Denver Metropolitan Area
Engineering Leader skilled at building technology solutions. US and international experience in companies ranging from startup to Fortune 500. Known for being a strategic thinker, developing my employees, and building and leading high-performance teams. Passionate about using my experience in Engineering, Product, and Program management to effectively trade-off technical, market, and financial priorities to deliver innovative products that solve customer needs and contribute to the company’s bottom line.
Leading globally distributed software development teams developing SaaS solutions for the industry leading hybrid cloud solution, HPE Greenlake. Utilize my skills as an engineering leader to recruit, mentor, and promote top-notch cloud development engineers and managers. Develop innovative services in the Edge Security and Identity and Access Management (IAM) area of the Greenlake Cloud Platform. Skills: Engineering Management · Software Development · Cloud Computing · Software as a Service (SaaS) · Agile Methodologies · Identity and Access Management (IAM) · Security
Leading globally distributed software development teams developing SaaS solutions for the industry leading hybrid cloud solution, HPE Greenlake. Utilize my skills as an engineering leader to recruit, mentor, and promote top-notch cloud development engineers and managers. Develop innovative services in the Identity and Access Management (IAM) area of the Greenlake Cloud Platform.
Led multiple teams in developing cutting-edge SaaS products for Industrial DataOps at Norway's first Unicorn startup. Attracted, mentored, and promoted top-notch full-stack, front-end, and back-end engineers and engineering managers. Orchestrated cross-functional teams to create a cloud-based GraphQL schema service and applications for Data Population and Data Validation for large industrial customers. Headed a cross-functional team tasked with overhauling user experience (UX) for fusion.cognite.com and the Cognite Design System. Streamlined Agile development flow and successfully integrated OKRs into daily work routine through innovative process implementation.
Led multiple agile software development teams for NetApp SolidFire's platform, overseeing the development of OS & Kernel and Networking features in a Scaled Agile Framework. Maintained and qualified a Linux-based OS distribution and custom networking code for NetApp's HCI product, ensuring optimal performance and stability. Developed and implemented installation code for a software-defined storage product using RPM, Containers, and Kubernetes, streamlining the deployment process. Played an integral role in the release of three major and numerous minor Element software updates, contributing to the continual improvement of the product.
Successfully managed end-to-end product development for Enterprise Storage products, including customer requirements and business case analysis, route to market strategies, and technology partnerships. Demonstrated expertise with ONTAP All Flash FAS, NVMe, RAID, Storage Software, 7-mode Transition Tool, contributing to the success of new product launches. Spearheaded the E-series Advanced Development projects, leading cross-functional teams through complex projects focused on cutting-edge technologies such as flash host caching SSD, Storage class memory, NVMe, Cloud and Hadoop DataNode. Established strategic business and technology partnerships to introduce combined compute and storage solutions, object storage, Hadoop, big data, and cloud-based offerings to the market. Recognized as NetApp Boulder Leadership Class of 2014, demonstrating strong leadership skills and a track record of delivering results.
Managed programs cross-functionally and globally with customers, internal engineering, sales, and product management teams, and suppliers to achieve business objectives and deliverables. Managed execution of complex parallel projects from feasibility through all phases of the development lifecycle. Coordinated up front requirements necessary to implement projects, including schedule, resources, risks, budgets. Orchestrated programs cross-functionally and globally with customers, internal engineering, sales, and product management teams, and suppliers to achieve business objectives and deliverables.
Customer facing Engineering Program Manager for OEM midrange storage platform deliveries, and key engineering conduit between Teradata storage engineering team and LSI engineering teams. Collaborated efforts between Engineering, Execution, and Escalation between OEM and LSI teams. Balanced the priorities and needs of multiple OEM customers with our abilities to support them and implement changes. Helped in LSI revenue growth from Teradata by 30% year-over-year in 2010. Recognition Received: Top Sell To Team 2009 (Teradata Account Team)
Managed team of 7-10 Customer Engineering Program Managers focused on delivering LSI External Storage systems, firmware, and software to key OEM customers. Managed vendors and outsourcing of key projects and track progress using statements of work. Succeeded in resolving customer escalations and hot sites, including customer onsite support. Implemented support process and customer satisfaction improvements using metrics.