Grace Ann Baker
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Grace-Ann works in the following industries: "Computer Networking", "Computer Software", "Internet", and "Information Technology & Services". Grace-Ann is currently Product Management Lead - SRE & Engineering Standards at Twitter. In Grace-Ann's previous role as a Product Management Lead, Google Cloud Platform & Google Technical Infrastructure at Google, Grace-Ann worked in Mountain View, CA until Nov 2018. Prior to joining Google, Grace-Ann was a Director, Product Management Converged & Hyper Converged Systems at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and held the position of Director, Product Management Converged & Hyper Converged Systems at Palo Alto, CA. Prior to that, Grace-Ann was a Director Product Management & Technical Marketing at NetApp, based in Sunnyvale, CA & Bangalore India from Jan 2005 to Jan 2014. Grace-Ann started working as VP Product Management at LiteScape Technologies in San Francisco Bay Area in Jan 2004. From Jan 1996 to Jan 2003, Grace-Ann was Senior Manager, Solutions Product Management at Cisco, based in San Jose, CA.
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• Introduced & drove initial adoption of new virtualization layer for traditional & ML compute infrastructure • Defined & delivered enterprise class block & file services storage products for Google cloud • Established framework & worked with partners to extend Enterprise class storage offerings on Google Cloud
Part of new leadership team who revamped HPE’s play in the Converged & HyperConverged Systems market. • Built out product management teams • Rationalize product portfolio & target markets • Launched 2 new HyperConverged platforms (HPE HC250 for Microsoft & HPE HC380)
Software Product Management & Off-Shore Development Lead a team of product managers responsible for the roadmap, release schedules, content, quality & on time delivery of NetApp’s primary Operating System (Data ONTAP). • Worked with NetApp’s senior leaders to set & align on expected market positioning for NetApp’s primary product for the upcoming 12-24 months. Then worked with Product Management leaders to translate these targets into release goals & priorities for upcoming releases. • Worked cross-functionally with product managers & engineering to define release content & ensure that releases were delivered on time, in concert with pre-defined goals & expected quality levels. • Provided framework, templates & timelines for PRDs & MRDs for all Data ONTAP releases. • Ensured market success of new releases by leading Go to Market (GTM) activities with Marketing, Sales, Training & Customer Support • Developed Product Life Cycle policy Hardware Product Management Lead the Product Management & Technical Marketing teams for an $80M business inside of NetApp. • Partnered with engineering to ensure timely product delivery, consistent with market/customer requirements. Responsibilities included product forecasts, pricing & parts planning/sourcing with supply chain Strategy & Business Development • Defined strategy & solution/productization options for NetApp’s entrée into the “Backup/Archive to the Cloud” market. • Worked with VC firms on the spin-out of NetApp’s caching business to BlueCoat Systems • Led the integration of a new acquisition (Topio) into NetApp
Product Management leader for a start-up enterprise software company. Product Management lead on VC/investor roadshows which resulted in a successful $10M Series A fundraising round.
As one of the initial members of Cisco’s Voice over IP (VoIP) Product Management team, responsible for assessing the competitive landscape and recommending the best strategic direction for Cisco’s entrée into the packet voice market. Worked directly with US, European & Canadian sales & product marketing teams to identify & close deals with Service Providers interested in deploying Broadband IP solutions. Solution areas included: Residential broadband, VoIP, VoIP over Cable, & MPLS VPNs. Created & lead a group, whose mandate was to ensure the implementation of strategic technologies across Cisco's products. Sample technologies focused on included: IPv6, VoIP QoS (Voice over IP Quality of Service), & Security for Cisco’s residential broadband systems (Cable, DSL & Ethernet/fiber to the home) Developed channel strategy for Cisco to improve its sales with new infrastructure and wireless carriers