Clifford Oberholtzer

About Clifford Oberholtzer

I am a highly effective, accomplished, forward-thinking, and growth-focused senior product leader with repeated success guiding the development and execution of high-impact product marketing initiatives. I thrive when managing and marketing technology products. I see the big picture and have a firm grasp of how functional areas interact with each other while considering the details and competitive messages that influence customer choices. My talent for providing transformational leadership to cross-functional product teams has served as a consistent catalyst for driving the enhancement of product management and marketing performance. I am recognized as an expert presenter, negotiator, and businessperson, able to forge solid relationships with partners and build consensus across multiple organizational levels focused on the achievement of operational excellence.

Experience

1. Manager, Data & Storage Services Product Marketing

   NetApp

   Nov 2021 — Present · Mount Laurel, NJ, US

   Product Marketing Manager for NetApp Workload Factory, an intelligent infrastructure deployment service that automates best practices for the provisioning and managing of cloud resources and services needed for key customer workloads to optimize deployment time, cost, performance, and protection. I also manage NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO), a software-defined storage solution that runs ONTAP in the cloud, offering the same enterprise-grade data management capabilities you’d expect on-prem, but optimized for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

Education

• Lyon's Technical Institute

  Certificate - Associates equivalent, Digital Electronics

  1978 — 1979

• Mercer County Community College

  Marketing and Accounting Coursework

  1977 — 1978

Skills

• Management
• Networking
• Sales Enablement
• Virtualization
• Direct Sales
• Professional Services
• Network Security
• Storage Solutions
• Wireless
• Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Cloud Computing
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Channel
• Strategic Alliances
• Multi-Channel Marketing
• Ethernet
• Strategic Partnerships
• Leadership
• Storage Virtualization
• Business Alliances
• Product Marketing
• Product Launch
• Partner Management
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Storage
• Unified Communications
• Enterprise Storage
• New Business Development
• Channel Partners
• Data Center
• Fibre Channel
• Pre-Sales
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Sales Management
• Managed Services
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Demand Generation
• Channel Sales
• Product Management