Experience

Lynx Software Technologies

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  LYNX MOSA.ic for Industrial is a software development and integration framework for building robust connected industrial solutions at the mission critical edge. The technical marketing effort includes solution design, proof of concepts, development of collateral, delivery of technical presentation, handling of customers relationship and deep collaboration with engineering and product management. LYNX MOSA.ic for Industrial is a software development and integration framework for building robust connected industrial solutions at the mission critical edge. The technical marketing effort includes solution design, proof of concepts, development of collateral, delivery of technical presentation, handling of customers relationship and deep collaboration with engineering and product management.



Nebbiolo Technologies, Inc

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Jul 2018 - Jan 2021

  Nebbiolo Technologies provides an Industrial IoT platform, to deploy advanced analytics and consolidate workload on the same computing infrastructure, from the distributed edge to the cloud. Being embedded in the development team, I represent the technical bridge to partners and customers. My position requires providing feedback about product features, evaluate product performances, design solutions with customers and partners, introduce and drive new requirements, contribute to the marketing messaging, curriculum design. My focus within the Nebbiolo platform address the full edge platform: data collection, transformation and load (Time Series Data Base), Complex Event Processing and analytics, and workload consolidation, from physical to virtual, and edge native applications. Show less



Pluribus Networks

• United States
• Computer Networking Products
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Marketing

  • Aug 2015 - 2018

  Technical Product Manager & Technical Marketing (Network Monitor and Analytics): - Identification of requirements for the collection, processing, customization and visualization of a new class of fabric-based flow analytics, integration with third parties (such as VMware vCenter, Microsoft O365, Aruba Clearpass, Nutanix Acropolis). Analytics application based on ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana). Evaluation and integration of partners’ tools (nProbe, Skedler Alert) - Deep collaboration with engineering from the first concept to release 3.0, including support to release management, QA, usability and customization. Use case driven PoC with customers; customer and partners technical education Show less



Cisco

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Product Management

  • Dec 2009 - Aug 2015

  Product management experience SDN (Software Defined Networking) • Definition of the SDN use cases in the areas of Data Center, Enterprise, Service Provider, detailed analysis of scenarios with customers • Definition of requirements of the Cisco ONE Controller/eXtensible Network Controller • Agile PO (Product Owner) of the Cisco ONE Controller/XNC, backlog definition, prioritization and grooming • Coordination of the Concept Commit and Engineering Commit with partner internal organization to deliver joint customer PoC and EFT. Product management experience VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) • Definition of requirements (Product Requirements Document) and marketing of a new network service in the virtual desktop space • Tight interaction with Development Engineering, Pre-Sales and Eco-System partners to identify integration opportunities and synergies. • Solution design, technical documentation and presentations, design and delivery of technology demonstrations with partners Show less



Cisco Systems - formerly Andiamo Systems

• San Francisco Bay Area

• Technical Marketing

  • Aug 2001 - Sep 2011

  • Co-Chairman of the Storage Networking Industry Association - Hypervisor Storage Interface - Technical Working Group (SNIA HSI TWG) • Currently working with partners leading the definition and the marketing of solutions and joint developments in the areas of SAN architectures, security, virtualization, e.g.: o NPIV –Network Port Identifier Virtualization- demonstrated at VMworld 2007 o Trunking F-Port demonstrated at VMworld 2008 o VDI Storage Networking, posted on Cisco.com in 2009 o Long Distance vMotion demonstrated at VMworld 2009 • Active participant in the standardization activity for the next generation storage protocol T11.3-FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet). • Presenter at Cisco US Networkers 2007, 2008 on Data Center Virtualization and VSANs (Virtual Storage Area Network), SAN Security • Developer of technology and solution papers with primary partners including VMware, Emulex, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, NetApp, Sanbolic. • Designer of benchmarking testing of Storage Networking multi layer switches, and application tuning, to develop white papers (Oracle 8i with Benchmark Factory TPC-C , MS SQL Server with MSA OLTP Workload tool, MS Exchange with Loadsim and Jetstress, Spirent Smartbit) • Functional evaluation of Storage Networking multi layer switches: FC, SCSI and iSCSI protocols analysis, testing, optimization. • System Engineers training (developed and delivered several technical presentations and hands on labs –SE Virtual Team-), presenter at Cisco Networkers and SNIA Storage Networking World. • Trade shows demos: from 2004 to 2006 Cisco representative at the SNIA ‘Interoperability and Solution Lab’, coordinating a complex design across several partners and competitors. Show less



Cisco Systems

• San Francisco Bay Area

• Software Engineering

  • Dec 2000 - Aug 2001

  • Benchmarking of storage devices and SAN products • Selected in the initial team of about 30 people that in 2001 joint, from Cisco Systems, the newly created spin off Andiamo System • Extensive functional specification and design review across all MDS9000 fibre channel SAN switches, including layer two switching, SAN extension, iSCSI and storage virtualization (Veritas Network Volume Manager) • Definition and implementation of the first cut of the test strategy for the Andiamo storage networking products (MDS 9000, SAN-OS) Show less



Microsoft

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• QA Manager

  • Oct 1998 - Dec 2000

  • MSN.com front page: manager of the team in charge of designing and developing the postproduction test tools to validate the sites in production. The most successful tool was a multithreaded application, developed in Visual C++, to check the consistency and the correctness of the MSN.com home page replicated across a farm of forty servers. • MSNPartnership: manager of the team in charge of testing billing, CSR, remote provisioning. Integration with other MSN properties like HotMail, MSN.com, WebTV and Passport.com. The project never took off after the detailed architecture design: I focused on defining both the functional testing strategy and the integration testing methodology with the internal partners. • Microsoft Commercial Internet System 2.5: manager of the team in charge of BVT (Build Verification Testing) and set-up testing. The most of the tests were manual, but conducted daily with a tight deadline. • Attended several classes on C/C++, scripting, active web page design and MS applications like SQL Server. Show less



Italtel

• Italy
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Team Lead

  • Oct 1990 - Oct 1998

  • Technical Leader of the Protocol Testing Group, whose object was the integration of signalling protocols and data services, and the functional and interoperability testing design for the public narrowband and broadband switching systems • The role involved managing a team of expert engineers, the relationship with customers, partners and certification authorities. At the same time I was leading a team of test engineers to develop and execute thousands of automatic tests based on Siemens K1195/7 in FORTH Real Time Environment, Siemens ITS in “C” and other tools. • Led the in-the-field integration and test campaign for main releases of the major Switching System (ISDN (1990), CCSS#7 (1992), ATM(1993), DECT (Digital European Cordless Telephone – wireless telephony) (1995), VoIP and Computer-Telephony pilot project (project integration manager - 1997)). • Technical advisor on outsourcing of testing tools and software, liaison with testing partners and suppliers • Italtel delegate at ETSI TC/MTS (European Telecommunication Standard Institute, Technical Committee: Methods for Testing and Specification) • Evaluator for the European Community (now European Union) for the financing of Research Projects as special expert. Show less



Cselt - now Telecom Italia Labs

• Turin, Italy

• Researcher

  • Oct 1986 - Oct 1990

  • Involved in the design and implementation of large test suites for telecommunication protocols (ISDN, CCSS#7, X.25) and of testing tools. • In charge of the development of the test suites used by Telecom Italia to validate the L2/L3 protocols on the user/network interface of the ISDN exchanges deployed in Italy. The test suites were developed on the Siemens K1195 protocol tester. • Involved in European Community research project RACE/Specs (development with partners of computer aided testing methods). • Active participation to ETSI/TC MTS Technical Committee since the first meeting in 1989. Show less