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Texas, United States

Southlake, Texas, Us

Southlake, Texas, Us

Southlake, Texas, Us

As a Senior Technical Product Manager, I serve in the dual role of Product Owner and Scrum Master for 2 high-performance Agile development teams. Our focus is transforming legacy mainframe/TPF products into modern Web services. My specialties include business analysis, requirements gathering, team leadership, progress reporting, and documentation. My "tools of the trade" are CA Rally, Atlassian JIRA, Altova XML Spy, ParaSoft SOA test and the full Microsoft productivity suite.

I provide product marketing fundamentals to entrepreneurs and not-for-profit organizations who need to boot strap or formalize their marketing efforts on a case-by-case basis. Whether your "product" is an actual product, a service, an experience, or yourself, a strong marketing foundation is essential. I can help with core messaging, positioning, marketing strategy, creating marketing plans, collateral & sales tools development, marketing communications and digital marketing. I believe that if organizations take the time to create a solid product marketing foundation, they will be more nimble once they are established. If you are passionate about your cause or idea, but are getting stuck on the marketing aspects, perhaps I can help.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Responsible for all aspects of Product Marketing for $1.2B storage products, storage solutions portfolio and storage virtualization portfolio. Prior to this role, I held various product marketing manager roles in other business units.* Successfully led 2009's Open Storage Launch, exceeding launch goals by 7x while re-establishing Sun Microsystems as a thought leader in the storage industry* Led cross-company launch teams to refresh ENTIRE product line by means of 5 quarterly web launches in 18 months, leveraging social media and web marketing to maximize reach and minimize spend* Managed team of 8 product marketing managers and was personally accountable for the quantity and quality of their output.* Approved, allocated and reconciled $1M marketing budget. MARKETING SKILLSProduct Marketing, Messaging & Content Development, Marketing Strategy & Planning, Outbound Marketing, Integrated Marketing, Solutions Marketing, Integrated Launches, Analyst Relations (AR), Public Relations (PR), Customer & Executive Briefings, Event Marketing, Digital Marketing, Marketing Programs, Field Marketing, Channel Marketing, Customer References, Web Marketing, Marketing CommunicationsMANAGEMENT SKILLSTeam Leadership, Employee Development, Personnel Management, Hiring, Budgeting, Process Improvement & Automation, Conflict Resolution, Change Management, Negotiation Skills, Partner Relations, Market Development Funds ManagementPRODUCTSUltraSPARC microprocessors, Embedded Systems, Hardware Encryption, Network Interface Cards (Ethernet, Infiniband), Solaris OS, Volume Servers, Blade Servers, Midrange/Workgroup Servers (FC, SATA), Enterprise Servers, Clustering Software, Host Bus Adaptors (FC, FCoE), SAN Switches & Directors, NAS Systems, File Systems (ZFS, SAM-FS, QFS), Midrange Disk Arrays, Enterprise Storage Arrays, Data Services, Disk Storage Virtualization, Tape Drives (LTO, T10000), StorageTek Tape Libraries, VTL, Tiered Storage, Flash Storage, Unified SAN/NAS System.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Product Marketing Manager, Sun Storage 9900 SeriesManaged all product marketing output for enterprise disk storage platforms and associated software. This product line was delivered by means of the Sun/HDS strategic partnership, one of the most enduring and successful technology alliances in the industry*Received Storage Magazine's "Product of the Year" award twice*World record SPC-1 benchmark result for best performance (200,245.73 IOPS), and best price/performance ($17.31/SPC-1 IOPS)*Developed and executed go-to-market plans to deliver $500M+ in revenue annually*Re-branded and re-positioned HDS products to align with Sun's portfolio*Produced all launch deliverables for the Sun StorageTek 9000 line over 3 launch cycles: messaging, positioning, branding, executive briefings*Face-of-the-product during press and analyst briefings, executive briefings, sales training, partner events, industry events *Developed and delivered sales training to 200 new sales staff after 2005 acquisition of StorageTek*Created an automated tool to prioritize and distribute $500K MD fund, freeing up ~15 hours/wk & align funds with sales plans*Created Sun Microsystems' first enterprise product Try & Buy program. First 3 trials resulted in $3.5M in revenue and $1.5M in servicesMARKETING SKILLSProduct Marketing, Product Positioning, Messaging & Content Development, Analyst Bulletproofing, Integrated Marketing Programs, Solutions Marketing, Integrated Launches, Analyst Relations (AR), Public Relations (PR), Customer & Executive Briefings, Event Marketing, Digital Marketing, Field Marketing, Channel Marketing, Customer References, Web MarketingMANAGEMENT SKILLSTeam Leadership, Negotiation, Partner Relations, Budgeting, MDF Management, Process AutomationPRODUCTSSun Storage 9900 series, Enterprise Disk, Enterprise Data Services, Storage Virtualization, Tiered Storage, DLM, Sun Storage 9900 HiCommand Suite, ­HBAs (FC, FICON, ESCON), SAN Directors, Mainframe storage.

Southlake, Texas, Us

During my career with Sabre I held various roles with increasing responsibility. In my final role in Field Marketing / Training, I was responsible for representing and promoting Sabre to customers, teaching Sabre products, and ensuring compliance with Y2K upgrade. I also worked closely with account executives to create and execute quarterly territory sales and marketing plans to increase market share. * Promoted to Training Manager (acting) * Selected for special 3 month assignment in Kuala Lumpur to support Abacus migration project.Prior to my role in the field, I was a Sabre Specialist on the Sabre Software helpdesk, helping subscribers best utilize the system. This was as much a marketing role as a technical support role. * Promoted to a second level support role within 1 year of joining the team * Selected for a 3 month assignment in London, UK in support of the STA Travel migration projectPrior to my role with Sabre, I served on the CRS help desk for American Airlines Vacations helping travel agents save time and better serve their customers by booking vacation packages directly from their desks. * Helped train 200 new reservation agents in only 6 weeks on both Sabre and ATOP * Most of the trainees had neither travel industry experience nor computer experience MARKETING SKILLSProduct Marketing, Product Training, Marketing Strategy & Planning, Outbound Marketing, Integrated Marketing, Solutions Marketing, Customer Briefings, Executive Briefings, Event Marketing, Marketing Programs, Field Marketing, Marketing CommunicationsMANAGEMENT SKILLSTeam Leadership, Personnel Management, Expense Reporting, Staff Development, Conflict Resolution, Change Management, Sales Partnership, Internal CommunicationsPRODUCTSSabre Subscriber Suite with an emphasis on Planet Sabre, ticket exchanges, manual pricing (phase IV, 3.5, 3.75, net remittance), Sabre Flexible edits; Abacus Subscriber Suite