Fred has been in the software industry for +15 years. Currently working as a Director of Product Management and Tech Marketing for Pivotal, his job is to help customers from all industries build business-relevant Big Data, Fast Data, Mobile and IoT solutions. In recent past, he led the Pivotal Cloud Foundry specialists pre-sales group. Before Pivotal, he started up the VMware vFabric business in Latam, lead a pre-sales engineering team for Red Hat and worked for IBM, Ericsson and HP. nHe is a very experienced presenter of several important conferences such as QCon Rio, OSCON, ApacheCon NA and Europe, SpringOne, Red Hat Summit, Gartner Summit and JavaOne.