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Los Altos CA

Helped companies make strategic decisions, especially regarding SAP, clouds, Big Data, IoT and edge computing.

Palo Alto CA

- Invented architecture for huge (Exabyte-size) IoT datasets using edge computing and edge storage. Presented concept at SAP TechEd and to key accounts.- Led a cross-company team that built & operated a large software-defined datacenter (½ Petabyte storage, 116 servers, $8M hardware list price) running SAP HANA and SAP Vora on Hadoop, as a resource for.

Palo Alto CA

- Drove co-innovation projects with major customers and strategic partners including Cisco, IBM, VMware to simplify bringing SAP enterprise applications onto modern cloud-like infrastructures.- Example: Co-innovating with Cisco, NetApp and Vnomic to deliver zero-touch deployment via “software-defined everything” with Cisco ACI (Application-Centric.

Palo Alto CA

- Defined and coordinated SAP strategy for leveraging software-defined infrastructure. Led a small architectural team, working with larger virtual team of researchers, architects, product owners.- To foster cloud portability, launched an initiative with IBM, HP, CA and other partners to create a new industry standard OASIS TOSCA (Topology & Orchestration.

Palo Alto CA

- Led a team of 30 aimed at helping SAP's ecosystem partners improve their alignment with SAP technology. Developed 3 significant “assets” to support and guide SAP partners:[] SAP Guidelines for Best-Built Applications – A book of recommendations how best to use SAP programming interfaces to build complementary applications.[] SAP Co-Innovation Labs (COIL).

Palo Alto CA

- Joined SAP as part of a small high-performance team in Office of the CEO delivering strategic consulting to help SAP business units be even more competitive in current and future markets.- Most team members had backgrounds as management consultants; I served as informal CTO. - Projects included: Supporting high-level negotiations with strategic partners.

Redwood City CA

- Product marketing, product management and also marketing communications (despite the title) for the pioneering provider of policy-based management of DNS and DHCP.- Hired in as part of new (re-start) management team, to move Nominum from open source to proprietary enterprise software. Drove product strategy and defined new product suite.- Conducted all.

Mountain View CA

- Founding VP of marketing for Ejasent, the world's first “cloud-bursting” service – before that term had even been invented – with pilot customers including Charles Schwab and MapQuest.- With founder & CTO, defined product offering and wrote initial requirements documents.- Helped CEO pitch 2nd round to VCs, closing $26M.- Ejasent was acquired by Veritas.

San Jose CA

- Product strategy and product management for the world’s first online product configuration solution, winning Cisco and Dell as marquee customers, driving $2B market cap at IPO.- Set up Microsoft relationship, gaining marketing & development assistance and leading to Bill Gates personally demonstrating Calico’s application in a keynote.- Calico was.

Mountain View CA

- Product management and program management for the Sun team that invented CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) – I coined the acronym “CORBA” in 1991.- Created chasm-crossing marketing strategy – before this phrase had become a cliché – for CORBA, working directly with Geoffrey Moore (my name appears in his _Inside_the_Tornado_). By 2000.

- Managed the teams that developed SunView, Sun's first graphical user interface, and XView, the world’s first commercial user interface for X–Windows.

- Representing Sun Microsystems.

Ms, Computer Science

- PhD candidate - Completed all requirements for computer science PhD except for dissertation - Left UC Berkeley to get into Sun before.

Ba, Psychology & Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude