A high-energy hands-on and creative sales and marketing leader with 23 years of experience focused on developing proven strategies to amplify brands, sales and products. Let's connect today!

Vice President Strategic Marketing @ Lead Strategic Global Marketing From October 2015 to Present (3 months) Vice President Solution Marketing @ Ixia – Calabasas, CA 2007 to Present Ixia provides application performance and security resilience solutions to validate, secure, and optimize businesses’ physical and virtual networks. www.ixiacom.com From April 2007 to October 2015 (8 years 7 months) Vice President, Global Sales Operations and Marketing @ From April 2007 to October 2015 (8 years 7 months) Sr. Director Sales Development @ Spirent Communications - Provider of test and service management solutions for the communications; headquartered in the U.K. Presided over sales development and global sales operations. From April 1998 to April 2007 (9 years 1 month) Sr. Sales Manager @ Tekelec, (aquired by Oracle) - Enable service providers to both manage and monetize the explosive growth in mobile data traffic and multimedia applications. From February 1992 to February 1998 (6 years 1 month)

California State University Northridge @ CSUN Jim Smith is skilled in: Marketing Management, Pricing, Forecasting, Leadership, Product Marketing, Telecommunications, Product Management, Lead Generation, Start-ups, Salesforce.com, Business Development, Key Account Management, Cloud Computing, New Business Development, Competitive Analysis