Ed Kurata Email & Phone Number

San Jose, California, Us

Campus Switching product accessories (Transceivers, etc). Product Mgmt, providing direction for R&D for accessory support. Product forecasting, knowledge expert on technology and solution positioning. Coordinate between Product Engineering, Supply Chain, Product Marketing and Regional Presalesteams with regard to Transceivers and other accessories.Provide strategic consulting within the Campus Switching Product Line Mgmt group for contact points of information to/from the Field Sales & Systems Engineering teams.

Houston, Texas, Us

Pre-sales Solutions Architect, providing support and process implementation for HP Networking specific solutions to the Americas region.I was the "connector" for many in the Region -- if I didn't know the answer, I most likely knew who to redirect the teams to for their answers. I got the nickname of "the Human Router".

San Francisco, California, Us

Product Manager of the Cascade Division Shark and Pilot products

Houston, Texas, Us

HQ liason between HP Enterprise Services(formerly HP EDS) and ProCurve divisions,execute technical training programs for EDS teams, provide technical marketing support to EDS Acct teams worldwide.

Houston, Texas, Us

Managed technical product aspects for hi-end and core switching products for ProCurve Networking division.Technical customer presentations, inputs to engineering for product requirements/design choice w/r/t customer impact.

Houston, Texas, Us

Responsible for HP ProCurve 1RU products, technical expert on the products, Represented Support teams to the R&D efforts, Customer facing for Product Information. Led Beta Testing efforts on my span of New Product introductions as well as created content for New Product Intro trainings and support team technical deep-dive trainings.

Fund Raising campaigns and events, Board member recruitment. Yu-Ai Kai during this time was a $700K organization, and provides services to Senior Citizens in the San Jose Japanese community

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Original Technical Marketing Manager of gigabit startup. Created foundation for Training and courseware for Foundry Products

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Product Marketing Manager for the FastIron, NetIron, BigIron and ServerIron switching products. Mktg liason to Hewlett-Packard as they OEM'd the BigIron as the HP 9000 Series Routing Switch. Created the initial Training Materials, and eventually formed the Educational Services group within Foundry Networks.

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Product Manager for ATM/Token Ring switch

Systems Engineer covering territory west of the Rockies including Western Canada. Top producing Sales team

Product Manager for HP LaserJet network printing enhancement product. Project Manager for Testing projects for clients such as 3Com, Cisco, Crescendo Communications

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Landmark Education 6-Day Advanced Course and Mastery of Empowerment Courses staff manager; managed volunteer sub-teams (ATP - Advanced Training Program) for particular events in the courses (Breakthrough process, Course Leader Support); Ropes Course Tyrolian Traverse event (Bottom Director)

Stamford, Connecticut, Us

covered the Northeast quadrant of the US (New England, NY-Tri-state, northern Midwest and Eastern Canada) providing pre-sales support for ITT Xtra PC clones. Customer Presentations/Demonstration of equipment and trade-show support.

Houston, Texas, Us

Customer Services Systems Engineering (Large Systems Group); Internal SW Services

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

NCR BASIC emulator team - wrote the debugger routines

Bachelors, Computer Science

College Prep, College Prep