SUMMARY:

Results - oriented marketing and sales professional with 26 years’ experience. Outstanding leadership skills used to direct cross-functional teams in building strategic alliances with customers to ensure long term business relationships. Highly effective planner with demonstrated ability to manage complex projects with hands on experience. Proven strengths in meeting goals and producing bottom line-oriented team efforts. Excellent interpersonal, motivational and communications skills. Strong commitment to continuing education and state-of-the- art technology.

AREAS OF STRENGTH:

• Cross - Functional Team Leadership
• Partnerships & Strategic Alliances
• New Business Development
• Sales and Technical Training Programs
• Market/Business-Trend Analysis
• Trade Show/Event Planning
• Budgeting/Profitability Modeling
• Staff Management and Training
• International Event Scheduling
• Assembled Wireless Networks
• Debugging of hardware/software
• Created -Managed -SharePoint

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Wireless Program Marketing Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Product Sustaining Support for PME and Field Sales teams
• Part number creation for new wireless SKU's
• SKU Matrix maintenance for all Wireless cards
• Collection of OEM PN's for Label Specs
• Preparing documents (DCL's) for customer review that outlines each product
• Capability for each stepping of production
• Providing administrative support for all PMEs: retrieving product images, weights, label specs, BOM's and other technical collateral in SPEED and NextGen SPEED
• Support of product label spec development for wireless products
• Ark/Mark/Spark/Care data maintenance and setup
• Pre-sales help-desk support for channel, supporting Confidential Field people
• Route non-channel pre-sales items to the right people
• Highlight statistics, trends, and issues to Wireless DT PME
• Help tie Confidential Wireless to other applicable supported Confidential products sold in Channel (like NUC)
• Support simplification projects (e.g. documentation improvements)
• Management of individual sample requests for pre-production and
• Sustaining wireless products
• Preparing DCL for use with sample shipments to give direction on sample use
• Maintain the Sample website and Sample inventory
• Ship and track sample orders using closed loop communication methods
• Kit building and shipments
• Work with worldwide sample team to push larger volume request to them and help support them by filling small quantity requests

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• As one of the two administrators of the website responsibilities included updates and use of the site as a vehicle for announcements and enrollment for Plugfest and Training events.
• As the Confidential admin, responses to developer inquiries and initial screening of Confidential Developer Applications was a major role.
• Duties also included Program’s managing the Confidential Technology and Trademark License process.
• Developed relationships with OEM’s and device suppliers for Confidential to drive development of their products to include Thunderbolt.
• Managed Confidential Developer Forum from getting vendors enrolled to booth design layout.
• Owned and managed budget for the business unit.

Confidential

Technical Procurement Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Purchases in support of new product development and sustaining efforts and hardware and software innovations for Confidential 's Wired Networking products.
• Liaise with account payable department to ensure accurate and timely payments of invoices, as necessary for the business with the supplier.
• Supporting 22 labs with over 400 people and responsible for over 40 million in equipment in the labs.
• Acquire technical understanding of roadmaps for supplier and group technologies in support of sourcing decisions and configuration of equipment purchases.
• Responsible for planning, developing and buying material, parts, supplies and equipment in a timely and cost effective way; timely manner while maintaining appropriate quality stands and specifications.
• Ensure compliance with Finance requirements and enable timely and proper data to manage asset life cycle; from settlement and inventory through tracking and disposition. Manage vendor relationships and assist in building effective partnerships.

Confidential

Events Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Organize and manage diverse marketing events including keynote speaker programs, tradeshow and industry presentations, and developer forums on worldwide basis
• Improved performance and cost effectiveness of four divisions within group by facilitating streamlined communications across department lines resulting in the delivery of a clear and consistent marketing message (ECG, UMG, ICAP, EMEA)
• Significantly reduced division’s operating costs by working with outside business departments to contribute to Events with Confidential
• Technical lead for the Wireless Infrastructure at Confidential Developer Conference for four years
• Managed Technical team and was responsible for Focal review process for the team
• Chaired and scheduled weekly Events Meeting which included various International and US states people lived in
• Implemented and administrated Events sharepoint site
• Prepared “plan of records-POR” for events with clear marketing messages
• Owned budget and project deadlines for several events (IDF, WiMAX World, 3GSM Mobile World Congress, WiMAX forum, Analysis Day, CES, Confidential Research, ISMC, CTIA, WCA, CPL, First Lady’s Conference on Women)
• Operation manager in DHG and was responsible for six events happening simultaneously
• Scheduled high level executives for keynotes, panels and speakerships

Confidential

Strategic Relations Manager

Responsibilities:

• Instrumental in launching WiMAX, a multi-billion dollar sector that took three years to develop
• Consultant to internal and external customers - OEM’s, ISV’s, Press and editors
• Executive staff support, including Andy Grove, for Doernbecher Children Hospital Foundation project
• Planned, coordinated and supervised the expansion of the largest lab at Confidential, including construction, equipment and wiring - creating a state- of- the- art lab. Worked with several outside vendor’s and business groups to complete the project
• Sent e-mail blasts out to Confidential partners for reception and match making event at Mobile World Congress
• Worked with Public Relations on “Celebrate Hillsboro” event and supplied equipment for them
• Managed over 10,000K of equipment within our lab and consulted and perform upgrades for computers & laptops for companies
• Conducted closing interviews and exits, communicating Confidential ’s benefits
• Organized and planned College Invitational’s
• Assisted Recruiter’s in marketing Confidential to students
• Negotiated with outside vendors on hotels, restaurants, tour buses, and housing
• Setup travel for candidates
• Relocated candidates from all over the US and International
• Taught Confidential new hire Orientation to summer/coop Intern’s
• Owned and managed the largest and most successful Summer/Coop program in Oregon
• Administrator of seven key account Colleges