Dec 2024 – Oct 2025 · 10 mos

• I craft compelling company narratives and messaging to enhance brand positioning and differentiation, facilitating stronger connections with new and existing customers. I collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop innovative strategies that drive business growth and market impact.

Mar 2024 – Dec 2024 · 9 mos

• Taking time off to deal with a serious health issue.

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Remote

• I am a host of the long-running audio/video podcast on Hackaday called FLOSS Weekly, This show interviews open source project leaders about the projects they work on and the challenges they face.

Mar 2023 – Feb 2024 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

• At Upbound, I led product marketing for both SaaS and self-hosted products. As the sole product marketer, I was responsible for end-to-end GTM including several cross-functional initiatives. I built out messaging, defined personas, created solutions, enabled sales, created collateral, and led product launches.

Jun 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 9 mos · Remote

• I built and run two growing, successful YouTube channels with over 25K subscribers focusing on vintage computers and technology. In addition, I build and sell small electronics used by my audience.

Feb 2020 – Feb 2023 · 3 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• At Sysdig, I lead product marketing for our Kubernetes monitoring, managed Prometheus, and cost optimization solutions. Companies trying to grow and compete are taking advantage of the benefits that cloud-native development methodologies provide. However, scale and automation can bring complexity which is the enemy of security. Built on open-source software like Prometheus and Falco, Sysdig helps customers solve for these issues. With Sysdig you can embed security and compliance into your build, run and respond workflows — so you can deliver on user and enterprise requirements, at scale, with a single platform.

May 2019 – Feb 2020 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• AppDynamics helps businesses prevent and solve real application, end-user, and business problems in real-time with our revolutionary AIOps platform that provides visibility, insight, and action for a company's entire application landscape.
• As a leader in the Product and Commercialization team, I am responsible for working cross-functionally to lead initiatives that drive the growth of our platform in cloud environments. This helps our customers solve the growing complexity problems that come with cloud application deployments so they can better leverage those resources to grow their businesses.

May 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Wow! If you're not using AppDynamics to provide application, infrastructure, end user and business insights, you need to check them out. Applications are driving today's modern businesses, so go with the industry leader and make sure you are keeping up with your competition.
• In my role as Senior Product Marketing Manager I am responsible for making sure our messaging around cloud solutions is compellling, consistent and that it addresses real problems that our customers face every day.

Jun 2017 – Mar 2018 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Feb 2017 – Jun 2017 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• At New Relic, I led a small team of product marketers working on all product marketing activities for New Relic Infrastructure, Insights, Mobile and cross platform tools I was responsible for messaging, GTM campaigns and strategy, sales enablement, event planning, customer engagement, and more. I worked with senior management to build more efficient tools and marketing techniques to help the company have a better focus on Enterprise customers.

May 2013 – Nov 2016 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• In my role at NetApp, I managed all of the marketing activities of the portfolio of solutions for Oracle Database, applications, virtual environments and operating systems. I developed innovative marketing programs resulting in millions of additional dollars of revenue that was previously untapped. I used creative techniques to engage, acquire and retain customers regardless of budget constraints. I managed the messaging we used in all internal and external documents and websites. I also planned and coordinated the various events and activities where we presented our Oracle related solutions. I developed our go-to-market strategy for Oracle solutions and worked on positioning our products as they relate to enterprise applications. I participated in analyst and customer discussions as well as prepared materials and collateral for our direct and partner sales teams.

May 2010 – Dec 2023 · 13 yrs 7 mos

• I am a host of the long-running audio/video podcasts on the TWiT.tv network including The New Screen Savers, FLOSS Weekly, All About Android, This Week in Google and others.These shows reach well over 200,000 viewers on a weekly basis.

Feb 2010 – May 2013 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• In my role at Oracle, I led all product marketing activities for FC Arrays, Flash Storage and Storage Networking technologies. I also managed the marketing transition of the these technologies when Sun Microsystems was acquired in 2010. I represented Oracle Storage platforms at industry events, and played a lead role in the development of global marketing campaign efforts for Database, Virtualization, Cloud and Big Data. I acted as a bridge between Product Management and other marketing teams to increase team collaboration and effectiveness. I created strategic direction and messaging for key hardware products, and developed presentations, sales guides and training materials for Oracle's sales teams. I was also responsible for overall messaging and content for several key sections of oracle.com. I delivered regular updates on product marketing readiness and activities to EVP level audience.

Apr 2006 – Feb 2010 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Led cross functional teams to build solutions based on strategic product lines.
• Worked with key client stakeholders to better understand market positioning and
• business opportunity.
• Collaborated with engineers and developers to define and prioritize features and
• testing efforts.
• Championed and demonstrated the use of social marketing techniques (blogs,
• twitter, webinars, podcasts) to reach a broader audience with key product
• messages.
• Successfully partnered with other companies to deliver consolidated solutions to
• reach a broader market.
• Presented solutions and product updates to business and technical customer
• decision makers.
• Represented current product lines and solutions at various trade shows,
• conferences and other events.
• Created documents and tools for both customer and sales team use.

Jan 2006 – Dec 2012 · 6 yrs 11 mos

• Created, produced and hosted a long running video podcast about open source software.
• The podcast was produced entirely with open source software.
• Conducted interviews with various interesting personalities in the open source community.
• Created tutorials on how to use various open source software packages.
• Conducted reviews of open source software packages as they were released.

Apr 2005 – Apr 2006 · 1 yr

Aug 2003 – Mar 2005 · 1 yr 7 mos

Mar 2000 – Aug 2003 · 3 yrs 5 mos