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San Francisco, CA, US

Chicago, IL, US

Levata is a global provider of technology and services for the automated device capture and People ID segments, servicing manufacturing, warehouse, both back-and-front of house for retail, and HR and facilities departments in corporate enterprise approaching a billion dollars in annual revenue. The business is evenly split between a small sale/high volume.

San Francisco, California, US

Led all aspects of go-to-market to transform a formally philanthropic organization into a fully operating business unit of Salesforce focused on the social sectors of the economy. Globally responsible for the full marketing stack of building out market insights, go-to-market strategy, messaging & positioning, sales enablement, generating demand, customer.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Instrumental in a 2-year turnaround of the firm from near collapse in early 2014 to a stable growing organization with 40% increase in revenue the last 2 yearsFive distinct functions in this broad-reaching role leading.
• Strategy: Mange all aspects of Mozilla’s strategic planning, external consultants, annual budgeting and internal communications
• Emerging Markets GM: Manage Mozilla’s business in high-growth markets non-US/EMEA with full P/L responsibility.
• Product Development: 130-person vertical development team (Front-end and platform engineering, UX, Product Management, and engineering operations) focused on products for emerging markets and development support for.
• Chief of Staff: coordinate the activities of the executive team, manage the relationship between the Board of Directors and Mozilla executives, and improve the execution across functions. Drove full redesign of the.
• Operations: Lead HR, IT, and Facilities for 12 offices and employees in 24 countriesOn the side I predominately make PowerPoint slides. Occasionally I approve budget requests for t-shirt production.

San Francisco, CA, US

Built and led four functions: 1) Research around markets, competitors and users to guide business strategy 2) Data Analytics for product improvement and churn reduction 3) GTM Strategy for B2B, developer and mass consumer product lines and 4) Channel Marketing execution via global mobile operators and device manufacturersMajor body of work included.

Transformed a technology research project into a real-time consumer video product. Devised customer targets and segmentation, wrote product specs, launch and marketing strategy, hiring plan, capital requirements, and raised $2.5M funding from angels and an institutional VC.Built an 11-person company whose first product ultimately became the top photo/video.

San Jose, CA, US

• P&L responsibility for the $170M collaboration business unit. Managed an organization of 40 people and a marketing budget of $20M.
• Led a $100M/year product line to grow revenue 30% CAGR over 3-years
• Quadrupled sales capacity by building an ecommerce and partner sales channel ultimately constituting 80% of revenue
• Top 5% of managers – won the Founder’s Award for exemplary performance

Cut my teeth in marketing and product management in consumer and eLearning, with the help of gracious and patient mentors shaping me from moron to competent over a handful of years.

Mba

Ma - Learning, Design, And Technology

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Communications