Dave Brace

Experience

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   Caber Systems, Inc. · Full-time

   • co-Founder : Head of Gen AI

     Oct 2024 - Present · 10 mos·San Francisco Bay Area · On-site·Current

     Caber is an GenAI Enterprise company that converges Data Quality + Lineage + Observability with in-line Data Classification & Security into a single platform. ✧ As co-founder, I head Product Mgmt and run our Gen AI Products, Knowledge Graph & AI Data strategies. ✧ I'm driving our v1.0 PMF and GTM, building out product that delivers the highest value. Proving a deterministic System of Context with Trustworthy Data Observability, Lineage, Security and Governance for all GenAII Data flows, for any LLM, any M/L framework, any NLQ Text2SQL Data layer, any Database, any CoT Reasoning ReACT System and any RAG pipeline. - Our product is innovative and impressive, unique & unequalled ! ✧ We define an enterprise Data quality and security for Agentic Systems of Context systems. Working on... Gen AI Product strategy. GTM Strategy. Product Marketing. Competitive, Funding. Specialist focus on LLM, M/L, CoT ReACT Reasoning systems, Conversational AI, RAG pipeline, Knowledge Base & Knowledge Graph strategy (VectorDB & GraphDB). Skills: Artificial Intelligence (AI) · Large Language Models (LLM) · gpu · Databases · Machine Learning · AI/ML · GraphQL · VectorDB · Knowledge Graphs

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   MindsDB · Full-time

   • Group Product Director AI/ML - 2 Million users

     Mar 2024 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos·San Francisco Bay Area · On-site·Current

     Group Product Mgmt leadership across Commercial and Open Source Gen AI products at MindsDB. I lead our AI/ML Data integrated intelligent Gen AI Cognition platform that connects your Data to Gen AI/LLM models, RAG / Knowledge Base / CoT Reasoning pipelines. - I define our roadmap and strategy to enable our Agentic AI App partners to achieve enterprise success thru our platform. - I drive innovative product strategies to power high performance AI conversational Gen AI apps and conversational AI use-cases for "easy to ask difficult to answer questions". Democratizing AI empowered Search, Data Analytics, Triage, Data Science, Content creation, Prediction for everyday users in the enterprise. - I set & define critical GTM, Marketing, pricing and partnership PM deliverables where our AI value to customers in the Enterprise is connected data in corporate Databases, SaaS apps, Storage systems, Webdocs, Object stores and is integrated with tuned LLM models, RAG, and CoT pipelines I manage an awesome global team to PM our NLQ Federated SQL Query Compute Engine & LLM model/endpoint integrations of 300+ low-code Enterprise Data source connectors. As well as our serverless Realtime Data query dialect, SQL, NoSQL and API databases stacks. Supporting 500,000 user deployments and 2+ Million community Devs,. All doing conversational Text2SQL chat with their enterprise data. - Foundation model researcher (specialty enterprise Gen AI datasets) - Domain specific model and embedding finetuning - RAG / ReAct Knowledge Base and Knowledge Graph Frameworks - CoT Reasoning Frameworks research - NLQ Federated SQL and NoSQL Text2SQL Database LLM research - ReAct pipeline dynamic prompt injection LLM performance fine-tuning - Gen AI Agentic App Builder with great DevX and DevRel Skills: AI/ML · Artificial Intelligence (AI) · Databases · Product Strategy · SQL · Large Language Models (LLM)

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   OpenEBS · Full-time

   • Head Maintainer - Opensource CNCF project - 15 Million users

     Jan 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos·San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid·Current

