Toddy Mladenov Email & Phone Number

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Container Secure Supply Chain - Azure Core Containers Team

Redmond, Washington, Us

Working on Azure Container Registry.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Woodcliff Lake, Nj, Us

Contributing content to different publications from Sys-Con Media on topics like Cloud Computing, Big Data, private PaaS, enterprise technology and business. Here are just some of the articles published:* Business Strategy for Enterprise Cloud Startups - http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2636926* The Importance of Private Clouds - http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2596347* How Do You Choose Your Cloud Provider? - http://cloudcomputing.sys-con.com/node/2643337

Started the CloudTalk meetup in March 2012 and grew it to over 200 members in 6 months. Made sure the meetup has regular monthly events where speakers from large vendors like RedHat, CenturyLink, Microsoft, Citrix and VMWare as well as startups like Redapt and Uhuru delivered great talks.Continuing to grow the audience by marketing the group in the local startup community, doing cross-promotion with other meetups and engaging with the local enterprises.

Simplifying cloud security and compliance

PST, Inc. is an early stage Seattle startup, whose product Prefeye™ extrapolates preference intelligence via customer behavior and purchasing history, creating unique and dynamic, ever evolving customer preference profiles. Using latest Big Data technologies like NoSQL (MongoDB) and Hadoop (HDFS, Map/Reduce) Prefeye™ analyses users' purchasing behavior on a different retailer properties and creates unique preference profiles used to create improved recommendation engines and increase the retailers' conversion rates.As a Technology Advisor for PST, Inc. I cover the following areas:* Advise the development team on the latest cloud computing and Big Data technologies and make sure they choose solid platforms for the product* Ensure the product is architected to scale and perform at large scale and able to satisfy the needs of many big scale retailers* Work with founders and business advisors to develop the business model that will allow early revenue stream for the startup* Hire the right technology talent to complete the team

Troy, Ny, Us

Joined the brand new US West sales team at a funded startup offering private Platform as a Service solution for enterprises. Responsible for managing the technical relationship with Fortune 1000 companies during the sales cycle, conducting on-site Proof-of-Concept scenarios and consulting customers during the architectural designs and implementation of their private cloud platform.* Perform technical analysis and qualification of potential projects working with on-site architects and technical leadership* Outline the Apprenda’s PaaS technical benefits and strengths by conducting presentations and demos in customer meetings and trade shows. * Moderate the technical Q&A by guiding interested parties into the right design decisions and clearly differentiating the product’s added value from the competition* Continuously research the competitive landscape and stay on top of the cloud technology development

Redmond, Washington, Us

Managed the cross-team development and release of Windows Azure SDK and ensured partner teams are following architectural, implementation and experience guidelines; evangelized the SDK and the Windows Azure Platform across various external communities like PHP, Java and several startup communities.* Guided partner teams through the implementation of the consistent Configuration and REST API patterns in order to provide unified developer experience across the Windows Azure platform* Drove the partner engagement and the creation of implementation and developer experience guidelines for Windows Azure SDK* Collaborated closely with Visual Studio, Service Bus, SQL Server and other teams in Server and Tools division to deliver substantial improvements in the .NET developer experience for Windows Azure* Engaged with Marketing and Product Management team to evangelize the Platform and Windows Azure SDK through PR announcements, blog posts and community events* Took over the engagement with the PHP community and created an Advisory Board with the goal to solicit early feedback on features and drive broader adoption of Windows Azure* Initiated the creation of Java advisory board and started the engagement with Java community* Worked together with the Marketing team to create the Windows Azure Insiders community in order to increase the popularity of the Platform* Worked closely with the Development and Test teams to design and implement key parts of the Windows Azure SDK

Redmond, Washington, Us

Took over the virtual leader role for a strategic project in Microsoft's Cloud Computing team, and started working on the strategy and the long term plan for enabling non-Microsoft stacks on Windows Azure; working closely with internal and external engineering partners and product management teams to identify the market needs, validate the requirements and create gradual plan for implementation. * Defining the short, mid and long term strategy for enabling third party and OpenSource development stacks on Windows Azure, taking into account the trade-offs between the short-term project gains and the long term benefits * Working with several partner teams within Microsoft (including InterOps and OpenSource Technology Center) and guiding the virtual team towards the right balance of customer features and infrastructure changes * Engaging with strategic Microsoft partners to validate the approach, define requirements and implement proof-of-concept prototypes * Evangelizing the changes in the platform and collaborating closely with product management and marketing teams to solicit customer feedback and plan new features * Managing project dependencies, schedule project deliverables end ensuring responsible teams are delivering functionality as planned

Redmond, Washington, Us

Drove the program management for reimplementing Windows Azure Management Portal interface, and delivered modern user experience for managing cloud services; collaborated with dozens of partners and platform teams to gather requirements, create wireframes, and schedule implementation as well as with customers to receive an early feedback on the UI and the design direction; received Gold Star award for the effort * Closely engaged with customers to learn about current pain points and desired features, and incorporate those into the design * Conducted formal and informal usability studies with internal and external participants to gather early feedback on the UI, and prioritize change requests and implementation bugs * Lead the effort and coordination between several internal Microsoft partners and Windows Azure teams to achieve smooth user experience within the UI * Managed the cross-team schedule and intermediate releases as well as cross-team dependencies, and ensured on-time deliverables of functionality

