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About Me

PRODUCT LEADERSHIP
Accomplished, results-driven leader with successful experience delivering business results through market research, strategic planning, roadmap development, collateral writing, and virtual team leadership. Recognized as highly responsible, results-oriented professional with proven ability to quickly establish rapport with large-scale corporate clients and execute on-time product implementations. Flexible team player experienced collaborating with internal and external stakeholders across multiple functions to define and deliver market-driven whole product solutions. Possess exceptional analytical skills, independent work abilities, and oral and written communications expertise.

Work History

• QuickArrow
• Senior Product Manager
• July 2008 to July 2009

• Identified new market opportunities in the integration and social media markets. Conducted market research and sizing. Defined operational metrics including KPI's. Assisted in buy/build/partner discussions. Served as thought leader at partner conferences. Documented sales and support processes. Provided MRD and PRD to marketing and engineering teams. Launched QuickArrow integration with MS Outlook. Launched QuickArrow connector for Boomi AtomSphere.

• Dun & Bradstreet
• Product Manager
• March 2007 to July 2008

• Key Achievements:
  1. Access Hoovers for Siebel On Demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM) integration. Access Hoovers fuels the CRM with high quality leads and conversation starters. This release further broadened Hoover’s relationship with Oracle and increased the addressable market for Hoover’s SaaS integration into CRM.
  2. Hoovers Usage Reports provides customers with multiple accounts a view of page visits and views for understanding their aggregate usage.
  3. Defined and launched Hoovers API by researching enterprise Web 2.0 mashups and creating a company vision of how to build a business development program that is self sufficient; creating numerous intermediaries while preventing cannibalization of existing subscription revenues.
  4. Managed ecommerce features for Hoovers.com point of arrival platform. This included prioritization of features within a feature set, story reviews, and writing acceptance tests for feature stories.

• HP
• Technical Marketing
• October 1998 to September 2006

• I was involved in Enterprise Systems Management for over five years with responsibilities in Application Management and Business Service Management products and solutions. In this role, I worked closely with sales channels to communicate product launch plans, provide presentations and demos, support for special calls and event support. I also held answer desk responsibility for the following products: OpenView Dashboard, OpenView Service Information Portal, OpenView Exchange Messaging Solution, and OpenView SMART PLUG-IN for Active Directory, Virtual Server and Exchange.
  Other positions included Americas IT support (help desk) and XP 256, XP512 support engineer.

Education

• Keller Graduate School of Management
• MBA, Marketing, Finance
• 2006 - 2008

• California State University
• BVE, Vocational Education, Adult Education, Computer Applications
• 2003 - 2006