Mary Hess Email & Phone Number

Virginia Beach, Va, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Mary is the Head of Programs for the Database Outbound Product Management team. She works closely with the VP of Product Management with a focus on developing technical strategies for cross platform solutions centered around the Oracle Database. She works directly with her team to develop Go-to-Market initiatives such as events, internal training, enablement, and other programs dedicated to enabling our customers and technical sellers access to Oracle's Database technology.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Revitalized Cloud Customer Connect webinar series, hosting 70+ webinars in FY23/FY24 with a 35% increase in customer viewership.• Trained moderators to run 2-4 webinars a week across different time zones.• Led Developer Technology track for Oracle CloudWorld 2023, managing 82 sessions.• Orchestrated the Hands-on Lab build process across organizations for 42 sessions at Oracle CloudWorld 2023.• Admin for Oracle Cloud Security blog platform, publishing one blog weekly while improving the overall review cycle.• Managed Wrike platform for Oracle Product Marketing, improving collaboration.• Advised program managers in successful management of Service Launches process and blog administration.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Led Go-to-Market strategy with OCI Storage product management.• Facilitated content for OCI Storage at Oracle CloudWorld 2022.• Updated OCI Storage public pages and created customer-facing materials.• Trained teams on Jira Dashboards and launch tracking.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Launched 95 service launches and 21 major/standard GTM events in FY23.• Managed lower level launches to GTM through weekly connects with program management and product marketing.• Onboarded, trained, and mentored 8 new team members.• Created Onboarding Guide for the OCI GTM team for about 60+ members.• Facilitated weekly leadership meetings and full organization updates for bi-weekly sprints.• Led team in training sessions for up to 50 people on processes and tools, such as Wrike and Jira.• Coached colleagues on metrics and analytics tools such as Adobe Analytics and Oracle Analytics Cloud.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Launched 94 service launches and 12 major/standard GTM events in FY22. • Standardized Jira and Wrike for launch tier levels.• Built and updated thematic launch event calendar consisting of upcoming roadmap, major product announcements, and launch events.• Hosted weekly sprint meetings with GTM teams.• Grew scale of Reference Architecture publication by over 30%.• Built Cloud Customer Connect Webinar program.• SCRUM Mastered quarterly retrospectives.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Created virtual version of in-person events (Code Innovate) during Covid-19.• Connected weekly with Marketing and Cloud Engineering to enhance Code Innovate program.• Trained Program Managers and SCRUM Masters, increasing events from 1 to 2-3 per week.• Developed checklists and documentation for Code Innovate program.

Austin, Texas, Us

• Built workshop program for publishing workshops on Github and oracle.com.• Managed 7 Code Innovate events for customer training and prototyping OCI use cases.• Developed Code Innovate program for in-person events.• Onboarded 10 new team members.• Trained Solution Engineers as Program Managers and SCRUM Masters.• Attended Cloud Day and App Dev Day events, leading keynotes and hands on labs.