Redmond, Washington, Us

Managed a team of 6 Program Managers with significant contribution to the online launch of Windows 7; established close relationship with Content Publishing, Business Intelligence, Windows Marketing and Windows International teams to ensure smooth collaboration between those teams and the Engineering team, and delivered on ambitious commitments for the release; received Gold Star award for the effort * Lead the Program Management team that delivered high quality content publishing platform used to publish online and in-the-box content for Windows 7 * Lead the onboarding effort on the publishing platform for local and international teams, including partnership with various internal teams to prepare, train and support publishing teams worldwide * Collaborated with Windows Marketing and Business Intelligence teams to prepare the launching campaigns, and ensure the tracking of the right business metrics online * Worked with Windows Live leadership to define the content publishing strategy for the next Wave of Windows Live features * Grew a program management team with high influence and expertise

Redmond, Washington, Us

Lead a team of 4 Program Managers responsible for the agile development of the consumer support system within Microsoft; delivered next generation of customer support infrastructure for Windows Vista, Microsoft Office and XBox and received very positive feedback from business team and the support vendors * Worked together with the business team to facilitate the requirements gathering, define the vendor onboarding process and the release * Delegated feature related work to reporting PMs, and ensured on-time delivery of requirements and specifications * Collaborated with the development and test teams to make sure features are scheduled in the proper scrum release, and delivered to the business owners on-time and with high quality * Prepared monthly reviews for the project progress for the leadership team * Increased the effectiveness of the PM team by improving the processes and the relationships with implementation, test and partner teams

Redmond, Washington, Us

Owner of a large feature area from the new consumer support infrastructure at Microsoft and responsible for the integration with the internal CRM, online support and administration systems; managed the relationship with several partner teams as well as business teams responsible for the integrated components * Drove the requirements gathering across components and developed functional specifications based on customers' use cases and scenarios * Established implementation and test process in collaboration with the development and test teams * Created consistent communication plan to inform partners and development teams on the development status * Developed risk mitigation plan and established process for issue and change request prioritization based on customer needs and painpoints

Walldorf, Bw, De

Key member of SAP NetWeaver Software Lifecycle Manager Team responsible for gathering and analysis of stakeholders’ requirements, defining the application’s design and delivering technical specifications as well as conducting continuous design reviews to ensure that the finished implementation meets the functional requirements, and fulfils SAP’s development standards within the designated time frame * Coordinated the implementation efforts in distributed development environment, controlled the timely delivery and quality of development packages * Established and maintained good communication mechanism and processes with product definition and other cross functional product teams * Provided technical leadership defining the future direction of application development that resulted in significant impact on the company’s product portfolio * Facilitated knowledge transfer to and from international members of the development team and coached junior developers * Created functional prototypes as “proof of concept”, using emerging user interface and enterprise services technologies * Promoted the application to pilot customers making on-site presentations and demos and contributed to the final roll-out * Volunteered in surveys from other departments intended to improve the quality, usability and accessibility of SAP products

Leading Software Engineer guiding the design and implementation of Content Management System and portal based application that serves the on-line content of large number of banking customers. Duties include analysis of customer needs and development of overall concept and design objectives, writing and presenting of architecture and design proposals, application deployment and integration with existing legacy systems on customer side. * Created application design that meets customers needs for workload management and fail-over using distributed computing and clustered environment * Applied strong object oriented design principles and sound engineering practices to compose the application from self-contained and reusable modules * Researched and evaluated new development tools and alternative technologies and recommended the most efficient and cost effective way for application development * Introduced automated Change Management System and reduced the response time for bug fixing and implementation of change requests * Coordinated application testing, performance tuning and installations on customer side * Improved the quality and maintainability of produced software with introduction of process oriented development environment

Marlborough, Ma, Us

Devoted member of 3Com’s Sales Consulting Team accountable for new business development, partner communication management and technical consultancy of 3Com customers. Main responsibilities include advisory and involvement in development of network infrastructure for large customers in East European Region, presentation and marketing of new and emerging products as well as expansion and improvement of partners’ base. * Managed the market development of brand new and emerging technologies like Broadband Access, Wireless Network Access and IP Telephony * Oversaw the design of network infrastructures for key account customers, provided technical consultancy and communicated requirements and design proposals between partners and customers * Maintained high level of customer satisfaction by providing proactive, ongoing communication and support to all customers * Held technical seminars and trainings for partners and targeted presentations for prospective customers * Improved the partners’ communication channel introducing on-line information system for purchasing demo equipment, marketing and informational materials and training registration

Sofia, Bg

Architecture, design and development of custom Lotus Notes applications for local and international customers as well as local government and government and community organizations.* Certified Lotus Notes Developer* Certified Lotus Notes Administrator

München, Bayern, De

Master'S, Electronics And Automation

Competitive Strategy, 88.5% With Distinction

Social Network Analysis

Data Analysis

High School Dimploma, Advanced Curriculum In German Language