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Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Portland, Or, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Mountain View, California, Us

Lead all aspects of Cloudability marketing and served as a key member of the executive team. Created and launched a new go-to-market strategy centered on FinOps, a new market category focused on helping IT operations and finance team collaborate on mastering cloud financial management. Launched the FinOps foundation, focused on sharing FinOps best practices. This work helped lead to the successful acquisition of Cloudability by Apptio.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Lead marketing at this software-based storage systems provider, responsible for overseeing a complex mix of product/content/field marketing, sales enablement, communications, demand generation, and market category development functions for the firm -- as well as all digital marketing, SEO/SEM, and display/social advertising. Instrumental in helping the company create a brand-new market category (Universal-Scale File Storage) and in securing Qumulo’s debut position as a visionary on the Gartner Magic Quadrant. Lead field marketing, guiding company participation in dozens of top technology tradeshows and field marketing events each year. Oversaw the launch of marketing operations in EMEA. Lead a partner marketing team utilizing channel, OEM, public cloud and ISV marketing to enable large-scale go-to-market leverage. Manage the entire marketing technology stack utilizing Salesforce, Google Analytics, Full Circle, and Marketo.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Served as a marketing executive for Amazon’s AWS Cloud division, overseeing a 200+ person team that included product marketing, enterprise marketing, launch marketing and customer evidence. Oversaw a diverse mix of marketing activity, including operational planning, the launch of dozens of new AWS services, customer adoption campaigns, competitive intelligence, vertical industry marketing, AWS brand research and development, AWS re: Invent content development, including executive keynotes and break-out sessions. Led the launch marketing team responsible for bringing dozens of new, groundbreaking AWS services and features to market, including Amazon Lightsale, Amazon AI, Amazon Athena, Amazon Snowball Edge, and AWS Shield.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Recruited as the 11th employee by this pre-revenue company (called Opscode at the time); tasked with building the firm’s marketing function and helping evangelize its groundbreaking software platform and DevOps IT operating model to technology firms, developer communities, enterprise customers and other targeted audiences around the globe. Built and led a talented 20-member global marketing team, building out and scaling all marketing department processes, operations and infrastructure. Helped create and popularize the concept of DevOps—a new software development paradigm which has become a global standard in the technology field, subsequently recommending and executing a rebranding/renaming of the company to CHEF (the name of the company’s flagship product) to further reinforce brand recognition. Member of executive team that drove the company’s revenue from zero to $50M+ in ARR (annual recurring revenue), sparked expansion from 11 to nearly 200 employees, and guided its emergence as a globally-recognized and extremely well-respected technical brand.

Brought on board by this fast-growing leader in the data storage market, leading execution of the company’s brand strategy and helping the organization define and capitalize on an innovative, first-in-kind segment (scale-out storage) within the $30B worldwide storage market. Built a 20-member worldwide marketing and communications team and propelled Isilon into a recognized leadership role within the industry, developing/implementing all advertising, branding, and communication initiatives needed to support its exponential growth as a private company—and subsequent emergence as a publicly-traded firm with $100M in annual revenues. Managed the investor relations team for the company’s IPO (widely recognized as one the most successful IPOs during the time period), creating a near $2B market cap and playing an instrumental role in crafting roadshow pitches and managing development of the S-1 SEC filing and all IPO-related communications.

New York, Ny, Us

Served on the executive team of this New York-based ad agency, guiding the agency’s operations/expansion across the West Coast and leading numerous high-profile business initiatives that resulted in securing national blue-chip clients as Microsoft and Nike. Led the firm’s nationwide technology communications practice, managed general business operations within the Seattle regional office, and supervised a team of 17 staff members. Built and scaled the agency from a start-up to a top regional firm with over $5M in annual revenues—landing and serving a “who’s who” list of clients that included Microsoft, The Gates Foundation, Nike, and Getty Images.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Recruited by this industry-leading digital media, entertainment, and software firm during its early pivotal growth years, helping establish the company’s brand and capture market share within the extremely competitive digital media player space. Accountable for all communications-related activities within the organization ranging from brand positioning, messaging, web design, product launches, and marketing communications—in addition to financial results calls, shareholder communications, and analyst communications.