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Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

ICANN’s mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer – a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn’t have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable.

Portland, Or, Us

Lucid Meetings helps people run better meetings by supporting meeting preparation, facilitating a collaborative in-meeting experience, centralizing a team's meeting records, and automating the distribution of meeting notes and action items.

Portland, Or, Us

Portland, Oregon, Us

Portland, Or, Us

Kavi enables committees and workgroups to achieve critical goals. We are a secure, web-based platform that brings together participants from many domains. Kavi tools propel the process, measure participation, monitor activity and facilitate consensus.- Repositioned company from a web IT provider to a leader in the SaaS space for standards organizations.- Initiated marketing campaigns which improved the sales pipeline from 10 opportunities and 2 months visibility to 75 opportunities and 12 months visibility.- Pushed the company into two new markets, corporate standards management and the association collaboration space.- Introduced the product management function and transitioned the company from an engineering to a marketing led product development process. This resulted a marked improvement in overall end user satisfaction with new releases.- Speaker at multiple industry events.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Consultant with IBM (BTO and ISC groups) on internal and client facing projects.- Created go-to-market plan for new outsourced Supply Chain Event Management services platform.- Crafted new ROI-based sales presentation for the IBM BusinessTone (business transformation) services.- Engaged by IBM to work with The Gap senior executives (EVP of Supply Chain and EVP/CIO) and their respective staffs to strategize and prioritize $33M in global supply chain IT investments.- Conducted fact-finding missions in APAC supply chain offices.- Consulted with brand executives to understand retail requirements.- Coordinated strategy sessions with senior management teams.

Viacore provided Software-as-a-Service for on-demand partner integration and on-going management and maintenance of data synchronization across the extended value chain. Viacore was founded in 12/1999 and acquired by IBM in 02/2006.- Led all product marketing efforts.- Spearheaded RFP and SOW responses.- Set all RFP and contract pricing and supported business development executives in client negotiations.- Critical in closing business at Cisco, The Gap, Nokia, HP, Compaq, Arrow Electronics, and NEC, among others (average contract size of $2.5M over 3 years).- Led majority of product and service presentations including all those for key prospects.Interfaced regularly with executive management from both prospects and clients. - Developed sales and product presentations, sales collateral, and demos including ROI calculation tools.- Responsible for defining BusinessTone Gateway, a software solution that was acquired by IBM (prior to full company acquisition) for integration into their Websphere product line. - BusinessTone technology was listed in InfoWorld’s “100 Most Innovative Corporate IT Solutions” (2001 & 2005) and Forbes “Best of the Web” B2B Solutions.- Led Viacore internal team responsible for helping Cisco create eHub, the first large scale, real-time supply chain B2B hub.

Printrak is a worldwide supplier of public safety technology including Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) systems, Jail Management Systems, Computer Aided Dispatch, and other criminal justice applications. Printrak was acquired by Motorola in 11/2000.- Responsible for business case analysis for all new product development efforts, including market segmentation, recommendation for positioning and distribution strategies, and modeling long term profitability.- Crafted strategy for maneuvering company into new high growth market of government-to-business information mediation by aggregating and reselling cross-correlated incident and criminal history data.Implemented strategic marketing planning process to maximize return on research and development investments by defining and focusing efforts on derivative, platform, or breakthrough projects.- Repositioned all product lines to meet competitive pressures. Selected ad agency and created interactive sales tools and documentation to support new positioning. Presented new product objectives at the company’s annual sales and user’s conference (with 500 attendees).- Performed joint sales calls on significant or strategic customers needing to understand the long-term corporate, product, and technology roadmap.- Identified a new product opportunity and developed requirements for a new linchpin product that generated $5M in bookings 60 days after product launch.- Responsible for company positioning relative to the investment community.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Leading global distributor of IT products.

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