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California, United States

Founding CMO for Applied Quantum Software, with the goal to make quantum computing practical and streamlined for the finance industry. We have partnerships with industry players OneMarketData, Triaxiom Capital, and Quantum Rings, and are well-connected across academia and industry. As the “ChatGPT moment” for quantum computing approaches, AQS is building.

Menlo Park, California, US

First marketing hire at this exciting Series A data-based startup founded by the originator of the data lakehouse, Vinoth Chandra. The lakehouse adds query capability and manageability to all kinds of data, including semi-structured and unstructured data - as used in predictive analytics, machine learning and AI. I'm leading first-ever Onehouse efforts in.

San Mateo, California, US

Consulting roles in product marketing, adding sales enablement, positioning, and messaging to world-class content marketing skills. Companies include Tetrate (service mesh) and now Talend (data management). Also co-author, Quantum Computing For Dummies.

Mountain View, California, US

Director of Product Marketing for this fast-growing startup. Unravel Data uses AI and machine learning to lead the way in DataOps for big data and streaming data. Unravel solves performance and cost problems, and opens up new opportunities on-premises, in the cloud, and cross-platform. We used product-led growth (PLG), jobs to be done (JTBD), and a.

San Francisco, California, US

First Director of Content Marketing at SingleStore (was MemSQL), a leading NewSQL database company. SingleStore is The No-Limits Database for the most challenging applications. I lead product launches, including first product-led growth (PLG) offering for SingleStore.

San Francisco, California, US

Responsible for strategy and execution for inbound marketing at NGINX, including the NGINX blog, ebooks, and webinars. Analysis and reporting for successful outreach across multiple channels. Managed documentation for future products. Contributor to marketing teams' goals and implementation, including demand generation, social media interaction, and SEO..

Mountain View, CA, US

Content marketing consultant with companies including Google and Recurly. At Google, worked with internal Finance group to create a new Google Help Center in crash three-week project, then extend it over several quarters as new features added. At online payments startup Recurly, worked with small marketing team as content creator, including blogging and.

Foster City, California, US

• Researching new technology for use in company's payments, merchant, and cardholder networks
• Team member on R&D project connected to Hadoop and big data technologies
• Applied big data to pioneering global game development toolkit
• Used DITA and XML authoring tools for large authoring project
• Documented control system for thousands of multi-function peripherals worldwide

San Jose, California, US

• Founding technical writing manager for Silicon Valley Fastest-Growing Private Company
• Developed new Tutorials format for documentation delivery with resulting increase in usage
• Moved about 1000 Knowledge Base articles to easy-to-read, graphical model
• Created in-depth PDFs for API and pre-sales documents
• Worked in Salesforce Knowledge, MadCap Flare, SnagIt, Word, Excel, Google Docs, Trello
• Active in Marketo Green Team and product donation program.

• Wrote book on leading social networking service for business use, first-to-market book
• Created book/media package for iPad with searchable text, linked video and audio
• Topics of other recent works include iPad, WordPress, Google Apps, creating Web pages
• Consulted to software development companies on Web sites and marketing strategy.

London, GB

• Created and documented online IPTV video portal for HSBC’s 330,000 employees globally, reducing travel costs and emissions as part of HSBC’s “first carbon neutral bank” strategy
• Assessed user needs for Cisco system through interviews with 40 senior stakeholders globally
• Created in-context help; end user, publisher, manager, governance documents; reach study
• Created, populated, and maintained SharePoint site for corporate knowledge base.

• Managed Hargreaves Risk and Strategy Web site, company knowledge base, extranet
• Wrote for and edited Risk Digest for housing association managers and regulators
• Conducted risk management assessments for UK housing associations; documented results
• Conducted assessment of networked and Web 2.0-based risk management solutions.

Drummondville, Québec, CA

• Delivered Web site upgrade focused on accessibility for the blind and visually impaired
• Wrote and reviewed product documentation including large-font print and in-context help
• Led product development effort for next-generation text to speech reader, myReader II
• Researched, wrote, delivered report assessing strategic direction for company worldwide.

Glenview, IL, US

• Created research reports describing product needs for next-generation GPS devices
• Created and revised multi-lingual documentation and in-context help for global audiences
• Wrote marketing communications deliverables for online, in-store and customer use
• Managed user interface redesign deployed throughout Navman product line.

London, England, GB

• Lead writer, managed teams of writers and designers for communications consultancy
• Led improvements to print, online publications for BAE, Smith & Nephew, Coca-Cola
• Writing and editing for UK government agencies, Amersham Biosciences, Vodafone.

• AOL – created, edited content for marketing channels with millions of dollars in revenue
• AltaVista – Group Product Manager leading team of five, sites w/1 million daily pageviews
• Microsoft – Defined site architecture, wrote documents, in-context help, revised online knowledge base; led re-launch of WebTV site and extranet.

Cupertino, California, US

• Writer and manager for QuickTime VR, QuickTime Web interface, QTVR Web site
• Technical documentation for Apple hardware, API documentation for Taligent object-oriented operating system, including in-context help, developer knowledge base
• Worked in Apple competitive analysis team comparing Apple to Macintosh capabilities in multimedia
• Led Apple "RoadMap" strategic plan presented to top executives, press and analysts.

Msc, Information Systems

Ba, Information Systems Management