California State University - East Bay

UC San Diego

Chief Marketing Officer

My company builds an industry-leading Insurance Management System for independent agencies. Our system serves as the backbone on which agency operations and workflows run. HawkSoft is unique because we prioritize customer experience ahead of profits. We do this almost to a fault.

At HawkSoft, we live, make decisions, and are inspired by this proverb:
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
-Maya Angelou

Our platform give agencies the ability to build their business around memorable service and meaningful relationships. Our software is simply a means to achieve this goal.

HawkSoft, Inc.

Board Member, Chief Marketing Officer

Gramlee is an online copy editing service powered by a team of word-hungry editors. We keep your audience's amygdala in mind when editing. Visit our home page if you want to learn what that means and why it's important.

We edit on dissertations, theses, essays, research papers, emails, blog articles, website content, book manuscripts, and just about any other form of writing. Our focus is to improve the overall readability of your writing. We help with grammar, spelling, punctuation, tense consistency, structure, brevity, citations, and other writing mechanics.

What keeps us up at night?

Sntncs w/ 140 chars riddled w/ abbrevs, mispelings & overloaded with :) and !!!s give us ulcers.

Gramlee

Founder

Smartphones are somewhat dumb when it comes to business functionality. In a race to over-simplify devices, advanced users miss the rich business capabilities that mobile devices of the past were created for. 

My company develops software that turns mobile technology into productivity tools. Our software liberates your contacts, calendars, tasks, notes, and client history on desktops, devices, and in the cloud. Access your business information from CRM services and tools on any device that you use. 

CompanionLink ranked 18 of 100 fastest growing private companies in Portland. We did it again the following year by ranking 31 and also making an appearance on the Inc 5000 list. For a 26-year-old private company with zero debt, these accolades mean the world to us because they show fiscally-sound and organic growth.

CompanionLink Software

Director of Marketing

Corrigo was an internet startup that allowed office employees assign and manage work orders on mobile devices carried by field personnel. Clients include Centex Homes, Duke Realty, Opus Group, and many REITs. I responsible for two of the company’s four verticals – property management and home building. I owned the product roadmap and go-to-market strategies for these two verticals, working closely with the VP Sales and a team of 12 sales people.

Corrigo

Product Marketing Manager

Systat is the leading developer of statistical and data analysis software packages for scientists,
researchers, and engineers. Clients include the government, universities, and Fortune 500 companies such as NASA, USDA, National Park Service, Procter & Gamble, Pfizer, Cornell, MIT, and many more.

I was the first E-Commerce Marketing Manager the company hired to transition to a direct-to-consumer business model. I created and led the execution of our e-commerce marketing plan, which contributed to a 56% revenue growth in less than 2 years. We deployed Urchin (which then became Google Analytics) to establish a culture of analytics and data-driven decisions.

SYSTAT Inc

Marketing Manager

ManyOne was an internet start-up by the founder of Novell Inc (Joseph Firmage). Their vision was to develop the first interactive online portal that aggregates the world’s most trusted content providers. These providers were stewards in their fields of expertise. This data was to be collected within a single, rich-media interface. I helped develop web-based and backend admin tools that allowed steward partners to post and manage content in their respective portals. I learned that the company closed its doors at the end of the last decade. Technologies used: HTML, XML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, and PostgreSQL.

Rushang Shah