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In this podcast, I interview Eddie Dinel, Senior Director of Product Management at VMware, where he has been since 2002!

In his role, Eddie has two key responsibilities. The first is VMware Validated Designs, a new way of approaching the problem of SDDC deployments. And the second is the "Enterprise Readiness" program across all products at VMware, focusing on reducing the friction involved in operating VMware software.

Eddie has held many previous roles at VMware, across product development, technical alliances, and IT. He has been involved in nearly every product that VMware has ever shipped.

Prior to VMware, Eddie was at Zack Systems and HighWire Press.

Eddie graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History as well as minors in Physics and Computer Science from Stanford University.

I have had the pleasure to work with Eddie in most of the roles that I had at VMware. He is a passionate leader with a unique level of depth and breadth across VMware products.

I hope you enjoy!

In this podcast, I talk to Vijay Anand, Senior Vice President at Intuit, about his career path.

In his role, Vijay engages with all global product development sites and guides them on the strategies for the future aimed at delivering Intuit’s mission to power prosperity around the world. Vijay also leads Intuit’s Tech Culture initiative with the objective of transforming Intuit into a world-class technology company and is the executive sponsor for the Women in Tech.

During his 10-year tenure, Vijay is credited with building Intuit’s India Development Center in Bangalore where over 1000+ talented employees deliver game-changing innovations across Quickbooks, TurboTax, and Mint and delight millions of customers around the world. Vijay has extended Intuit’s global presence with a new global development center in Israel that is accelerating our journey on AI, Machine Learning, and Information Security. Back in 2010, Vijay created a set of tenets called the Global Engineering Principles based on his experiences building successful global product teams. These principles coupled with Vijay’s servant leadership style of management have been the foundation for Intuit’s success in attracting the best talent in the world’s talent hotspots and keeping them highly engaged. As a result, Intuit is consistently ranked as one of India’s Best Companies to Work For by the Great Place to Work Institute and The Economic Times including the #1 ranking in 2017.  Intuit is also recognized as an industry leader in India when it comes to Diversity and Inclusion as well as the Most Innovative in the Industry.

For his work at Intuit, Vijay received the Bill Campbell Coach’s Award in 2017 and the CEO Leadership Award in 2013. Out and Equal recognized his championship of workplace equality with their Champion Award in 2014. Vijay was also invited to serve on AnitaB.org’s US Board of Trustees in 2015. He serves on the board of technology startups and social ventures in India as well as in Silicon Valley and actively mentors (and is mentored by) entrepreneurs, women technologists, and next-gen talent.

Prior to Intuit, Vijay built large R&D centers for Sun Microsystems and Oracle in India. Vijay was an entrepreneur for the first 14 years of his career in the US, first at Transarc (acquired by IBM in 1993) and later, NetDynamics (acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1998).  At Sun, Vijay led the Application Server team and subsequently the e-commerce platform at iPlanet, a Sun-Netscape alliance.

Vijay has a graduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Arizona and a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.

I got to know Vijay at Sun Microsystems while he was running the large Sun India Research Center. I was building and running teams across multiple sites, with India being my largest. Vijay was always there, supporting me as needed and giving me feedback at each step along the way.

I hope you enjoy!

In this podcast, I interview Vijay Anand, Senior Vice President responsible for Global Development Centers and based in Intuit’s headquarters in Mountain View, California.

In this role, Vijay engages with all global product development sites and guides them on the strategies for the future aimed at delivering Intuit’s mission to power prosperity around the world. Vijay also leads Intuit’s Tech Culture initiative with the objective of transforming Intuit into a world-class technology company and is the executive sponsor for the Women in Tech.

