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Trout Republic is a boutique consulting firm investing and advising small, medium and large businesses on how to become more profitable and successful. As Expert-in-Resident, lead team to architect social media strategies for clients including government agencies, ISPs, main street retailers, start-ups and hospitality businesses.

Palo Alto, CA

HP is the IT industry’s largest company, with revenues of $130 billion and 320,000 employees. Responsibilities included core operations such as budgeting, business process development, team organization and team infrastructure. As support for the Chief Communications Officer, I assisted in annual planning, led the interaction and collaboration with other.

Bossa Nova Robotics, a spin-out of Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, is a leading developer of interactive play experiences for children, using today’s most innovative technologies including robotics and online gaming. As COO, I was responsible for the company’s day-to-day oversight with direct line authority and responsibility for all.

As global go-to-market lead across all product lines and business units, I was responsible for building business practices to maximize budgets, resources and manpower to meet corporate growth objectives, as well as being part of the strategic and creative team for development of campaigns. Go-to-Market campaigns include: defining business outcome aligned.

• Utilizing more than 20 years of global business development, marketing, communication, direct and indirect sales channel, and public service experience I sold and managed more than 40 large-scale client engagements.
• More strategically and effectively manage customer accounts, including creating Executive Sponsor programs;
• Cross-sell and up-sell products and solution with corresponding sales enablement tools such as value selling;
• Develop next-generation products based on customer input and customer communities;
• Take new products to market;
• Leverage existing relationships to develop new sales opportunities;

In an effort to assist individuals displaced by Hurricane Katrina to Texas, four of my friends (all Texans) and I created Bay Area Relief. Local organizations in San Antonio, Texas provided water, food, & housing to the approximately 35,000 individuals who fled there from Katrina. We worked with these organizations to ensure that the displaced individuals.

Khumbu Region, Nepal

Over the course of five years, was tasked with a multitude of internal and external facing jobs. Each opportunity drew upon my intimate experience of the SAP organization including field sales, corporate development, product development, human resources, corporate marketing, corporate communications, corporate governance and human resources across six.

Created corporate messaging that was utilized for internal and external audiences. Served as official corporate spokesperson. Managed strategic and day-to-day implementation of public relations, financial and industry analysts, customers, partners and channel partners. Managed investor and board communications.

• Provided integrated marketing and communications advisory services to Cisco for launching the Cisco Networking Academy Program - a program that trains secondary and post-secondary students to design, build and maintain.
• Arranged for and prepared Cisco executives to meet with key members of the White House, Congress, and Executive Branch agencies;
• Represented Cisco Systems in the partnership and national media launch of the Abilene Network. Lead story on evening news on CBS, ABC, NBC and CNN;
• Developed and nurtured key media relationships to increase Cisco’s positioning in the education market. Garnered significant media coverage from: USA Today, CNN Sunday Morning, Meet the Press and Oprah;
• Created grassroots public relations guidelines for the local Cisco Networking Academies to generate their own press. The web-based template press kit continues to be used to generate coverage in local and regional.

Provided counsel, strategic and tactical action programs for public relations, advertising, fundraising, events planning, marketing and crisis communications for the RFK Memorial and its partners. - Handled media relations including crisis communications for executive staff, human rights advocates and the Kennedy family with national and international.

Conceived, developed and directed top-flight public relations throughout the nation. Special focus on media relations for literary works, as well as contractual relationship as part of the White House Advance Team. - Introduced more than 50 new books to market- Handled media relations for national events including: launch of AmeriCorps, the 75th.