     I am the Head Maintainer guiding the worlds most deployed CNCF open-source K8s Container Native Data Storage platform for AI/ML Data Pipelines.. - OpenEBS. Our team invented Microservices Aware Stateful storage for K8s. I lead a global multi-disciplinary opensource team on all things Product, Engineering, Marketing, GTM strategy, Alliances, Solutions and Brand development. (2000+ active engaged contributors across all disciplines), With Millions of active daily users. I am a Top 10 GitHub contributor and PR reviewer / approver to our opensource project. ✧ openEBS is a CNCF open-source Member project in the Data Storage Landscape. Its a high-performance Enterprise Grade Stateful Persistent Datastore storage platform for Kubernetes (K8s). A k8s native purpose built Data system that unleashes the raw scale-up power of NVMe SSD Flash + RDMA + INTEL SPDK NVMe storage stack for AI/ML data pipelines, workflows and Data compute platforms. ✧ openEBS excels at extremely high-speed scale-up AI/ML, data lakes, ML pipeline datasets and AI databases for AI/ML RAG and ReAct Knowledge Base integrations. It's an NVMe + RDMA optimized workhorse for AI/ML ML workflows. Its Enterprise grade out-of-the-box. +10 Million installations ✧ openEBS | https://github.com/openebs. ✧ CNCF | https://cncf.io Skills: Analytical Skills · Team Management · Product Management · Problem Solving · Storage Virtualization · Case Studies · User Stories · Attention to Detail · Leadership · Market Analysis · Program Management · Communication · Marketing

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   Agentics Foundation · Full-time

   • ♾️ AiPM - Contributing PMdev Strategist

     Mar 2024 - May 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos·San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

     As an early founder, I mentor our global members in core Ai-PM principles. I drive the radically new Agentic Prod Mgmt breakthroughs that our Agentic Foundation is pioneering where Ai-Pm’s are a convergence of Researcher + Designer + Prod Mgr + Dev/Engineer + MLops + Data Sci. - I am a Vibe coding Prod Mgr (Python, Rust, Go, C++). - I am pioneering new breakthrough Ai-1st Ai-driven Prod Mgmt paradigms, workflows. and values, derived from the cutting edge work that the Foundation is doing in Generative AI Agentics. - aiPM's are now multi-faceted coding designing prototyping extensions of Engineering that are building Figma's, checking-in, merging, and shipping code. On-top of our traditional PM roles. I'm at the cutting edge of aiPM, defining this radical adaptive radiation PM experience for our community. ✨Paraphrasing Charles Darwin: PM isn't dead, its experiencing radical adaptive radiation from extreme exposure to Ai. As a PM, if you don't adapt, and converge roles... you will become extinct. - We are the Galapagos Finches. Skills: AI/ML

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   DataCore Software · Full-time

   • Snr. Director Prod Mgmt & GTM Strategy - AI/ML K8s Data Platform

     Oct 2022 - Jul 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos·San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

     ✧ Current product: Built a team to delvier: +50 million data volumes deployed, 10.0 million installs, 10 million downloads, 1 million K8s instances spawned per week, 1.9M Active Daily Users, 8500 Github stars, 1000 forks, 800% growth in 2022, 240% growth in 2023. 190% growth in 2024. Run Engineering + PM + Mktg + Biz Dev Reset entire product + Eng group. Define roadmap. Align team. Execute at rapid pace. Drive team to deliver 8 feature product releases in 12 months. Drive marketing + BizDev to deliver new product success/PMF of 1 Millions installs p/week. The largest K8s deployed footprint (cloud & on-prem) globally. Define + Drive new GTM plan to achieve new product revenue + growth Align product teams on Generative AI strategies for K8s Inference MLops/AiOPS Data infra, & Ai Vision workflows Customers: ByteDance, Arista Networks, Comcast, Verizon, Flipkart, Lockheed Martin, EA, MSFT Azure, Verizon, Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, MongoDB, HashiCorp, Coinbase, CapitalOne, Stripe, PayPal, Amazon, Uber, ChatGPT, Etsy, Shopify, SalesForce.com, C3.ai, CapGemini, WIX, SquareSpace, Tesla, Samsung, Toyota, Disney, CocaCola, BankofAmerica, JPMC, SpaceX, Facebook, T-Mobile). OpenEBS use cases: K8s DataStores, Data pipelines AI/ML Training, Databases for Multi/Hybrid cloud, AWS EKS, GCP GKE & Azure AKS and self managed infra. Skills: Analytical Skills · Team Management · Product Management · Data Lineage · AI/ML · Problem Solving · Product Marketing · Storage Virtualization · Case Studies · User Stories · Attention to Detail · Data Quality · Metadata · Leadership · Data Architects · Market Analysis · Data Access · Program Management · Communication · Marketing

