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Downers Grove, Illinois, US

Seattle, WA, US

• My team directly owns the Go-to-Market strategy and execution for a multi-billion dollar B2B solutions portfolio with 45 of AWS’s top Storage, High Performance Compute (HPC), and independent hardware vendor (IHV).
• Delivered $120M in pipeline by developing and negotiating a $10M partner-led Proof of Concept (POC) funding program that drives 3-way co-sell between AWS, Global Systems Integrators, and Technology Partners.
• Influenced 145K+ marketing qualified leads (MQL) and over $2B in sales qualified pipeline by defining KPIs and executing co-marketing strategies to drive demand for AWS’s AI, ML, compute, enterprise application, and.
• Led 52 AWS partner integrated product launches including: Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon Sagemaker, AWS ML Developer Tools, Amazon Virtual Workstations, and VMWare Cloud on AWS, owning PR, keynotes, blogs, and paid media.
• Developed the content strategy, messaging, and assets to integrate Intel and NVidia into AWS’s Global Migrations and Machine Learning digital demand generation campaigns—increasing budgets by $4M+ and MQLs by 25%.
• Increased AWS’s digital paid media budget by $7M+ by negotiating and launching a new Intel co-funding program at AWS, which was fully utilized in 21 global campaigns in its first year

Seattle, WA, US

• Owned the definition and execution of the AWS and Intel global marketing strategy and MDF program. Deployed globally scalable co-marketing programs, tactics and content that engaged targeted sets of buyers. Drove.
• Partnered with Intel and AWS AI and machine learning product teams to launch and promote a portfolio of 3 educational devices (AWS DeepLens, AWS DeepRacer, and AWS DeepComposer) and training courses, designed to teach.
• Launched Amazon EC2 C5 instances (the first cloud instances with Intel Xeon Scalable Processors) in 2017 including – an Andy Jassy re:Invent keynote, PR, blogs, and a $3M paid search, email, and paid social campaign.
• Wrote the AWS |Intel messaging frameworks-partnering across Intel and 6 AWS product teams to highlight the customer value Intel brings to high performance computing (HPC), IoT, AI, ML, SAP, database and Windows.
• Sustained 4 years of 15%+ annual growth in AWS utilization of Intel co-marketing dollars by building a global MDF operations process and in-person workshops and online courses—training 150 Intel and AWS field and.
• Increased annual global sponsorship revenue by $4M-$9M between 2016-2019 by negotiating unique integrations for Intel across AWS field marketing and events including: AWS re:Invent, and the first AWS Global Summits.

• Buzzbee is full service technology marketing agency, delivering B2B marketing consulting services, campaign strategy, PR, and content development for the high-tech firms. Primarily accountable for growing the Intel.
• Grew account revenue by 35% by landing the CenturyLink Hyperscale Cloud launch digital campaign in the US and UK—delivering 2,300 qualified leads (110% goal). Managed a cross functional team of 15 clients to develop.
• Managed a book of ~140 Intel, AMD and CenturyLink clients representing 20% of BuzzBee’s business and $75K/month in revenue

Santa Clara, California, US

• Responsible for promotion and selling of Intel and Microsoft products through ecosystem, channel, and retail partners. Develop worldwide marketing strategies, product positioning, messaging, and marketing tactics to.
• Wrote the Intel | Microsoft “Better Together” messaging and delivered global field training for Windows Client and Microsoft in the Datacenter – including Windows 8 for consumer and enterprise, Windows Server 2013 and.
• Wrote the Intel and Windows 8 “Better Together” value propositions and copy for consumer and enterprise content used in global demand generation campaigns.
• Developed and executed the marketing communications strategy for Intel’s Microsoft account team which amplified field-enablement efforts and increased awareness of team content and activities by 30% in the first year.
• Worked cross-functionally across the Microsoft and Intel partnership to re-launch the joint device seeding program, Tablet Expedite– focusing on giving the most valuable 1,500 joint customers a trial of the latest.
• Launched and managed an editorial calendar and monthly internal newsletter that grew to over 5,000 employees and maintained an 80% open rate

Redmond, Washington, US

• Bing Ads is Microsoft’s paid search advertising platform allowing marketers to deliver targeted ads to customers based on key word searches. Primary responsibility was working across the Bing and Yahoo! partnership to.
• Launched 5 major feature releases and pilots to the Bing Ads and Yahoo! platforms in the US and international markets including pre- and post-launch field training, internal and external communications, and PR

Redmond, Washington, US

• Microsoft Executive Engagement (EE) programs aim to build, deepen and nurture relationships between customer executives and business decision makers and Microsoft’s leadership through account-based executive.
• Developed and executed new messaging and a digital marketing strategy promoting the Executive Briefing Center (EBC), Executive Sponsorship and Events to Microsoft’s customers and subsidiary marketing leads, sales reps.
• Launched the first Interactive Microsoft Product Demos within the EBC - partnering with product teams to develop 8 scenario and industry kiosks showcasing the latest consumer and enterprise devices to over 12,000.
• Launched customer evidence content program in the Redmond Executive Briefing Center (EBC) – working with multiple stakeholders, gained commitment to regular content publishing calendar resulting in 22 references on.
• Owner of the Microsoft Brand refresh for Executive Engagement - ensuring Microsoft brand alignment across major EE content and programs and like CEO Summit, Global CIO Summit, Executive Partner Summit, and the.
• Led the cross-functional team to evolve EBC reporting which defined KPIs uncovered actionable insight while communicating program performance to stakeholders

Redmond, Washington, US

• The Microsoft Home is Microsoft’s largest publically accessible consumer prototype. Customers are guided through a fictitious family’s home 15 years in the future, experiencing over 30 demos showcasing Microsoft’s.
• Managed 4 IT systems and demo updates and maintenance of the Microsoft Home of the Future, Microsoft’s largest publically accessible consumer prototype showcasing over 30 demos of Microsoft’s vision of how current IT.
• Reduced hardware procurement costs by 65% by implementing local virtualized environment with Hyper-V, allowing us to run up to 6 VMs per server.
• Increased the value of the Siemens service contract 12% by formulating a new staffing model and expanding the services to include core business functions such as forecasting, ordering and budget management.
• Ensured platform stability and security. Created and tested all technical documentation and evaluate business risk of any operational changes in the space.
• Developed a reliability tracking process to measure key performance indicators. The new process helped identify problems quickly and reduced software deployment errors by 65% after implementation.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Excell Data Corp.’s Technical Support Group (TSG) researches, designs and executes custom technology strategies for events of all types across the globe. Primarily responsible for Microsoft keynote demo and IT systems.
• Built and executed the IT plan for high profile Microsoft events of 15,000+ attendees including—Windows 2003 Server Launch, Office 2013 launch, E3, WinHec and Comdex with hands-on labs with up to 700 machines in the.
• Technical Project Manager for approximately 100 events including: trade show booths, product launches and executive keynote productions across the United States and Asia Pacific
• Team lead in charge of infrastructure design, timeline, pre-event build out, onsite deployment and support of the enterprise network and redundancy systems for Microsoft’s shows
• Keynote Lead for annual sales conference, MGB 2004, which showcased over 21 product demos delivered by Microsoft senior executives and celebrity presenters to an audience of over 15,000

Las Vegas, Nevada, US

Managed 4 Tellers and 2 Account RepresentativesOriginated and closed consumer loans including personal, auto and home equity lines. Monitored branch profitability. Planed branch promotions.

Bachelors Of Business Administration, Marketing; Finance

Microsoft Professional Business Certificate, Business Administration And Management, General