CIO / CTO Estorian, Inc.
Greater Seattle Area
- Current
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- CIO / CTO at TeraCloud Corporation
- CIO / CTO at Estorian Inc.
- VP, Product Management and Product Marketing at Estorian and TeraCloud Corp
- Past
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- VP, Product Management & Engineering at TeraCloud Corporation
- Divisional Quality Manager at Computer Associates
- Senior Sales Engineer at Sterling Software
- Manager - Storage Administration at Nationwide Insurance
- Education
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- Corning Community College
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Dallas Stewart’s Summary
DIVERSIFIED EXECUTIVE
Product Marketing/Management ~ Engineering ~ Sales ~ Operations
Accomplished professional consistently recognized for achievement and performance in the computer industry. Innovative and successful in product management and understanding customer business pain. Diversified past developed unique teamwork approach in meeting company goals and deadlines. Tenured sales experience along with development of marketing themes, proper sizing of operations and reduction of budgets. Rapid movement through management recognized ability to focus on core objectives and meet company critical goals.
BUSINESS SKILLS
Marketing and Product Management
• Work with customers to understand needs and translate those needs to product requirements
• Developed and implemented two entire website content replacements (eg: www.estorian.com)
• Write content and develop marketing themes based on product value and benefits
Sales
• Responsible for entire product line book of business from lead generation to contract close.
• Created sales content for products including establishing systems used for the sales demonstrations
customized by marketing vertical.
• Work with partners to develop sales content, present and work through sales opportunities.
Operations
• Moved to newer technologies while trimming 20% from a $6 million operating budget.
• Removed technologies not in use, revamped current process and saved 50% office overhead.
• Constantly revised “the way we’ve always done it” into cost effective, more efficient processes.
Engineering
• Managed engineering team through 5 development cycles with each delivery hitting its projection.
• Translated marketing/product management specifications and worked alongside senior engineers to
transform requirements into functional product specifications.
• Led teams of both mainframe (z/OS) and distributed platforms congruently delivering cohesive solution
melding all platforms into a single interface.
Dallas Stewart’s Specialties:
Understanding customer pain and developing solutions to address it.
Enterprise Storage.
Website Content Development
Dallas Stewart’s Experience
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CIO / CTO
TeraCloud Corporation
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2005 — Present (4 years)
Lead the Technical Teams along a forward looking roadmap for storage management software and analytics. Control all aspects of idea to design to code development and delivery of an enterprise class set of software products that meet market demands for daily management of storage resources. Transform the business model of a well established company into newer and quicker delivery mechanisms to quickly address customer demands.
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CIO / CTO
Estorian Inc.
(Computer Software industry)
2002 — Present (6 years)
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VP, Product Management and Product Marketing
Estorian and TeraCloud Corp
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
2000 — Present (8 years)
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VP, Product Management & Engineering
TeraCloud Corporation
(Computer Software industry)
December 2003 — January 2005 (1 year 2 months)
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Divisional Quality Manager
Computer Associates
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
2000 — 2002 (2 years)
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Senior Sales Engineer
Sterling Software
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1995 — 2000 (5 years)
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Manager - Storage Administration
Nationwide Insurance
(Public Company; Computer Software industry)
1987 — 1995 (8 years)
Dallas Stewart’s Education
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Corning Community College
A.A.S., Computer Science, 1983 — 1985
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