Product Marketing Management

VERNON WEISS Georgetown, Texas 512-***-****

T Technology & Marketing Executive ******.*****@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/vwlinkedin

SUMMARY

Experienced in consumer and corporate product marketing at the executive level with an outstanding record of achievement in sales and product marketing. Proven success gaining profit and market share within multi-site global companies and small start-ups. Extensive knowledge of managing products through their full life cycle with multi-national teams. Conceived, planned, and introduced products at Dell, Flextronics, Lenovo, etc.

SKILLS

General Management. Go To Market

Strategy. Product Management. Product

Development. Product Marketing. Marketing Communications, Retail Merchandising,

Account Sales, and Management

EDUCATION

BSJ

Suffolk University Boston, MA

MBA Program

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

EXPERIENCE

Zimmy Consulting Georgetown, TX Current

Principle

Offering both hardware development and retail merchandising experience to help companies develop their products and to provide expertise in merchandising them.

Office Depot Austin, TX 2017-2023

Sr. Strategic Technologist/Mgr. Product Marketing

Was the PC and peripheral, consumer, and corporate technologist for Office Depot. Collaborated with vendors and merchandising staff to help pick the right products for the right time. Also developed a tech newsletter that I put together every day for executives. Along with being the Senior Strategic Technologist, I also set up and ran the Merchandising PC Product Marketing group.

DELL COMPUTING Austin, TX 2015-2017

Commercial Customer Experience Principal Engineer

Member of the “Voice of the Customer” (VOC)

team, determining wants and needs of actual

Dell customers to improve products and

customer experience. Sought input from

customer visits across the country, with institutions such as NASA, Boeing, Cummins, Honda, and numerous others to gain valuable feedback to influence the development process. Worked with Product Planning and Advanced Engineering teams to ensure that customer data is shared, available, understood, and were acted upon.

GEFEN Chatsworth, CA 2013-2015

Consultant

Brought in to overhaul a division of a large conglomerate product marketing team. Setup a phase process review procedure for product development and marketing. Worked with the product marketing staff to set up new procedures and approach to developing products Implemented the use of MRDs, roadmaps, etc.

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LENOVO Raleigh, NC 2012-2013

Consultant

Responsible for segment product marketing for the 11-13” Edge ThinkPad line. Lead multiple cross-functional ThinkPad notebook offering development teams worldwide. Was the Segment Product Manager for the successful ThinkPad Yoga product line. Developing the product from idea through the phase process review through announcement and first ship.

FLEXTRONICS Austin, TX 2006-2012

Director of Product Marketing

Lead global marketing including customer research, roadmap development, product definition, market positioning and messaging. Worldwide product management responsibilities for multi-billion-dollar product portfolio. Managed product marketing and management teams for multiple products for customers world-wide. Drove strategic marketing and business planning activities for next generation products Defined new product features and roadmaps, provided strategic and business planning, implemented product launches, product collaterals and trade show exhibits.

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