
Product Manager, NetBackup RealTime at Symantec
San Francisco Bay Area

Product Manager, NetBackup RealTime at Symantec
San Francisco Bay Area
Worked in NetBackup engineering at Veritas after getting a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Minnesota. Went back to business school for an MBA and moved in to Product Management at Symantec. I'm generally interested in new technologies and emerging markets especially with software.
Relationship and partner management with customers, sales and partners. Web technology and design. Storage hardware, software, and data protection. International go to market, branding, competitive analysis, product management, marketing and product strategy.
(Internet industry)
May 2009 — Present (3 months)
Co-founded Bespoke Web Apps that designs and creates online presences for other companies. Includes things such as websites, e-commerce solutions, games, information management and other custom built web apps.
(Public Company; SYMC; Computer Software industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Spent the first year doing go-to-market strategy for Veritas Backup Reporter and NetBackup for Windows. This included things like pipeline management, sales training, positioning and marketing. In April 2009 I became the product planner for NetBackup RealTime and now have responsibility for all feature content and go-to-market strategy for that product.
(Broadcast Media industry)
January 2005 — February 2009 (4 years 2 months)
Founded and co-host a 2-hour radio program that is broadcast weekly in Minneapolis on 770AM, 106.5FM or 100.7FM and all over the world at RadioK.org.
(Public Company; SYMC; Computer Software industry)
June 2004 — October 2007 (3 years 5 months)
Responsible for the hardware relationship between NetBackup and IBM, Quantum/ADIC, Qlogic, FalconStor, and NEC.
Led the planning for NetBackup 6.5 SharedDisk testing.
Coordinated platform proliferation of new OS's for hardware.
Maintained SCSI code for ensuring compatibility between the device management in NetBackup and new products.
Product managed a web application used for collecting and reporting on known working hardware/software combinations used to generate compatibility lists.
(Educational Institution; Design industry)
September 2002 — May 2005 (2 years 9 months)
Led a team of designers and developers to manage the website radiok.org.
Wrote PHP / mySQL CMDB system to manage the stations CD/vinyl collection which involved migrating a Filemaker database to the new system.
MBA , 2007 — 2009
Bachelors , Computer Engineering , 2001 — 2005
product management, software, design, technology, running, photography, cooking, BMW's
Eagle Scout, 1996
Outstanding Citizen Award - Brookfield, WI, 1996
Symantec MVP, September 2005 Quarter
Symantec MVP (Golden Tape), March 2008 Quarter