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Bellingham, Wa, Us

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Asked to lead overall Innovation, Professional Services and Technical Marketing at ProCogia, with an emphasis on:Leadership in Generative AI: Spearheaded the development and delivery of Generative AI services and marketing, aligning them with ProCogia’s data and AI business strategies. Led innovation projects that empowered clients to harness AI for transformative business solutions, driving ProCogia's position as a leader in AI-driven transformation.Innovation Process Development: Established and refined an innovation organization and process that integrates closely with ProCogia’s services business. This process ensured the development of cutting-edge AI solutions that are not only technically advanced but also strategically aligned with client needs and market trends.Strategic Vision and Execution: Translated vague and ambitious ideas into actionable plans, navigating ambiguity to drive clear, strategic outcomes, balancing the competing demands of Services Delivery and Innovation, while aligning with company budgets. Developed and implemented comprehensive plans to deliver client solutions, from initial concept through to execution and ongoing refinement.Client-Focused Solutions: Worked directly with clients to understand their specific needs and challenges, delivering tailored data and AI solutions that drive measurable business results. Focused on creating scalable, sustainable solutions that address both current and future client needs.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Recruited to join the great team at ProCogia, to lead the company's Product, Innovation and Technical Marketing efforts.• Established a vision and process for Innovation at ProCogia, spanning from improving internal processes, to building repeatable services projects and solution offerings, to vetting new ideas for software products.• Drove a focus on specific Marketing Plays, around Validated Open Source Environments, SAS to R migration, and Generative AI, to better articulate key services projects that ProCogia can deliver.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Built and led the Product and Community Marketing team from the ground up, driving strategic expansion into the Python data science space. Led the successful launch of enterprise products, contributing to the tripling of product revenue. Played a pivotal role in messaging and positioning and drove the first-ever inclusion in analyst surveys, ensuring strong market differentiation and sustained growth. • Forged and sustained effective and impactful product marketing and analyst relations at RStudio, working to establish a dynamic and impactful 10-person staff team from the ground up• Revamped messaging to center upon customer personas, market problems and solutions; established larger marketing themes to drive coordinated overall GTM efforts over time• Delivered consistent product launches that were successful due to cross-department coordination, improving efficiency at all levels• Collaboratively led community marketing including marketing communication, Analyst relations, partnership building, customer engagement and open-source community functions • Authored a regular blog series for Data Science Leadership at posit.co/blog, driving significant increases in readership among the targeted Data Science Leader persona.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Led product management and product marketing for Advanced Analytics at TIBCO, helping to quadrupled Spotfire revenue over 5-6 years by integrating advanced analytics capabilities and securing a position in Gartner’s Leaders Quadrant for Data Science. Led the creation of TERR, a key differentiator for Spotfire that remains integral to its success today. Implemented a systematic customer feedback loop, aligning product strategy with market needs and driving continuous innovation.• Organized product management for Data Science and Streaming Analytics, devising product strategy, leading customer validation/engagement and developing product roadmaps/requirements• Led go-to-market implementation and engagement efforts centered on Analysts, partners and community members • Supervised product management for a diverse product portfolio with ~$50M in annual revenue including Data Science (Enterprise Runtime for R, Statistica and Alpine Data Labs) and Streaming Analytics, driving consistent YoY growth. • Engaged the analyst community, earning Leaders Quadrant status within the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms• Coordinated the efforts of various distributed engineering teams to build a unified data science platform• Bolstered alignment with customer needs to enhance customer satisfaction and engineering productivity• Coordinated the integration of two data science acquisitions with existing offerings to unify the data science platform, refining the go-to-market positioning and growing sales as a result• Collaborated with product/field teams and diverse customers to maintain existing base and grow revenue, earning new revenue from product cross-selling• Introduced a new data science product on AWS, driving new revenue through effective AWS marketing • Expertly presented on data science and streaming analytics at conferences to promote TIBCO to clients and prospects

Santa Clara, California, Us

Led product management and product marketing for Advanced Analytics in the Spotfire platform, including product strategy, product roadmap and requirements, product messaging, go-to-Market implementation, and analyst, partner and community engagement.• Developed and implemented ongoing strategy for integration of data science software and features into the Spotfire analytics platform, establishing and maintaining Spotfire’s leadership in combining visual and advanced analytics, and delivering ~10-20% of overall Spotfire revenue.• Spearheaded the creation and launch of a new data science product, TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R, including initial proposal, customer validation, product roadmap and requirements, and integration with TIBCO Spotfire, enhancing Spotfire’s value to its customers.• Led product marketing and product evangelist efforts for Advanced Analytics offerings, including developing positioning and messaging, sales enablement, creating white paper and web page content, and conducting press and analyst briefings for analytic product launches.• Performed outreach to open-source R community, including presenting at useR and JSM conferences and at local R user groups, raising the profile of TIBCO with this vital community.

San Francisco, Us

Served as TIBCO’s representative to the Board of the R Consortium, a multi-vendor collaboration to support and promote the open source R community.• Elected by Consortium members to provide leadership as chairman of the board, leading the transformation of the Consortium from a fledgling organization to a mature institution contributing to the vibrancy of the R community and the stability and growth of the R language.• Led successful efforts to recruit new members and promote the R Consortium to the R community, including numerous presentations at community conferences and strengthening the Consortium’s relationship with the R Community.

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Led 30+ person Software Engineering team in the development of new analytical software solutions.• Crafted multiyear product strategy and roadmap for diverse analytic software product line, driving increased revenue through improved customer retention and new customer acquisition.• Developed and led product presentations to potential buyers and supported due diligence efforts, leading to successful acquisition of Insightful by TIBCO.

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Led a cross-functional team of sales, presales, development, and product managers to gather customer requirements, design and implement successful analytic products on desktop and server platforms.• Supported complex analytical solution and tool sales to a variety of major customers

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Managed a team of pre-sales consultants to support complex analytical solution sales for wide range of customers, including life sciences, financial services, retail, utilities, and marketing.• Directly involved in gathering technical and business requirements and developing solution proposals for large customers.• Implemented best practices and knowledge sharing, sales enablement.• Provided market requirements to product management for the delivery of new products and solutions.

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Managed the delivery of projects with complex integration and analytic components for customers in life sciences, financial services, marketing, and city government.• Exceeded professional services revenue goals 7 quarters out of 8• Improved project and team management processes, which enabled the team to deliver larger and more complex implementations, increase revenue, and maintain a high level of customer satisfaction.• Delivered product training for account managers and technical field, driving increased revenue with shorter sales cycles. Worked closely with product management in design of new products.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business

Master Of Science - Ms, Atmospheric Science

Bachelor Of Arts, Physics

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