scott herold

senior manager

About

Product Management Leader managing the team that is driving the future of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux roadmap with an outside-in focus on customer experiences as their adoption and maturity of Linux usage increases from the datacenter to the cloud. Specialties: Red Hat, Open Source, Linux, Product Management, Software Engineering, Technology Analysis, Pragmatic Marketing

Country

united states

City

elgin

Industry

computer software

Skill

virtualization, data center, vmware, enterprise software, disaster recovery, product management, storage, vmware esx, enterprise architecture, vmware infrastructure, cloud computing, product marketing, software engineering, saas, integration, vdi, networking, high availability, go to market strategy, server architecture, business continuity, professional services, solution architecture, strategy, pre sales, san, capacity management, server consolidation, storage virtualization, red hat linux, vmware vsphere, storage area networks, mergers and acquisitions, network administration, vsphere, software development, redhat, netapp, mergers

Experience

network engineer

nwcr

1998-3 - 2000-3 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Provided IT and Network support to Small Businesses located in the Chicagoland area.

senior manager

board of directors

openpower foundation

2017-2 - 2018-2 · 1 yr 1 mo

OpenPOWER Foundation is an open development alliance based on IBM's POWER microprocessor architecture. The Consortium intends to build advanced server, networking, storage and GPU-acceleration technology aimed at delivering more choice, control and flexibility to developers of next-generation, hyperscale and cloud data centers.

director - virtualization strategy

quest software

2010-10 - 2012-6 · 1 yr 9 mos

Responsible for global technical and business strategy for Quest Software Server Virtualization Group focusing on enterprise monitoring

lead architect - virtualization business

quest software

2008-1 - 2010-10 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Generate new product ideas and enhancements into growing line of virtualization products. Review market trends to determine key technologies for integration with existing application portfolio. Perform technical analysis of potential acquisition targets in the virtualization space. Provide continued visibility to overall virtualization strategy.

vice president: product engineering

invirtus, inc

2007-7 - 2007-12 · 6 mos

Responsible for transitioning Quest acquisition into Vizioncore's GTM strategy and Channel Sales Model. Helped define product requirements to enhance Invirtus product line to become more Enterprise-Centric.

director of research and development

vizioncore

2006-3 - 2007-6 · 1 yr 4 mos

Developed and engineered solutions that solved major challenges in virtualization. Played a key role in helping Vizioncore expand and enhance their solutions for both the SMB and Enterprise market space by gathering feedback from partners and customers. Also successfully led the engineering efforts of introducing two new offerings to the Vizioncore product lineup.

vmware solutions lead

analysts international corporation (aic)

2006-1 - 2006-3 · 3 mos

Architected and Implemented VMware-based virtual infrastructure solutions.

senior network engineer

rapidapp

2004-4 - 2005-12 · 1 yr 9 mos

Architect and implement solutions utilizing VMware ESX Server and other VMware related products. Projects include server consolidation, datacenter consolidation, and business continuity of virtualization integration.

system architect

zurich insurance company ltd

2000-3 - 2004-4 · 4 yrs 2 mos

Led data center consolidation project between Chicago and Los Angeles data centers using VMware Virtualization technology.

principal and founder

umbraworks

2012-12 - 2013-9 · 10 mos

Focusing on enhancing daily administrator productivity. As founder, doing everything from establishing funding to taking out the garbage.

product management director, converged infrastructure solutions

dell

2012-7 - 2012-11 · 5 mos

Assisted in bringing Dell Active System to market

senior manager - product management - red hat enterprise linux

red hat

2019-9 - 2019-8

Responsible for leading technical strategy and go-to-market teams at Red Hat for Virtualization technologies; including kvm, libvirt, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, virt-v2v, and Spice.