During his 10-year tenure, Vijay is credited with building Intuit’s India Development Center in Bangalore where over 1000+ talented employees deliver game-changing innovations across Quickbooks, TurboTax, and Mint and delight millions of customers around the world. Vijay has extended Intuit’s global presence with a new global development center in Israel that is accelerating our journey on AI, Machine Learning, and Information Security. Back in 2010, Vijay created a set of tenets called the Global Engineering Principles based on his experiences building successful global product teams. These principles coupled with Vijay’s servant leadership style of management have been the foundation for Intuit’s success in attracting the best talent in the world’s talent hotspots and keeping them highly engaged. As a result, Intuit is consistently ranked as one of India’s Best Companies to Work For by the Great Place to Work Institute and The Economic Times including the #1 ranking in 2017.  Intuit is also recognized as an industry leader in India when it comes to Diversity and Inclusion as well as the Most Innovative in the Industry.

For his work at Intuit, Vijay received the Bill Campbell Coach’s Award in 2017 and the CEO Leadership Award in 2013. Out and Equal recognized his championship of workplace equality with their Champion Award in 2014. Vijay was also invited to serve on AnitaB.org’s US Board of Trustees in 2015. He serves on the board of technology startups and social ventures in India as well as in Silicon Valley and actively mentors (and is mentored by) entrepreneurs, women technologists, and next-gen talent.

Prior to Intuit, Vijay built large R&D centers for Sun Microsystems and Oracle in India. Vijay was an entrepreneur for the first 14 years of his career in the US, first at Transarc (acquired by IBM in 1993) and later, NetDynamics (acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1998).  At Sun, Vijay led the Application Server team and subsequently the e-commerce platform at iPlanet, a Sun-Netscape alliance.

Vijay has a graduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Arizona and a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.

I got to know Vijay at Sun Microsystems while he was running the large Sun India Research Center. I was building and running teams across multiple sites, with India being my largest. Vijay was always there, supporting me as needed and giving me feedback at each step along the way.

I hope you enjoy!

In this podcast, I interview Ray O'Farrell, Executive Vice President and leader of the Cloud-Native Apps Business Unit at VMware.

In his current role, Ray will envision and extend the company’s strategy and operating model for delivering the Kubernetes platform of the future.

Prior to August 2019, Ray served as executive vice president and chief technology officer, where his main focus areas were to ensure VMware’s long-term technology leadership through research and innovation programs, with the primary goal of positively impacting and shaping the future of VMware, its ecosystem and its customers.

Prior to his role as Chief Technology Officer, Ray co-led the Software-Defined Data Center Division comprising the vSphere, networking, management, and storage businesses and was responsible for the division’s strategy, business, and product planning and engineering execution.

Ray joined VMware to lead the ESX Storage team during the early development of the ESX platform. He helped build a large ecosystem of partners in storage and helped expand the portfolio, which today includes products such as VMFS (Virtual Machine File System) and VMware vSAN. During his tenure at VMware, Ray built and managed a global R&D organization and held engineering responsibilities across the entire VMware portfolio. His responsibilities spanned management of all of the components of VMware’s flagship vSphere and suite products, including core compute, networking, storage, and Cloud management. O’Farrell also spearheaded the Dell Technologies IoT division.

Ray has over 20 years of software engineering and product delivery experience. Before VMware, he developed and shipped development tools and operating systems for real-time, embedded, and DSP systems at a number of companies including Industrial and Scientific Imaging (Ireland), Ashling Microsystems (Ireland), Improv Systems (United States), and Microtec/Mentor-Graphics (United States).

Ray holds a bachelor’s of engineering in electronics and a master’s of engineering in computer science, both from the University of Limerick in Ireland.

I hope you enjoy my interview with Ray!

In this podcast, I talk to Robert (Bob) Worrall, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Juniper Networks, about his career path.

Bob heads up Juniper’s global information technology (IT) team. In this role, he leads the ongoing enhancement of the company’s IT infrastructure and applications architectures to support the growth objectives of the company. He and his team are also responsible for showcasing Juniper’s use of its technologies to the world.

Prior to joining Juniper in 2015, Bob was senior vice president and chief information officer at NVIDIA with responsibility for deploying innovative technologies to enhance employee productivity and improve cost efficiencies. He also spent more than two decades at Sun Microsystems, including six years as chief information officer. He also held a variety of roles in Sun’s IT organization, including vice president of applications and vice president of IT operations. Worrall has extensive international business experience, including a two-year assignment in The Netherlands.

