As the Vice President of Business Solutions & Partnerships at Community Brands, I am responsible for the management and advancement of our association and event technology (A&E) division's key strategic accounts, business & partnership development, and solution engineering. With a vision of investigating innovative ways that we can collaboratively create non-profit solutions, we are empowering our teams, partners, and customers to reach and exceed their strategic goals. Success is never accidental.- Lead and drive partnership and business development strategies across the A&E product lines to increase revenue for Community Brands.- Oversee the ideation, planning, and production of revenue-generating strategies, initiatives, and events.- Set, measure, and reach goals, plans, and KPIs for the partnership and business development team.- Build infrastructure, processes, and best practices to support the work of partnership and business development, including the introduction of tools and systems as needed.- Work collaboratively with leaders across the organization to define and create business development strategies.- Lead and oversee solution engineering teams across the A&E product lines.- Establish goals, operational objectives, learning objectives, and work plans for the solution engineering teams.- Maintain overall planning for staffing, budgeting, and changes within the sales engineering function.- Cultivate a dynamic, engaging and knowledgeable team of product evangelists.- Drive the Community Brands product messaging and strategy with the marketing team and support of other cross company product lines.- Collaboratively work with our sales team to define, maintain, and translate the high level initiatives and goals for new sales. Go the extra mile to blow past the goal!- Help associations find their awesome sauce in a wide variety of Community Brands products that will accelerate their digital transformation journey.- Always enjoy the ride!!

As the Vice President of Sales Engineering at Community Brands, I am responsible for managing all facets of the Sales Engineer teams across our association and event technology products. The primary role of the Sales Engineer team is to assist our sales and marketing organizations achieve their quarterly and annual sales targets, while servicing our clients and new prospects.- Establish goals, operational objectives, and work plans for the Sales Engineering team across the A&E product lines.- Provide direction and strategy to the Senior Leadership Team to ensure operational excellence.- Maintain overall planning for staffing, budgeting, and changes within the Sales Engineering function.- Cultivate a dynamic, engaging and knowledgeable team of product evangelists.- Actively coach technical sales and demo strategies for key strategic deals.- Enrich the Sales Engineer team’s storytelling as an association technology domain expert with over 30 years of industry experience. Not to mention being a Salesforce Certified Administrator.- Collaboratively work with our Sales team to define, maintain, and translate the high level initiatives and goals for new sales. Go the extra mile to blow past the goal!- Drive the Community Brands product messaging and strategy with the Marketing team and support of other cross company product lines.- Facilitate the ongoing sales enablement needs, research, prioritization, and deployment based on feedback from customers and prospects. All the while incorporating influences from both partners (ex. Salesforce) and the association industry.- Embrace change, don’t battle it. Growth does not happen without change. Changes and innovation are just naturally happening in all of the Community Brands products as well as all around us. We need to recognize that change is constant and love it!- Help associations find their awesome sauce in a wide variety of Community Brands products that will accelerate their digital transformation journey.

There are many innovations that are disrupting association and non profit business as we know it. Product enablement helps to get ahead of the curve and provides insights to paint the picture of where we are going with Nimble AMS and Salesforce.As the Director of Product Enablement at Community Brands for our Nimble AMS product, I am responsible for crafting the messaging of how an association can transform themselves using Nimble AMS and Salesforce. This role has me blending my years of association and business knowledge with the quick moving innovation we are releasing in Nimble AMS and leveraging from the powerful Salesforce ecosystem.-- Cultivate a dynamic, engaging and knowledgeable team of product evangelists --- sales engineer experts and other team members.-- Collaboratively work with our sales team to define, maintain, and translate the high level initiatives and goals for new Nimble AMS sales. Go the extra mile to blow past the goal.-- Drive the Nimble AMS and Salesforce product messaging and strategy with the marketing team and support of other cross company teams. -- Enrich the Nimble AMS product line as a domain expert with over 25 years of industry experience and a Salesforce Certified Administrator. I have walked in your shoes!-- Facilitate the ongoing enablement needs, research, prioritization, and deployment based on feedback from customers and prospects. All the while incorporating influences from both Salesforce and the association industry.-- With a product built on the Salesforce platform, change just naturally happens like the seasons (Spring, Summer, and Winter). In each new seasonal release of Nimble AMS Salesforce, there will always be amazing change. Embrace change and love it!-- Help associations find their magic nimble sauce in Nimble AMS so they can begin Living the Nimble Life.

