Erik Nordquist

About An experienced and accomplished Senior Technical Product Manager specializing in aligning business strategies, supporting operational excellence and engaged teams to achieve goals, improve performance, and make a difference by delivering customer satisfaction. My career has evolved from Field Operations to Internet Operations where I designed and deployed TPx’s DNS Anycast network to service its 55,000 customer locations. Working on the Network Integrity team I was the resident expert for detecting and mitigating Denial of Service attacks. After interfacing with customers for years on issues of security, I brought my technical expertise and customer-focused approach to a role as Sr. Product Manager at TPx Communications. Once known as the firewall guy, I have been entrusted to support a wide range of networking and cyber security managed services from secure SD-WAN, to Firewalls, to wired and wireless LAN, to datacenters and most recently adding Managed Detection and Response to the TPx portfolio. SASE development currently underway. Snapshot: • Leveraging a strong technical expertise to design and deliver a variety of customer focused managed networking and security services to businesses and channel partners resulting in significant business aligned outcomes • Expertise in product life cycle management - product vision, product/feature definition, market and competitive research, pricing analysis, business case development, forecasting, product roadmap creation, and demand generation. • Integrates strategic vision with tactical excellence, technical aptitude, market insight, and value-based leadership • Experienced in managing cross-functional groups (Engineering, Sales, Provisioning, Customer support). • Managed the successful introduction of Cisco Meraki, secure SD-WAN and Managed Detection and Response (MDR) to the TPx Portfolio. • Responsive and adaptable with a proven record of success in meeting aggressive deadlines. • 11+ years of networking and security experience • Successfully ran music production company Specialties: Product Management • Product Marketing • Product Lifecycle Management • Strategic Planning • Product Development • Go-to-Market Strategy • Cross-Functional Collaboration • Customer Engagement / Voice of the Customer • Engineering • Network security • Secure SD-WAN • Managed Detection and Response • Managed IT services • Secure SD-WAN • Managed Detection and Response • Firewalls • Network Switches • Wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) • SASE • Datacenters • Cyber Security • HIPAA and PCI Compliance