Xu was briefly the Chief Technology Officer for CP Group, and the CEO of CP R&D, helping the Digital Transformation for a few hundred subsidiaries with combined revenue of $45 Billion and 350,000 employees globally. She was the CTO and SVP at
BMC Software. Xu was also the Group VP Engineering at
Acxiom, SVP at Rearden Commerce and Vitria Technology. She also held management positions at
IBM. Xu is an author of Myths of the Promotion: 10 Steps to a Successful Career, lecturer at
Stanford University. Xu is a co-inventor and patent owner in Architecture for web-based on-line-off-line digital certificate authority. == Awards ==