Alliance to help keep HP and Microsoft engineering teams aligned on projects, go-to-market initiatives and internal requirements• Drove testing of new HP hardware and software within the MSIT Utility Engineering environment• Demonstrated the business value of HP’s consolidated storage strategy• Created and delivered presentations and demonstrations for CxO-level customers• Performed storage system sizing by analyzing application performance and access patterns and then architecting systems to meet the application needs