Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
I've had a long career as an entrepreneur inside Symantec and have had the opportunity to build, mature, and deploy technology to protect tens of millions of customers. I am passionate about people and technology; I am a firm believer in creating a strong strategy that a diverse team believes in, then giving all employees the context and resources to own their own success and be the best they can be.
Leading Product and Engineering to deliver actionable threat intelligence to every team.
• P&L responsibility for $350M business that included network appliances (hardware and virtual), cloud services, and endpoint software running across all major platforms. • Founded the Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) product line and organically grew the business from nothing to $90M of bookings with over 3000 customers. • Led migration and re-architecture of Symantec’s largest SaaS business in cloud email security from on premise bare metal architecture to a modern AWS hosted service • Doubled size of IOT business with launch of Industrial Critical System Protection in 2019. • Global sponsoring executive on Symantec customer advisory boards including CISO advisory board, healthcare advisory board, and product user groups. • Led a number of M&A activities and due diligence on acquisitions.
• Executive responsible for a 300-person organization delivering all core protection and detection technology for all Symantec products. • Revolutionized Symantec’s protection stack, making it the best in the world and won reviews from SE Labs, AV Test, AV Comparative, PC Magazine, and Gartner. • Created many new technologies that were the first in the industry, including file reputation, a real-time machine learning behavioral engine, static file machine learning detection, system cleanup tools. • Enabled customer and the industry to understand and see the new technology through worldwide press and reviewer tours. • Key member of company 5 year strategy project, Envision 2019, chartered by the CEO. • Personally designed, led, and executed a security audit of 100 products in Symantec to review and upgrade the security and engineering practices of all products with report outs to the CEO and board.
• Manager and technical lead for a team of 30 engineers for the malware detection engines, IPS, file system filter drivers, firewall, product update component, service host framework, file compression libraries, and repair engines. • Engines ran on Windows, MacOS, and Linux in email, network gateways, and endpoint products from Symantec across the enterprise and consumer business units. • Led the security half of a JV with a large network company to integrate Symantec’s engines into the vendors hardware platform. JV had a successful exit in 4 years growing to a $1B+ valuation.