Sean Milstead

Current

• Product Marketing Manager at CS Holdings (CoolSign)
• Marketing Associate at 2Boards Productions

Past

• Product Marketing Manager - CoolSign at Planar Systems
• Headquarter Account Manager at Planar Systems
• Commercial Account Manager at CompUSA

• Technology Director at Everymile
• Senior Web Producer at University of Oregon School of Law

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Education

• University of Oregon
• Jesuit High School
• St. Pius X

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Sean Milstead’s Summary

Sean Milstead’s Specialties:

Business development, business requirements documentation, needs analysis, sales training, product management, digital signage, consumer electronics

Sean Milstead’s Experience

• Product Marketing Manager

  CS Holdings (CoolSign)

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  December 2008 — Present (8 months)

• Marketing Associate

  2Boards Productions

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)

  June 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)

  • Responsible for the design and maintenance of Portland-area theatre company’s web site.
  • Design marketing materials including postcards and posters for fundraising and production efforts

• Product Marketing Manager - CoolSign

  Planar Systems

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; PLNR; Computer Hardware industry)

  May 2008 — December 2008 (8 months)

• Headquarter Account Manager

  Planar Systems

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; PLNR; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 8 months)

  • Manage inside sales efforts for Planar’s digital signage initiative worldwide.
  • Responsible for lead development, lead qualification, reseller and VAR support.
  • Maintain accurate 30/60/90 day forecasts.
  • Assist with the development of marketing materials and marketing programs.
  • Provide pricing and product offering guidance to product management team.
  • Assisted in growing division revenues by 83% YOY during FY 07.
  • Exceeded eight million dollar quota in first year by 10%.
  • Exceeded Q1 FY 08 quota by 35%.
  • Presented with Key Achievement Award for overall sales efforts in May 07.

• Commercial Account Manager

  CompUSA

  (Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Business Supplies and Equipment industry)

  December 2001 — September 2006 (4 years 10 months)

  • Managed the Portland, OR territory that included small to medium businesses, local government organizations and education institutions.
  • Responsible for sales of computer hardware, software and services to area accounts.
  • Grew existing business relationships in addition to prospecting new business by conducting primary needs analysis.
  • Created and maintained marketing plans for target customers, designing and developing corresponding marketing materials in cooperation with regional sales managers.
  • Consistently ranked in the top 10 regionally for overall monthly and yearly sales and in the top 20% nationally.
  • Helped increase department level sales by 100% for FY 05.
  • Won quarterly sales award in Q4 04.

• Technology Director

  Everymile

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2000 — June 2001 (10 months)

  • Acted as the intermediary between the CEO and our web development team.
  • Composed Technical/Business Requirements and Use Case Scenarios documents for each web release.
  • Responsible for the design and maintenance of company's corporate web presence and co-branded partner sites.
  • Developed and maintained automated sales tools for outside sales effort.
  • Produced print media including banners and posters for trade shows.

• Senior Web Producer

  University of Oregon School of Law

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 1999 — June 2000 (1 year 6 months)

  • Responsible for the design and coding of the school's main web presence.
  • Oversaw three site re-launches, including the main law school and the alumni department sites.
  • Coordinated and supervised of the efforts of the law school web development team for dynamic and static web pages.
  • Worked with school administrators and students to create web standards documents.

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