Product Marketing & Technology Executive
Portland, Oregon Area
Product Marketing & Technology Executive
Portland, Oregon Area
My passion is helping companies, big or small, develop products and strategies, bringing innovative products from concept to market on time and on budget.
Strategic Planning,
Leading Product Innovation,
Developing and executing go-to-market strategies,
Collateral, documentation and web site creation and copy-writing,
Agile Project Management,
Hands-on experience with highly diverse, distributed, cross-cultural teams,
Partner and Strategic Alliance Management,
Strategic Account Management,
Positioning companies and products for competitive edge and future growth or acquisition
(Computer Hardware industry)
September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)
Moderro Technologies builds and markets products and services designed to facilitate transition and adoption of web computing on the desktop. Its computer products are designed to be low-power, eco-friendly, small in size, simple to install and maintain, with easy and gratifying experience.
Leading product management, marketing, channel and business development efforts for the Xpack web computer, hosted management solution, and eco-system.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
August 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 2 months)
www.bntouch.com - Marketing CRM and Analytics platform
Co-founded and managed go-to-market and early growth phases of the business, growing to break-even and 12 employees in under two years in a highly fragmented market in a competitive industry.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
2002 — 2004 (2 years )
Set-top based Digital Signage solutions and IPTV.
Acquired by Cisco Systems in 2007. www.tivella.com
Tivella provided digital media players and management platform fit for digital television and digital signage. Tivella's platform was set apart by its support of internet media content and powerful management layer. Ultimately Tivella's player was selected by major industry players as OEM platform of choice and resulted in acquisition.
At Tivella I managed the enterprise product line, complete with digital signage application and enterprise TV.
(Telecommunications industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year )
A spin-off from Tektronix, Videotele.com was first company successful in sending video through DSL infrastructure. Videotele.com's products offered telecom providers interested in offering video over their networks, re-encoding infrastructure and integration services. Videotele.com was acquired by Tut Systems in 2002 (now part of Motorola). www.tutsys.com
(Telecommunications industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years )
Backed by patents and R&D from Intel labs, eFusion pioneered real-world VOIP telephony applications and platforms. eFusion's Ad-a-line solution allowed telephone companies to offer call-waiting and call switch solutions while the customer was connected to the internet over dial-up. Push-to-talk line was a first-of-a-kind solution allowing bridging of a phone call from the internet. eFusion was acquired by ITXC and later sold to eStara. www.estara.com
(Public Company; INTC; Semiconductors industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years )
Enterprise Server Group and Intel Online Services.
Managed Enterprise Server Group web presence on Intel web sites using document management tools and best practices. Managed agencies involved in production. Was responsible for document management systems and processes. Provided support to the channel for standard, high-volume server products.
MS , Engineering Technology Management , 2006 — 2008
Coursework in:
- Project Management
- Operational Research
- Technical Marketing
- Managing Emerging Technologies
- Managing Teams
- Innovation Management
- Decisions under Uncertainty
- Strategy
- New Product Development
- Strategic Planning
- Managerial Accounting
- New Business Ventures
BS , Computer Science, Business Administration , 1991 — 1996
Physics and Mechanical Engineering 1989 — 1990
Identifying new product/service opportunities; learning new things; having fun with what I'm doing.
Association of International Product Management
Member of Omega Rho Honor Society of Engineering Technology Management