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   F5 · Contract

   • Product Strategy - AI ML AntiBot Security portfolio - 50 Million users

     Jan 2021 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos·San Francisco Bay Area

     >SHAPE Security was acquired by F5 Networks for $1Billion: https://www.shapesecurity.com The industry's best ML driven Anti-BOT Defense platform with the highest anti bot mitigation efficacy. The F5 integrated SHAPE platform leverages LLMs, ML LLM's and Gen AI to identify, classify & characterize BOT security threats, synthetic behaviors, exploit vectors, Human & non-Human actors. - in Real-time. My products protect mobile, web, Appl and API streams in real time over 3.0 Billion attack streams/vectors per day. - At web scale, for the top fortune 100 most trusted global brands. F5 Ai/ML powered Anti-Bot Defense delivers real-time and near-real-time supervised and unsupervised decision-making insights and exploit mitigations to secure Web properties, Applications, API's and consumer trust. ✧ I own the Anti-BOT Mgmt GTM strategy for the Shape Security/F5 Bot Defense Platform (SaaS, Hybrid, native BIG-IP Integrated Bot services, connector API's and Bot App portfolio). I serve as the core GTM leader across Prod Mgmt + Prod Mktg for the full portfolio of F5 BOT Mgmt products. Skills: Analytical Skills · Team Management · Product Management · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Storage Virtualization · Case Studies · User Stories · Attention to Detail · Data Quality · Metadata · Leadership · Data Architects · Market Analysis · Data Access · Program Management · Communication · Marketing

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   Kmesh.io

   • Board Advisor

     Jun 2018 - Jan 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos·San Francisco Bay Area

     Product & business strategy board adviser. > Acquired - Jan 2020. Multi-Cloud Data Mobility service between Core and Edge regardless of physical, logical or sovereignty restrictions. Beautiful API-1st Cloud-1st experience. Integrated into Amazon AWS data services. Skills: Analytical Skills · Team Management · Product Management · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Storage Virtualization · Case Studies · User Stories · Attention to Detail · Data Quality · Metadata · Leadership · Data Architects · Market Analysis · Program Management · Communication · Marketing

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   APTARE

   • Board Advisor

     Jun 2018 - Jun 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo·San Francisco Bay Area

     Product & business strategy Board adviser. > Acquired by Veritas March 2019. APTARE is the global leader in the ITOA Hybrid Cloud Data Analytics, Data Insight space. - Unique, unequaled &brilliant focus on Deep Data Science driven analytics for cloud data sores. - Out of the top 30 players in this space, no other product even comes close! https://www.veritas.com/news-releases/2019-03-06-veritas-acquires-aptare-to-enhance-the-analytics-reporting-and-protection-of-enterprise-data Skills: Analytical Skills · Team Management · Product Management · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Storage Virtualization · Case Studies · User Stories · Attention to Detail · Data Quality · Metadata · Leadership · Data Architects · Market Analysis · Data Access · Program Management · Communication · Marketing

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   Veritas Technologies LLC · Full-time

   • Director of Product - Data, Cloud, AI M/L & Growth

     Apr 2017 - Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 10 mos·San Francisco Bay Area

     > Acquired - $7 Billion I own Product Mgmt strategy & PM execution for our Cloud Data application stack, architecture & ecosystem. I lead a portfolio-wide PM product team for vision, strategy, product architecture for Data platforms, Realtime data streaming, Analytics, AI ML & our Data science frameworks. - I own the fastest growth product in the company: ARR of $170MM in year 1 from $0 @launch. - Conceived & executed our most successful product growth strategy. +55% CAGR in a $10B mkt. - Founded & built AI M/L team (5 PhD ML researchers). Set PM strategy for our ML & AI portfolio. - PM ownership of our API strategy across the full product App stack (17+ apps). - I drive Competitive Intelligence for new high-growth products. - Interim lead of UX team, delivering impactful beautiful modern App experiences. - PM lead for Cloud partnership with Amazon AWS, Azure, Google, Snowflake. - Lead growth & engagement for our API Developers, ISV's & App integration partnerships. I strategically set & drive the cloud, data & Gen AI roadmaps. My PM team executes across entire app portfolio (17+ apps), the cloud/data ecosystem & multiple data store stacks. Including Hadoop & cloud-hosted Spark, AWS Kinesis (full ecosystem), AWS Redshift & DynamoDB, our Kafka stream processing platform; all VPC hosted and on-prem GPU infra and LLM Model plaforms. Skills: Analytical Skills · Team Management · Product Management · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Storage Virtualization · Case Studies · User Stories · Attention to Detail · Data Quality · Metadata · Leadership · Data Architects · Market Analysis · Data Access · Program Management · Communication · Marketing

