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Denver, Co, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Building and leading the audience marketing function at Databricks. Lead a team of highly experienced and talented PMMs focused on driving the GTM function with CIO/CTO/CDO technology executives.According to a public announcement in June 2024, Databricks annualized revenue is expected to reach $2.4B at midway point of the year and valued at more than $43B.

Irvine, California, Us

Led a team of seasoned product experts to build and grow the solution and technical product marketing efforts. Our goal was to drive sustainable growth through repeatable solutions. Responsible for the go-to-market strategy, messaging and positioning, sales enablement, and support for demand generation strategies.From joining the company pre-IPO when it had only 300 employees and less than $75M, through my tenure there, Alteryx reached close to $1B and 2,300 employees before going private.

Irvine, California, Us

As Sr. Director of Product Management, I got to do a little bit of everything...From building out a cross-functional 20+ person product operations team responsible for competitive intelligence, beta and customer feedback, localization, partner and platform extensibility, accessibility and tech writing...to building out a machine learning product, working closely with UX, PM and Engineering teams. In this role, I was also responsible for providing internal and external thought leadership, developing customer roadmaps, speaking at events, and meeting with analysts.

Irvine, California, Us

Brought in to build the Alteryx Server business where I played a key role in developing the GTM plans and extending the product in to AWS and Azure marketplaces. Led key integrations into the product including the post M&A integration for Semanta which would become the data catalog Alteryx Connect product, and Yhat, a Y combinator backed MLOps company which would become the Alteryx Promote product.

Aliso Viejo, Ca, Us

Quest Software provides end-to-end solutions for data center and cloud management, data management, mobile workforce management, security and data protection for organizations of all sizes.As a product marketing team leader for Quest Software’s database product line, I was responsible for ensuring effective go-to-market and product strategies, consistent positioning and sales/channel readiness for a large, complex and profitable product line that included more than 25 different products and spanned across database development, database administration, data architecture, data integration and analytics technologies. According to IDC, in 2015, Quest's database solutions were the #1 market-leading solution for database development and administration. In Nov. 2021, Clearlake Capital bought Quest for $5.4B

Austin, Texas, Us

Embarcadero Technologies (acquired by Idera in 2015) is a leading provider of award-winning tools for application developers and database professionals so they can design systems right, build them faster and run them better, regardless of their platform or programming language. Ninety of the Fortune 100 and an active community of more than three million users worldwide rely on Embarcadero products to increase productivity, reduce costs, simplify change management and compliance, and accelerate innovation. Founded in 1993, Embarcadero was headquartered in San Francisco, with offices located around the world. They went public in 2000 and private in 2007, and sold to Idera in 2015.During my time at Embarcadero, I led the global product marketing for Embarcadero’s ER/Studio database design and architecture product line. ER/Studio is a cross-platform tool used by data architects, data modelers, database administrators and business analysts to create and manage database designs, and document and reuse data assets. In this role, I developed new product messaging and positioning, organized and led go-to-market strategies, and created marketing programs that differentiated and drove demand. I performed primary and secondary market research, and competitive intelligence, and developed sales enablement and training tools to support sales-readiness. My responsibilities included leading and administering a global pricing committee, supporting product planning strategies, developing business plans, analyzing market requirements, and monitoring release milestones.

Conway, Arkansas, Us

Acxiom Corporation (NASDAQ:ACXM) is a marketing technology and services company with global offices. Acxiom offers marketing and information management services, including multichannel marketing, addressable advertising, and database management. It collects, analyzes, and parses customer and business information for clients, helping them to target advertising campaigns, score leads, and more. Acxiom was a $2 billion-a-year company in 2007. I led both product management and product marketing for Acxiom’s Risk Data Management Division. Managed and led all product planning strategies by developing business and go-to-market plans, product positioning, market research, market requirements, roadmaps, and release milestones. I developed the marketing plans, budgets, schedule and direct spending, as well as collaboration with sales and product management teams to develop collateral, demos, competitive write-ups, training and high-level sales messaging. I directly supervised 7 product managers and product marketers.

Dallas, Tx, Us

I joined CyrusOne, Inc. (NASDAQ: CONE) as an early stage start-up 2004. CyrusOne now owns, operates and develops enterprise-class, carrier-neutral, and multi-tenant data center properties in more than 40 locations around the world. It provides mission-critical data center facilities that protect and ensure the continued operation of information technology infrastructure for different customers. Enterprise-class and carrier-neutral data centers are purpose-built facilities with redundant power, cooling and telecommunications systems and that are not network-specific, enabling customer inter-connectivity to a range of telecommunications carriers. KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners bought CyrusOne in March 2022 valued at approximately $15B.During my time at CyrusOne, I directed and managed all aspects of data center and IT infrastructure product marketing for CyrusOne including advertising, marketing campaigns, and events. Managed marketing strategy, budgets, and GTM plans. Led sales enablement by conducting training, and developing case studies, whitepapers, collateral, and high-impact presentations. Oversaw website design, and digital marketing and was responsible for vendor management. Supervised a small team of product marketers.