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Sr. Social Media Program Manager/Owner at Sun Microsystems

Summary:
Consistently recognized as a top performer by management, stakeholders, team members, and community members, and recognized by the ReadWrite Web as a "Leading Corporate Social Media Evangelist", Linda Skrocki is the Senior Engineering Program Manager/Owner for Sun's primary community sites (blogs, forums, wikis, etc.). She has hands-on practitioner experience in managing community site construction, program & policy definition, and community development from the ground up. She is results driven, out-going, well-spoken, and able to quickly identify the most efficient critical path to successful delivery.

She has managed many of Sun Microsystems highest profile web programs over the last 9 years. Prior to that, she has an extensive background of working in the tech sector since the late 80's for organizations ranging from start-ups, fortune 500s, & state government.

Specialties:
Social networking program policy & platform definition, community moderation, engineering web program management, new media marketing, online community development, new media trainer, expert user of social networking tools (blogs, wikis, forums, twitter, etc.), user generated content, information architecture, corporate blogger, software lifecycle, support of corporate and executive communications via social networking tools.

Honors:

One of "Seven Leading Corporate Social Media Evangelists" per the ReadWriteWeb, http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/seven_leading_corporate_social_media_evangelists_today.php

Invited presenter for the United Nations Global Youth Summit Leaders, http://blogs.sun.com/lskrocki/entry/sun_and_the_united_nations

Invited presenting practitioner at Enterprise 2.0 2008. http://www.e2conf.com/archive/presentations/downloads/EN31_Skrocki.pdf

Successful corporate wikis case study contributor for Stewart Mader's book "Wikipatterns", http://bit.ly/wikipatterns-skrocki

Girl Geek Dinner member and presenter, http://www.slideshare.net/lskrocki/girl-geek-dinner-presentation

Invited Speaker at the Reuter's Women Group "Work Smarter, Not Harder" event, June 2008

Invited Guest Lecturer at the "Social Networking and Virtual Worlds" class at Babson College, October, 2008

Invited Speaker at Sun Microsystems "Social + You" Blogging 101 workshop, June 2009

Invited Speaker at Sun Microsystems Intern Farewell Lunch, August 2009