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Software Engineer @ Intermedics QA Automation (Mercury WinRunner), creating test protocols vs product functional specifications. From January 1996 to August 1997 (1 year 8 months) Exec Director, Strategic Alliances (HPC, AI, Mission Critical, Edge) @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise With HPE’s acquisition of Cray, I am continuing my role of Strategic Alliances, remaining focused on the HPC, supercomputing...

Software Engineer @ Intermedics QA Automation (Mercury WinRunner), creating test protocols vs product functional specifications. From January 1996 to August 1997 (1 year 8 months) Exec Director, Strategic Alliances (HPC, AI, Mission Critical, Edge) @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise With HPE’s acquisition of Cray, I am continuing my role of Strategic Alliances, remaining focused on the HPC, supercomputing and AI segments. From July 2017 to July 2020 (3 years 1 month) Austin, TexasSenior Director, HPC Strategic Alliances @ Cray Inc. After establishing the company's first software product management group and software roadmap, the company asked me to found the next needed function: Strategic Alliances.Founded the group, developed a team development hiring plan, and built the Cray-Microsoft Azure "Supercomputing in the cloud' alliance, with a focus on driving incremental new business and customers. The Cray - Microsoft Azure Alliance effort included the launch of three new joint offers, sales enablement of sellers within both companies, creation of strategy documentation / training material / etc, partnership with internal and external teams in marketing, product management, CTO, channel, and sales, and ownership of a significant pipeline number and revenue target. As this is a new function, a variety of other Strategic Alliance targets are in play, as well as overall development of the Strategic Alliance function at Cray, including team objectives, charter / mission, regular OKR, and executive report out. From September 2018 to January 2020 (1 year 5 months) Austin, Texas AreaSenior Director, Product Management (HPC Software & Artificial Intelligence) @ Cray Inc. Founded software product management organization at Cray, including hiring senior-level product managers, developing formalized requirements and use cases, incorporating customer input into agile engineering process, and establishing long term strategy, vision, and strategic roadmap. My team and I were responsible for defining Cray software and AI strategy, leading the Cray Software Product Management team, including developing product roadmaps, managing key ecosystem partnerships, and engaging customers and stakeholders at varying levels of technical breadth and business interest. We were specifically responsible for the Cray software portfolio, covering cloud, artificial intelligence, analytics, systems management, open source engagement, systems and network management, operating environments (including Linux), and HPC developer tools such as compilers, HPC libraries, performance tools and more. Strong engagement with key software partners, as well as involvement in critical open source software projects. From July 2017 to September 2018 (1 year 3 months) Austin, Texas AreaVice President of Solutions (Cloud, Storage, HPC) @ SUSE Founder and senior executive leader of the Solutions organization, responsible for developing strategic solutions for the company's core lines of business (LOBs). Led team of Director-level Business Line Executives with charter to identify solution market opportunities in each LOB, launch solutions into market, and drive sales of these solutions in field in partnership with sales, channel, and partner teams, ultimately measured by sales metrics and customer traction.Supported solution segments included Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, containers, etc), Software-Defined Storage, Operating Systems, HPC, Analytics, and various future-looking technologies and open source initiatives. From May 2016 to April 2017 (1 year) Houston, Texas AreaSenior Director of Product Management (HPC and Big Data Solutions) @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise Executive responsible for taking existing big data strategy and solutions to the next level across Hewlett Packard Enterprise servers, which led to the launch of the the purpose-built Apollo 4000 big data server family, with focus on object storage, Hadoop / analytics, and HPC storage. Responsibility for big data P&L across HPE Servers. Lead a team of team managers, technical product managers and strategists supporting HPE servers, big data / cloud storage HW + SW + Services solutions, as well as high performance computing (HPC) and big data vertical solutions. Also responsible for HP Server level big data / storage strategy across platforms.Technologies include servers such as Apollo 4200, Apollo 4510, Apollo 4530, as well as software solutions based on open source including OpenStack, Ceph, Hadoop, and Lustre, as well as commercial solutions with partners like Cleversafe, Scality, Cloudera, Hortonworks, Intel, and Seagate. Vertical solution focus on industries