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

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Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Networking

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 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 Groups:

Member, AT&T Alumni Association
Member, Cisco Alumni Association
Member, Nortel Alumni Association
Member, Association of International Product Marketing Managers
Member, Booksin Elementary School Community Association
Member, California State Railroad Museum
Member, Hiller Aviation Museum
Member, Monterey Bay Aquarium
Member, The Nature Conservancy
Member, The Sierra Club
Member, Train Collectors Association
Contributor, Software Product Marketing Guild
Volunteer, Booksin Elementary School Walk-A-Thon
Past Co-chairman, Free Library of Phila Annual Book Sales
Past Co-chairman, National Thespian Society
Past Co-chairman, Phila Chapter, American Wine Society
Past Volunteer Coordinator, PBS Station WHYY-TV