San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Realtor at Coldwell Banker
- Past
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- Owner at Convergence Point (Sole Proprietorship)
- Vice President of Sales at Macromind
- Director of Western Sales at Borland
- Corporate sales manager at Ansa Software
- Sales representative at Lotus Development
- Education
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- Antioch University
- Cornell University
- Swarthmore College
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Pam Buda’s Summary
Sonoma County wine country realtor with extensive marketing and sales expertise from my former life in the technology business and after five years of building a successful and growing (even in this market) real estate practice with Coldwell Banker, specializing in country and equestrian property, estates and retreat properties.
Pam Buda’s Experience
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Realtor
Coldwell Banker
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Real Estate industry)
2003 — Present (5 years)
Represent buyers and sellers of Sonoma County real estate, with an emphasis on country properties suitable for horses, vineyards, second homes or retirement. Often locate and interview out of area realtors for my clients who have needs in other markets.
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Owner
Convergence Point (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry)
December 1990 — 2003 (13 years)
Along with a team of virtual professionals, assumed interim sales and marketing management roles with a variety of high-tech startups or did marketing projects for larger companies. Responsibilities often included development of company and product positioning strategies, business planning, sales presentation development and strategic marketing and business development.
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Vice President of Sales
Macromind
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1989 — December 1990 (1 year 9 months)
Developed distribution, channel marketing and partnership strategy, established key relationships within channels and the corporate and developer communities. Focused on early mulimedia authoring tools for various market segments.
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Director of Western Sales
Borland
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; BORL; Computer Software industry)
April 1987 — April 1989 (2 years 1 month)
built a 2 man sales operation at a small privately held company (Ansa Soffware) into a 25 person team producing $43 million in revenue through both direct and indirect channels with responsibility for half the United States market. Managed regional sales teams in five major markets plus an inside sales team. Worked with product marketing groups to develop product launch and channel management strategies. Key focus was to secure adoption of key products in the corporate marketplace.
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Corporate sales manager
Ansa Software
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 1986 — April 1987 (1 year 2 months)
Developed national sales programs to create and increase penetration of the corporate market for the relational database software product, Paradox. Ansa was acquired by Borland in April 1987, where a further description of my role can be found.
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Sales representative
Lotus Development
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)
April 1983 — April 1986 (3 years 1 month)
Sold software to both the corporate and retail customer base. Developed sales training programs at corporate headquarters and developed channel and strategic partnership marketing programs to establish Lotus products as corporate and retail standards.
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Pam Buda’s Interests:
new technology, horses, great food and wine, gardening, vizsla dogs and field trialing, grapegrowing.
