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MICHAEL YIP
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SENIOR DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING October 2011-Present
JUNIPER NETWORKS – VIRTUAL CLOUD COMPUTING Westford, MA
Juniper Networks is a global leader in Enterprise and Carrier Class Network Routing and
Switching equipment including Virtual Cloud Computing.
• Develops product strategy, distributed Linux and KVM server architecture, solutions,
partnerships, staffing and budget plans for PaaS, IaaS, SaaS, and Private Cloud. Conducts
competitive and pricing analysis and positioning.
• Leads, mentors and manages a global team. Develops and retains talents.
• Collaborates with extended cross functional teams to build and maintain the first Virtual Public
Cloud Computing platform and infrastructure.
• Manages data center, projects, schedules, budgets and releases. Drives quality improvement.
• Delivers presentations and trainings to customers, support and cross functional teams.
• Develops processes, requirements management, operating metrics, Standard Operating
Procedures and reports.
CONSULTANT October 2008-October 2011
EMC Hopkinton, MA
EMC is the largest producer of global storage products, storage management and storage solutions
company for Virtual Computing Environment and Data Center.
• Directed organizations and global product development business units on product strategy,
product positioning, and engineering best practices for Microsoft, Linux, and embedded
platforms to increase quality, predictability, consistency, and scalability; reduced development
cost and increased employee satisfaction.
• Reduced development costs by 40%. Led Product Managers and teams on product
positioning, strategic roadmap development, synthesize, prioritize and manage requirements.
• Increased quality by reducing deferred defects by 60%. Oversaw global product
development, electronic licensing and IT organizations to drive improvement on source control
management, release management, implement Test Driven Development, iterative development
and pair programming best practices.
• Increased code reuse and maintainability and reduced build time. Mentored development
teams to embrace open source and implement open data and information and continuous code
refactoring.
• Reduced non-value add activities, increased collaboration, and increased continuous
improvements and transparency through standard KPIs and charts. Led enterprise business
process improvement initiatives on Reseller, Agile in Regatta NPI/D, OEM, Content
Management, Global Services, Product Licensing, Revenue Recognition and Knowledge
Transfer.
MANAGING DIRECTOR November 2007-September 2008
ATHENAWARE, LLC Wellesley, MA
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Athenaware is a private company focused on helping companies develop solutions to solve business
problems in operations, project management, product management, product development and
M&A.
• Developed product roadmap, strategy, positioning, pricing and licensing models based
on competition, usage, partnership and professional services.
• Worked with Sales team and Account Managers to respond to RFP, RFI and generated
SOW. Conducted competitive, SWOT and pricing analysis.
• Managed customers, vendors, partners, milestones, changed requests, risks, scope and
budgets.
• Led and drove all software development. Planned and managed releases. Developed
scalable internal IT and hosted SaaS environment to support development, staging for
product integration, testing, product evaluation, demo and production.
• Managed, built, replaced, hired and retained application developers, systems and test
engineers, IT and support talents resulted in increased employee satisfaction.
DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING, STRATEGY & OPERATIONS March 1999-November 2007
ALCATEL-LUCENT Westford, MA
Alcatel-Lucent is a global solutions provider with the most wireless, wireline, converged products,
applications and the largest services and support team in the industry. Began working with Astral
Point Communication as a startup in 1999. Astral Point was acquired by Alcatel in 2002.
• Conducted M&A, OEM and partnerships due diligence. Assessed talents, processes and
product portfolios. Made recommendations and drove integration. Eliminated over $10M in
inventory and operating expenses.
• Worked with customers and executives to develop end-to-end product vision, roadmap,
strategies, and manage expectations. Assisted in SWOT analysis, SOW, RFP, RFI, pricing
analysis, ROI for products and features.
• Provided technical leadership across project teams. Managed and resolved conflicts in
organizations, projects and cross-functional teams. Eliminated silos and created redundancy.
• Grew and managed over 200 global talents and sustained attrition to less than 1%.
Recruited, replaced, reviewed, trained, mentored and coached staff to meet business strategies
and objectives. Oversaw succession planning in career development and increased job
satisfaction.
• Reduced over $10 million in costs and operating expenses.Consolidated and eliminated
troubled products and projects
• Managed customers, vendors, partners, milestones, changed requests, risks, scope and
budgets. Reported to customers and Executive Team on deviations, budgets, testing and
deployment.
• Established governance, business processes, software and hardware engineering processes
and best practices.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
MASTER OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SYSTEMS ENGINEERING June 1989
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY Boston, MA
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE June 1986
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Columbus, OH
CERTIFIED SCRUMMASTER CERTIFIED SCRUM PROFESSIONAL
CERTIFIED SCRUM PRODUCT OWNER LEAN SIX SIGMA BLACK BELT
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