Lars Forsberg Email Address

Vice President, Software Engineering

Cloud management software for private, public, and hybrid clouds, enables customers to move existing mission-critical and production applications to the cloud.

I have been working in the information technology sector for over two decades, the past ten years of which have been in senior leadership positions. In these roles my primary goals have been to build strong, capable and resilient teams with predictable velocity; and to drive technological innovation that directly translates to enterprise value creation and differentiating intellectual property for the organization.I have led large multi-disciplinary engineering teams to design, build and operate complex enterprise applications and platforms; been the lead executive responsible for the successful delivery of my organization’s strategic initiatives and programs; and worked directly with key stakeholders at Fortune 500 companies to assist in their digital transformation and adoption of cloud technologies. My unique hands-on experience has afforded me with the skills and knowledge to manage the most difficult IT projects through empowering technical teams with the information and context they need to own and deliver on the business’ objectives, create a common understanding of our technical strategy throughout the business inclusive of internal and external stakeholders; and ultimately win.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS• Led a global team of ~100 Software Developers, Site Reliability Engineers and Software Architects to successfully design, build, launch and operate a next generation cloud infrastructure platform.• Implemented a world-class secure software delivery lifecycle management process that reduced cycle/delivery time, increased product quality and allowed the business to realize the benefits of continuous integration, testing and deployment.• Built and launched a pioneering API driven infrastructure as a service platform for cloud service providers leveraging open source hypervisors and technologies.• Directly managed and oversaw a professional services practice with a globally distributed team responsible for the successful delivery of 20+ custom web applications for large enterprises, SMBs and non-profit organizations.SKILLS• Cloud Computing• Agile Methodologies• Customer Support• Data Center Operations• DevSecOps• Enterprise Software• Highly Availability Systems• IaaS• ITSM• Mentorship• Open Source Software• Product Management• Professional Services• Project Management• SaaS• SDLC• Start-ups• Strategic Leadership• System Administration• System Architecture• Team Building• Virtualization• Web Applications• Web Services