Patrick Kannar

About Patrick Kannar

Business and product champion for unique technology solutions that bring productivity to individuals in all aspects of professional and personal life. Twenty years of technology experience, building strategies to define products and deliver solutions to end-users in collaboration with sales, marketing and engineering. Unique experience developing turn-around strategies and market growth programs.2017-Present: Dell Technologies, Specialties Product Line Direct for North Americas Commercial Solutions Group, Directing the business operations for Precision Workstations, Rugged Notebooks and IoT Edge Computing.20••••17: Dell Incorporated, Precision Planning and Launch Director - Managing the global product planning team for high performance professional fixed, mobile and datacenter workstation platforms.12•••••12: Dell Incorporated, Latitude Planning Manager - Managing the product planning team for business class notebook platforms.20••••10: Dell Incorporated. Product Strategist and Marketing Manager – Defining a portfolio of business class notebook platforms.20••••07: Marvell Semiconductor, Cellular and Handheld Group, Manager, Product Line Marketing - Managing team of product marketing managers. Product roadmap development, hiring and people management, sales and design win strategy development and support. Worldwide customer development with a focus on the Americas, Europe, and Japan.20••••06: Intel Mobility Group, Manager, Product Marketing - Managing team of Product Marketing Managers, product roadmap development, hiring and people management, design-win and design-in with world-wide tier one OEM accounts in the cellular phone market.20••••05: Intel Mobility Group, Product Marketing Manager - Product definition, design-win and design-in with world-wide tier one OEM accounts in the cellular phone market.20••••04: Intel Communications Group, Market Development Manager rejuvenating design-win and design-in activities with the tier one OEM accounts in Intel Wireless Communications and Computing Group, Strategic Markets Analyst driving pricing, short-term and long-range production plans as well as influencing future product - Earned MBA from University of Texas19••••98 - US Department of Defense, Technologies Analyst.19••••90 - Central Intelligence Agency, Soviet Economic Analyst.

Experience

1. Director, Americas Client Technologists

   Dell Technologies

   Aug 2024 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Leading an accomplished and experience team of engineering specialists who support customer engagements by evangelizing Dell technology advantages for client (Notebook, Desktop, Workstation, Displays, Peripherals, Software, Manageability) solutions.

Education

• University of Virginia

  BA, Biology

• Texas McCombs School of Business

  MBA, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

Skills

• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Semiconductors
• Management
• Team Management
• Product Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Product Marketing
• Mobile Devices
• Marketing Strategy
• Entrepreneurship
• Competitive Analysis
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Program Management
• Strategic Partnerships
• Product Strategy
• Analytics
• Business Strategy
• Telecommunications
• Product Development
• Wireless
• Pricing
• Strategy
• Marketing
• Product Launch
• Segmentation
• Product Planning
• Crm
• Market Research