Sam Picken

Technology Product Marketing Manager
Sherwood, Oregon 97140

Sam Picken is VP of QA for SPM job posting and membership manager for Professional Resource Consortium Northwest (prcnw.org) and Technology Product Marketer in the Portland metropolitan area. He is seeking work opportunities in product marketing, market research, strategic partner planning, or digital video production.

Having developed strategic market research, partnership programs, restored product revenue and market share, he can add valuable experience and perspective to your team. Complete your program with planning, collateral, communications, public relations, sales force training, executive sponsors, strategic and tactical partnerships. Extensive experience working with customers, sales, and executives, assimilating their needs into product and marketing plans. Sam has successfully researched new business models, developed marketing plans, and deployed multi-tiered partner programs.

Mr. Picken has held a number of engineering, marketing and staff-level strategic relations management positions, at industry leading companies Tektronix Inc., Mentor Graphics Corporation, and Synopsys Corporation. He has developed strategic and tactical partnerships and programs, defined new products, developed and delivered customer and sales training, seminar series, trade shows and demonstrations. Additional accomplishments include vendor, partner and OEM contract negotiations. Awards such as Chairman’s Achievement Award, multiple awards from sales teams and partners, speak to Mr. Picken’s ability to work effectively across division boundaries.


Organizations/Affiliations
Association of International Product Marketing and Management (www.aipmm.com)
Microsoft Project User's Group (www.mpug.org)
Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum (www.oef.org)
Vice President Quality, Software Product Marketing eGroup
Professional Resource Consortium Northwest (prcnw.org)


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- posted by Sam @ 7:45 PM