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San Diego, California, Us

Redwood City, California, Us

* Lead product management teams launching critical products within Alation’s data catalog, data lineage and analytics products portfolio * Partner with the sales team in large deals as well as revising pricing and packaging* Collaborated with partners: Databricks, Snowflake, Amazon, Microsoft, dbt, Fivetran among many.Key Accomplishments :* Transitioned to cloud-based products, migrating large on-prem enterprise customers in regulated industries, enabling them to monetize their data while meeting compliance and privacy regulations.* Instrumental closing numerous large deals, many within regulated industries, based on my teams delivering security and integration features to clear the bar.* Hired and lead product managers, including both managers and individual contributors. Roll up sleeves to mentor product managers reviewing plans and decks to ensure success.Areas of focus:- Security (Authentication, Authorization, Audit, Encryption)- Compliance (including GDPR, Fedramp)- Cloud Infrastructure (Transforming an on-prem product to SaaS)- Product Operations (Product Ops)- Connectors (Connectivity to ~100 data sources)- Lineage (calculation and visualization)

Santa Clara, California, Us

Run product management for security, compliance, data catalog and metadata management, within Cloudera’s data, analytics and machine learning business. Thought leader conducting frequent executive briefings, speaking at conferences, mentoring product managers.- Launched products now used by 80% of Cloudera’s largest enterprise customers - banks, healthcare providers and governments.- Developed and communicated Cloudera's GDPR approach, resulting in prospects shifting big data projects from "on hold" to "accelerating".- Conducted build vs buy due diligence for acquisitions.

Launched 4 brand-new products while managing 4 existing security products installed at major financial services, healthcare and cloud service providers, enabling regulatory compliance (PCI, HIPAA) without impacting users of applications, databases and hadoop.- Created new product management programs, including: competitive research, sales communications, requirements validation, win/loss analysis and product training.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Replicate builds enterprise datacenter management software, predicting and reporting configuration faults in the VMWare virtualized datacenter (cloud computing).I manage product lifecycle including business and technical requirements management, release planning, market positioning, and new business initiatives.• Created and ran successful beta program, recruiting major Fortune 1000 customers and providing continuous feedback during development process.• Ran the agile/scrum software development process (as a certified ScrumMaster), completing new features every 2 weeks.• Hired consultants for HR, recruiting, IT and website development.• Drove from-scratch infrastructure setup including: CRM system, QA, web store, license management, competitive lab.• Created MRD and PRD documents, facilitating agreement on business and technical priorities.• Launched first shipping product 1 week ahead of schedule.

Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

Product/revenue responsibility for authentication and fraud detection for online banking/brokerage. - Grew installed base from 30M to 100M, after launching major new software versions.- Enabled tens of millions of dollars in upsell opportunities by introducing transaction risk analysis and out-of-band authentication modules.- Managed all aspects of product lifecycle, including business and technical requirements, product line roadmaps, market positioning, profit and loss reviews, and strategic partnerships.

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Hands-on manager, leading a team deploying enterprise authentication solutions for major Fortune 500 institutions. Vocent’s systems touch data across the organization, from HR to IT, and interact with a variety of enterprise back-end systems, including: identity management, CRM, databases, monitoring systems and voiceXML websites. Solutions employ speech recognition and verification technologies, connected to customers' telephone systems through PBXes and ACDs.Responsible for full life-cycle of customer implementations, from requirements-gathering to production roll-out and support.Design new software and service features, and cross-functionally manage these from the idea stage to completed release. These included monitoring systems and dashboards.

Advise IT executives on strategy, assisting them in selecting vendors, software and processes that maximize their existing infrastructure investments. Also perform project management, data gathering and hands-on implementation. Built a core group of clients, including: Hewlett and Packard Foundations; Panasas, Inc; WestEd; MentorNet; Satmetrix Systems and CGNET Services International. Specific accomplishments include:· Managed major Microsoft Active Directory (AD) systems migration· Performed “due diligence” analysis of vendors, including Microsoft AD consultants and Microsoft Exchange outsourcers· Performed security audits. Evaluated use of RSA SecureID and other password-strengthening techniques.· Designed and implemented a customized monitoring system – based on Mercury Interactive software - for entire IT infrastructure

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Jamcracker was a 300-person SaaS software company, providing outsourced IT services to small and medium-sized businesses.Led software and infrastructure deployments, determined upgrade strategies, and managed multiple IT migration projects.Conducted business and technical evaluations of multi-million dollar product investment proposals, including:- Creating a managed enterprise email service - Expanding the 3-tier web portal to multiple data centers for better performance and disaster recovery. Led a team of more than a dozen engineers (Cisco, Oracle, Solaris and network admins) to 5 on-time software launches of the Jamcracker web portal.

CGNET is a managed IT hosting and services provider for global organizations involved in conservation and other "human needs" projects; CGNET maintains 24/7 Network Operations Center, data center and network connections to dozens of countries.Created and directed a team of 11, providing 24X7 technical support to IT managers and end-users in offices throughout the US and abroad. Also directed a team providing 24x7 data center monitoring and trouble resolution. Planned and implemented major infrastructure upgrades to provide new services to customers and to increase reliability of existing services, within budget constraints. Specific accomplishments include:· Designed and implemented redundant routed data center LAN and email backbone.· Performed hands-on firewall configuration and selected VPN technology.· Created training program and intranet to allow effective multi-tier support.As Product Manager for CGNET’s TAS2 (remote access from 160 countries), · Assessed largest customers’ preferences through one-on-one meetings, Emails and a written survey.· Wrote functional requirements (PRD) document.· Managed development, QA testing and customer rollout.