Hello, I’m Saleem Muhammad! My history of success comprises over 20 years in product development, business development, product marketing, and process improvement. I am a strategic planner known for identifying business development opportunities creating roadmap, overseeing product development lifecycle, launch activities, streamlining operations, and leading strategic initiatives. I am a refined communicator with ability to develop high potential leaders (up to Director level)/teams; build rapport and promote synergy across all levels; foster and fortify productive long-term relationships with clients and stakeholders. Throughout my career, I have developed solid leadership skills and achieved out of box results:• Stellar record of developing product strategy and improving revenue and margin through established and emerging technology solutions• Demonstrated success in directing projects, preparing and executing strategic plans / control structures for projects, and ensuring regulatory compliance to achieve designated objectives in line with budgetary constraints• Strong sense of urgency, coupled with ability to quickly identify critical elements necessary to effect change and produce results My solid contributions and achievements are as follows:• Spearheaded program worth $1.5B across server, storage, networking, VMware and partners to modernize data center and edge portfolio• Directed emerging tech projects from CTO concepts to products resulting in $2B/Y net-new opportunity• Created the vision and led the organization through transition of portfolio from hardware to software-driven resulting in 200% increase in margins• Initiated complex NVMe-of project by collaborating with multiple BUs, companies, and standard bodies, resulting in new $2B+ portfolio-wide opportunityGeneral Management: P&L, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Profitability, staff management (development, hiring, firing), strategy, process, OKR, communication, conflict management, Technology: Software-driven & SaaS Solutions, SASE, Edge, SmartNICs/DPU/FAC, NVMe, Multi-Cloud, HyperConvergence, Microsoft Azure Stack, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), CI & HCI, Storage & ServersOutside of work:• Enjoy opportunities to help advise start-ups & non-profits on growth• Hobbies include hiking, cooking and travelling with family to learn about new cultures & places• Passionate about promoting education to alleviate poverty If you find my profile exciting or interested in learning more, please contact me on LinkedIn or email me at smuhamma@gmail.com