Bio

Senior leader with proven track record of creating and implementing product vision, technical and channel partnerships, launching and managing cloud, virtualization, security and networking products that achieve market leadership and receive innovation awards. Extensive experience managing product lines in high-growth areas including IaaS (AWS, Azure, OpenStack), PaaS (Cloud Foundry, OpenShift), SaaS, Linux, DevOps, containers, Kubernetes, edge computing, software defined networking (SDN), virtualization, IoT/IIoT, data center networking, storage networking and security. Managed multiple product lines with revenues in excess of $100M and grew revenues over 100% annually. Extensive experience in Agile product development with centralized and distributed teams. OpenStack Foundation Product Work Group (PWG) and Active Technical Contributor (ATC). Linux Foundation Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Marketing Committee and Product Management and Strategy Team. Featured speaker at key industry events including Cisco Live, OpenStack Summit, Citrix Synergy, Red Hat Summit, SUSECon, Linux Foundation Cloud Native Day/KubeCon, SDN NFV World Congress and NFV&Carrier SDN. AAU and NCAA-certified basketball coach Technical Areas of Expertise: Cyber Security Cloud Security Networking SaaS AWS Azure Cloud Foundry OpenShift Open Source Cloud Computing Endpoint Security Malware Analysis Managed Service Providers (MSPs) Citrix (VDI) VMware OpenStack Docker Kubernetes Linux DevOps Ubuntu Debian RHEL SUSE Iot/IIoT Published Cisco Press Author Federal Solutions Storage Ceph Content Delivery Network Management Routing SDN Open Daylight NFV/NFVI Systems Management Product Management Product Marketing Strategic Planning Alliances Business Development Specialties: Product Marketing, Product Management, Alliances, Software Engineering, Technical Leadership, Demand Generation, Sales Forecasting, Product Line Strategy, Channel Partners