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• Creating value for investors and enterprises by bridging the chasm between excellence in design and excellence in development, in the real world of prioritization and business trade-offs.
• Cloud-based unstructured data analytics at scale for developers, DevOps, IT Ops and SecOps teams.
• CPaaS products.

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Throughout his career, Michael has created value for investors and enterprises by bridging the chasm between excellence in design and excellence in development, in the real world of prioritization and business trade-offs. Over the last 15 years, Michael's focus has been on building (or rebuilding) enterprise scale, consumer grade, global design and product teams.

Michael is VP UX for RingCentral in Belmont, CA, where he leads a global team responsible for their complete line of CPaaS products. Prior, Michael was VP UX and Executive Producer at Sumologic, delivering centralized log management and cloud-based unstructured data analytics at scale for developers, DevOps, IT Ops and SecOps teams.

Previously, as VP and Executive Producer of UX for TIBCO, Michael built a +80 person global team responsible for TIBCO products and customer mobile applications including the Golden State Warriors and the Oakland Raiders. Michael led several product teams, including Formvine, a cloud PaaS initiative he built from concept to revenue in 18 months.

On the technical side, Michael was the founder and CEO of General Interface (GI), developing new technologies for RIA UI frameworks. In 2001, the GI team filed a patent for "Delivery of Data and Formatting Information to Allow Client-Side Manipulation," a pattern now generally known as Ajax.

In previous lives, Michael ran an Internet design boutique in San Francisco, build web properties for Hearst Publishing, re-engineered travel systems, and led direct marketing campaigns for American Express.

Michael is an occasional speaker on topics from UX strategy to cross-functional team building and UX development. Michael serves on the Board of Directors for the jQuery Foundation, a leading open-source initiative supporting those who support an open and accessible internet.

Specialties: UX, UCD, user experience and interaction design; software development, software architecture; and mobile/web design and development.