San Jose, California, United States
As Principal Product Manager at Zscaler since April 2024, I focus on driving the roadmap for next-generation cryptography, including crypto agility, post-quantum cryptography (PQC), QUIC protocol expansion, and AI-driven traffic inspection. I bring expertise in network security, aligning technical and business requirements to deliver impactful solutions. With extensive experience in product management and marketing roles at leading cybersecurity organizations, I have developed a strong foundation in cloud security, data loss prevention (DLP), and infrastructure security. My commitment lies in enabling secure digital transformation through innovative solutions and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Driving Roadmap for Next Generation Cryptography, Crypto Agility & Protocol expansion – PQC, QUIC, developers tools & AI Traffic Inspection.
Products @ Symantec CASB - IaaS Securlet (AWS, Azure & GCP) with Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) + Data Loss Prevention (DLP) + Threat Protection. Furthermore, Strategy and Execution for overall Infrastructure Security.
Working with Fortinet as Director of Product Marketing and supporting Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Web Security services on all platforms & Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with SASE & ZTNA
The high-levels goals are evangelizing products and technologies to meet aggressive business targets, driving product direction in close-collaboration with product managers and highlighting competitive differentiation. • Creating, updating and presenting marketing collateral, including Technical presentations, whitepapers , Videos , How to configure guides and application notes. • Working as a proxy Product Owner part of Agile Process in order to execute some of the use cases. • Performing the role of Beta Product Manager in order to perform Early Field Trial for multiple releases with handful of early beta customers. • Working in the lab with client partners for product tear downs, feature comparisons, bench marking and demonstration set up development and also to provide engineering guidance on features enhancement and bug fixes • Creating demonstrations, laboratories based on target audience to highlight the key values of the product and in order to help market penetration of new features and technologies. • Support outbound activities like customer and field engagements by covering technical workshops, helping for proof of concept, doing product demonstration and implementing virtualization solutions. Will also assist in preparing responses to RFP's, RFI's, and RFC's. • Liaising with the product management team as well as software / hardware engineering to produce product guides, white papers, implementation guides and competitive papers. • Present during conferences and seminars to provide guidance and education on new products, new tendencies, market transition. • Build strong relationship with partners and key systems integrator to foster the communication and relation between the different product creating business leads and opening to new business development and training Tier 1 and Tier 2 partners with Web Security Product portfolio.
Working as a Security Specialist on following product line : * Symantec Data Loss Prevention * Symantec PGP Encryption * Symantec 2 Factor Authentication * Symantec Messaging Gateway * Symantec Web Gateway * Symantec Security Information Manager * Symantec Endpoint Protection * Symantec Control and Compliance Suite * Symantec Critical System Protection * BYOD - Symantec Mobile Device Management (MDM), Mobile Application Management (MAM) and Mobile Security (MS)