Calvin Zito

Storage Social Media Manager at HP

Location: Boise, Idaho Area
Industry: Information Technology and Services

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Calvin Zito's Overview

Current

Storage Social Media Strategist at HP

Past

StorageWorks Category Marketing Manager at HP
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 High School

Recommendations

4 people have recommended Calvin

Connections

500+ connections

Websites

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

Specialties

Marketing of technology, B2B, marketing communications, interactive marketing, social media

Storage Social Media Strategist

HP

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry

September 2010 – Present (1 year 9 months)

Manage all aspects of Social Media for HP Storage including but not limited to blogging, Twitter, and communities like LinkedIn. I'm also proud to be a vExpert.

StorageWorks Category Marketing Manager

HP

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry

February 1999 – October 2010 (11 years 9 months)

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.

My current focus is driving social media, epecially our blog and Twitter. Since 2008, we've made the StorageWorks blog the most read blog on all of hp.com. Having been in HP storage for 20 years, I'm not your average marketing guy. I'm @HPStorageGuy (on Twitter)!

Director

Compass Public Charter School

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+ 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+ 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. Focus included operating system support for HP-MPE and HP3000 computer systems.

Customer Engineer

Hewlett-Packard

Public Company; 10,001+ 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.

High School, Math/Science, Language Arts

Batavia High School
- Spanish I, II, III, and IV
- Calculus I and II (college credit)

California State University-Fullerton - College of Business and Economics

Masters, Business Administration

1987 – 1990

DeVry Institute of Technology

BS, Electronic Engineering Technology

1980 – 1983

Dean's List, President's List while working a full time job as well.

Activities and Societies: Tau Alpha Pi National Honor Society

Batavia High School

High School, Math/Science, Language Arts

1976 – 1980

Websites:

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).

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