About me
BSEE
MBA
25 years of designing and marketing technology products and services
Skills
- Start-ups
- Public Relations
- Social Media
- Strategy
- Marketing
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategic Partnerships
- Product Management
- Digital Marketing
- Digital Strategy
- Direct Marketing
- Marketing Strategy
- Go-to-market Strategy
- Blogging
- Leadership
- Integrated Marketing
- Marketing Communications
- Social Media Marketing
- Product Marketing
- Business Development
- Strategic Planning
- Business Strategy
- Mobile Devices
- New Business Development
- Management
- Program Management
- SEO
- Online Advertising
- B2B
- Corporate Communications
- Media Relations
- Public Speaking
- Digital Media
- Lead Generation
- Press Releases
- E-commerce
- Advertising
- Account Management
- Social Networking
- Strategic Communications
Talent you might be interested in
Richard Kirshenbaum
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
NSG/SWAT
Tamara Ingram
Former Chairman
Wunderman Thompson
Bruno-Georges David
Président
Communication Sans Frontières
Joe Sciarrotta
USA CCO
Ogilvy & Mather, Chicago
Mark Lund
President McCann Worldgroup UK and Europe
McCann Worldgroup UK
Positions
Chief Marketing Officer
Contextors
January 2015 - Present (9 years 10 months)
Contextors is an amazing startup innovating in the natural language processing (NLP) space. The company is currently targeting the ed-tech market with a breakthrough product for English Language Learners (ELLs).
Member Board of Governors (Boroughs branch)
YMCA of Central Massachusetts
April 2014 - Present (10 years 7 months)
Member Board of Directors
Jewish Veg
September 2013 - Present (11 years 2 months)
CEO/Founder
Rainier Communications
April 1993 - Present (31 years 7 months)
After many years designing and marketing high-tech products, I recognized that the technology market needed a PR agency that could understand and professionally communicate complex technologies to technical audiences. Armed with a BSEE, an MBA and a great deal of experience, I founded Rainier in 1993. Since then, my team and I have guided a wide variety of companies - startups and established enterprises - through the process of positioning, branding, launch, and successful marketing of technical products, services and companies.
General Manager
Data Translation
1991 - 1993 (2 years)
Product Manager
Oki
1989 - 1990 (1 year)
Product Manager
Concurrent Computer
1987 - 1989 (2 years)
Design Engineer
Lexicon, Inc.
1985 - 1987 (2 years)
Designed pro-audio products, DSP, fiber-optics, analog, digital, software, ASICs
Design Engineer
Kurzweil Applied Intelligence
1982 - 1985 (3 years)
Designed DSP, multiprocessor systems for large-vocabulary speech recognition systems.
Co-op Engineer
RCA Government Systems
1981 - 1982 (1 year)
Education
MBA, High-Tech MBA
1985 - 1987 (2 years)
Specialized program for high-tech business leaders - met nights and weekends while working full time.
BSEE, Control Theory, Signal Processing, Computer Architecture
1979 - 1983 (4 years)
Through NU's co-op program, I worked at RCA Government Systems during school, designing digital and analog circuits and systems for shipboard electronics test equipment. Also during school, I worked at Kurzweil Applied Intelligence and eventually accepted a full time job there upon graduation to design signal processing hardware and software for speech recognition systems.
