Cynthia Gregory

Current

• Director, Information Governance at Network Appliance

Past

• Senior Program Manager at Sun Microsystems
• Principal Management Consultant at Alignent Software
• Director, Program Management Office at Sun Microsystems

• Director, Sigma Deployment Champion at Sun Microsystems
• Director, Wireless Business Development at Sun Microsystems
• Director, Program Management at Sun Microsystems
• Senior Engineering Manager at Sun Microsystems
• Seinor Program Manager at Apple Computer
• Program Manager at Bolt Beranek & Newman

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Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology

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Industry

Computer Software

Cynthia Gregory’s Summary

High integrity and experienced executive leads, and facilitates change among corporate executives and across corporation. Meets and exceeds internal and external client expectations, delivering on-time and within budget. Technical background and product development experience builds credibility with customers and engineering teams. Improve efficiency through application of process improvement techniques, from Six Sigma to CMM.

Cynthia Gregory’s Specialties:

Strategic Planning, Leadership, Business Operations, Program Management, Team Building, Product Lifecycle, Process Improvement,Technical Leadership, P&L Accountability

Cynthia Gregory’s Experience

• Director, Information Governance

  Network Appliance

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; NTAP; Computer Hardware industry)

  December 2006 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  Established the Information Governance (IG) program to create policies, procedures and systems to protect NetApp’s critical information assets. Influenced leadership to consider changes to protect NetApp assets while maintaining culture of sharing and openness. Led cross-functional teams to define, develop and approve policies based on ISO 27000. Facilitated working group to create and implement solution to protect company’s IP across international boundaries when out-sourcing and off-shoring. Deployed laptop encryption tools, information classification and labeling procedures. Defined and facilitated projects: unstructured data analysis; records management, retention and destruction. Launched corporate Business Ethics and Compliance training program. Developed and implemented compliance policies and procedures to improve information security practices.

• Senior Program Manager

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SunW; Computer Hardware industry)

  December 2005 — October 2006 (11 months)

  Influenced product teams to adopt a corporate initiative to ensure products “connected”, i.e., capable of two-way transmission of telemetry and registration data in order to create and sell additional value-added services to end-customers. Achieved 75% adoption rate among assigned product teams for fiscal year.

• Principal Management Consultant

  Alignent Software

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 2005 — December 2005 (7 months)

  Introduced and implemented pilot programs using Alignent’s software to improve the customer’s strategic planning and product roadmapping processes. Coached customers through pre-sales and pilot programs, training and product acceptance, process integration and implementation. Customers included major defense contractors, U.S. Navy (NAVAIR), Fortune 500 companies.

• Director, Program Management Office

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Software industry)

  June 2004 — May 2005 (1 year)

  Define, implement and maintain governance models for organization. Develop policy and process for business operation and engineering product development. Manage strategic planning sessions and output. Ensure compliance to process models; measure and manage processes. Responsible for hiring and building a team to facilitate, lead, and drive process efforts across 600+ person organization.

• Director, Sigma Deployment Champion

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; sunw; Computer Software industry)

  November 2003 — June 2004 (8 months)

  Responsible for the strategic deployment of Sun
  Sigma in OPG ensuring adoption at all levels. Through collaboration with OPG senior management team, determined project selection ensuring alignment with OPG product road map, OPG strategy, and other key goals and initiatives.
  
  Worked closely with OPG Master Black Belts and Lead Black Belts to build OPG's Sun Sigma community, and collaborated with Software Customer Advocacy team to ensure alignment with Customer Advocacy and other cross functional initiatives in Sun.

• Director, Wireless Business Development

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; sunw; Computer Software industry)

  October 2001 — November 2003 (2 years 2 months)

  * Won $50M in strategic, leading-edge architecture implementations (e.g, MMS, provisioning). Forged cross-functional teams to build innovative wireless solutions to solve customer's business problems. Results positioned Sun as a thought-leader in end-to-end mobility solutions.
  * Influenced relationships and fostered communications between BD team and field sales teams, increasing the number of strategic deals in the pipeline.
  * Improved collaboration between Sun's wireless centers in Asia, Europe and the U.S. Teams shared solutions, created staff-rotation schedules that increased knowledge of solutions and partners across teams, and expanded customer and partner wins.
  * Managed and shepherded teams through difficult transitions: rapid growth to downsizing; organizational and management changes. Coached high performers and guided them to new challenges; mentored difficult employees, inspiring some to improve and others to make choices that would benefit them and the company.

