In partnership with business GM’s, Customer Experience and Operations, and the CTO, responsible for the engineering of 25+ product offerings from Red Hat, including offerings in Storage, RHEL, Virtualization, OpenStack, OpenShift, Ansible, Middleware, Management, Developer, including on-premises products to service offerings. Working closely with sales and support for strategic customer partnerships on both pre-sales, and customer success Partner with the People team to support and advance careers of associates, with focus on driving toward a diverse workforce. Working with Finance to manage a $450M budget Working within upstream communities to deliver enterprise level products

Engineering for Satellite, CloudForms, Ansible, Insights, and Management as a Service offerings from Red Hat. In January 2020 added User Experience and Red Hat Enterprise Linux teams.

Responsible for management engineering teams at Red Hat including Ansible Engine, Ansible Tower, Insights, CloudForms and Satellite.

Responsible for UX, UI, QE, Development, Doc, Release for Ansible Core, Ansible Tower, & Tower-CLI. Scaled team 3x since coming into Red Hat, and creating the plan to deliver product consistently, w/high quality. Responsible for UX, UI, QE, Development for the Red Hat Insights product. Insights brings predictive analytics to Containers, OpenStack, Virtualized Infrastructure, and your data center. Working to integrate with various Red Hat products (Cloudforms, Tower, and Ansible Core) to not only predict issues, but also resolve them.

Aquired by Red Hat on Oct 16th, 2015. Reporting to the CEO. Ensure that Ansible's enterprise product, Ansible Tower, will evolve to continue to meet the growing control, security and delegation needs of enterprise customers. Creating the plan and expanding the team to scale, deliver product consistently, and with high quality. Responsible for UX, UI, QE, Development, Doc, Release and Product management. Products include: Ansible Galaxy, Ansible Core, Ansible Tower, and Tower-CLI. Seek to ensure that Ansible's open source codebase will be driven by the innovation that comes from the vibrant and growing Ansible community.

Acquired by HP in October, 2014. Continuing with Eucalyptus engineering as noted below and also manage Eucalyptus Support/Customer Success and the IT teams.

Responsible for delivery of high-quality software to the market, expanding and managing the global engineering team, managing timetables and budgets, coordinating joint engineering projects and deliveries with partners, engaging with key customers, and an active member of the executive team reporting to the CEO. Oversee software development, QA, user experience, tools, and packaging worldwide. Create and deliver presentations to the board of directors

Director of Engineering for System Management and Virtualization Software. Products: OpenManage Engineering, Universal LifeCycle Controller, Dell Management Console, Best Value SolutionsTeams managed: Development, partner engineering, build, lab, and project management.Notables: Lead for Dell’s transformation to a software engineering organization. Challenges include changing the culture from hardware oriented to software, building software capability, changing the product development process and utilizing Agile Software Devleopment, and taking several ideas from the CTO office to product definition, then building a team, and finally developing/delivering to market. Also did joint code development with Symantec for DMC, and partner integration with VMWare. Managing 20M+ budgets.

Summary: International management: Teams in China, Russia, Czech Republic, Ireland Managed 300 employees Disciplines: Dev, test, user experience, docs, build, lab, performance, web portal, evangelism Other notables: Company acquisition, building team from scratch, remote employee, manager, and director (as well as local) Public speaking: JavaOne, JavaPolis (Keynote), various community events, webcasts.2/08-1/09: Executive Director OpenSolaris. OpenSolaris, Solaris kernel, networking, utilities, Unix conformance, infrastructure, and community.2/07-2/08: Executive Director Consumer Solutions. Building JavaFX Mobile, an all Java phone, along with JavaFX TV, Blu-Ray, Content Delivery Server, User Experience and Documentation. Negotiated with OEM's/carriers for phone, and Hollywood on Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD. Teams managed: UE, dev, test, docs3/06-1/07: Executive Director of JavaTools. Responsibility for Sun Java Studio Enterprise, Sun Java Studio Creator, NetBeans, and Mobility. Managed 300 people. Teams managed: dev, test, docs, web portal, evangelism, build, lab, 9/04 - 4/06: Director of NetBeans, a free/open source IDE used to develop J2ME, J2SE, and J2EE applications.5/03 - 8/04: Senior Manager of the Java Performance Group, improving the performance of J2SE, AppServer, WebServer, WebServices, and Portal.3/00 - 5/03: Member of the Java Performance Group, specializing in AppServer and J2SE.10/96 - 3/00: Worked on JIT technologies for Java Virtual Machines.3/93 - 9/96: Compiler group working on high level optimizations for Sparc, PowerPC, PA-RISC, and Intel

Ran election campaign and won in first year. Member of the New Berlin School Board (http://www.nbps.k12.wi.us), elected in April 2003, serving as clerk.

An aggregation of companies brought together to create benchmarks and review results to ensure fairness, accuracy, relevancy, and impartiality. I worked on creation and acceptance of the SpecJAppServer2005 benchmark and reviews of all Java benchmarks during my tenure as Sun's representative.

Cray spinoff working on building the world's fastest computer. I worked on optimizations for our C/Fortran compilation system including automated vectorization, parallelization, and loop transformations.

Code generation for Cray 2 and Cray 3 Supercomputers for LRLTran language (Fortran with extensions). Worked to support the Magnetic Fusion Energy Research team and received my Q clearance.