Calvin Zito

Current

• StorageWorks Marketing Communications Manager at HP

Past

• Director at Compass Public Charter School
• Product Marketing Manager at Hewlett-Packard
• System Support Engineer at Hewlett-Packard

• Customer Engineer at Hewlett-Packard

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Education

• California State University-Fullerton - College of Business and Economics
• DeVry Institute of Technology
• Batavia Senior High School

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog
• Follow me on Twitter

Calvin Zito’s Summary

I have had a broad range of experience working in marketing at HP. My work experience includes:
> Product Marketing: working with R&D to define future products
> Outbound Marketing: creating marketing programs and promotions to drive products' success
> Marketing Communications: integrated marketing communications via planning and execution of all aspects of communications

Calvin Zito’s Specialties:

Marketing of technology, B2B, marketing communications, interactive marketing

Calvin Zito’s Experience

• StorageWorks Marketing Communications Manager

  HP

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 1999 — Present (11 years )

  Responsible for marketing communications that support HP StorageWorks business and marketing objectives. This includes defining marcom plan, and lead execution of overall communications by partnering with other functional marketing communication teams, regions, and the business teams.

• Director

  Compass Public Charter School

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  July 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  Member of board of directors of public charter school in Meridian, Idaho.

• Product Marketing Manager

  Hewlett-Packard

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 1990 — January 1999 (8 years 2 months)

  Responsible for all aspects of product planning, both inbound and outbound, for HP Storage products (disk arrays and disk systems).

• System Support Engineer

  Hewlett-Packard

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 1987 — December 1990 (3 years 9 months)

  Managed resolving customer escalations by working with factory support, field engineers, and customers to bring timely resolution to technical problems. Focused included operating system support for HP-MPE and HP3000 computer systems.

• Customer Engineer

  Hewlett-Packard

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 1983 — April 1987 (3 years 6 months)

  Responsible for responding to customer hardware and software issues with HP3000 computer systems and all associated peripherals including disk drives, printers, terminals, and tape drives. As an HP CE, also responible for site preparation and installation of computer systems, peripherals, and software.

Calvin Zito’s Education

• California State University-Fullerton - College of Business and Economics

  Masters , Business Administration , 1987 — 1990

• DeVry Institute of Technology

  BS , Electronic Engineering Technology , 1980 — 1983

• Batavia Senior High School

  High School , Math/Science, Language Arts , 1974 — 1982

Additional Information

Calvin Zito’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog
• Follow me on Twitter

Calvin Zito’s Interests:

My family, my faith (born-again believer in Jesus Christ), and fun which includes ice hockey (playing and watching), and football (especially Boise State).

Calvin Zito’s Groups:

•    Christian Professionals Worldwide
•    Buffalo Bills fans
•    eMarketing Association Network
•    Technology Marketing Community
•    HP Technology Fans
•    Innovative Marketing, PR, Sales, Word-of-Mouth & Buzz Innovators
•    Marketing Communication
•    HP
•    Storage: SAN, NAS
•    The Storage Group
•    B2B Online Marketing
•    Cal State Fullerton Mihaylo College of Business and Economics Alumni
•    Public Relations and Communications Professionals
•    Storage Specialists
•    HP Connections
•    Storage Professionals
•    Ustick Baptist Church Past & Present
•    Buffalo Sabres Fans
•    The HP Way
•    The Wikibon Project
•    Storage Experts
•    Trusted Business Advisor (VAR)
•    Linked Local Boise Valley, ID
•    Christian Professionals of the USA's Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon and Idaho)!

Calvin Zito’s Contact Settings

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• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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