What I do for a living...

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I've had over 20 years of outstanding IT industry success, starting as a technologist & rising through a variety of challenging assignments in major corporations & new startups alike. Now VP of global marketing at Intransa, Inc. in San Jose, California, I've had quite a ride!

- Prior to Intransa, I was recruited away from NetApp to help turn around failing encryption and secure storage startup MaXXan.  Redefined the messaging, attracting sufficient funding to develop the next generation of products & to launch worldwide through multiple channel partners.

- Earlier, I led Americas channel marketing at Network Appliance, following the purchase of startup Spinnaker Networks for $319 million in February 2004.  I had built and run  the channel sales and partner business development programs in the U.S. and around the world for Spinnaker.

Before all of that, I'd joined Amdahl Canada in Toronto in the early 90s and then moved on to Amdahl Corporation HQ in Sunnyvale, California. I did business development, sales and marketing roles during that time, before moving to HAL Computer Systems to head business development and marketing.

- When Amdahl, HAL and Siemens Computer were merged in 2000, I stayed on with the new company with channel, business development, marketing and strategic partner responsibilities.  All those companies are gone now, renamed Fujitsu Computer Systems last I heard, but still with some survivors hanging in!

RIGHT: HAL tiger team for 1st Fujitsu PrimePower 128-CPU system shipping in North America, to Verizon. Jeff in blue jacket, center.

-  I'd been an IT guy right out of college in the mid 80s, and was the founding president of a Canadian technology user group, later becoming a VP of the U.S.

parent.  After that, I moved on to a pair of fast-moving startups, one aquired by Wang and the other by Control Data. Of the two, Antares Technologies was certainly the best experience and the most fun, over five plus years in the early 90s!