Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Alexander is highly respected by technology professionals for his ability to seamlessly connect user and stakeholder needs with technology and business objectives. He possesses a unique drive to manage demanding workloads while maturing long range strategies that produce differentiated products. His professional approach is both compassionate and pragmatic, acting as a catalyst for structured growth. With two decades of product leadership under his belt, Alex showcases profound product vision and strategy, team and culture building, and an unparalleled work ethic. He consistently aims for perfection and excels in translating customer problems into actionable business strategies, epitomizing dedication and professional excellence.
Product Lead for MongoDB's IaC products and strategy across SDKs, Terraform, and Cloud Formation.
Lead UnitedHealth Group’s enterprise cloud modernization, optimization strategies, and Cloud FinOps organization. Accelerated UHG’s cloud transformation from zero to billions in modernized and optimized workloads. Direct a global team of 27 product leaders and managers responsible for cloud platform strategy and delivery. Launched multiple strategic cloud platforms that collectively represent over one-third of UHG's public cloud footprint.
Led Cloud Enablement products, driving the technical and business adoption of the public cloud at UHG. Grew annual public cloud adoption from near zero to >$100M over four years. Over 80% of this adoption is cloud native modernization (Kubernetes or serverless/PaaS) across clouds and technology stacks using reuse secure cloud deployments. Established and matured a cloud platform product team spanning security, operations, provisioning, and developer enablement. Launched two open-sourced projects including disposable cloud accounts for every developer (Disposable Cloud Environments - DCE) and local development framework for cloud infrastructure deployment (run infrastructure as code - runiac)
As a Senior Product Manager in Product Engineering and Data Science. I focused on developing and commercializing multiple products based on different cloud and saas solutions. My primary object is to deliver a solution that profitably replace the one off solutions used by different business segments across United Health Group through lowered execution cost, improved NPS, and providing the new degree of scalability our organization needs to continue to grow.
I managed Merrill Brink's Legal Technical Services. We create content specific solutions including language identification, machine translation, and foreign character recognition that greatly reduce the cost of foreign language components in discovery along with a custom platform that integrates human translation into the eDiscovery workflow in cost effective ways. We combine the latest in computer science theory with extensive foreign language expertise to solve the foreign language problem in the largest cross-border litigations across the world.
NewWater takes herbicide out of drinking water with a proprietary catalyst and immobilization process that displaces expensive and energy intensive activated carbon. We have a strong IP portfolio, excellent team, and are executing our pilot after raising Series A capital. I cofounded NewWater and managed our grant applications and research partnerships. In Spring of 2011 we raised series A and ran a summer long pilot. Experimental results and disappointing regulation outcomes led us to change course and wind down the venture in 2012.