Monu Pradhan
******@*****.***
408-***-**** (C)
Goal
Challenging executive management position in product management
Companies
●Alation(startup), Anaplan, Bluebox (startup), NetApp, Evergrid (startup), Xsigo(startup acquired by Oracle), NetApp, Veritas, IBM, Oracle, HP
Summary
Passionate, result oriented product management and marketing professional with over 20+ years of experience building emerging and innovative product categories. Throughout my career, I have built a reputation for driving results while building high performance teams and launching new products. Experienced in the fields of Cloud computing, Blockchain, IoT, Fintech & OpenStack platform, software-defined storage, software-defined networking (SDN) and building managed private and virtual private clouds, storage and virtualization technologies
Experience
Alation Principal Product Manager (2022 - Present)
●Led Cloud infrastructure growth initiatives on AWS contributing to $165M in revenue
●Accelerated adoption of Alation SaaS software by creating new CNA architectures, ETL/ELT, Data Lineage for RDBMS, BI servers, QLI pipelines, data analytics, Snowflake and Databrick partner connect programs for data catalog and semantic search using GenAI
Anaplan Principal Product Manager (2019 - 2022)
●Led the Anaplan growth strategy on AWS & Google cloud to achieve $1Billion dollar targets
●Accelerated adoption of Anaplan SaaS software by creating new sales channels
Bluebox (Acquired by IBM) – Program Director - Product Management for Blockchain & IoT ( (2016 –2019)
● Launched Blockchain/IoT/Fintech product/developer strategy, developed use cases, code patterns, content and community
●Accelerated customer adoption of Blockchain by integrating with technologies like Watson AI, Analytics, Kubernetes and IoT to provide end to end solutions
ohttps://developer.ibm.com/blockchain
oTechnical Presentation on Blockchain
●Lead Product Manager for Bluemix Private Cloud Local (2016 – 2017)
●Successfully launched and GA’d BlueMix Private Cloud with Red Hat OpenStack, Openshift, Dockers/Containers and responsibilities included product definition, pricing, GTM, sales business case approvals and marketing collaterals, customer engagements and partnership with Red Hat
Oracle – Sr. Director of Cloud Infrastructure (2016)
●Accelerated development of cloud services and data protection in public, private, hybrid cloud and on-premise with apps, middleware, databases and Exadata
HP - Sr. Group product manager for HP Helion Openstack (2014 – 2016)
●Successfully launched HP’s Helion content depot product, HP Helion OpenStack, Swift project, Ceph storage
●Led partner alliances with VMWare Openstack, Intel, Symantec, Brocade,
●Led M&A decisions for HP hellion with Cleversafe, Panzura, Ctera and other startups
NetApp – Sr. Manager V-Series Storage Virtualization (2007-2014)
●Grew V-series business from $30M to $270M in 4 years, grew S5000 accounts
●Developed strategies for increased V-series adoption in VMware, Citrix, and Hyper-V environments & alliances with EMC, IBM, 3PAR, Fujitsu and HP
Evergrid startup - Director of Product Management/Marketing, Application Virtualization (2006 – 2007)
●Responsible for innovating emerging product line, defining product requirements, business case, market segments, Website design, PR firms, alliance development
Xsigo startup (Acquired by Oracle) - Product Line Manager network, storage virtualization (2004 – 2005)
●Responsible for launching product and presenting product strategy to VC’s & innovating storage, network I/O virtualization
VERITAS - Sr. Manager virtualization technology, Volume Manager (2003 – 2004)
●Responsible for defining market requirements, business case, market segments, positioning, messaging, pricing for existing and new technology
IBM – Multiple roles in Tivoli & Storage Management (1992 – 2003) (SPSM)
●Held various roles in IBM for Tivoli TSM products, San Volume Controller, Filesystem (storage tank). Worked closely with Almaden Research projects and successfully launched them (TSM, SVC)
Education
*MS Computer Science, University of Texas
*MS Materials Science and Engineering Oregon Graduate Institute
*BTECH Metallurgical Eng, Indian Inst. Technology IIT- Banaras