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    EMC XtremIO

    • Director of Products - All-Flash DataLake platform - $1Billion v1.0 rev in 544 days

      Dec 2014 - Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos·San Francisco Bay Area

      > Acquired by EMC for $420MM. Revenues exceeded acquisition cost in 1st year. All-Flash Data platform : Go-to-to-Market software Product Mgmt, Product design & strategy. ISV Dev alliances ownership. - Drove scale-up GTM growth & revenue that moves-the-needle. - I joined XtremIO when we had $0 revenue, no customers & ~10 people in the US. - In our first 12 months of selling our product, we achieved $530MM - We broke through $1B revenue in 544 days - We exceeded $1.2B in our 2nd full year of the product being in the market. - We exceeded $1.6B in our 3rd year and attained ~50% market share ownership. - We're the fastest growing enterprise data mgmt product to achieve $1B revenue in history, since the disk-drive was invented. I owned & drove 75%+ of the early use-case growth strategies. I own new use-case development (Enterprise Data collaboration, High-Perf distributed Databases, Cloud & SaaS, DevOps, CI/CD, SAP (Hadoop/legacy/Hana), Container services, Software Dev & ISV engagement. I mentored new Product PM's & Solutions Mktg on how to develop & execute product/growth/user-engagement strategies at our fast Billion $ ARR pace. > Startup team PM specializing in multiply our growth rate into Billion $ revenue generators. Skills: Analytical Skills · Team Management · Product Management · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Storage Virtualization · Case Studies · User Stories · Attention to Detail · Data Quality · Metadata · Leadership · Data Architects · Market Analysis · Data Access · Program Management · Communication · Marketing XtremIO's rocketship path to $1Billion How to build a Rocketship business

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    Shoplitix, Inc.

    • Co-founder, Head of Product Mgmt

      Dec 2014 - Dec 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo·San Francisco Bay Area

      > Acquired by large US retailer. A B2C/B2Me platform that converges Mobile shopping + Retail E-commerce BI, Enabling new ways for eCommerce to happen with the best possible outcome for both sides. Product is: A Mobile App matching marketplace between shoppers and retailers. Real-time competitive retail flow as part of the natural mobile app shopping experience. AI/ML augmented product search & analytics platform with intuitive engaging mobile app experience. A BI platform that derives Data science insights from consumer mobile app patterns & metrics. I co-founded/co-developed initial v0 product concept, idea, business & revenue models, product strategy, MVP Product Mgmt strategy and co-designed initial MVP concepts, Mobile App, architecture, FinTech payment providers back-end architecture & business model. - Lead Product design & UX teams for Mobile and BI platform apps - Drive PM MVP prototype experiments via Data Science in-app instrumentation metrics - Prototype Datastore architectures (MySQL / MongoDB / DynamoDB / Redis / Memcache) - Design Data science inference framework (Hadoop, Cloud hosted Spark, AWS RedShift, ElasticSearch) + compute & streaming infra (Kafka, Storm, Kinesis) - Orchestrate Business & Product integrations with ecommece/Fintech partners (e.g Amazon, Rakuten, Alibaba.com, EBay, Walmart, Target, KMart, BestBuy, AT&T, Verizon, Stripe, BofA, JPMC, PayPal, Payoneer, Square) Skills: Analytical Skills · Team Management · Product Management · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Storage Virtualization · Case Studies · User Stories · Attention to Detail · Data Quality · Metadata · Leadership · Data Architects · Market Analysis · Data Access · Program Management · Communication · Marketing

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    Hedvig Inc.

