Fred Strelzoff

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Over 10 years high tech product management at various stages of the product lifecycle.

Product Management Team leader at companies such as Polycom, HP and Hosting.com.

Champion in reducing chaos and increasing cross organizational alignment by driving cross team critical thinking.

Successful partner manager, success at building products to support indirect sales

EXPERIENCE

Yodle (sold to web.com) Austin, TX 2014-June 2016

Senior Product Manager, Partner and Internal Tools

Lead Partner Product Manager responsible for Yodles entire product portfolio for all indirect partners sales

including web presence, local search placement, social media, mobile, customer reviews, special offers, email

marketing and franchise management.

Stabilized Rogers OEM relationship by leading product and operational audits that brought Rogers to the latest

products, which improved product quality and reduced 2015 customer churn by 10%.

Drove design and deployment of an internal Yodle partner app, which replaced development efforts for the most

common partner requests, resulting in customer response time improvements of from 24 hours to less than 1

minute.

Launched sales tooling for Yodle direct sales team which slashed need for paper scripts by conceptualizing and

winning support to develop an internal sales script tool which reduced yearly costs of script modifications from

$500k a year to under $15k.

Improved reporting efficiency by lead a combined engineering, data architecture effort to encourage adoption of

more effective ETL methodologies. Turnaround time for the development of new reports was reduced from ~4

weeks to less than 24 hours.

HP Austin, TX 2012-2014

Senior Product Manager, Object and Image Storage

Conceptualized and drove and co-owned HP blueprint development of OpenStack SWIFT object storage.

Drove roadmap for the HP Cloud storage product lines, resulting in HP cloud service readiness 6 months sooner

than plan

Identified internal and external business development opportunities in the form of alliances, partnerships, and

acquisitions enabling growth of the business. Managed relationships with 3 of the largest HP cloud revenue

generating customers.

Polycom Austin, TX 2010-2012

Senior Product Manager, Enterprise Video Management platform

Led team of 10 product, program, support and operations managers on a objective to improve the video content

management product. This initiative resulted in a short term tactical solution focused on repackaging and fixing

critical issues so the products would integrate better with traditional Polycom products, as well as a operational

audit which exposed the need to replace a failed Polycom supplier. The tactical initiative increased sales from

$10M in 2010 to over $15M in 2011. The strategic initiative resulted in the acquisition of Accordent in 2011.

Hosting.com Denver, CO 2008-2010

Senior Manager, Platform Products - VMware

Inflow Executive team re-launches company as Hosting.com. Recruited to lead a team of 3 product managers

responsible for platform products and external vendor relationships.

Launched public and private VMware based cloud products which grew to 5,000 users in the first year.

Managed and built vendor relationships with vendors in order to support all platform products, primarily

VMware, but also including Microsoft, EMC, Dell, Citrix, and Parallels.

First Data Denver, CO 2006-2008

Product Manager, Stored Value Point of Sale

Established methods and ideas for improving relationship with other First Data business partners using skills in

key business decision making

Managed and led next generation technology initiatives related to new types of point of sale technologies

including payment via mobile phone, RFID and contactless smart card near field wireless systems.

Directed a number of OEM relationships with point of sale vendors Verifone and Hypercomm.

Inflow Denver, CO 2003-2006

(re-founded as Hosting.com in 2008)

Channel Partner Product Marketing Specialist, Dell Channel

Built a new channel with Dell while simultaneously driving definition and development of a new storage backup

service to market, which drove $1.2M in new revenue in 2004, 90% of which was from deals won directly

against Sunguard; in 2005, Sungard acquired Inflow.

EDUCATION

University of Massachusetts at Amherst, B.S. Computer Systems Engineering

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