Bill Wishon

Current

Product Specialist at Akamai Technologies

Past

Director of Marketing at Kontiki
Industry Marketing for Media and Entertainment at VeriSign
Senior Product Manager at VeriSign

Technical Sales at LightSurf
Senior Sales Engineer at PictureIQ
Software Engineer at PictureIQ
Software Engineer at Adobe Systems Inc.

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Education

University of California, Santa Cruz
Lafayette College

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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Bill Wishon’s Summary

Solution-focused technical evangelist with strategic vision and the ability to articulate technology detail and business value proposition in a compelling manner to diverse audiences. Experience getting to the bottom of real customer and market needs. Able to define and direct research programs to provide actionable insights into customer, consumer and market behaviors and needs.

Bill Wishon’s Specialties:

Broadband multimedia services
Peer to Peer Technology (P2P)
Wireless multimedia services
Technology Marketing

Bill Wishon’s Experience

Product Specialist

Akamai Technologies

(Public Company; AKAM; Internet industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)

Product Specialist for client side delivery, responsible for driving adoption of innovative new client based content delivery services. By working closely with sales, marketing, engineering, professional services, customer care and product management new solutions can be brought to market that satisfy both the technological and business needs of companies looking for the next generation of content delivery services.
Director of Marketing

Kontiki

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

May 2008 — February 2009 (10 months)

Owner of all things marketing in a small company. Market research and product planning, outbound marketing and lead generation.
Industry Marketing for Media and Entertainment

VeriSign

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VRSN; Online Media industry)

November 2006 — May 2008 (1 year 7 months)

The Industry Marketing group focuses on the Media and Entertainment Industry and how best to communicate VeriSign's broad product and service portfolio. Design and execute marketing campaigns in a cross-functional organization. Launch new solutions and technology demonstrations to assist sales. Plan for and execute trade show, analyst and press activities. See www.verisign.tv for an example.
Senior Product Manager

VeriSign

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VRSN; Wireless industry)

April 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 8 months)

Product Manager for VeriSign's Mobile Alerts platform and for VeriSign’s Emerging Technologies initiatives. Emerging Technologies required quick evaluations of customer requests and new product ideas. Mobile Alerts is a platform that enables wireless operators to provide dynamic push information services over SMS and MMS.
Technical Sales

LightSurf

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Wireless industry)

May 2003 — April 2005 (2 years )

Lead Technical Sales engineer for the LightSurf global sales team. Reported directly to the VP of Sales. Responsible for closing the technical sale, setting up and carrying out phase one implementation of complex hosted multimedia messaging solutions.
Senior Sales Engineer

PictureIQ

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Wireless industry)

November 2001 — April 2003 (1 year 6 months)

Senior member of a worldwide engineering sales team. Technical owner of the pre-sales, evaluation, integration, post-sales and support phases of the sales cycle, for telecommunication and large enterprise software markets.
Software Engineer

PictureIQ

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Wireless industry)

September 1998 — November 2001 (3 years 3 months)

Lead member of a software engineering team that wrote the code behind PictureIQ’s embedded solutions and server appliance products.
Software Engineer

Adobe Systems Inc.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

January 1998 — September 1998 (9 months)

Worked as part of an experimental group at Adobe working towards applying core Adobe imaging code to new markets such as embedded/consumer electronics devices.
* Ported a Java VM to VxWorks.
* Created a standardized and reproducible build system.
* Evaluated, selected, installed and managed the source code control system.

Bill Wishon’s Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

BS , Computer Science , 1995 — 1997
Lafayette College

Computer Science 1992 — 1994

Activities and Societies:

Theta Chi Fraternity