Product Marketing, Product, Branding and Technical Marketing Expert

Skip Levens

Product Marketing and Technical Marketing Expert

Austin, TX

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Skip Levens has made a career of shaping memorable companies, products and brands, ensuring that companies communicate their brand values in highly effective and engaging campaigns across every medium - bringing great products to market that stand out, connect with customers and enjoy tremendous sales and momentum. Skip is extremely adept at all phases of marketing, branding, product marketing, PR, product development, user interface and user experience, hardware and software product de- sign and lifecycle and full sales enablement of products across every medium. Giant Ravens

July 2017-Present

Marketing, Product and Branding Consultant

Since 2017 I have been delivering end-to-end branding, impact marketing, and product marketing services, training and consulting focusing on all phases of product develop- ment, launch, sales and sales operations. I build highly effective plans and training for companies, including branding and product web development, social engagement and all phases of collateral creation and sales enablement and sales operations. Symply, Inc.

January 2016-July 2017

Vice President, Product Marketing and Management

As a founder and VP, Product Marketing and Management I helped develop a full range of product marketing, sales operation and customer engagement materials and pro- grams, including events, PR, collateral, social media, webinars, website, web app de- velopment and every aspect of sales enablement and collateral for Symply’s line of media and entertainment solutions. I also developed the front end and interface for the main software monitoring and management application using a combination of Angu- larJS and CSS, and operations and sales operations web applications. Quantum, Inc. (NYSE:QTM)

January 2013-January 2016

Director, Technical and Product Marketing

At Quantum I set strategy and direction for Quantum’s IT products worldwide, and helped develop StorNext ConnectTM, Quantum’s software to setup, monitor and man- age services on Quantum products. In this role I led a team that built competitive mar- keting, product marketing, advised product development and management, drove cus- tomer engagements worldwide and build collateral, blogs, webinars, presentations, and frequently spoke at conferences and with the press. By helping reorient Stornext 5 software product and a full supporting campaign Quantum reported the largest quar- terly sales and profit to date.

Active Storage, Inc.

July 2007-January 2013

Vice President, Product Marketing and Management

As a founder and VP, Product Marketing and Management I helped develop a full range of product marketing and customer engagement materials and programs, including events, PR, collateral, social media, webinars, website, web app development and every aspect of sales enablement, product operations, sales operations and more for Active’s line of media and entertainment products. At Active I developed the ‘internal ad agency’ concept to deliver the benefits of full agency and video production services in-house with minimal resources. We quickly grew Active to $10’s Millions in annual sales and venture investment from Intel Capital.

Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)

January 2000-July 2007

Server and Storage Technology Manager, Global Technology Manager At Apple I helped deliver many firsts building and growing developer applications, mar- keting and business growth for Apples IT, High Performance Computing and Business to Business Software for Mac OS X. At Apple we developed software according to Apple’s New Product Process which has been enormously effective adapted to other companies throughout my career. At Apple I was often called on to take on extraordi- narily large projects such as the IT Software Track of Apples Worldwide Developers Conference, and lead Apples engagement to build the worlds fastest Supercomputer for Education among many other accomplishments.

Alain Pinel, Inc.

January 1995-December 1999

Director of Marketing and Technology

At Alain Pinel I drove marketing, branding, advertising and sales support marketing for one of the worlds most exclusive, luxury real estate brands. I won many awards for marketing and design excellence, and ensured that Alain Pinel was the first real estate company to strongly drive technology and video to boost image, branding and sales while managing a complete in-house agency for continuous marketing production across the entire operation with offices across Northern California." EDUCATION

San Jose State University - Business Administration and Marketing, with an emphasis in Advertising.

United States Marine Corps; Officer Candidate School Platoon Leader's Course, meri- torious commendations and promotions for excellence, numerous leadership, military and executive protection courses.

Several post-curricular courses in Legal Research, Contract Law PATENTS

US Patent 201******** - Systems and Methods for RAID Metadata Storage

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