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Central Coast Ca

Product MarketingProduct ManagementBusiness DevelopmentInnovation Services

Los Gatos, Ca

Execute client assignments in various aspects of product management and product marketing, deliver product management training in both public and in-house classes, and provide management with advice in business and market strategy, product management organization and processes.

Nevada City, Ca

During this summer program, I worked with resident start-up teams to accelerate their business progress. Facilitate training modules and deliverables from the Venture Hive entrepreneur education platform. Coaching and mentoring teams in all aspects of developing a new business including business modeling, pitching, market research, sales, goal setting, marketing, culture, economic modeling, and funding strategy.

Central Coast Ca, Silicon Valley

Provide strategic insights to clients on developing their innovation program and process.- Guiding clients in developing and executing on their innovation strategy: strategic planning, program development, business readiness, tactical execution and results tracking.- Deliver best practices content and consulting on innovation program strategy and process, crowdsourcing management, stakeholder identification and alignment, governance, user engagement, communications and incentives- Manage delivery of enterprise software services including deployment, interface design, training, configuration, and launch

Santa Maria, Ca

The EconAlliance is a nonpartisan, grassroots coalition of private-sector and community leaders focused on regional economic development in Central California.The mission of the Innovation Initiative is to proactively organize and provide support services that invigorate Innovation and Entrepreneurship activities within our region and beyond.Led and participated in events such as the Futures Forum and Start-up Weekends.

San Jose Ca.

Lead the Adobe Systems corporate initiative to foster innovation for new products, enabling technologies, and product extensions. - Example Products: SaaS based solutions for PDF form workflows, Photoshop Express for Mobile- Example Technologies: Core technologies for Cloud Computing & Storage, Media metadata.• Developed and taught the Innovation Boot camp across nine offices in 6 countries• Mentored Intrapreneurs to develop business context for ideas and develop prototypes• Developed online virtual demo fair to showcase new technologies to over 30 product teams• Maintained community of hundreds of Idea Champions, and Intrapreneurs.

San Jose Ca

• Product line manager for Adobe Reader, Acrobat, and PDF platform technologies.• Led team of 8 Product Managers in all aspects of the product life cycle.• Brought new products to market, reduced time to market, and exceeded revenue objectives.• Revamped Adobe Reader App distribution and update channels for desktop, mobile devices. Built analytical methods to measure successful installations and usage.• Segmentation, Market sizing, product road-map creation, & product launch• Cross functional coordination with Product Marketing, PR, Development teams

San Jose, Ca

Early Stage, Venture-backed Start-up• Product line and marketing manager for Enterprise software configuration management services.• Customer and User needs assessment, Product feature road-map development• Developed Customer user groups, Beta programs, Product positioning• Close collaboration with sales department to feed customer leads pipeline.• Managed efforts to raise Angel and Venture Capital investment.

San Jose, Ca

• Product line manager for 3D computer graphics hardware and software products for consumer, OEM, simulation & training, and entertainment markets.• Managed 10 member marketing team. Developed marketing strategy, budget, & detail plans.• Activities included Brand development, Product positioning, Website content, Trade shows, Collateral development, Product packaging, Customer User groups, Analyst interviews, Industry awards, & PR/Media coverage.• Developed Partnerships, OEM customer relationships and co-marketing partnershipsManaged efforts to raise Angel and Venture Capital investment.

Early Stage, Venture Backed Start upLead Product Management team for Developer toolkit and PC client software for internet based real-time 3D multiplayer video games and environments.

San Jose, Ca

Product management for “GameGen”, a PC software tool kit for 3D video game artwork creation for the Nintendo 64, Sony Playstation, and PC Graphics systems

Boston Ma, Bellevue Wa

• Product management for real-time visual system computers & software• Business development in North America, Germany, England, Norway, Israel

Bellevue Wa

• Software developer - 3D CAD, networked vehicle simulators, 2D & 3D mapping• Mathematician - 3D graphics algorithms & applications

Seattle Wa.

• Structural designer for aircraft wings using 2D/3D CAD tool kits – e.g. Boeing 757, Variable Camber wing research • Networked 3D Graphics Research and Development (algorithms, human perception)

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