monte.jpgMONTE L. GILES

San Diego, CA

monte@giles.net  

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MARKET STRATEGY – BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

 

Visionary, results-oriented Technology Management, Sales and Marketing Executive with comprehensive skills and 12+ years of high tech experience. Strategic, critical thinker and planner with proven analytical, problem solving and creative solution implementation skills in business-critical environments. Strong communication, presentation and relationship-building skills at executive and engineering levels with experience managing F500 accounts, OEMs, and ISVs on behalf of Intel and Qualcomm. Fluent in Spanish with International experience in Spain & Latin America.

 

 

International Business - Strategic Planning - Entrepreneur - Business Plans

Product Launch - Market Positioning and Messaging - New Business Development

Technical Requirements - Business Requirements - Proposal Development Presentations - Contract Negotiations - Client Relations - Technology Deployment

IT Strategy and Services - Mobility-Wireless

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

QUALCOMM CORPORATION, San Diego, CA                                            2008 - Present

World’s leading provider of wireless chipset technology with $11B annual sales

 

Manager, Business Development, 2008 - Present

·         Leading GobiTM F500 enterprise program which has resulted in great awareness and pull for Qualcomm’s latest embedded 3G solution for laptops & netbooks

·         Managing sales & market development activities with key PC OEMs and wireless operators

·         Driving partnerships with software vendors for the GobiTM platform

·         Frequent speaker at industry events, sales training, and/or tradeshows

 

INTEL CORPORATION, Folsom,CA, Madrid, Spain, Austin, TX                2000 - 2008

International computer products and platforms firm with $38 billion worldwide sales.

 

Account Executive/Business Development, 2006-2008

§  Expertise on IT strategy, PC/server architecture, high density data center, power-thermal, CFD analysis, virtualization, EA/SOA, mobility

§  Led acquisition efforts at F500 companies in Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio, closing $300k in Data Center Design services revenue

§  Established, maintained, and influenced IT engineering and C-level relationships with F500 accounts, channel partners, and OEMs, resulting in increase in Intel architecture preference and pull-through sales of $11M

§  Asked to speak at industry events to influence IT strategy, thought leadership, and solutions for the digital enterprise

o    Advisory board International Wireless Basestation Conference – http://www.avrenevents.com/Dallas2007/advisory.htm

o    Technical advisor CCET, Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies http://www.electrictechnologycenter.org

o    Speaker, Educause 2006 - http://www.educause.edu/upload/presentations/E06/MTG13/Intel.%20Giles.%2010.9.06.pdf

 

Field Application & Sales Engineer, 2004-2006

§  Led account sales and design-in strategy for all wired and wireless communications silicon from Intel targeted for Dell servers, desktops, PDAs, and notebooks, resulting in $212M annual revenue in 2005 and multiple Strategic Recognition Awards (SRAs) from the division

§  Gathered engineering feedback for new designs and brokered agreements between executive management at Dell and Intel to design-in key features

§  Drove key OEM platform requirements into Intel product definition, including WLAN/WWAN notebook integration complexities, blade server backplane signal integrity design requirements, package constraints, voltage/rail, power, routing & form-factor/placement, and common configuration-SW.

 

Product Marketing Engineer, Chipset Marketing, 2002-2004

§  Led market planning/analysis/research for wireless Digital Home strategy from concept to product launch resulting in $2-3 ASP uplift on ICH6 chip

§  Led full product lifecycle management such as Market Requirements Document (MRD), Product Requirements Document (PRD), SW/HW development milestones, and cross-divisional alignment within Wireless Products Division (WPD) and  Desktop Platforms Group

§  Make vs buy analysis, competitive analysis, product positioning and messaging, ecosystem alignment, go-to-market collateral and promotion, press release, executive briefings

§  Led customer design win tour in APAC, North America, and the channel to evangelize new product offering

 

Application Engineer/Technical Marketing, 2001

§  Selected for international assignment in Spain--large system integration project with AOL

§  Provided on-site linux support, enterprise systems integration, software debug, customer feedback, and operations support for 1,200 node pilot which resulted in product acceptance and $200M revenue to Intel

§  Enabled ISVs with latest SW tools and compilers for optimizing code on x86 architecture

 

System Design Engineer, Chipset Validation 2000

§  Designed, built, and validated the Rambus local memory test board for electrical validation; schematic capture and layout experience (ViewLogic & Allegro)

§  Provided debug, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for MCH/ICH system bringup

§  Designed impedance matching network for electrically sensitive differential clock signals

 

PACIFIC BELL, San Francisco, California                                                              1999

Telecommunications provider, acquired by SBC, now AT&T

Software Engineer

Worked on the latest software release of ASR, which is Pacific Bell’s main ordering system for CLEC’s to request access to PacBell’s network facilities (MVS/TSO experience).  Trained in Digital Communications and Networking Foundations (OSI Model, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN topologies, Packet Switching, routers, multiplexing, interoffice facilities).

 

NMSU COMPUTING & NETWORKING, Las Cruces, New Mexico               1996 - 1999

Computing & Telecommunications provider for New Mexico State University

IT System Administrator, Web Developer

Maintained 100+ UNIX (Solaris, Linux, HP-UX) servers and workstations, handling software and hardware installations, system integration, troubleshooting, and system diagnostics, all running on an Ethernet TCP/IP network.  Wrote scripts in Shell, Perl, and cgi programming.  Designed, developed, and maintained the web-page for the Vehicle Detector Clearinghouse which was used as a searchable catalogue and repository of information for the transportation industry.

 

EDUCATION

 

MBA, Marketing & Finance, Babson College, Boston, Massachusetts

BSEE, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico