JAMES R. SHERBURNE Return to home
180 Braemoor Drive, Santa Cruz CA 95060; Tel. (831) 471-9313 Mobile (831) 334-0794;
Email. jsherburne@att.net URL: http://www.james-sherburne.blogspot.com/
Senior marketing and business development executive with standout success in positioning high tech companies both domestically and internationally for growth and profitability.
- Totally restructured the marketing and business development organizations of a company, positioning them to double revenues.
- Co-founded, and was an integral part of the senior management team that successfully positioned and launched this start up, increasing global revenues to in excess of $87 million over six years. Resulted in their acquisition by a Fortune 500 corporation.
- Guided the creation of EMEA operations, to include establishing local office presence, hiring of local staff and establishing distribution network. Attained profitability 12 months ahead of schedule.
High performance leader who spearheads critical corporate initiatives to advance growth and competitive positioning.
- Developed the global go-to-market strategy and led the release of a major new technology product line in close cooperation with Fortune 100 technology partners, positioning the company for projected incremental revenue growth of $100 million.
- Successfully executed on go-to-market strategy achieving all targets, resulting in annual revenues of $120 million
Change catalyst who charts strategic direction communicates vision and executes action plans to drive results.
- Created VAR program for EMEA and Asia Pacific markets, rolled out across approximately 500 global partners resulting in a 30x increase in revenues over 3 years.
- Named by Software magazine as having the highest rate of international revenue growth of any software company in North America.
- Charted strategic direction for EMEA operations – full P & L responsibility. Hired local staff, established distribution network and created VAR programs. Achieved profitability on schedule gaining 70% EMEA market share. Most profitable division within the company, representing approximately 50% of the bottom line.
TECHNOLOGY DOMAIN EXPERTISE: Service Oriented Architectures (SOA);Event Driven Architectures (EDA), Virtualization; Complex Events Processing (CEP); Application Lifecycle Management (ALM); Java development tools, EJB, Java EE 5; UML, BPM, testing, automated software quality (ASQ) management, Web Services, data center and performance optimization, software appliances
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SAVVIS - $800 million global managed hosting provider. 2009 - Present Director, Managed Product Services
- Responsible for all aspects of Managed Application Middleware and Web product service offerings, including application servers and web servers.
- Currently engaged in the productization of offerings for IBM WebSphere, Apace Tomcat, JBoss from RedHat and Oracle WebLogic.
- Full product P & L responsibility
Rolta TUSC – $300 million global IT services and software organization 2008 -2009
Senior Director, Product Marketing
Integral part of the senior management team, responsible for all aspects of product marketing for the TUSC SOA Center of Excellence, a start up group within the organization.
Created value propositions and key messaging as well as comprehensive go-to-market strategy for global launch SOA services practice, as well as a suite of data virtualization and integration tools with projected revenues of $40 million. Worked extensively with key analysts from Gartner and Forrester, conducting dozens of briefings with them as well as a number of other boutique firms. Successfully completed formal messaging review with ForresterBEA Systems – $1.4 billion provider of enterprise middleware 2005 to 2007 Director of Product Marketing – Emerging Technologies
* Created go-to-market and spearheaded global launch for projected $100 million virtualization product line in close coordination with Intel and VMware.
* Worked extensively with key analysts from Gartner, IDC and Forrester as well extensive press and customer contact.
* Reversed previously unsuccessful launch of Real Time product line, capturing $2.1 million in incremental revenues in the first quarter.
GMA Group – Independent Consultant/Interim Executive; 1995 to Present
Managing Partner
Developed & executed marketing & product marketing strategies for an array of high tech companies, with a strong focus on enterprise software. - Defined & refined of product positioning; revised launch strategies. Managed ongoing strategic third party software vendor relationships. Clients have included Cassatt, CollabNet, Zend, Agitar, BEA Systems, Sun Microsystems, IBM, JadeLiquid, Telelogic, WebGain , Maxtor, Metastorm (Proforma) & Embarcadero Technologies.
- Parasoft Corporation – $30 million provider of software performance optimization and testing tools; Sr. Vice President, Marketing Redefined the strategic focus of the company, focusing on the development of coherent, solution based enterprise messaging. Restructured the entire marketing organization, creating Product Marketing, Channel Marketing & Business Development efforts.
Established relationships with key analysts & strategic partners - Gartner, IDC, IBM, Sun, Borland, Wind River & Green Hills.
Developed enterprise level product positioning & product strategy. Defined target audiences, established key marketing objectives as well as campaigns to implement them.
Instigated web based lead generation program improving lead capture by 400%.
SGI Silicon Graphics Inc. - $3 billion provider of High Performance Computing hardware; 1998 to 2000
Senior Marketing Product Manager
- Managed a small software product marketing team with full product lifecycle responsibility for developer & network infrastructure tools.
- Developed worldwide product roadmaps, generating an average $120 million in software revenues.
IBM Rational - $800 million developer tools software division targeting the Fortune 100; 1996 to 1997
Manager, Product Marketing
Created & managed the Product Marketing team for the flagship Rose Business unit targeting the global enterprise.
Presided over the Java product – most success initial release in the history of the company with over $1 million in revenues in the first quarter of release.
Datastorm Technologies - $25 million provider of data communications software; 1991 to 1995
Managing Director, International
- Full P & L responsibility for all aspects of international operations.
- Attained full profitability within the first 12 months of operations.
- Achieved a five-fold increase in international revenues in the first full year of operations.
Nantucket Corporation - $70 million provider of developer tools targeting the enterprise; 1985 to 1991
Director International Operations-EMEA
- Co-founder – full P & L; profitably established four major foreign subsidiaries throughout Europe while resident expatriate.
- Defined, evolved & executed all aspects of the European marketing strategy into a coherent, solution based enterprise program.
- Increased EMEA revenues of $200,000 to $27,000,000. Gained 70% EMEA market share.
SPECIAL SKILLS: Fluent German, French
B.A. - Political Science (International Relations) University of California, Berkeley, California
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