• Responsible for emerging technology research and strategic vendor management • Established an Advanced Technology Lab focused on benchmarking, performance engineering, and emerging technology research to support our R&D divisions RightOrder Director, Technical Services December 2000 - August 2001 (9 months) San Francisco Bay Area Responsible for Professional Services, Customer Support and Account Management. The technology was a Solaris/Linux, BEA Weblogic based infrastructure that provided advanced XML data management capabilities. Created budgets, business plans, processes and procedures. Implemented support infrastructure, including CRM application. Analyzed latest trends in database technology, including XML data storage. • Created budgets, business plans, processes and procedures • Implemented support infrastructure, including CRM application • Analyzed latest trends in database technology, including XML data storage BroadWord Director, Professional Services April 2000 - October 2000 (7 months) San Francisco Bay Area Built a team to execute technical IT projects for our ASP customers as an early member of a start up company. These projects were focused on messaging applications including e-mail, calendar and LDAP compliant directory services, and included network and VPN architecture, DNS configuration, application integration, data migration and change management. • Created budgets, business plans, processes and procedures • Wrote customer proposals and marketing materials • Lead team that developed extranet web site • Contributed to design, implementation and operation of a high availability data center • Participated in both investor and customer presentations Cadence Design Systems Sr. Manager, Enterprise Applications June 1995 - March 2000 (4 years 10 months) Page 3 of 6