Jason Carrier, Founder & Partner

Jason started his career in the US Air Force as an IT operations specialist. He spent the next decade as a network and systems engineer on defense programs in Iraq, Hawaii and Arizona, and then in healthcare cloud. He learned what infrastructure software has to do by running it under pressure.

After an MS in Technology Commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin and a turn as a startup founder, he moved into product management. He has since led some of the best-known products in network monitoring:

• SolarWinds: product manager for Network Performance Monitor, the flagship of the Orion portfolio. He helped steer the product through the SUNBURST supply-chain incident response.
• IBM: senior and then principal PM for SevOne network performance management. His product enhancements drove record 29% year-over-year revenue growth, and he integrated SevOne across IBM's AIOps portfolio.
• Kentik: principal PM. He took a new network monitoring product from zero to one and scaled its ARR 45× in two years.

He founded Oro Valley Product Group to bring that combination, an engineer's instincts and a product leader's discipline, to companies building the next generation of infrastructure software.

Get in touch