John Blagdon

Current

• Global Learning Program Manager at Hewlett Packard

Past

• Training Manager at APPIQ, Inc
• Education Consultant (Contract) at Hewlett Packard
• Sales Trainer at StorageNetworks

• Training Manager at Eastman Software
• Technical Documentation at LaserData

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Education

• Fitchburg State College

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Industry

Computer Software

John Blagdon’s Summary

Education Consultant with a strong background in sales and technical training using a variety of delivery mediums including web-based development tools, Camtasia, RealNetworks and MS Media Services, and MS Word, MS Powerpoint.

Strong project management skills and ability to manage projects that use world-wide vended resources. Strong forecasting and budget abilities. Results oriented, and persistent. Creative problem solver. Excellent organizational, writing, and presentation skills.

John Blagdon’s Experience

• Global Learning Program Manager

  Hewlett Packard

  (Public Company; HPQ; Computer Hardware industry)

  October 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)

  Program manage the development of training content for the HP ProLiant and BladeSystem Servers Partner Certification training tracks . Reponsibilities include vendor selection, budget management, and project milestone management. Thirteen certification training products, including instructor led, web-based, and self-paced represent three certification competency tracks with associated Prometrics administered exams. I also participate in the competency analysis and exam item development workshops for these disciplines.

• Training Manager

  APPIQ, Inc

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

  September 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 2 months)

  Manage the design, development and delivery of Partner, VAR and Customer training for AppIQ’s StorageAuthority Management software that runs on Windows and Solaris servers.
  - 4 day Implementation & Technical Support training course for AppIQ’s Partner’s and VARs support and services audience
  - Grossed approximately $100K in services dollars delivering this course
  - 5 hours of CD based, Camtasia recorded training modules The recorded content is specific to the support and services audience and reduced the training costs associated with a broad Partner channel.
  - Managed training contractual commitments, content updates, and training schedules with SUN, Hitachi Data Systems, and Hewlett Packard.

• Education Consultant (Contract)

  Hewlett Packard

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)

  February 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 8 months)

  Manage the design and delivery of live internet streaming media training for post-sales support engineers, consultants and solution architects focused on HP’s new and updated storage hardware and software solutions. The Streaming Media events use HP’s Virtual Classroom software as well as MS Media Encoder and MS Producer.

• Sales Trainer

  StorageNetworks

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2003 (3 years )

• Training Manager

  Eastman Software

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1995 — 2000 (5 years )

• Technical Documentation

  LaserData

  (Computer Software industry)

  1990 — 1995 (5 years )

John Blagdon’s Education

• Fitchburg State College

  BS Industrial Arts , Industrial Arts Instruction , 1972 — 1976