Employment Objective
To obtain a challenging management position in a Marketing Management or Product Management role at a software company in London.
Recent Work Experience
Director of Marketing
DisplayLink (formerly Newnham Research), Cambridge, United Kingdom (September 2006 to Present)
- First Product Marketing employee hired; promoted to Director of Marketing in September 2007.
- Executed a successful product plan and built a world-wide marketing team that have allowed DisplayLink to transition from small start-up company to a leader in USB Graphics with tier-1 customers including Samsung, HP, Toshiba, LG, Sony, Lenovo, InFocus, and ASUS, and Acer.
- Directly managed a world-wide marketing and product management team.
- Regular travel (25%) to meet with Notebook OEMs, contract manufacturers, LCD Monitor manufacturers, and technology development partners, primarily to the Far East (Taiwan, Japan, Korea).
- Interfaced regularly with the DisplayLink executive team; primary decision maker at the product level.
- Responsible for product requirements, development priorities, product positioning, PR, and trade show planning.
- Developed an open source software strategy to help make DisplayLink technology a defacto standard.
Product Manager - Multimedia
ATI Technologies, Toronto, Ontario (December 2004 to September 2006)
- Responsible for customer requirements, distribution, and strategic direction of ATI multimedia software, including TV, DVB-T/Freeview, MPEG-4/H.264 video, and Blu-Ray/HD-DVD related software.
- Interacted regularly in executive level discussions and maintained relationships with tier-1 PC OEMs
- Created and maintained marketing requirements documents and roadmap for new and existing products.
- Spearheaded the creation of a European product testing program to improve product performance.
- Initiated and managed the successful outsourcing of an in-house application development team
- Interfaced with key external companies to ensure product compatibility and competitiveness.
Sales Engineer
Tucows, Toronto, Ontario (January 2003 to December 2004)
- Contributed significantly to the product specification of the Tucows product portfolio of Internet delivered software services and products.
- Travelled regularly to the United Kingdom to maintain close relationship with highest gross margin customers.
- Applied market and customer knowledge towards the specification and strategic positioning of new products in cooperation with Product Management.
- Provided technical consulting for the integration of products into customer environments.
- Maintained close relationship with lead technical contact of Tucows' highest gross margin customers.
- Worked with UNIX, Perl, PHP, Java, ASP.NET, DNS, and other internet-related technology.
- Contributed to the open-source project OpenSRS-PHP.
Product Marketing Engineer
V3 Semiconductor/QuickLogic Canada, Toronto, Ontario (October 2000 - October 2001)
- Interpreted highly technical information and extracted competitive features for use in sales collateral.
- Researched core networking technology and drafted a marketing requirements document (MRD) for the design of a new semiconductor product.
- Created presentation material and delivered sales training and product presentations.
- Initiated an embedded Linux strategy to provide product differentiation and reduce customer design time.
- Provided technical assistance to customers and sales at trade shows and via telephone.
Educational Background
- BASc, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo (2000)
- Building XML Web Services with Java, Learning Tree (2004)
- Enterprise Web Development with ASP.NET, Learning Tree (2003)
- Sun Certified Java Programmer Java 2 platform 1.4 (310-035), Sun Microsystems (2003)
- Project Management Applied Tools and Techniques, Procept Associates (2000)