    • Head of Product Mgmt & Mktg

      Dec 2013 - Dec 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo·San Francisco Bay Area

      > Acquired by Commvault in 2019 for $225MM. - 1st non-engineering team hire. Employee #5. Joined with v0 product at 25% complete state. Reporting to CEO/Founder. - Drive definition of v0 to v1.0 initial GTM product through customer experimentation & validation. - Drive and close initial funding events (Seed and Institutional A-round) - Built from ground-up, initial Product Mgmt, Product Mktg team, Product Design UX/UI team - Own and drive initial product strategy, Go-to-Market strategy, Partner strategy, MVP strategy - Define, drive and execute initial customer product MVP & Lean validation strategies. - Drove key Product & strategy pivots where MVP experiments revealed critical discoveries - Drive Analytics & Data-driven Product Mgmt Agile decision making Dev/Eng process - Recruit for all teams - PM, Dev/Eng, Design, Mktg, Sales, Solution Eng, CX/Support, Biz Dev/Alliances - Define and drive initial (very early) Marketing, social, media, analysts programs Skills: Analytical Skills · Team Management · Product Management · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Storage Virtualization · Case Studies · User Stories · Attention to Detail · Data Quality · Metadata · Leadership · Data Architects · Market Analysis · Data Access · Program Management · Communication · Marketing

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    Panzura

    • Head of Product Managment - Cloud Data Platforms

      Apr 2011 - Nov 2013 · 2 yrs 8 mos·San Jose, CA

      - Acquired : Profile Capital Management Early founding member (Empl #18). Heading up Product Management, strategy and roadmap. Reporting to founder/CEO. A pioneering Enterprise Cloud Data Management and IaaS provider. We uniquely solved the Global Enterprise Team collaboration problem for Hybrid cloud. Our secure, distributed IaaS platform enables anywhere & everywhere beautiful Team collaboration experience at high-performance, in the cloud, on desktop, browser or mobile. The Panzura product integrates with: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud & IBM Cleversafe, HGST Amplidata, AT&T Cloud, EMC/Dell Viturstream & EMC Atmos, Scality RING, Softlayer, (*HP Cloud Services & *Nirvanix). Skills: Analytical Skills · Team Management · Product Management · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Storage Virtualization · Case Studies · User Stories · Attention to Detail · Data Quality · Metadata · Leadership · Data Architects · Market Analysis · Data Access · Program Management · Communication · Marketing

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    Synteryx, Inc.

    • Co-founder, Head of Product & Services

      Jan 2010 - Jun 2016 · 6 yrs 6 mos·San Francisco Bay Area

      Fintech software & services startup. > Specializing in Settle + Reconcile, Matching, Multi-currency Payouts, Payout timing, Mobile payments, mobile deposits, international money transfer, Multi-vendor cross-border transactions. Multi-vendor API integration. - Customers/Partnerships: AirBnB, WellsFargo, JPMChase, Bank of West, BNP Paribas, ReconArt, Fiserv, BlackLine Skills: Analytical Skills · Team Management · Product Management · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Storage Virtualization · Case Studies · User Stories · Attention to Detail · Data Quality · Metadata · Leadership · Data Architects · Market Analysis · Data Access · Program Management · Communication · Marketing

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    Riverbed Technology, Inc.

    • Product Mgmt & Strategy, Cloud, Data and Enterprise Apps

      Oct 2006 - Apr 2011 · 4 yrs 7 mos·San Francisco Bay Area

      Product Management/Owner for Data, Storage and Cloud app business. Hands-on deep Product operational ownership for new products and new business growth. Specializing in application enterprise application data workflows, data virtualization, Scale out data workflow, Acceleration & Optimization of application data, Cloud compute, Cloud storage data and Cloud Applications. Reporting directly to VP/GM of New Products. - 1st non-eng PM hire into Data & Storage business. Working directly with Founder - Drive expansion into net-new adjacent markets & scale new product revenues. - Founding member of Cloud business pivot (Whitewater, Granite, Atlas (Corsica) products - (In parallel) PM Product Owner of all Application data & storage products and multiple follow-on products & features in our core $B/business - Riverbed Steelhead platform - Drive early PM strategy for new product ideas, designs, concepts. Drive & close exec buy-in + funding of multiple new product concepts - Drive PM customer MVP Data Science experiments & business experiments - Drive MRD/PRD, Product Design Specs. Run MVP, Alpha, Beta, Launch, Ramp programs - Deliver 100's of early reference-able customer wins to drive early product momentum - Develop cloud SP partner relationships establishing growth/product route-to-market - PM owner of new product launches, developed launch collateral, sales tools, partner tools, pricing models, ordering & SKU models, Pre-launch product training, TOI's, Sales training Skills: Analytical Skills · Team Management · Product Management · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Storage Virtualization · Case Studies · User Stories · Attention to Detail · Data Quality · Metadata · Leadership · Data Architects · Market Analysis · Data Access · Program Management · Communication · Marketing

