Over 16 years experience in Product Management, Marketing, and Development leadership in Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud and Enterprise & Consumer hardware. Specializing in Product Marketing, Sales Enablement and Pricing and Packaging in the Public Cloud and IaaS market.

Product Line Marketing Manager @ Product Line Marketing Manager for VMware's public cloud offering, vCloud Air * Assisted in defining the vCloud Air service and growth to over 5000 customers and over $80M business in under 2 years * Product Marketing duties for the foundational compute IaaS service offering, including Auto-scaling, Identity and hybrid management capabilities. Responsible for messaging, positioning, competitive, pricing/packaging & enablement for IaaS at VMware * Strategy leader for the web presence of vCloud Air services, leading the organization and build out of the VMware public cloud microsite, vcloud.vmware.com * Sales enablement leader empowering a network of Specialists and Sales subject matter experts including internal newsletter, ongoing training and developing detailed messaging and positioning focussed on use case scenarios * Collaborated with a highly distributed team From November 2013 to Present (2 years 2 months) Austin, Texas AreaSr Product Manager @ * Sr Product Manager for the Cloud Platform team, focusing on delivering IaaS and PaaS solutions on the Rackspace public cloud * Focus areas include automated deployment, orchestration, load balancing and web hosting * The customer segments range from the individual to the enterprise and vary across a wide range of use cases; blogging, e-commerce, web design, web app development, CMS, and Advertisement * Product management & marketing duties include; Product strategy, API & UX/UI definition, product marketing, sales enablement, GTM, support & customer interaction * OpenStack community and Cloud event engagement From June 2011 to November 2013 (2 years 6 months) Austin, Texas AreaSenior Product Manager @ Manage Latitude Notebook segment, focusing on Small/Medium Business and Emerging market segments. Conceive, Define and Plan the fastest growing notebook segment, the Latitude E5xx0 series for global role out. Customer research, sales engagement, training and full product ownership. Managed a team of individuals scoped around incubating entrepreneurial and innovations within the enterprise hardware and software space. From June 2010 to July 2011 (1 year 2 months) Senior Product Marketing Manager @ Strategic Planning, Development and Launch of Dell's Precision Mobile Workstation product line. Market assessments, business development, and product promotion. Responsible for: * Enabling and training sales teams, Website and content generation * Key customer and ISV engagement for best with Dell customer experience * Manage planning of all storage devices for Business Client notebooks, desktops, workstations and netbooks. Manage roadmap. Conduct vendor engagement. Train sales teams, direct customer interface and go to guy for all things storage at Dell. From March 2007 to June 2010 (3 years 4 months) Product Development Engineer @ Gaming Desktop Hardware Development Consultant * Assessed PC Gaming market and strategy in Asia/Pacific. Worked to define 3 year plan activity for XPS/Alienware product line * Researched and defined the business model for Dells next-generation Gaming LOB * Developed Liquid/Thermo-Electric Cooling Solution for XPS 720 Gaming Desktop * Developed the Ultimate-Performance XPS "Renegade" system presented at Michael Dell’s 2006 CES Keynote Speech - Limited Edition * High-Performance Notebook system motherboard design and system integration * Patent: Dual Switching Battery Utilization for increased system performance From June 2000 to February 2007 (6 years 9 months) Telco Engineer @ Verification Engineer - Microelectronics/VLSI Logic Division * VHDL Testbench design and verification for Ranier Network Processor, Perl and K-shell script coding. System Design Engineer – Network Hardware Division * ADSL circuit design for router protocol. In charge of mixed-signal circuit design and layout. * 25Mbps ATM, Ethernet, Basic Rate, and 56K adapter card circuit design. From January 1999 to May 2000 (1 year 5 months)

MBA, Product Marketing & Strategy @ The University of Texas at Austin - The Red McCombs School of Business From 2006 to 2009 MS, Electrical Engineering @ North Carolina State University From 1998 to 2000 BS, Electrical Engineering @ Clemson University From 1993 to 1998 Chris Spencer is skilled in: Cloud Computing, Product Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Product Development, Product Management, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Integration, Telecommunications, Product Launch, Mobile Devices, Cross-functional Team Leadership, E-commerce, CRM, Wireless, Strategic Partnerships, Business Development, Program Management