Aaron Beck
Product Center of Excellence | PwC Products & Technology at PwC
PwC Products & Technology
Product Management executive with experience building world-class product management organizations, including operating as both a coach to develop, mentor, and scale the product management organization, as well as an individual contributor to define target markets, new functionality, and product messaging. Transformed two waterfall-based organizations to agile/scrum methodology, greatly increasing productivity and decreasing the product release cycle and testing overhead. Deep experience in server hardware, host and network security, cloud, networking, virtualization and telecommunications technologies​. Strong interpersonal skills; leading via collaboration and communication through all levels and departments within an organization, as well as externally with customers, partners, channels, and distributors.
PwC
https://www.linkedin.com/company/pwc
Silicon Valley, California, United States
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Product Center of Excellence | PwC Products & Technology
PwC
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- Drove product strategy and defined the roadmap to reposition, rebrand, and relaunch an existing PwC platform as a SaaS solution focused on interconnectedness of key systems, leading to enhanced visibility and management of organizational risk.

- Led expansion of off-shore development capabilities, including growing offshore team by 300% over 18 months.

- Coached organizational leadership on adoption of modern development tools, processes, and procedures, which led to much more predictable development sizing and estimation.

- Created and delivered monthly all-hands meetings to both US and off-shore staff on behalf of the venture leadership team.
Silicon Valley, California, United States
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VP, Product Management | PwC Terrain Insights LLC
CrowdStrike
https://www.linkedin.com/company/crowdstrike
- Accountable and responsible for prioritization and delivery of feature roadmap for all CrowdStrike Falcon sensors, including versions for Microsoft Windows, macOS and multiple flavors of Linux.

 - Nurtured relationships with CrowdStrike’s largest customers, CrowdStrike Systems Engineers, and CrowdStrike Support in order to understand customer utilized and requested use cases and drive their requests into the product development roadmap.
 
- Wrote user-experience backed requirements for CrowdStrike ‘Major Initiatives’ and drove them through project discovery, sizing, prioritization, funding and delivery to market.
 
- Regularly delivered CrowdStrike roadmaps to current customers, as well as important prospects.

 - Authored product announcements, release notes, technical alerts, end of support notices and product documentation for all things Falcon sensor.

 - Worked daily with multiple scrum teams to bring the voice of the customer and the voice of the business into the development process.
 
- Owned “Early Access” programs for a number of key features delivered to market over the last year. Iterated on development plans based on customer feedback received during these targeted customer trials.
Silicon Valley, California, United States
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Director of Product Management
Tripwire
https://www.linkedin.com/company/tripwire
- Responsible for all facets of Tripwire’s modular next-generation “Axon” agent and product messaging platform, including market launch and on-going prioritization of development efforts.

 - Worked closely with Tripwire R&D’s chief architects to develop and refine Tripwire’s multi-year architectural roadmap, including alignment of business objectives to move Tripwire forward on the architectural roadmap while also delivering customer value in each release.

 - Selected new hardware manufacturer and migrated appliance program to the new vendor in order to utilize off-the-shelf models to reduce per-unit cost, build lead time, and cost to bring new models to market.

 - Successfully launched four new families of appliance models with complete control of pricing, life-cycle management, product look and feel (model branding), documentation, and market collateral.

 - Delivered two year appliance growth cycle that featured over 200% year-over-year growth in back-to-back years, while simultaneously increasing the appliance margin by 25 percentage points and dropping the corporate inventory position and increasing inventory turn.

 - Authored and presented quarterly business assessments to the Tripwire Senior Leadership team.

 - Managed Tripwire’s next-generation agent-based endpoint log collection product, including running onsite trials with our most strategic customer.

 - Responsible for Tripwire’s on-going public cloud effort, including virtual appliances running within public cloud environments and investigation of SaaS offerings.
Silicon Valley, California, United States
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Director of Product Management - Platforms & Appliances
Narus Inc
https://www.linkedin.com/company/narus-inc
- As a core member of the Product Management team, founded a group responsible for bringing new Narus solutions to market with Narus’ most important customers.

 - Deployed pre-GA code with existing customers to gain field validation of new product quality, while simultaneously providing customers a feedback cycle to influence upcoming releases.

 - Oversaw all facets of customer facing beta program in an agile development organization, including driving scheduling of our development team, organizing and planning internal testing, delivering Field Trials in customer environments, and providing final recommendation on behalf of Product Management on General Availability (GA) readiness of the release.

 - Created and executed test plans for third party solutions, including influencing vendor selection, to integrate third party products into Narus solutions.

