Greg A. Lato (latoga)
After many internal struggles trying to classify latoga labs, I realized that it is really my career blog. With over 20 years of experience managing, building, and selling technology based solutions, I have a very diverse background across multiple technology sectors and businesses. Over this period my focus quickly centered on the value that technology can bring to a business and utilizing technology to transform businesses. The result has been participating in the revolution that new technologies have brought to multiple business sectors.
This purpose of this blog is to provide a place where I can write about my experiences, thoughts, and the stuff that I find most exciting about this great ride I find myself on (frequency varies based upon my activity level of both the technology ride and parenting ride). Over the history of this blog, I have discussed many areas as my focus areas have naturally shifted with my career and interests. Different technology areas, leadership, management, business, and even economy. Interestingly enough, I always find nearly everything from the past relating to something in the future and it all weaves itself into a giant web.
In my current day job with Informatica, I work closely with our Financial Services Partners and Customers to help them solve their Enterprise Cloud Data Management challenges.
Resume
My abbreviated resume in reverse chronological order, see my LinkedIn profile for more details.
- SnapLogic, Head of Consulting & Technology Alliances
Building partner ecosystem of Global SIs, National/Regional SIs, and Global Technology ISV partners around Data/Application Integration, Cloud Modernization, and Enterprise Automation. - Informatica, National Alliances Director, Financial Services
Managed joint go to market strategy and partnerships for the Financial Services Vertical market (Enterprise Cloud Data Management, Digital Transformation). - Rambus, Senior Director Sales for IoT & Cloud Services
Managed go to market and partnerships for IoT Security Platform offering (Internet of Things, Security, Platform as a Service) - Covisint, Director Strategic Alliances
Managed Alliance relationship with largest OEM Partner
(Internet of Things, Internet of Everything, Platform as a Service, Digital Transformation) - VMware, Global Accounts
Western Region Global Account sales
(Virtualization, Cloud, End User Computing, and more…) - Independent Consultant
Sales based consulting work with SnapLogic
(Integration) - Iona Technologies, Solution Sales Specialist
Value selling overlay for Western US sales region
(SOA and Integration) - Port Authority Technologies, Manager of Sales Engineering
Built and lead startup sales engineering team
(IT Security) - Blazent, Principal Systems Engineer
Senior technical member of Western Region sales team
(Business Intelligence) - Bristol Technology, Senior Systems Engineer
Senior technical member of Western Region sales team
(Business Process Monitoring) - Resonate, Principal Systems Engineer & Senior Product Manager
Technical lead of Eastern US, then Western US sales team, managed new product offering from inception through launch.
(Load Balancing & Web Application Performance Management)
Other Places to Find Me
Education
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire. With a minor emphasis in English, Technical Writing.
Other Interests
Maintaining a balanced life is extremely important, especially with kids and when you work in such a high paced industry such as technology. I (try to) accomplish this through my serious interests in photography; being an active investor (see transparency sidebar), the occasional attempt of imitating a golfer; exploring nature on foot, wheel, or ski (usually with my camera gear on my back); and exploring our world by traveling as much as possible. Thought since joining the sandwich generation time has been re-prioritized for most of these activities.
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