Education
Western Governors University
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General 2019-01-01 - 2021-01-01Brigham Young University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering Technologies/Technicians - 1991-08-01Brigham Young University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electronic Engineering Technology (EET) 1984-01-01 - 1991-01-01Work Experience
SUSE
Current
SUSE
Vertiv Network Power - Avocent
2004-01-01 - 2005-01-01
Vertiv Network Power - Avocent
Various Networking, Linux and HA Markets
1998-01-01 - 2004-01-01
Various Networking, Linux and HA Markets
Skills
Summary
Master of Business Administration (MBA). Electronic Engineering Technology (BS). Progressive experience in software life cycle, partner management and team leadership. Expert technical software interaction, engineering management and leadership, strategic technology planning, product and client research, competitive analysis, as well as partner development and account management. In-depth understanding of technology markets, including server hardware and enterprise software. Proficient at gathering and communicating information between cross functional (technical/non-technical) teams – very detail oriented. Excellent writing proficiency. Specialties: Software development processes (both waterfall and agile), extreme programming test lead, enterprise virtualization (Xen, KVM and some VMware/ESXi), in-depth knowledge of IBM/Lenovo and Dell server hardware, search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing, network architecture, market research, technical writing, blog contributor (https://suse.com/c/author/Jackman1/), partner project and product manager, partner technical support, software evaluation and test. SUSE Linux Enterprise and Windows.