Sr. Product Manager, Symantec
Greater New York City Area
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- Partner at Bespoke Web Apps
- Sr. Product Manager at Symantec
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- Host and founder at nowlikephotographs.com
- Engineer at Symantec
- Manager, Web Design at Radio K
- Education
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- Augsburg College
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
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Josef Pfeiffer’s Summary
I began by working as an engineer on a product called "NetBackup" at Veritas after getting a Computer Engineering degree from the University of Minnesota. Went back to business school for an MBA and moved in to Product Management at Symantec to support startup products around the core NetBackup line. On the side I have started two companies. The first is a radio program that amassed a small loyal base of 30,000 listeners for instrumental music and is still broadcast on public radio in Minneapolis with an accompanying podcast. The second company is "Bespoke Web Apps" and builds custom web applications like e-commerce, social networks, information tools and checkout systems. I've lived and worked in Minneapolis, San Francisco/Mountain View and now New York. All while working with other engineering teams in those locations as well as India, China and London with sales groups in every major city. I'm generally interested in new software technology and emerging markets.
Josef Pfeiffer’s Specialties:
Relationship and partner management with customers, sales and partners. Web technology and design: especially the LAMP stack of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Storage hardware, software, and data protection. International go to market, branding, competitive analysis, product management, marketing and product strategy.
Josef Pfeiffer’s Experience
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Partner
Bespoke Web Apps
(Internet industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
Co-founded Bespoke Web Apps that designs and creates online presences for other companies. Includes things such as websites, e-commerce solutions, games, information management and other custom built web apps.
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Sr. Product Manager
Symantec
(Public Company; SYMC; Computer Software industry)
November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Spent the first year doing go-to-market strategy for Veritas Backup Reporter and NetBackup for Windows. This included things like pipeline management, sales training, positioning and marketing. In April 2009 I became the product planner for NetBackup RealTime and now have responsibility for all feature content and go-to-market strategy for that product.
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Host and founder
nowlikephotographs.com
(Broadcast Media industry)
January 2005 — February 2009 (4 years 2 months)
Founded and co-host a 2-hour radio program that is broadcast weekly in Minneapolis on 770AM, 106.5FM or 100.7FM and all over the world at RadioK.org.
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Engineer
Symantec
(Public Company; SYMC; Computer Software industry)
June 2004 — October 2007 (3 years 5 months)
Responsible for the hardware relationship between NetBackup and IBM, Quantum/ADIC, Qlogic, FalconStor, and NEC.
Led the planning for NetBackup 6.5 SharedDisk testing.
Coordinated platform proliferation of new OS's for hardware.
Maintained SCSI code for ensuring compatibility between the device management in NetBackup and new products.
Product managed a web application used for collecting and reporting on known working hardware/software combinations used to generate compatibility lists. -
Manager, Web Design
Radio K
(Educational Institution; Design industry)
September 2002 — May 2005 (2 years 9 months)
Led a team of designers and developers to manage the website radiok.org.
Wrote PHP / mySQL CMDB system to manage the stations CD/vinyl collection which involved migrating a Filemaker database to the new system.
Josef Pfeiffer’s Education
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Augsburg College
MBA , 2007 — 2009
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University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Bachelors , Computer Engineering , 2001 — 2005
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Josef Pfeiffer’s Interests:
product management, software, design, technology, running, photography, cooking, BMW's
Josef Pfeiffer’s Groups:
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Pragmatic Marketing Alumni -
Augsburg College - MBA -
VERITAS Software Alumni -
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Radio K -
Augsburg Business Organization (ABO) -
Public Radio -
Symantec Vision 08 - Las Vegas -
University of Minnesota Alumni Association (UMAA) -
Backup & Recovery Professionals -
National Eagle Scout Alumni -
Augsburg College -
Storage Professionals -
Augsburg Alumni -
Netbackup System Administrators -
Symantec Corporation -
Symantec Real Time Protection
Josef Pfeiffer’s Honors:
Eagle Scout, 1996
Outstanding Citizen Award - Brookfield, WI, 1996
Symantec MVP, September 2005 Quarter
Symantec MVP (Golden Tape), March 2008 Quarter
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