John Brown Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

We have established a new business to help our clients create and grow digital relationships with their customers. We all know how crucial it is for CRMs, PRMs, content, campaigns, social engagement and analytics to work together. We help our customers take it to the next level by making it personal for both the company representative and the prospect/customer. My role at Heron MarTech is focused on the technology and product aspects of the business including:* CTO/CIO responsibilities* Product development, management, owner* Product roadmap and planning* Data modelling* Analytics and algorithm design* Infrastructure and integration management* Writing and integrating a lot of code* API design and testing* Interface design and usability* Tag and taxonomy design* Digital asset management and optimization* Content authoring and managementMy favorite responsibility however is working with and supporting our users. We are continually finding innovative new ways to solve problems, save time and uncover valuable data.How can we help you build stronger, deeper relationships in sales, marketing and channel teams?!http://sharedirecttech.com/

Raleigh, Nc, Us

As Bandwidth continues to expand globally and mature their world-class platform I have been contributing as a Solution Architect and then transitioned into a Product Owner role within the Numbers team. My area-of-focus is providing scalable, customer-oriented solutions for telephone number inventory and feature management.Large product/feature delivery where I've been instrumental in the design, planning, implementation and release:* Hosted Emergency services (E911)* Portout Passcode protection of phone numbers* Hosted Voice services (BYOTN)* Snapback-to-industry automation* Number inventory management optimizations and tooling* Customer Number Insights analytics and dashboard (design and planning)As part of these solutions and my role and activities have included:* Product roadmap and strategy* Requirements investigation and gathering* Solution design and engagement with architects/engineers* Developer Experience planning and review* User Interface planning, design and review* Operations team engagement (pre- and post-release)* Extensive product/feature training and documentation (internal and customer)* Agile/Scrum work definition and management (backlog, epic and story management)* Product intern mentoring

San Francisco, California, Us

NextGen Venture Partners is a network-driven venture firm with groups in US entrepreneurial hotspots like Boston, Atlanta, Austin, DC, Raleigh/Durham and others. NextGen invests in early-stage technology companies bringing innovative and/or disruptive solutions to market. I am casually involved providing analysis and consultation for the Raleigh/Durham group.

New York, Ny, Us

I had multiple roles at Zift after they acquired the SharedVue business in 2015. A common thread across them all was working with brilliant colleagues to more effectively understand and build solutions for client partner marketing challenges.I helped build structure, processes and best practices around "out-of-the-box" solutions as the market, our business and our client engagement continued to grow and evolve. Projects and initiatives included:* Through-partner platform and program reporting* Through-partner campaign planning and execution consulting* Client program training and education* Adapting and evolving content strategies for large clients* Internal and client consultation on solution developmentI assisted the team with completion of projects related to the 2015 SharedVue acquisition. As a founder at SharedVue I was uniquely positioned to help with activities including:* Platform integration and gap analysis* Feature review and roadmap planning* Client issue migration and consultingBackgroundThe business division that acquired and evolved SharedVue at The Channel Company was sold to Zift Solutions in September 2015. This included the 40+ clients and 50+ employees the division had grown into since our humble beginnings in 2007. A great final chapter to the story of a successful, boot-strapped and profitable channel marketing technology start-up.

Westborough, Ma, Us

Worked with our business and clients to identify transformative technology-based solutions to their business problems.Activities include:* New product research and development* Market and competitive analysis* SharedVue product ownership* SharedVue product management and marketing* SharedVue platform design and architecture* Prospect and client engagement and consulting* Product support and technical engagement for sales* Organizational planning and hiring* Executive briefing and planningWe were syndicating content for approximately 50 technology manufacturers (Cisco, Dell, HP, Salesforce, VMware, and more) to over 60,000 channel partners in over 16 languages - world-wide.In September 2013 UBM Channel (formerly Everything Channel) separated from UBM to form it's own independent business - The Channel Company. I was the lead technical owner for the separation which including migrating over 150 users, internal systems, processes and networks/hardware to a new environment.In September 2015 The Channel Company folded the SharedVue division into Zift Solutions

Framingham, Ma, Us

In December 2012 I stepped into the role of Managing Director of the SharedVue business.

Framingham, Ma, Us

In April 2010 SharedVue was acquired and became a division of UBM Channel (known as "Everything Channel" at the time) bringing best-in-class marketing technologies to the leader in channel marketing.

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

I used my technical expertise together with experts in branding and marketing to create a platform and services that help large organizations enable their partners/distributors market more effectively. The platform was centered around content syndication using dynamic client/server content creation, digital asset management and advanced user portals.Activities included:* Platform architect* Platform design* Database architecture* Cloud architecture and deployment * User experience and interface design* Product research and development* Technical sales support* Product ownership and marketing* Client consultation and engagement* Security, disaster recovery and related policy development* Organizational planning and hiring strategies

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Activities Include:* Oversee all administrative aspects of the IT Department including budgeting, network and infrastructure development, recruiting, training, reporting and quality control.* Lead and motivate the IT Department by managing and mentoring a group of talented engineers, developers and managers and ensure that the team's work is of the highest quality.* Oversee the web development process and be the interface between the web development team and other functional groups (UI design, marketing, product, and management).* Discuss, Evaluate, Synthesize, and Prioritize business needs from CEO and other departments.* Align IT Department with business goals* Contribute to process refinement, development of standards, and best practices as part of the overall technical management team* Responsible for scheduling and planning for the Department as well as the allocation of resources to ensure adequate technical staffing of projects* Conduct performance reviews of development managers, drive career development and training plans, and perform various administrative tasks* Assist HR function in identifying, recruiting, interviewing, and hiring additional resources* Ensure conformance to architectural guidelines and development standards* Ensure highly reliable and available infrastructure (LAN, telecommunications, etc.) to support a growing and dynamic business* Evaluate and negotiate purchase of new hardware and related software* Evaluate current IT infrastructure and identify technologies and manage projects designed to improve security, scalability and reliability of the overall environment

John was the Director of Online Services. He worked closely with design firms and end clients to create, manage, improve, and/or expand public and internal websites and applications.

Built relationships with design firms to provide technical consulting and services for website design and development. Provided build-out on multiple public and private websites and applications. Managed and maintained multiple sites for various clients.

Website/Application DevelopmentBuilt and managed corporate intranet websites and applications. Developed small applications for corporate use including corporate directory, corporate glossary, project accounting and time management tracking tools. Designed and developed workflow based barcode/operations systems incorporating laboratory management system, inventory systems, specialized equipment and various in-house analytical components. Built data analysis and presentation tools utilizing in-house and third party components and data. Developed many reusable ASP and DHTML code modules and templates for rapid application development and website creation. Developed and managed internet and extranet websites including envisioning, content creation, graphic development, site development and phased feature/content addition.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Intranet Application DevelopmentResponsible for corporate US intranet sites - including development, implementation and maintenance. Development and implementation of global intranet for use by over 20,000 employees. Developed multiple web-based applications including messaging, templates, re-usable code modules, online tools, etc. Responsible for multiple enterprise-wide content development and management tools.Standards and TemplatesDevelopment and continuing evolution of web publishing standards for content development on world-wide corporate intranet. Assisted multiple groups with adoption and utilization of standards and reusable code modules.Internal Web ConsultingAssisted multiple web development groups within Dell on web interface design/development and usability heuristics. Developed and led special interests groups for current and evolving web technologies (CSS, JavaScript, DHTML, ASP, XML, web standards, etc).