Experience

TINT (tintup.com)

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO

  • Aug 2018 - Present

  San Antonio, Texas Area TINT is an award-winning UGC marketing technology that answers a global problem. 92% of consumers trust recommendations from peers, or even someone they don’t know, over brand content. Marketers are in a constant struggle to effectively reach and communicate with their audiences. For over 5000+ brands, TINT is the answer. TINT is a powerful technology that collects content from any channel, allows users to curate the interesting bits, own it and publish across any digital… Show more TINT is an award-winning UGC marketing technology that answers a global problem. 92% of consumers trust recommendations from peers, or even someone they don’t know, over brand content. Marketers are in a constant struggle to effectively reach and communicate with their audiences. For over 5000+ brands, TINT is the answer. TINT is a powerful technology that collects content from any channel, allows users to curate the interesting bits, own it and publish across any digital assets, anywhere. TINT clients include LinkedIn, Adidas, TIME Inc, Marriott Group, Tiffany & Co, iHeartMedia, The Royal Academy, Siemens, SapientRazorfish, Oculus, IBM, BENCH, Coca-Cola European Partners, HTC, Oreo, Alibaba, PAX, AIG, Leo Burnett, SuperDry, Nespresso, AKQA, Amazon, PWC, Heineken, Volvic, SAP, FIFA, United Nations, Toyota, Krispy Kreme, JWT, Orange, GAP, ACCOR, Versace, Bose, Aston Martin, Y&R, Samsung, The RFU, Nescafe, Ferrari, M&CSaatchi, 3M, Molson Coors, Travelocity, IMF, CNN, Heinz, Olympus, CapitalOne, Ogilvy, Volkswagen, Dior, Telefonica, NASDAQ, Bacardi, DDB, Ducati, Allianz, ING, Harley Davidson, Microsoft, Audi, Publicis, Intel, BBDO, Global Outdoor, European Commission and Google. Our users deploy TINT to accelerate engagement; uses include but are not limited to; - Social media hubs - Social Out of Home (SOOH) - Social editorial - In-store UGC advertising - Employee advocacy - Enterprise communications - UGC Content Rights (GDPR) - Mobile Apps - E-commerce pages (social commerce) - Ad units - Social call-to-actions - #Hashtag contests - Live social streaming - Competitions - Trade show displays - Facebook Apps - Office displays TINT delivers automatic amplification; it breeds transparency, integrity and trust with your audience Show less



Filestack

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO

  • Aug 2017 - Dec 2021

  San Antonio, Texas Area Filestack was acquired by Idera, Inc in December 2021. Filestack is creating a platform for getting and using content on the internet. We are the content experts! Filestack offers the premium file handling service for developers - powerful API that enable you to upload and execute complex workflows for files - documents, images, audio and video. Filestack delivers the #1 file uploader for your web and native mobile applications, for any content, from any… Show more Filestack was acquired by Idera, Inc in December 2021. Filestack is creating a platform for getting and using content on the internet. We are the content experts! Filestack offers the premium file handling service for developers - powerful API that enable you to upload and execute complex workflows for files - documents, images, audio and video. Filestack delivers the #1 file uploader for your web and native mobile applications, for any content, from any device, over any network. The uploader intelligently detects network conditions around the device used for uploading the content and smartly adapts the algorithms to guarantee the transfer of large files over unreliable mobile and wifi connections. Filestack Workflows allows developers to create complex content processing task maps with a few clicks. Ensuring that the content is safe for work, virus and malware free, and then transforming the content to meet your applications needs - is all done with just a few clicks and a single line of code. Show less



Unitrends

• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Vice President, Product Management

  • 2015 - Jun 2017

  Columbia, South Carolina Area • Responsible for strategy and vision for the backup appliances, cloud and service provider offerings at Unitrends – businesses encompassing majority of the revenue for Unitrends. • Helped drive cloud bookings growth by 250% in 2015. • Was key contributor to close the largest deal in Unitrends’ history. • Create a pricing strategy that drives top line bookings, increases recurring revenue and margins for both Unitrends and Unitrends partner ecosystem. … Show more • Responsible for strategy and vision for the backup appliances, cloud and service provider offerings at Unitrends – businesses encompassing majority of the revenue for Unitrends. • Helped drive cloud bookings growth by 250% in 2015. • Was key contributor to close the largest deal in Unitrends’ history. • Create a pricing strategy that drives top line bookings, increases recurring revenue and margins for both Unitrends and Unitrends partner ecosystem. • Translating the vision into a marketing and product roadmap and then passionately driving cross-functional interlock between product engineering, support, sales engineering, sales, marketing, G&A and legal. • Leading the effort to drive competitive analysis and benchmarking and then creating the collateral to enable sales to set the table in every deal and drive higher win rates.

