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San Francisco Bay Area

Nextdoor (www.nextdoor.com) is a private social network for neighborhoods. Using Nextdoor's free online platform, neighbors create private neighborhood websites where members can ask questions, get to know one another and exchange local advice and recommendations to help them build safer, happier places to call home.As Senior City Strategist, work with.

Responsible for Marketing, Sponsor Recruitment and Organizing Annual Beach Dive Photo Competition

General Management responsibilities for an early stage startup with special emphasis on Business Model, Business Development, Sales & Marketing and Product Management.The GoGoVerde Team joined forces with Nextdoor.com in September 2011.

In 2009, mentored the entrepreneur team of GoGoVerde, gogoverde.com, in the finals of the Clean Tech Open business competition which included assisting them in writing their business plan especially the sales and marketing strategy.In 2010, mentored the entrepreneur team of Stramit which won first place in the green building category. Reviewed and guided.

Primary operating executive for Sun's $3B+ Support Services business, bringing system and software support offerings to market and managing worldwide product management, marketing and support readiness teams.

Designed and implemented a portfolio management process, led Services executives in the development and implementation of services strategy and led a team of strategists, corporate development managers and project managers for Sun's $5B Services Business.

Primary operating executive for Sun's $1B+ Client & Technical Market Products business, bringing workstation, thin client, graphics and grid computing products to market and managing software engineering, hardware engineering and product marketing teams.

Managed worldwide financial processes including annual planning, forecasting, quarterly close and earnings release, medium range plan, interdivisional pricing, accounting policies and fiduciary controls for Sun's $10B+ systems division.

• Member of Ed Zander’s executive staff, established priorities for President’s staff meeting agendas and assisted President in making key strategic decisions by completing several projects that involved:
• Review of efficiency of existing sales processes resulting in sales organization restructure
• Implications of reorganizing multiple marketing organizations
• Creating and implementing a new process for determining the next fiscal year’s budgets

Developed worldwide product and marketing strategies for Sun’s Workstation business. Managed the Product Marketing group, which was responsible for the definition, development, introduction, pricing, positioning and management of workstation hardware and software products worldwide.

Responsibilities included budgeting, tracking and forecasting of revenues, margins and contribution; acting as a focal point for customer deal activities; managing field order entry of new orders; and managing finance staff and sales operations staff

Completed rotations through Marketing Analysis, New Products Planning, Capital Asset Planning, Strategic Planning and Performance Reporting departments as part of Frito-Lay’s financial management training program for MBA hires.

Recommended the strategy for end-user computing and 3rd generation languages. Instrumental in the development of Frito-Lay’s Information Resource Center that was designed to enhance computer capabilities within functional departments. Specific duties included MIS consulting, formal information flow analyses, developing and leading end-user training.

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Accounting And Finance

Master Of Business Administration (Mba) And Masters Of Decision Sciences (Mds), Finance, Decision Sciences