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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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2010 – Present Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
GROUP PRODUCT MANAGER – Exchange Partner Marketing
Lead marketing, sales and technical readiness programs, as well as formulate go-to-market strategy for the
Microsoft Exchange partner ecosystem across the over 640,000 member
Microsoft Partner Network (MPN). Drive program execution through customer engagement engines and Microsoft subsidiaries. Develop social media communications campaign including serving as spokesperson for Exchange partner community. Directly supervise three member team organized by partner types, i.e., Exchange resellers, system integrators, ISVs and hardware partners.
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2008 – 2010 Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
SENIOR TECHINCAL PRODUCT MANAGER – Exchange Product Management
Responsible for product management and marketing of the email archiving and discovery workload
for Microsoft Exchange Server and Exchange Hosted Archive.
Formulated workload positioning and messaging. Developed sales and marketing collateral in support of
Exchange 2010 launch (November 2009) and sustained marketing efforts.
Defined ISV partner engagement strategy, navigating challenging "coopertition" environment with leading archiving vendors.
Serve as e-mail archiving subject matter expert in interactions with key customers, media, and leading analyst firms. Partner with Exchange engineering to define unique
value propositions for future product release milestones.
Additionally, led product planning, and evangelism activities for Exchange Server 2010 prior to public disclosure.
Drove value proposition and vision articulation, positioning and messaging development, as well as partnered across business groups to manage product roadmap and disclosure planning.
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2005 – 2007 Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER – Security and Access Product Marketing
Responsible for the product management and marketing of Microsoft Windows Server
networking technologies, including TCP/IP, IPsec, Windows Firewall, hardware offload, and
IPv6. Developed and executed go to market plans for secure networking solutions.
Defined and drove overall enterprise networking vision. Built sales and
marketing collateral for the launch of
Windows Server 2008 (February 2008). Managed product
group outreach and coordination with the technical sales community.
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2004 – 2005 Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
PRODUCT MANAGER – Security Business & Technology Unit
Managed executive communications for business unit’s vice presidents. Responsibilities included formulating security messaging strategies
and speech development for executive engagements, as well as integrating company’s security messaging into other executive presentations, e.g., Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. Led cross-group production v-team for
monthly webcast on security.
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2003 – 2004 CA Technologies, Islanda, NY
DIRECTOR, SECURITY RESPONSE - eTrust Brand Unit
Led cross-functional
team responsible for communications and outbound marketing for CA's
security
response capabilities. Served as corporate spokesperson for CA's security
research organization. Directly supervised project management team responsible
for security response communications, operational procedures and premium support
services. Continued as brand unit’s leading evangelist for security management
solutions.
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2002 – 2003 CA Technologies, Islanda, NY
SECURITY STRATEGIST - eTrust Brand Unit
Leading evangelist and spokesperson for the company’s eTrust brand of security management solutions.
Managed relationships with top industry analyst firms and world-wide media. Developed and executed partnership strategy for alliances with Microsoft and Intel.
Managed special projects around wireless security, threat management and research, brand unit marketing campaigns and customer support.
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2000 – 2001 CA Technologies, Islanda, NY
PRODUCT MANAGER - Corporate Marketing
Responsible for global product and brand management of the multimillion dollar CA antivirus product line.
Developed and implemented go to market strategy across multiple sales channels, including product development specifications, pricing, competitive analysis and
collateral/sales tool creation. Brand manager for threat management solutions portfolio. Chief spokesperson for CA’s global antivirus research organization.
Managed relationships with industry standards and certification organizations.
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1998 – 2000 CA Technologies, Islanda, NY
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST - Research and Development
Member of
CTO office's advanced development team, focused on new research and product initiatives. Projects included field development and testing of solutions for AS/400 systems management, enterprise
identity and access management, wireless communications and partner solution integration.
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EDUCATION
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Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (1998)
Plattsburgh State University of New York
Honors include:
> Omicron Delta Kappa (National Leadership Honor Society)
> Pi Kappa Phi (National Fraternity)
(ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional
(2005)
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