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Peter Peets - Professional Summary

Experience

Marketing strategies and sales effectives. Understanding an industry/market and translating that knowledge into strategic product plans that provide revenue to the company and value to customers. Expert in learning and training techniques, systems and technologies. Capable of taking a subject matter expert and virtually taking their knowledge to places they can not be. Recently specializing in distance learning and sales and marketing development programs.

  • Demand Creation - creating product strategy and planning, market evaluation and market research
  • Specialist in corporate sales training with emphasis on field and sales effectiveness
  • Requirements documents marketing plans

  • Forecasts

  • Product strategy and planning, market evaluation and market research 

  • Know the market 

  • Collateral 

  • Presentations 

  • White papers

  • Briefings

  • Launch activities

  • Press and analyst tours

  • Positioning

  • Case studies

  • Participate in standards organizations

  • Competitive analysis

  • Field training and sales training

  • Marketing programs

  • Trade journal articles

  • ROIs and  RFPs,

  • Product pricing

  • Track revenue and margins

  • Ensure synergy with other product lines

  • Create channel strategies

  • Ensure migration and upgrade paths

  • Motivate and support the sales force and distributors 

  • Manage requirements process

  • The T-shirt.... the launch party etc.

Employment Summary
Jul 01 to Present EllisTalks - Co-Founder & CEO
(Research Triangle, North Carolina, USA)

Dec 00 to Jul 01 

CISCO SYSTEMS – Product Manager 
(Research Triangle, North Carolina, USA)

Oct 99 to Nov 00

CROSSKEYS SYSTEMS CORPORATION - Product Marketing Manager 
(Ottawa, Canada)

Oct 97 to Oct 99

ZTI (ZIM TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL) – Vice President Product Management 
(Ottawa, Canada)

Feb 96 to Oct 97

FULCRUM TECHNOLOGIES - Product Management Group 
(Ottawa, Canada)

Jan 95 to Feb 96

STERLING SOFTWARE - Advanced Systems Division - Senior Consultant  
(Ottawa, Canada)

Jul 90 to Dec 94

STERLING SOFTWARE - (AD) Labs Manager Software Development 
(Montreal, Canada)

Sep 85 to July 90

ASYST TECHNOLOGIES - Team Leader and Senior Programmer  
(Montreal, Canada)

Sep 82 - Sep 85

FINANCIAL SERVICES INC - Analyst/Programmer 
(Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)


Education

BS CS Computer Science, Brigham Young University, 1982

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