Marketing Director
Agoura Hills, Ca
My success as Director of Marketing at Key Info earned me the recognition by IBM for conducting one of the top IBM Partner marketing programs in the United States. I have served on the Marketing Advisory Councils of IBM, Avnet, Brocade and NetApp while contributing to the IBM and Avnet channel marketing and sales strategy policies for partner communities. My channel management programs, sales-driven marketing initiatives, and specialization in creating programs to drive hardware, software, and services solutions into the marketplace showcase my expertise. My forte is in designing and implementing unique channel programs that solve business problems with targeted business solutions.Experienced with both software and hardware in high availability and business analytics serving the healthcare, financial, and manufacturing industries. I am an early advocate of SMAC technologies and architectures to improve competitiveness and increase revenues among channel partners and conceived the concept of SMAC Framework to better leverage the technologies of social media, mobility, analytics and Cloud. I established the SMAC Forum for small to medium sized businesses for Greater Los Angeles partnering with the LA Chamber of Commerce, IBM, and Avnet.Among my many past clients, name brand companies include Tiffany, Sara Lee, Chase Manhattan Bank, Duracell, UPS, Kraft Foods, and United Technologies-Hamilton Standard.I founded and authored the monthly newsletter Key INsights with a distribution exceeding 46K IT professionals, and managed Key Info's blogging activities. A published author, I have contributed articles to MC Press Online and IBM Systems Magazine.