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Summary

Focused, market-driven global / North American marketing executive with history of growing sales and margins with innovative marketing and solid business sense. Record of building teams that outperform goals in branding, digital presence, content, and connections between buyer journeys and sales processes. Experience leading complex post-merger product and marketing integrations. Player coach mentor known for team development. Regularly published / quoted in trade magazines, and selected as spokesperson for customer and corporate events.

Competencies

Marketing Strategy | Go-To-Market Strategies | B2B Marketing | Channel Marketing | Vertical Marketing | Partner Marketing | Thought Leadership | Portfolio Strategy | Storytelling | Positioning | Messaging | Product Launches | Content Marketing | Sales Enablement | Digital Media | Social Media | Marketing Communications | Advertising | PR | Branding | Competitive Analysis | Market Research | Customer Insights | Analyst Relations | Promotions & Incentives | Campaigns | Training | Negotiation | Budgets / P&L | Major Events | Presentations & Public Speaking | Cloud & SaaS

Work experience

Canon U.S.A., Inc.
20172017

Director-Integrated Marketing (Enterprise Solutions Division)

Directed team of 8 market intelligence and vertical marketing specialists(Finance, Legal, Education, Healthcare, Manufacturing) and budget of $2.8M partnering with Sales on content marketing campaigns supporting demand/sales generation.

  • Delivered over 200 marketing qualified leads(MQL) through vertical market content marketing webinars and vertical market trade shows
  • Boosted industry recognition to 21+ annual awards-notably 3 consecutive BLI Product Line Pick of the Year Awards, 6 Pacesetter Awards, ASTORS Homeland Security Award
Canon U.S.A., Inc.
20132017

Director-Product Marketing (Enterprise Solutions Division)

Directed marketing staff of up to 10 and budget of $1.5M. Built go-to-market strategies, launch plans, and PR/analyst/thought leader communications. Drove product introductions, creation of digital marketing content, videos, case studies, etc. that built customer engagement and product sales. Grew division's web/social presence (Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube).

  • Spearheaded 20 successful launches for portfolio of 45 hardware and software products
  • Credited with growing sales of key software products 198% and core products 16%
  • Launched Division's 1st cloud workflow automation solution and 1st cloud print management solution; introduced 1st SaaS portal enabling dealers to sell/manage B2B subscriptions
  • Transformed marketing content to customer-centered, solution-based use case messages
  • Focused team influence upon cross-functional teams, external and international stakeholders to collaborate and drive coordination to achieve a global launch for new product series
OCÉ North America (formerly Imagistics)
20042013

Director Product Marketing//Operations; Quality & Technology Center

Recruited by technology /solutions provider to lead change across multiple areas of marketing and related product operations. Directed staff of up to 23 and budget of $5M. Oversaw product marketing, sourcing and QA testing.

  • Led brand consolidation and internationalization of marketing materials(12 languages) for consistent global brand
  • Role expanded within 2 years and reduced costs $1.2M in 1st year after taking new responsibility
  • Managed successful marketing and product transitions for 2 mergers($750M and $1B)
  • Grew North American software and professional services revenue 100% in 2 years
  • Named U.S. leader of global team developing global and regional marketing strategy/branding Led successful post-merger launch of 60+ Canon products in 18 months to Océ sales channels;
  • U.S. leader on Global Team that launched 1st jointly developed products
Lexmark International, Inc.
20002004

Worldwide Product Marketing Manager

Managed marketing team of 4 creating marketing plans, messaging, regional marketing group training, content(press releases, product sheets, etc.), pricing.

  • Supported multiple global product launches.
  • Slashed product definition and development time 20% by redefining Market Requirements Document(MRD)
  • Led Task Force that defined ISO/IEC 19752 standard for laser printers
  • Selected to head key marketing components for company's 1st entry into consumer/retail channel Consistently tapped to worldwide VIP clients(Target, Royal Bank of Scotland, Dell, IBM)
Lexmark International, Inc.
19992000

Worldwide Product Marketing Specialist

Launched company's first large format (A3/11"x17" format) laser printer. Promoted within 9 months to Product Marketing Manager.

Minolta Corporation
19941997

National Product Marketing Manager

Launched department handling marketing, product planning, promotions, market intelligence. Planned industry trade shows, national sales conferences, channel sales meetings.

  • Grew segment sales 25+%-VAR incentives, direct marketing campaigns, channel sales awards
  • Managed $5.3M budget and developed advertising campaign that won Annual Fortune Adverbatim Award
Minolta Corporation
19941994

Product Manager – Copy Product Division

Promoted in 3 months to National Product Marketing Manager

Education

GOOGLE

Google Analytics Individual Qualification

Apr 2018 – Oct 2019 License ID: 12198726

Fort Hays State University

B.A Business Administration

Skills

Writing

Published writer in industry media, creator and editor of internal / external communications, sales collateral

Interpersonal Communications

Problem resolution, cross-functional leadership and influencing to achieve objective

Speaking and Presentation

Speaker and presenter at executive, corporate, customer and training events

Microsoft PowerPoint

Templates, shapes, animations, presentations

Microsoft Word

Templates, manuals, technical documents, published articles, internal/external communications

Microsoft Excel

Data Analysis, Pivot Tables,Charting, Dashboards 

Google Analytics

Affiliations

AIIM (Association for Intelligent Information Management)

Gerson Lerhman (GLG) Council