Functional Skills

Software Development
Agile Software Development
Data Science
Strategic Planning
Communications
Systems Integration
Private Equity Investing
Product Data Management
Operating Model Design
Leadership Development

Software Skills

Python
UNIX
JavaScript
Linux
OpenStack
BigData
Kubernetes
Ubuntu

Sector Experience

Business Services
Financial Services
Technology
Bulge Bracket Investment Banks
Fortune 500
Top Consulting Firms

Experience

Goldman Sachs Product Management / Strategy
Managing Director
3/2022 - 5/2023
Managing Director, head of product management for the technology platform that underpins Goldman Sachs' consumer and wealth management division, including the Marcus suite of financial services products, as well as the Apple and GM credit cards
●Modernized the product management practice with the Goldman Sachs consumer division
●Created a product management community of practice that spanned divisions and included over 400 PMs
●Teamed up with Partners and Managing Directors across the firm to deliver fintech solutions for our clients
●Overhauled and rolled out new processes for annual strategic planning and quarterly product planning, and interoperating with our bi-weekly sprint planning
●Drove better decision making with data, analytics, and business insights
●Raised earlier awareness of problems and opportunities with dashboards and automatic reports
●Actively engaged with the firm's senior most leaders through the operating council

Apex Fintech Solutions Product Management / Strategy
Chief Product Oficer
9/2019 - 3/2022
Senior executive responsible for the product management, strategic alliances, data science, solutions, and field engineering teams at the world's leading fintech clearing and custody retail brokerage firm
●Established modern, software-as-a-service product management best practices at Apex
●Inherited a team of technical project managers; some grew into product managers and/or leadership roles, augmented that team with experienced professionals, and moved some others into better fitting roles
●Systematized collaborative note-taking, client roadmap presentations, internal prioritization summits, critical user journeys, product requirements documents, product launch checklists, simplified portfolio and pricing
●Built the strategic alliances organization, owning business development and force-multiplying sales partnerships
●Created a field engineering team, to drastically improve our client life cycle, from technical pre-sales, across on-boarding, into production, and throughout on-goi

Google Product Management / Strategy
Product Manager
4/2018 - 8/2019
Data-driven product manager in Google Cloud and one of the product leaders in the Kubernetes organization, enterprise customer focused and driving several of Google's hybrid and multi cloud initiatives
●Key product manager of a strategic Google Cloud initiative, bringing Kubernetes into enterprise data centers and Edge computing environments with the GKE On-Prem product and related Anthos technologies
●Named the "GKE On-Prem" product, created the pricing model, and authored the sales battlecard
●Worked among Google executives and engineers, and communicated directly with customers on a daily basis
●Helped integrate the Velostrata acquisition into Google's product portfolio, and define their second product
●Collaborated closely with Microsoft in bringing Windows Server Containers to Kubernetes
●Regular interview host for the Google video media production team

Canonical Product Management / Strategy
VP of Product
7/2013 - 3/2018
Executive and senior product leader responsible for the Ubuntu server, desktop, cloud, and devices roadmaps -- currently the world's leading cloud operating system and developer favorite open source IoT platform
●Hired and built Canonical's product management organization
●Continuously improved Ubuntu Advantage, Canonical's commercial support subscription service
●Grew Ubuntu's adoption in the public cloud to 70% of all running Linux server instances
●Boosted Canonical's infrastructure-as-a-service market share to 55% of production private OpenStack clouds
●Conceived Canonical's bare metal provisioning strategy and created the MAAS product
●Conducted 250+ press and analyst interviews as a company spokesperson
●Formulated Canonical's unprecedented approach for Ubuntu on the IBM LinuxOne mainframe
●Expanded Canonical's most strategic partnerships, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Dell, Intel, IBM, NVIDIA, Docker, and Pivotal
●Enacted tasteful, anonymous, analytical approache

Gazzang Engineering
Chief Technology
11/2011 - 7/2013
Senior technical leader of enterprise cloud security startup enabling healthcare, finance, and education enterprises to protect sensitive information while maintaining performance in cloud and big data environments
●Provided turnkey, seamless, high-performance encryption-at-rest technology for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop, etc. to meet HIPAA, FERPA, and other compliance obligations
●Executed the startup's technical vision, competitive strategy, and product roadmap toward aggressive growth
●Maintained eCryptFS, the open source file encryption technology behind Gazzang zNcrypt
●Expanded Gazzang zNcrypt to also support dm-crypt, open source block level volume encryption
●Conceived and authored Gazzang zTrustee, the commercial software key manager that monetized the purely open source (and otherwise free) encryption technology
●Established operational infrastructure, developer processes, operating procedures, and agile methodologies
●Vastly advanced technology, led

Canonical Engineering
Engineering Manager
2/2008 - 11/2011
Innovative leader in the early development of Ubuntu's infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service open source solutions, arguably the most widely used Linux operating system in the cloud
●Trusted committer and consistent contributor as an Ubuntu Core Developer to hundreds of packages
●Grew within Canonical's upstart leadership environment, traveling to 24+ countries as an Ubuntu subject matter expert
●Advanced Canonical's strategy around service orchestration as the successor to package management
●Managed the Systems Integration team, extending cloud strategy with solution stacks
●Restructured global team, closed resource gaps, and drafted measurable performance expectation targets
●Collaborated to retain and expand business with high-profile clients including Google, Intel, Dell, HP, and IBM
●Co-authored eCryptfs, an enterprise class, stacked cryptographic file system for Linux
●Wrote and maintained dozens of server utilities used in millions of Ubuntu cloud instan

IBM Engineering
Software Architect
5/2000 - 2/2008
Tapped for IBM Leadership Excellence Program and Technical Resource fast-track to help identify, build, and drive opportunities around Linux and Open Source; IBM Master Inventor with 56+ granted US Patents
●Implemented security functionality across IBM middleware on top of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Xen, providing highly available, load balanced, and virtualized web app hosting environments
●Championed expansion into cloud and virtualization for faster, more eficient, deployable stacks accessible by constituents with vast systems around the globe
●Tasked with repairing mission-critical Red Hat relationship as remote onsite IBM engineer
●Fixed RHEL defects and updated features in Fedora
●Improved IBM hardware utilization, accelerated bug/patch acceptance, facilitated SELinux/kernel audit development, and integrated IBM/Red Hat QA testing
●Upstreamed modifications to Red Hat code by bridging resistant silos that joined forces to efect changes
●Built rapport and trust through dir