With over 18 years of experience in product management, I am passionate about creating and delivering innovative solutions that address customer needs and market opportunities. I'm actively seeking my next product management role in a technology organization, I hope that's you! I hold a PMP, PMC-VI, and CSM certification, and have a strong background in cloud data protection, backup, and disaster recovery services.
Experience
Pure Storage, Inc. is an American publicly traded technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It develops all-flash data storage hardware and software products.
- Led product design of FlashStack aaS - joint converged infrastructure as a service with Cisco.
- Business unit rep on Equinix Metal w/ Pure Storage - joint bare metal as a service solution with Equinix Metal
- Led cross-functional team to enable Pure as-a-Service transactions on ArrowSphere - first of it's kind STaaS product on digital distributor marketplace.
- Led product design to production of STaaS SLA enhancements for internal and customer-facing tools.
- Led pricing and packaging of Evergreen//One (Pure-as-a-Service), including three new company-wide technology launches.
- Led the design and launch of a new add-on for Evergreen//One, generating sales pipeline over $10M.
iland Cloud (acquired by 11:11 Systems) was a managed infrastructure solutions provider that empowers customers to modernize, protect, and manage mission-critical applications and data, leveraging it’s resilient cloud platform.
- Defined and expanded Backup as a Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) portfolios.
- Conducted qualitative and quantitative market research to prioritize requirements.
- Analyzed market trends and competitive landscapes to balance business needs with product delivery.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to formulate product definitions, strategic plans, and optimal processes.
- Served as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on cloud backup and storage product lines.
- Created product requirements, positioning, pricing, and enablement materials.
- Worked closely with UX and Development teams to build new features.
Expedient helps companies transform their IT operations through award-winning cloud solutions and managed services including disaster recovery, security and computing infrastructure.
- Introduced formal product management tools and processes, including customer interviews, win-loss analysis, and data-driven decision-making.
- Conducted market research and financial modeling for new products and services.
- Led over 16 product and feature releases, including sales enablement tools and training.
- Assisted in relaunching the company’s indirect sales program with local and national partners.
For over five decades, we've used analytics and informatics to provide insights and solutions in CPG, Media, Metals and other industries.
- Performed market research and financial modeling for new products and services.
- Initiated a new SAN replication service for the Pittsburgh market based on Nimble Storage.
- Earned Pragmatic Marketing certifications.
- Led the next-generation corporate intranet project.
- Migrated MSA.com to Amazon Web Services.
- Represented IT in developing next-generation products built on MapR Apache Hadoop.
- Conducted an annual user satisfaction survey.
- Managed projects to migrate backup platforms to Commvault and consolidate monitoring systems to SevOne.
VSO is a charity that brings together local, national and international volunteers to work alongside the world's most marginalised and vulnerable.
- Managed participatory impact measurement projects and an SMS e-governance project.
- Migrated the organization to a new web hosting provider and set up Google Apps.
- Implemented a Linux server and created standard data collection forms.
- Developed databases using Django, Access, and Excel, and trained staff in MIS concepts.
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Volunteer
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I help an elderly person get their groceries every month.
I helped a non-native English speaker with various requests. Including English tutoring.