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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Provides the leadership for multiple gallery control committees at the PGA TOUR season finale, The TOUR Championship is held at historic East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia.

Marietta, Ga

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Host organization of the former AT&T/BellSouth Classic PGA Tour Tournament.

Validated business partner opportunity development of end user opportunties. Determined which partner(s) would be granted preferred end user pricing.

Responsible for the end to end planning and operation of this PGA Tour Event from 2004 through 2007. Coordinated activities of the staff, vendors and more than 1500 volunteers.

Directed the identification, recruitment and enablement of key competitive resellers for North and South America. Developed the financial model to self fund the initiative and the infrastructure support systems to enable the expansion.

Provided the worldwide marketing segmentation for IBM's UNIX products for small and medium end users. Identified demand generation strategies, supporting channel plays and required collateral. Provided end user requirements to product development teams and 'routes to market' to product launch teams.

Promoted IBM UNIX solutions to ISPs, ASPs, ISVs and business development managers. Developed and validated new 'route to market'.

Responsible for developing and managing the relationship with Dicken's Data Systems, IBM's largest distributor at that time. DDS was sold Pioneer Electronics and rebranded as Agilysys. Agilysys was subsequently sold to Arrow Electronics.

Led a high performance team of 20 marketing professionals to recruit, enable and manage business partners in four southern states.

Developed relationships with Independent Software Vendors to port their solutions to IBM hardware and joint market their software with IBM.

Senior Sales School Instructor for IBM's Marketing Education Program. Lectured, mentored students and managed classes during IBM's "Back to the Field Program". Developed and delivered custom education for a number of internal and external clients including the Southern Company, Delta Airlines, the Orlando Chamber of Commerce, IBM Credit Corporation, IBM Field Engineering and IBM National Service Division.

Marketed cross industry hardware and software solutions to midmarket, emerging large and public sector end users.

Mba, Marketing

Information Technology

Bs, Business Administration