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    Hitachi Vantara

    • Technical Director, Product Mgmt & Strategy -Enterprise Data warehouse systems

      Jan 2003 - Oct 2006 · 3 yrs 10 mos·New York City Metropolitan Area

      Technical Director, Product Mgmt, Prod Strategy. Focused on nurturing high-value strategic product application partner relationships with NYC Wall Street, FinTech & Credit Card processors. Driving CTO office PM leadership in our NYC Wall street markets and within our Global FinTech partners. Hands-on full-stack PM in areas of Distributed cloud data stores, Distributed data architectures and Infra. Distributed scale-out compute. Specialized in FinTech appl architecture for IB, Retail & Credit Card transactions, Treasury & OTC Trading for: NYSE, NASDAQ, JPMC, BankOne, Bank of America, CitiBank, MorganStanley, Bank of New York Mellon, WellsFargo, US Bancorp/U.S. Bank, PNC, State Street, Capital One, BlackRock, TD Bank, CreditSuisse, Goldman, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, UBS. Skills: Analytical Skills · Team Management · Product Management · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Storage Virtualization · Case Studies · User Stories · Attention to Detail · Data Quality · Metadata · Leadership · Data Architects · Market Analysis · Data Access · Program Management · Communication · Marketing

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    Venture Vouchers

    • Co-founder, Head of Products, Business Dev & Marketing

      Jan 2002 - Dec 2008 · 7 yrs·San Francisco Bay Area

      > Acquired by a #1 European travel group A Social e-Commerce marketplace focused on Travel Experiences. A pioneering social collective bargaining marketplace/platform servicing high volume tourism verticals. The platform connects global users to local suppliers/retailers and provides access to deep discounted time-limited localized experience deals that map onto the buyer’s vacation, travel & purchasing social graph. The platform provides analytics and rich beautiful BI experiences, that enable vendors to plan marketing campaigns, reach consumers & target communities. Customers monetize unique discounted services via a Mobile app QR code coupon. Skills: Analytical Skills · Team Management · Product Management · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Storage Virtualization · Case Studies · User Stories · Attention to Detail · Data Quality · Metadata · Leadership · Data Architects · Market Analysis · Data Access · Program Management · Communication · Marketing

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    Brocade Communications

    • Sr. Product Manager - Enterprise Data Apps / Data Fabric / Data Services

      Jan 2001 - Dec 2002 · 2 yrs·San Francisco Bay Area

      > Acquired by Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) for $5.9B Strategic Product ownership for software strategy. covering distributed data network fabric software, software applications and rich O/S services, API's, Distributed server-side core platforms services, and partner App/API/SDK integration. PM owner for software Product strategy, GTM, Growth & Partner services strategy. Drive Product road-map, Marketing road-map. Skills: Analytical Skills · Team Management · Product Management · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Storage Virtualization · Case Studies · User Stories · Attention to Detail · Data Quality · Metadata · Leadership · Data Architects · Market Analysis · Data Access · Program Management · Communication · Marketing

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    AT&T

    • Snr. Director Product - Enterprise Cloud Data Services

      Jan 2000 - Jan 2001 · 1 yr 1 mo·San Francisco Bay Area

      > USInternetworking (NASDAQ: USIX) acquired by AT&T for US$1B. Re-branded as AT&T Cloud Services. - USI was the first “software cloud" company, built to deliver Enterprise-grade Cloud SaaS, IaaS and PaaS. I was a pioneering founding member of the Enterprise Cloud Architecture & Product leadership teams, reporting to SVP Product Mgmt. Product Mgmt ownership for cloud data services, Enterprise Data security, Data availability and Data management for enterprise-grade Cloud applications. Product owner, architect and operations director for SaaS apps: ERP, CRM & Data Warehouse as a service. Early evangelizing PM of the Siebel CRM (Oracle) cloud AT&T offering, - AT&T Cloud's highest MRR SaaS Enterprise cloud application ever. Skills: Analytical Skills · Team Management · Product Management · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Storage Virtualization · Case Studies · User Stories · Attention to Detail · Data Quality · Metadata · Leadership · Data Architects · Market Analysis · Data Access · Program Management · Communication · Marketing

