
Director of Marketing & Partner Development at WebJunction
Greater Seattle Area

Director of Marketing & Partner Development at WebJunction
Greater Seattle Area
A senior marketing manager with 10+ years experience in several startups and Microsoft in a range of functional roles including technical marketing, product management, and marketing communications.
Education:
MBA University of Washington
BS University of Oregon
influentials, community, blogging, product management, product marketing, marketing communications, online marketing
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
August 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)
*Currently driving all aspects of marketing and partner development efforts for a social enterprise which serves the library community. WebJunction provides an open online community for library staff and fee-based training and hosted Web services for organizations.
*WebJunction (www.webjunction.org) is part of OCLC (www.oclc.org) and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and IMLS.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
November 2005 — July 2007 (1 year 9 months)
Develop and manage a community and influencer marketing plan for the emerging Windows Live set of products and services (Live.com, Search, Messenger, etc.).
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
August 1998 — November 2005 (7 years 4 months)
Lead US evangelism and engagement efforts targeting technical higher education students (CS, EE, IT, etc) for Microsoft, with a focuses on .NET platform, Visual tools, and related. Drove the Microsoft sponsorship of INETA (International .NET Association) through its launch and early growth.
Previously held marketing roles in US Developer Marketing and with the Windows Server (NT4/2000) team focusing on clustering products.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2000 — September 2001 (1 year 3 months)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 1998 — August 1998 (7 months)
My favorite job of all time. :)
Acquired by Microsoft August 1998.
Maker of Convoy Cluster Software, now known as Network Load Balancing in Windows Server.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 1997 — January 1998 (8 months)
Led sales sourcing and business development across a seven state region.
MBA, Technology Management, 2001 — 2002
BS, History, Business Administration, 1993 — 1997