* Ownership of the definition and technology execution of Sendmail's cloud vision, driving the services technology and product offerings to augment Sendmail's existing on-premises infrastructure components

* Determine, design, and develop cloud enablers to increase interoperability between on-premises Sentrion appliances and cloud-based services

* Identify and specify product needs for Sendmail's managed services

* Evangelism of Sendmail's cloud strategy, offerings, and technology vision

* Executive ownership of Sendmail's global Data Center/IT Operations and Hardware Engineering

VP, Cloud Enablement & CTO

* Ownership of the on-time development and support of products on the roadmap that are easy to install and use, robust, scalable and are defined by the quarterly themes and stories generated by Product Marketing.

* Implemented Agile development methodology using a mixture of XP, Kanban, and Scrum techniques.

* Lead the effort to replace aging Sentrion MP 3.1 appliance with MP 4.X appliance releases enabling an integration platform with support for third party enhancements and featuring enterprise class features such as host, site, and cluster level reporting; full multi-cluster configuration, management, and deployment capabilities; configuration revision control; disaster recovery; unified UI with audit logging; and modular deployment.

* Delivered three legacy software releases, seven Sentrion MP 3.1 appliance release, and eight Sentrion MP 4.X appliance releases.

* Lead a talented Engineering team (development, QA, and management) with an initial 27 full time employees in the US 

VP, Engineering & CTO

* Ownership of technical vision and direction portions of Sendmail's corporate strategy.

* Investigate, document, and present internal executive and staff briefings on new technology directions.

* Stay abreast of relevant market developments and competitive technology movement.

* Prepare and deliver customer, analyst, and internal product, technology, roadmap, and vision briefings.

* Collaborate with Chief Architect on engineering product architecture, design, and implementation.

* Thought leadership through white papers, blogging, and tweeting.

* Technical responsibility for third party product and OEM selection.

* Participate in relevant standards activities (e.g., IETF and M3AAWG).

* Second level technology support for product development.

* Ownership of intellectual property for patents, trademarks, and copyrights, including filings, registration, litigation support, and oversight.

* Owner and point of contact for FIPS 140-2 validation effort.

* Participate in Performanc

VP, Chief Technology Officer

* Responsible for the product as a whole and the important design decisions that ensure the product's functional integrity.

* Ensure that high level requirements are consistent, complete, correct, and operationally defined.

* Ensure that components integrate and interact correctly and identify potential design flaws before they become a problem.

* Review and validate all design specifications.

* Key decision maker for the architecture and design changes based on feedback from the field, engineering, and executive management.

* Research future product needs.

* Provide feedback to product marketing for future product requirements.

* Assess functionality requirements based on preliminary marketing requirements document.

* Advise VP/Engineering in implementation of engineering processes with regards to specifications and engineering best practices.

* Resource for engineer questions and mentoring.

Chief Architect

* Evaluate, analyze, and perform technical assessment on potential partners and products for integration with Sendmail's offerings.
  
* Provide technical research for possible product creation/integration.
  
* Provide technical assistance to VP, Business Development for all technology partnerships as needed and assist the field with any partner product research or competitive information.

* Interface with partners for technical presentations and lab evaluations.

* Make recommendations for product road maps and product designs to both Product Marketing and Engineering.

Director, Strategic Technology

* Configure, troubleshoot, and manage network and security infrastructure including UNIX/Linux and Windows systems; local and remote office networks; Checkpoint FW-1, Cisco IOS, ipf, and ipfw firewalls; Checkpoint VPN-1 server; email and LDAP infrastructure; and RSA SecurID.

* Hardware specification, installation, and troubleshooting including UNIX/Linux servers, Network Appliance file servers, various appliances, and network gear.

* Beta testing Sendmail, Inc. software in production before general release to customers.

* External product evaluation for both production use and potential partner purposes.

* Help plan for system requirements, security issues, etc., for new projects as they come up.

* Maintain CVS and Perforce source repositories and Bugzilla bug tracking server.

Senior UNIX Network Systems Administrator

* Act as a major technical resource to fellow engineers and others in the company.

* Participate in Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) on behalf of Sendmail.

* Assist engineering managers in project design and planning.

* Software engineer for sendmail, an Internet standards-based mail transfer agent (MTA).

* Design and implement a web-based graphical user interface for configuration and administration of sendmail.

* Coordinate alpha and beta tests of both open source and commercial sendmail releases.

* Provide on-going support to open source sendmail users via the Sendmail Consortium.

Principal Engineer

* Assist in development of open source sendmail, including locating and fixing bugs, integrating modifications, and contributing new functionality.

* Provide technical support to users with sendmail related problems and questions.

* Assist in supporting the sendmail web pages and sendmail frequently asked questions (FAQ).

* Perform alpha and beta testing of all open source sendmail releases as well as discuss future directions for sendmail.

Developer & Volunteer

* Administer Sun Solaris UNIX server serving LAN X terminals, electronic mail, domain name service and Internet file transfers.

* Administer Novell Netware 3.X servers, including a CD ROM server.

* Install and configure LAN based software and hardware.

* Resolve system, network, and user problems.

* Implement solutions for users as directed by service requests.

* Maintain security of client accounts and LAN resources.

Senior Network Administrator

* UNIX system administration including performing operating system upgrades and configuration, maintaining system and network security, and providing a homogeneous environment to the over 4200 users on 200+ computer systems.

* Assist in specifying, designing, implementing and managing residence hall network and dial-in modem services for off campus users.

* Administer and maintain campus network services, including Cisco router configuration, e-mail servers, DNS servers, and web servers.

* Help students, faculty, and staff with problems with computer systems; report verified troubles to vendors when appropriate.

* Recommend policies on system use and services.

* Participate in beta tests and work with outside vendors on WPI related projects. Field test workstations, servers, peripherals, and operating systems for Digital Equipment Corporation. Beta test GNU Emacs, sendmail, and BIND.

* Act as technical liaison on WPI's behalf with Internet service providers.

Senior UNIX Systems Administrator

CTO, Messaging

* Primary responsibility is maintaining sendmail and associated infrastructure.

* Commit fixes to various other userland applications.

Developer & Committer

CTO, Messaging at Proofpoint

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