• Vice President, Engineering

  • 2014 - 2015

  Columbia, South Carolina Area Responsible for the Unitrends Enterprise Backup and Unitrends Virtual Backup product lines. • Tasked to scale the development organization and product and consolidate portfolio products to maximize efficiency and productivity • Partnered with strategic offshore vendor in India, through contract negotiations, and scaled the development organization by 38 developers in 6 months • Drove the consolidation of overlapping products by creating sustenance teams, headcount adjustments and… Show more Responsible for the Unitrends Enterprise Backup and Unitrends Virtual Backup product lines. • Tasked to scale the development organization and product and consolidate portfolio products to maximize efficiency and productivity • Partnered with strategic offshore vendor in India, through contract negotiations, and scaled the development organization by 38 developers in 6 months • Drove the consolidation of overlapping products by creating sustenance teams, headcount adjustments and streamlining product delivery. R&D budget savings of 15%. • Lead the understanding of emerging technologies like containers (Docker) and their impact to data protection and cloud infrastructure • Lead the teams to build a world class user interface using HMTL5, CSS3, and AngularJS leveraging a RESTful API with the goal of bringing simplicity to the enterprise product. • Managed the teams to deliver to increased scalability on the backup appliances by revamping deduplication technology, building out a purpose-built memory-resident deduplication metadata structure that allows the appliance to protect hundreds of terabytes of structured and unstructured data. • Continued to drive architectural changes in the product to improve scalability and robustness of the product with key focus areas of storage scalability, virtualization and disaster recovery optimizations in the cloud.

• Senior Director, Engineering, Architect

  • 2013 - 2014

  Columbia, South Carolina Area Primary responsibility was to lead core engineering teams to improve the scalability of the product • Drove key initiatives in the company to maximize backup, restore and replication performance : scaled product to achieve 300% faster backups, 10x better deduplication for VMware backups, near zero recovery time for Hyper-V and windows machines, doubled backup retention on the appliances with innovative deduplication and compression overlays • Key product changes in deduplication and… Show more Primary responsibility was to lead core engineering teams to improve the scalability of the product • Drove key initiatives in the company to maximize backup, restore and replication performance : scaled product to achieve 300% faster backups, 10x better deduplication for VMware backups, near zero recovery time for Hyper-V and windows machines, doubled backup retention on the appliances with innovative deduplication and compression overlays • Key product changes in deduplication and storage significantly benefiting multi-petabyte scale Unitrends cloud. • Drove integration between core Unitrends products and acquired technologies. • Designed and initiated architectural deep-dives for integrating on-premise data protection with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure and OpenStack clouds. • Championing the transformation of the engineering organization by adoption of agile (scrum) SDLC

• Director, Product Management

  • 2011 - 2013

  Columbia, South Carolina Area Responsible for the business line of integrated backup appliances and technical product management of the entire Unitrends product suite. Revenue and Profitability: ● As a leader of product management, key contributor for creating the strategy of the company to achieve 87% CAGR in 2012 and 67% CAGR in 2013 Competitive analysis: ● Subject matter expert in all aspects of competition - pricing, product and services. ● Created a detailed competitive dashboard with… Show more Responsible for the business line of integrated backup appliances and technical product management of the entire Unitrends product suite. Revenue and Profitability: ● As a leader of product management, key contributor for creating the strategy of the company to achieve 87% CAGR in 2012 and 67% CAGR in 2013 Competitive analysis: ● Subject matter expert in all aspects of competition - pricing, product and services. ● Created a detailed competitive dashboard with segmentation on deal value to understand precisely the win/loss on every closed deal and competitive influence on every active deal in the current pipeline. ● Created detailed competitive comparison web-pages that constituted over 30% of website visits. Products and Services: ● Responsible for developing a product roadmap by continually monitoring, analyzing and updating Unitrends’ perspectives on market in terms of buyer, customer and channel partner requirements and assessing competitive landscape. Drove requirements (PRDs) into engineering and successfully launched 5 major releases. Innovated and defined requirements for well received product features like Instant Recovery using failover virtualization, Hyper-V protection, replication which differentiated Unitrends from competition and drove year over year sales. ● Responsible for working with cross functional groups within the company that include Engineering, Marketing, Services and Manufacturing to ensure that the product solutions are successfully executed in accordance to the requirements. Trained Sales and Sales Engineering organizations on new product offerings and competitive positioning. M&A: ● Played a crucial role in the due diligence process which led to a successful growth equity investment by Insight Venture Partners into Unitrends.

