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Portland, Oregon, United States

Supporting First Responder Chaplains throughout Northwest Oregon and Southern Washington.

Portland, Oregon Area

Offering a wide range of marketing consulting to help companies of all sizes be more effective.* Marketing Consulting - Content creation, Training material, Messaging and Positioning, Unique Value Proposition, Strategic Planning, Product Launch; Channel Development

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

I am an Executive Coach with over 10 years and hundreds of hours of professional experience coaching individuals and teams to maximize their impact in the organization as well as in their personal lives. While I enjoy coaching leaders at all levels in an organization, my passion is assisting younger leaders excel as they move into manager and director roles. I also enjoy coaching individuals as they transition into a new season of their life. Specific areas of coaching focus are: Leadership Development, Career Transitions, Performance Improvement, Retirement Planning and Life Direction.

Portland, Oregon Area

Alert Logic is the leading provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions for the cloud. o Lead North American Field Marketing team to generate leads, create sales opportunities, build revenue pipeline and develop customer acquisition targets. o Direct Alert Logic marketing strategy focused at the premier cloud providers: Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.o Oversee Alert Logic's Global Channel Marketing efforts which includes resellers, VARs, distributors and System Integrators. o Coordinate Alert Logic's corporate and partner events including AWS re:Invent, AWS summits, Microsoft Ignite and Alert Logic's Cloud Security Summits

Palo Alto, California

o Lead the Strategy efforts for VMware's Global Alliance organization driving revenue and sales influence through the server OEM, System Integrator, Storage, Networking and ISV alliances. o Oversee the VMware Technical Alliance program targeting VMware’s technology partners. o Drive VMware’s online Marketplace effortso Build execution plans to grow new partners and incremental sources of revenue. o Develop reporting methodology to monitor alliance performance. o Lead a team of 8 individuals executing across the global Alliance organization.

o Supervised team of 10 Directors/Senior Managers supporting VMware’s key server OEM, System Integrator, Networking and Storage alliances.o Created integrated marketing initiatives, focused messages and targeted Go-to-Market plans for each Allianceo Managed marketing spend of $20M/year to drive incremental Alliance revenue

o Created VMware’s first System Builder Program targeting channel OEM partnerso Drove engagement, training, recruitment, sales tools and specialized Go-to-Market plans for this new route to marketo Developed new VMware’s licensing model specifically for channel OEM

o Created strategic products to grow notebook customer sales• Grew Channel Mobile CPU sales by 250% to $1B/yearo Directed Notebook ODM partnerships in Taiwan, PRC and Turkeyo Developed new mobile marketing Alliance program known as “Verified by Intel” o Led 2006 and 2007 Strategic Long Range Planning for division

o Drove Intel’s first WLAN design wins with the largest notebook manufacturers (Dell, HP, IBM) to launch Centrino Notebookso Devised strategic products and OEM marketing plans in support of Intel rack mounted server and Networking Appliance product line. o Led team in multiple large design wins for Gigabit Ethernet and 10 GbE LAN silicon.o Built strong OEM and Field Sales working relationships to drive sales targets in excess of $500M/year

Singapore

o Led a team of >50 focused on APAC-wide Distribution and Channel Customers. Sales exceeded $600M/year.o Managed a yearly marketing budget of >$6M to drive demand creation for Intel’s Processor and Networking Componentso Launched new Networking and CPU products to OEM partners complete with marketing plans and localization requirementso Implemented organizational efficiencies supporting geographic diversity

o Created Intel’s Channel for delivering boxed CPUs and Motherboards to System Builder customers. Sales in excess of 20M units/year. • Intel Achievement Award winner o Directed Strategic Planning and Product Development efforts for Intel’s innovative line of OverDrive™ processorso Managed complete life cycle Product Management of Intel’s Boxed Processors, Boxed Motherboards, OverDrive Processors and Math CoProcessor Product Lines.

o Responsibility for budgets, expense management, P&L reporting

Mba, Marketing

Master of Business Administration student with a focus on Marketing, Strategy and Finance

Executive Coaching, Leadership And Transitional Coaching

Completed an intensive 8 month program focused on Leadership and Transitional coaching

Bachelor Of Science, Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering student

Bachelor Of Applied Science - Basc, Engineering