Acquisition Integration, successfully integrating five acquired IT security companies, leading teams from the business justification and recommendation stage to purchase and final integration, including people, products, processes, project management, and go-to-market strategies. Reputation for being highly organized and well networked.

   • Responsible for a dozen multi-million dollar deals, including generating $4M in revenue within the first year, more than paying for the most recent acquisition.
   • Best practices expert for organizing and conducting both executive steering committee meetings as well as customer advisory councils to provide truly customer-driven solutions.

EDUCATION
   • MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University
   • BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brigham Young University, Cum Laude

CERTIFICATIONS
   • CISSP, CISA, CISM, Novell CNE
   • Board of Directors, ISSA
   • Eagle Scout, Wood Badge Trained

EXPERIENCE

Group Product Manager, McAfee, Inc., 2006 - Present
   • Delivered McAfee’s first policy auditor product, regarded as the poster child for ePO integration by company executives, putting McAfee on Gartner’s IT GRC map.
   • Became the resident expert in conducting effective competitive intelligence, ensuring McAfee to beat the competition in an antivirus arms race.

Senior Product Manager, Symantec Corporation, 2001 - 2005
   • Managed the product team for all security policy content, introducing application, database, Web server, and firewall checks, while supporting 50+ operating system platforms, contributing to a sustained double-digit annual growth rate over seven years.
   • Delivered a near flawless six year track record of shipping on-time quarterly security content via LiveUpdate as well as bi-weekly patch content.

Technical Product Manager, AXENT Technologies, 1998 - 2001
   • Managed from cradle to grave our network and host-based vulnerability scanners, filling gaps in the product portfolio and generating $3M revenue annually.
   • Frequent presenter at vender and security conferences, trade shows, and universities.

VP of Engineering, CallWare Technologies, Inc., 1994 - 1998
   • Rapidly promoted from Senior Software Engineer, to Development Team Leader, to Director of Development, then to VP of Engineering where I built and managed a team of 17 software development engineers.
   • Broke new ground by seamlessly integrating networked computers (NetWare and Windows) with PBX telephone systems while developing the industry’s first Windows-based client to display and manage voicemail messages similar to email (now called unified messaging).

Development Manager / Engineer, Novell, Inc., 1992 - 1994
   • Managed a development team of six software engineers for the Netware operating system.
   • Developed Novell’s upgrade and migration products as well as core NetWare utilities for NetWare 4.x using C/C++.

Real-Time Graphics Team Leader, U.S. Air Force, 1989 - 1992
   • Commissioned Air Force officer (Captain), with a secret security clearance, honorable discharge.
   • Supervised eight engineers and directed all graphics programming while programming in C, FORTRAN and Ada on UNIX workstations to support real-time flight simulations.

Mathematics Tutor, Brigham Young University, 1986 - 1989
   • Tutored college students daily in algebra through 2nd year calculus at the BYU Math Lab, as well as electrical engineering labs and the C programming language as a Teacher’s Assistant.
   • Independently tutored individual students as well as large groups, with repeat customers year over year.