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    IBM · Full-time

    • Sr. Product Manager - Watson AI Data platform

      Jan 1997 - Dec 2000 · 4 yrs·San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

      ✧ I was a Product Mgr for secret IBM Watson AI/ML prototype project (which became IBM Watson X). Specializing in the PM definition of high performance Memory / data / Compute services for IBM DeepQA technology within the IBM Watson AI/ML platform. Driving the project's transition to opensource LINUX based Watson DeepQA ML and early cloud versions of the IBM DeepQA Watson M/L product. ✧ Pioneering member of early IBM Cloud Business with Product Mgmt ownership for Distributed scale-out HPC Compute, Data stores, Databases and Data Warehouse cloud services. Specific product expertise in scale-out Data Mgmt, distributed data applications and data pipelines. ✧ My commercial focus within IBM was on PM leadership with Wall street firms and massive scale-up / scale-out compute + data platforms of FinTech applications for Invest Banking, Credit Card services, Retail Banking, Treasury & OTC Trading app infrastructure, - Specializing in Data Analytics, Inferences and Predicative computations via large HPC systems. Skills: Analytical Skills · Team Management · Product Management · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Artificial Intelligence (AI) · Storage Virtualization · Case Studies · User Stories · Machine Learning · Attention to Detail · Data Quality · Metadata · Leadership · Data Architects · Market Analysis · Data Access · Program Management · Communication · Marketing

Education

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   UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)Executive Education program , Data Science & Statistics2017 - 2019

   Data8.1x : Data Science : Computational thinking, statistics, analytics / Python Data8.2x : Data Science : Inferential Thinking by Resampling & visualizations / Python Skills: Data Quality · Data Architects · Data Access · Communication · Market Analysis · Attention to Detail · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Analytical Skills · Case Studies · Metadata

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   Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyEntrepreneur & Exec programs, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology2016 - 2017

   MIT LaunchX Entrepreneur program MIT undergraduate Biochemistry, Molecular biology, and Genetics MITx: 7.00x Introduction to Biology - The Secret of Life MITx: 7.28.1x Molecular Biology: DNA Replication and Repair MITx: 7.28.2x Molecular Biology: Transcription and Transposition MITx: 7.28.3x Molecular Biology: RNA Processing and Translation MITx: 20.305x Principles of Synthetic Biology Skills: Data Quality · Data Architects · Data Access · Communication · Market Analysis · Attention to Detail · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Analytical Skills · Case Studies · Metadata

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   Udemy onlineProduct Mgmt for Data Science & AI/ML, Computer ScienceJan 2016 - Sep 2022

   - Agile Product Mgmt ** CERT: https://www.udemy.com/certificate/UC-929cf406-693c-4423-bfa3-ea2e129515a1/ - Product Mgmt for AI/ML & Data Science ** CERT: UC-48791432-753a-40f0-a5e6-defe7ca81602 - Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp ** CERT: UC-5e1aa871-56bb-4528-a474-2c3484941eaf - Data Science A-Z : Real-Life Data Science ** CERT: UC-91e3f63e-bc59-4b43-b082-4e8310a03004 - Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp with R - Statistics for Data Science and Business Analysis Skills: Data Quality · Data Architects · Data Access · Communication · Market Analysis · Attention to Detail · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Analytical Skills · Case Studies · Metadata

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   Massey UniversityBachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Management Information Systems1989 - 1991

   Grade: : Partially complete. Activities and societies: San Francisco Silicon Valley Alumni Partially complete Skills: Data Quality · Data Architects · Data Access · Communication · Market Analysis · Attention to Detail · Data Lineage · Problem Solving · Analytical Skills · Case Studies · Metadata

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