Menlo Park, California, United States
IT executive with a proven track record of success in both private and public companies including 3 IPOs - Excite@Home, Salesforce,com, and MobileIron. Expertise in building high performing, collaborative teams (90+), delivering on business strategy, and generating new revenue while decreasing operating costs. Extensive experience managing local and remote teams across time zones and continents. First IT leader hired at Salesforce.com. Lead the security function at companies and successfully completed SOC 2 Type 2 compliance for 2 pre-IPO companies. CORE COMPETENCIES • Strategy Execution: Corporate and IT Strategy • Build and lead global high-performance teams • Operational Excellence • Cost Controls • Project Scoping and Budget Forecasting • Process Definition and Automation • Business Relationship Management • Customer Focused • Business Application Implementation • IPO Readiness and compliance implementations
Leading our internal Business Technology team and helping our customers leverage orchestration and the power of AI.
The Consortium of Information Systems Executives (CISE) was created in 2004 as a peer group for the Bay Area's Chief Information Officers (CIOs) to collaborate and share industry best practices for technology.
Sharing insights on Automation with Forbes Technology Council, an organization for senior-level technology executives.
Built and executed a modern IT strategy to support company growth, scale, and new recurring revenue model. Owned IT project prioritization with executives, enterprise applications, enterprise data analytics, infrastructure management, IT security operations, IT compliance, Data Center operations, and enterprise architecture. • Quote to Cash – Gained funding, initiated, and sponsored a rewrite of Salesforce CPQ and NetSuite to properly handle Cohesity’s subscription business and build the foundation for future business application development. • Data Analytics – Created a enterprise data analytics team that built a data warehouse on Snowflake that became the source of truth for company’s KPIs. • Product Prioritization – Created a project prioritization and governance process that keep IT focused on the right outcomes while aligning with our business leaders. • Application Reduction – Reduced application spend by 20% by removing redundant applications, license optimization and vendor management. • Covid Leadership – Part of a small executive team who lead Cohesity’s Covid response and long-term planning.