Biography

Biography

Thank you for visiting my blog site. Here’s a summary of my background and work experience in case you’d like to know more about me.

I consider myself an experienced product management and marketing executive who is strategic and creative, has a very strong technical background, and excellent communication skills. Using these skills and my analytical thinking, I have been able to help many companies that I have worked for or consulted in growing their business and succeed in their market segments.

I have a diverse range of experience with Cloud computing, enterprise SaaS, Big Data predicative analytics, agile software development methodology, virtualization/NFV, UI/UX development, advertisement & monetization, network routing & switching, IP security, video compression and storage.

Here’s a summary of my achievements:

  • I have more than 20 years of experience developing product business cases that capitalize on market opportunities, generating revenue growth in service provider (telecom, Cable, Satellite), media/content publishing, government, and enterprise market segments.
  • As an executive, I have been the company spokesperson with very strong analytical and technical communication skills.
  • I have been able to consistently create and present a clear vision and strategy for the companies I have worked for or consulted with.
  • I am very good with VCs and investor presentations and have been the key presenter to the investors during fund raising events, as well as to analysts and reporters during product launches. I have created and presented to C-level customer executives during company product and strategy presentations more times that I can remember.
  • I am particularly good at creating product definitions, pricing, licensing structure and with the marketing of multi-functional software and hardware technologies. Through years, my products have generated millions of dollars in revenues during their life cycle.
  • I am proud of being instrumental in the design and product definition of the first multi-functional consumer home gateway, one of the world’s largest distributed parallel processing systems, first fully reliable IP based financial transaction delivery system, first carrier class video processing and compression product, first SaaS based Internet ad-insertion solution, and first cloud based video analysis software defined networking (V-SDN) solution.

I have an electrical engineering degree from San Jose State University with emphasis on Data Communications and started my carrier as an engineer, moved to sales engineering, solutions and technical marketing, and eventually found my passion in product management and marketing and have been responsible for definition and product management of more than 10 products that have generated millions in revenues for companies I worked for.

I am married with two children who are both in college. I enjoy biking, particularly mountain biking, as well as hiking and snow skiing.

I hope you find the information on this site both useful and interesting, and if you do, please do send me an email.