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San Francisco, CA, US

Redwood City, California, US

Equinix's Metal Alliance team builds and maintains our partnerships with the strategic hardware and software companies that power our bare metal cloud. We work closely with large OEMs, Semiconductor manufactures, and ISVs to make sure customers have the most diverse choice of hardware and software to power their cloud applications and workloads.

(Acquired by Equinix March 2020)At Packet we are innovating in everything from data center automation to compute supply chain and distribution. The alliance team is working closely with partners who provide, software, systems, real estate, and telecommunications to introduce new business models and new opportunities across the globe.Please reach out to me.

London, England, GB

Global sales with named semiconductor accounts. Exceeded quota each quarter. In most recent year, FY18 exceeded quota by over 250%. Closed multiple complex multi million dollar deals and numerous $250k-$500k deals with global semiconductor merchants.

London, England, GB

At Ubuntu, I'm responsible for establishing and building the business, technical and marketing partnerships with all the hardware Ubuntu supports. From servers in the cloud to small embedded IoT devices at the edge of the network, we work closely with our hardware partners to make sure Ubuntu is the best OS for their semiconductors and systems! We also.

M & A, investor, and business partnership guidance. Bridging Asian, American and European companies. As a board member, closed $3M in Series A funding for a semiconductor startup with an international investor. Orchestrated an accusation of a European startup by Microsoft at a value of over $6M. Representing the seller on an accusation of a Taiwanese.

San Francisco, CA, US

In the early days of Openstack! Established a channels of hosted private cloud providers and a reseller network for OpenStack based cloud management software. Established, negotiated global reseller and partnership contracts. Built relationships with cloud technology suppliers including Arista, Cisco and Inktank (Redhat) and business service providers..

Redmond, Washington, US

Used unique combination of Business Development, Software, Hardware, and ASIC skills to develop a $1.2B/yr partner ecosystem for Microsoft’s RemoteFX. Owned executive relationships with worldwide partners leading to over 50 products designed for RemoteFX at launch. Coordinated the first generation RemoteFX product and partner product launch and currently.

Redmond, Washington, US

Lead for Windows 7 Device Connectivity team. Managed the team responsible for Device Web Services, Input, Bluetooth, Network Displays in Windows 7. Managed worldwide Windows partner relationships with tier 1 device and semiconductor suppliers leading to hundreds of logoed Windows devices.

Redmond, Washington, US

Evangelist for Windows networking technologies. Drove projector, printer, and router industry to build software and semiconductors for new Windows device technology included in upcoming releases of Windows Client and Server. Received Microsoft Gold Star award for turning around a critical partnership.

Developed a business to build a consumer entertainment system that wirelessly distributes high definition video and audio throughout a home. This system included self-configuring wireless speakers and wireless displays, an innovative control mechanism and a secure content DVR/PVR device. Completed market and completive analysis for the system. Defined and.

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Integrated Invertex products into CacheFlow’s product line. After one year, 90% of all units shipped were based on the Invertex platform (Representing over $25M/quarter in revenue). Brought stability to low and midrange products by removing dependence on consumer components. Redefined Invertex products to support Cacheflow’s markets and customers. Altered.

Founded Invertex to supply networking vendors with carrier class hardware. Conceived Invertex’s line of network and security products. Defined product requirements for entire line. Researched market and competition. Forecast sales and set pricing. Managed both company launch and product launch including a product launch at Networld+Interop 1999. Built.

Design and verification of networking semiconductors. 3DES and RC4 encryption engines and compression engines.

Sunnyvale, California, US

AE for Design Compiler. Supported top tier customers and FAEs in logic synthesis and static timing tool flows.

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Physics

Mandarin Chinese