Apr 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 11 mos · Santa Clara, CA

Feb 2017 – Mar 2021 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Sunnyvale, CA

• Acquired 2021 by VMware Carbon Black

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 2 mos · Silicon Valley, CA

• Deliver consulting services, strategy crafting, project leadership and execution for tech vendors, CIOs, CISOs, and investors.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs · Redwood City, cA

• World's largest data center provider, offering both physical and SDN-based interconnection services that form the very core of the Internet, between cloud/network/carrier/content providers, financials, enterprises, and several industries' data interchange ecosystems.
• Led the company's cybersecurity strategy and innovation from the CTO group (4 employees then), identifying industry trends and ensuring that our customers had the security controls offerings required to confidently execute on their hybrid, multi-cloud, digital transformation strategies, whether delivered by Equinix, or through partners selling on Platform Equinix. Coached cybersecurity vendors / providers on architecture for their emerging cloud-based offerings, including the use of programmable interconnection technologies to enhance performance and lower cost for the providers and their enterprise customers.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs · San Jose, CA

• Real-time, network-based, threat monitoring solution that detects suspicious activity inside the network. Solution employs data science-based, supervised and unsupervised machine learning, anomaly detection, and behavioral heuristics to identify threatening activity.
• Led product management and design for data center and cloud solutions, including: creation of new threat detection mechanisms, architecture for network insertion, virtual sensor form factors, interface with VMware vSphere / vCenter, AWS, Azure, GCP, and go-to-market activities for 1.0 launch and release. (http://info.vectranetworks.com/a-comprehensive-approach-to-detecting-cyber-attacks-in-data-centers).
• Drove field technical enablement through training, forums, and peer coaching for 40 staff.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 · 3 yrs · Mountain View, CA

• Data center micro-segmentation security delivered by a virtual & distributed system that provides visibility and access control for highly elastic, orchestrated compute clouds.
• Led all aspects of product management, design, architecture, marketing, branding, business development, and sales (including technical sales) as first non-developer on the team. Spokesperson while raising $22M over two VC rounds.

Aug 2007 – Jan 2011 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• Founded and built a cross-functional unit that created networking capabilities enabling Unified Communications for branch offices and mobile workers.
• Released a line of multi-service branch gateways, integrating SIP security, SIP-PSTN gateway, survivable PBX, including full go-to-market strategy with channel, strategic alliances, marketing and launch plan.
• Grew the team of HW engineering, SW development, test, product management and product marketing from 1 to 28 direct and 20 indirect reports, in US and India, $3.5M annual budget.

Jan 2005 – Mar 2008 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• Formed Juniper’s first enterprise solutions engineering organization that defined, architected, built, tested, documented, trained and provided a demo platform for multi-product, security solutions.
• Solutions for large enterprise: Internet security perimeter, 1000-site MPLS + IPsec VPN branch office connectivity, virtualized and secured data center network, dynamic threat mitigation.
• Built team of 12 staff who delivered 9 racks of solutions, complete with automated testing and remote, self-service demos. $2M/yr OpEx, $3M/yr CapEx budget.
• Led joint development project placing Avaya VoIP media gateway blade into Juniper J-series routers. Responsible for product management, HW & SW eng, test, product marketing, channel training, with teams in New Jersey, Israel, India, Denver, and Sunnyvale.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr · Sunnyvale, CA

• Defined and drove cross-product-group technology and business strategy for emerging technologies. Results: 3 acquisitions in the areas of WAN optimization (Permit, ~$250M, Santa Clara), web services load balancing (Redline, ~$90M, Campbell), VoIP security (Kagoor, $70M, Israel).

Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 · 2 yrs

• NetScreen was the first ever ASIC-based, hardware firewall & VPN system delivering network security for borders and perimeters.
• Architected and led several teams for development and marketing of major new feature sets across product lines. Defined and led NetScreen involvement in standards bodies. Industry- and customer-facing technology evangelism.
• Headed remote access project that led to $290M acquisition of Neoteris (became Juniper SA product line, now spun out as Pulse Secure).

Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 · 2 yrs

• Led a team of two staff defining and managing feature delivery across physical platforms for advanced firewall inspection, VPN, remote access, and networking integration.
• Created and directed virtual team organizational structure for technology innovation efforts.

Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 · 1 yr

• Ran the heart of the product line, including hardware platforms, software / firmware releases, remote access client, pricing, packaging, feature requests, demos.
• Brought a brand new high-end firewall/VPN device (NetScreen-500) to market, from concept to launch.

Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 · 1 yr

• • Built 4 functional teams from scratch: pre-sales systems engineering, post-sales support, training, professional services.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2015 · 15 yrs · (Internet Engineering Task Force) | International Standards Body

• Internet Architecture Board (https://www.iab.org), 2008-2010
• Author: RFC 6862, 6518, 5926, 5902, 4809; contributor RFC 4945
• Coordinator & emcee for IETF 72 tech plenary on IPv6 adoption
• Formed KARP Working Group on securing router neighbor transmissions
• Initiated & Chaired PKI4IPSEC Working Group, Security Area, 2004 - 2006
• Security Area Directorate (2004 - 2006)
• Contributor IKEv2 specification and industry efforts for interoperability testing

Jan 1996 – Jan 1998 · 2 yrs · San Jose, CA