Hi, everyone,

Pivotal is nominating Josh Collins for the Diego project lead in the Application Runtime PMC.

Josh joined Pivotal R&D in March 2018 as the product manager for the Release Integration team and as of April 2019 has been carrying out most of the PM responsibilities on the Diego team.

Josh was previously the director of product management for a personalized products company and subsequently managed the A/B testing and optimization efforts for a B2C career development company. Early in his career, Josh worked with a team of three to design and launch the flagship product of what is now a successful company in the backup and disaster recovery space (Aptare).

In a previous life, Josh worked for the Berkeley Unified School District as a middle-school teacher and supplemented his income selling foraged wild mushrooms to local restaurants in Berkeley and Oakland. While working as a teacher he ran the school's computer lab and began his journey into networking, graphic design, web development and beyond. His early successes moonlighting on tech gigs changed his trajectory and ultimately led to his current employment at Pivotal.

Josh holds a BA in Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MA in Education from University Washington Seattle.

Please send any other nominations directly to me or in reply to this message no later than 11:59 PM PDT on Monday, June 24, 2019.

Thanks,
Eric Malm