Linux Pundit - Curriculum Vitae for William Weinberg

William Weinberg - Curriculum Vitae Professional \| Education \| Skill Set \| Distinctions \| Bibliography
Professional Experience
2004-2006	Open Source Development Labs Portland, OR	Senior Analyst / Initiative Manager
	OSDL spokesperson, featured presenter, author and Open Source/Linux industry analyst. Managed OSDL Carrier Grade Linux and Mobile Linux initiatives; supported Data Center Linux, and Desktop Linux initiatives. Develop key marketing messages and initiatives with OSDL marketing.
1999-2004	MontaVista Software Sunnyvale, CA	Director of Srategic Marketing
	Founded MontaVista marketing team, establishing core messaging and subscription business model. Part of management team that grew company to top five slot in embedded industry in three years with innovative products, unique positioning and effective promotion. Drove acquisition of 450+ accounts. Pioneered strategies for entry into communications, consumer and aerospace/defense markets. Strategic marketing focus included messaging, new market entry planning, analyst interface, evangelism, competitive analysis, and technical emphases on software licensing and performance analysis.
1996-1999	Lynx Real-Time Systems (now LynuxWorks) San Jose, CA	Director of Technical Marketing
	Managed technical marketing team for worldwide marketing/sales programs: web and collat-eral content, shows and events, tools and technology introduction, demos, competitive analy-ses and benchmarking, applications notes, partner program support, new hire and technical sales training, and presales support. Product managed embedded Java and web technologies, on-line docs and OOBE programs, and shared core OS and tools product management. Focused on pervasive computing and aerospace/defense sectors and supported core business in telecommunications infrastructure, through evangelism, partnering, and market development. Overhauled value proposition and core messaging; upgraded first-generation web site into web marketing program; pioneered sales/marketing new-hire training programs; introduced and integrated sales automation system and disciplines; established seminar program; built and deployed IA demo platform to field sales.
1994-1996	Acer Latin America Miami, Florida, USA and Sao Paulo, Brazil	Brazil Country Manager
	Focused Acer global resources on the Brazilian market, managing marketing/sales of desktop, server, notebook, and multimedia PCs and peripherals. Determined marketing mix for local market, tripling sales in two years, moving Acer into top four in Brazil. Emphasis on channel development and Internet presence/partnering. Strategic marketing with VARs and resellers. Accomplishments: introduced Intel Pentium technology and Internet-ready PCs, developed OEM channels for consumer and office automation products, launched multimedia PCs, estab-lished Acer Brazil web marketing presence, and merged Brazil into ACLA business unit.
1988-1993	Microtec Research. (now Mentor Graphics) Santa Clara, CA	Sr. Product Manager, Sales Engineer
	Managed embedded tools product lines worth $15 million in revenue. Responsible for product life-cycle, ROI and market analyses, and third-party programs for RTOS and ICE tools. World-wide evangelist - featured speaker and author of numerous articles, tech notes and collateral. As Sales Engineer, covered twenty-six states, surpassing quotas for growth rates of over 40%. As sales group technical lead, trained and supported inside and outside sales teams.
1987-1988	Semantic Compaction Systems Pittsburgh, PA	Program Manager
	Led the development of augmentative communications products and embedded speech inter-faces. Developed curriculum and supervised clinical training in applications for speech hard-ware and software. Partnered with technology licensees in marketing, research and develop-ment. Worldwide evangelist with extensive presentation and publication experience.
1987-1988	Consulting Pittsburgh, PA	Software Engineering and Linguistics
	Design and implementation of PC-hosted voice-mail and customer service (DART). Program support for placement of the disabled into the technology workplace, primarily at Westing-house Corp., HWR Division (PAOVR). Research in language acquisition and computational lin-guistics to support marketing of iconic speech interface technology. (Minspeak Inc.)
1983-1986	DocuGraphix Inc. Cupertino, CA	Software Engineer
	Device driver design, IPC optimization, GUI development, graphics and OODBM libraries, and font tools. Projects included a WYSIWYG text/ graphics processor memory manager, debug of a multi-window, multi-tasking GUI, and ports across VAXstation, Apollo, and other systems. Acted as release engineer, systems administrator, librarian, and test engineer.
1978-1982	Dirks Management Systems, Flagship S/W San Jose, CA	Software/Hardware Engineering Intern
	8 bit MPU applications and systems programming, hardware and OS design; technical writing

Educational Background

University of California at Berkeley - Berkeley, CA : 1980-1984
Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics (with Computer Science)

Universita di Roma degli Studi "La sapienza" - Rome, Italy : 1985-1986
Visiting scholar - Courses in Historical and Sociolinguistics, Italian and Hebrew

University of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Melon University - Pittsburgh, PA : 1986-1987
Graduate work: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, TESOL/TESL

De Anza, Foothill, and Mission Colleges - Evening Classes 1988-1991
Fundamentals of Marketing, Marketing Certificate Workshops, German, Portuguese

Special Skills and Technical Background

Business Specialities