We don’t want features, we want benefits. Ways to make our personal and professional lives better, simpler, and fuller”. I've held Director roles and owned a business that delivered $3M+ in annual revenue with dozens of employees but working on Product Teams taught me to be a leader, motivator and teacher. As part of a Product Team, you have a group of intelligent and passionate people, who often have diverse personalities, management structures and different priorities. Working to harness and guide a passionate team with disparate beliefs and motivations to become one and achieve common goals is real leadership! My experience spans from pre-revenue startups to Dow 30 Divisions. The process is the same.As trusted advisor and business alchemist with emerging technology teams, at VOC-E we translate engineering into customer marketing and sales messaging/product training and product demonstrations for staff and users. Additional services include financial planning to prioritize product requirements and road mapping at the product and corporate strategy levels. I've been recognized as a leader with strengths in providing mentoring, coaching and ensuring optimal results. I'm fond of automotive and data security topics. I fear what social media can do and I believe that respectable social interaction is the cure to most ills. I look forward to meeting!Please reach me at scott.m@voc-e.com Select Accomplishments/Experience:• Member of a small team that convinced the StorageTek CEO to re-position a next generation storage device and compete against IBM using customer feedback and market research. This resulted in maintaining a $300M business for the next 10 years. This team used research to convince the CEO to build the first encrypted tape storage device, creating the term "data at rest" encryption.• Part of the StorageTek/Sun team that introduced Data at Rest Security, where I became a Sun Microsystems Storage and Data Security Evangelist.• Over 10 years’ experience in the data security market as a Product Manager, Customer Evangelist, Director, and Ecosystem/DevOps Manager.• Needing to feed my "hands-on" skills, I purchased a 1920's Denver duplex to renovate in 1990. One became several, residential begat commercial, and commercial needed businesses to pay the rent. My "evening work" became a day job generating over $3M in annual revenue when the business sold.• Two kids, now in their 20's and on target to replace their parents. Our greatest legacy...