It’s not enough to merely innovate, at Nimble AMS we strive to be disrupters in the AMS space.As the Director of Product Management at Community Brands for our Nimble AMS product, I am responsible for balancing the company goals and objects with the long term industry trends and opportunities of our product - Nimble AMS. This role has me blending business and technical savvy with the art of collaboration and communication along with crafting the big-picture vision and making that vision a reality. In a nutshell, I oversee the successful formulation and development of Nimble AMS so that it solves the problems and needs of our customers today and in the future. - Cultivate a dynamic and engaging team of product evangelists --- product managers, coordinators, and other team members.- Lead the on-going development of the product vision and roadmap for Nimble AMS. Set the tone and paint the picture for what the product is now and what it will be in the future.- Define, maintain, and translate the high level initiatives driven vision and roadmap to the tactical short term and long term seasonal release(s) plans.- Incorporate the voice of the customer through all product management actions. Embrace the lifelong customer relationships and engage the community.- Enrich Nimble AMS as a domain expert and still live to the concepts of of continuous learning and improvement. Learn something new every day!- Embrace change. With a product built on the Salesforce platform, change just naturally happens like the seasons (Spring, Summer, and Winter). In each new seasonal release of Salesforce and Nimble AMS, there will always be amazing change. Embrace and love it!- Help associations find their magic nimble sauce in Nimble AMS so they can begin Living the Nimble Life.

As the Director of Product Management at NimbleUser, I am responsible for balancing the company goals and objects with the long term industry trends and opportunities of our product - Nimble AMS. This role has me blending business and technical savvy with the art of collaboration and communication along with crafting the big-picture vision and making that vision a reality. In a nutshell, I oversee the successful formulation and development of Nimble AMS so that it solves the problems and needs of our customers today and in the future. - Cultivate a dynamic and engaging team of product evangelists --- product managers, coordinators, and other team members.- Lead the on-going development of the product vision and roadmap for Nimble AMS. Set the tone and paint the picture for what the product is now and what it will be in the future.- Define, maintain, and translate the high level initiatives driven vision and roadmap to the tactical short term and long term seasonal release(s) plans.- Incorporate the voice of the customer through all product management actions. Embrace the lifelong customer relationships and engage the community.- Enrich Nimble AMS as a domain expert and still live to the concepts of of continuous learning and improvement. Learn something new every day!- Embrace change. With a product built on the Salesforce platform, change just naturally happens like the seasons (Spring, Summer, and Winter). In each new seasonal release of Salesforce and Nimble AMS, there will always be amazing change. Embrace and love it!- Help associations find their magic nimble sauce in Nimble AMS so they can begin Living the Nimble Life.

Oversight, administration, planning, and management of all aspects of consulting services at NimbleUser.- Manage a very amazing and talented team of consultants and project managers at NimbleUser.- Oversee all projects being deployed by consulting services that help associations achieve great things.- Enrich new business development with vision, solution crafting, and a heaping dose of nimbleness.- Engage with associations as a senior nimbler on Nimble AMS implementations.- Collaborate in the architect of Nimble AMS and other NimbleUser products.- Cultivate and embrace lifelong customer relationships.- Help associations find their magic nimble sauce so they can begin Living the Nimble Life.

- Senior consultant on Nimble AMS implementations. Complete detailed business analysis and requirement reviews (discovery and technical specifications). Complete configuration of Salesforce and Nimble AMS as well as business automations (Salesforce workflow and approvals). Complete data migration from legacy system to Salesforce and Nimble AMS. Complete early and end user adoption and education.- Senior architect on the Nimble AMS product. Work with the Nimble AMS product development team to architect and craft world class association management solution features and functionality on the Salesforce platform.- Solution expert for new business. Engaged early on in the sales cycle to transfer knowledge about Salesforce and Nimble AMS. Educating potential new customers throughout the entire sales cycles provides them with the knowledge needed to make the transition from “traditional” technology to the cloud. More education early on also streamlines the transition to the implementation phase of the project.- Embracing the social enterprise. Actively engaged and preaching the virtues of the cloud via twitter, Facebook, and blogging for NimbleUser, Nimble AMS, the association and nonprofit industries, as well as the Salesforce community.- Living the nimble life as a software Evangelist. Speaking at user group meetings and conferences regarding association management solutions (Salesforce and Nimble AMS) and the data management and technology best practices for associations.

VanDamme Associates changed their name to NimbleUser August 2009

- Managed sales in the New England region.- Provided consulting services from training to implementations of the iMIS product and Crystal Reports- Provided support for all clients.

Managed the training department at ASI. Trained iMIS end users and solutions providers around the world in iMIS best practices.