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Sunnyvale, Ca

Responsible for crafting and maintaining corporate messaging, managing the publishing house, writing blogs and bylines for executive and product management staff, developing position and white papers, composing news releases, and redesigning the external blog site. Published articles appear regularly in such publications as Forbes, CSO, SecurityWeek, as well as a wide variety of specialty publications under the bylines of Fortinet's executive and senior leadership staff. I also work closely with contract writers and agencies to edit and manage the messaging and materials they produce, along with editing all of the threat research blogs produced by the global FortiGuard Labs research teams.During my tenure, Fortinet's capture of mindshare, readership, and earned ink has increased ten-fold. This has played a clear role in helping to shift the market's perception of Fortinet from one of a primarily engineering-driven company to now being recognized as an innovative thought leader in the security market.

San Jose, Ca

My responsibilities included understanding the market pressures and trends of a variety of focused markets, including data center, virtualization, cloud, email, web, and service provider. For each of these markets I was responsible for understanding the underlying security issues and customer care-abouts. I then developed solutions-based collateral that showed how Cisco security and networking technologies worked together to address those needs and concerns, building appropriate sales enablement tools and programs to educate sales people about each opportunity and bring teams with different specialization together to provide an integrated sales approach, understanding the competitive marketplace, and working directly with customers to refine messaging and provide customized solutions.I accomplished these tasks through direct field, engineering, and customer engagements; managing a team to ensure that our message was amplified appropriately through collateral and program development, web presence, social media, and tools such as video, animation, and learning; and collaborating with specialized marketing teams across Cisco to insert customized security messaging into their programs and materials

San Jose, Ca

My responsibilities for managing the Cisco PIX/ASA firewall family included tracking field and customer requirements, building product requirement documents, driving feature development with the engineering team, developing and maintaining product budgets and forecasting, maintaining technical documentation that outlined product features and network integration scenarios, tracking the competitive landscape, growing marketshare, and evangelizing the solution with the field, customers, and the press and analyst community.

American Fork, Ut

My responsibilities covered the entire range of marketing activities. These included the creation and management of communications, overseeing web site development, art direction, advertising, copy writing, trade show coordination, and working with trade services such as printers, trade shows, and advertisers. I also coordinated budgets and contracts, and oversaw brand and marketing development, and oversaw the development of all sales, technical, and customer facing materials, including sales guides, presentations, brochures, technical documents, etc.

Orem, Ut

Responsibilities included the coordination and development of all marketing-related activities, including advertising, copy writing, trade show coordination, and working with trade services such as printers, trade shows, and advertisers. I also coordinated budgets and contracts, as well as oversaw brand development.

Orem, Ut

I wrote, laid out, and printed all sales, technical, and customer facing materials, including sales guides, presentations, brochures, technical documents, etc.

English, 4.0

My coursework covered traditional English courses, as well as technical communications, developing online outreach programs.

Bachelor’S Degree, English, Secondary Education, 3.85

Activities and Societies: Graduated Cum LaudeAt Kennesaw College I had a double major in English and Secondary Education. Upon graduation.

Graphic Design, 3.5

I began my college training at BYU, entering original as a theater arts and graphics arts major. I then switched majors to English.