I lead the Anthos and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) marketing organization. My core responsibilities include defining and delivering on the messaging and go-to-market activities and campaigns for Anthos and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), along with their associated solutions. My team serves as the connection point between product management, sales, and marketing; delivering customer value by turning, market and sales, insights into messaging, content, and campaigns. Through my team, and their reports, I help accelerate customer success through the use of Google Cloud.

Responsible for messaging and communications around business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR). Creating customer awareness and usage of designs and practices that increase customer up-time and service reliability.

Team management – Built and managed a team of four technical marketers covering diverse areas including pricing & total cost of ownership (TCO), mobility, Internet of Things (IoT), websites & WebApps, security, life sciences, big data, backup, and archiving Content creation – Built core content for the following solution areas: websites, game operations, mobile devices, Internet of Things, e-commerce, and enterprise IT. Responsible for employees who delivered content for the areas of storage, backup, archiving, healthcare, life sciences, genomics, big data, and high performance computing (HPC)Product messaging – Created the core messaging framework for technical solutions marketing collateral enabling the organization to scale faster and providing the sales field with more targeted, on-message content to engage customersBudget management – Managed a marketing budget (high six figures) which was used to deliver 6 videos, 15 3rd party events, paid search ads, print fliers, 2 standards organization seats, 3 analyst whitepapers, and 1 custom developed TCO tool; all helping to achieve the goals of increasing product awareness, website traffic (200+% increase YoY), lead generation (hundreds/wk), and online signups (hundreds/wk)Website management – Responsible for 200+% increase in solutions website traffic, 20+% decrease in page bounce rate, and 2x the number of solutions pages available to customersCampaign management – Created the most successful webinar campaign of the year (over 2,000+ signups) and delivered a playbook for using email, social outreach, and viral communications to increase service usageEvents – Delivered content for events and messaging strategy, leading to top track ratings (top 3) for 1st party events and engaging developer days and booth content for 3rd party events; leading to 1,000s of leads captured, resulting in millions in sales pipeline

Team coordination – Organized the core marketing content creation and delivery for all of the Microsoft Office DivisionBrand management – Created the brand voice for Outlook Product expertise – Core business and marketing subject matter expert for Outlook, Outlook Web App (OWA), Exchange ActiveSync (EAS), and Exchange Unified Messaging (voicemail)Product marketing content – Created core marketing content including the messaging and positioning document, product descriptions, benefits statements, technical (and non-technical) sales PowerPoint presentations, FAQs, and screenshotsTraining – Trained sales engineers and field sales teams in product technology, value proposition, positioning, and demonstration skillsVendor management – Managed content creating and polishing vendor for entire Office division around core marketing contentChannel creation – Created a push-based digital channel for ongoing field education along with the weekly editorial calendar for that channelPodcast production – Created, edited, and published a weekly podcast dealing with Exchange Server and Office 365Press and analyst relations – Technical contact for all areas of product expertise when engaging with press and analystsExchange 2010 launch - Delivered the lead Exchange Server 2010 overview session at Exchange 2010 launch event and the Outlook Web App session resulting in a top 4 track score Cross division leadership - Drove email experience messaging across three products/divisions (Office Outlook, Windows Phone, and Exchange) to ensure continuity of messaging around common value propositions and positioning; resulting in a unified, cross-product, differentiated messageWebsite content - Wrote Microsoft.com website content receiving over one million hits/yr and customer-ready presentations resulting in over 93k downloads of product trials in three monthsCompetitive analysis - Delivered “InfoFlash” emails about competitors within one day of announcement

Internet Explorer teamTest planning - Provided strategic direction for the next version of the test team plan as well as tactical execution frameworkProduct planning - Wrote over twenty "Test Think Week" write-ups for product technical planningCollaboration - Collaborated with program management and development on product technical direction and specificationsCode coverage - Designed and implemented Internet Explorer team code coverage strategy to make code coverage a central part of test passes and ensure 70%+ coverage by product shipment

Windows Client Build Verification and Test teamManagement skills - Responsible for eight direct reports including the hiring and training of new employees

Windows Client Data TechnologiesTest Automation - Automation of 200+ test cases

- Created the Software Quality Assurance department in a startup environment - Built a team of three QA engineers - Managed the test sandbox environment - Defined launch quality metrics - Shipped three versions of our email marketing software on time and with high quality

Systems programming, automation, and validation in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals