Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 3 mos

• Maker of industry-defining, cloud native software.
• Kanvas (kanvas.new)
• Meshery (meshery.io) and Nighthawk (getnighthawk.dev)
• Creator of cloud native standards.
• Cloud Native Performance (smp-spec.io) and Service Mesh Interface (smi-spec.io)
• Award-winning, open source community.
• #1 most popular internship program

Nov 2018 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Acquired by VMware.

Aug 2016 – Mar 2020 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Self-disruptive innovation through rapid prototyping and new product development. Cross-portfolio product and technology stewardship. Corporate and business development. Open Source Program Office. Global Engineering tooling and culture.

Jun 2016 – Present · 10 yrs

Jul 2015 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs

• Acquired by Palo Alto Networks.

Dec 2014 – Nov 2015 · 11 mos

• Led software product strategy and development of cloud systems and solutions for hyper-converged infrastructure, software defined storage (SDS) and software defined data centers (SDDC).
• » Revitalized engineering efficiency and realized over 40% operational cost savings.
• Founded offshore and local software engineering teams. Instituted modern software development methodologies and tooling. Drove best practices process definition and adoption.
• » Delivered three new software offerings. Directed suite of management software, spanning hardware systems monitoring to drive analytics with failure prediction algorithms.
• » Modernized systems product line with secure, scalable, simple, vendor-agnostic management interface. Built business case for and established Seagate as member of Distributed Management Task Force to work within the DMTF's Scalable Platforms Management Forum to create Redfish, an open industry standard for systems management. Led team to create first Redfish API implementation.
• » Up-leveled systems portfolio by spearheading new telemetry diagnostics and expedited support capability. Delivered new Seagate Call Home service by championing a microservices approach to this software as a service offering, using a container PaaS using Kubernetes and Docker. Produced Data as a Service using full suite of Hadoop components. Established Seagate as member of Red Hat OpenShift Commons.

Nov 2012 – Nov 2014 · 2 yrs

• Recruited, led and served talented, worldwide teams engineering a sprawling suite of Cisco Cloud products. Navigated consecutive software releases on-time with high quality, focusing on building vendor-agnostic “cloud executive” software for the world of many clouds, providing a common substrate of services across disparate cloud technologies from an application-centric vantage point.
• » Managed multi-million dollar budgets and over an 80-person, globally-distributed organization.
• » Founded nearshore team in Canada, benefitting cost savings of ~60% and productivity by time zone proximity.
• Instrumental to creation of first version of Cisco Intercloud (Openstack-based hybrid cloud). As cloud management leaders, my team, my software and I founded the initial architecture and engineering delivery of these platform capabilities:
• » Service Assurance - robust, user-definable virtual machine performance and fault management.
• » User Experience & Interface - multi-tenant, lifecycle management of virtual machines.
• » Cloud Marketplace - curated catalog of application offerings and order fulfillment orchestration.
• Advanced Cisco’s thought leadership by developing a comprehensive business plan and secured funding for separate R&D team to innovate product ventures, focusing on DevOps needs when continuously delivering cloud- native applications (CI/CD, PaaS, Puppet).
• » Founded Docker@Cisco community, stewarding use of containers within emerging product offerings
• » Led creation of Cisco Container Hub as an enterprise container image hub, supporting Docker and rkt

Nov 2011 – Nov 2012 · 1 yr

• Pioneered new product initiative to create Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud, a leading cloud management platform (recognized by Gartner MQ, Forrester Wave, 451 Research).
• » Saved 22 months of IT labor by creating and delivering the software platform that runs Cisco’s large private cloud (IaaS).
• » From ground up, recruited and developed multiple engineering teams, nurturing a culture of passionate goal setting and milestone achieving.
• » Produced 10+ software releases on-time with high quality and a highly available product architecture.
• » Armed with the agile manifesto, championed shift to Agile processes and program delivery across business unit.

Oct 2008 – Nov 2011 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Led architecture and development of Remote Management Services, focusing on emerging and advanced Cisco technologies. Hired and managed culturally-diverse local and offshore teams.
• » Proven history of early program delivery over multiple release cycles. Drove planning and management of projects with cross-functional teams to define requirements and deliver on schedule. Managed architecture, development, quality assurance, and IT team members in the delivery of Collaboration (TelePresence), Security, Physical Security and Unified Communications Remote Management Services.
• » Proven success at rapidly prototyping solutions:
• Prototyped network management system’s ability to perform network device configuration management.
• Delivered proof of concept of remote manageability of entire suite of Tandberg products.
• Architected and built successful proof of concept to integrate a workflow engine into delivery platform.
• » Overhauled software development and release processes, resulting in:
• Reduction from 5 hour to 5 minute software deployments.
• Acutely increased software development efficiency by shifting methodology away from UI.
• Dramatic improvement in quality of software releases, reduction of defect rate and increased transparency.
• Consolidated disparate base and bug-fix software releases into singular build processes.
• » Salvaged service delivery platform from being antiquated by significantly up-leveling platform capabilities via integration of a workflow engine (orchestrator). Defined project deliverables, capacity and skill-set demands of the team. Hired team using multiple vendors to maximize value given budget:
• Awarded $1.5M to deliver automated provisioning and automated remediations.
• First round of automated workflows produced over 70 man-months of savings in its first year.

Feb 2007 – Sep 2008 · 1 yr 7 mos

• » Introduced SNMP as a new capability across product portfolio (embedded Linux and Windows).
• Designed first MIB and OID structure at Pelco.
• » Created v1 offering, Pelco Management Station to proactively monitor system health and self-heal where possible, discover and fingerprint devices, parse syslogs and provide user-defined alerts.
• » Produced remote surveillance video streaming capability using traffic shaping/queuing to throttle bandwidth.
• » Eliminated critical systems architecture bottleneck and single point of failure
• Implemented server load-balancing (IPVS) and high-availability (Heartbeat).
• Developed configuration wizard UI.
• » Audited and hardened security of 7 World Trade Center IP-based video surveillance system post 9-11.

Oct 2005 – Feb 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos

Jul 2005 – Oct 2005 · 3 mos

Mar 2004 – Jul 2005 · 1 yr 4 mos

Oct 2003 – Mar 2004 · 5 mos

Jul 2003 – Jul 2004 · 1 yr

Nov 2002 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr 2 mos

Sep 2001 – Jan 2004 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Jan 1997 – Jan 1998 · 1 yr