such as Oil & Gas, Financial Services, and Health Life Sciences. From June 2014 to April 2016 (1 year 11 months) Houston, Texas AreaDirector of Product Management, Marketing & Partnerships (Cloud, Big Data, Storage) @ Dell Built out the business functions of the "Revolutionary Cloud and Big Data Team" such as strategy, product management, product marketing, and alliances. Owned vision and strategy for the Dell Cloud and Big Data Solutions team. Directly lead team of product managers, product marketing managers, strategists, and partner managers to deliver new products to market in the spaces of big data and cloud solutions. Technologies include OpenStack, Hadoop, Ceph, NoSQL, and more in the space of cloud, analytics, and distributed scale computing. Responsible for managing a team of R&D and product professionals to define, deliver and drive comprehensive cloud and big data solutions, measured against forecasted goals and other critical business initiatives. Team solution responsibilities include business plans, near term and long term roadmaps, strategic partnerships, go-to-marketing planning, identifying new product categories, and participation in key technology communities. Solutions: - Dell Cloudera Apache Hadoop Solution - Dell OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution - Dell SUSE Cloud Solution, Powered by OpenStack - Crowbar open source project - Dell Cloud Solution for Web Applications - Dell Cloud Helix Managed Solution - Dell Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Solution - Dell Aster Data Analytics SolutionPartnerships: - Red Hat - Cloudera - SUSE - Canonical - Mirantis - Intel - Inktank (Ceph) - Pentaho - Datameer - OpenStack Foundation - Others in cloud and big data spaces* Prior this this role, I served as Sr Strategist for Cloud and Big Data Solutions, before being promoted to Director. From June 2010 to June 2014 (4 years 1 month) Austin, Texas AreaBoard of Directors @ OpenStack® Foundation The Board of Directors of the OpenStack Foundation provides strategic and financial oversight of Foundation resources and staff, and is the top level governing body for the OpenStack project.The OpenStack Foundation provides shared resources to help achieve the OpenStack Mission by protecting, empowering, and promoting OpenStack software and the community around it, including users, developers and the entire ecosystem. To date, the OpenStack Foundation has attracted more than 5,600 individual members and secured more than $10 million in funding.OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. The project aims to deliver solutions for all types of clouds by being simple to implement, massively scalable, and feature rich. From March 2013 to January 2014 (11 months) Senior Product Manager @ BMC Software Managed:BMC Transaction Management Application Response Time (BMC TM ART) - a new OEM venture for BMC at the time. In addition to expected PMM skills required, this position specifically required providing product solutions options, technical and sales understanding of consumer needs, strong knowledge of competitor's product offerings, proven ability to evaluate market and negotiate business contracts. BMC PATROL End to End Response Timer - Drove product revenue from ~$300K /Q to sustained ~$1M in revenue / Q in two quarters.* Prior to this role, I served as Software Engineer on Patrol, before I was promoted to Product Manager. From July 2000 to April 2006 (5 years 10 months) Software Engineering Manager @ Halliburton Helped establish new Automated Test Software team (ATS) by building a team of engineers (recruiting, screening, interviewing, and hiring), which grew over time. Responsible for INSITE Software QA team, which resulted in 15 direct reports. Instituted stringent development, testing, and documentation process. Developed automated 24x7 testing lab. Administrative functions included team management, hiring/termination, salary planning, and development plans, among other items. From 1998 to 2000 (2 years) Senior Product Manager @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise Various Roles with HPE (formerly HP):* Senior Business Line Manager, Client Virtualization / VDIDeveloped and drove strategy to drive HP blades, workstations and thin clients, as part of VMware and Citrix solutions based on virtual desktops* Senior Product Manager, Management SoftwareManaged various systems management, including flagship management suite, Insight Control, HP iLO, and HP Rapid Deployment Pack, representing over $100M+ in software revenue.* Global Campaign & Demand Generation ManagerCreation of global campaigns, deliverables, assets and results for 1) the scale out Segment (scalable infrastructure, web 2.0, cloud computing, etc) and 2) HP BladeSystem Matrix. Deliverables included campaign messaging, targeted customer segment, lead generation material, webinars, and more. From April 2006 to June 2010 (4 years 3 months) Global Head of Strategic Alliance & Industry Marketing @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise Leader of the industry vertical and strategic alliance marketing teams at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Austin, Texas, United States