• Director, Product Development

  • 2007 - 2011

  Columbia, South Carolina Area Led development, delivery and sustenance for the entire line of data protection products at Unitrends. ● Responsible for recruitment, acquisition and development of top talent in the Development organization. ● Define organization structure, objectives and metrics to align developer line of sight to corporate goals. ● Managed a multi-million dollar R&D budget. ● On-time and high quality delivery of flagship product features with a team of around 25 developers which fueled… Show more Led development, delivery and sustenance for the entire line of data protection products at Unitrends. ● Responsible for recruitment, acquisition and development of top talent in the Development organization. ● Define organization structure, objectives and metrics to align developer line of sight to corporate goals. ● Managed a multi-million dollar R&D budget. ● On-time and high quality delivery of flagship product features with a team of around 25 developers which fueled record revenue in 2010 and 2011. . Some of the features delivered were: ○ Adaptive Deduplication ○ BareMetal Restore (P2V/V2P) ○ Virtualization Protection for VMware using VADP ○ Windows Incremental Forever ● Responsible for the product to drive the cloud disaster recovery service, Vault2Cloud, which integrates the on-premise backup and archiving appliances with a multi-tenancy cloud-based architecture implemented via an SAS 70 Type II Tier 3 backend infrastructure. ● Platform development for physical and virtual appliances (VMware and Hyper-V) and tuning features to the capabilities of the platform through performance characterization (10GbE, FC, SAN,NAS) ● Improved Quality of the product by 75% consistently exceeding quality goals year over year. ● Adopted, adapted and incorporated iterative and incremental software development processes. ● Tracked and monitored release adoption by the customer base which help determine quality metrics for the release. ● Helped define a formal escalation process between Pre-Sales and Post-Sales into Development, thus optimizing the productivity of developers. ● Participate in technical deep dives, feature and design reviews to ensure that the product meets competitive and quality requirements. ● Manage offshore partnerships to augment the onsite development team.

• Manager, Software Development

  • 2005 - 2007

  Columbia, South Carolina Area ● Led a team of highly motivated software developers to design, architect, deliver and maintain product features. ● Reviewed Feature/Design/Unit test documents to ensure that functionality and quality requirements were being met. ● Released 4 major releases and multiple point and patch releases. ● Player/mentor role : maintain and enhance the SQL Server data protection agent, integrated support for AES-256 encryption on the backup appliance, implemented core functionality of backup /… Show more ● Led a team of highly motivated software developers to design, architect, deliver and maintain product features. ● Reviewed Feature/Design/Unit test documents to ensure that functionality and quality requirements were being met. ● Released 4 major releases and multiple point and patch releases. ● Player/mentor role : maintain and enhance the SQL Server data protection agent, integrated support for AES-256 encryption on the backup appliance, implemented core functionality of backup / restore job execution and facilitated transition of the interface from Motif based UI to a Flex based Web 2.0 user interface, helped design and architect the Netware Agent leveraging TSAFS, optimized the writes to the appliance storage based on performance characterization thereby reducing the backup window. ● Manage offshore development partnerships.

• Software Engineer

  • 2002 - 2005

  Columbia, South Carolina Area Led the software development of the following products: ● BareMetal data protection - is a flagship product of Unitrends. BareMetal is a technology designed to dramatically decrease the time and effort required to restore a computer to its original state in the event of a system failure. BareMetal protects not only the typical files and data of the user but also the operating system and applications. ○ Cold BareMetal – This product requires the protected system to be booted into a… Show more Led the software development of the following products: ● BareMetal data protection - is a flagship product of Unitrends. BareMetal is a technology designed to dramatically decrease the time and effort required to restore a computer to its original state in the event of a system failure. BareMetal protects not only the typical files and data of the user but also the operating system and applications. ○ Cold BareMetal – This product requires the protected system to be booted into a BareMetal boot media to perform the backup of any MBR based x86 operating system. Added support to boot from optical media and made significant ease of use enhancements to the product which executed under a minimal RAM disk operational environment ○ Windows Hot BareMetal - Designed, architected and developed the 1.0 version of the Windows Hot BareMetal data protection product. Required thorough understanding of the MBR, partition boot records, disk partition layouts, NTFS cluster bitmap, VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service). ● Windows agent protection Enhanced the agent to support the NTFS file system, specifically multiple NTFS file streams, compressed files, encrypted files and sparse files. ● Core Appliance software Unitrends backup appliances run a variant of the Linux operating system. Developed several features of the appliance code, including but not limited to backup job scheduling, reporting and performance optimization to reduce the backup window. ● Offsite Data Vaulting Developed v1.0 version of the Offsite Data Vaulting product, which sends the data block differences from an onsite appliance to an offsite appliance, which is then used for disaster recovery.



Seagate Technology

• United States
• Computer Hardware Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern

  • 2001 - 2001

  ● Worked on ‘Automated OS Installation’ project for Windows and Linux.