Director Product Management, 2005-2006
- Product/program managed eight releases and two new products.
- Leveraged competitive, industry, market, and academic research.
- Organized and formalized product roadmap, including
- Expected product releases by quarter
- High level features and functions
- Variants by brand, language, platform
- Organized and formalized product life cycle, including
- Product area with attributes, types, names, and versions
- Encryption area with standard and high encryption variants
- Release area with detailed external and internal milestones
- Improved pre release documentation to include
- New product features, resolved defects, and known issues,
- Compatible products, platforms, and virtualization managers
Director Commercial/Partner/OEM Business Systems, 1995-2005
- Envisioned and product managed 49 releases in 13 business applications
- Contract processing
- Transaction processing
- Analytical processing
- Content management
- Content/file distribution
- Email management
- New product concept, business case, feasibility analysis, and commercialization.
- Defined multi year product portfolio strategies and annual product plans.
- Delivered ten version 1.0 releases across multiple business areas.
- Completed approximately 70 business process improvement projects.
- Rolled out multiple sales/marketing/channel programs to 58 subsidiaries.
- Extensive experience in global business practices and internationalization.
- Invited speaker at regional and worldwide channel partner conferences.
Retail/Merchandising Systems Manager, 1994-1995
- Designed data warehouse and decision support system for retail and corporate areas.
- Supported logistics analysis, promotion effectiveness, and ad hoc queries.
- Owned retail systems for 166 store chain, including point of sale, merchandising,
and inventory.
- Created innovative in store kiosk for high touch, low cost product information.
Marketing Manager, 1992-1994
- Analyzed and forecasted sales by product and market.
- Evaluated venture proposals and performed competitive analyses.
- Developed cluster and media analyses for major product lines.
- Sponsored buyer behavior and patterning research studies.
- Developed data warehouse for large national retailer.
Acquisitions, Inc.
Transaction Specialist, 1990-1992
- Brokered California manufacturing, wholesale, and distribution companies.
- Solicited, negotiated, and coordinated relationships between sellers and buyers.
- Analyzed, valued, packaged, and marketed companies on a national basis.
Financial Planning Manager, 1986-1990
- Operating and capital budgeting, cost accounting, management reporting.
- Automated telecommunications/data processing inventory and chargeback systems.
- Developed state of the art decision support models to forecast supply and demand.
Sales and Marketing Analyst, 1984-1985
- Supported business and technical analysis functions for major account sales.
- Needs analysis, proposal preparation, product demonstrations, client training.
- Developed telemarketing group, direct mail program, CPA public relations campaign.
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