Sun MicrosystemsProgram Manager
Nov. 2000 - Oct. 2003Menlo Park, California, United States• Managed projects and the correlating teams tasked to develop and implement new software.
• Initially acquired resources for all major projects, i.e. all personnel, engineering
specifications and marketing specifications.
• Managed the team responsible for strategic analysis of processes and built
relationships with the customer base, which in turn , increased customer retention.
• Managed the team responsible for developing internal and external training for major product releases.
• Created the Beta/Early Access process for the product line to ensure that the voice of the customer was represented in the product development phase.
• Assembled team and processes around escalation handling, patch creation
and distribution, bug fixing and integration.
• Implemented and staffed a release engineering scheme for patches successfully worked with the central Release Engineering group to integrate
the patch build process into their standard framework to afford Sun the
opportunity to quickly resolve customer issues.
• Built escalation handling processes and worked with the other escalation managers to build processes and standardize metrics.