Resume Michael Leventhal Product Manager Technical Marketing for Web Internet Enterprise Applications Collaboration Networking SW HW

Michael Leventhal
mobile: 408-386-2608 website: http://www.textscience.com
email: Replace '%' with 'e' t%xtsci%nc%@gmail.com also, of course, on LinkedIn

In a Nutshell

7 years of product management, technical marketing and strategy, 10+ years engineering, U.C. Berkeley Engineering degree
Key member of successful start-up (exit $85M acquisition)
Web Internet Enterprise Applications Networking Software and Hardware, long history of innovation
Love tough challenges, solid foundations and analytic decision-making but able to weigh and take risks
Unusual communication abilities, unconventional but also oriented toward cooperation and teamwork
I can manage, analyze, present, write, code and sell. Both sides of my brain seem to work equally well.

What I want to do: Product management, technical marketing, communications, pre-sales, work with customers and partners, revenue generation.

Jobs

Principal	Text Science	July 2010 - Present	San Diego	Individual Consulting Practice	Internet, web, web services technologies, product management, communications, standards, writing
Senior Product Line Manager	LSI Corporation	October 2007 - July 2010	San Diego	5000 employees	Enterprise software (e.g., SAP) acceleration with high performance chip-level hardware and software. Responsible for both software and hardware product management and both inbound and outbound marketing. Entire division was moved offshore.
Senior Director	Tarari	June 2003 - October 2007	San Diego	Start-up	Web Services API high performance chip-level hardware and software. Acquired by LSI for $85M.
Engineering Manager	Commerce One	January 2000 - June 2003	Boston/Silicon Valley	4000 employees	Web Services platform.
Director Software Development	DMSi	1999	Boston	Start-up	Document management tools.
Technical Lead	CITEC	1997-1998	Finland	Start-up	Mozilla-based web browser.
Director Consulting	Zuno	1997	London	Start-up	Document management tools. Acquired by Pearson.
VP Technology	GRiF	1996	Paris	Start-up	Web editing tools. Acquired by i4i, technology central to $300M lawsuit won by acquirer against Microsoft.
Founder/Consultant/Developer	Text Science	1994-1996	San Francisco	Start-up	My own start-up/consulting house. Document management tools, search engines, and early web collaboration applications.
Developer/Architect	Oracle	1992-1994	Silicon Valley	Oracle is Oracle	Database tools, pre-web browser.
Software/Firmware Engineer	UCSF Radiologic Imaging Laboratory	1990-1992	San Francisco	R&D environment	MRI product development. Coding from bare metal to UI levels.

Experience in Detail

I focus here on my more recent experience, the last seven years spent at LSI and at Tarari.

Tarari was a venture-funded Intel Capital company which made hardware and software products for network and application acceleration. Tarari was acquired by LSI, a systems and semiconductor company, for $85M. I continued at LSI to lead the business unit I created for Tarari.

With the greater resources of LSI I made key contributions to bringing in over $120M of design wins for my business unit. At Tarari I built my business unit from the ground up, going from zero to millions of dollars in annual revenue and played an important role in making Tarari an attractive acquisition target for LSI.

As Senior Product Line Manager/Director of my business unit my duties have included:

Business, strategic and product management
Direction to Sales, Engineering, Marketing, Business Development and Operations, working closely with Exec team
Public face, technical and business

Accomplishments

Product Management
- Created four product lines and grew multimillion dollar business
  - SAP NetWeaver PI Accelerator
  - XML/Web Services Threat Management for Network Security
  - Hardware-accelerated XML Java API for Enterprise Applications
  - Random Access XML Content Processor with C API for Network Devices
- Wrote PRD/FRDs and Strategic plans for products, product lines, and releases
- Worked with customers on requirements and managed product rollouts
- Developed engineering concepts into product ideas with marketplace strategies
Sales
- Developed business unit's messaging, collateral, prospecting goals, training, account strategies for sales force
- Direct sales-support engagement with all major accounts including many Tier 1 prospects
- Contributed to winning the largest deal in our industry segment
- Contributed to winning many OEM deals
- Sponsored initiative to enter Chinese market leading to development of major opportunties
Marketing
- Defined and achieved widespread analyst and customer recognition of silicon-based acceleration market segment
- Achieved large web presence for product line
- Delivered many conference presentations, press and analyst briefings
- Wrote many Product Briefs, White Papers, Articles and Press Releases myself and also directed contract writers and PR people
- Planned business unit's activities around trade shows such as Interop, RSA and others and worked the floor
- Won UCSD CONNECT 2005 Most Innovative New Product Award
Business Development
- Created and managed many OEM partnerships
- Developed an ISV partnership directed at OEM customers
- Developed business unit programs with resellers in Japan, Israel and China
- Initiated and managed relationship with UCSD research group
Technical
- Collaborated very tightly with engineering, helping to stimulate development of several patented product inventions and technology innovations
- Initiated and managed prototype development work that led to engineering projects and product features
- Represented technical and strategic interests of the business unit in the W3C
- Recruited top technical talent to the program
- Even wrote code (C and Java) in bootstrap phase

Education

U.C. Berkeley, 1994, BS-EECS Option C (Computer Science) GPA ~3.5
Major coursework focused in core computer science (e.g., algorithms, compilers) and computer architecture
Extensive elective coursework in Classical Arabic
Cray Research Scholarship, Kent Porter Memorial Scholarship (awarded by Doctor Dobb's Journal)

Nice Stuff I Have

A patent, some industry publications, speaking, teaching and standards experience, Sun Java programmer certification.

Life other than work

Good at languages, competent non-native French (DELF B2 83/100) and various degrees of many other languages.
Inline speedskating/racing, best result Northshore Marathon, Open 44/2200 1:17:24

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