Bob holds an MBA and a bachelor’s degree from California State University, East Bay.

I hope you enjoy!

In this podcast, I interview Robert (Bob) Worrall, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Juniper Networks.

Bob heads up Juniper’s global information technology (IT) team. In this role, he leads the ongoing enhancement of the company’s IT infrastructure and applications architectures to support the growth objectives of the company. He and his team are also responsible for showcasing Juniper’s use of its technologies to the world.

Prior to joining Juniper in 2015, Bob was senior vice president and chief information officer at NVIDIA with responsibility for deploying innovative technologies to enhance employee productivity and improve cost efficiencies. He also spent more than two decades at Sun Microsystems, including six years as chief information officer. He also held a variety of roles in Sun’s IT organization, including vice president of applications and vice president of IT operations. Worrall has extensive international business experience, including a two-year assignment in The Netherlands.

Bob holds an MBA and a bachelor’s degree from California State University, East Bay.

I hope you enjoy!

Welcome to another Develop Great Managers Topical Podcast!

There is no topic more important to managers than “How To Build a Great Team”! That’s because the bulk of work gets done in this structure. It doesn’t matter whether you are in sports, technology, medicine, or almost any other industry – great teams are key to success.

We have an amazing panel lined up to discuss this pressing question, including Karen Egan, a Vice President of Global Support Services at VMware, Satya Dodda, a Vice President of Software Development at Oracle, and Vicky Xu, a Research and Development Leader at Google.

There is some amazing content in this discussion. I hope that the accents along with some recording problems do not create too much of a challenge. Enjoy!

In this podcast, I talk to Kieran Desmond, a Vice President at VMware, about his career path.

Kieran is responsible for the Global Services Platform Experience through which he manages customer interactions for VMware Support. Kieran has in-depth knowledge of support operations and leading global support teams. He is passionate about technology and building great experiences for customers and all users that engage with technology to solve customer issues. Kieran joined VMware in 2006 and has taken on many challenges over the years.

Prior to VMware Kieran spent 14 years at EMC spending the majority of his time within Technical Support visiting customer sites deploying the latest and greatest features. Kieran also spent time within EMC Symmetrix R&D as a software developer developing tools to help diagnose product issues.

Kieran lives in West Cork Ireland, a beautiful part of the world with his wife and three children.

I hope you enjoy!

In this podcast, I interview Kieran Desmond, a Vice President at VMware.

Kieran is responsible for the Global Services Platform Experience through which he manages customer interactions for VMware Support. Kieran has in-depth knowledge of support operations and leading global support teams. He is passionate about technology and building great experiences for customers and all users that engage with technology to solve customer issues. Kieran joined VMware in 2006 and has taken on many challenges over the years.

Prior to VMware Kieran spent 14 years at EMC spending the majority of his time within Technical Support visiting customer sites deploying the latest and greatest features. Kieran also spent time within EMC Symmetrix R&D as a software developer developing tools to help diagnose product issues.

Kieran lives in West Cork Ireland, a beautiful part of the world with his wife and three children.

I hope you enjoy!

In this podcast, I talk to David Hulbert, a Vice President at VMware, about his career path.

David is responsible for the Global Premier Support Services organization.  This team is accountable for proactively supporting and servicing VMware’s most strategic customers. David’s organization is comprised of 400+ people spanning 3 Global Support Centers and is responsible for an annual operating budget of ~$50M.

David is an accomplished senior leader with 20+ years of experience in the consulting, technical services, and software industries.   He began his career at KPMG as a Business Intelligence consultant using MicroStrategy products. He then moved to Business Objects and SAP where he held several roles in a customer-facing, project management, and leadership capacity.  David’s strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills along with his ability to execute have helped advance his career. He is passionate about customers, solving problems, and managing people.

David resides in Burlington, Ontario with his wife of 17 years and their 2 boys.  He is an avid sports fan, loves playing golf, and enjoys coaching his sons’ football teams.

I hope you enjoy!