 - Worked with Narus Solutions Architecture and Sales Engineering teams to architect how soon-to-be released code should to be deployed in customer environments, and how existing deployments may need to change to benefit from newly developed features.

 - Autonomous ownership of supply chain, manufacturing, and logistics for appliances and core software components, including daily involvement with numerous vendors to drive timelines required by Narus customers.

 - Worked hand-in-hand with BusDev and Solutions Architecture to provide guidance on customer hardware requirements, evaluate potential alliances, and evaluate new hardware.

 - Complete ownership of Engineering/Customer Support lab environment and product licensing.
Silicon Valley, California, United States
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Sr. Manager, Product Management - Engineering Solutions & Field Trials
Chordiant Software
https://www.linkedin.com/company/pegasystems
- Delivered excellent customer service to local and remote users on all hardware and software requests.

 - Performed monthly server patch maintenance and SOX password changes. 

 - Updated and organized company standard Norton Ghost images for multiple hardware platforms.  

 - Configured customers in all phases of email system (Postini front end, sendmail SMTP middleware, Exchange 2003 backend, Blackberry Enterprise Server, OWA, RPC via HTTP).

 - Oversaw and validated nightly VERITAS Net-Backup policies and off-site storage of associated media.

 - Completed monthly Microsoft patching process on all IT servers during maintenance window.

 - Validated SOX compliance by providing system evidences and completing quarterly systems password changes.

 - Involved in project planning team for migration of bind DNS boxes to Infoblox.

 - Managed all IT purchasing and inventory management for headquarters location.

 - Determined new laptop standards for Dell Latitude “E-Series” laptops.
Silicon Valley, California, United States
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Information Systems Engineer
XO Communications, Acquired via Concentric Network Solutions
https://www.linkedin.com/company/xo-communications
- Created an in-sourced team of engineers to handle Managed Security Service Delivery, handling Firewall (Checkpoint/Cisco PIX) and VPN (Cisco), customer consultation, and determining customer acceptance.

 - Organized nationwide IP Assignments for entire DSL network, including auditing to ensure correct routing through the nationwide network, down to the router level. Included forecasting future usage.

 - Department representative on all new technical development projects, including expanding the national DSL footprint, rollout of new security products, and new dedicated hosting products.

 - Handled inventory and equipment reordering for inventory of Managed Security products and Dedicated Hosting servers (including custom hardware to upgrade servers to customer specifications).

 - Worked hand-in-hand with organizational support groups on new product development; including hardware and software certifications, process development, technical performance measures and schedule management.
Silicon Valley, California, United States
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Service Delivery Manager
BS
Attended 1995-1999; 2005
Business Administration/Business Economics
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Sonoma State University
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Children
FC Bay Area Barcelona
- Oversee all day-to-day operations of competitive youth soccer club FC Bay Area (aka Barcelona Bay Area). 

- Ownership for all backend systems including payment/registration system, player registration with US Club Soccer, GotSoccer, Field Reservations, and TeamSnap for team-by-team management.

Also provided guidance on:
- Field Negotiations (San Jose City Fields - Negotiations with other San Jose-based clubs)
- Uniform supplier
- Club business priorities
- Player tryout/recruitment process
- Player advancement process into US Soccer Development Academy programs
Club Manager
ESPN
https://www.linkedin.com/company/espn
Provided weekly fantasy hockey content for ESPN Fantasy Games.
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Fantasy Hockey Contributor
Poverty Alleviation
Community Technology Alliance
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Desktop Support Technician
Hockey's Future
https://www.linkedin.com/company/hockey%27s-future
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Hockey Writer
LeaderboardSports.com
Sports Writer
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London
Aaron Beck
Compensation Manager at Scotiabank
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London
Aaron Beck
Head of Financial Partnerships at Revolut
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Gardner, KS
Aaron Beck
Owner of Beck Chiropractic & Acupuncture
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Portland, OR
Aaron Beck
Business Operations Manager at City of Portland Oregon
XO Communications Telecom Community
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Outside The Tank: Shark Tank Discussion Group
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https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2188515
SVOD - Silicon Valley Open Doors Investment Conference
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Sonoma State University
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https://www.linkedin.com/groups/83493
Telecoms Professionals: IoT, LTE, M2M, 5G, Internet of Things
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Product Management
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https://www.linkedin.com/groups/42629
Cloud Computing
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https://www.linkedin.com/groups/61513
Security Testing
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Information Security Community
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https://www.linkedin.com/groups/38412
School of Business and Economics at Sonoma State University - Students and Alumni
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BETA Testing
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Cloud Security Alliance
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The Accidental Product Manager
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Performance Testing (2059820)
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