
Social Media Marketing, Product Marketing
San Francisco Bay Area

Social Media Marketing, Product Marketing
San Francisco Bay Area
I'm a "hands-on" experienced technology Marketing professional with a great mix of marketing experience and skills to meet today's marketing challenges. If you are looking for someone to roll up their sleeves and lead by example... call me.
- 14+ years combined Product Marketing and Product Management experience in technology/software
- Up-to-date with recent classes in Social Media Marketing, SEM/SEO, Blogging for Business, web based Public Relations, and additional hands-on experience and measurable results with Video blog (vblog), YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
- 5 years experience as a Manager with 10-12 direct reports. Additional leadership roles as an individual contributor working with cross functional teams.
- 9+ years creating/coordinating brochures, website content, flyers, graphics, posters, presentations, trade shows, conferences, webinars, marketing programs, channel and direct sales training, flash/video demos, and special events
- Hundreds of customer presentations at the Executive Briefing Center and customer locations including focusing on closing sales, building customer relationships and capturing input for future product development.
- Numerous workshops and public speaking engagements at tradeshows and analyst engagements (Gartner, IDC, Nemertes, Aberdeen Group).
- Strong writing skills. I'm a featured blogger at WriterSpan.com and a blog I write was syndicated after just 4 weeks.
Please feel free to call me at your earliest convenience. I'm very qualified to lead any marketing effort.
Social Media Marketing / Global Product Marketing / Product Management / Vertical Marketing / OEM Partnerships / Network Management / Business Development / Security & Regulatory Compliance / Channel Operations / Business Process Improvement
Other skills:
Wordpress Blog, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash Catalyst for Flex UI design, Audio and Video editing (for effective Blogs, Flash demos, YouTube), SEO/SEM, Google Analytics, Ruby on Rails, PHP, MySQL
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
February 2009 — Present (11 months)
Social Media Marketing industry specific blog. This blog started as a marketing effort for a MySpace application that my team developed at WeekendApps Opensocial event held at Google February 20-22, 2009. This blog was syndicated by Recordapedia.com after just 4 weeks.
Featured Writer/Blogger on WriterSpan.com
SEO consulting for a Real Estate professional
VCTaskforce staff (volunteer). VC Taskforce provides forums for real-time information exchange and dialogue through a series of networking events—panels, workshops and roundtable meetings that assist venture capitalists, institutional investors and venture-backed company executives in managing their businesses for maximum success.
(Public Company; NT; Telecommunications industry)
1999 — December 2008 (9 years )
Product Marketing - Network Management and Orchestration Services.
Product Marketing - Voice Systems Management, Large Systems IP PBX, IP Client Applications, Hospitality Applications
Vertical Marketing- Hospitality and Travel market
Western Region Marketing - supporting Western Region US Sales.
Product Marketing - Optivity Telephony Manager, Attendant PC Console, Hospitality Applications
(Computer Networking industry)
1994 — 1999 (5 years )
Product Line Manager for :
Meridian Administration Tools and Optivity Telephony Manager
OA&M, CDR, SNMP, and Security features in X11 software release (Meridian 1 PBX)
(Computer Networking industry)
1990 — 1994 (4 years )
BA , Liberal Arts - Special Major , 1988 — 1991
New Technology Meetups, VCTaskforce, MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB), Entrepreneurship events, Weekend Apps, OpenSocial, Facebook, Ning.
VCTaskforce
US Patent 7,313,592 and US Patent 6,799,198, “Method and apparatus for providing user specific web-based help in a distributed system environment”, Peter A. Huboi, Shailendra Sharma, Laurence C. Chan, John Epplett, issued December 25, 2007 and September 28, 2004
Featured Writer/Blogger on WriterSpan.com (March 2009)