Apex, North Carolina, United States
I am an accomplished engineering leader with proven track record of driving innovation, leading and building high-performing teams, and delivering exceptional results. With over 20 years of experience in technology-driven industries, I have successfully led global engineering departments and executed strategic initiatives to propel organizations to new levels of success. My expertise lies in product development lifecycle management, requirements gathering and technical leadership. I excel in translating customer requirements into prioritized engineering actions, leveraging emerging technologies, and delivering innovative solutions that exceed customer expectations. I'm passionate about employee career development, supporting a diverse workforce and adapting to each employee's individual needs.
Enabling customers and partners to take advantage of a performant and differentiated S3 solution.
Technical customer interface and instrumental in requirements gathering for key large customers including fortune 50 financial services companies and cloud providers. Also, responsible for driving SEC 17a4 compliance for VAST storage.
Engineering interface for key customers and resellers, gathering requirements, influencing the roadmap and enabling integration for HPE Greenlake. Also, focused on engineering recruitment, reviewing over 150 candidates, interviewing 80 software developers and QA candidates in an effort to build an R&D team in RTP for VAST.
- Grew StorageGRID engineering team (software developers and QA) to ~100 engineers over 3 sites. - Instrumental in growing StorageGRID business 2-3x for multiple years - Key technical interface with large (forture 50) financial accounts, understanding complex technical software requirements while focusing and enabling the engineering team to deliver on those requirements, enabling sales in a majority of the largest financial institutions in the world.
Led RTP StorageGRID engineering team to simplify the software defined, containerized deployment model and added SEC 17a-4, FINRA 4511, CFTC 1.31 compliance. https://www.netapp.com/media/9041-ar-cohasset-netapp-storagegrid-sec-assessment.pdf
Engineering responsibilities focused on storage integration with VMware.