Gary Thomas

Current

• Founder at ThomasLand Partners

Past

• Director, Product Marketing at Teneros, Inc.
• Marketing Manager, Routers and VoIP Gateways at Cisco Systems
• Founder at OurMarketingDept.com

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Education

• Cambridge Institute at MIT
• AT&T Field Systems Engineer School
• Delaware County College

2 more...

Recommended

26 people have recommended Gary

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Networking

Websites

• My Family Website
• My Resume
• My eBay Blog

Gary Thomas’s Summary

For more than 27 years, I have helped businesses realize the full potential of their products by applying creative approaches to product, solutions, channel and direct marketing. At the heart of my skills is a passion for creating competitively-differentiated sales and marketing strategies.

My experience includes Marketing Director at Teneros, Marketing Manager at Cisco Systems, Product Marketing Director at Nortel Networks and Bay Networks, Solutions Marketing Manager at SynOptics Communications, Group Manager for Network Products at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Field Support Engineering at Verizon.

I have been responsible for sales readiness and marketing to the Fortune 1000 for product lines that generated in excess of US$1.4 billion and have developed new channels through direct marketing, cross-selling, selective partner recruiting and applying Internet technologies.

My networking experience includes Gigabit Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Ethernet, Token Ring, ATM, FDDI; routers, switches, appliances, hubs, wireless, and network management.

My security experience includes firewalls, IP-SEC, URL filters, VPN, SSL VPN, NAC, Cisco IOS Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). My Voice over IP (VoIP) experience includes: Functions (PBX, IVR), Media (PoE, VoBB), Gateways (SIP, H.323, PSTN/IP) and Protocols (MGCP, TGCP, SRTP, SS7/C7, PESQ).

My wireless experience includes WiFi, 802.11b/g/n, 2G/3G/GSM, Cisco Land Mobile Radio.

For more information, please visit http://thomasland.org/resume where you can download HTML, DOC or PDF versions of my resume.

Email Information:
gary@thomasland.org

Instant Messenger:
Skype: garywthomas

Gary Thomas’s Specialties:

Marketing: Differentiated messaging with competitive positioning, outbound product marketing, multi-level sales collateral, product availability assurance, sales and channel readiness, internal launch management, market launch management, press/analyst coordination, demand generation, closed loop marketing programs, installed base and channel partner touch programs, channel marketing, revenue management and more.

Additional Information

Gary Thomas’s Websites:

• My Family Website
• My Resume
• My eBay Blog

Gary Thomas’s Interests:

My wife and sons, networking technology, organizational development, railroading, photography, ecology, Matchbox diecast toys, Lionel and Ives pre-war tinplate model trains.

Gary Thomas’s Honors:

Brainbench Marketing Strategy and Concepts Certification
AT&T Best-of-the-Branch System Engineer Awards

Gary Thomas’s Contact Settings

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