Jan 2018 – Dec 2018 · 11 mos

Mar 2012 – Present · 14 yrs 1 mo

• Through our product management training and coaching, we help product teams apply industry best practices to their portfolio of products with proven tools and methods, customized to the organization's top priorities. With decades of experience, Product Growth Leaders has helped define the methods and roles of product management for thousands of organizations.

Apr 2012 – Dec 2012 · 8 mos

• Worked with sales, development, professional services, and leadership to define product strategies for existing win/loss analysis services plus new software and training offerings.

Sep 1996 – Mar 2012 · 15 yrs 6 mos

• 15 years. 37 countries. 1000s of product teams. For more than 15 years, I shared my expertise in the best practices of product management and marketing with tens of thousands of product managers at 1000s of companies.

May 1994 – Aug 1996 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Ran product marketing and communications for computing products.

Jan 1993 – May 1994 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Helped a network management company redirect focus from being a services-only company to being a repeatable product company.

Jan 1991 – Jan 1993 · 2 yrs

• I was assigned an office but rarely went there; instead, I worked out of my home and on the road. I was sort of a "mystery employee", working primarily with two remote dev teams.

Jan 1990 – Jan 1993 · 3 yrs

• What a great team! We were actually employing agile dev techniques before we knew to call them agile. I spent one week a month in LA with the dev team; the other three weeks I did the rest of product management.

Jan 1987 – Jan 1990 · 3 yrs

• The job was originally an Area Sales Specialist until I pointed out the abbreviation. We sold computer parts by the pallet. I worked the central US from Texas to Minnesota.

Jan 1981 – Jan 1987 · 6 yrs · Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Top-rated SE for UCC-1, 7 & 11. Twice selected as "SE of the year". Standardized all training courses, implemented "how to be a great SE" mentoring program, and designed a multi-user personnel scheduling system in Unix.
• Learned how a software company SHOULD be run and haven't seen many run as well since.

Jan 1979 – Jan 1981 · 2 yrs · Fort Worth, Texas

• Programmed special and on-request jobs using really really old procedural languages.