Resume/CV of Michael Leventhal

Michael Leventhal
preferred email: (my first name).(my last name)@lsi.com
Cell: +1 408-386-2608

Profile

Leadership in program strategy and product management in a highly entrepreneurial environment.

Expert in product development for network, security, programming frameworks, transactional, Web Services, SOA, performance-critical and hardware-optimized software applications of XML . Deep technical portfolio combined with sales and bottom-line focus, superior business skills, management, leadership, communication ability, and vision. Proven both in bootstraping and growth mode, demonstrated ability to take a product across the chasm and to scale up program and revenue.

Career History

Senior Product Line Manager, LSI Corporation, San Diego, California, October 2007 - Current
LSI Corporation is a semiconductor and systems company with a focus in networking and storage.

Senior Director, Tarari, San Diego, California June 2003 - October 2007
Tarari was a venture-funded Intel Capital company which made hardware and software products for network and application acceleration. It was acquired by my current employer, LSI Corporation.

Accomplishments

Product Management
- Created three product lines from scratch and grew multimillion dollar business
  - XML Threat Management for Network Security
  - Comprehensive XML Processing Solution for Enterprises
  - Random Access XML Content Processor for Network Devices
- Wrote PRD/FRDs and Strategic plans for products, product lines, and releases
- Worked with customers on requirements and managed product rollouts
- Developed engineering concepts into product ideas with marketplace strategies
Sales
- Developed business unit's messaging, collateral, prospecting goals, training, account strategies for sales force
- Direct sales-support engagement with all major accounts including many Tier 1 prospects
- Contributed to winning the largest deal in our industry segment
- Contributed to winning many OEM deals
- Sponsored initiative to enter Chinese market leading to development of major opportunties
Marketing
- Defined and achieved widespread analyst and customer recognition of silicon-based XML acceleration market segment
- Achieved large web presence for product line
- Delivered many conference presentations, press and analyst briefings
- Wrote many Product Briefs, White Papers, Articles and Press Releases myself and also directed contract writers and PR people
- Planned business unit's activities around trade shows such as Interop, RSA and others and worked the floor
- Won UCSD CONNECT 2005 Most Innovative New Product Award
Business Development
- Created and managed many OEM partnerships
- Developed an ISV partnership directed at OEM customers
- Developed business unit programs with resellers in Japan, Israel and China
- Initiated and managed relationship with UCSD research group
Technical
- Collaborated very tightly with engineering, helping to stimulate development of several patented product inventions and technology innovations
- Initiated and managed prototype development work that led to engineering projects and product features
- Represented technical and strategic interests of the business unit in the W3C
- Recruited top technical talent to the program
- Even wrote some code in bootstrap phase

CommerceOne, January 2000 - June 2003
(Architecting) Engineering Manager, Pleasanton, California
Led architects and senior developers in the creation of DocSOAP XDK (Datasheet at http://www.textscience.com/papers/DocSOAPDataSheet.pdf and full documentation at http://www.textscience.com/papers/DocSOAP_XDK.html), an innovative high-performance, high-reliability SOAP and XML development framework in Java. The DocSOAP XDK forms the core infrastructure of Commerce One's Web Services platform, Conductor, and is also released separately into the public domain. Responsible for product from conception and requirements analysis through architecture, design, development, testing and launch. Also responsible for the development of a streaming transformation engine and for point releases and sustaining engineering of XML products. Managed 8.

Technical Manager/Lead Architect, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Major assignment: very large-scale travel industry portal implementation, responsible for multiple teams including content management, personalization, infrastructure services (messaging, XML, IVR and other gateways) and for serving as co-lead architect. Original technical contributions in the introduction of Bayesian personalization technology to optimize dynamic offers for customer preferences and seller's margin, use of JMS technology in a caching scheme, and XML architecture including interface languages, inter-object messaging language, and XML stream processing. Java, J2EE, WebLogic, UML, distributed, n-tier architecture. Managed 15.

Founder, Text Science, Inc., Oakland, California 1994 - 2000
Text Science, as an international OEM technology supplier, was among a handful of companies that created the XML industry in the mid-1990s. Product areas: Browser, Content Management and Delivery, Editor, Search, Sales Support,Document Management, Collaborative Web, Knowledge Base. Text Science software was used in at least five major products marketed by XML companies. Text Science also served as a technology strategist to software companies and a traditional consulting house to end-users of XML, completing 30 large-scale projects in the U.S., France, Norway, Finland, and the U.K.. Text Science consultants and other staff numbered up to 6 and Text Science managed projects with as many 40 contributors. Worked in many languages including Java, C++, C, Perl, and JavaScript.

Software Architect, Oracle, Redwood Shores, California, 1992-1994
Architect for multimedia database products, market and technology analysis, standards, design and development in C++ on UNIX and Windows platforms, technical sales support to DoD, CSC, and other major accounts.

Software/Firmware Engineer, University of California at San Francisco, Radiologic Imaging Laboratory, South San Francisco, California 1990-1992
Worked with R&D Physicists to develop the world's first low-cost permanent magnet MRI system. Firmware, device drivers, OS internals, and also creation of a sequence (device control) programming interface GUI and engine used by Physicists. Assembly language and object-oriented C programming.

Recent Presentations and Publications

Over 50 professional papers, presentations, and other published writings as well as a book and contributions to standards work.

Education

U.C. Berkeley
B.S. in Computer Science, College of Engineering (BS-EECS), 1994
Minor subject in Classical Arabic.
Cray Research Scholarship, Kent Porter Memorial Scholarship (awarded by Doctor Dobb's Journal)

Miscellenea

Certification: Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP 1.4).
Teaching Experience: I created and twice taught the world's first course in a public University (U.C. Berkeley Extension) on Internet technology and XML.