SVP Engineering | Startup Founder | Technology Leader: Networking, Security, Big Data, Analytics, Cloud.Career Technology Executive with experience founding startups through managing Fortune 50 global engineering staffs. Experience delivering networking, security, database, analytics, test and measurement products on COTS and Custom Hardware, and Cloud Platforms. Select Career Accomplishments:● SVP Engineering at Spirent Communications. Manage a global R&D team developing a large product portfolio of test and measurement equipment for network equipment manufacturers, service providers, enterprises from Ethernet to 5G to cloud applications.● Founder and VP Engineering at Cazena. Cazena's Instant Data Lake product delivers Big Data as a Service, enabling secure, scalable cloud based enterprise implementations of Hadoop and MPP SQL. Cazena was acquired by Cloudera in June 2021.● Managed the global development team at IBM/Netezza delivering the Netezza INZA in-database embedded analytics platform to market for FCS and beyond. Netezza was acquired by IBM in November 2010.● Founding team member of Tizor Systems, Inc. Conceived of product and led system architecture and development for Tizor’s market leading Mantra® Database Monitoring and Protection System. Tizor was acquired by Netezza Corporation in February 2009.● Holder of three US software patents