Executive Engineering & Product Strategy Leader in SaaS and Collaboration Hardware
Austin, TXHead of Poly and HP Peripherals Engineering21 years experienceExecutiveTechnologySaaSCloud Computing
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Operations/engineering leader from Poly who optimized a professional headset portfolio by aggressively prioritizing technical debt and consolidating HW/SW platforms (down to 2 each), accelerating time-to-market by ~6 months and enabling 3–6 month variant cycles. Also drove AI-enabled quality improvements by leveraging JIRA bug data to automate test case creation and expand coverage, while aligning engineering and product management around MVO delivery.
Experience
Head of Poly and HP Peripherals EngineeringHewlett Packard
Senior Vice President & General Manager, IP Phones and Professional Headset BusinessPoly
Senior Director, Product Management Endpoints and SMB / Mid-Market Call Control InfrastructureCisco Systems
Director and Portfolio Manager, IP EndpointsNortel Networks
Director, Wireless Market DevelopmentAT&T
Education
University of Southwestern Louisianabachelor, Computer Science and Mathematics
Key Strengths
Reduced hardware platforms to 2 and software platforms to 2 to accelerate delivery
Brought new headset technologies to market ~6 months earlier via architecture/tech-debt work
Enabled product variants delivery in ~3–6 months from conception to delivery
Improved product quality through increased automated test coverage
Balanced near-term MVO delivery with longer-term architectural efficiency investments
Operational diagnosis across full product lifecycle and focus on differentiated work (automation/outsourcing/partnerships)
Mentors leaders via structured questioning, scenario testing ('what-if' changes), and process resilience checks
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