Monica Sharma's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

📖 Summary

I have a passion for building high customer-value revenue-bearing products and transforming a product team from good to great. I enjoy extracting business opportunities from deep technical customer interactions to influence multi-product line vision and strategy for emerging or mature markets. I have a strong track record and believe in relentlessly iterating to build crisp compelling roadmaps with features that would delight the users. Currently, at VMware I lead a team of product managers to drive product strategy, execution and go-to-market activities of VMware’s high growth flagship Operations Management product line and jointly the Cloud Management Platform for software defined datacenter and cloud environments. Additionally, as a designated corporate representative, I lead briefings and evangelize business unit strategy & products at VMware's analyst, customer and partner facing events, trade shows and conferences. Specialties: Long term product Vision & Strategy, Target Market Identification & Customer Segmentation, Formulation of killer Product use cases & prioritization with a focus on customer outcomes, Product planning, Competitive analysis, Positioning, SaaS strategy, Packaging, Pricing, Roadmaps, Requirements definition, Sales Support, Customer & Analyst briefings, M&A diligence Cross Team Collaboration, Product Management mentoring, Product Lifecycle Management, Process Maturity, Global Team Management Cloud, Software defined datacenter, Virtualization, Capacity & Performance Management, Operations Management & Optimization, Storage,Configuration & Change Management,Enterprise Security & Compliance, CollaborationGroup Product Line Manager @ Currently driving strategy, formulation and release execution of some cool disruptive features to solve cloud operations management problems in new ways aligned with customer outcomes and a social user experience. Led product strategy, roadmap and execution of Cloud Infrastructure Management products, including • VMware vCenter Operations • VMware vCenter CapacityIQ • VMware vCenter Application Director • VMware vCenter Studio • VMware vCenter Change Insight • VMware vCenter Update Manager From December 2007 to Present (8 years 1 month) Product Marketing and Management Professional @ • Responsible for the go-to-market strategy, definition, delivery, launch and roadmap of Solidcore’s windows based Embedded Solutions business - that secures today's ATMs • Led a global team of 6 managers to plan and execute product release & launch • Built key partnership with Microsoft that enabled Solidcore to break into the embedded market in the US and EMEA From July 2004 to November 2007 (3 years 5 months) Director of Engineering @ • Played a key role in building Solidcore’s India offshore team from 5 to 30 and managing delivery of several major/minor product releases of Solidcore's S3 productline to secure windows based ATMs and embedded devices From May 2003 to July 2004 (1 year 3 months) Director of Engineering @ • Built global teams and provided engineering leadership across 3 product lines that delivered web hosting lifecycle automation to Service Providers (WEBppliance (Windows, Linux), Exchange Appliance and Streaming Appliance) • Previously, R&D Manager and Member Technical staff of the WEBppliance team From August 2001 to January 2003 (1 year 6 months) Engineering Intern, Networking Group @ From 1999 to 1999 (less than a year) B.Tech, Chemical Engineering @ IIT BHUMasters, Computer Science @ Stanford University Monica Sharma is skilled in: Security, Cloud Computing, Software Engineering, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Strategy, Product Lifecycle Management, Virtualization, Product Management, Go-to-market Strategy, Storage, Start-ups, VMware, Data Center, Requirements Analysis, Linux