• Director, Program Management

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; sunw; Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 11 months)

  * Directed cross-functional, cross-divisional negotiation teams for proposals and contracts from $50M to $300M+ for Service Providers, Network Equipment Providers, and tele-communications firms. Closed $350M in contracts within twelve-month period.
  *Represented Sun to customer, and customer to Sun. Leaveraged organizational networks to ensure that contract obligations were met by Sun divisions.
  *Established team and process to drive proposal efforts. Defined requirements for complex software systems; obtained cross-divisional and cross-geo alignment, co-operation, collaboration, and commitments; determined and defended cost and schedule estimates; led business owners and teams to contract closure through execution.
  *Created and implemented program for Sun's first Women's Leadership Conference 400 Sun women attended from around the world. Solicited industry executives to speak, arranged seminars and conference schedule. Received Sun Women's Leadership Committee & Conference Award.

• Senior Engineering Manager

  Sun Microsystems

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; sunw; Computer Software industry)

  August 1996 — January 2000 (3 years 6 months)

  *Led 20+ engineering team through software development cycles to product release for Sun's network management software system and Sun's mail server.
  *Implemented software development practices for 100-person department using the SEI's CMM. Identified metrics to manage software quality and customer satisfaction. Contributed examples of implemented solutions to inter-departmental team to facilitate development of similar processes and metrics throughout Software Division.
  *Created "tiger-team" of 6 engineers to work with high-profile customers and rapidly develop features in parallel with the messaging server product release cycle. Estimated, scoped and planned feature requests directly from customers, and analyzed ROI to determine selection and priority of features to be implemented.
  *Mentored, challenged, encouraged and guided employees through fast-paced, high-pressure, high-tech careers. Developed career plans and training programs to motivate employees and build skill sets.

• Seinor Program Manager

  Apple Computer

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; aapl; Computer Software industry)

  April 1995 — August 1996 (1 year 5 months)

  APPLE COMPUTER, CUPERTINO, CA 1995-1996
  PROGRAM MANAGER
  Initiated implementation of a $6M communications infrastructure project for future generation PowerBooks. Infrastructure would provide a seamless integration strategy for a variety of communications technologies, from voice over wireless to multimedia teleconferencing. Plan leveraged both emerging Apple technologies and third-party developers.

• Program Manager

  Bolt Beranek & Newman

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; BBN; Computer Software industry)

  January 1985 — March 1995 (10 years 3 months)

  BOLT BERANEK AND NEWMAN, INC., COLUMBIA, MD 1990-1995 PROGRAM MANAGER
  Delivered $4M software development effort under a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to create the first key, privilege and certificate management system used by Department of Defense. Received NSA Award for Completion of Fortezza Security Management Infrastructure.
  
  Directed a 70+ person team to deliver an $11M software development effort under a firm-fixed price contract for a network management system for the U.S. Army's mobile cellular network. Completed project ahead of schedule and under budget, securing a discretional $275,000 incentive award from the prime contractor. Received the BBN Performance Excellence Award.

Cynthia Gregory’s Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  BS, Information & Computer Science, September 1977 — June 1982

  Addtional training:
  Six Sigma: DMAIC, DMADV, Facilitation Skills, Change Acceptance/Acceleration Process

Additional Information

Cynthia Gregory’s Interests:

Running, Skiing, Mountain biking. Travel, Reading. Cooking. Ancient Roman History. Matisse. Constitutional law. Wine.

Cynthia Gregory’s Groups:

Chair, South Valley YMCA Board of Managers, San Jose. Chair, Financial Development Committee. Member, Board Development Committee. Member, Triangle Campaign.

•    SUNAlumni member
•    Executive Suite member

Cynthia Gregory’s Honors:

Association of Fundraising Professionals Honoree, 2007
Sun Women's Leadership Committee & Conference Acknowledgment, 2000
NSA Award for Completion of Fortezza Security Management Infrastructure, 1995
BBN Performance Excellence Award, 1992

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