Russell Katz
Vice President - End User Technology Product Owner Of The End User Platform
Chantilly, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolRussell Katz is a seasoned technology executive with over two decades of experience and a decade in senior leadership, currently serving as Vice President and Product Owner for Morgan Stanley’s End User Platform overseeing 250,000+ Windows endpoints across five continents. He combines hands-on systems engineering (Windows, VDI, SCCM/Intune, JAMF, Group Policy) with large-scale program delivery—driving a 99.51% Windows 10→11 upgrade success and $12M+ cost avoidance on a 40,000-seat refresh. Known for marrying performance-driven automation and vendor partnerships, he achieved 22% VDI density improvements and has a track record integrating technologies post-merger (E*TRADE). A clear communicator who runs high-impact stakeholder forums and sits on multiple customer advisory boards, he brings enterprise operational rigor plus a penchant for pragmatic tooling and testing that materially improves user experience.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Github Skills (4)
dse4
k8s2
storage2
kubernetes1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
russkatz/dse-halfday-workshop
Sep 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:41 commits, 1 PR, 138 pushes in 1 year 5 months
russkatz/dse-k8s-local
Jul 2018 - Oct 2020
DSE on Kubernetes using statefulsets and local storage
Contributions:48 pushes in 2 years 3 months
dselocal-storagek8skubernetesstorage
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