Mike Combs

Past

• Go To Market Manager at IBM
• Product Marketing Director at Micromuse
• Product Marketing Director at Quallaby

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Education

• Relevant workshops

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Networking

Mike Combs’s Summary

Experience product marketing professional, with extensive experience in network management products for enterprise and service providers. Strong presentation and writing skills. Interested in usability and particularly in web 2.0 (long tail and social networks).

Mike Combs’s Specialties:

Performance management, reporting, usability, HTML/CSS

Mike Combs’s Education

• Relevant workshops

  Within a year of high school graduation began work at Tektronix developing firmware for network test equipment. In addition to books and blogs, I improve my skills through workshops.
  
  Sales & Marketing
  * Dale Carnegie sales
  * Strategic Selling
  * Executive presentations
  * Practical Product Management
  * Pragmatic Marketing, Working with Development
  
  Usability
  * Interviewing Customers (Isaacs)
  * Model-driven UI Design (Constantine & Lockwood)
  * Product Usability Survival Techniques (Spool)
  * Successful Strategies for Selling Usability (Bloomer)
  * Designing for Day-one Performance (Gery)
  * Presenting Data and Information (Tufte)
  
  Web Content Management
  * Plone (web content management) boot camp
  * Plone Developer boot camp

Additional Information

Mike Combs’s Interests:

Usability, web 2.0, Plone CMS, marketing methodology, community organizing, spanish language, family

Mike Combs’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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