1999-2002
Jim
Johnson was Vice President Oregon
site manager. In the Oregon Site Manager role, I was responsible for
managing Intel’s relationship with various government, community and business
organizations and makes decisions on matters which broadly affect Intel and
Oregon
, including facility expansions and employee relations.
This included contributing to Intel's successful application for a tax reduction
under the Oregon SIP, giving presentation to various organizations averaging
over 1 per week, working with local and state governments to support Intel's
agenda, representing Intel on various community, business and government
councils, and supporting Intel's community involvement activities.
1997-
1999
Vice president and General manager of Intel’s Internet Service Operation.
In the Q1/98 I lead a team that developed the business plan, built the
team and then implemented an internet based PC help service called Intel’s
AnswerExpressÔ
Service. The service was launched 5
quarters after securing funding in Q298 to major press coverage and very
positive reviews. The service sold
through a limited retail, PC OEM and on the web network.
In the first 4 quarters of operation, the service sold over 190,000
copies. The service has a customer
satisfaction rating of > 93%. In 1999,
Intel decided to sell the business to a third party service provided as our
growth rate was good but not good enough for Intel. At the time of our
sales, we were a break even business.
1994- 1997
Vice
president and Director of Marketing for Intel’s Internet and Communications
Group in
Hillsboro
,
Oregon
. In that role I oversaw the
strategic direction & marketing for Intel's Networking, Business
Communications and Internet businesses as well as Intel’s industry efforts to
advance the PC as a communications platform within the Intel Architecture Labs.
I was
responsible for the worldwide marketing of Intel’s award-winning retail
products, including EtherExpressÔ network
adapters, LANDeskÒ
network management software and ProShareÔ
personal conferencing product lines.
1983- 1994
Vice President & General Manager of Intel's PC Enhancement Division (PCED),
Intel’s retail products group he co-founded in 1983.
Along with my business partner, I helped
write the business plan and secure the funding that created a new business that
was over $500M and very profitable when I left.
Since this was the first business to sell to retail, we built Intel's retail
sales organization. The business developed and sold products in the PC
memory, Modem communications, math coprocessor and LAN areas. To maximized
our revenue growth, we developed our own products, OEM'ed products and purchased
2 companies.
1974-1983
Various engineering assignments. The last was the Engineering Manager of
the OEM Microcomputer Systems Group, Intel's single-board computer operation in
Oregon
.
Board
Activities
In addition, I served as a City Search board
observer for Intel from Q497 to Q498 when they merged with TicketMaster Online.
CSTM then went public in Jan 99 and merged again into Interactive Corp
IACI.
I
served on Connected Corp (on line internet back up start up company)
another Intel investment as an observer 1996-1998.
I
served on Fluent-Speech Technology’s board of directors from it’s
creation in 1998 to 2000 when the company was sold to a private (pre-IPO) Bay
Area company, Sensory Inc. Fluent-Speech
was a 7 person startup focusing on speech recognition software.
I served on the Finatus board of directors from it's
creation in 2001 to 2003. Finatus, a start up, provided environment compliance
services to small businesses. In the end, it was it's channel strategy
that proved to be the most difficult getting right. By Q303, it got it
right, but it couldn't get the additional funding needed to turn
profitable. I was an Angel investor and helped the company raise 2 rounds
of financing before it was shut down in Q403.