Career Highlights

  • 2009 | Joined CoolHotNot as Director of Marketing, aiding in the development of the corporate business plan, overall marketing strategy, and Beta launch approach while providing input on Web site design, traffic growth, monitization options, and launch readiness.

  • 2008 | Managed relationships with multiple external agencies, and led the development of quality Web-based content and the user experience strategy for a first-of-a-kind IBM program which provided small and medium-sized businesses with the ability to identify and purchase business solutions from an online marketplace.

  • 2007 | Led a global IBM team which reengineered and streamlined business partner payment processes, reducing payment cycle times by 30%. Aligned disparate sales reporting processes and tools across key high-growth markets in Korea, China, and India, vastly improving sales reporting accuracy and timeliness.

  • 2006 | Managed a large, $50M+ portfolio of IBM business partner process transformation projects, including sales reporting, opportunity management, special bids, incentives, and partner relationship management.

  • 2005 | Envisioned, launched and led a new 1000+ member IBM organization and 30 member steering committee that empowered technical support professionals to lead numerous concurrent projects that aided in transforming IBM's technical support processes and tools.

  • 2004 | Served as Program Director of the IBM Academy of Technology, managing a $1.5M budget for a 300+ member organization comprised of elected senior technical leaders from all IBM business units and geographies who conducted studies and conferences which provided executives with key insights that enhanced IBM policies, procedures, and technologies.  

  • 2003 | Reengineered the IBM Academy of Technology's technical agenda management system, vastly improving the quality, timeliness, and volume of Academy study reports.  Broadened the Academy’s reach and impact by developing an external Academy website, enhancing internal communications, and designing a unique six month Rotational Assignment program that allowed early tenure employees to become involved in Academy activities.

  • 2002 | Drove a 40% reduction in the cost and 50% reduction in the time required to deploy IBM internal Web-based applications by reengineering IBM's Web hosting infrastructure and standards, designing an innovative Web Hosting Standards Lifecycle Management Process, and developing and leading IBM's Web Hosting Standards Review Board.