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Phoenix, AZ, US

Boston, MA, US

Boston, MA, US

Making open source software work better—for everyone.

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

Partner & President at a tech-focused branding and marketing agency working with both large companies and high-growth startups. My job included day-to-day operations of managing a growing firm, including sales and lead generation, financial operations, client management, human resources, and strategy/planning.We've developed branding and marketing.

The Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) is an open innovation project led by management guru and bestselling author Gary Hamel, aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. The premise: while "modern" management is one of humankind's most important inventions, it is now a mature technology that must be reinvented for a new age.In my role as.

I am the author of book on community-based brand strategy and positioning development published by QUE/Pearson in 2011 and based on experiences at Red Hat.The Ad-Free Brand integrates classic brand positioning concepts with 21st century digital strategies, tools, and practices while highlighting new ways to collaboratively uncover, communicate, and evolve.

Raleigh, NC, US

At Red Hat, I led brand strategy and a marcom team / internal creative agency over a decade as company grew from pre-IPO startup to $1B in annual revenues and 3000 employees in over 50 countries.At Red Hat, we developed a unique, community-based approach to building the brand, using the company’s open source software development model as inspiration. We.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Served in several marketing communications and editorial roles for the consumer division of IBM.

Editor in charge of acquiring new titles for computer book publisher. Managed relationships with authors, negotiated contracts with authors, led team assigned to each title, developed proposals, recruited new authors, etc.

Worked as an assistant to Washington D.C. literary agent Raphael Sagalyn, who represented bestselling authors like David Maraniss, Tom Bodett, Nathan McCall, Robert Putnam, Bill Strauss, Bob Rotella, and Don Peppers. Pitched books to editors, negotiated subsidiary rights agreements, managed author relationships, evaluated manuscripts, etc. Also helped.