Fahima Zahir

Current

• Solutions Marketing Manager at Symantec

Past

• Manager, Online Marketing at Symantec
• Product Marketing Manager at Fabric7 Systems, Inc.
• Tech Pubs Manager at Active Reasoning

• Compliance Information Manager at Exodus

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Education

• Santa Clara University
• SJSU

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Fahima Zahir’s Summary

Product/solution marketing and program management professional

- Product/solution marketing, writing, SEO, and project management experience in Marketing, Operations, and Engineering in start-up, transitional, as well as large corporate environments.
- Highly motivated and business focused with the ability to successfully drive projects from inception to completion.
- Passionate about current technologies and trends. Deep understanding of web-based applications and internet infrastructure market.
- Strong communication, analytical and problem solving skills, as well as presentation, negotiation, and support skills within all levels of organization and clientele.
- Familiar with a wide range of computer platforms and applications

Fahima Zahir’s Specialties:

Product/solution marketing/project management/SEO; Strong technical background and aptitude; great mediator.

Fahima Zahir’s Experience

• Solutions Marketing Manager

  Symantec

  (Public Company; SYMC; Computer Software industry)

  August 2009 — Present (5 months)

• Manager, Online Marketing

  Symantec

  (Public Company; SYMC; Computer Software industry)

  July 2007 — August 2009 (2 years 2 months)

  Work directly with global stakeholders & external vendors to launch products, web-projects, marketing promotions and campaigns. Drive business segment redesigns from a global online content perspective. Work with regions to ensure efficient implementation and timely deployment. With the help of the SEO Manager, optimize natural search results for the business segment.
  
  - Main point of contact for the localization team and regional web publishers in assisting and coordinating all web content localization efforts
  - Write and edit web content for product launches, marketing campaigns, online sales promos, and other online projects
  - Maintain the business segment online editorial calendar on the WIKI (web projects & product launches)
  - Assist with SEO (search engine optimization) for Business Segment pages. Optimize product and solution pages, as well as recommend keywords for press releases, articles and customer success stories.

• Product Marketing Manager

  Fabric7 Systems, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  August 2005 — 2007 (2 years )

  Working closely with the CEO’s office and coordinating with cross-functional teams, we successfully planned and executed company and product launch. Fabric7 exceeded media and analyst coverage and was named “Top 15 Tech Startups to Watch” in InfoWorld Magazine.
  
  Responsibilities include product positioning, messaging and competitive analysis; sales enablement through lead generation tools and Salesforce; and interface with analyst and media. Generally, assess opportunities and develop strategies to properly market Fabric7 products which consisted of a complex technology and architecture involving server, networking and storage virtualization.

• Tech Pubs Manager

  Active Reasoning

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 2002 — June 2005 (2 years 8 months)

  Ability to work as a team player within a department as well as a one-person team having distributed roles, in order to successfully manage and create documentation and collateral for internal and external audiences.
  Primary responsibility included project managing and writing all internal and customer facing technical/marketing collateral and documentation.
  
  - Initiate projects, determine appropriate deliverables, identify requisite resources, and manage the projects from inception to completion in a startup environment as the sole technical writer.
  - Write and maintain customer documentation from scratch, including installation, administration, operation, and user guides as well as online help, release notes, and FAQs.

• Compliance Information Manager

  Exodus

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; exds; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1999 — August 2002 (3 years 2 months)

  Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure that network topologies were compliant. Help define and drive department policies and procedures.
  
  - Project Manager for the DNS Redesign project. Coordinate with cross-functional team from Product Management, Engineering, and Operations to mitigate any impact on customers. Project managed all installation, configuration and training documents.
  - Define and create departmental policies and procedures. Help define Compliance Network topologies for hosting customer websites and verify that customer topologies were compliant.
  - Guide content development, write, and maintain technical documentation and whitepapers. Create and maintain a knowledge base for internal use.

Fahima Zahir’s Education

• Santa Clara University

  MBA , 2006

  One elective remaining.

• SJSU

  BA , French/Philosophy , August 1994 — May 1996

  Activities and Societies:

  Golden Key National Honors Society

Additional Information

Fahima Zahir’s Interests:

traveling, music, dancing, sports (running, lifting, snowboarding), fencing, languages, literature

Fahima Zahir’s Groups:

•    Content Strategy

Fahima Zahir’s Honors:

Phi Sigma Iota, National Honors Society

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