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As a boutique consulting startup, we provide business and marketing services to help technology-oriented companies think, market and scale. Our sweet spot is “quick hit” projects that span a few days to a few months, tapping into my experience in growing major businesses on an international scale in the tech world. See https://vitalideasconsulting.com/ for more.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

United Planet is a non-profit organization with a mission to create a global community, one relationship at a time. We connect volunteers who want to make a difference with communities in more than 30 countries, where they learn, teach, work, engage and immerse themselves in a culture outside their comfort zone.

Seattle , Wa, Us

Babies of Homelessness is a Puget Sound nonprofit, cutting through accessibility barriers, and providing diapers and basics, free of charge, to partner agencies and families facing homelessness in urban, rural and underserved communities.

Eliminating petroleum-based plastic, one restaurant (or school) at a time.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Accountable for product marketing of a broad set of developer tools, including the $1B+ Visual Studio family and more. Additional responsibility for inspiring a wide range of developers – from Java to Node.js to .NET to… – globally to create their apps on Azure. Responsibilities include all aspects of product marketing, from overall strategy driven by customer insights and competitive analysis to positioning/messaging/naming to flawless and inspired execution of our Go-to-Market strategy – including product launches. Our team partners strongly with engineering and our global sales & marketing field teams, as well as other global functions like PR, Legal, Finance, Marcom and others.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Accountable for product marketing of a broad set of developer tools, including the $1B+ Visual Studio family and more. Additional responsibility for inspiring a wide range of developers – from Java to Node.js to .NET to… – globally to create their apps on Azure. Responsibilities include all aspects of product marketing, from overall strategy driven by customer insights and competitive analysis to positioning/messaging/naming to flawless and inspired execution of our Go-to-Market strategy – including product launches. Our team partners strongly with engineering and our global sales & marketing field teams, as well as other global functions like PR, Legal, Finance, Marcom and others.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Leading a seasoned, technical product marketing team for a $1B+ product area (Visual Studio and .NET) globally. Responsibilities include all aspects of product marketing, from overall strategy driven by customer insights and competitive analysis to positioning/messaging/naming to flawless and inspired execution of our Go-to-Market strategy – including product launches. Our team partners strongly with engineering and our global sales & marketing field teams, as well as other global functions like PR, Legal, Finance, Marcom and others.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for the comprehensive evangelism strategy & engagement approach for 26 million global developers. This includes audience segmentation, offer definition, messaging and technical content strategy, as well as channel mix. Accountable for business partnerships with all key Microsoft product groups and responsible for major product launches into the developer audience, including Windows 10 and Microsoft Azure. Change agent and influencer for a more customer-centric, scenario-driven approach.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Inspired a team of 20 combined FTE & vendor resources, responsible for evangelism outreach programs to 20 million IT professionals worldwide. Scope included a ~$xxM revenue per year subscription business, a company-wide product trial program, creation of an online e-learning platform (www.mva.ms) and a global events program (~1200 per year). Added marketing responsibility and created an innovative and extremely successful marketing campaigns around "bilingualism" where the associated live event alone delivered 7+ years of virtualization training!

Redmond, Washington, Us

Accountable for outreach to all technical audiences in Germany (~3M IT professionals, developers and technical students), including messaging, channels (web, social, PR, MarCom, events) and programs.

Helsinki, Southern Finland, Fi

Responsible for the complete startup of the German subsidiary including strategic direction, competitive analysis, revenue and personnel. Successfully established presence in the German market and created roadmap to profitability. Ramped staff to 10+.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Global Keynote Manager and Global Content Team Manager. Led a team to deliver world-class industry content through events, websites, email and social media channels like blogs, wikis, podcasts and viral marketing. Staff of 8+.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Responsible for all of Intel’s supplier-facing e-Business solutions, managed ~150k electronic transactions per month, serviced ~10,000 supplier accounts through supplier.intel.com portal hosting 30+ related applications. Annual budget of >$7M; staff of 8+.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Worldwide responsibility for all channel e-Business infrastructure (180k Channel Member Companies). Managed Channel program to establish a ground-breaking, next-generation information platform. Annual budget of $3.3M; staff of 9.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Web Site Manager for eight European languages supporting 14,000 resellers in 68 EMEA countries. Deployed the first B2B e-Commerce application at Intel to most Phase I EMEA OEM accounts. Annual budget of ~$1M; virtual team of 8.

Rotated through different departments in the first year (HR, Accounting, Sales, Marketing and Customer Service) and programmed in COBOL & Assembler within the IT department during second year.