Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

• Users are global, applications are global, compute and storage infrastructure are global, data needs to be global!

Jan 2021 – Nov 2021 · 10 mos

• Pantheon is the SaaS website operations platform to accelerate digital transformation. As a pioneer in bringing the innovation of open source to Enterprises, Pantheon makes organizations' web strategy a strategic business advantage!

Dec 2018 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater Seattle Area

• Experienced team builder responsible for helping users derive business value out of their data. I am responsible for driving awareness and adoption of Qumulo's file data platform. My daily focus is on helping organizations understand how IT architecture can drive digital transformation and better business results.
• Leading a team of Product Marketing, Technical Marketing and Sales Enablement experts, I am responsible for creating the value messaging, multimedia marketing tools, technical evidence and awareness of modern solutions to data driven challenges.

Sep 2016 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Originally recruited to bring in file system and high-performance storage knowledge to the marketing organization, I was subsequently promoted to manage product management and investor relations as well. Tasked with entering new markets which are well fit for our current technology and identifying new technology to integrate or design to move us into the future. Successfully launched the Scale-out NAS offering for Enterprise users, launched an AI solution for on-premise and cloud content, while creating the Autonomous Vehicle, HPC Archive File System and Life Sciences vertical markets. Integrated Cloud strategies into reference architecture and solution requirements.
• Product Marketing lead responsible for Rook, a cloud-native open source project we successfully contributed to the Cloud Native Compute Foundation (CNCF). https://rook.io

Jan 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Santa Clara, CA

• DDN designs a platform for applications including cloud storage services, supercomputing, life sciences and genomics, seismic processing, financial service trade and risk analysis, film production, live television broadcast, manufacturing, and video surveillance. I was originally recruited to manage the product marketing and corporate marketing organizations. I was subsequently promoted to manage product management as well. Responsible for expanding DDN’s products and markets from high-end HPC solutions optimized for national labs, weather and particle accelerators to solutions for Enterprise HPC and the rapidly growing markets with rampant unstructured data growth. Drove Brand awareness of DDN solutions to financial services, CDN, life sciences and Fortune 500 companies. Initiated large user group community which delivered input resulting in new product GUI and management tools, optimized out-of-box experience and new feature capabilities. Demonstrated an early AI solution, Curious George, in partnership with TACC to illustrate broad scientific and commercial use cases for AI.

Jul 2004 – Jan 2014 · 9 yrs 6 mos · Boulder, Colorado

• Originally joined to manage software engineering. Position grew to build out a product management organization and later to run marketing as well. At Spectra Logic we cemented the long term role for tape in data archive while consistently innovating to ensure our customers can access their data today and decades into the future. Successfully migrated the brand image from a very aged engineering company to a modern archive solution provider. Created an archive solution product offering and founded the active archive alliance successfully growing the TAM by over 10x.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2004 · 4 yrs · Broomfield, CO

• As a storage service provider, we managed the storage and backup services for Enterprises around the globe. Incentra was "Cloud" storage before the term "Cloud" was created for data storage. Initially hired as the Oracle DBA for the managed storage customer portal, DBA responsibilities were later expended to include the FrontPorch Digital DIVA database as well. Subsequently, was promoted to manage the software engineering and system integration teams delivering the end-to-end managed service offering and customer reporting portal.